The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

[Ron Mexico]

Our Mainstream Media, in general, has been aggressively predicting Chinese economic doom for like two decades, probably more. Does anybody remember those reports on those giant ghost cities?

Our measures of economic health, which are largely oriented towards the health of shareholders on a macro level, are inadequate. I don't think the CCP and therefore, the Chinese economy, values what economists in the US value. They're always "surprised" and "concerned". It's like, guys I don't think it's gonna happen.

You can **** on CCP authoritarianism and lack of free speech protections all day. But, they have a thriving, THRIVING, middle-class, high-speed rail to everywhere, universal healthcare and ample housing. Their economic priorities are elsewhere, and as long as we refuse, on purpose, to acknowledge that, western economists will continue to get it wrong.

Not right now. The economy is really bad. The middle class is suffering. Housing prices are crashing. They do have the best infrastructure in the world though. Most companies are cutting the "middle class" employees pay in half and requiring them to work 10 hours a day 6 days a week. It's really rough there right now. College graduates aren't getting jobs and the government even had the audacity to tell them to consider going to farms to work. There is a reason the meme "lying flat" is so popular.

What you said used to be the case but it's not going that way anymore. That's why protests started. There is an unspoken agreement between people and the CCP there. Everyone knows it's oppressive but that's fine if the economy is booming like it has for 20+ years. They need to turn it around quick now.

Two big issues are that when COVID hit people were okay sacrificing for the greater good. If that meant staying home and burning through savings accounts okay. But now COVID is over people want to build back those savings. People don't want to spend. The other issue is that the local gov has almost exclusively been thriving due to privatisation of housing and selling new property. But the economy is slowing and the population is dropping. Developers aren't building like crazy anymore. This means no money for infrastructure and other things due to lack of property tax. But no one owns there land. They are only leasing it 40 to 70 years. No one knows what happens when that starts to hit, even the government. I could go on for days about this though.

 

[SteakNEggs]

**** the poors!

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It's getting harder to come around this cesspool of pro assassin degenerates but here is me being right again. The fact that I have to explain this to you is quite honestly embarrassing. The fact that you couldn't understand this is just mind boggling as it's literally as common sense as it gets. It's like talking to a wedge of lettuce. I do thank you guys for toning down on your pro murder stances. Openly advocating for assassination an all is very uncomfortable for us actual humans. It's astonishing that you guys are so warped in your Trump hate you now openly advocate to kill people. @Safetydan

California fast-food restaurants have been forced to cut back on employee hours, shut down, or consider moving out of state completely because of Gov. Gavin Newsom's new $20-an-hour minimum wage law, a new study has shown.

The Employment Policies Institute survey of nearly 200 fast-food companies found that 89 percent of those eateries polled have already been forced to reduce scheduled hours for their employees, less than a year since it was passed.

Some have had to lay off staff completely - a prospect many had warned about when the progressive signed the bill into law in the fall.

Others complained that the concerns of small franchisees and their staffers would not be met - something the survey suggests is already occurring as officials continue to bill the law as a success.

The study, meanwhile, also found that of those who remain employed, there's been less access to overtime and opportunities for extra shifts, limiting their overall take-home.

MSN

 

[SteakNEggs]

Again thank you all for toning down your murderous rhetoric. Normal humans usually don't even think about killing each other due to not liking one another, as you guys want to. I can quote you literally saying you are ok with murdering political opponents so don't say I'm trolling. You literally said you are ok with killing others for no reason other than being on the opposite side of the political spectrum. @Safetydan

California’s $20 minimum wage leads 89% of fast-food restaurants to reduce hours​

In June, Rubio’s Coastal Grill announced it was closing 48 restaurants and filed for bankruptcy, citing the minimum wage increase as one of the reasons for its financial troubles.

Now, more than a month after the Mexican restaurants’ announcement, the Employment Policies Institute published a report revealing that 67% of fast-food restaurants said the minimum wage increase will cost $100,000 per location every year. One in four owners said it would cost more than $200,000 per year.

The survey was filled out by 200 business owners across the Golden State.

Since April, 89% of restaurant owners said they’ve reduced hours, 73% have limited employee pickup or overtime opportunities, and 70% said they have reduced or consolidated staff positions.

“Even before the $20 wage went into effect, fast-food restaurants made it clear they would not be able to survive,” Rebekah Paxton, EPI research director, said. “Now after just a few months, the policy has been a disaster, killing jobs and shuttering restaurants. Gov. Newsom and state lawmakers should be listening to small business owners and their employees instead of trying to sugarcoat the truth.”

While restaurant owners have had difficult decisions to make, fast-food jobs in Southern California have hit a record high.

MSN

 

[fishonjazz]

MSN

Good news here

Mexican drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, were arrested on Thursday in El Paso, Texas, in a major coup for U.S. authorities that may also reshape the Mexican criminal landscape.

Zambada is one of the most consequential traffickers in Mexico's history and co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo, who was extradited to the United States in 2017 and is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison.

Both Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo, face multiple charges in the U.S. for funneling huge quantities of drugs to U.S. streets, including fentanyl, which has surged to become the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.

 

[fishonjazz]

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

Vivian Wilson, the trans daughter of Elon Musk, said in her first public interview that he was an absent father who harassed her as a child for being feminine.

www.yahoo.com

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as a child for being queer and feminine.

On social media and in an interview posted online, Musk said she was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead,” and he alleged that he had been “tricked” into authorizing trans-related medical treatment for her when she was 16.

Wilson said that Musk hadn’t been tricked and that, after initially having hesitated, he knew what he was doing when he agreed to her treatment, which required consent from her parents.

Wilson said that, for as long as she could remember, Musk hasn’t been a supportive father. She said he was rarely present in her life, leaving her and her siblings to be cared for by their mother or by nannies even though Musk had joint custody, and she said Musk berated her when he was present.

“He was cold,” she said. “He’s very quick to anger. He is uncaring and narcissistic.”

Wilson said that, when she was a child, Musk would harass her for exhibiting feminine traits and pressure her to appear more masculine, including by pushing her to deepen her voice as early as elementary school.

“I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high,” she said. “It was cruel.”

“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk said. He used Wilson’s birth name, also known as a deadname for transgender people, and said she was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

Musk said Monday that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic” and that, at age 4, she fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals and using the exclamation “fabulous!” to describe certain clothing. Wilson told NBC News that the anecdotes aren’t true, though she said she did act stereotypically feminine in other ways as a child.

Wilson also addressed Musk’s recent comments in a series of posts Thursday on the social media app Threads.

“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she wrote. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”

“I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says alot about how he views queer people and children in general.”

 

[fishonjazz]

At least 8 large Oklahoma school districts rebuke superintendent's order to teach Bible

State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued guidelines for Bible teaching in Oklahoma schools on Wednesday, but more districts said they won't comply.

www.yahoo.com

In late June, Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters ordered school districts statewide to integrate the Bible “as an instructional support into the curriculum" for grades five through 12. Walters has argued that the Bible is "foundational for education" and a "cornerstone of Western civilization."

“Immediate and complete implementation of these guidelines for the 2024-2025 school year is required,” Walters said in a memo sent to district superintendents. “This memorandum and the included standards must be provided to every teacher, as well as providing a physical copy of the Bible, the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Ten Commandments as resources in every classroom in the school district. These documents are mandatory for the holistic education of students in Oklahoma.”

But the list of large districts that have said they won’t be altering their curriculum despite the directive has grown to at least eight.
The Center for Education Law also has issued a memorandum to Oklahoma school districts calling Walters’ mandate invalid under state law. Earlier this year, the legal firm successfully represented Edmond Public Schools in the district’s lawsuit against Walters and the Oklahoma State Board of Education. Responding to that lawsuit, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled the content of school libraries was a decision to be made by a local school board, not the state board.

The American Taliban is trying to bring about Gilead

 

[fishonjazz]

Saw this comment was pretty impressed by it:

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told, whereas religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.

Every single advancement towards morality (ending native genocide, freeing the slaves, and womens right to vote) were all opposed by the church and christian organizations.

Buy a Bible, but dont read it and you'll be a Catholic.
Buy a Bible, read only what suits you and you'll be an Evangelical.
Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist.

The Bible is simply 66 fairy tales written by 40 authors in three different languages on three different continents over approximately 600 years.

 

[LogGrad98]

At least 8 large Oklahoma school districts rebuke superintendent's order to teach Bible

State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued guidelines for Bible teaching in Oklahoma schools on Wednesday, but more districts said they won't comply.

www.yahoo.com

In late June, Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters ordered school districts statewide to integrate the Bible “as an instructional support into the curriculum" for grades five through 12. Walters has argued that the Bible is "foundational for education" and a "cornerstone of Western civilization."

“Immediate and complete implementation of these guidelines for the 2024-2025 school year is required,” Walters said in a memo sent to district superintendents. “This memorandum and the included standards must be provided to every teacher, as well as providing a physical copy of the Bible, the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Ten Commandments as resources in every classroom in the school district. These documents are mandatory for the holistic education of students in Oklahoma.”

But the list of large districts that have said they won’t be altering their curriculum despite the directive has grown to at least eight.
The Center for Education Law also has issued a memorandum to Oklahoma school districts calling Walters’ mandate invalid under state law. Earlier this year, the legal firm successfully represented Edmond Public Schools in the district’s lawsuit against Walters and the Oklahoma State Board of Education. Responding to that lawsuit, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled the content of school libraries was a decision to be made by a local school board, not the state board.

The American Taliban is trying to bring about Gilead

Yes, we desperately need this passage as part of the curriculum:

Psalm 137:9

* [137:9] Blessed the one who seizes your children and smashes them against the rock

How about this one:

Exodus 21:20-21 NIV

Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two,

Beat your slaves all you want as long as they don't die as a direct result. God approves this message!!


But they were right about one thing, apparently it was a cornerstone of western civilization where we killed native american women and children and of course held and beat slaves, just like the bible teaches!

 

[LogGrad98]

NY Democrat introduces constitutional amendment reversing Supreme Court immunity ruling

Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.) introduced a constitutional amendment Wednesday seeking to undo the Supreme Court’s decision that former presidents enjoy a presumption of criminal immunity for o…

thehill.com

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

It's getting harder to come around this cesspool of pro assassin degenerates but here is me being right again. The fact that I have to explain this to you is quite honestly embarrassing. The fact that you couldn't understand this is just mind boggling as it's literally as common sense as it gets. It's like talking to a wedge of lettuce. I do thank you guys for toning down on your pro murder stances. Openly advocating for assassination an all is very uncomfortable for us actual humans. It's astonishing that you guys are so warped in your Trump hate you now openly advocate to kill people. @Safetydan

California fast-food restaurants have been forced to cut back on employee hours, shut down, or consider moving out of state completely because of Gov. Gavin Newsom's new $20-an-hour minimum wage law, a new study has shown.

The Employment Policies Institute survey of nearly 200 fast-food companies found that 89 percent of those eateries polled have already been forced to reduce scheduled hours for their employees, less than a year since it was passed.

Some have had to lay off staff completely - a prospect many had warned about when the progressive signed the bill into law in the fall.

Others complained that the concerns of small franchisees and their staffers would not be met - something the survey suggests is already occurring as officials continue to bill the law as a success.

The study, meanwhile, also found that of those who remain employed, there's been less access to overtime and opportunities for extra shifts, limiting their overall take-home.

MSN

Lmao you are siding with shareholder profits over workers being paid a living wage?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

Vivian Wilson, the trans daughter of Elon Musk, said in her first public interview that he was an absent father who harassed her as a child for being feminine.

www.yahoo.com

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as a child for being queer and feminine.

On social media and in an interview posted online, Musk said she was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead,” and he alleged that he had been “tricked” into authorizing trans-related medical treatment for her when she was 16.

Wilson said that Musk hadn’t been tricked and that, after initially having hesitated, he knew what he was doing when he agreed to her treatment, which required consent from her parents.

Wilson said that, for as long as she could remember, Musk hasn’t been a supportive father. She said he was rarely present in her life, leaving her and her siblings to be cared for by their mother or by nannies even though Musk had joint custody, and she said Musk berated her when he was present.

“He was cold,” she said. “He’s very quick to anger. He is uncaring and narcissistic.”

Wilson said that, when she was a child, Musk would harass her for exhibiting feminine traits and pressure her to appear more masculine, including by pushing her to deepen her voice as early as elementary school.

“I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high,” she said. “It was cruel.”

“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk said. He used Wilson’s birth name, also known as a deadname for transgender people, and said she was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

Musk said Monday that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic” and that, at age 4, she fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals and using the exclamation “fabulous!” to describe certain clothing. Wilson told NBC News that the anecdotes aren’t true, though she said she did act stereotypically feminine in other ways as a child.

Wilson also addressed Musk’s recent comments in a series of posts Thursday on the social media app Threads.

“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she wrote. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”

“I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says alot about how he views queer people and children in general.”

I would love to slap the **** out of Elon Musk

 

[Safetydan]

Saw this comment was pretty impressed by it:

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told, whereas religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.

Every single advancement towards morality (ending native genocide, freeing the slaves, and womens right to vote) were all opposed by the church and christian organizations.

Buy a Bible, but dont read it and you'll be a Catholic.
Buy a Bible, read only what suits you and you'll be an Evangelical.
Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist.

The Bible is simply 66 fairy tales written by 40 authors in three different languages on three different continents over approximately 600 years.

Now do the Book Of Mormon. lol

 

[LogGrad98]

Lmao you are siding with shareholder profits over workers being paid a living wage?

No, he has no stance on anything and has no morals. He is a troll so he will say whatever he needs to in order to get a rise out of people. Don't feed the troll.

 

[SteakNEggs]

Lmao you are siding with shareholder profits over workers being paid a living wage?

Did you actually read the part where people are getting laid off and losing hours or did you just make up some insanely stupid argument that has nothing to do with what I said? My goodness, that's the point. This has nothing to do with profits. They cannot afford to hire full staff anymore and have had to fire employees to pay a few. Explain for me please, how do people make money when they are laid off or they get less hours? @Safetydan ? What part of this do you not understand?

Cy, what do these words bolded below mean? I said nothing about profits. Nothing... It's not hard to understand that if someone works less that livable wage goes out the window. This is basic economics... Now do you have anything to say about the actual topic of "89% of those eateries polled have been force to reduce scheduled hours"? People are now losing their 40 hour benefits and they are cutting staff. Be a big boy and explain how you think that's helping. If a restaurant that has 12 people on shift but down to 6... How are this 6 people losing a complete day of work benefitting?

I guarantee you that you won't answer.

"California fast-food restaurants have been forced to cut back on employee hours,"
"The Employment Policies Institute survey of nearly 200 fast-food companies found that 89 percent of those eateries polled have already been forced to reduce scheduled hours for their employees, less than a year since it was passed."

 

[SteakNEggs]

I would love to slap the **** out of Elon Musk

Wow more calls for violence amongst the pro Murderer and sucker punch cult.. It's literally in your bloodline, huh? I notice you ran away like log and fish do when I call you out on your lies. Typical trolls. Speaking of pro violence here's your potential president helping bail violent criminals out of jail. Two of which got our and killed another person. This is why you want to be violent as always. Elon calls you violent thugs and your state run Media out. That makes you guys extremely angry and violent doesn't it?



View: https://x.com/WCCO/status/1816601862654586964

 

[fishonjazz]

We already all know this but: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=bb737df96396498da2f91418e8e60b0f&ei=74

“Trump‘s apparent limitless resources demonstrate the financial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system,” said Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney who is now a law professor at the University of Michigan. “A well-funded defendant has the luxury of pursuing every defense possible, even taking a flyer on obviously frivolous motions, whereas a defendant represented by a public defender or a low-cost lawyer lack that opportunity because the lawyers are overworked and underpaid.”

Nearly all criminal defendants plead guilty rather than fight charges at trial. But Trump's fundraising of tens of millions of dollars has paid lawyers to argue all the way to the Supreme Court that charges in his federal election interference case should be dismissed.

“Everyone is intended to be afforded equal justice, however, the reality is you receive as much justice as you can afford," said Tim Parlatore, a lawyer who represented Trump during the early phases of the classified documents and election interference investigations.

A federal judge in Florida dismissed 40 charges related to hoarding classified documents after leaving the White House, thanks to Trump's deep pockets funding motions making novel arguments. Those could be reinstated by a higher court, but the process will be lengthy and the outcome uncertain.

Trials are pending on accusations of election interference with four federal counts in Washington and 10 state counts in Georgia, but the Supreme Court ordered a review that could throw out charges in those cases and possibly vacate his convictions.

“Sometimes the defendant has to make that horrible choice like: ‘I can only afford to file one motion.' Which one are we going to file?” Parlatore said.

Nearly 90% of federal criminal defendants − 64,139 out of 71,887 − pleaded guilty last year, according to the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, which tracks federal cases. About 2% of defendants − 1,564 − were convicted at trial. Most of the rest of the cases were dismissed with a relative handful acquitted at trial.

Trump, in addition to being a self-proclaimed billionaire, has tapped his supporters to pay his legal fees through his Save America political action committee and presidential campaign committee.

Trump's Save America political action committee spent more than $70 million on “legal consulting” from Trump’s leaving office in January 2021 through June 30, according to Federal Election Committee records.

Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, an advocacy group for transparency in campaign funding, said if Trump is as rich as he claims, he should be paying for his own legal defense because contributing to his legal defense would be “a hell of a way to buy influence with a person.”
“While this may be all legal, it’s wrong and it basically stinks,” said Wertheimer

In summary, its good to be rich when you are charged with a crime. Which everyone already knew. But its most advantageous when charged with a crime to be rich and also to have others paying your legal bills for you and to also have judges and even supreme court justices who you have appointed involved in your criminal cases. But dont be fooled. Trump is the victim here. He is always the victim.

 

[SteakNEggs]

.”“While this may be all legal"

A guy that had to accept a plea deal to not be a RSO is talking about being a victim. My goodness. You go back and accept your punishment for your actual real not fabricated crimes and I'll believe you're not the biggest hypocrite on the planet. Trump was legal you were not.

 

[fishonjazz]

Strike on Israeli Golan Heights kills 11 and threatens to spark a wider war. Hezbollah denies a role

A rocket strike Saturday at a soccer field killed at least 11 children and teens, Israeli authorities said, in the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country's northern border since the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began. Israel blamed Hezbollah...

www.yahoo.com

Not good.

A rocket strike Saturday at a soccer field killed at least 11 children and teens, Israeli authorities said, in the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country's northern border since the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far."
“There is no doubt that Hezbollah has crossed all the red lines here, and the response will reflect that,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israeli Channel 12. “We are nearing the moment in which we face an all-out war.”

Far-right members of Netanyahu’s government called for a harsh response against Hezbollah. But an all-out war with a militant group with far superior firepower to Hamas would be trying for Israel’s military after nearly 10 months of fighting in Gaza.

That sounds quite ominous. Trump claims he could end all the trouble. Instead of waiting to be elected he should just fix the problems in the middle east right now. Tell Mike Johnson the plan and have him get the solution around to everyone. Or maybe trump should just call Netanyahu up and tell him the plan.

 

[Red]

He added: "I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."

I don’t really interpret this as “I will never leave office”, but “my beautiful Christians” made me laugh, such a 100% phony!



Others see his remarks as a darker message, easy to do really, and Harris is also taking advantage with a darker interpretation. But wait! That really isn’t that far fetched. This is Trump after all. Loves dog whistling.


View: https://x.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1817016564467511556

Harris camp responds to Trump telling Christians they 'don't have to vote again' if he gets elected

Harris camp responds to Trump telling Christians they 'don't have to vote again' if he gets elected.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Red]

View: https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1817096275814191557?s=46&t=BMMZjW7vq0_zwnmLDjNTgQ


Please go watch it. You will see this clip is taken completely out of context. It’s his standard stump speech that Democrats want to cheat and when he is in office he will fix the cheating by voter id’s, same day voting ect. Then he talks with the Christians to vote because this is the biggest election and they don’t usually go vote. So next election when the voting is fixed meaning voter id and same day voting ideas, the democrats can’t cheat and the Christian’s don’t need to vote if they don’t want to.

Another Hoax like couch sex being pushed.

I did not realize you covered this in a different thread before posting the previous comment.