mothra wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 8:51am:


Yep - Lock that in Eddie.

But that is just normal for Republicans. It will be way worse than just that.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 8:46am:

And it got there by allowing illegal immigrants to flood the country... It explains the inflation U-turn - illegals being prepared to work unrecorded at something like $5 / hour.

Overheads plummetted.

What didn't happen was those savings were largely not passed on to the consumer, which explains the paradox of inflation plummeting while consumers were still paying high inflation prices at retail.

The idea that illegal immigration of Central Americans was a Denocrat vote-banking ploy was always ridiculous.

Central Americans, like most South Americans, are mostly conservatives, arch-conservatives even, and Catholic - an ancestrally arch-conservative form of Christianity.

What the Democrats did was what they had no choice but to do, to lower inflation in record time.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 10:01am:

Surely no one believes that the dribbling mess Biden became masked an economics genius mind at work?

It just boiled down to straight arithmetic...

The more people prepared to work as virtual slaves, the quicker overheads will fall.

Why else would anyone think that the Southern States were once prepared to risk war to defend slavery?

Biden's 'performance' over the last two years of his presidency is eerily similar to that of Leonid Brezhnev who in his later years suffered from early-stage dementia.

To his credit, Brezhnev begged the Politburo to let him retire with dignity but he was refused - forcing him to walk on stage as the shambling wreck he became until he died.

The world saw the same thing with Yeltsin in the late 90s.

To their eternal discredit, the Democrats in the US tried to pull a Soviet-style Brezhnev stunt and tell the world Biden was a 'dynamo' when all the world saw, was a shambling, confused old man stumbling across the world stage progressively making a bigger fool of himself as he went - as Brezhnev and Yeltsin before him had done.

All the while, Biden's Party, and his longtime trusted colleagues, were prepared to strip him of all his dignity... And for what?

They deserved to lose worse than they did.

SadKangaroo wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 7:51am:



Let's not speculate.
A lot can happen in 60 or more days.
Putin might shake in his boots when he has Trump to deal with
instead of sleepy Joe.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 19^th, 2024 at 10:13am:



probably some truth to that

regan tried to be tough on the border but the price of food went up due to the lack of labour and he had to ease up.

i dont think trump will deport hardly anyone

he doesnt need to for the border issue to play well for him

biden and harris let them in

he gets the benefit of cheap labor and the political benefit as well

building the wall is symbolic and a good meme for trump

yet again the left dont understand real cultural conditioning



trump may have read "crossing the chasm" a great book by geoffry moore that explains that explains group dynamics

initially a MAGA hat may be seen like some new technology and derided

but once you get enough adopters, people fear being laggards and left behind
frank posted a cool clip yesterday of footballers doing the trump dance, black garbage collectors doing the trump dance, women in offices and on the beach doing the trump dance

a lot of women wore maga caps to vote

once you get the right side of the chasm, you break the cultural norms

trump is now like the iphone

people have FOMO if they arent getting onboard


meme before message

energy before policy 

How many affluent or aspirational people, in the US or anywhere, hope that their children (if they even have any) hope their kids grow up to toil in factories and fields for 12 hours a day for almost nothing?

So who picks the cotton?