We two and at least the over 75 million Americans who voted against Trump in the 2025 election. That doesn’t mean that I was not critical of the Biden administration. As a case in point, if Biden had stuck by his campaign promise to be a one term president, the Dems could have run a competitive race primary giving voters the opportunity to choose their candidate. Such candidate might have won. We’ll never know. But, what’s clear is that by trying to run again, Biden contributed significantly to Trump’s win.
So your one complaint about Biden is that he contributed to Trump’s win?
LOL.
Tariffs are inflationary. If you do not understand that then you are in trouble.
Trump will not cut taxes for the people, but for his friends in the city and the tech bros.
Many of the comments here are so disturbing, you might guess that you won’t see much of me again. I had hopes but it seems that even more of you are infected with the madness.
It is mostly discouraging that every discussion separates people into left/right factions, whereas some of us are just seeing people suffering, dying, impoverished and exploited, and want it to stop.
I just hope that the loudmouthed among you come to see sense before you suffer yourselves. Our world is setting the clock back 200 years politically, and all you can do is bicker among yourselves, just like the tyrants want you to.
I started a thread complaining about Biden’s policy toward the Netanyahu administration in Israel In the current events section months ago. corporate lobbyists have gained far too much control of the government in Washington generally for several decades. Biden‘s sympathies were with the working class, but his efforts were too feeble to Restore the standard of living of the 60% of Americans, who are struggling paycheck to paycheck. Trump promised to do better but so far has done nothing for the millions of working class people who got him elected. Let’s see if that changes. I’m going on record here to say, I seriously doubt it. But I’d be happy to be wrong. What he mainly did his first term was give a huge tax break for the richest one percent. That’s why they supported his reelection with huge donations. Elon Musk’s was the biggest that’s why he now has a staff of 20 in the White House. He’s a big government contractor. Do you not see a conflict of interest there?
I happen to think that the Left has done a lot of damage in recent years, but that doesn’t affect my empathy for all those who are suffering around the world.
We are being fooled into believing that the poor are costing us too much whilst astronomical profits are being made, and a fraction of those would cover the costs. This is all well documented and people like Bloomberg demonstrate that the rich can contribute.
All the while we have an economic system that increases the gap between the rich and the poor almost without effort on the side of the rich. The corporations blackmail governments and sabotage attempts to get them to contribute.
I am as exasperated as anyone at the ridiculous side issues that the left-centrist governments get themselves entangled with, but the suffering of all people doesn’t seem to interest parties, only the suffering of some. The maddening US attitude that the rich are blessed, and the poor are to blame for their problems only exacerbates the situation.
The promises of a felon are meaningless.
The promises of a cheat are meaningless.
The promises of a liar are meaningless.
The promises of a rapist are meaningless.
The promises of a abuser are meaningless.
The promises of a fraudster are meaningless.
The promises of an insurrectionist are meaningless.
What were any of you clowns hoping for. Has the US population gone completely insane.
He should be in prison, not in office. He is not fit for office.
The US population is like the ragged trousered philanthropists.
Diabetics are sacrificing by paying $400 for $6 worth of insulin to support the billionarries.
Eggs are 3 times the price they are across the border.
And the US are cheering on Musk as hero because rich people must be entittled
Oh democrats love that. They are all in favor of sexual slavery of children. Even if they don’t do it themselves, they know their ‘betters’ do. And demonrats will always close rank.
Yes and basic economic principles are at work here, one of which nearly duplicates the rate of inflation with the percentage of the unemployed workforce
Add to this an increasing rate of jobs lost by a simultaneous rate at which robotics displaces human jobs, (minus minus the retrainable human factor)
Is it any wonder that the NWO has taken an unexpected reversal that favors even a quasi criminal mind to aid the reversal?
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In addition if this was not enough, the fate of the world is in the balance, where existence can in fact preclude a morally transvalued a priori justification.
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No wonder Nietzche declared how he can write such wonderful books so far ahead of his time…
This was for a long time one of the reliable myths of the dark arts of economysticisml that low inflation and high unemployment were necessarily linked.
I have to tell you that there is no necessary connection between the two and that though the correlation was common in the post war period, not serious economist would now offer this as a law as once they wanted to.
Uk in the 1980s showed massive inflations and legendarily massive unemployment
There are dependant factors for each which are not related to the other.
LOL.
This sort of comment is why I tend to not bother with this Forum.
What garbage. You are doing this to yourself. Try and be a bot more discriminating in the sort of stuff you chose to believe. You are just making as arse of yourself
Yes there are no necessary linkage between unemployment and inflationary/deflationary factors that may or may not be dependent or independent in any formulated economic law, but at the very minimum , such contingencies, such as those having to do with the dynamics of class structuring offer a credible base .
The vanishing middle class, can not be loaded up as merely some armchair fantasy, when everybody was made to be employed.
In California the Republicans pointed to Gov Newsome as a caricature of foolishness, when he came up with the idea to place homeless people into vacant luxury digs, as a modicum of the ideals of liberal ideology, not withstanding the de-facto generalized discrimination of trying to integrate the rich and the real rich with those whose fortune led them into the opposite direction,
There are some far out predictions out there , which show that the combination of inflation and progressive capitalization will enable to possess a trillion dollars in the not too distant future, Forbes has already declared him the richest man ever, even exceeding Solomon’s wealth in real value.
So sure, the past can not necessarily become the forerunner of tomorrow’s predictions, but neither can the future redirect into the same past from which any analysis forged can be salvaged. And that is why Marx is obsolete and why oligarchs like Musk, run the deep, shadow government, and necessarily so.
The reason for that state of affairs:mind can also be linked as an undertow of class structure.
'Many millennia ago, our ancestors decided to work together. When they did our survival chances improved dramatically. Indeed, so dramatic was this improved chance of surviving that we came to dominate the world (whether this is a good or bad thing remains to be seen). As such, any organised ‘State’ must honour this, the very reason we have any civilisation at all."
Dan Goyal’s “The Antidote” on Substack
Cooperation doesn’t seem paramount, only greed serves as motivator. This is the antithesis of any moral code ever written, including the American favourite: the Bible.
The real “boom years” in America were the postwar years when the rich were contributing, not the time which Trump alludes to. That was fraught by inflation, depression and recession. Only a few came through with riches.
The ignorance of pro-Trump supporters is deeply disturbing!
Anthropologists have studied this phenomenon. Co-operation goes way back into primate evolution, and can be winessed in all apes and monkeys without exception. They (we) are all co-operative.
But like all other non-ruminants that form groups there exists a set of limits to grous size which entail break-away groups which form to compete.
Jane Goodall remarked on this when she studied Chimps, Sopolsky when he studied Baboons. Even gentle Gorillas reach critical density and conflict results
There are few humans capable of transcending the narrow confines of nation, race, and creed.
Antrolpologist talk of “magic numbers” fir heirarchies of different state strategies.
From my studies the most practical is the hunter/gatherer group, which is no more than 150 individuals. Ancient Europe shows evidence of vast exchange networks, though, that extend across many 100s of miles and the thought is that these groups would come together to re-new ols associations and exchange goods.
