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stupid people will always sign up for something they don't understand simply because someone tells them to.Originally Posted by bsm2
Is Biden going to reinstate the 'penalty' or 'tax' again? Since it was unconstitutional. I bet he does. Mo Money Mo Money
By 2016, officials in the Treasury Department and at the Federal Reserve had concluded that the economy was at full employment and that further improvement in the labor market was unlikely. (Yet Trump Pulled it off!)
In 2016, real median household income was $62,898, just $257 above its level in 1999. Over the next three years it grew almost $6,000, to $68,703. That’s perhaps why, despite the pandemic, 56% of U.S. voters polled last month said their families were better off today than they were four years ago. (Thanks Trump!)
Trump implemented a program of tax cuts, spending increases and unprecedented pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates to zero and keep them there. Trump’s goal of 3% growth was derided as delusional. (But TRUMP PULLED IT OFF!!)
Economists point to the upturn in business confidence that accompanied Trump’s election, and tie that to increasing business investment. Spending on capital goods accelerated sharply In 2017, growing at an annualized rate of 6.2 percent. (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP).
Obama has nothing to do with Trump’s success!!
The democrats and obama merely wanted to spend more money (in record amounts) in the hopes that it might have a “future impact” on the economy. Lol.
Omertà
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.
A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
In a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of
labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy. The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding. Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.
For Trump and his allies were running their own campaign to spoil the election. The President spent months insisting that mail ballots were a Democratic plot and the election would be “rigged.” His henchmen at the state level sought to block their use, while his lawyers brought dozens of spurious suits to make it more difficult to vote–an intensification of the GOP’s legacy of suppressive tactics. Before the election, Trump plotted to block a legitimate vote count. And he spent the months following Nov. 3 trying to steal the election he’d lost–with lawsuits and conspiracy theories, pressure on state and local officials, and finally summoning his army of supporters to the Jan. 6 rally that ended in deadly violence at the Capitol.
The democracy campaigners watched with alarm. “Every week, we felt like we were in a struggle to try to pull off this election without the country going through a real dangerous moment of unraveling,” says former GOP Representative Zach Wamp, a Trump supporter who helped coordinate a bipartisan election-protection council. “We can look back and say this thing went pretty well, but it was not at all clear in September and October that that was going to be the case.”
This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it.
This was not his usual purview. For nearly a quarter-century, Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, has marshaled the latest tactics and data to help its favored candidates win elections. Unassuming and professorial, he isn’t the sort of hair-gelled “political strategist” who shows up on cable news. Among Democratic insiders, he’s known as the wizard behind some of the biggest advances in political technology in recent decades. A group of liberal strategists he brought together in the early 2000s led to the creation of the Analyst Institute, a secretive firm that applies scientific methods to political campaigns. He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company.
The endless chatter in Washington about “political strategy,” Podhorzer believes, has little to do with how change really gets made. “My basic take on politics is that it’s all pretty obvious if you don’t overthink it or swallow the prevailing frameworks whole,” he once wrote. “After that, just relentlessly identify your assumptions and challenge them.” Podhorzer applies that approach to everything: when he coached his now adult son’s Little League team in the D.C. suburbs, he trained the boys not to swing at most pitches–a tactic that infuriated both their and their opponents’ parents, but won the team a series of championships. Trump’s election in 2016–credited in part to his unusual strength among the sort of blue collar white voters who once dominated the AFL-CIO–prompted Podhorzer to question his assumptions about voter behavior. He began circulating weekly number-crunching memos to a small circle of allies and hosting strategy sessions in D.C. But when he began to worry about the election itself, he didn’t want to seem paranoid. It was only after months of research that he introduced his concerns in his newsletter in October 2019. The usual tools of data, analytics and polling would not be sufficient in a situation where the President himself was trying to disrupt the election, he wrote. “Most of our planning takes us through Election Day,” he noted. “But, we are not prepared for the two most likely outcomes”–Trump losing and refusing to concede, and Trump winning the Electoral College (despite losing the popular vote) by corrupting the voting process in key states. “We desperately need to systematically ‘red-team’ this election so that we can anticipate and plan for the worst we know will be coming our way.”
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WOW then you must Really Really Like Biden plansEconomy and JOBS JOBS JOBS doing GREATTTTTT!
Last to First in Vaccinations in the World.
Passed a 1.9 trillion Covid relief bill
Biden getting Shit Done
Texas wind power smashes records in March
Michelle Lewis - Apr. 7th 2021 9:58 am
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Texas wind power topped 10.4 million MWh in March – 2 million MWh above its previous high.
bet the solar panels are producing now also that the snow and ice have melted.
I'd be curious to see how much damage was done by the snow n ice.
but I see you are cherry picking your text to post
Just because you refuse to admit trump inherited a growing economy doesn't mean he didn't. Your personal beliefs don't change the facts. Sorry dude.
US Trade Deficit Hit All-Time High in Biden's First Full Month in Office
The U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high in February as Americans bought more imported goods in President Joe Biden’s first month in office.
The trade deficit jumped 4.8 percent to $71.1 billion in February, according to a report released Wednesday from the Commerce Department.
The surge is a $3.3 billion increase from January’s deficit of $67.8 billion.
Steve Herman
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The US trade deficit in February surged to a record high, according to the latest @CommerceGov report. https://bea.gov/news/2021/us-i
The record comes after Americans received more stimulus checks from Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill.
“Faster U.S. growth relative to the rest of the world has widened the trade deficit to a historic record,” economists Oren Klachkin and Gregory Daco of Oxford Economics said.
“The trade deficit is poised to widen as the U.S. recovery surges in the spring and summer.”
Although both imports and exports were down in February, imports were only down 0.7 percent and totaled $258.3 billion.
The import level is almost 5 percent above the levels it reached in 2020, and MarketWatch predicted import purchases could have been higher if not for a “logjam at American ports.”
“Cargo ships have been forced to anchor outside the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, where about a third of goods imports come through, as the ports struggle to unload the incoming ships,” Jay Bryson, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Reuters.
The U.S. Department of Commerce also reported the trade deficit in China spiked to $30.3 billion.
U.S. exports, on the other hand, were down 2.6 percent and totaled $187.3 billion, still failing to reach the $208 billion achieved in February 2020.
The U.S. exported fewer planes, computer chips, cars and food in February, contributing to a $4.8 billion decrease to $131.1 billion.
“The collapse of global travel is a huge hit to U.S. services exports,” senior economist Bill Adams of PNC Financial Services told MarketWatch.
The U.S. also recorded a net petroleum deficit for the first time since December 2019, Reuters reported. This is due to Biden reducing oil production.
Whoop! There it is!
Biden Caves To World’s Leading State Sponsor Of Terrorism: Prepared To Lift Sanctions On Iran
As I said, On his knees, mouth agape, waiting to please the Ayatollah.
The news came as thousands of Iranian-American activists urged Biden to not ease sanctions on Iran.
The Biden Administration is repeating the mistakes of the Obama Administration,” Morrison said. “It’s making concessions to get nothing more than a meeting.
The Biden administration will remove sanctions against Iran’s supreme leader, terrorist entities, and illicit financial sector, to name a few.
Biden is bent over, with obama holding his cheeks apart, while the Ayatollah gleefully pounds away.
Omertà
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