I guess you missed where it said "several republicans" have expressed a willingness for nationwide ban. Maybe go back and re-read or re-remember what you previously read. If there are 100 million conservatives and several (perhaps 5) expressing a willingness to ban abortion nationwide - that is not really "conservatives calling for a nationwide ban." That is a few nut jobs calling for a ban.
ok YOU go trust the Republican Party to limit itself. I'll take a look at j6 tapes and the party's roaring defense of donald j trump's lies, crimes, Russian connections, blackmailing Ukraine, deliberate undermining of democracy, tax crimes and ultimately insurrection and I'll assume the worst, thanks.
The metric I used is if a person is worth more or less than when Biden took office. Your average middle class family is likely worth less due to inflation. Inflation is up close to 13% since Biden took office, so if you take your net worth today, multiply it by .87 and compare it to your net worth in February 2021 and tell me where it comes up. Not only are your dollars likely worth less, but the nominal value of things like your IRA may have dropped (in spite of continuing to add to it for a year and a half) and your real estate equity may have gone down (due to the feds efforts to act on inflation).
Let's say you had $750,000 in VOO (a vanguard fund that tracks the S&P) when Biden was inaugurated. That would nominally be worth $783,088 (it was @ $340 when plus we will assume you would have added about $45,000 in contributions during that time, so it is now worth nominally $828,088 today. Adjusted for inflation, it is worth $720,437 (and dropping).
If you had $1.6 million in real estate equity when Biden was inducted, it would have gone up slightly (DJ Real Estate index went from about 335 to 355 and dropping (down close to 16% this year). Let's say you added $50,000 in principal payments during the past year and a half. That $1.6 million would now nominally be worth about $1.75 million. When adjusted for inflation, it is now worth about $1.53 million (and dropping).
So after a year and a half of contributing to savings and building equity in your real estate while gainfully employed, you have seen your net worth drop from $2.35 million to $2.23 million (a 5% drop). Two more years and you will be at 90% of where you were when Biden took office. 6 more years and you will be at 70%. But hey, unemployment is low, so it must not be a recession.
I guess you missed where it said "several republicans" have expressed a willingness for nationwide ban. Maybe go back and re-read or re-remember what you previously read. If there are 100 million conservatives and several (perhaps 5) expressing a willingness to ban abortion nationwide - that is not really "conservatives calling for a nationwide ban." That is a few nut jobs calling for a ban.
ok YOU go trust the Republican Party to limit itself. I'll take a look at j6 tapes and the party's roaring defense of donald j trump's lies, crimes, Russian connections, blackmailing Ukraine, deliberate undermining of democracy, tax crimes and ultimately insurrection and I'll assume the worst, thanks.
Suggestion for you guys .... pick up a copy of the constitution some time and skim it at first. Then go back and read it from beginning to end. Learn a little about the constitution and learn why Biden can't legislate as president. And learn about the limitations of Congress. And learn why we have an electoral college. And learn why packing the court is just insane.
No one alive with an IQ over 85 believes Joe Biden got over 81 million votes.
Democrats all over the country violated their own state constitutions to pass election laws through the courts to make fraudulent mail in voting as easy as possible as basically undetectable.
Everyone alive gets a ballot. And even plenty of dead people. Yay! You don't even have to sign it. Yay! If you do sign it the signature doesn't even have to match. Yay! Let's have unmonitored privately funded drop boxes. Yay! Let's count the ballots in secret with no Republican observers. Yay! Let's keep coolers and boxes full of ballots on hand just in case we need them. Yay!
Only F'ing morons think 2020 was legitimate.
Liberals clutching their pearls about election tampering is absolutely hysterical. The entire media was campaigning for Biden. Social media banned negative stories they thought would hurt Biden. The F'ing FBI instructed social media to ban stories they KNEW were true to protect Biden.
The system is completely rigged in your favor and STILL you lose elections because your ideas are TERRIBLE.
The most critical eye indeed lol
Is William Barr an idiot?
Anyone who thinks there was no fraud in a mail in election where ballots were sent to every person on the voter rolls with no signature requirements or safeguards is an idiot.
There's HUNDREDS of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls. Not to mention people who don't even live at the address the ballots were mailed to.
Anyone who thinks 2020 was on the up and up is a stone cold moron.
No they haven't. A 15-week ban has been proposed, but it doesn't have enough support among Republicans to pass. I don't personally support any federal abortion restrictions, but a 15-week ban isn't really a "ban." That's literally the law in most European countries. Would you say Germany has a national abortion ban?
now you are just talking semantics
Sometimes semantics are important. Would you say Germany or France have a national abortion bans?
I'll bet you didn't even know their laws. Did you know GB doesn't allow abortion on demand at all?
we both know the proposal on the table is a 15 week ban.
I'm not interested in a semantic battle here.
I'm not either, but I think the details and context are important.
well ok but then you go and imply there's some kind of strong restriction on abortion in England. Which 1 minute of googling found to be misleading. All you do is say 'this baby is dangerous to my mental health' and you are done. You didn't lie but you tried to create a misleading impression. Not classic 'loper.
I'm not either, but I think the details and context are important.
well ok but then you go and imply there's some kind of strong restriction on abortion in England. Which 1 minute of googling found to be misleading. All you do is say 'this baby is dangerous to my mental health' and you are done. You didn't lie but you tried to create a misleading impression. Not classic 'loper.
Okay, but did you know all but 3 or 4 countries in the EU prohibit abortion after ~14 weeks? It's pretty clear "national abortion ban" is made to mislead people into thinking it's an outright ban, not a 15 week ban. None of these media sources would describe France as having a "national abortion ban."
I guess you missed where it said "several republicans" have expressed a willingness for nationwide ban. Maybe go back and re-read or re-remember what you previously read. If there are 100 million conservatives and several (perhaps 5) expressing a willingness to ban abortion nationwide - that is not really "conservatives calling for a nationwide ban." That is a few nut jobs calling for a ban.
ok YOU go trust the Republican Party to limit itself. I'll take a look at j6 tapes and the party's roaring defense of donald j trump's lies, crimes, Russian connections, blackmailing Ukraine, deliberate undermining of democracy, tax crimes and ultimately insurrection and I'll assume the worst, thanks.
President Biden is nearing 100 executive orders since taking office, which an expert says carries a price tag of up to $1.5 trillion as the national debt nears $31 trillion.
we both know the proposal on the table is a 15 week ban.
I'm not interested in a semantic battle here.
I'm not either, but I think the details and context are important.
Ok, I'll provide some context.
1) GB allows abortions up to 24 weeks and 6 days.
2) The reasons for getting an abortion can be physical injury to the mother, evidence that there can be serious birth defects to the child (physical or mental), mental distress to the woman, FINANCIAL hardship of the woman, SOCIAL situation of the woman. So, basically a woman can get an abortion in Great Britain for really any reason she wants, because just "mental distress" would suffice really. Here in the US, where there are bans, a meth head woman can't go get an abortion even though she likely isn't capable of being a good mother AND the child could have serious health issues if taken to term in the body of an addict.
3) Two doctors must in "good faith" decide that a woman seeking an abortion fits the criteria to receive on legally. Guess what? They all do. If you go into an abortion clinic and tell them that you want a boy and you are carrying a female fetus, the doctors likely will not grant you your wish, they they MIGHT as there is no ban on that specifically, but it is not a reason to grant one either.
4) GB's abortion laws are more liberal than Graham would like them to be here.
5) GB has a King. The United States should not model itself after a country that has a King. We kind of ran away from that, don't you know.
The metric I used is if a person is worth more or less than when Biden took office. Your average middle class family is likely worth less due to inflation. Inflation is up close to 13% since Biden took office, so if you take your net worth today, multiply it by .87 and compare it to your net worth in February 2021 and tell me where it comes up. Not only are your dollars likely worth less, but the nominal value of things like your IRA may have dropped (in spite of continuing to add to it for a year and a half) and your real estate equity may have gone down (due to the feds efforts to act on inflation).
Let's say you had $750,000 in VOO (a vanguard fund that tracks the S&P) when Biden was inaugurated. That would nominally be worth $783,088 (it was @ $340 when plus we will assume you would have added about $45,000 in contributions during that time, so it is now worth nominally $828,088 today. Adjusted for inflation, it is worth $720,437 (and dropping).
If you had $1.6 million in real estate equity when Biden was inducted, it would have gone up slightly (DJ Real Estate index went from about 335 to 355 and dropping (down close to 16% this year). Let's say you added $50,000 in principal payments during the past year and a half. That $1.6 million would now nominally be worth about $1.75 million. When adjusted for inflation, it is now worth about $1.53 million (and dropping).
So after a year and a half of contributing to savings and building equity in your real estate while gainfully employed, you have seen your net worth drop from $2.35 million to $2.23 million (a 5% drop). Two more years and you will be at 90% of where you were when Biden took office. 6 more years and you will be at 70%. But hey, unemployment is low, so it must not be a recession.
So, you were super happy with Obama's presidency then? The Dow was at 6,400 in March after he took over, and it ended up at 19,827.
The market goes up and down. Overall it is up. Invest while you are still working. Your net worth at any given time means nothing until you are ready to start taking income from that net worth.
You can play these games during any Presidency. In 2020 (Trump still in office)...just in that one year, the Dow hit a low of 18,591, so lower than when Obama handed it to him.
Then in 2021 (Biden's first year in office), the Dow zoomed to close at 36,336, and the Dow went up 18+% that year. This year, the Dow is down 15+%. Big deal. Down years happen.
And, you give a scenario where we continue to go down for 6 more years? Ridiculous assumption, especially since you are assuming that will happen if Biden is in office...as if Joe Biden (or ANY President) has an effect like that on the stock market.
You support an anti-American who tried to overturn a fair election and who stole a TON of government documents including a LOT of classified and top secret documents.
Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis in 30 years.The last time Cuba felt this strain was when subsidies from the former Soviet Union ended.Now, US sancti...
The American Rescue Plan was unnecessary and caused a massive spike in inflation, and unfortunately Biden and the Dems do not seem to have learned from their mistake, as they continue to spend and give away money, which causes the fed to continue to hike rates. Those on the left say that there is no recession because unemployment is low. I disagree. Plenty of socialist nations have low unemployment with everyone starving. The erosion of the middle class should be a concern for everyone.
Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly “We are literally storming the Capitol. The gate – this whole area is blocked off to the public. We’re saying, ‘F.ck it!’ Sic semper tyrannis, b.tch. Down with tyrants.” DOJ wants 44 months in prison for Charles Bradford Smith, a.k.a. Brad Smith (left, and outlined in green).
So, you were super happy with Obama's presidency then? The Dow was at 6,400 in March after he took over, and it ended up at 19,827.
The market goes up and down. Overall it is up. Invest while you are still working. Your net worth at any given time means nothing until you are ready to start taking income from that net worth.
You can play these games during any Presidency. In 2020 (Trump still in office)...just in that one year, the Dow hit a low of 18,591, so lower than when Obama handed it to him.
Then in 2021 (Biden's first year in office), the Dow zoomed to close at 36,336, and the Dow went up 18+% that year. This year, the Dow is down 15+%. Big deal. Down years happen.
And, you give a scenario where we continue to go down for 6 more years? Ridiculous assumption, especially since you are assuming that will happen if Biden is in office...as if Joe Biden (or ANY President) has an effect like that on the stock market.
You support an anti-American who tried to overturn a fair election and who stole a TON of government documents including a LOT of classified and top secret documents.
The American Rescue Plan was unnecessary and caused a massive spike in inflation, and unfortunately Biden and the Dems do not seem to have learned from their mistake, as they continue to spend and give away money, which causes the fed to continue to hike rates. Those on the left say that there is no recession because unemployment is low. I disagree. Plenty of socialist nations have low unemployment with everyone starving. The erosion of the middle class should be a concern for everyone.
1) No, the American Rescue Plan did not cause the high inflation. The high inflation was a result of the pandemic leading to pent-up demand for goods and services and the supply chain issues that followed once the raging part of the pandemic was over.
2) You believe there is a recession ONLY because you are a partisan hack and you go on you FEELINGS. I say there IS a recession because we had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, and that is the standard I follow (that everyone should follow). The other standard (NBER pronouncement) hasn't been declared yet, and because the NBER looks at many things including the unemployment rate, it might NOT declare a recession. It is a useless standard as they declare after it is over if we were in one. The thing about the recession though is that it was caused by the HUGE growth we had in 2021 due to coming out of the raging part of the pandemic. When the results of the next quarter are released, we will no longer be in a recession.
3) Erosion of the middle class? 1960 called...1970 called...1980 called...1990 called...2000 called...2010 called...2015 called...they all want their mantra back. Neither party gives a crap about the middle class (though Democrats do give HALF a crap about the middle class). The middle class is always brought up by politicians because it's the biggest economic voting block. There is nothing special about the middle class other than its size.
So, you were super happy with Obama's presidency then? The Dow was at 6,400 in March after he took over, and it ended up at 19,827.
The market goes up and down. Overall it is up. Invest while you are still working. Your net worth at any given time means nothing until you are ready to start taking income from that net worth.
You can play these games during any Presidency. In 2020 (Trump still in office)...just in that one year, the Dow hit a low of 18,591, so lower than when Obama handed it to him.
Then in 2021 (Biden's first year in office), the Dow zoomed to close at 36,336, and the Dow went up 18+% that year. This year, the Dow is down 15+%. Big deal. Down years happen.
And, you give a scenario where we continue to go down for 6 more years? Ridiculous assumption, especially since you are assuming that will happen if Biden is in office...as if Joe Biden (or ANY President) has an effect like that on the stock market.
You support an anti-American who tried to overturn a fair election and who stole a TON of government documents including a LOT of classified and top secret documents.
The American Rescue Plan was unnecessary and caused a massive spike in inflation, and unfortunately Biden and the Dems do not seem to have learned from their mistake, as they continue to spend and give away money, which causes the fed to continue to hike rates. Those on the left say that there is no recession because unemployment is low. I disagree. Plenty of socialist nations have low unemployment with everyone starving. The erosion of the middle class should be a concern for everyone.
AND ANOTHER THING!...
You look at the American Rescue Plan and see inflation go up as a result, so you are assigning (improperly) causation there.
Will you ALSO assign causation to the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act, because inflation is expected to go down, even by a lot beginning in April. The last three months inflation has seen these percentages (so going DOWN): 9.1%, 8.5%, 8.3%. My CORRECT thoughts on this are that Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will have NO affect on inflation one way or the other, but, just due to circumstances, inflation WILL go down. My CORRECT thoughts are ALSO that YOU will ALSO not assign causation here but only because it doesn't fit your narrative, not due to some grander understanding of the economy (which my CORRECT view is based upon).
a federal court will say 'Arizona/Georgia/Wisconsin you can't do that'
the state will say 'watch me.' So the states submit electors decided by the R legislatures, not the voters.
then the electoral vote count will be disputed and the election will be thrown to the House, which will select DJT to be president.
The fix is in, gents. If the Rs want to elect DJT they can do it despite losing the election. And there's nothing America can do about it.
Which is another massive reason not to hope DJT is the R nominee.
(PS: I believe SCOTUS will decide next year if this scheme is constitutional. Not that Rs care if something is Constitutional but it could get an absolute stamp of legality from SCOTUS. And it will ruin every presidential election from here on out. )
You literally stole the 2020 election...
No one alive with an IQ over 85 believes Joe Biden got over 81 million votes.
This is the first time I remember you actually fully admitting that you believe Democrats stole the election. You have probably said so before, but I don't read everything you spew. WOW! You are such a moron.
You do realize that the window-lickers you associate with are not representative of the nation, right?
Man, we Democrats must be pretty damn smart to pull off the greatest scam in US history! Surely we will do it again! No need to waste your time or energy to go vote EVER AGAIN.
You are insane to think this...stark raving batsh!t crazy. Seek medical attention immediately. Seriously. Some dumb@ss with the same view as you killed his family over this. You need therapy...deep deep therapy.
Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly “We are literally storming the Capitol. The gate – this whole area is blocked off to the public. We’re saying, ‘F.ck it!’ Sic semper tyrannis, b.tch. Down with tyrants.” DOJ wants 44 months in prison for Charles Bradford Smith, a.k.a. Brad Smith (left, and outlined in green).
remember: Just a little protest. Political prisoners. Worthy of pardons.
