US Politics : Biden 100 days edition

[RanzB]

Not surprised this happened in one of the worst states in the union!

Lmao

 

[scudsucker]

This is the state of Tumpists in Biden's America.

A man who bragged about chugging wine at the Capitol riot is campaigning for office. He has, of course been arrested for his participation, but this did not affect his limited critical thinking ability...

He learned mid-interview he's running for the wrong seat.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404828495818235908

We know he won't talk about this though - disrupts the laughable narrative that Dems are pushing. Has Garland spent a weekend on Chicago's South Side?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404821993602621449

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Lmao

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What exactly is your point here? That a big state can't be rubbish?

Happily for me, actual people who live there are voting with their feet.

Then, as my colleague Shawn Hubler reported on Friday, the state released its own population estimates, which showed that for the first time in more than a century, California actually lost people last year.

The decline was small by share of the state’s nearly 40 million residents — just 0.46 percent — but in raw numbers, that is 182,083 people, or two Santa Barbaras, as Shawn noted.

Both of those changes were major reversals for a state that has, since the Gold Rush, been defined by lots of people moving here from around the world. Neither was totally surprising, though. In recent years, California’s population growth has slowed to its lowest recorded rates since 1900.

Who’s Really Leaving California?

Monday: A look at California’s (slight) population decline. Also: San Francisco marks an L.G.B.T.Q. historical landmark.

www.nytimes.com

Also to note: it lost a congressional seat.

 

[RanzB]

What exactly is your point here? That a big state can't be rubbish?

Clearly they can, as evidenced by the trash fire that is Texas

Where do you think your boy Cruz will escort his family to once the heatwave knocks out the deregulated power, and which child do you think he'll blame it on this time?

 

[cerebus]

What exactly is your point here? That a big state can't be rubbish?

Happily for me, actual people who live there are voting with their feet.

Who’s Really Leaving California?

Monday: A look at California’s (slight) population decline. Also: San Francisco marks an L.G.B.T.Q. historical landmark.

www.nytimes.com

Also to note: it lost a congressional seat.

Yeah yeah

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

 

[RanzB]

Yeah yeah

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

Republicans don't consider those as metrics of success. For them it's more about how many people of colour they're able to repress, or women they're able to remove rights from.

And then call that 'freedom'.

Lmao

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Clearly they can, as evidenced by the trash fire that is Texas

Where do you think your boy Cruz will escort his family to once the heatwave knocks out the deregulated power, and which child do you think he'll blame it on this time?

No freedom loving Texan like Cruz will ever live in the state which is closest to statist state. I have seen beautiful pictures of California in the 1970s and 1980s but nowadays with soaring homelessness and poop on the pavement, no thanks. Texas is the state to be if you like big states, California is yesterday's news.

 

[buka001]

Don't pretend putin 'planning' to use prisoners as workers is 'bad' and 'mah gulags', but the current vice president knowingly locking up thousands of brown people, keeping them locked up beyond there sentences, withholding evidence on innocent people, all to use them as workers is somehow 'different'... you're all cut from the same cloth, which is exactly the point putin is making, samesies

I can't keep up with you guys.

Last year you were happy for the US Justice system to carry out an extra-judicial death sentence on a guy for passing a fake $20 bill, but now you have concerns with the corruption of the US Justice system all of a sudden?

Of course she was wrong for that. I have no support for her.

 

[RanzB]

Texas is the state to be if you like big states, California is yesterday's news.

Yesterday's news will have power. Not so much the state that pretends to be free, but isn't. Religious nuts won't even let you buy booze on a Sunday, weed is illegal, restrictive women's rights etc etc etc.

Freedom my ass.

 

[konfab]

Yesterday's news will have power. Not so much the state that pretends to be free, but isn't. Religious nuts won't even let you buy booze on a Sunday, weed is illegal, restrictive women's rights etc etc etc.

Freedom my ass.

Sounds absolutely terrible, literally a hell on earth. Every comrade progressive should get out of the state and not be complicit in the most brutal place to live in America.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Yesterday's news will have power. Not so much the state that pretends to be free, but isn't. Religious nuts won't even let you buy booze on a Sunday, weed is illegal, restrictive women's rights etc etc etc.

Freedom my ass.

Sounds terrible. Weird then how most of the population increase is due to migration from other states:

Texas continues to lead US in raw population growth, Census Bureau estimates

Texas continues to lead the United States in raw population growth, Census estimates...

www.houstonchronicle.com

Much of the expansion is driven by migration, with Texas once again serving as the top destination for relocating Americans. It’s expected to remain second to Florida in the number of arriving international migrants.

“Essentially, the difference between the last decade and this decade in terms of components of change was a larger proportion of our population change was from domestic migration,” said Dr. Lloyd B. Potter, the state’s demographer. “Domestic migrants that are coming into Texas from out of state are tending to land in those suburban ring counties.”

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Meanwhile, in the real world...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346925141482033154

Is anyone really surprised that US conservatives would embark on such an obviously BS, bad faith smear job or that it would be uncritically supported by the MyBB Trumpers?

 

[Temujin]

I can't keep up with you guys.

Last year you were happy for the US Justice system to carry out an extra-judicial death sentence on a guy for passing a fake $20 bill, but now you have concerns with the corruption of the US Justice system all of a sudden?

Of course she was wrong for that. I have no support for her.

I don't give 2 shits about it... you brought up putin planning to use prisoners in response to putin pointing out the US calling him out for exactly the same thing they are doing... And all you've done is add to his point. He's going to do what they've been doing for years. He wasn't making it up when he endorsed biden and said he and the US democrats have shared values... don't be mad at the mirror

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Chris:

...presented with ZERO context.

Also Chris:

...and yet he achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment for all race groups!

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404574079156318210

Not surprised this happened in one of the worst states in the union!

Meanwhile, in Texas, which has a higher homicide rate than California...

3 overnight shootings in Austin 1 day after 6th Street mass shooting

Three separate shootings sounded across the Austin area in the early morning hours of Sunday, Austin police say. Here’s what we know.

www.kxan.com

We await your condemnation of Texas, "one of the worst states in the union!"

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Yesterday's news will have power. Not so much the state that pretends to be free, but isn't. Religious nuts won't even let you buy booze on a Sunday, weed is illegal, restrictive women's rights etc etc etc.

Freedom my ass.

Pretty amusing that when facts and reality defy Chris' narrative he resorts to rose-tinted conservative fantasies about St. Reagan's California of the 70s and 80s.

Meanwhile, crime in California exploded under Reagan. Some more evidence that conservatives are driven by fantasies and ideology.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I don't give 2 shits about it...

lol. You wield it like a cudgel but you don't actually "give 2 shits about it"?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404784364131696642

No-one could have predicted this...

The argument that it's transitory is stronger, imo.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404433366364016645

Lumber being a good case study. Massive glut in demand suppressing price last year, then it exploded earlier this year as pent-up demand came on steam. Then it drops down massively again once things level out more.

Trying to extrapolate long-term inflation risks in a volatile period makes little sense.

A Case for Transitory Inflation: Lumber Prices Are Down 22% Since May 10 Peak

The decline suggests supply-demand imbalances will normalize as the economy recovers, says Cornerstone Macro's Nancy Lazar. Rising wages offer a counterpoint to the temporary-inflation view.

www.barrons.com

Plus, the US has undershot the target rate for way too long at the cost of full employment which is worth significantly more than slightly increases prices.

 

[Unhappy438]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404828495818235908

We know he won't talk about this though - disrupts the laughable narrative that Dems are pushing. Has Garland spent a weekend on Chicago's South Side?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404821993602621449

Rather disturbing that when someone points towards fascists you have a tendency to get triggered.