Call it Bidenomics. Call it luck, but the overall American economic situation is strong and getting stronger by a long shot. Not everyone feels this and certainly the media doesn't reflect this. Negativity drives clicks. I'm a Bernie socialist, but I think Biden has done an amazing job. Or call it luck.

#politics #economics

https://fortune.com/2023/07/22/is-bear-market-over-stocks-sp-500-recession-economy/

Good morning all, headed for the coffee pot. Until I could get conscious enough I browsed the other site There are still a few gems left over there on the bird site. #CoSoMusic #politics
Enjoy...

https://twitter.com/alfreds74427060/status/1667095853398470656

There's child labor, then there's child labor. Anyone have any issues with this? I don't.

#labor #ChildLabor #politics

Also this morning I re-read this from Thom Hartmann from March 20, detailed in his books: *The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.* and *The Hidden History of the War On Voting.* #politics

|Republican candidates for president committing treason to get into or stay in the White House has been the norm since 1968: it’s time to seriously discuss the five-decade-long problem we have with treasonous and illegitimate GOP presidents.|

https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-has-ignored-gop-crimes-to

Good Sunday morning my friends. This morning in my email I read this from Greg Olear. #History, Tolstoy on Bonaparte, and present day corollaries, #politics, chance and *Great Men*.

"Bullshit, says Tolstoy. Great men are a product of their times—that is, of the random events that collectively shape history—and nothing more."

https://open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/p/sunday-pages-war-and-peace

@dgndenver

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1943: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that requiring a person to say the pledge is a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

1954: "under God" is added at the request of President Eisenhower.

#politics
#grooming

Haven't finished this read yet. But this guy Buchanan makes Ayn Rand seem mild. Father of the libertarian right, and the plan the oligarchs have been following for decades.
#politics #oligarchy #libertarian
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

Thom Hartman is always on point and informative.

Is the Reason Some Wealthy People Oppose Democracy Deeper Than We Think?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/18/2147852/-Is-the-Reason-Some-Wealthy-People-Oppose-Democracy-Deeper-Than-We-Think

#politics #economics #oligarchy

From Thom Hartmann:

America has endured 42 years of Reaganomics and over 50 years of Nixon’s racist Southern Strategy. We lived through Trump’s threats, bombast, and treason.

And we’ve seen the results of FDR’s Social Security, JFK’s NASA and Civil Rights legislation, LBJ’s Medicare and Medicaid, and Obama’s expansion of healthcare with the ACA.

#politics

I don't think it's going to take long for this House session to become such a shit show to where "moderate" Republicans may finally decide to work with Democrats. Since anyone can call for a vote on the speaker at any time, there may be a way to form a coalition to replace this. But it's going to take some time.

#politics

Is there a single Republican that Democrats would be all right with as speaker that they could get behind, along with 5-6 Republicans?
#politics

NYT: House adjourned, Dems in Disarray.
#politics

Adjourned until noon

WTF?
I had popcorn ready!
#politics

I guess the clock doesn't matter.

#politics

They stay in session.
#politics

Well we've crossed the Rubicon. I cannot up-scroll the firehose fast enough to reach the top. Therefore I cannot reach the end of the coso universe.

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This woman, a friend of mine, a Democrat, just won a CO State House seat from a deep Red County in her second attempt. Meet CO State Rep - elect Stephanie Vigil from El Paso County. #politics

Use those #hashtags folks. There's a lot more #politics on here than there used to be.

Personally, I have a politics column, but some folks wish to be here without that, and filter it. Can't filter if it's not tagged.

Now I do have a possible solution - but of course it's more work for @th3j35t3r to code something. A prompt before posting that does a dropdown pick list of maybe the top 5 hashtags - so you are encouraged (but not prohibited) to tag before posting?

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Anyone have any insight into the Chilean constitutional reform they just voted against?

Seems it was too left-egalitarian. Equality for indigenous peoples and environment, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/chile-votes-overwhelmingly-to-reject-new-progressive-constitution

#politics #chile