The fuck it was. That inflation was already brewing in the wings; Covid just hypercharged it.

This falls on the Fed for their inane 14 YEARS of open purse monetary policy, despite the economy requiring no stimulus. They (Fed again) finally threw the brakes when it was impossible to avert disaster.

Meanwhile, Jerome Powell and Janet Yellen happily spent their public appearances gaslighting the country that inflation was “transitory,” while the average American faced 40-YEAR inflation, on the backs of ongoing stagnant wages and a Federal minimum wage that hasn’t increased since 2009.

It was absolutely not Covid; it was willfully bungled monetary policy from a hack Wall St lawyer, non-economist.

This is not too far off from the reality in CA where voters essentially mandated prisoners to be used as wild-fire fighting fodder.

“I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together we’ve changed America for the better. Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count.”

Jesus fucking Christmas. Nothing will penetrate his perfect shield of fantasy.

I think the term you’re looking for is “controlled opposition.”

Bitch betta have my glucose!

I think perhaps you don’t know your fellow Christians as well as you think. These types have been Christianity since the 80s.

Tax. The. Churches.

In this economy? We have wheels at home.

Marc Blucas?

Specifically covalent bonds from hydrogen

chef’s kiss

This is the actual truth that people don’t want to face.

The DNC is too old and too set in its ways. They’re like a bad police force- unreformable.

The only way forward for the DNC is to visibly jettison their old guard and hope enough voters give them another shot- which is also a maybe at best. Losers lose.

Like this one?

"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump then you ain’t black,” Mr. Biden said.

Can’t argue against those points, though I still think that the figures listed lack the broader weight and gravitas required to successfully hold together a cult following. Trump succeeds because he’s also an old Boomer, and old Boomer white men like to imagine they are him- a weak man’s idea of a strong man.

As to the young men of America, we have essentially left them behind for 25-30 years as the cultural focus pivoted to ensuring that girls and young women have a seat at the table. So now young women are graduating college and going into advanced education and growing professional careers, but boys and young men have been handed the remnants of toxic masculinity, without any real, positive modeling. My father predicted this outcome in the late 90s and it’s been heartbreaking to watch it play out.

You might be right. I’ve also been watching this debacle for 30 years, so I can’t say you’re wrong, but I am hoping the high level marionettes die off (as so many are incredibly old) before the new crop of would-be-Confederates has a chance to reorganize.

Of course, the Dems would assuredly bungle that opportunity as well, since I have been watching this play out, act after act.

Sure, but understand basic Followership: a cultist will allow any action, any cut, so long as they believe it ingratiates them with their Leader.

No culthead, no cult following. The GOP reverts to a mob.

It’s a double-edged sword, even for the GOP. Trump’s followers are a cult, and cultists follow one person. So without Trump as the godhead, there’s no one with enough (ugh) charisma and panache to unify the GOP rabble.

The Federal government CAN just barge in. We specifically designed the structure that way. Federal supercedes state.