Politics & Stuff

[cosmicway 1,333]

1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Bloody hell agree with that. They used to call them 'wetbacks', 'river crossers' 'taco niggers' 'leaf blowers' all the way back to the 1980s. 

Trump says hes a christian and the Hispanic evangelicals fall for the felon and rapist

Also Dems were complacent with the economy concerns of people. They let the criticisms of Biden linked to inflation slide without saying how it is. 

They said its a 'Cost of living crisis' etc instead of highlighting its the billionaires putting up prices, in reality a 'Cost of wealth' crisis

It's the same here.
Flour price went up because of the Ukraine war they blamed Mitsotakis or at least his opponents did.
You can blame Mitsotakis for all kinds of things but for the war in Ukraine ?
Anyway all this reminds me of Ted Heath also who was going to "cut prices at a stroke" ...
In real life the only way to control prices is to cut taxes of the producers, transporters, vendors.
In many long years I have observed that taxes are to blame for the price of common goods going up.
Sometime it's the producers, when they think the market situation is favourable for this but mostly it's the taxes.
Have n't you heard the phrase "beat the budget" ?
Turn on a radio, you will hear it every five minutes. You listen to a song and then follows the jingle "beat the budget at the such and such shops".

 

[Fernando 6,585]

2 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Right on. Very simple concept: more abundant cheap labor the lower the wages. Not even mentioning homelessness.

works even in IT. Limit the influx of skilled labor and the wages go higher.

On the same token, the republican claims of stealing jobs is laughable nowadays though. I for example can work from anywhere in the world for the same employer—only difference is where my taxes go.

The stealing of jobs is a textbook play of South Park. They use it and rally a bunch of young people that don't have jobs. 

[Fernando 6,585]

1 hour ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Which is why I think Democrats need to change their strategy around "POC" completely. You cant treat people as a monolith just on a perceived "non-white" status(especially when one of those groups actually views themselves as white for all intent and purpose). Identity politics by our side in general needs retooling. It simply doesnt work in a country that is pretty right-leaning for the most part.

I do think the media, in general, does a poor job talking to regular people. I was all in for Kamala but even months ago i mentioned that going to the grocery store is a miserable experience. @vesper brought out some statistics and even then that doesnt change how people feel.  The economy just doesnt feel good for people, and even less so for people who arent making well over the regular income. You can only tell folks who feel screwed by the system that one guy is going to destroy it all, and have them not want to for so long.

I will say you are out of touch as a media when a millionaire(billionaire?) reality tv star comes on a panel and seems much more in touch than the other folks talking:

They dont need your votes for primary is true, but surely you dont say that when folks have to come out and vote for you to win? Just makes people seem useless to the process, and she should have had a primary in the end. I remember Kamala in the 2020 primary being generally unrelatable to most people in the country, not very charismatic, and being seen as a DEI hire in an age where DEI is going out of vogue. i think she could have grown into the best politician she could be through that grit and steel of a primary. Not just being handpicked.

 

Well what @Vesper brought to you about inflation is the honest truth. Inflation has come down from the highs we had about 2 to 3 years ago. 

The problem is that the FED and economist measure inflation by excluding food and energy prices, which is why it's called Core CPI. If you was to include those then yes inflation would be way higher. 

Second you have the issue of increasing minimum wage. If you increase that everything else will go up, the company will pass the expenses to the consumer. In NY the minimum wage sky rocket and thus prices as well, not a great move to do. 

And last housing is frustrating a lot of Americans because the affordability of housing is at historical high. And a lot of that has to do with supply, the government has too many restrictions and if the government incentivizes builder we would have more supply in the market, thus bringing prices down. 

Edited November 6, 2024 by Fernando

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

2 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Well what @Vesper brought to you about inflation is the honest truth. Inflation has come down from the highs we had about 2 to 3 years ago. 

The problem is that the FED and economist measure inflation by excluding food and energy prices, which is why it's called Core CPI. If you was to include those then yes inflation would be way higher. 

So you have that issue, second you have the issue of increasing minimum wage. If you increase that everything else will go up. The company will pass the expenses to the consumer. In NY the minimum wage sky rocket and thus prices as well. Not a great move to do. 

And last housing is frustrating a lot of Americans because the affordability of housing is at historical high. And a lot of that has to do with supply, the government has too many restrictions and if the government incentivizes builder we would have more supply in the market, thus bringing prices down. 

Democrats were never going to realistically raise minimum wage though.

 

Housing is a big one. Millennials are ~40 and now realize they will never have the house, picket fence, and kids their boomer parents had. That American dream, for the most part, is dead.

[Fernando 6,585]

2 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Democrats were never going to realistically raise minimum wage though.

 

Housing is a big one. Millennials are ~40 and now realize they will never have the house, picket fence, and kids their boomer parents had. That American dream, for the most part, is dead.

Need to incentivize the builders. 

USA has way too much land. There should not be a housing shortage, that is all government fault. They have too many regulations. 

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,333]

9 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Need to incentivize the builders. 

USA has way too much land. There should not be a housing shortage, that is all government fault. They have too many regulations. 

 

If its anything like the UK situation its Housing Developers building homes that are supposed to be 'affordable' to first time buyers, but are actually high end stock, that remain empty for years, but their profits are subsidised by government. This is used to keep house prices artificially high

[Fulham Broadway 17,333]

On May 30, Trump was convicted in New York of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election, in order to silence her about an alleged sexual encounter one decade earlier.

Judge Juan Merchan has since delayed his sentencing until after the November 5 election but could hand down jail time to Trump – potentially paving the way for an unprecedented situation where the president of the US is running the country from a prison cell.

[cosmicway 1,333]

Zacharova - hallelujah !

https://www.lykavitos.gr/news/planet/i-antidrasi-tis-zaxarova-gia-tin-eklogi-tramp-allilouia

[Fernando 6,585]

3 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

If its anything like the UK situation its Housing Developers building homes that are supposed to be 'affordable' to first time buyers, but are actually high end stock, that remain empty for years, but their profits are subsidised by government. This is used to keep house prices artificially high

Yes this company got a lot of money during the great recession. 

But yes it's the government with y the builders that need to fix this. 

Let's see if Trump does anything about this. 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

They need to get these clowns off of tv also:

 

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

Look at this:

https://www.naftemporiki.gr/frontpages/efimerides-imerisies/makeleio/

Hate front page from this morning's press
It's a Greek tabloid owned by a deranged anti-vaxer, racist thug.
But just look.

It's a fact that today the world is ruled by the votes of such types.
It's not a fact that the new administration will satisfy all their pervert wishes, but they form the nucleus of the new president's supporters.

This one is the character who hosted the tv program leading to the accusation against me about calling the Golden Dawn "assault battalions.

[Fernando 6,585]

Another I mentioned before is that I would thought the Biden team lost a lot of support for the whole Israel and Gaza war. 

And that theory was right I saw the votes in Michigan where a lot of Muslims are voted for Trump.... 

And ya that is Biden but many saw kamala as an extension of Biden. 

I think if Democrat had chosen another person not align to Biden they would have won. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

5 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Another I mentioned before is that I would thought the Biden team lost a lot of support for the whole Israel and Gaza war. 

And that theory was right I saw the votes in Michigan where a lot of Muslims are voted for Trump.... 

And ya that is Biden but many saw kamala as an extension of Biden. 

I think if Democrat had chosen another person not align to Biden they would have won. 

No, don't believe that.
Propping up Trump was within Hamash plans to perpetrate the 7/10 atrocities.
It succeeded. Jews voted for "hardliner" Trump, muslims abstained from voting democrat.
This lot of muslims who voted Trump as you say were maybe Turko-americans.
 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

If this actually happens he'll be the most popular president since FDR.

 

[robsblubot 3,595]

3 hours ago, cosmicway said:

No, don't believe that.
Propping up Trump was within Hamash plans to perpetrate the 7/10 atrocities.
It succeeded. Jews voted for "hardliner" Trump, muslims abstained from voting democrat.
This lot of muslims who voted Trump as you say were maybe Turko-americans.
 

Agreed. It'd be an incredibly stupid vote if they thought Biden supported Israel too much; Trump is Netanyahu's buddy.

2 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

If this actually happens he'll be the most popular president since FDR.

 

Which comes to show how detached democrats have been.
There are more registered republicans than democrats.

And the loss was so big that it wasn't just about Kamala, but the entire Democratic Party, and especially Biden's (disastrous) term. It was a republican win in all fronts.

Still think that the economy was a tough one though; because I'm not sure what Biden could have done differently considering the staggering amount spent over COVID.

[robsblubot 3,595]

ouch

Today, the Democrats have become the party of priggishness, pontification and pomposity. It may make them feel righteous, but how’s that ever going to be a winning electoral look?
I voted reluctantly for Harris because of my fears for what a second Trump term might bring — in Ukraine, our trade policy, civic life, the moral health of the conservative movement writ large.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/donald-trump-defeat-democrats.html

[Vesper 30,224]

Red Shift Across the U.S.

Of the counties with nearly complete results, more than 90 percent shifted in favor of former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to a Times analysis of election results reported as of early Wednesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/presidential-election-2024-red-shift.html

[KEVINAA 129]

DJT IS THE NOW THE 45TH AND 47TH PRESIDENT of the USA

GUESS WHAT

4+5= 9

4+7= 11

= 9 11

 

DJT won't live to complete his next 4 years.

 

I know that he won't do the things he said he would do.

All his policies are lies politicians can say whatever to get elected but the billion dollars businesses are in control not the government.

[NikkiCFC 8,336]

 

[robsblubot 3,595]

After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent

Trump supporters spent years fomenting concern about election integrity. On Tuesday, they set it all aside.