Politics Thread

[bobbiemcgee]

75% don:t want either candidate. Maybe you should run.

[X-band '01]

Rudy Giuliani's out $148 million after defaming a pair of election workers in Georgia. Good luck raising that kind of scratch.

[Uncle Joe]

Good luck to the two drama queens when this goes to appeal...

[94GRAD]

Good luck to the two drama queens when this goes to appeal...

Of course you're on Giuliani's side.

[STL_XUfan]

Good luck to the two drama queens when this goes to appeal...

He straight up conceded that he defamed them:

“Defendant Giuliani concedes solely for the purposes of this litigation … that Defendant Giuliani made the statements of and concerning plaintiffs,” his filing said. “He does not dispute for the purposes of this litigation, that the statements carry meaning that is defamatory per se.”

Pretty sure they will do just fine on appeal.

[paulxu]

Since lawyers on other Giuliani cases are suing him for non payment of fees, I'd be really surprised if he could find anyone to take up an appeal for him.

Maybe he could go pro se.

[Masterofreality]

Wanna know why Sleepy Joe is flailing while Trump is rising? Kitchen table issues.
From the Wall Street Journal this morning:
“ Inflation, as measured by the consumer-price index, was mostly muted during Trump’s term. Annual inflation averaged roughly 1.9% between January 2017 and January 2021, and consumer prices rose about 7.8% during that time. Consumer prices have surged 17% during Biden’s term, with annual inflation averaging 5.8%. ”

Add in the border surge allowed by this Admin and Americans feel assaulted.

[paulxu]

Assaulted by big business?

In the past, corporate profit growth accounted for maybe a third of inflation. But a report from the Kansas City Fed found that nearly 60% of inflation in 2021 was because of corporate profits.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/11771...rive-inflation

[Uncle Joe]

Assaulted by big business?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/11771...rive-inflation

This is utterly ridiculous economic and historic revisionism to excuse the Democrats for shutting our economy down during the fake covid pandemic, and then throwing trillions of dollars into the economy. That, and that alone, is the source of today's inflation! This article is total BS!

Here's how the St. Louis Fed defines inflation:

"Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy’s ability to produce goods and services."

Economist Scott Grannis recently noted:

"Chart #4 shows that changes in the growth rate of the M2 money supply tend to show up in similar changes in the rate of inflation with about a 1-year lag. This is strong evidence that the recent bout of inflation we have endured had a monetary origin. As I've explained numerous times in the past year or two, the source of our inflation surge can be traced to the monetization of some $6 trillion in federal deficit spending in 2020-2021. Happily, there has been no further debt monetization since 2021."




https://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/20...ation-rip.html

[paulxu]

In the past, corporate profit growth accounted for maybe a third of inflation. But a report from the Kansas City Fed found that nearly 60% of inflation in 2021 was because of corporate profits.

Repetition is the mother of learning.