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  1. He’s a corrupt Republican in everything but name only. The Dems need to remove him as the Chair of the Senate Energy Committee at a minimal. If he wants to toe the Republican Party line, force him to run as Republican and put up a populist Democrat to run against him. The Democratic Party in West Virginia was dominated by Manchin’s minions until very recently when Democratic activists swept them out of power. It is time to finish the job and kick out Manchin. https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/joe-manchin-west-virginia-democratic-party/
  2. HBR: monofocus and/or hyperfocus on efficiency weakens resiliency. Eliminating waste sounds like a reasonable goal. Why would we not want managers to strive for an ever-more-efficient use of resources? Yet as I will argue, an excessive focus on efficiency can produce startlingly negative effects, to the extent that superefficient businesses create the potential for social disorder. This happens because the rewards arising from efficiency get more and more unequal as that efficiency improves, creating a high degree of specialization and conferring an ever-growing market power on the most-efficient competitors. The resulting business environment is extremely risky, with high returns going to an increasingly limited number of companies and people—an outcome that is clearly unsustainable. The remedy, I believe, is for business, government, and education to focus more strongly on a less immediate source of competitive advantage: resilience. This may reduce the short-term gains from efficiency but will produce a more stable and equitable business environment in the long run. I conclude by describing what a resilience agenda might involve. https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
  3. Nice color choice by the ladies. Truth is stranger than fiction.
  4. You are conflating identitarians with progressives. Progressives are grounded in economic issues (FDR Democrats), not identity politics. Newsom resonates with progressives on economic issues. He runs the 5th largest economy in the world - and is applauded for taking care of the working poor. The homeless are another matter.
  5. meh . . .
  6. You are conflating fiscal policy (e.g., military spending is a huge nut) with monetary policy. Current inflation issues are a supply side problem (cost-push inflation) and not demand-pull inflation. The cure is demand destruction until the supply side issues normalize. Inflation stickiness is a major risk, which is why the Fed will risk a recession to defeat inflation. As for currency, the USD remains the safest reserve currency, much to the chagrin of countries like Russia, China and Iran. It’s position has only been improved under the current administration. We always pay our bills (with USD accepted worldwide) and we carry a big stick with our military. Again, our world standing in this area has only improved under the current administration. Had the right wing coup succeeded on January 6, the USD would be trash.
  7. Inaccurate. We are already seeing demand destruction in home sales.
  8. Next week on Survivor - after trump’s plot to have his showmance partner Pence cancel the election fails, he lustily watches as the white racist alliance’ attempts to murder everyone at tribal council.
  9. Trump wanted a Red Wedding on January 6th.
  10. So the Hearing tomorrow is “white boy” day . . . The committee is expected to make the case that the Trump administration had connections to militia groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys—whose leaders face seditious conspiracy charges—and that a tweet from former President Donald Trump was the "siren call" that catalyzed those groups to attempt to block the certification of the 2020 election. "People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effects it had in Trump world and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups—the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point," Representative Jamie Raskin told CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday.
  11. Onward Neoliberal Soldiers.
  12. Blaming “Squishy Progressives” for the consequences of neoliberalism championed by Reagan is absurd and utter bullshit. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8145185/ Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States Anna Zeira Additional article information Abstract Rates of mental illness have increased dramatically over the past 15 years in the United States [Products—Data Briefs—Number 283—August 2017. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db283.htm. Published August 15, 2017]. Additionally, life expectancy has fallen over the past several years due to increases in death from suicide, opioid overdose, and alcoholic liver cirrhosis as reported by Case and Deaton [Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism. Princeton University Press, 2020]. Over the last decade some have questioned whether these changes are due to neoliberal capitalist policies and ideologies. Neoliberal capitalism incorporates theories of eliminating all restrictions on the market and decreasing government assistance programs as reported by Harvey [A brief history of neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, 2005]. Since then these policies have led to income inequality, disempowerment of workers, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, inadequate social services, mass incarceration and an expensive and ineffective healthcare system as reported by Case and Deaton [Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism. Princeton University Press, 2020] and Nkansah-Amankra et al. [International Journal of Health Services 43(2):217-240, 2013]. Studies have shown that the consequences of these policies and ideologies likely have a role in increasing rates of mental illness. This paper will discuss how these factors increase mental distress and postulate ways that mental health professionals can advocate for change.
  13. Part of the aociopathy that links these killers together. Feom 2019. They want to speed the collapse. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/11/20882005/accelerationism-white-supremacy-christchurch Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world How a techno-capitalist philosophy morphed into a justification for murder.
  14. Crimo was wearing a dress at the time of the shooting. According to police, the dress allowed him to better conceal his weapon.
  15. I left Texas for the Peninsula (SF) the day after my last class. I thought I might return one day, but never did and probably never will. The State is an embarrassment now - but it wasn’t always that way. I lived Chicago and Colorado since leaving the Bay Area. Now I find myself in the southern Piedmonts and enjoying Southern folks with their manners and grace. Many Texans have lost those manners and proudly behave like Gooner Sooners. The politics in Texas are worse than Mississippi or Alabama. It’s become more like Florida mixing with Oklahoma. I have no regrets leaving and never coming back. I feel for the blueberries trapped in a bloody Texas soup. The good thing for people leaving Texas is those who left before them generally had good manners and grace. The Texans I have worked with and become friends with in California, Colorado and Chicago painted a good image of Texas and her people. The Texans I know represent the State well - far better than the dirtbag political leaders who call themselves Texans. Best wishes to those leaving. For the ones staying, good luck. When Texans act like Okies - nothing good comes from that shift.
  16. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
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