I'll grant you that is a good solution. However, they had a patient bleeding out on the operating table. That is not the time to decide to do multiple organ transplants. It was all about the urgency of the situation. As a followup they absolutely should have broken up the banks and thrown some bankers in prison
I'm somewhat ambivalent about big banks. On one hand they can be a stabilizing force. CAN BE. The larger a bank is, the more of a threat to national security it becomes. This is the framing I would like to see with regard to big banks. You want to get a lot bigger? OK, more regulation and oversight because you are dangerous like nukes. That's the deal, otherwise it's time to downsize. And along those same lines, try to make regulations less onerous the smaller you are, within reason of course.
If you can't tell the difference, either you're not paying attention or you like to buy into the false equivalency of "they're both as bad".
Democrats try to work together for progress republicans try to destroy.
Let me put it to you in a different way. During the Iran deal who was it that wanted to go to war and who wanted to build peace? The conservatives in the US, Israel and Iran all wanted to go to war. The liberals wanted to build a lasting peace. If you took all the conservatives in the world and put them together they would start killing each other. If you did that with all the liberals, they would try to build a society.
That in a nutshell is the difference. Conservatives are a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality whereas liberals are more of a "we're all in the together, let's make it work" mentality.
What's stopping them is a fundamental flaw in the focus of the party. The republican party at its core is there to push the agenda of the rich. In order to do that they need to convince the poor and uneducated to vote against their best interests. Republicans can't win by being honest so they have to use the subterfuge of abortion, coded racism, xenophobia, gun rights paranoia to get elected. Over the years they have stoked the fears and stupidity and have created a voting horde of zombies. This worked very well for a while but now you have rich people like the Koch brothers who would rather have direct control of the Zombie horde. So the Koch's have a political apparatus that is at least three times the size of the political apparatus of the republican party. You have other players also trying to take direct control of the Zombies.
Now the other problem is side of the problem is that of "decent candidates". The problem here again lies at the root of the purpose of the republican party... to further the goals of the rich. Republicans tend to pick(draft) candidates from business who they think will win an election. These candidates for the most part have no history of public service and often don't understand the role of government or how it works. They just take their orders, copy the legislation that was given to them by some PAC and repeat talking points. Democrats, on the other hand, generally have to work their way up doing real community service. The outlook is completely different. You have to demonstrate that you can and have worked hard for the working man in order to be a democrat on the national stage. Remember all the derisive comments about how Obama was a community organizer (like that's a bad thing?)? That's because the republicans don't see the US as a team or a community where helping each other out is valuable. It's more of a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality rather than a serious problem solving mindset.
Now there are still a few old school republicans in the senate who take their responsibilities seriously but they are being replaced with the new and improved scorched earth republicans. The house? It only has a majority of republicans because of cheating, AKA gerrymandering. The republicans can't win fair elections so they try their best to disenfranchise voters, gerrymander districts , cut voting hours so working class people have a hard time voting, etc...
Trump is interesting because he's stealing the zombie horde from the Koch's, et al. He's tapped into that lizard brain that Fox News, Limaugh, etc.. have been grooming for decades. They original owners of the zombie horde are pissed, but there's not a lot they can do about it.
I'd argue that the democrats have two pretty good candidates. I'll be happy with either one, but I think Clinton has the skills, brains and experience to actually get some shit done.You can promise the world, but can you actually move the ball forward? I think she can. She's had a lot of shit thrown at her for the last thirty years. She's tough as nails. She also knows how to run very large organizations and has better foreign policy experience than all of the other candidates combined. The biggest problem is going to be dealing with an obstructionist congress and luckily she's married to someone who has a great deal of experience dealing with that problem.
One downside though is that a lot of people are susceptible to the narrative that the media has been pushing for decades. Take a look at the vitriol many people immediately spew when her name comes up. The Bernie Bros are all over twitter calling her a lying cunt, etc.. The media decided long ago that she had trust issues with the american people, they kept saying it and now people have... surprise surprise, trust issues with Hillary.
Our press has become lazy and stupid and would rather talk about the horserace or youtube videos than actually spending time to inform people. I swear if I hear one more clueless reporter talk about how good Trump is at getting media attention while they give him said attention I'm going to shoot my TV.
Yes, people vote on the person they'd like to have a beer with.
Also there was that pesky problem with election fraud in Ohio in 2004. There was definitely cheating going on but by the time it came to light, dubya had already been sworn in.
When they don't compromise, they do things take the world economy hostage by threatening to not raise the debt ceiling. That's basically like saying you're going to nuke the world. or they shut the government down. Or they fail to fund road building and bridge repair. There are a thousand necessary things that aren't getting done because of a lack of compromise.
Also the patriot act shouldn't be in your list. That wasn't compromise, that was fear.
TARP while disgusting, was necessary to save the world economy. It should have been followed with some prison sentences.
Quite frankly we're getting what we deserve by not being involved in all elections all the time. This can't happen with an engaged and informed public. Idiocracy is happening now.
Whoever wins the republican nomination could still win. Political races are funny things and swing voters are fickle and emotional. Let me give an extreme example. Kasich is almost the nominee and a fire breaks out in his hotel. He starts pulling people from the fire and saves some children and it's caught on camera. Suddenly he takes the nomination and the presidency. Yes, it's stupid but people have lost over less... see Howard Dean's scream.
The thing that is scary about Kasich is how he has fooled the press into thinking he's a moderate. He's no moderate. He's one of the stealth anti abortion candidates of the 90's. He sounds moderate but his actions are pretty radical(anti abortion bills with no abortion exception even to save the life of the mother). I fear Kasich far more than Cruz. Cruz can't hide his instanity. Kasich does it quite nicely.
The press has failed us. They tell us all about the horse race, but tell us little to nothing about policy differences.
No, that's more of a modern (helicopter) parent thing. Most of our parents didn't care what we did as long as it didn't cause them any hassles. I think my parents made it to one sporting event of mine.
I feel bad about the freedom to explore that many in the younger generations have missed.
She is not part of a dynasty. That woman has busted her ass since she was a teenager to help the little guy out. She was brought up middle class and married the son of a salesman who was similarly motivated. A dynasty is more like, Granpa was a senator, Poppie was the President and my brothers and I are governors and senators.
What is with the vitriol? She really is being judged unfairly and I don't get why. Is it because she's a woman? This reminds me of the over the top Obama hate we see from the crazy republicans.
Pardon for what? She didn't break any rules or any laws. At worse she either sent or received email that was later classified. It sucks but it wasn't malicious in the least. The Hillary hate is really over the top and childish. People need to grow the fuck up.
Clinton wasn't going to(and didn't) cheat to win Iowa and it wasn't decided by a coin toss. What most people don't understand is that she doesn't need to win Iowa. Bernie doesn't have a chance because he doesn't have any super delegates. The McGovern nomination showed the democrats decades ago that allowing a more ideologically pure candidate win the nomination will likely end any chance of presidential win. This is a lesson the republicans are learning the hard way. The republicans are racing to the right to win the nomination which will alienate the general public and cost them the election again(and again and again).
Or more likely he's taking the right wingers too seriously. This is a common dog whistle for right wing propagandists.It goes hand in hand with "Take our country back" and "Make America great again"
Right. As a consultant I will tell you when your requirements are stupid and costly. If you still insist on me working inefficiently it's your dime. I'll happily take more of your money to do it the wrong way and I will make sure my recommendations are clear in the documentation.
When you say "interfered with the affairs of Flint" you probably should say, "set aside democracy in Flint and installed a city dictator who reports to the Governor."
Just because Americans couldn't go to Cuba, it doesn't mean they were isolated. Everyone else could go there but Americans. And you could actually go to Cuba if you went through Canada or Mexico. The Cubans were pretty nice about not stamping Americans' passports so you wouldn't get in trouble when you returned to the assholes at our border.
No, allowing parents to create ignorant children that become ignorant adults is not emblematic of freedom. This is like saying people should be free to create handicapped children because they think all kids should be handicapped.
Feel free to handicap your children with creationism nonsense, but don't expect to have the rest of society pay to teach this nonsense. It's like insisting that public transportation give you a private vehicle because you don't want to be around others in the bus. It's just stupid.
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I'll grant you that is a good solution. However, they had a patient bleeding out on the operating table. That is not the time to decide to do multiple organ transplants. It was all about the urgency of the situation. As a followup they absolutely should have broken up the banks and thrown some bankers in prison
I'm somewhat ambivalent about big banks. On one hand they can be a stabilizing force. CAN BE. The larger a bank is, the more of a threat to national security it becomes. This is the framing I would like to see with regard to big banks. You want to get a lot bigger? OK, more regulation and oversight because you are dangerous like nukes. That's the deal, otherwise it's time to downsize. And along those same lines, try to make regulations less onerous the smaller you are, within reason of course.
Kasich only pretends to be sane.
This is why Bernie is going to lose. The Bernie Bros are over the top in their vitriol and turn off the swing voters he will need.
People who engage in hyperbole are worse than Hitler.
If you can't tell the difference, either you're not paying attention or you like to buy into the false equivalency of "they're both as bad".
Democrats try to work together for progress republicans try to destroy.
Let me put it to you in a different way. During the Iran deal who was it that wanted to go to war and who wanted to build peace? The conservatives in the US, Israel and Iran all wanted to go to war. The liberals wanted to build a lasting peace. If you took all the conservatives in the world and put them together they would start killing each other. If you did that with all the liberals, they would try to build a society.
That in a nutshell is the difference. Conservatives are a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality whereas liberals are more of a "we're all in the together, let's make it work" mentality.
What's stopping them is a fundamental flaw in the focus of the party. The republican party at its core is there to push the agenda of the rich. In order to do that they need to convince the poor and uneducated to vote against their best interests. Republicans can't win by being honest so they have to use the subterfuge of abortion, coded racism, xenophobia, gun rights paranoia to get elected. Over the years they have stoked the fears and stupidity and have created a voting horde of zombies. This worked very well for a while but now you have rich people like the Koch brothers who would rather have direct control of the Zombie horde. So the Koch's have a political apparatus that is at least three times the size of the political apparatus of the republican party. You have other players also trying to take direct control of the Zombies.
Now the other problem is side of the problem is that of "decent candidates". The problem here again lies at the root of the purpose of the republican party... to further the goals of the rich. Republicans tend to pick(draft) candidates from business who they think will win an election. These candidates for the most part have no history of public service and often don't understand the role of government or how it works. They just take their orders, copy the legislation that was given to them by some PAC and repeat talking points. Democrats, on the other hand, generally have to work their way up doing real community service. The outlook is completely different. You have to demonstrate that you can and have worked hard for the working man in order to be a democrat on the national stage. Remember all the derisive comments about how Obama was a community organizer (like that's a bad thing?)? That's because the republicans don't see the US as a team or a community where helping each other out is valuable. It's more of a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality rather than a serious problem solving mindset.
Now there are still a few old school republicans in the senate who take their responsibilities seriously but they are being replaced with the new and improved scorched earth republicans. The house? It only has a majority of republicans because of cheating, AKA gerrymandering. The republicans can't win fair elections so they try their best to disenfranchise voters, gerrymander districts , cut voting hours so working class people have a hard time voting, etc...
Trump is interesting because he's stealing the zombie horde from the Koch's, et al. He's tapped into that lizard brain that Fox News, Limaugh, etc.. have been grooming for decades. They original owners of the zombie horde are pissed, but there's not a lot they can do about it.
I'd argue that the democrats have two pretty good candidates. I'll be happy with either one, but I think Clinton has the skills, brains and experience to actually get some shit done.You can promise the world, but can you actually move the ball forward? I think she can. She's had a lot of shit thrown at her for the last thirty years. She's tough as nails. She also knows how to run very large organizations and has better foreign policy experience than all of the other candidates combined. The biggest problem is going to be dealing with an obstructionist congress and luckily she's married to someone who has a great deal of experience dealing with that problem.
... surprise surprise, trust issues with Hillary.
One downside though is that a lot of people are susceptible to the narrative that the media has been pushing for decades. Take a look at the vitriol many people immediately spew when her name comes up. The Bernie Bros are all over twitter calling her a lying cunt, etc.. The media decided long ago that she had trust issues with the american people, they kept saying it and now people have
Our press has become lazy and stupid and would rather talk about the horserace or youtube videos than actually spending time to inform people. I swear if I hear one more clueless reporter talk about how good Trump is at getting media attention while they give him said attention I'm going to shoot my TV.
Yes, people vote on the person they'd like to have a beer with.
Also there was that pesky problem with election fraud in Ohio in 2004. There was definitely cheating going on but by the time it came to light, dubya had already been sworn in.
When they don't compromise, they do things take the world economy hostage by threatening to not raise the debt ceiling. That's basically like saying you're going to nuke the world. or they shut the government down. Or they fail to fund road building and bridge repair. There are a thousand necessary things that aren't getting done because of a lack of compromise.
Also the patriot act shouldn't be in your list. That wasn't compromise, that was fear.
TARP while disgusting, was necessary to save the world economy. It should have been followed with some prison sentences.
Quite frankly we're getting what we deserve by not being involved in all elections all the time. This can't happen with an engaged and informed public. Idiocracy is happening now.
Whoever wins the republican nomination could still win. Political races are funny things and swing voters are fickle and emotional. Let me give an extreme example. Kasich is almost the nominee and a fire breaks out in his hotel. He starts pulling people from the fire and saves some children and it's caught on camera. Suddenly he takes the nomination and the presidency. Yes, it's stupid but people have lost over less... see Howard Dean's scream.
The thing that is scary about Kasich is how he has fooled the press into thinking he's a moderate. He's no moderate. He's one of the stealth anti abortion candidates of the 90's. He sounds moderate but his actions are pretty radical(anti abortion bills with no abortion exception even to save the life of the mother). I fear Kasich far more than Cruz. Cruz can't hide his instanity. Kasich does it quite nicely.
The press has failed us. They tell us all about the horse race, but tell us little to nothing about policy differences.
This won't do anything as long as the Feds don't throw bankers who launder billions for drug lords in prison. Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court.
Parents had to OK seeing a movie? Ha!
No, that's more of a modern (helicopter) parent thing. Most of our parents didn't care what we did as long as it didn't cause them any hassles. I think my parents made it to one sporting event of mine.
I feel bad about the freedom to explore that many in the younger generations have missed.
I probably watched that movie 50 times in the summer of 77.
She is not part of a dynasty. That woman has busted her ass since she was a teenager to help the little guy out. She was brought up middle class and married the son of a salesman who was similarly motivated. A dynasty is more like, Granpa was a senator, Poppie was the President and my brothers and I are governors and senators.
What is with the vitriol? She really is being judged unfairly and I don't get why. Is it because she's a woman? This reminds me of the over the top Obama hate we see from the crazy republicans.
Pardon for what? She didn't break any rules or any laws. At worse she either sent or received email that was later classified. It sucks but it wasn't malicious in the least. The Hillary hate is really over the top and childish. People need to grow the fuck up.
It's not democrats or republicans.... The problem is Iowa
Coin flips did not win Iowa for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton wasn't going to(and didn't) cheat to win Iowa and it wasn't decided by a coin toss. What most people don't understand is that she doesn't need to win Iowa. Bernie doesn't have a chance because he doesn't have any super delegates. The McGovern nomination showed the democrats decades ago that allowing a more ideologically pure candidate win the nomination will likely end any chance of presidential win. This is a lesson the republicans are learning the hard way. The republicans are racing to the right to win the nomination which will alienate the general public and cost them the election again(and again and again).
Or more likely he's taking the right wingers too seriously. This is a common dog whistle for right wing propagandists.It goes hand in hand with "Take our country back" and "Make America great again"
dey took ar jerbs!
One time I tried disabling my ad blocker and I still couldn't see the content. Probably because of my hosts file from someonewhocares
Why do the editors allow Forbes links?
What do you call the guys down in Nevada during the Cliven Bundy situation who had federal agents in their sites?
The other thing that people seem to miss regarding these YeeHawdis is that they are idiots.
This is the problem with most conservatives. They're conservative because they're stupid.
Right. As a consultant I will tell you when your requirements are stupid and costly. If you still insist on me working inefficiently it's your dime. I'll happily take more of your money to do it the wrong way and I will make sure my recommendations are clear in the documentation.
When you say "interfered with the affairs of Flint" you probably should say, "set aside democracy in Flint and installed a city dictator who reports to the Governor."
Just because Americans couldn't go to Cuba, it doesn't mean they were isolated. Everyone else could go there but Americans. And you could actually go to Cuba if you went through Canada or Mexico. The Cubans were pretty nice about not stamping Americans' passports so you wouldn't get in trouble when you returned to the assholes at our border.
No, allowing parents to create ignorant children that become ignorant adults is not emblematic of freedom. This is like saying people should be free to create handicapped children because they think all kids should be handicapped.
Feel free to handicap your children with creationism nonsense, but don't expect to have the rest of society pay to teach this nonsense. It's like insisting that public transportation give you a private vehicle because you don't want to be around others in the bus. It's just stupid.
Anti science and anti intellectual views should not be respected. To insist they should be respected is fucking retarded.