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@GRHorn I'm going to dinner at Bob's tomorrow and expensing it to the surly business account simply to re-take the picture that is your avatar, and I'm going to replace it with one that actually looks

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its all-time high today, so I'd like to congratulate Joe Biden for building the greatest economy the world has ever seen.

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On 11/6/2021 at 9:32 PM, Goofyboy said:


Troy Nehls is our Congressman and he’s fallen in line with Chip and other Trumpers. He was an OK Sheriff, but sucks shit as a Congressman.

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According to records obtained by News 88.7, Nehls was fired by the Richmond (Texas) Police Department for reasons including destruction of evidence. Nehls was also charged with underage drinking and obstructing an officer in 1988. He later applied for a job with the Ford Bend ISD Police Department, signing a form saying he'd never been charged with a crime.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/12/08/255526/fort-bend-county-sheriff-troy-nehls-wont-run-for-congress-in-2018/

 

Sounds like he found his people and that it shouldn't have been a surprise he'd fall in with that bunch of shitbags.

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According to records obtained by News 88.7, Nehls was fired by the Richmond (Texas) Police Department for reasons including destruction of evidence. Nehls was also charged with underage drinking and obstructing an officer in 1988. He later applied for a job with the Ford Bend ISD Police Department, signing a form saying he'd never been charged with a crime.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/12/08/255526/fort-bend-county-sheriff-troy-nehls-wont-run-for-congress-in-2018/
 
Sounds like he found his people and that it shouldn't have been a surprise he'd fall in with that bunch of shitbags.

By OK, I mean he saved some animals instead of shooting them.
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39 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

Maybe because her post didn't even mention Joe Biden in the Joe Biden thread?  Where's the gotdamned thread police when you need them

My post was about the Republicans going apeshit on themselves after passing Biden's Infrastructure bill because of the 13 people that crossed the aisle.  It is absolutely related to the information in this thread.  That infrastructure bill is, so far, Joe Biden's signature legislation.  Legislation that has long been needed.  And the GOP is thinking about killing its own because they actually did their job.  

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On 11/4/2021 at 1:14 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

Back of the envelope math:

There are 3.75 million babies born in the US.  Lets say you wanted to set up a scale where every one of them got $1,000 at birth no matter how wealthy the family, but that the poorest got $10,000.00 and the median got $5,000, and the bottom got $1,000.  Blended average of $5,000 per kid lets say. 

3.5 million times 5 is 17.5 million.  Carry the 3 decimals and that's what- 17.5 billion.  That seems like dick all nothing to the size of our government right now.  If that earned 8% (annualized rate of return in the stock market over the past 50 years is 10.9%) that $10,000 would be worth $80,000 when a kid turned 27 years old according to the law of 72.  So- if you want to go to school you have $40,000 to spend and that's plausible that you could go to a state school, work part time and over the summer, graduate in 4 years and be debt free). Or, better yet you could join the peace corps or get a menial job that will hire an 18 year old, figure out what you want to do as an apprentice in life and be looking forward to $80k cash on the barrel head to help you buy a house or start a business with the skills you've been learning for the last year. Or maybe you've grown up enough to say- I think I need to go to night school b/c this is really what I want to do with my life.  Or trade school.  Or community college.  The possibilities are endless. I'd sure as shit have no complaint if someone laid something like this out with $18 billion a year going to this program.  I would think from a practical standpoint you'd have people crawling out of the woodwork to vote for this.  And hell, if we are really ok with spending trillions then lets look retrospectively at all the kids that haven't reached 18 yet and say- what would this look like if we took 1 trillion the first year for this program and just gave it to every kid equally they'd all get $14,000.00 put into that account.  If you means tested it somewhat and gave more to the kids closer to 18 to put in their account you could probably scratch that one check and make that work for everyone under 18, and spend the low low low amount of $18 billion a year to keep it self sustained.

Bam, every kid in America now would have a legacy, regardless of what color they are, where they were born etc.  And, I think you'd have widespread popular support for stuff like this. And it would be fair.  And it would improve lives.  

So- 3 things if we are just giving away money that would make everything better and actually might have a snowballs chance in hell of changing a ton of lives over the course of the years:

1) Make a payment that's an investment to everyone that's a kid now on a 1 time basis that would net them $40-$100k depending upon if they cashed out for school at 18 or some other investment later in life at 25.  $1 trillion dollar up front cost tag and 18 billion a year

2) subsidize a mortgage for everyone that needs help for a subsidy.   Use the section 8 money for ownership instead of rent- that gets us already to 5.5 million families.  Say that the government will guarantee every mortgage for a house that's 80% of median value (that would be $216,000 house nationwide).  Everyone who buys a house for 80% of median gets a no money down note at 5% interest.  The government would probably actually make money on this deal!  People don't really default on their house notes- even for the worst of the worst mortgages that were subprime- in the worst of the worst home market the default rate was only like 18%- if you talk about all mortgages nationwide I don't think it ever got higher than like 2 or 3 percent.  What killed the economy in the housing crisis wasn't repo's- it was asshole types on wall street with their crazy fucking exotic schemes to bundle notes, leverage them and sell them.  If the US government ran a market for poor people that need help for this kind of housing and they rant that like George fucking Baylie at the savings and loan- any guarantee on these mortgages in the program would likely be a rounding error. It would cost nothing.

3) Put all EITC into a portfolio that can be used only for major life events or retirement or something like that.  For all others allow them to use a portion of their social security money to put into this portfolio.  Don't change social security. This isn't a social security program- this is a legacy type program.  Match payments into this account the way that happens with a 401k up to a certain amount based upon income.  Give people that otherwise wouldn't have a chance a chance at that. 

 

Bam- now everyone that wants to owns a house, every kid has a legacy to go to school with or start a life with and everyone owns something throughout the course of their life.  And it doesn't cost all that much money compared to what we blow all the time. 

This is just back of the napkin math and off the cuff thoughts as I'm sitting here avoiding work and trying to solve the problems of the world. I'm sure it could be fine tuned and made much better.  But-- and this is important- it would actually improve lives permanently and we could probably get 80% buy in from the population.  But no, we aren't looking for programs on a basis of "will they work and will they affect a meaningful change" b/c we are so fucking short sighted and we'd rather tear each other apart over all sorts of stupid shit.

 

the 50% of elected officials who represent 37% (or whatever the number is) of the population will scream socialism, and it will never happen.

 

Or, if you prefer...

Sing me a song, hippy.

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anyone worried about 2024 and the massive pro Trump shift in the Electoral College due to the 2020 Census?

I wouldn’t call it massive. Republicans net a few EVs in hard red states vs hard blue states. It still comes down to swing states. The fundamental landscape hasn’t changed much.
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15 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

tweet by AOC calling Biden out for lying

Props to AOC.

She called out Biden's communications team for gaslighting people in harm's way.

We need more of that for good governance. That's basic conservative wisdom (rooted in risk aversion). Give credit where credit is due.

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9 hours ago, mchookem said:

Texas getting about $35 billion, does not include power grid, which appears will be part of a different bucket specifically for the country's grid.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/09/biden-infrastructure-bill-texas/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social

Probably need to be part of the national power grid in order to get federal money for the power grid. Just a guess.

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10 hours ago, mchookem said:

Texas getting about $35 billion, does not include power grid, which appears will be part of a different bucket specifically for the country's grid.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/09/biden-infrastructure-bill-texas/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social

Goddamnit that's double fucking frustrating. Our state won't spend any money on improving our grid and we take measures to NOT cooperate with the federal government just so the private companies can extract more profit from us

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Interesting read about all the Brandon stuff, from The Atlantic:

The Serendipity of ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’

The anti-Biden meme is meaner than your grandfather’s shoot or heck. It also offers a fascinating view of how language changes.

I know how I am supposed to feel about “Let’s go, Brandon”: Mocking the president this way is uncivil, a sign of the collapse of once-routine public courtesy, etc., etc. How I really feel about it, though, is that it’s fascinatingly serendipitous, seriously funny, and intriguingly fecund. From that one meme, others are being born.

Last month, an NBC reporter interviewing the victorious NASCAR driver Brandon Brown heard fans in the stands chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” in lustily contemptuous unison. The reporter insisted to viewers that the fans were in fact chanting “Let’s go, Brandon.” This improvisation made no sense. Brown had won, so why would anyone cheer him on by saying “Let’s go!” after he’d just accomplished quite a bit of going? Since then, Biden’s detractors have adopted “Let’s go, Brandon” as a kind of in-group salute—a coded way of saying, well, the other thing. The meme has found its way onto T-shirts, masks, signs at other sporting events, the House floor, and (reportedly) airplane intercoms, and was parodied this weekend in an online video from Saturday Night Live.

Interestingly, despite its very American origins, the catchphrase is rather South African. Stay with me: In traditional societies there, such as in Zulu and Xhosa communities, a woman marrying into a family shows respect by refraining from using any words that sound like her husband’s or in-laws’ names and subbing in other words. Imagine if someone married William Green, the son of Robert Green, and instead of saying, “She will not eat green yogurt,” had to say, “She refuses to eat grass-colored yo-mix”—because will and green are her husband’s names and the second half of yogurt sounds like the end of Robert. The practice is called hlonipha, and “Let’s go, Brandon” is a coy substitution of the same kind.

[Conor Friedersdorf: The fight against words that sound like, but are not, slurs]

However, the anti-Biden euphemism is of a meaner tone. This is not your grandfather’s darn, heck, shoot, or fudge. Those are polite terms, expressed without the teeth-baring ardor of the words they stand in for, imaginable as things that characters played by Edie McClurg might say in ’80s movies such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. “Let’s go, Brandon” springs from the mangier, madder place of euphemisms such as snafu—which during World War II everyone in the American military knew was an acronym for “situation normal, all fucked up”—or right-wingers’ dismissal of conservatives who do not toe the party line as cuckservatives, rooted in the word cuckold.

Those who dislike seeing President Biden’s name used disparagingly should welcome the latest development: People on the left are declaring “Thank you, Brandon” in praise of the administration’s accomplishments thus far. We are witnessing the birth of a diagonal reference to Biden that signals a defense of him from the slurs of the right. Brandon could well take its place as one of those bemusingly opaque code names such as Yeezy for Kanye West or Boz for Charles Dickens—or as one of those pseudonyms that some members of Congress direct their staff to use for them when talking about work in social settings. (A friend of mine who worked on Capitol Hill in the late 1980s referred to her boss as “Bubo,” lest eavesdroppers in public spaces pick up insider gossip about congressional business.)

We might simply embrace that sentiments will differ about this Brandon person in exactly the same way as they do about, well, Biden. Calling him Brandon when dissing him could be seen as a kind of American hlonipha. And yet, in elite circles, one senses a bifurcation: Brandon is warm and wise when preceded by Thank you but an unacceptable epithet coming from Republicans.

Few of the commentators who decried the supposed vitriol and vulgarity of “Let’s go, Brandon” appear to mind Democrats’ attempt to repurpose the race-car driver’s name. The tacit idea would seem to be that when the left throws shade, it counts as speaking truth to power and is thus okay. Until the late ’80s, some people on the left used politically correct unironically to suggest, without saying so, that right-wing views are inherently and incontestably wrong. The designation of conservatives outside Democratic enclaves as “deplorables” didn’t come from the right, either.

[Read: When deplorability is no longer a dealbreaker]

Overall, “Let’s go, Brandon” is simply fascinating. A time traveler from 2019 would have been mystified at the bewigged people going as Karen this Halloween (I saw two) as well as those in mustaches going as Ted Lasso (of which I also saw two). In the same way, think how utterly opaque “Let’s go, Brandon” would be to a time traveler from just Labor Day. The meme is a wild, woolly kink in the intersection of language, politics, wit, and creativity, and is a prime example of why language change is a spectator sport.

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58 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Nobody on the left cares about let's go Brandon. Knock yourselves out. Maybe keep the anime murder vids to a minimum, though. 

Yea it sounds like both sides are getting a kick out of it, for different reasons, but as the article suggests, there are more cultural shifts around language and how we use it which is also really interesting to read about.

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It's childish. "Let's Go Brandon" is not a "cultural shift around language", it's a tee-hee lame joke that is about as much of an inside secret as the right's terror over losing their race majority.

Keep pushing it.  It only further cements the impotence of the modern right wing.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's childish. "Let's Go Brandon" is not a "cultural shift around language", it's a tee-hee lame joke that is about as much of an inside secret as the right's terror over losing their race majority.

Keep pushing it.  It only further cements the impotence of the modern right wing.

Are you talking the writers of The Atlantic here?

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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm talking about that particular writer's writing, along with your transparent "aw shucks" approach.  This isn't hard.

I'm not "aw shucks"'ing anything-- I presented an interesting article, in a reputable rag, which gave what I thought was a fair-and-balanced treatment of the ridiculous cultural moment of "Brandon" and it was germane to this thread. You disagreeing with the article won't hurt my feelings just as your agreeing won't flatter me. 

I hope you are doing okay, otherwise.

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31 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

I'm not "aw shucks"'ing anything-- I presented an interesting article, in a reputable rag, which gave what I thought was a fair-and-balanced treatment of the ridiculous cultural moment of "Brandon" and it was germane to this thread. You disagreeing with the article won't hurt my feelings just as your agreeing won't flatter me. 

I hope you are doing okay, otherwise.

Dude. Cmon Man. The aw shucks thing is totally your schtick. That and your attempts to be oh so reasonable. Denying it just hurts your credibility. It’s pretty obvious.

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1 hour ago, JimmyJames said:

Dude. Cmon Man. The aw shucks thing is totally your schtick. That and your attempts to be oh so reasonable. Denying it just hurts your credibility. It’s pretty obvious.

I will never deny doing everything I can to be a reasonable person. I think that is part of what makes someone a good human good being. Would you prefer that folks on here try to be unreasonable?

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43 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is Blacklab aware of what goes down on the football board?

Dunno because I’ve been trying to avoid it lately. It’s just too damn depressing. I drunk posted Iowa state game night and it’s just too sad right now. 

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I see a clip like that above and I wonder why Kamala isn’t more visible now because I don’t think Joe can go 8 full years.  He’s gonna be fumbling and stumbling if he runs for reelection at 80+ and make an easy target in that regard. 

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