05-17-2020, 11:11 PM
(05-17-2020, 07:26 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(05-17-2020, 06:52 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(05-15-2020, 07:37 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:Quote:Rachel Maddow is not a reliable source.
And Cuomo of course was treated with kid gloves since he is Dimocrat Royalty. Funny he didn't seem to think that if he regetted anything it was sending Covid positive seniors back to their nursing homes which is something D'Santis stopped in its tracks down here.
True enough. The Russia! Russia! Russia! stuff is rubbish.
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Quote:Also I don't listen to Fox that much. Tucker Carlson is good but otherwise Fox is pretty much shit, it is in my view pretty much the same thing as MSDNC except for the Republicans. I would suggest not paying much attention to the legacy media. Though Breitbart is fairly decent.
This is where the Republicans suck. I don't care about Iran! Iran! Iran! either. Tucker seems a bit less crazy about this. However, Iran Bad = meh, whatever, never mind.
Quote:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...-scrutiny/
I don't do Breitbart. Do they diss Iran/and or China?
Quote:I will admit to being slightly biased in favor of my governor. Of course he is a Freedom Caucus Republican and an Xer.
You're your own man, ok. I'm more at the burn, baby, burn. I think MMT is good. If all the fat fuck cats are getting some swag, well, Rags deserves his cut. If the Dems swag me some free healthcare, fewer oligopolies, and don't fuck with my Social Security /Medicare which is due in 4/7 years. That's good enough. Trump ain't Orange Man Bad. Tariffs good, EU screw off good, attempts at chucking wars good. Trump's economic, worker's rights, and Iran hangup, bad.
Indeed, anyone who isn't totally asleep or living in their own reality, remembers the last few years how Maddow in particular brought up Russia every single episode. At one point she was sorta credible (I mean it was known she favored Democrats heavily but it could be argued that she at least attempted to be more or less objective) but she wasted that credibility looking for Russians under every bed and every closet in the White House.
At most the Democrats have demonstrated that Flynn, who was a Senior Official for the then President Elect spoke with the Russian Ambassador, which is hardly surprising that he would do so. As a Chief Security Advisor I would think it Part Of His Job to talk to the top diplomats from other countries.
Iran is a threat to Saudi Arabia and not much else. The Republicans who care about that are usually involved in the Neocon faction which is decamping to the Democrats, which is from whence they came anyway.
Breitbart is highly critical of China, and with good reason. China is perhaps the greatest existential threat to the US at this point. However, there it will be more trade war than war war.
I'm wary of "free" goodies and I'm skeptical of MMT except perhaps as a means to debauch the currency and to end the Fed and other unnecessary and unconstitutional programs and policies. That being said if you want Cash Payments the Fed can and will currently garuntee all cash payments and benefits. They won't guarantee however the purchasing power of those payments and benefits.
As for China, here's my 2 cents. Neoliberalism was the impetus for the rise of China. After all, China didn't put a gun to corporate America in order for the jobs/factories to leave. Trump has it right wrt. tarrifs, but he's wrong on not blaming greedy fat cats. They shipped the jobs, they shipped the factories, and they have too much money and power. So, that's why the US needs to bring back the 1960's tax rates. The jobs need to come to the US, not some other cheap place like Vietnam or Mexico.
I think Social Security can be fixed by popping the cap and some other tax like a Tobin tax. Medicare is a whole other issue. I'
Free market principles like repealing all rules and regulations that are propping up our Medical oligarchy. Medical facilities need to advertise their stuff. IOW, medical shit should be regulated like food. The FDA can still do this without playing favors. The FDA also needs to test herbs and see how those work. That should reduce the price of Medicare. I'd put something like 50% of the defense budge. I hear nobody complaining about this obvious rats nest waste, fraud, and abuse.
Well, for MMT, that's for yes, FED destruction. It's also to destroy the reserve currency status. Reserve currency status is bad for exports outside of the needs for autarky. The empire, I reckon will keep chugging cause it's too far gone for reform.
I mean, we're already Brazil with nukes, next stop in a stair step fashion over a period of 500 years.
As it was for our ancestors, so it will be again for our descendants.
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