Politics Thread

[XU_Lou]

Over the next several quarters the economy is expected to dive into a recession. Inevitably, the Democrats will try to pin the blame on Republicans after taking over Congress, and Paul, taking his marching orders from the DNC, will certainly come on here and try to gaslight us. I will be saving this post:


JPMorgan CEO Dimon warns of recession in 6 to 9 months - CNBC

Dimon said the S&P 500 could fall by "another easy 20%" from the current levels, with the next 20% slide likely to "be much more painful than the first", according to the CNBC report.: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/j...%20on%20Monday.


Jim Rogers, an American investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, said that a large amount of debt in the world could make the coming economic downturn the worst he had ever seen, in an interview with Business Today.

Economists like Nouriel Roubini, who had been one of the first experts to predict the 2008 global financial crisis, have also warned of a “severe, long and ugly” recession in the coming months.

“Yep, the probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches,” Jeff Bezos wrote

https://www.cnbctv18.com/economy/bat...s-14982021.htm


Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden
Bloomberg Economics sees near certainty downturn will start
Tightening conditions, inflation, hawkish Fed weigh on outlook

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...uverify%20wall


Economists Now Expect a Recession, Job Losses by Next Year: https://www.wsj.com/articles/economi...ar-11665859869


Economists polled for Bankrate’s Third-Quarter Economic Indicator say there’s a near 2-in-3 chance (or 65 percent) that the U.S. economy could contract within the next 12 to 18 months: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/fed...2065%20percent


Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, said that he believes the U.S. is heading for a “whopper” of a recession next year, but it’s not necessarily because of higher benchmark interest rates.

“We will have a recession because we’ve had five months of zero M2 growth–money supply growth, and the Fed isn’t even looking at it,” Hanke said in an interview with CNBC on Monday. “We’re going to have one whopper of a recession in 2023.”: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ec...es-11661888255

[Xville]

The Democrats have spent over $30 million propping up MAGA candidates in the Primaries thinking they would be easy marks in the General Elections.
The MSM gave Trump billions in free media propping him up in the Primaries in 2016 thinking he’d be an easy mark.
Whoops!!!
They are too stupid to learn

“ In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, the national media and the Hillary Clinton campaign devised a plan to elevate Donald Trump and so-called “lunacy” over a field of up-and-coming Republican politicians. According to New York Times journalist Amy Chozick, who was embedded with Hillary Clinton’s campaign from inception to death, campaign manager Robby Mook called a meeting with an agenda of specifically asking “How do we maximize Donald Trump?” Chozick also noted how Mook “salivated when a debate came on, and Trump would start to speak. ‘Shhhhh,’ Robby said, practically pressing his nose up to the TV. ‘I’ve gahtz to get me some Trump.’”

We all know how that worked out. Yet fast-forward to the 2022 midterm elections — and Democrats are using the same strategy in several key races across the country that will tilt the balance of power. One such race in Arizona has captivated Democrats and the media, where Republican candidate Kari Lake benefited from Democratic efforts to boost the “crazy” candidate. Once again it looks like the Dems are going to come to regret it.”

With the result:

“ Once again Democrats created a verifiable rock star of the right in Kari Lake — and once again they will only have themselves to blame when she wins. It’s worth remembering this the next time Joe Biden orders his acolytes to pressure-wash the homeless people out of one of our city’s stations so he can intone that “democracy itself” is at stake. If that’s the case, bucko, then why did you guys spend so much putting all of these “election-deniers,” the “extreme MAGA element of the Republican Party,” on the ballot?”

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/dem...ers-democracy/

They won some and lost some. There is a case that maybe democrats should have spent more money in more elections in some cases.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ll-it-pay-off/

[GoMuskies]

They won some and lost some. There is a case that maybe democrats should have spent more money in more elections in some cases.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ll-it-pay-off/

I hope every one of those terrible fucking candidates win. They can get knocked out next election, but that is not a strategy that we want to be viable.

That article was from two weeks ago, and the winds have changed a bit. Gibbs is now more likely than not to win. Hassan is still a favorite over Bolduc in NH, but it's REALLY close.

[Xville]

I hope every one of those terrible fucking candidates win. They can get knocked out next election, but that is not a strategy that we want to be viable.

That article was from two weeks ago, and the winds have changed a bit. Gibbs is now more likely than not to win. Hassan is still a favorite over Bolduc in NH, but it's REALLY close.

I don't think any of this is new...we just have heard about it a lot more in this cycle because of the hatred for Trump.

[GoMuskies]

Anything that discourages it is great. Even if the party involved is too stupid to learn a lesson from it (does President Trump ring a bell?).

[bjf123]

Maybe I’m missing something, but can someone explain the thought process that results in this? Good grief!

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/202...killed-n654115


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[Strange Brew]

Maybe I’m missing something, but can someone explain the thought process that results in this? Good grief!

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/202...killed-n654115


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Totalitarian fanaticism…..

[Xville]

Maybe I’m missing something, but can someone explain the thought process that results in this? Good grief!

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/202...killed-n654115


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it's as old as time...fear wins elections. It is the last the bullet in the chamber for the democrats...Biden has been such a disaster though that not even that will save them.

[XU_Lou]

Over the last few weeks a few on this board have commented, wondering why conservatives are blasting the FBI and DOJ - as if there were no legitimate reasons. Well here's why: The House Republicans just released a 1,000-page report alleging politicization in the FBI and DOJ. Here's a summary of the Executive Summary:


"The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken. The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy. The problem lies, for example, with the FBI hierarchy that spied on President Trump’s campaign and ridiculed conservative Americans. The problem lies with FBI bureaucrats who altered and mischaracterized evidence to federal courts, circumvented safeguards, and exploited weaknesses in policies governing investigations and informants to target politically disfavored subjects and to protect favored ones. The problem lies with the FBI structure that centralizes high-profile cases in D.C., in the hands of politicized actors with politicized incentives. Quite simply, the problem—the rot within the FBI—festers in and proceeds from Washington.

Over the last year, a multitude of whistleblowers have approached Judiciary Committee Republicans with allegations of political bias by the FBI’s senior leadership and misuses of the agency’s federal law-enforcement powers. These whistleblowers have risked their careers out of fidelity to principle and a commitment to restoring public trust in the FBI. This report begins to tell their stories. Even at this early stage, one startling conclusion is clear: the FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, have become political institutions.

This report details the problems, as recounted in whistleblower disclosures and other forms, that undermine the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission. Whistleblowers describe the FBI’s Washington hierarchy as “rotted at its core,” maintaining a “systemic culture of unaccountability, ”and full of “rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.” Whistleblowers describe how the FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes, and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives. For example:

• The FBI is artificially inflating statistics about domestic violent extremism in the nation.

• The FBI is abusing its counterterrorism authorities to investigate parents who spoke at school board meetings.

• The FBI has abused its foreign intelligence authorities to spy on American citizens, including people associated with the campaign of President Trump in 2016. These facts have been documented in Inspector General reports and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions, but there is little indication the FBI has changed—or is willing to change—course.

• The FBI is clearing the Bureau of employees who dissent from its woke, leftist agenda. The FBI is actively seeking to “purge” FBI employees holding conservative views—or, in President Biden’s view, those who are a “threat to American democracy” — because they hold conservative views. The FBI has even taken retaliatory actions against at least one whistleblower who has spoken out.

• Whistleblowers have explained how the FBI’s “political meddling” “is dragging the criminal side [of the Bureau] down” as resources are “pulled away” from real law-enforcement duties.

Full report here: https://www.scribd.com/document/6050...een&from_embed

[Lamont Sanford]

It's quite obvious the FBI and DOJ have been weaponized against Conservatives. The pro life guy who was arrested from his house in a pre-dawn raid with guns drawn on him and his wife and family is atrocious.

The fact that J6 folks are still being held in the DC jail without being charged yet is truly Orwellian behavior. That is FASCISM!