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washparkhorn

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  1. Always follow the money with grifters.
  2. Fuck her. In an earlier cosplay, Sinema protested with Code Pink. Remember them Kyrsten? Karma is a bitch.
  3. Who has sold out (not-Repubs - they sold out a long long time ago): It sounds bizarre, but a $1,117.40 summer internship at a vineyard in the heart of California wine country may prove the ultimate saga in how Big Money has permanently broken American politics. It was as seen on TV this past week in Washington, where squabbling Democrats and an obstructionist GOP is showing the middle class why we can’t have nice things. The eager worker who showed up during the coronavirus summer of 2020 was no ordinary summer intern, but a then-44-year-old United States senator: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. That Sinema (who makes $174,000 a year at her day job) would spend a week picking and maybe stomping on grapes in Napa Valley for some pocket change actually isn’t totally shocking for the Senate’s most iconoclastic member — atheist and bisexual with a defiant openness, and a marathoner with a Ph.D. in justice. What’s more noteworthy is who was hosting Sinema and paying her four-figure intern salary during that wine-soaked summer: Billionaire Bill Price, who not only owns the Three Sticks winery in Sonoma but also co-founded one of America’s most lucrative private-equity funds, TPG Capital. At the end of her internship, Price did something worth more than his intern’s modest paycheck: He hosted a $5,000-a-ticket fundraiser that benefited both the Arizona senator’s campaign but also a PAC that supports a gaggle of centrist — i.e., anti-progressive — Democrats on Capitol Hill. The Intercept reported that the vineyard fundraiser was a key stop on a Sinema summer 2020 tour that netted campaign cash from Price, his TPG Capital associates, and Silicon Valley legends like billionaire Bill Gates. Flash forward to the politically fraught autumn of 2021, and Sinema’s opaque obstructionism has become the grapes of wrath for President Biden and their fellow Democrats seeking to invest $350 billion a year to continue child tax credits for the middle class, expand child care, fight climate change and offer free community college. The plan is foundering largely because of vague but obstinate opposition from Sinema and her money-soaked doppelganger Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, when Democrats need all 50 of their senators onboard. Advocates believe the real problem is how Biden and his allies want to pay for this: Largely by raising taxes on Sinema’s filthy rich patrons such as Price and Gates. Will Bunch, Columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer - https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/kyrsten-sinema-blocks-biden-agenda-money-politics-20210930.html
  4. As citizens, they certainly have prospered with their ability to pass the laws they write.
  5. Looks like the Delta wave was spawned in the fetid tip of Florida. yuck.
  6. TLDR: Urban self-cock blocked himself on a video that surfaced. His wife thought it was funny, but posted a picture of a cut off cobb with bite marks on the shaft of the cobb.
  7. “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
  8. Never underestimate the power of the dark side. Anger, fear, and aggression are seductive sirens to many.
  9. St. Francis of Assisi was the first.
  10. My sense of time is all fucked up now. Things that happened the first year of the pandemic seem like years ago. Notable trips or big social events seem like they were a year or two more recent than they actually were. I also feel like I should still be 31 and not 33. The regular rhythm of life's events has been distorted for many, if not most. Somewhere some memory studies psych researcher is already studying the correlation between Covid and memory discipline. The research results for this phenomenon will be interesting.
  11. Agree. I think it stems from those (all genders) who have a engrained fear of the female planet. I welcome my future overlords.
  12. Ugly. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V Velocity of Money = GDP ÷ Money Supply
  13. You should read more economic news. Catch up. If this is long-term Cost-Push inflation, there are Monetary cures, but almost all end in recession. That's not good news.
  14. Some social structures reward a similarly educated partner.
  15. Cost-Push Inflation primarily, not demand. There is global hoarding by nation-states emerging. That savages supply. Energy may make it go boom, since it will should peak at the same time the Fed stops buying mortgage backed securities (late 21 or early 22). The Fed has pledged to taper its support of the housing market bubble and there is general agreement they let the housing asset bubble grow too large. The Fed will slow its Mortgage Backed Securities buying ($120 billion monthly/$1.4 trillion yearly/$10.8 trillion over 10 years). That particular asset bubble will be tested as the US tries to hold our economic jalopy together. Animal Spirits: The herd is spooked. Interesting times.
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