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McConnell is a piece of shit for sure, but he's not wrong on this issue.

Democrats can't sidestep the Republicans. The filibuster won't be broken. The intelligent members of Congress know better than to appease your need for instant gratification when the costs are as high as they are.

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The nerve.

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The nerve.

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Other nervy swindlers :

Multilevel-marketing companies are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis

“I was urged to stop paying my bills to invest in more inventory. I was urged to get rid of television. I was urged to pawn my vehicle. I just had to get on anxiety meds over all of it because I’ve started having panic attacks.”

As economic opportunity has become more concentrated in urban areas in the US, rural communities have fallen behind. Residents of towns like Casper (Wyoming), Spring Creek (Nevada), and DeRidder (Louisiana) all missed out on economic recovery following the 2007 global financial crisis. Bootstrapping, hard-working families in these regions are urgently searching for a way to regain their economic liberty, along with their dignity.

Fed the fantasy of achieving the all-elusive American dream, many of them are being wooed by multilevel-marketing companies. Known as MLMs (or “direct-sales”), the previous US administration was stocked with their cheerleaders: Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, is married to a cofounder of Amway; Ben Carson is a spokesperson for a vitamin MLM called Mannatech; and president Donald Trump used to have an MLM, Trump Network, and was a spokesperson for another.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20170806213250/https://qz.com/1039331/mlms
-like-avon-and-lularoe-are-sending-people-into-debt-and-psychological-crisis/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Trump, after all, plainly has no special loyalty to the Republican Party.

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And retribution against his enemies is his single strongest drive in life. If the GOP leadership rejected him, he would reject them in return ten times over, probably by forming his own political party and taking with him half of all Republicans in existence.

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Is politics the new religion?

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Is politics the new religion?

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It sure is for cancel culture Leftists. The amount of stuff they censor and people they shut down today would have been a wet dream of the Religious Right in the 80s and 90s.

Fuck your cult.

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The Republicans, who are the party of the superrich

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The Republicans, who are the party of the superrich

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Maybe in the 70's.

Every time you turn on the TV and see a rich person they're all Democrats today.

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lol

No. Vonnegut was not a Socialist.

None of your Socialist jerkoff buddies are going to change that.


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One trouble, it seems to me, is that the majority of the people who rule us, who have our money and power, are lawyers or military men. The lawyers want to talk our problems out of existence. The military men want us to find the bad guys and put bullets through their brains. These are not always the best [two] solutions—particularly in the fields of sewage disposal and birth control.

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In Chapter 19, “Magic of the Market,” the new age opens with a familiar sight: the state reasserting the scarcity value of money and credit. During the years 1979–82, to attack inflation, without being able to resort to any metal standard, given the 1973 monetary departure from gold, the Federal Reserve under the new chairmanship of Paul Volcker rolled out the weapon of the high interest rate. Double-digit interest rates and the sharp double-dip recession that followed the tightening of credit during the “Volcker Shock” finally mastered inflation. The Fed thus ascended to a preeminence in global economic policy making that lasts to this day. In 1982 with the job done and the macroeconomy still in recession, the Fed relented and lowered rates. Newfound price stability brought a surge in confidence and expectations. A new macroeconomic expansion began, led by a speculative investment boom.

What happened after 1982 was not something policy makers expected. Not Volcker, and not President Ronald Reagan. After his inauguration in 1980, Reagan left Volcker alone. His administration, ideologues chiefly, celebrated “the magic of the marketplace,” lambasted “big government” regulations, and decried black “welfare dependency.” In general, their policies were friendly to the owners of wealth. Important “deregulations” did occur. But not one of Reagan’s economic promises—a manufacturing employment revival, a surge in national savings and investment, a reduced budget deficit, a great slash in welfare spending—was fulfilled. Instead, the new capitalism was born.

The Volcker Shock transformed the character of capital investment at home and abroad. In the world economy, high U.S. interest rates brought about a worldwide credit crunch and worldwide economic depression. Seeking high interest rates, global capital moved into the U.S. capital market in prodigious amounts. The value of the dollar soared. Accordingly, the U.S. trade deficit expanded. This new pattern would ultimately stick. It was an utter reconfiguration of U.S. global economic hegemony. After World War II, like other hegemons of the past, the United States was an exporter of capital and goods. After the Volcker Shock, it became a net importer of global capital and the consumer market of last resort for the world’s manufacturing export-led economies, including Japan, West Germany, and eventually, China.

At home, due to capital imports and financial deregulations, money and credit were more available. There was greater convertibility among assets, and more transactional liquidity. At the same time, still fearful of inflation after 1982, the Fed kept interest rates relatively high. Not since after the restoration of the gold standard following World War I had there been an era like this in capital markets, when credit was so newly and freely available—but at high rates. Just as in the 1920s, there was a great speculative investment boom during the 1980s. Confidence high, to hurdle over the high interest rate, investors resorted to debt to leverage up short-term speculative profits in stocks, bonds, and commercial real estate especially. Speculative investment was back as the dynamic factor in economic life, joining hands with an insatiable American consumerism.

There had long been a contradiction between short-term speculation for its own sake and long-term investment in enterprise. Unlike the 1920s, which saw the birth of industrial Fordism, the 1980s speculative boom did not lead to a great surge of investment in productive activity. Rather, using new access to capital and credit through “leveraged buyouts,” financiers blew up the postwar industrial corporation and dethroned the postwar managerial class.

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No. Vonnegut was not a Socialist.

None of your Socialist jerkoff buddies are going to change that.


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What are you talking about? Have you ever read his novels? You can't possibly miss the message in the novels! Oops, I forgot that you are Trumptard. Trumptards always miss the message. Try one of his speeches, where Vonnegut makes the point about socialism very clear: Kurt Vonnegut: 'I would like to see America try socialism', Bennington College -1970
https://speakola.com/grad/kurt-vonnegut-bennington-college-1970

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One trouble, it seems to me, is that the majority of the people who rule us, who have our money and power, are lawyers or military men. The lawyers want to talk our problems out of existence. The military men want us to find the bad guys and put bullets through their brains. These are not always the best [two] solutions—particularly in the fields of sewage disposal and birth control.

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If Burlington College is not familiar to you, it is where Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders' wife, was President.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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this was typical of Pentagon leadership: Delay key decisions by disputing that strategic meetings had led to consensus, insist the process was still ongoing, and leak apocalyptic scenarios to the media. These were the tactics Trump allies believed military leaders had perfected to obstruct presidents over the course of decades.

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FYI: Roe vs. Wade isn't going anywhere.

Just media scare tactics to get people behind our worst president in a lifetime packing the Supreme Court. Because that's what losers do.

Cheat.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee . . . said it doesn’t mean that a Congress led by Democrats would immediately be able to add justices to the court, but he suggested it would add momentum to reform efforts at a minimum.

“Chipping away at Roe v. Wade will precipitate a seismic movement to reform the Supreme Court,” he said. “It may not be expanding the Supreme Court, it may be making changes to its jurisdiction, or requiring a certain numbers of votes to strike down certain past precedents.”

No one knows for sure when the Supreme Court will hand down its decision on the Mississippi abortion law, but it is widely expected to hear arguments after it convenes in October. That could set up a decision next year.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), another member of the Judiciary Committee, said the court’s review of the Mississippi law raises serious concerns.

“It really enlivens the concerns that we have about the extent to which right-wing billionaire money has influenced the makeup of the court and may even be pulling strings at the court,” he said.

“We’ve got a whole array of options we’re looking at in the courts committee,” he said of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which President Biden established by executive order in April.

Whitehouse said even if there isn’t enough support for expanding the Supreme Court by four seats, which is a proposal that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced last month, other reforms could be pursued.

He cited “easy” reforms such as “proper disclosure and transparency” of the “gifts, travel and hospitality” received by the judges themselves and the “people who are behind front-group amicus curiae briefs” and who were "funding the political advertisements for the last three judges, writing $15 million and $17 million checks.”

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6ix, did you catch the hint from Senator Whitehouse that he disapproves of billionaires purchasing the loyalty of Supreme Court justices with “gifts, travel and hospitality”?

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6ix, did you catch the hint from Senator Whitehouse that he disapproves of billionaires purchasing the loyalty of Supreme Court justices with “gifts, travel and hospitality”?

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Meaningless pablum.

Where Senator Whitehouse fails is exactly where you fail.

If you're going to go out of your way like the both of you have to brand yourself with a political identity, then you'd better goddamned well be the first to call out bad behavior on your own side.

But neither of you never do this, so everything you say is hypocritical.

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Gross dude.

Get some new talking points. Broken record and despicable with every post you make.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Gross dude.

Get some new talking points. Broken record and despicable with every post you make.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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It was your suggestion but I think the correct move is to shoot you in your house, Trumptard.

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The problem is that not even $15/hr is going to be a livable wage the way things are going.

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The problem is that not even $15/hr is going to be a livable wage the way things are going.

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Half of Americans are doing fine because the economy was designed to benefit them. The higher up you go in wealth, the better the design gets for the wealthy.

The bottom half of the economy is full of people who sharply sense that they are being screwed but they can't seem to think about the details rationally. They do count their pennies but they also throw away thousands of dollars out of ignorance. If a guy like me starts explaining to them what is happening, they get mad, but not at the system. They are mad at me for telling them the only system they have ever known was carefully designed in all the smallest to largest details in order to cheat them out of their money.

It is actually ridiculous that most Americans, rich or poor, do not understand the system that they live in. If they understood, they be on the way to wealth. But they don't really understand anything at all and they refuse to learn because they think they know it all. It is sad that they cannot even bother to understand that there are better functioning systems, but there are. Within 60 to 120 seconds, rich or poor Americans get too bored to care:
https://confrontingpoverty.org/poverty-facts-and-myths/americas-poor-a
re-worse-off-than-elsewhere/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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You're a liar. You need to stop interjecting yourself into any of your arguments.

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Not related in the slightest to anything we're talking about.

Just how broken is your brain?

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My life is fine, Trumptard.

You couldn't pick me up, old man, but I'd love to see you try and find out where it gets you.

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My life is fine, Trumptard.

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There you go again, little man, with your superiority complex. And, by the way, your entire history at fireflyfans.net, which you brag about not erasing, shows that your life is the opposite of fine. But, again like all "Trumptards" I know, your way is to say up is down. It may trick you, but that doesn't change reality, 6ix.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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It's all about trajectory.

You can't appreciate the good times if you haven't experienced any bad ones.


The added bonus here for me is that nobody is going to question what I've been through and what I've overcome. Why would anybody lie about my story I've documented here since I've been a member in 2006?

My biggest enemy has ALWAYS been me. In nearly 100% of people out there, if they're being honest with themselves, that is the case.


But you go right on ahead pretending that Trump and Republicans are your biggest enemy while remaining completely static and never taking any time to improve yourself or your situation.

You're not rich. You don't own a company. You have nothing. You are nothing.

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