Biden has helped the economy?

[saison]

Get a load of this idiot:

twitter.com/i/status/1531720019637305349

[brothersteve]

May 31, 2022 19:41:24 GMT saison said:

Get a load of this idiot:

twitter.com/i/status/1531720019637305349

Hilarious!  This poor girl is the newly appointed scape goat of political miss-information.  Gotta get somebody to do the dirty work.    Of course, us minions have it all wrong as Biden is really helping us all and it's those no good Russians squeezing our gasoline balls. 

In the political world, the rooster crows and the sun comes up - it's all his fault, not nature.  SMH. 

Hot days are coming and I'm waiting for the rolling brownouts and blackouts - but it will all be for our own good.  Better get generators in place soon folks!

[Magnus]

[brothersteve]

Jun 1, 2022 12:34:09 GMT Magnus said:

[brothersteve]

Bertrand Russell is a fav of mine: from Wikipedia: "Russell is most famously known for the following opinions on education, taken from Page 30 of "The Impact of Science on society".

This subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark grey. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician's paradise. The social effects of scientific technique have already been many and important, and are likely to be even more noteworthy in the future. Some of these effects depend upon the political and economic character of the country concerned; others are inevitable, whatever this character may be."

Are we here yet?

[brothersteve]

[saison]

Jun 1, 2022 14:18:09 GMT brothersteve said:

Wow!  Thanks for posting that.

[brothersteve]

A lot of what is being pushed today was trying to be pushed many decades ago, but it was squelched out and the majority did not want it. Now the tide has turned, the common sense logic is gone and the numbers in favor of a chaotic and unstable time is here.

Gotta say, Reagan had a look and manner (acting?) of speaking that was perfect for a President, even when he was older.

[fredhutch]

I miss Reagan, but I miss Barry Goldwater even more...

[billfish]

Jun 2, 2022 18:00:39 GMT fredhutch said:

I miss Reagan, but I miss Barry Goldwater even more...

Goldwater was a man light years ahead of his time

[tommyhelms]

I never went to college, but I've read thousands of books at the library over the years. This was one of the early political books that had a major impact on my thinking

[mr potatohead]

Jun 6, 2022 2:28:55 GMT tommyhelms said:

I never went to college, but I've read thousands of books at the library over the years. This was one of the early political books that had a major impact on my thinking

According to THIS Washington Times article, Nov 17, 2014, it transformed the thinking of many.
What do you think Tommy?

Barry Goldwater’s little 115-page book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” was published in 1960, long before running for president had occurred to the senator from Arizona, or much of anybody else. But Goldwater was already the undisputed champion of conservative ideas and policies in the Senate, and had traveled thousands of miles making speeches, campaigning for aspiring congressmen and senators, and raising money for the Republican cause. In the process he had developed an understandable and clear position on conservatism and a degree of popularity among right-wing Americans. He also knew that the literature available to conservatives lacked a concise and unadulterated statement of conservative principles.

Ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell — a senior editor at National Review, William F. Buckley Jr.’s brother-in-law and co-author of “McCarthy and His Enemies” (1954) — it took the ideas that were, at the time, mostly discussed only by a few conservative intellectuals and presented them in a way that made them accessible to a more popular audience and laid out what conservatives believed and what their plan of action should be.
Bozell had been writing speeches for Goldwater, had a good grasp of the issues that Goldwater believed in, and was a first-class writer and thinker. He and Buckley had been debate partners and the U.S. debate champions at Yale, and if anybody in the nascent conservative movement knew how to frame an argument, it was Bozell. It is unclear whether the book was Goldwater’s idea or Bozell’s, but when Bozell finished the manuscript and presented it to Goldwater, it is said that Barry thumbed through it for 10 minutes or so, handed it back and told Bozell to go with it. .................

............... Typical was the impact it had on Paul Laxalt who, in 1960, was practicing law in Carson City, Nevada. “One of my clients sent me a copy of ‘Conscience of a Conservative,’” said Mr. Laxalt, “and, God, I found it absolutely fabulous. There wasn’t anything around like that. And I just feasted on it.”

Mr. Laxalt told me the distribution of the book “to young people like myself, a young lawyer who had run for office one time before was significant as hell. It was our bible.” Mr. Laxalt, who was elected lieutenant governor of Nevada in 1962, was the first elected official to endorse Goldwater. 

Regnery Publishing released a 33-year anniversary edition in 1990 with a new introduction by Pat Buchanan. “Into that winter of our discontent came this slim book ,” wrote Mr. Buchanan. “[It] was our new testament; it contained the core beliefs of our political faith, it told us why we had failed, what we must do. We read it, memorized it, and quoted it. To reread it today is to recall the magic the charismatic man from the desert had for so many thousands in that Silent Generation.”
“The Conscience of a Conservative” remains in print 54 years later, and is as timely as it was in 1990 and 1960. Over the years, it changed a generation, changed the conservative movement and changed American politics forever.

[tommyhelms]

I would agree, Spudsy… back then you only had this and Ayn Rand for freedom lovers to read

[fredhutch]

I also recommend "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson.