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the party gave the media the theme "joy" and just like an edict from the Supreme Leader, they ran with it... its so funny when every mainstream media outlet tales a talking point and runs with it..August 21, 2024
In 1974, music writer Jon Landau saw a relatively unknown musician in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and wrote for an alternative paper: "Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theater, I saw rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes.
I’ll take joy over the darkness and ineptitude the opposition is offering any day.
you need to learn the proper salute for you new communist leader
No doubt, another dire cause (highlighted by the dire consequence) of disrupted testosterone levels among entire populations of men.
A lot of this stuff really started to decline at an unprecedentedly high rate under Obama, though I’m certain that had more to do with someone not wanting to be made fun of/being called big Mike lmao speaking of your parents being suspicious of those who take more than they need what about y’all’s friends’ kids w call your own what about your half dozen multimillion dollar homes
In what world is she better than Trump? Even the American public, with its utter lack of morality, can make the proper choice between a real estate developer & a lady of the night.
The press conference occurring right now with RFK Jr speaks so heavily to those that support the Democrat party & how far they have fallen from American values.
All RFK Jr adds to the voting poor are the dead Bear roadkill eater voters whose brains are probably worm infested like his. And maybe you.
I'm not sure Sherrod Brown can carry Ohio with Trump on the ballot. I think the Senate ends up narrowly in the Pub favor by 1 or 2 seats.
Facebook has been for a long time a cesspool of ridiculous speech, and there was much content showed about Covid that was dangerous to the public health. I'm not fully onboard with Brandenburg to the extent that speech which promotes certain action (or inaction) and materially endangers the health or wellbeing of others should deserve protection.
They censored scientists who suggested the origin of Covid might have been a lab leak among others…but ok. Hard to believe the party of civil rights and free speech now support the federal governments censorship of its people. The parties have flipped in many ways. History is full of examples of governments who sought to silence dissenting views. Usually doesn’t turn out well for the people of said governments.
The pressure to censor the covid discussion was bad.. but the pressure to censor legit news stories like Burisma is truly disturbing..
I believe in the clear and present danger doctrine of Oliver Wendell Holmes (a Teddy Roosevelt appointee) and I view it, and the federal government’s responsibility to enforce it fairly liberally.
Holmes was specifically speaking of times of war AND legislation enacted by Congress limiting speech during such times. The Clear and Present Danger Doctrine has also largely been supplanted except in military environments. Here we had no war and no restrictions enacted by Congress. The fact a President restricted speech without Congressional action makes this action even more chilling. History supports as much. The fact the Dem party now supports such broad censorship with zero Congressional oversight shows how far that party has transformed from its civil rights days. Disappointed your partisanship won’t allow you to see the dangers here.
I have long compared the pandemic to war time in terms of the needs of the nation for alignment and cooperation for the safety of the nation. The country has to rally to fight a common enemy in both instances….The fact that Congress couldn’t get their head out of their butts long enough to come to terms with that and that they allowed wide scale disinformation to repeatedly jeopardize public health shows how screwed up our government really is.
1). I said largely supplanted not wholly supplanted. Please quote me accurately.
That's funny, bluster doesn't count as economic policy. Since 1989, there have been 52 million new jobs created in these United States. 50 million have been created by three Democratic presidents, and 2 million have been created by three Republican presidents. At least for the last 3 and a half decades, Republicans have had the effect of carpet bombing the American economy, numbers are the meat on the bone.
Bluster huh. I would call it intentionally misleading at best to deflect blame for high food prices to companies like Kroger. I can’t imagine Reich doesn’t understand financial statements.
1) Apologies. Verbiage. We agree that such a standard is not currently adopted by the government though similar logic has been used in the past. I’m arguing that such logic should i
Kroger can buy out who they want, if they scoop up Albertson's fine. Reich bumped heads with deficit hawks in the first Clinton administration three decades ago, the hawks largely won, but the guy is sharp, Clinton couldn't afford most of his economic policy initiatives then.
Well, even the community clarification lacks clarity. They correct his use of gross vs net profit, but only do so using data in 1 quarter when he was referencing behavior over 5 years.
Hey, where did he mention inflation on that post? Looked like a warning about consolidation, but if Kroger can make the margins work with Albertson's inventory, go for it boys.
Krogers net margins are a little less than 1.5% over the past 5 years and pretty much in line with historical averages. Gross margins are largely irrelevant as they typically don’t take into account operating expenses. Again, Reich is throwing irrelevant info out in hopes the uneducated will buy into it. Probably a pretty good bet.
He was clearly blaming price gouging and corporate greed for rising food prices. He hit all the key buzzwords. Yet he somehow omitted the most important number…:net margins. There is no factual evidence based on financials of either price gouging or corporate greed here.
