Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
Hannity gets humiliated by his OWN guest on his OWN show
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Owning The Lib’s Equals Victory!
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Scottie’s world today
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Owning The Libs Equals Victory!
Price gouging and profit taking are a large cause of the current inflation. Businesses are trying to make more money as they do at the cost of the people suffering. This is win win for large or wealthy businesses. While small businesses are going under more money for the large ones. They get more money, more power, more help from the governments, the only ones getting less are the people. Scottie
Businesses created the model that is the biggest contributor to this problem so they could make more profit. In the old days where product and service meant more than profit manufacturers would have a supply of what they needed to make a product readily stored for use. The makers of a item would stock the items parts in a warehouse. the ones that make the parts would have a supply of their needs, all up and down the chain. But in worshiping the god of more profit they got rid of the warehouses and extra inventory, instead going to a system of timed deliveries. Works great if the deliveries are on time no delays. But when there is a problem then the entire system shuts down. Locally the grocery story nearest me me had empty shelves in some spots. While other stores of their same company had those products with full shelves. I checked. Turned out the problem was a hold up in the shipments directed to their store and they had no back of the store storage to hold any amount of supply in. That equaled empty shelves but more profit because when they built the store they did not need to add the cost of the storage area, nor the costs to maintain it, fill it, use it, so on. The cult leader may be tRump but the long time god is profit at all costs.
The American People are all in favor of Biden’s agenda but the rich business owners are not.
Misleading right wing media! Plus notice they want her to wear really short skirts like the Fox News demanded of their female hosts. Scottie
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
“The clogged polling locations in metro Atlanta reflect an underlying pattern: the number of places to vote has shrunk statewide, with little recourse. Although the reduction in polling places has taken place across racial lines, it has primarily caused long lines in nonwhite neighborhoods where voter registration has surged and more residents cast ballots in person on Election Day.”
For Republicans that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Why so much skepticism and/or opposition to the most fundamental right in our democracy — the Right to Vote!
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I love banjo music! Scottie
Why An Expert In Political Violence Is Worried About Civil War In The U.S. l FiveThirtyEight
Pure Patriarchal Power | Let’s Compare Traditions!
The truth about America’s history of anti-immigrant anxiety
Counterfeit N-95 masks are everywhere. Here’s how to spot them
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Should the workers be forced to risk sickness and death to make profit for the upper income class big corporations with no help or protection from the government?
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Scottie’s world today
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The founding fathers would say, “What the hell is a filibuster?”
Projection. Every GOP accusation is an admission of guilt.
Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.
The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Your bigotry is showing. Again.
Trumpism = shameless, racist misogynists
Women in Texas: I’d like to have some privacy
Supreme Court: nope
The misogyny is so obvious.
Per the misleading right wing media. Scottie
Be kind. You don’t know what others are going through.
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Fox News the media arm of the GQP, got caught using an image that is actually from a 2011 NPR story (photo #15) about residents fleeing the disaster area near the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet their viewers claim to be the smartest most informed. Scottie
At the hearing to again appoint him chairman of the FED, Jerome Powell admitted to Senator Warren that the high prices could be profit taking by companies. They were raising prices and charging more because they could. Inflation and profit taking / price gouging is world wide yet the right wing media hopes to pin it all on Biden. I don’t buy it. Scottie
If it is a federal election , it should be ” federalized “. What happened to the right-wing talking point that we should just let the free market work things out? Don’t pay attention to the fact that Republicans are making it harder for people to vote and giving themselves the power to easily overturn election results they don’t like. A perfect recipe for a dictatorship. Scottie
Get your shots, wear a mask, keep some distance. It’s really not all that difficult. Scottie
So the five Republican senators vs 1 Democratic one retiring means? Fact is members of both parties are either retiring, running for different offices, or have been redistricted out of their seat. This is nothing new nor unexpected. As of January 2022, 44 members of Congress—six members of the U.S. Senate and 38 members of the U.S. House—have announced they will not seek re-election. Twenty-nine members—six senators and 23 representatives—have announced their retirement. Five retiring Senate members are Republicans and one is a Democrat, and of the retiring House members, 18 are Democrats and five are Republicans. Fifteen U.S. House members are running for other offices. Four Republicans and four Democrats are seeking seats in the U.S. Senate, one Republican and two Democrats are running for governor, one Republican is running for secretary of state, one Democrat is running for mayor, and one Democrat and one Republican are running for attorney general. No U.S. Senate members are running for other offices. Scottie
Complete bullshit. Try restricting voting places so people can not reach them and if they do they have wait in line times of 8 to 12 hours. Try removing the places to get ID in areas of POC and making it as hard as possible to get one. Try having one drop box in highly populated Democratic areas. The fact is voter restrictions are happening and that is not a democracy. In a democracy the people vote for the people they want in elective office, in the Republican way of governing the elected office holder allows only their supporters to vote. Scottie
Is Steve Kelley so ignorant of history (or honest enough to be accurate as to historical context) that he does not understand how the parties reversed roles on social justice issues?
I will acknowledge the evils of my party’s past.
But today’s Democratic Party is…
Not the party of the KKKonfederacy
Not the party of George Wallace
Not the party of Bull Conner
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and today’s TrumpubliQan cult is…
Not the party of Lincoln.
Not the party of Teddy Roosevelt.
Not the party of Eisenhower.
Not even the party of McCain or R-money.
The Democrats’ ugly racist PAST is the Republicans’ ugly racist PRESENT.
Once upon a time, the Democratic party was the conservative party that was pro-slavery, pro-racism and pro-anything that was bad for the American people, and the Republican party was the LIBERAL party of Lincoln.
Then some time went by, some things happened, and eventually, the parties switched ideological sides.
Only the trolls are dumb enough, or willingly ignorant enough to take your BS at face value. Scottie
The SCOTUS is pro corporate and profit while anti-government services for the public, and so they side with the GQP. What the supreme court turned down was not mask mandates but mandating business vaccinations through OSHA. Had congress or other means been used they would have been forced to agree with it. Scottie
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AZ Rep Who Signed Fake Doc Was Previously Banned By Twitter For Running Paid Troll Farm With Charlie Kirk
From an October 2020 Arizona Republic report:
Jake Hoffman’s Twitter account now shows as suspended; Twitter told The Republic it is permanently suspended. Hoffman has said he is the president of and CEO of Rally Forge, the firm that was banned, which he called “one of the nation’s top conservative digital agencies” in the Center for Arizona Policy’s voter guide.
The firm created accounts that were engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” — essentially trolling by posting comments that appeared to be real people commenting on news and sharing right-wing opinions.
The Washington Post broke the story on what some experts characterized as a “troll farm” where teenagers wrote posts on social media on behalf of Turning Point Action, a conservative group working to elect Republicans and led by Charlie Kirk.
My first report on this cultist is here.
Turning Point USA is also based in Arizona.
Florida House Advances Bill That Would Have Students Observe Annual “Victims Of Communism Day”
Florida Politics reports:
Students in Florida could soon observe a “Victims of Communism Day” under a measure OK’d Thursday by a House subcommittee. Under the proposal (HB 395), government and public schools would begin observing “Victims of Communism Day” on Nov. 7, 2023. The measure would require public school students to receive 45 minutes of instruction on communist leaders and the suffering of victims under their rule.
Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, are among the leaders and topics listed in the measure. The House Secondary Education and Career Development Subcommittee unanimously passed the proposal. Republican Rep. David Borrero of Sweetwater is the bill sponsor.
Read the full article.
As you can see below, Borrero is a far-right cultist.
Scottie's Playtime 
No surprise that Lisa Benson, in her typically uneducated ignorance of economic context, wants to focus on the single factor of inflation — the TEMPORARY imbalance of supply with regard to consumer demand — caused by Trump’s devastation of our trade policy, tariff policy, infrastructure neglect and mishandling of the pandemic instead of the long-range booming consumer confidence, strong wage growth, plummeting unemployment, the most jobs created in the first year of a new president EVER in history, investment and capital markets finishing the year at record highs and a strong economic outlook due to infrastructure gains.
The only flaw in Democratic economic policy is their failure to communicate the current strength of the economy and the fast pace of recovery that results in inflation as recovery and demand outpace supply.
But then, unlike conservatives, we don’t have our own 100% wholly-owned captive media like Faux “News,” NoiseMax or OAN, and even the supposedly “mainstream” media, while it does strive towards a standard of journalistic balance, is 100% owned — every single major media outlet, whether broadcast, cable or print — by very wealthy billionaires and corporations representing the special interests of the wealthiest elites who want to hang onto their economic power.