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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Maybe they should tell someone or talk about that shit sometimes.
  2. The “completely wrong” part was this: We don’t need them to *support* trans rights. They just have to be tolerant enough of trans rights to accept it as part of the payload that gets them what they want. Despite being far more homophobic as a group than secular professional class whites, evangelical blacks, Hispanic Catholics, and blue collar whites chose to make common cause with them for decades in order to advance their own interests. It wasn’t until the Democrats largely abandoned an agenda centered on things that break around class and made special interest social issues (or in your words, “telling them to support trans rights”) the center of the agenda that Democrats lost a durable multiracial middle class+working class majority coalition.
  3. Yeah. I think the problem here is that you see the two sides as left and right. That’s just a show for the rubes, and frankly it’s the biggest problem we have. The parties somehow convinced people that these private organizations in which 99.99999999% of the population plays no consequential role was an identity. The only two sides are: what’s net better for the stuff you care about, and what’s worse?
  4. I'll tell you what legitimately works - start talking about how rural Texas is dying because of one-party rule. This is completely wrong. Democrats shouldn't stop working on or talking about social issues. But talking to the majority about things that have nothing to do with their daily struggles is bet best confusing, but mostly comes off as arrogant and elitist, which it usually is. It conveys that the people addressing them are immune or not impacted with those struggles, which in this case they often are. Here's how to talk about social issues in a way that works: Talk to the majority about how and why they are getting fucked over. And then when the brain washed Republicans start talking about drag queens, you get to say "what is your problem? Drag queens didn't close the hospital and drag queens didn't say no to giving you cheaper health insurance. You don't know a single drag queen, but I bet you could use lower property taxes. And unless you change the way you vote, you won't ever get them."
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  7. Custer was killed by a woman war chief - Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who had been honored for her bravery in past battles with Custer and wanted revenge after Custer had killed her father and brother. She killed him with a war club, and when went down the women came and stuck needles in his ears so that he wouldn't hear their ancestors coming for him in the afterlife.
  8. I thought that was hilarious for a lot of reasons, the main one being that there were a lot of rumors that she and Chris Martin divorced because he kept cheating on her, including supposedly making out with Kate Bosworth out in the open at a U2 show in Vegas.
  9. True, but the elephant in the living room here is that within the structure of our economy, long term low interest rates have the effect of expanding and accelerating wealth inequality and compressing the middle class in myriad ways unless that effect is explicitly and directly contained by the tax code, which it is not. Populists are wrong in a lot of ways about a lot of things, but this is one of the really big ones.
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  11. Lyn is great. We run in some of the same circles and she’s very impressive.
  12. You’re not sure what the Uvalde County election results from November 2022 say about the premise that “dead kids tend to rile people up?”
  13. What a paragraph. Bravo, seriously.
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  15. Him and Jim Jordan should be Vincent Adultman for Halloween.
  16. Your hypothetical company is not the Fed.
  17. Im not sure that’s true. We are certainly in a big debt cycle, but a bunch of deflationary signs are beginning to appear that could be significant. And as long as the dollar is the world’s reserve currency we will have less inflation than the rest of the world, just like we did in the transitory spike period. in other words, we have real problems on the horizon. Inflation could be the least of them. We certainly agree on that at least, but the issue here is that the Fed knows that. The political actors who want to control the Fed don’t.
  18. Maturing treasuries and MBS. See my post above re assets. Who are you arguing with? Again I get that you don’t like having a central bank, but you do, and they manage the supply of a fiat currency. They inject liquidity into the economy and then take it out.
  19. Here’s the short version: during the pandemic the Fed purchased a shitload of low- rate treasuries and MBS to stimulate the economy. When the economy recovered there was an inflation spike and rates were raised, which means those assets on the aged balance sheet were marked down, and the value of that markdown was about $1T, recorded as a deferred asset. What that represents is the book value of the securities the Fed owns vs the current market price.
  20. But as it happens, in this moment in history, the global economy revolves around monetary policy set by central banks, and the United States Federal Reserve is the most successful central bank in history. The fact that you believe a counterfactual alternative reality without central banking would be better doesn’t make it less so. No. It was the transfer of tangible goods from overseas and the value of future productivity TO you and me, in exchange for exported and punted debt. And that’s a problem, but we we’re the beneficiaries. Again, plenty of room for criticism here but your understanding of victimhood is backwards. I didn’t- the fed recorded it that way. Try to keep up.
  21. Obviously not, no, because I understand what it is. And to be clear I’m not saying that the recording of unrealized loss as a deferred asset is good but I understood what led to it, and what it means in terms of monetary policy. you don’t seem to understand what the loss is that you are talk about. You’re acting like the “loss” was the result of mismanagement or malfeasance.
  22. You’re not The Texas Hammer from Hornfans? Cheerfully withdrawn, in that case. What does a successful central bank look like to you?
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