So many “these words ring true today” references. Proving that people are just as dumb now as they’ve always been.
I mean, Russian or China is responsible. Leaning toward Russia, because China now has those surface to ship missiles operational and thus has the sea power to make the Nine-Dash Line a thing in the South China Sea. If only there was a trade partnership of countries interested in holding back China's maritime ambitions in the Pacific trading routes consisting of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. Call it a Trans Pacific Partnership, if you will. But Trump spent the last four years giving billions to soy bean farmers cause China stopped buying them, in a trade war he lost. China was the most powerful and wealthy "country" on earth for most of the last 5000 years. You think they just forgot?
This is what I have been saying for a while, the US is probably the highest taxed country in the world, we just pay our taxes to private companies and call those taxes something else.
I sense some of my interpretations might be off, someone tell me it's not as bad as I'm piecing it together.. Pelosi comes out yesterday and all but says we were playing politics with people's lives via the stimulus negotiations. Specifically not passing the "half a loaf" bill that basically had little to no chance of getting through the senate. Which would have been a gift to every senate democratic candidate to run on And instead of distancing themselves from pelosi via a new speaker they've given senate Republicans more ammo for obstruction which will lead to a complete electoral wash in 2022/24 if GA doesnt go blue : killmenancy :
Ya in first class seating. But this one really hits. She's going to dip out with her party getting decimated and laugh to the bank
I don’t know what you mean by “half a loaf” bill but the house passed multiple stimulus packages this year only for them to be used to soak up turtle piss.
Oct. 1: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore into the White House's $1.6 trillion stimulus package on Thursday, saying it wouldn't do enough to address the twin economic and public-health crises stemming from the pandemic. "This isn't half a loaf. What they're offering is the heel of the loaf," Pelosi said
And the kicker, we then let those private companies not pay taxes to the government because “we” write beneficial tax loopholes which only apply to them.
Yes, I’m aware or how it works, but I’m just talking about how much service a country’s government provides its citizens. Americans have to spend a lot to get the same type of service that other industrialized countries already provide their citizens.
like I’ve been saying those in power like the system that keeps them in power and rich. The difference is the democrats pretend to care about people whereas the republicans don’t even pretend.
Nah, did exact what the republicans wanted. Funneled money to their donors and continued to widen the wealth gap
I understand that the floor for Republican depravity is the core of the Earth but I'd be lying if I said their commitment to corruption in the face of an every 100 years global pandemic didn't surprise me a little.
Sick fuck. Put me on that dad’s jury. He cutoff his head and shit down his neck? How can I be sure it wasn’t in self defense?
Joe Manchin claims he's "fiscally responsible and socially compassionate" and that's what the true democrats are... Not the party of giving everything away for free with not accountability. Using a mantra other than this is why the GOP has control and not Dems
I was listening to an interview with the guy who made that new Reagan show and he said Ron and Nancy were essentially doing this same thing, selling people on an idealized, whitewashed version of America from the era of movies he made. He wouldn’t distinguish whether or not Reagan was capable of knowing if that was real or not.
This Atlantic article was linked in a tweet reply https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/ Spoiler: Reagan/Nixon IDEAS Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations. JULY 30, 2019 Tim Naftali Clinical associate professor of history at NYU The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States. “Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan said. “Yeah,” Nixon interjected. Reagan forged ahead with his complaint: “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Nixon gave a huge laugh. The past month has brought presidential racism back into the headlines. This October 1971 exchange between current and future presidents is a reminder that other presidents have subscribed to the racist belief that Africans or African Americans are somehow inferior. The most novel aspect of President Donald Trump’s racist gibes isn’t that he said them, but that he said them in public. The exchange was taped by Nixon, and then later became the responsibility of the Nixon Presidential Library, which I directed from 2007 to 2011. When the National Archives originally released the tape of this conversation, in 2000, the racist portion was apparently withheld to protect Reagan’s privacy. A court order stipulated that the tapes be reviewed chronologically; the chronological review was completed in 2013. Not until 2017 or 2018 did the National Archives begin a general rereview of the earliest Nixon tapes. Reagan’s death, in 2004, eliminated the privacy concerns. Last year, as a researcher, I requested that the conversations involving Ronald Reagan be rereviewed, and two weeks ago, the National Archives released complete versions of the October 1971 conversations involving Reagan online. When the UN took its vote to seat a delegation from Beijing instead of from Taiwan in 1971, members of the Tanzanian delegation started dancing in the General Assembly. Reagan, a devoted defender of Taiwan, was incensed, and tried to reach Nixon the night of the vote. Reagan despised the United Nations, which he described as a “kangaroo court” filled with “bums,” and he wanted the U.S. to withdraw from full participation immediately. Nixon was asleep when Reagan called, so they spoke the next morning. Reagan’s slur touched an already raw nerve. Earlier that day, Nixon had called his deputy national security adviser, Al Haig, to cancel any future meetings with any African leader who had not voted with the United States on Taiwan, even if they had already been scheduled. “Don’t even submit to me the problem that it’s difficult to turn it off since we have already accepted it,” Nixon exclaimed. “Just turn it off, on the ground that I will be out of town.” Nixon’s anger at the UN delegations from African nations for the loss was misplaced. His own State Department blamed factors other than African voting, including maneuvering by the British and French behind the scenes, for the loss. But Nixon would have none of it. The Africans were to blame. Had the story stopped there, it would have been bad enough. Racist venting is still racist. But what happened next showed the dynamic power of racism when it finds enablers. Nixon used Reagan’s call as an excuse to adapt his language to make the same point to others. Right after hanging up with Reagan, Nixon sought out Secretary of State William Rogers. Even though Reagan had called Nixon to press him to withdraw from the United Nations, in Nixon’s telling, Reagan’s complaints about Africans became the primary purpose of the call. “As you can imagine,” Nixon confided in Rogers, “there’s strong feeling that we just shouldn’t, as [Reagan] said, he saw these, as he said, he saw these—” Nixon stammered, choosing his words carefully—“these, uh, these cannibals on television last night, and he says, ‘Christ, they weren’t even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,’ and so forth and so on.” The president wanted his patrician secretary of state to understand that Reagan spoke for racist Americans, and they needed to be listened to. “You know, but that’s typical of a reaction, which is probably”—“That’s right,” Rogers interjected—“quite strong.” Nixon couldn’t stop retelling his version of what Reagan had said. Oddly unfocused, he spoke with Rogers again two hours later and repeated the story as if it would be new to the secretary. “Reagan called me last night,” Nixon said, “and I didn’t talk to him until this morning, but he is, of course, outraged. And I found out what outraged him, and I find this is typical of a lot of people: They saw it on television and, he said, ‘These cannibals jumping up and down and all that.’ And apparently it was a pretty grotesque picture.” Like Nixon, Rogers had not seen the televised images. But Rogers agreed: “Apparently, it was a terrible scene.” Nixon added, “And they cheered.” explained to a quiet Moynihan. Nixon believed in a hierarchy of races, with whites and Asians much higher up than people of African descent and Latinos. And he had convinced himself that it wasn’t racist to think black people, as a group, were inferior to whites, so long as he held them in paternalistic regard. “Within groups, there are geniuses,” Nixon said. “There are geniuses within black groups. There are more within Asian groups … This is knowledge that is better not to know.” Nixon’s analysis of African leadership reflected his prejudice toward America’s black citizens. This is, at least, what he told Moynihan. “Have in mind one fact: Did you realize there is not, of the 40 or 45—you’re at the United Nations—black countries that are represented there, not one has a president or a prime minister who is there as a result of a contested election such as we were insisting upon in Vietnam?” And, he continued, a little later in the conversation: “I’m not saying that blacks cannot govern; I am saying they have a hell of a time. Now, that must demonstrate something.” Fifty years later, the one fact that we should have in mind is that our nation’s chief executive assumed that the nonwhite citizens of the United States were somehow inferior. Nixon confided in Moynihan, who had been one of his house intellectuals, about the nature of his interest in research on African American intelligence: “The reason I have to know it is that as I go for programs, I must know that they have basic weaknesses.” TIM NAFTALI is a clinical associate professor of history at NYU. He was the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.