First off, I want to say that Robin Williams has been and will forever be my all time favorite comedian. I grew up loving and idolizing Williams as both a performer and a person and the day he took his life and I teared up heavily. He truly was a wonderful man who brought the…
Category: Economy
AL-Sen: Tommy Tuberville (R) Says $600 Unemployment Benefit Was “Way To Much” Of A Boost
Asshole: Tommy Tuberville, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, said on Tuesday that the recently expired $600 coronavirus unemployment “was way too much” during an interview on “Alabama's Morning News with JT.” Tuberville, who recently won the Republican primary and is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, claimed Alabamians are not working because “they're making…
U.S. GDP posts biggest ever slump in second quarter near 33% plunge as Trump jabbers election delay
Pay no attention to another Trump attempt to violate the Constitution like a sex slave. The #TrumpVirus begat a #TrumpSlump. x It worked. Trump’s nonsense talk about delaying the election dominated the very few reporter questions Trump allowed at his briefing. That was exactly what Trump wanted. Nothing about the worst collapse of GNP in…
Is it rude to throw this quote from Trump's 2015 campaign launch back in his face?
I vividly remember Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff speech at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 — a day which will live in imbecility. I recall that Trump seemed congenitally incapable of telling the truth, rode an escalator as part of what appeared to be some sort of shambolic, improptu comedy bit, and, of course, claimed Mexico was…
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: is there a “fully unexploited luxury socialism”
This week I attended (remotely) the Rethinking Economics Festival and encountered challenging pluralist discourses like a platform economy (noting that most of such work is populated by women), decolonizing the Eurocentric position in disciplines, or “fully-automated luxury communism”. I thought I’d share some resource items and make a few observations. Columbus does need to be…
Will a Senate GOP put the US back on the Gold Standard in Trump's 2nd term? #StopShelton
Judy Shelton’s candidacy for a seat on the Fed was approved in a party-line vote in the Senate Banking committee on Tuesday. All 12 Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee opposed Shelton’s nomination, making the GOP Senate majority potentially putting the 2016 Trump campaign advisor’s retrograde views onto the Fed. Because in a second Trump term, stupidity will…
WA-Gov: Gov. Jay Inslee (D. WA) Builds Momentum & Public Support For Joe Biden's Climate Plan
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Gov. Jay Inslee (D. WA), on behalf of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support former Vice President and Democratic Nominee, Joe Biden’s climate plan: Joe Biden Every day under Donald Trump feels like the world is falling apart. Sadly, when it comes to climate, the scientists…
Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA), “Joe Biden is ready to put America back to work.”
Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This is a big deal: Joe Biden just released his new plan to put more Americans back to work and revive American manufacturing. In uncertain times like these, our families deserve a steady…
Joe Biden Builds Momentum & Public Support For His Buy American Plan
Received this e-mail from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Make no mistake: America has been knocked down. The unemployment rate is higher than it was in the Great Recession. Millions have lost jobs, hours, pay, health care, or the small business they started, through no fault of their own. Even before COVID, Donald…
REALLY? Trump is Afraid that Electing Biden 'Would Lead To Disaster'
The United States of America is currently undergoing one of the most troubling and turbulent times in its short history. The American people are suffering hardships that have not been imagined for decades. The list of leadership failures under “president” Donald Trump are almost too numerous to mention. But the consequences are far too too…
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” socialist conference 2020
< p class=”AlignCenter”>You may not be interested in the State, but the State is interested in you. Socialism is on the rise in America, specifically Democratic socialism. 43% of Americans now say that some form of socialism is good for the country, compared to just 25% in 1942. President Donald Trump has already started to capitalize on the ideological…
Trump accidentally tells the truth about his dumpster fire of a presidency
Oh my God, can you even imagine? x President Trump: “You put the wrong person in office, you'll see things that you would not have believed are possible.” pic.twitter.com/DNQjJOkkNk— The Hill (@thehill) July 3, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> TRUMP: “We built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and we’re now doing it…
The Economist, “Joe Biden has a good chance of becoming a surprisingly activist president”
The Economist has a great piece out about former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidate. The part that I think always deserves emphasis about how Biden has quickly reached out to Bernie Sanders and his team to help draft a progressive agenda that he can implement as president: When Mr Sanders dropped out a month…
TRUMP Has Become a PARODY of Himself with LAUGHABLE Reelection Campaign
Saturday Night Live may be on hiatus, but comedy is alive and well and, unfortunately, emanating from the alleged president of the United States. As Donald Trump's prospects for the future whither pitifully into ashes, his attempts to boost his spirits and public image are taking on more of the characteristics of Borat movie. We…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one economist, it’s worth noting that one of their econometric models (Hassett) influenced the prediction that COVID-19 infections in the US would go to zero by June. That is after all,…
Is There A Breaking Point With GOP Governors When It Comes to COVID-19? Probably Not.
Most GOP governors have decided that it is better to have an “open” economy than save lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The worst of them never lockdown their states (see South Dakota and Iowa for examples), and even some who did order lockdowns reopened as rapidly as possible — most of the Southern governors fit this…
CNN Points Out That Trump Approval Ratings Unlikely To Go Up Dramatically By The Election.
Harry Enten of CNN has an article on how history is against any dramatic rise in Trump’s approval ratings by election time. Presidential approval ratings, however, haven’t historically moved much from June of an election year to Election Day. It seems quite likely at this point that Trump’s approval rating is going to be south…
The always wrong Larry Kudlow claims there's no systemic racism in America
Hiring TV talking head (er, ass) Larry Kudlow as an economic adviser, which Donald Trump (in)famously did, is kind of like hiring a pro bass fisherman to remove your appendix. Correction: It’s like hiring a bad pro bass fisherman to remove your appendix. With a pair of salad tongs and an ice augur. Kudlow is so…
#TrumpRecession. It's official. Trump squandered a growing economy that he inherited.
Oh so brand-conscious Trump now has his very own recession. No, it’s not Obama’s. Trump has ended 128 months of economic growth, before COVID-19 hit. Remember the stock market is not the economy. x The only thing Trump doesn't want his name on: #TrumpRecession. — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 8, 2020 The U.S. is in…
Trump “presser”: “we saved millions of lives” (by killing 105,000)
In the Rose Garden, Trump continues his usual nonsense lying about “the greatest economy in the history of the world”. …the president said today is a great day for a man who was killed. Trump imagines George Floyd celebrating new jobs report from heaven: “Hopefully, George is looking down right now in saying this is…
