***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Belgium]

In general there's violence on both sides of course, in varying degrees and for various reasons. Some on the left will show up to cause or resort to violence in these protests.
But there is zero equivalence with neo-nazis. These people support and uphold an extremely vile hateful racist ideology that has resulted in many millions of deaths in history, promotes the idea of exterminating "lesser races", ...
There is no equivalence with the nazism ideology. The main atrocities that resulted from the nazi ideology really weren't that long ago when you think about it. My uncle was captured and tortured by the nazis during WW2.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Anything on the fiscal side that Obama wanted to do to tackle inequality or bump up growth died in 2010.

Even before the election the Dems started a silent war with themselves with Obama being a football.

Blue Dogs as a response to pressure from the right cried about the deficit and whether Obama was gonna bankrupt the country. Progressives were saying unless he pushed for more demand side spending he was betraying the working people.

Like idiots the Dems love to be, made the GOP's job extremely easy. They just stupidly fueled the racial dog whistles the GOP was using.

Most of the best proposals out of the administration was dead on arrival.

Like I rant about before, few like to be honest about what Obama tried to do. The right wants paint him as a wasteful socialist that want to give money away to lazy poor people. Progressives want to paint him a neoliberal centrist that look out for corporations and only focused on identity politics.

If you imagine a world where Obama gets his way on everything. We would have probably hit above 3% GDP growth a couple years, the economy would be structurally stronger, and our tax code would be much much better. Deficits would be bigger and income inequality would still exist (we would be in a better situation than we are in now)

Best of all, we would be set up to really tackle income inequality. A world like Bernie Sanders world would not look like pie in the sky if we had a public option, jobs bills, an EITC expansion and free community college.

If shared prosperity is at the top of the mountain, it is the easier to see if from half way up, than at the base. Unfortunately, Trump gonna dig us into a ditch.

What a time

 

[IATT]

Y'all gotta read this thread

 

[RustyShackleford]

-The Fed for some reason keeps warning about the magic runaway inflation unicorn.

With labor force participation so low, and with stories of folk line up for hours for an interview at Amazon, I would think they would stop with acting like it is about to be the late 70s again on the inflation side.

You would swear Hyperinflation is the Night's King, and Yellen thinks she is Jon Snow.

 

[Mark Antony]

Read the actual story and then look at this tweet again

Jesus Christ man.

 

[reputory]

From what I've read here I have no issues with them.

Seems like a false equivalency from the right to equate them to white supremacists. ie how they do with BLM

What about anti capitalism. What system do they want?

 

[everysingletime]

Article also says he has convicted in 2011 for child cruelty. I wonder what that was

 

[elpablo21]

 

[rolaholic]

 

[Mark Antony]

The covers throughout his Presidency need to be in a museum.

 

[iamdef]

The covers throughout his Presidency need to be in a museum.

If not, I'll make my own museum and do it

 

[rolaholic]

The covers throughout his Presidency need to be in a museum.

They really do ,print publications have been putting in work this year

In other news...

 

[cedric ceballos]

Bye bye Bannon.

Brietbart is about to be lit in the upcoming weeks.

 

[RustyShackleford]

y'all seen my wife on desus and mero last night...? ::

Your wife?

Back up b, you don't want deez pocket sands problems in you life.

I got some right from the mother land too.... Israel. #SorosSet

 

[rolaholic]

 

[gil23]

The plot thickens even more...

Cue MJ popcorn.gif

 

[joe cool23]

Surprisingly, seeing Bannon get the boot doesn't feel as good as I thought it would.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[dreamer23]

Your wife?

Back up b, you don't want deez pocket sands problems in you life.

I got some right from the mother land too.... Israel. #SorosSet

bring it on rookie...

 

[Fozz]

Oh snap, Bannon was dumped? lol

 

[AZwildcats]

Mr Bannon, we hardly knew you

 

[RustyShackleford]

I'll wait for official confirmation first before celebrating.

But @osh kosh bosh and Gorilla Zoe need to get ready to tells us I told you so, and provide guidance.

 

[aepps20]

I usually DON'T second guess MY PRESIDENT but Bannon needed to stay. He's done EXCELLENT work and he got more and more DAPPER each day in a 1 month to live sort of way.

 

[iamdef]

So hard to say goodbye to ol' Bando

 

[paulwest1985]

Good Riddens you racist mother____er!!