If Biden gets the nomination we will see a repeat of the 2004 election: deeply unpopular incumbent Republican president going up against a Democratic candidate who is so boring that nobody turns out to vote for him.
I don’t know about boring. Icky? Sure. Senile? You bet. But boring? Nah. I watch Biden with a sort of horrified fascination. Is he gonna smell some more little girl hair? Is he going to start babbling incoherently again? It’s a shitshow. If it’s Biden v Trump just wake me up in four years. Here’s a prediction for all that remain. Trump will crash the stock market at least 4 more times — if we ever get out of this one and don’t die from some evolving super virus he has no hope of understanding. The cure costs $100,000 a month for the rest of your life. Insurance companies are not obligated to cover it because it’s really just a flu shot. The stock market crashes again. Pence is replaced by Ivanka who becomes the first woman president when trump is finally removed from office. He is then arrested and extradited to New York. Biden will probably select Hillary as his VP, scuttling any chances of a victory anyways. But if he wins he’ll do dumb stuff like make a speech muddling the “Tear down that wall!” quote. Meanwhile, Hillary mandates forced abortions for all underage pregnancies and sends millions of refugees to flyover states. The influx of immigrants to these states changes the face of the electoral college forever. The coronavirus cure is distributed via municipal water supply. Hillary becomes the first woman president when Biden is found hanging in the Oval Office. It is ruled a suicide. Bernie would immediately release millions of prisoners and force the legalization of marijuana, then mushrooms, and finally LSD — all in an attempt to revive the economy. The stock market crashes and burns. This ushers in a mix of awesome European socialism for the homeless and terrible Soviet style gulags for all known CEOs. Nobody works. Economy crashes again. All the billionaires leave, making Ayn Rand a prophet. The cure is free but never distributed. Now everyone joins the army. But Bernie won’t go to war. And we are all drug addicts by this time anyways so we’d probably lose. He never names a VP making Pelosi the first woman president after he has another heart attack and dies.
Trump looks poised to be an even bigger socialist than Bernie. His solution to this crisis is just to send everyone checks.
It’s sound business strategy, really. Got a problem you don’t understand? Throw money at it till it goes away. Sadly, McConnell will GOP it up for everyone.
I'm pretty sure Yang and Gabbard were talking about the Universal Basic Income $1000/ month plan last week. It seems like the corporate Democrats like Kamala Harris are proposing half that amount or less. Corporate Democrats are suddenly the most fiscally conservative when there is a worldwide pandemic? That is undoubtedly the path to victory in the presidential election...
In many, many situations I'd agree, but I think this money is very likely to be spent on necessities by most people and also obviously go right back into the economy. I don't see the typical Average Joe with a family hiding this cash in a basement in a box or sending it to secret offshore accounts. Most of it would probably go to food and supplies right away assuming you can find them in a store or online currently.
When they do these direct checks, it's not to help families, but to get poor people spending again. There needs to be a household income cap because people with higher salaries might just pocket it which won't be good. Our entire way of life is dependent on poor people buying junk they don't need with money they don't have.
But where do people spend the money? Not travel, not cars, not restaurants or mom and pop businesses. Call me a skeptic, but I don't see this doing too much to stimulate the economy. It will help provide food and rent to those that need it for a month or two, but those that don't need it will probably pocket it. If I was supreme overlord, I'd try to get the money to the 20% of people who need it now and then stimulate the economy later when people can actually leave the house.
I’m my lifetime I recall this happening twice. After 9/11/2001 and again around 2007-2008. Did not work both times. I expect this will be no different. The ongoing QE buybacks from the fed will help though.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...zona-coronavirus-chloroquine-death/index.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas...-willing-to-die-to-save-economy-for-grandkids I’m sure we’ve all seen these by now. Trump really is the troller in chief. Maybe the greatest of all trolls. Look, I’ve talked a lot of trash online and elsewhere, but I don’t think mizzle ever had an actual death cult following him around strangling themselves with wiimote cords. Of course, I’m sure the generation that dodged the Vietnam war, sold off the American dream for a gallon of gas, and created a spinning continent of garbage in the pacific will absolutely start sacrificing now for future generations.
As far as public perception, it's a no win scenario. If the curve is successfully flattened, it will look like we overreacted. If the curve is not flattened, it will seem like we didn't do enough. It's like deciding if people should evacuate for hurricanes.
For months I’ve been hearing how crazy Bernie Sanders was. His policies are crazy. We can’t afford any of the things he says. Then like a month later the government prints $4.3 trillion out of thin air. Lol.
We could easily afford all of it if the political will was there. If we can make trillions appear out of thin air we can have a public option for healthcare and make college free or super cheap.
Bernie was the last chance this country had for real change. If Biden wins he'll be another status quo president. I didn't agree with all of Bernie's ideas, but change for the people, rather than wall street, would have been fun to watch. Still, Biden is better that the alternative.
He's not the last chance. Just the last chance for right now. Look at how progressive the millenial gen politicians are like Beto, Mayor Pete, AOC, Tulsi Gabbard. That's the future. In a decade someone like that could be president. Bernie’s ideas are only radical among baby boomers. They’re mainstream with the younger generations. The boomers won’t be around forever.
You know, there’s an idea I’ve been kicking around in my head for a day or two... Trump is running this country based on The Office television show. The American one not the British one. Currently, I have two pieces of supporting evidence: Pam and Jim’s wedding: Nana rants about the promiscuity of modern women and says something like “This country used to be great”. Kevin why use lot words when few words: When Jim asks Kevin if he is saying sea world or see world, Kevin emphasizes “Chy Na” when clarifying. Trump is, at times, channeling different characters of the show. He throws tantrums like Micheal, demands authority like Dwight, bumbles around like Creed, grabs pussy like Packer, claims Jesus like Angela... nobody knows what he’s talking about like Robert California or Ryan, sleeps around like Meredith, is fat and slovenly like Kevin, bald like Kevin, doesn’t really work like Jim, and has boobs like Kevin. I was gonna say Pam’s Pam-pams but cmon. Those are surely delightful. Hopefully he doesn’t get as many seasons.