Politics of Petulance (title renamed to match original post)

[Pooky 3,780]

I never took Mark Cuban as a fool before his latest pronouncements.

 

Sleepy Joe is indeed a traditional politician. On the world stage and in domestic politics, that makes him predictable, which keeps the political class and world leaders comfortable that things will continue along a path that can be relied upon.

 

DJT is not a traditional politician. He is a disruptor, working in a transactional world. That takes away the predictability and prevents an adversary preempting his moves.

 

In the current, finance and trade-heavy world market, the transactional has the advantage over the traditional. For all the bleating over oil sanctions against Russia, their income is still booming. When DJT sank oil prices below $0 a barrel, Vlad the Imputint was terrified as their major source of revenue evaporated.

 

Everyone bleated about the compensatory measures needed to mitigate the trade tariffs imposed against China. No-one noticed the imbalance in the return tariffs from the Chinese, who understood they were going to take a kicking. No-one mentioned the repatriation of manufacturing by other nations (I was in Japan at the time and it was big news there) out of China, knocking their domestic growth down by between 2 and 3% even as the measures were ramping up.

 

Cuban, as a businessman, should be in a prime position to note things like this. It lessens my opinion of him that he doesn’t.

[Family 3,988]

1 hour ago, Pooky said:

I never took Mark Cuban as a fool before his latest pronouncements.

 

Sleepy Joe is indeed a traditional politician. On the world stage and in domestic politics, that makes him predictable, which keeps the political class and world leaders comfortable that things will continue along a path that can be relied upon.

 

DJT is not a traditional politician. He is a disruptor, working in a transactional world. That takes away the predictability and prevents an adversary preempting his moves.

 

In the current, finance and trade-heavy world market, the transactional has the advantage over the traditional. For all the bleating over oil sanctions against Russia, their income is still booming. When DJT sank oil prices below $0 a barrel, Vlad the Imputint was terrified as their major source of revenue evaporated.

 

Everyone bleated about the compensatory measures needed to mitigate the trade tariffs imposed against China. No-one noticed the imbalance in the return tariffs from the Chinese, who understood they were going to take a kicking. No-one mentioned the repatriation of manufacturing by other nations (I was in Japan at the time and it was big news there) out of China, knocking their domestic growth down by between 2 and 3% even as the measures were ramping up.

 

Cuban, as a businessman, should be in a prime position to note things like this. It lessens my opinion of him that he doesn’t.

Donald Trump wants to escalate a US trade war. Did it work the first time?

Trump has proposed tariffs that could reshape the economy, experts say.

On the campaign trail, Trump has vowed to escalate the trade war initiated during his first term. However, studies have shown that his trade policies fell short of promises made to rejuvenate U.S. manufacturing and spur job growth. In some cases, analysts told ABC News, the policies harmed U.S. producers while raising prices for consumers

https://abcnews.go.com/US/donald-trump-escalate-us-trade-war-work-time/story?id=107448832

How Trump’s Tariffs Really Affected the U.S. Job Market

• MICHAEL PETTIS

A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trump’s trade policies cost the U.S. economy nearly a quarter million jobs. But its obsolete understanding of trade flows ends up pointing trade policymakers in the wrong direction.

 

https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/83746

 

OPEC sticks to oil demand growth view citing resilient economy
 

Emerging Asia, particularly India, Brazil and Russia, could further surprise to the upside," OPEC said.

"Moreover, if the U.S. continues to keep its current momentum, growth could turn out to be higher than expected."

The OPEC report also showed OPEC oil production rose in August driven by a recovery in Iran's production despite U.S. sanctions remaining in place on Tehran and Saudi Arabia's voluntary cuts, as well as an increase in Nigeria.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/opec-sticks-oil-demand-growth-view-citing-resilient-economy-2023-09-12/

[Family 3,988]

What Idiot Backed Trump’s Bond in E. Jean Carroll Trial? This One.

Good luck to this man.

 

But the question on everyone’s mind is, how did Trump get that money together? He appears to be struggling to post bond in his multiple lawsuits and reportedly only has about $413 million in liquid assets. That’s not nearly enough to cover everything he owes in legal fines.

 

It turns out that Trump may have called in a major favor: Court records filed Friday show that the bond was guaranteed by the Chubb Corporation, an insurance group. In 2018, Trump appointed Chubb’s CEO Evan Greenberg to a White House advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations.

 

https://newrepublic.com/post/179692/idiot-back-trump-bond-e-jean-carroll-trial-evan-greenberg

[Family 3,988]

 

https://video.vice.com/en_uk/video/the-far-right-are-infiltrating-the-

military/619e64fa0d008848920ebb65

 

https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/white-christian-nationalism-the-deep-story-behind-the-capitol-insurrection

 

one observer noted, the January 6 protesters seemed a motley crew: “country club Republicans, well-dressed social conservatives, and white Evangelicals in Jesus caps…shoulder to shoulder with QAnon cultists, Second Amendment cosplay commandos, and doughy, hardcore white nationalists.” One group erected a giant cross, another a wooden gallows. Someone waved a “Jesus Saves” banner, while another sported a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie.

But the closer you look, the murkier things become. Christians waved Trump flags. The “Proud Boys” kneeled and prayed. One man, decked out as a cosplay crusader, clutched a large leather Bible to his chest with skeleton gloves. What looked like apples and oranges turned out to be a fruit cocktail: white Christian nationalism.…

 

Trumpism is, among other things, the latest version of the WCN frame. Echoing the promised land story, Trump says he will “take back the country” from the outsiders and invaders who have taken control—immigrants and secularists, Muslims and Mexicans—and then restore it to its rightful owners: “real” (that is, white, Christian) Americans. Echoing the end times story, Trump paints the world in terms of us and them, good and evil, and hints at violent struggles to come. The first such struggle took place on January 6, 2021. It will not, I fear, be the last

[Pooky 3,780]

And yet the Democrats, their affiliate and their donors are the only party in this country actively seeking to divide its citizens along racial, political and religious lines. Funny that. 😒

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

10 hours ago, Family said:

 

https://video.vice.com/en_uk/video/the-far-right-are-infiltrating-the-

military/619e64fa0d008848920ebb65

 

https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/white-christian-nationalism-the-deep-story-behind-the-capitol-insurrection

 

one observer noted, the January 6 protesters seemed a motley crew: “country club Republicans, well-dressed social conservatives, and white Evangelicals in Jesus caps…shoulder to shoulder with QAnon cultists, Second Amendment cosplay commandos, and doughy, hardcore white nationalists.” One group erected a giant cross, another a wooden gallows. Someone waved a “Jesus Saves” banner, while another sported a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie.

But the closer you look, the murkier things become. Christians waved Trump flags. The “Proud Boys” kneeled and prayed. One man, decked out as a cosplay crusader, clutched a large leather Bible to his chest with skeleton gloves. What looked like apples and oranges turned out to be a fruit cocktail: white Christian nationalism.…

 

Trumpism is, among other things, the latest version of the WCN frame. Echoing the promised land story, Trump says he will “take back the country” from the outsiders and invaders who have taken control—immigrants and secularists, Muslims and Mexicans—and then restore it to its rightful owners: “real” (that is, white, Christian) Americans. Echoing the end times story, Trump paints the world in terms of us and them, good and evil, and hints at violent struggles to come. The first such struggle took place on January 6, 2021. It will not, I fear, be the last

wake me up when they start burning things down like antifa

[Dashinka 24,479]

5 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

wake me up when they start burning things down like antifa

Mostly peaceful petulant protesters.

[Crazy Cat 41,810]

3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Mostly peaceful petulant protesters.

The kats better dust off their pink caps........their nemesis is getting stronger each day. 

[Dashinka 24,479]

2 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

The kats better dust off their pink caps........their nemesis is getting stronger each day. 

I think they are as the strategy is all "rapist", "racist", "fascist" labels for the next 7+ months.  What is always interesting is those terms pretty much describe Old Corrupt Petulant Joe. 

[Family 3,988]

Slow news day. 😂
 

Attorney suspended for pooping in a Pringles can, leaving it in victim advocate's parking lot

The Ohio Supreme Court suspended an attorney who defecated into a Pringles potato chip can and then tossed it into a parking lot of a crime-victim advocacy center.

Criminal defense attorney Jack A. Blakeslee's conduct called into question his fitness to practice law, the court decided.

Blakeslee's defense? He said he didn't target anyone but had a habit of putting his feces in Pringles cans and randomly throwing them from his car. He claimed he pulled the Pringles prank at least 10 times that year.

But the court didn't buy it and said Blakeslee purposely chose the Haven of Hope in Cambridge, Ohio, as his "drop zone." Surveillance video captured the incident in November 2021.

Blakeslee had known the victim advocates at the center for years and was scheduled to see them in court 15 minutes after the Pringles deposit. At the time, Blakeslee was representing someone accused in a capital murder case.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/29/lawyer-suspended-poop-pringles-victim-center/71745795007/

[Family 3,988]

 

[Family 3,988]

 

[Pooky 3,780]

1 hour ago, Family said:

Slow news day. 😂
 

Attorney suspended for pooping in a Pringles can, leaving it in victim advocate's parking lot

The Ohio Supreme Court suspended an attorney who defecated into a Pringles potato chip can and then tossed it into a parking lot of a crime-victim advocacy center.

Criminal defense attorney Jack A. Blakeslee's conduct called into question his fitness to practice law, the court decided.

Blakeslee's defense? He said he didn't target anyone but had a habit of putting his feces in Pringles cans and randomly throwing them from his car. He claimed he pulled the Pringles prank at least 10 times that year.

But the court didn't buy it and said Blakeslee purposely chose the Haven of Hope in Cambridge, Ohio, as his "drop zone." Surveillance video captured the incident in November 2021.

Blakeslee had known the victim advocates at the center for years and was scheduled to see them in court 15 minutes after the Pringles deposit. At the time, Blakeslee was representing someone accused in a capital murder case.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/29/lawyer-suspended-poop-pringles-victim-center/71745795007/

99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name. 😒

[TBoneTX 45,251]

12 minutes ago, Pooky said:

99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name. 😒

Plagiarizing us!  Reported!!!!!!!

[Pooky 3,780]

14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Plagiarizing us!  Reported!!!!!!!

No plagiarism here.

 

My MIL is part of the 99% 👿