Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

Sally - cool exercise: Without looking it up, put the controversy into words. See how well you understand it. Anyway, rube media says there will be glass pipes in the kits but no one else does.The fact that you believe rube media over the people who actually know what will be in the kits...is not surprising. 

Sally doesn't understand how news works. She not only doesn't know the stark difference between local and national news organizations, she also doesn't understand how internet "news" stories just repeat the false narrative propagated by others.

The truth is that 50 outlets did not confirm the same thing. Zero outlets confirmed the story. Zero.

This is from the government and is dated Dec. 21, 2021. It provides "SAFER SMOKING EQUIPMENT." I am not a drug user or crack smoker but what the hell is "safer smoking equipment?" Sounds like crack pipes. This came out before the public outcry. Again, this came out before the Biden administ. was forced to backtrack.

Harm reduction services aim to prevent or minimize adverse outcomes related to substance use, such as fatal and non-fatal overdose and infectious disease transmission. Examples of established harm reduction approaches include naloxone, fentanyl test strips (FTS), safer smoking equipment, and sterile syringes, as well as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C virus testing. Emerging strategies to make harm reduction services and supplies more accessible include providing them in low/no barrier treatment clinics, placing them in vending machines, and mailing them, among other approaches. Harm reduction policies are also emerging, and include decriminalization of various drugs, police and prosecutor-driven deflection and diversion efforts, and the authorization of safe consumption sites.  

agip wrote:

Prof. Racket wrote:

No different than needle exchange programs which turn out to work pretty well.Also somewhat amazed that people still think this is all so zero-sum, like money going to drug addict programs means less money going to you. There's plenty of money for everyone (Federal Reserve printer go brrrr)

well fact is, whether they would help or not, apparently there are no free crack pipes being handed out. 

And yet again you would be WRONG.

Inflation sets another newl high, 7.5%.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coming-up-consumer-price-index-11644498273

Lets go Brandon!

#FJB

Prof. Racket wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

That will leave us at a tremendous economic disadvantage in ten years or so.

lmao bold claim.

Anyways, pretty sure percentage of power from renewables in the US have been climbing every year for the past 10 years or so and we continue to pump billions into solar and wind subsidies.

Not sure why we're still on this "USA bad" kick.

We aren't moving nearly as fast as Europe and we don't have a comprehensive plan to get us off expensive fossil fuels.

Without infrastructure improvements, even the slow progress we are making with renewables will stall. That will put us at a tremendous economic disadvantage as we pay two to three times as much for energy.

I don't think it's a bold claim at all. If you look at how things are playing out, it's just common sense.

In other words you posted a strong view without knowing the facts. 

What else is new? 

This is from the Harm Reduction Journal in Canada ...

"Safer smoking equipment" IS referring to CRACK PIPES!

We conducted an online survey of NSP managers across Canada to estimate the proportions of NSPs that provide education and distribute safer smoking equipment to people who smoke crack cocaine. We also assessed change in pipe distribution practices between 2008 and 2015 in the province of Ontario.

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-017-0144-3

Conservatives: It would be so much better if fewer people had jobs, so inflation would be lower. 

The economy expanded 5.5% last year, [b]the fastest pace since 1984. That brisk growth is powered by a strong labor market. Employers added 1.6 million jobs over the past three months, putting upward pressure on wages. With inflation well above the Fed’s target, the steady gains in hiring leave the Fed on track to raise interest rates next month and could prompt further increases in May and June.Mounting wage pressures related to the nation’s tight job market could also start feeding into inflation. Annual wage growth was running at 4.5% in December, the fastest pace since 2002, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s wage tracker, which makes adjustments for changes in the composition of workers.

Well, at least what I reported was accurate. What you reported was INACCURATE.

Bidinflation is making America poorer. But, but, but it's transitory! 🤣

Brandon does it again!

Conservatives: It would be so much better if fewer people had jobs, so inflation would be lower.

The economy expanded 5.5% last year, the fastest pace since 1984. That brisk growth is powered by a strong labor market. Employers added 1.6 million jobs over the past three months, putting upward pressure on wages.

With inflation well above the Fed’s target, the steady gains in hiring leave the Fed on track to raise interest rates next month and could prompt further increases in May and June. Mounting wage pressures related to the nation’s tight job market could also start feeding into inflation. Annual wage growth was running at 4.5% in December, the fastest pace since 2002, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s wage tracker, which makes adjustments for changes in the composition of workers.

Trump. the first choice of 'conservatives'

but her emails.

@axios

EXCLUSIVE: While Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper,

@maggieNYT scoops in her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man."

What about Trump, what about Trump, what about Trump....

Let's go Brandon!

#FJB

agip wrote:

Conservatives: It would be so much better if fewer people had jobs, so inflation would be lower. The economy expanded 5.5% last year, the fastest pace since 1984. That brisk growth is powered by a strong labor market. Employers added 1.6 million jobs over the past three months, putting upward pressure on wages. With inflation well above the Fed’s target, the steady gains in hiring leave the Fed on track to raise interest rates next month and could prompt further increases in May and June.Mounting wage pressures related to the nation’s tight job market could also start feeding into inflation. Annual wage growth was running at 4.5% in December, the fastest pace since 2002, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s wage tracker, which makes adjustments for changes in the composition of workers.

Today's HOT CPI number shows that ALLLLL of the "fastest growth in 40 years", that Biden loves to tout, has been due to inflation... Let's go Brandon!

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

What about Trump, what about Trump, what about Trump....

Let's go Brandon!

#FJB

Get used to it and if you're embarrassed, tough luck.

truly, gary has never heard of google.

gary come on stop it

you are smart enough to know that inflation is reported AFTER inflation is subtracted out.

In 2022 dollars the economy grew around 10%. Subtract out inflation and you get the 5-6% real growth.

Try harder, willya? I want a challenge, not...this. weak sauce.

remember gary is the guy who thinks trump ordered 10k nat guard troops and pelosi rejected them.

he is pure trumpist ignorance and gullibility.

But seriously Gary, how are you ok with this and how do you figure somehow Biden is worse? LOLz

https://twitter.com/JohnBerman/status/1491764773108826114?s=20&t=_XEZdkgsh07gsnX_hhFNAw

I urge you tzees to read this - you too can break out of the cult. Trump lost, just admit it.

"Scott, who was living on the south side of Atlanta during the 2020 election, was angry at Fox for calling Arizona for now-President Joe Biden, so he started listening to Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who had Trump on his show in 2015. Scott heard an ad for a "Stop the Steal" caravan, so he went to see it in Atlanta.

That was just the beginning. He spent the next few months living mostly in his car, driving through the night and across the country to almost every "Stop the Steal" rally.

"I felt like we were doing something," Scott said. "If nothing else, we were showing patriotism, because we were standing up for -- whether we were right or not -- we felt like we were standing up, making our voices be heard."

"Before long, he was driving 30 hours to another rally in Alpharetta, Georgia. At this point, Scott said, "I was not in control of my actions." He was addicted, he now says."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/stop-the-steal-cult-january-6/index.html