Shoresy

AI will domesticate the best humans.

We are due for a good culling. Humans take too long.

I dont know how he does it, but he somehow increased gold and silver price worldwide. I dont know if its because of tariffs or whatever, but good job.

China tightened the market on gold and silver in retaliation.

Mamdani won his election because he promised fixes, even if the fixes ultimately mean property taxes that the working poor will have to pay through increased rents.

At least he promised something.

You know what else Mamdani does that no one else does? He talks to President Trump in private and meets with him.

The sign of a political bot is to admit no flaw.

This is why Debby is a bot, it cannot parse 2 questions at the same time.

I dont understand how trump gets to be blamed for something which happened when Biden was in power already for 6 months, and trump left long time ago.

If one wishes to speak seriously about contribution rather than blame, then the question becomes narrower and more precise: what, specifically, was added in early 2021 that altered the trajectory already underway?

By the time President Biden took office, the United States had already engaged in extraordinary fiscal and monetary expansion in response to the pandemic. That is simply factual. However, in March 2021, the American Rescue Plan introduced an additional $1.9 trillion in stimulus at a moment when the economy was reopening, vaccines were being distributed, inflation seemed worrying but manageable, and household balance sheets were already unusually strong. The concern raised by many economists at the time was not that stimulus was inherently improper, but that its scale was disproportionate to the remaining output gap.

In effect, substantial new demand with fresh dollars was layered atop an economy still constrained in its productive capacity. Supply chains had not normalized. Energy markets were volatile. Labour participation had not fully recovered. Injecting further liquidity and stimulus under those conditions needlessly risked intensifying price pressures and inflation.

To say this is not to suggest that inflation began in March 2021, nor that prior policy was irrelevant. It is to note that the American Rescue Plan represented a significant additional demand impulse at a delicate moment in a US economy with supply issues. One may debate necessity; one cannot reasonably deny scale. Thus, a blanket pardon on Biden's policies would be wholly unwarranted, and blaming Biden's 2021 policies on a former President made citizen would be considered insane by normal people.

I am actually still wondering if I am wrong on this issue, and would economy be slightly better or same under Kamala. I admit that I could be wrong on this issue, but I dont have a bias because I dont support Kamala or trump now.

I supported Kamala right up to the point that she claimed she wouldn't do a thing differently, and never corrected that statement.

"Global phenomenon" only applies to the "advanced countries" that went deep into inflating the money supply with cash infusions after locking down producers. The word "phenomenon" alone screams a made-up excuse for very bad policies. What is so striking about the invocation of the phrase “global phenomenon” is not its explanatory power but its evasiveness. It is the sort of soothing abstraction beloved by modern political classes, broad enough to imply inevitability, yet vague enough to dissolve accountability. Yes, inflation appeared across much of the developed world. But one must ask: what did those countries share? Not geography. Not culture. Not identical industrial structures. What they shared was an extraordinary expansion of the money supply, coupled with the enforced suppression of productive capacity. To lock down producers, throttle supply, and then flood households with newly created money is not an act of economic magic, it is a real policy choice with objective, predictable consequences. It actually was neither global nor a phenomenon. I described 2 things Biden flubbed on. Those are very real things. Not a phenomenon, global or otherwise.

3o4

Women can be extremely extreme.

That is why the women are trusted with that right, not men.

Because they are better at killing?

There's also another very pressing concern to consider when pursuing maximal tax revenues along the Laffer curve.

You’re all arguing about “maximizing tax revenue” like that’s some noble goal. It’s not. It just means squeezing as much money as possible out of people without the system collapsing. That’s it. The Laffer curve isn’t about fairness. It’s about how much you can take before people drastically change their behavior.

Now here’s the part people skip: even before you hit the point where revenue drops, you’re already shrinking opportunity. Higher taxes mean fewer risks taken. Fewer businesses started. Fewer expansions. That kid who might’ve started something? Maybe he doesn’t bother. That family that might’ve moved to build something new? Maybe they stay put. The damage doesn’t show up as a giant explosion. That construction crew that might have built a million new homes never gets them built. It shows up as things that never happen.

So the real tradeoff question isn’t “do we get more revenue?” It’s “how much freedom, prosperity, and opportunity are we willing to trade for it?” You can absolutely maximize revenue. But don’t pretend that’s free. Every step toward that peak means more control for the state and less room for individuals. The argument isn’t about math. It’s about what kind of society you actually want. And we haven't even tapped into the metric of government fraud and waste with tax revenues. The larger and more real concern is whether or not your taxes are used efficiently, forget fraud and waste. That's a far easier question to answer with ample evidence.

The OP begs the question: Do you approve of tax increases beyond the Laffer curve if you don't approve of tax reductions beyond the Laffer curve?

Also, do you think USA is not beyond the Laffer curve and believe the political narrative that rich people are not leaving and are investing in new jobs and production to the fullest ability in the USA? Do you believe USA has a housing surplus?

If so, I would agree with the OP and say tax away.

Very interesting questions.

Sure, just like Iraq was created to distract people from the massive power grab with the Patriot Act and other things.

Both parties do this shit.

If they were good and competent, they wouldn't need distractions.

Common sense, really. Trump is just Iraq 2.0....both parties do it, but they got away with a shit ton this time under Biden.

God knows how many millionaires he made with all the spending bills and favorable loopholes he passed. Millions of dollars flowing to the rich with millions of cheap under-the-table labor. Massive subsidies to companies under the "Inflation Reduction Act."

Money was siphoned off from Ukraine while they impeached a President to cover it all up.

Meanwhile, Trump's accused of having the equivalent of "weapons of mass destruction" like Bush did with Iraq on a daily basis. Biden literally called Trump an existential threat. Voters don't like this kind of "fool me twice" politics in America.

If Biden had shrunk or avoided the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, peak inflation likely would’ve been lower. Serious estimates put ARP at roughly +1 to +3 percentage points on the 9% peak inflation. That’s not pocket change. Inflation was already heating up from supply constraints and reopening demand, but ARP poured jet fuel on a tight goods market. Strip that demand surge out, and maybe you’re staring at 6–7% instead of 9% peak inflation. Still hot. Less explosive.

Now Ukraine. The war added energy and food shock, maybe another +1 to +2 points on headline CPI at peak. But here’s the cold math: U.S. inflation was already above 7% before the invasion. The fire was already burning. The war threw gasoline (pun intended) on energy prices, especially in Europe, which affected global supply and prices. Assuming a U.S. president could’ve single-handedly deterred Russia, and maybe peak inflation lands around 4–6% instead of 9%. Better? Yes. Back to normal? No. But definitely could have been better. High gas prices affected the poor and working class immensely. And the ripple effects from scarce energy show up in more metrics than just inflation numbers. That's cold facts, not narrative political bot slop.

The issue is that we have an electorate in this country that does not hold both parties to the same standards.

Agreed, the political bots are mostly in one party. The one giving Trump scrutiny 24/7 for 12 straight years, even when he wasn't in control of anything for 4 years, and equal cover for their own beloved leaders' mistakes.

That's why Democrats are losing, because normal people know by Occam's Razor that NO coverage means something corrupt is going on. See Epstein files. If they didn't know before, they found out hard when Biden revealed what was covered up for 4 years.

Me too, it's so weird how deep a cult is when any disagreement with ANYTHING marks you as an enemy to be eliminated.

That's the "Butt Trummp" club mentality. If you disagree, there's only one reason why.

Political bot programming has no nuance.

To normal people like you and me, TDS people ironically hold Trump up to be "the standard" to measure their own tribe with the plethora of "butt Trummps". It's ridiculous how obsessed they are to the point they hold as the gold standard a person they are supposed to hate....

What happened to all their tribe's heroes??? They got old and Bidened out? No fresh blood anywhere?

You mean like the republicans did with Trump?

Why would you copy republicans? I thought you hated them. Oh well...

He doesn't like Trump because Trump used to be a former cult member of his party... and then left it.

Political bots don't like error-checking their programming.

This is why the political bot often runs away with "butttt Trummmp" nonsense.

It's a glitch in the matrix.

TY political bot

even though they eventually did

And there is the cult-like excuse worthy of an A-grade political bot.

But let’s talk more about how incompetent Biden was,

He was incompetent. The US narrative industry protected Biden, and now people are walking away from that narrative factory. That's the price for failure.

The number one reason why Kamala lost is because she said she couldn't think of a thing she would do differently.

If her political bot base stopped making excuses for her, maybe she could have come up with something...ANYTHING....and she would be your president today....

Well said. Excuses are for the weak.

I will play safe and conclude it was his fault, because if I didnt play safe, politicians would get away with a lot.

This is a great political philosophy. Guilty until proven innocent should apply to all politicians. Narratives that presume innocence from people with a monopoly on power should be discarded immediately.

In fact, your cottage political narrative industry is close to becoming bankrupt with declining viewership year over year. Muddled messaging only makes this decline faster.

That's a massive improvement and a good sign for the future. Fewer narrative outlets mean fewer political bots.

I see the same thing.

I just find it funny when the narratives designed to control voters end up being a paradox after so much time in the kitchen.

Wouldn't voter ID get rid of all the "stupid" voters? Or is that narrative a paradox since mostly Democrat voters are allowed to be too stupid to know how to get an ID or birth certificate online with a few clicks?

The narrative about "stupid voters" definitely needs a software update for the American political bot.

Debby is a bot. It's programmed to make up to 30 thread-ending non-sequiturs within 2 minutes, and checks every hour, 24 hours a day.