Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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They might be able to pull that off with the public for a bit, but not the Cabal. These are the few people who regularly get to see him in person. If suddenly they couldn't, they'd not take long at all to find out what's up.
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Gotcha. Although I do think the hilarity of them trying to pull something like that with the public even as the gloves go off with infighting pretty much guarantees its inevitability in clown world. Someone would be stupid and/or desperate enough to try and paper over the warfare by pretending everything's totally OK.
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Can you really blame him though? It's literally all he (and by extension, the rest of the Democratic Party) has at this point.
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True, but words like that don't have much of an effect when the other guy is pointing out incidents of kids getting raped that happened due to policies that the democrat party supports. McAuliffe would be better off shutting up about Trump and trying to heal the damage his willful stupidity on the school issue has caused.
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Did anything substantive come from that WI election investigation the Racine Sheriff was supposed to be talking about today? I get the feeling it's more AZ tier stuff where it just reinforces that we know there was a lot of election fuckery going on but there's no real silver bullet that blows the whole thing wide open and the TDS addled can continue to bury their heads in the sand.
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Forgive me if this was posted but this was sent to me.
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It’s great that so many have copies of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, but very unfortunate that so few have read it. The alleged “supply chain” problems we’re enduring right now were explained by Smith in the book’s opening pages.
Smith wrote about a pin factory, and the then remarkable truth that one man in the factory working alone could maybe – maybe – produce one pin each day. But several men working together could produce tens of thousands.
Work divided is what enables the very work specialization that drives enormous productivity. If this was true in an 18th century pin factory, imagine how vivid the truth is today. Figure that something as basic as the creation of a pencil is the consequence of global cooperation, so what kind of remarkable global symmetry leads to the creation of an airplane, car, or computer? The kind that can’t be planned is the short answer, but more realistically the only answer.
Please keep this in mind as you read media coverage of the so-called “supply-chain disruptions” resulting in “shortages” that are said to be causing “inflation.” If you want a bigger laugh, read about what President Biden wants to do in order to get “supply” back on the market with an eye on replenishing U.S. retail shelves that are increasingly bare. He’s decreed 24-hour port operations! Yes, thanks to the 46th president we now know what held the Soviets back, and ultimately destroyed the Soviet Union: their ports weren’t open long enough; thus the shortages of everything…
All of the above would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Media members, “experts,” economists, and politicians don’t even disappoint anymore. To say they do would be to flatter them.
Either they think we have inflation, shortages, or a combination of both. Wrong on all counts. Really, who was talking about supply-chain shortages or the impossibility that is demand-driven inflation in early 2020? Very few were, and that’s because the U.S. economy was largely free then. At which point politicians panicked. And in panicking, they imposed a rather draconian form of command-and-control on the U.S. economy.
Some were free to work, some weren’t, and more still were free to work and operate their businesses within strict political limits. From freedom to central planning in a very small amount of time. At which point it’s worth considering once again the simple pin factory that Smith witnessed in the 18th century versus the global cooperation that was the norm 19 months ago.
The supply lines of February 2020 were impossibly complicated structures that no politician could ever hope to design. Think billions of individuals around the world pursuing their narrow work specialization on the way to enormous global plenty. Put another way, the shelves in economically free countries were heaving with all manner of products based on economic cooperation that was staggering in scope. Brilliant as some experts claim to be, and brilliant as some politicians think they are as they look in the mirror, they could never construct the web of trillions of economic relationships that prevailed before the lockdowns. But they could destroy the web. And they did; that, or they severely impaired it.
In which case let’s please not insult reason by talking about “shortages” or “inflation” now. Let’s instead be realistic and talk about central planning. We know from the 20th century that when politicians, authoritarians or both substitute their intensely narrow knowledge for that of the marketplace that immense want for very little (and lousy) supply is the logical result. Yes it is. When we’re not economically free, bare shelves are the inevitable result.
Conversely, product and service abundance is a certain consequence yet again of the infinite actions and trillions of economic relationships entered into by billions of people. These commercial tie-ups were constructed by consenting individuals over many years and many decades only for them to be wrecked by a political class arrogantly seeking to protect us from ourselves. That’s what happens when command-and-control replaces voluntary order. The remunerative ties that bind us fray, or vanish altogether. Consenting, profitable economic activity was suddenly illegal. Yet politicians and other experts are only now wringing their hands about a lack of supply?
Really, what did they think was going to happen? While politicians couldn’t ever create or legislate billions working together around the world, they could and can surely break voluntary economic arrangements. When you have guns, handcuffs, the power to quite literally shut off power sources to the productive, not to mention the wealth produced by the productive, you have the power to impose command-and-control. And so they did, only for the “supply chains” painstakingly created in self-interested but spontaneous form over many decades to suddenly break apart. Just don’t call it inflation, or shortages.
Inflation is a devaluation of the unit of account. In our case it’s the devaluation of the dollar. And while Treasury hasn’t always done a great job as the dollar’s steward over the decades, that’s just the point. Devaluation was routine problem in the 1970s, it ceased to be in the 80s and 90s, but it reared its ugly head once again during the George W. Bush administration in the early 2000s. To say inflation is a “now” thing is to ignore that it’s more realistically been a 21st century-long thing.
We don’t suddenly have an inflation problem. To say we do is the equivalent of saying that the Soviets had inflation because all the goods worth getting were both difficult to find, and incredibly expensive if they could be found. In our case we’ve had a lockdown problem care of nail-biting politicians that suffocated commercial cooperation around the world. And with work divided less than it used to be care of government force, productivity is naturally lower than it used to be.
Please consider modern productivity in terms of Smith’s pin factory example yet again, and ask what it would do to supply. The only thing is supply shortfalls are not evidence of inflation. A rise in one price due to lack of supply implies a fall in other prices. Yes, we have a central planning problem. Were he around today, Adam Smith could diagnose this in seconds.
Smith wrote about a pin factory, and the then remarkable truth that one man in the factory working alone could maybe – maybe – produce one pin each day. But several men working together could produce tens of thousands.
Work divided is what enables the very work specialization that drives enormous productivity. If this was true in an 18th century pin factory, imagine how vivid the truth is today. Figure that something as basic as the creation of a pencil is the consequence of global cooperation, so what kind of remarkable global symmetry leads to the creation of an airplane, car, or computer? The kind that can’t be planned is the short answer, but more realistically the only answer.
Please keep this in mind as you read media coverage of the so-called “supply-chain disruptions” resulting in “shortages” that are said to be causing “inflation.” If you want a bigger laugh, read about what President Biden wants to do in order to get “supply” back on the market with an eye on replenishing U.S. retail shelves that are increasingly bare. He’s decreed 24-hour port operations! Yes, thanks to the 46th president we now know what held the Soviets back, and ultimately destroyed the Soviet Union: their ports weren’t open long enough; thus the shortages of everything…
All of the above would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Media members, “experts,” economists, and politicians don’t even disappoint anymore. To say they do would be to flatter them.
Either they think we have inflation, shortages, or a combination of both. Wrong on all counts. Really, who was talking about supply-chain shortages or the impossibility that is demand-driven inflation in early 2020? Very few were, and that’s because the U.S. economy was largely free then. At which point politicians panicked. And in panicking, they imposed a rather draconian form of command-and-control on the U.S. economy.
Some were free to work, some weren’t, and more still were free to work and operate their businesses within strict political limits. From freedom to central planning in a very small amount of time. At which point it’s worth considering once again the simple pin factory that Smith witnessed in the 18th century versus the global cooperation that was the norm 19 months ago.
The supply lines of February 2020 were impossibly complicated structures that no politician could ever hope to design. Think billions of individuals around the world pursuing their narrow work specialization on the way to enormous global plenty. Put another way, the shelves in economically free countries were heaving with all manner of products based on economic cooperation that was staggering in scope. Brilliant as some experts claim to be, and brilliant as some politicians think they are as they look in the mirror, they could never construct the web of trillions of economic relationships that prevailed before the lockdowns. But they could destroy the web. And they did; that, or they severely impaired it.
In which case let’s please not insult reason by talking about “shortages” or “inflation” now. Let’s instead be realistic and talk about central planning. We know from the 20th century that when politicians, authoritarians or both substitute their intensely narrow knowledge for that of the marketplace that immense want for very little (and lousy) supply is the logical result. Yes it is. When we’re not economically free, bare shelves are the inevitable result.
Conversely, product and service abundance is a certain consequence yet again of the infinite actions and trillions of economic relationships entered into by billions of people. These commercial tie-ups were constructed by consenting individuals over many years and many decades only for them to be wrecked by a political class arrogantly seeking to protect us from ourselves. That’s what happens when command-and-control replaces voluntary order. The remunerative ties that bind us fray, or vanish altogether. Consenting, profitable economic activity was suddenly illegal. Yet politicians and other experts are only now wringing their hands about a lack of supply?
Really, what did they think was going to happen? While politicians couldn’t ever create or legislate billions working together around the world, they could and can surely break voluntary economic arrangements. When you have guns, handcuffs, the power to quite literally shut off power sources to the productive, not to mention the wealth produced by the productive, you have the power to impose command-and-control. And so they did, only for the “supply chains” painstakingly created in self-interested but spontaneous form over many decades to suddenly break apart. Just don’t call it inflation, or shortages.
Inflation is a devaluation of the unit of account. In our case it’s the devaluation of the dollar. And while Treasury hasn’t always done a great job as the dollar’s steward over the decades, that’s just the point. Devaluation was routine problem in the 1970s, it ceased to be in the 80s and 90s, but it reared its ugly head once again during the George W. Bush administration in the early 2000s. To say inflation is a “now” thing is to ignore that it’s more realistically been a 21st century-long thing.
We don’t suddenly have an inflation problem. To say we do is the equivalent of saying that the Soviets had inflation because all the goods worth getting were both difficult to find, and incredibly expensive if they could be found. In our case we’ve had a lockdown problem care of nail-biting politicians that suffocated commercial cooperation around the world. And with work divided less than it used to be care of government force, productivity is naturally lower than it used to be.
Please consider modern productivity in terms of Smith’s pin factory example yet again, and ask what it would do to supply. The only thing is supply shortfalls are not evidence of inflation. A rise in one price due to lack of supply implies a fall in other prices. Yes, we have a central planning problem. Were he around today, Adam Smith could diagnose this in seconds.
There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ Or Inflation. There’s Just Centra…
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There’s No ‘Supply-Chain Shortage,’ Or Inflation. There’s Just Central Planning
Work divided is what enables the very work specialization that drives enormous productivity. This division was to some degree shattered beginning in 2020.
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That's some high grade copium
it's not going to work when you're paying millions for a loaf of bread
it's not going to work when you're paying millions for a loaf of bread
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There's a little too much lolbert invisible hand fetishism in there but I think he's trying to say retarded government lockdowns are causing this? He's hardly wrong there.
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Quick sidenote about Manchin. A large portion of his campaign funding comes from the oil industry.
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Went from being able to eat takeout constantly (I don't eat a lot) with just two days worth of salary part-time. Now I can't even do that for like a week.
It's getting there, certainly the fines at the port will totally unclog the supply infastructure tho. Not yaknow, force the ships to yeet.
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At this point, I like the oil industry a lot more than the Green industry. They sell a product that works and it's not their direct fault that government put all kinds of taxes on them to make it cost so much.
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Also a big part of Manchin's success and image in WV is that people believe that he cares(insomuch as a politician can)/wants the best for the state of West Virginia. Whether that is true or not is up to you, but many people who vote for him think this way.
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Cue reeeing from some of the climate doomers on here even about how oil companies aren't your fwiends. Sure of course not, but the retarded progressives begging for government to drastically disrupt my quality of life or failing that, literal terrorists to do it based on doomer fantasies that are always just around the corner definitely aren't my friends either.
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So, illegals are getting 450,000 dollars to break the law. I had to console my husband after he heard about this report.
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brb renouncing my citizenship.
I want out of the clown world circus tent please.
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It'll be amusing if illegals start buying up land and people start to notice them doing as such or have a higher living life style to the general populace leading to people targeting them.
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All non-American kiwis should make it a sacred duty to collect these benefits.brb renouncing my citizenship.
I want out of the clown world circus tent please.
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Wasn't this already two weeks over due as is? Everything blurs together but I am reasonably certain that this was supposed to be wrapped up a while ago.
Point out that the police opened the gates to one of the most secure buildings in the western hemisphere because "the cops were understaffed and overwhelmed."
Hell, a liberal I know realized it was bullshit when they remembered the DC cops could clear out a church for Trump's photo op, meaning they had the capability of projecting force.
Seriously, most annoying thing about 1/6 is that every fucking liberal bitched about the War on Terror for 19 GOD DAMN FUCKING YEARS and like a fucking light switch forgot about two fucking decades of increased security measures to begin screaming "Beer hall putsch!!!!!"
Like... Holy fucking Shit, the proles in 1984 would probably at least realize something was terribly wrong if the Party itself suddenly acted as if it was completely helpless to prevent people from wandering the ministry of truth.
I think the narrative is starting to turn on lockdowns. The Hill released a video about how lockdowns have had several knock on effects (cancer untreated, advanced stages of diseases, mental health decline) and now Forbes is saying "Yeah, this supply problem is the result of lockdowns."
I think they are prepping for pulling the plug on COVID. Just up and say "it's endemic, deal with it."
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Team McAuliffe emails reveal effort to 'kill this' Fox News story | Fox News
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign raised eyebrows by spending nearly $60,000 to hire a high-profile attorney known for masterminding election-related legal challenges. When Fox News sent the campaign a request for comment, the McAuliffe campaign scrambled to...
McAuliffe hired a fixer in case he loses. When Fox News reached out for comment, they accidentally CC'd Fox News in the internal discussion on pulling some strings to get Fox News's higher ups to kill the story.
Also.
Every fucking time.
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If they do that they will have to finish throwing Fauci under the bus first.
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