winsor

Polls work.

"Rather like roads, bridges, dams, parks. . . ." WTF?

Her non-existent of economics, free market or otherwise, makes her ill suited to handle the overleveraged finances of state she will inherit. The best case is a Japan style implosion, the worst is either Zimbabwe or Venezuela, all economies that were steered from abundance to something else for various reasons. Often one administration will sow the seeds of disaster and the next is left holding the bag, which is simply the nature of things. Thus, the question comes down to when and how bad. If we decouple the dollar from oil, the tendency will be for the currency to gravitate to its fundamental inherent value, which is zero. This scenario is the Weimar Republic on steroids, whereby major corporations survived but people died of starvation. When she relies on Marxist commentary, it does not bode well. Her opponent is a stable idiot, but at least he has experience with overleveraged organizations and navigating bankruptcy (he stiffs people right and left at the best of times). I can give examples of economies where people were voted in promising "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs!," but would have to extrapolate greatly to account for scale and position. I'm also sure the odd Black Swan will be a factor.

Good: Trump being beaten. Better: Trump being beaten by someone competent. Best: Trump being beaten by someone competent who's a decent human being. Focusing on race and sex is racist and sexist by definition.

I agree that gridlock is the ideal outcome. As I said before, having Harris allow the Republicans to detox from Trump is a good thing, but from a management standpoint she is sure to fuck up everything she touches.

I don't dispute that he is entirely odious. My issue is with results. If the political and economic damage inflicted by either was identical, Harris would be greatly preferable. Unfortunately, the Gov't debt/GDP ratio is beyond the tipping point and all Harris has to offer is feasting on the seed corn. I assure you that I despise Trump. There is, however, the he remote possibility that his self serving nature will help to mitigate the inevitable disaster that is unfolding. We're screwed either way, but with Harris it's 100%.

Since the US Gov't is in debt to the tune of a third of a million dollars per taxpayer, we need a different kind of leader going forward. Business as usual is simply not an option. Venezuela had Hugo Chavez (peace be upon him) and we have Harris to transform our economy. We have not seen such social equality since the '30s, which will henceforth be known as they 'Pretty Good Depression.' Vote Democrat for change!

Oh, I don't know. It seems the odd Empire had an assessment of these things.

I think he meant a Student T test, but I assume you knew that.

Juanita Broaddrick sure as hell wasn't.

Or Clinton supporters. Trump apparently copped a pelvic feel while Bill went for full penetration with a happy ending and no birth control. They're both scumbags.

You appear to expect me to credit you with a basic level of comprehension. So far I don't. Note: spell check doesn't like "blithering."

You confuse inability for unwillingness. You expect me to explain the obvious to you, for reasons unknown. Perhaps you expect me to validate your self esteem. To accuse me of being enthralled with our former president is as asinine as suggesting that race or gender has anything to do with my contempt for the vice president.

Look, if you think she's anything other than a bothering idiot, why would I disabuse you of the notion? If she seems intelligent to you, then, well...

I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, Harris makes him look absolutely brilliant by comparison.

I'm sick of polical jokes. They keep getting elected.

I remained an atheist, but think I understand why someone might want the Flying Spaghetti Monster on their side.

Nice bit of projection.

Go through a gale or better in blue water and get back to me.

Unfortunately, some fears are justified. The superstitions of sailors and soldiers, for example, are mechanisms to address realities that are, and should be, terrifying.

Boy, you couldn't have it more backwards on purpose. Are you intentionally being obtuse?

The 'if' upon which you have fixated is a basis for performing a material balance around the US. Standard practice in some engineering disciplines. The novelist part is to put off getting hung up on one black swan or another. The reason the greenback has done well is Bretton Woods/Petro dollar, so far so good. Bernie Madoff asked, ask he was led away, 'why are you mad at me? The US Government is a Ponzi scheme.' My point is that the infinite wellspring of pretend currency cannot support us indefinitely. We require more and more, and the question is not if but when and how bad. No bubble can inflate indefinitely, so it doesn't take a lot of insight to note that this bubble is guaranteed to pop. BSBD, Winsor

I support fiscal conservative and social liberal policies. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my business, and likely constitutes To Much Information. I really didn't give a rat's ass when one of our flight attendants opted for sex-change surgery, but I took exception to having to pay for it. I also consider it insanity to support sex-changes for children. Once you're 18 and on your own? Knock yourself out. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society did more damage to Black society than anything the KKK could come up with. With the Best of Intentions, policies were put in place that enforced Victimhood in the Black community and deconstructed its family structure. If you look at poverty as a function of being an unwed mother, the correlation is color blind. Republicans focus on issues that puzzle me. Having a first trimester abortion seems infinitely preferable to a life of poverty and a child without a father. Certainly people have come from broken homes and become model citizens, but that really isn't the way to bet. Anyway, my point is not that it is immaterial which party you support, it is that the character of the the toxicity is different between them. They both suck, the only difference is which issue is a deal breaker when it comes time to vote. BSBD, Winsor

The country's in debt to the tune of a third of a million dollars per taxpayer, all government functions are paid for with further debt and there is no plan for digging out of the hole in which we are. I guess ignorance is bliss against realities as nasty as these.

A couple that come to mind are Germany and Yugoslavia. In both countries the currency became wallpaper. I don't believe anything, and one of the confounding factors is the Bretton Woods accords, making the US Dollar the basis for global monetary systems, followed by the emergence of the Petro dollar after Dick Nixon took us off the gold standard. If, for reasons any good novelist could generate, the US Dollar was no longer accepted outside the US, things could get interesting. If you imagine an economic quarantine, where zero ships were coming and going from our ports or oil terminals, the results would not be hard to enumerate. We're producing a fair amount of petroleum now, but we're still using more than we produce, last time I checked. We're apparently a net importer of food. Unless a manufacturer has started up,we don't make flat screen displays. Shoes? Clothing? Shoe factories in New England have almost all been repurposed and the 'Garment District' in New York is anything but. I knew Germans who were living the life of Reilly in 1922 but went on an involuntary diet within a year. Some 650,000 Germans reportedly died from starvation or starvation related illness thereafter. Due to laws in place Jews were spared to some extent, but even donating half of their income to soup kitchens and other relief didn't do much, and people at the brink of starvation developed seething hatred for people who looked fat and happy while they were dying. When things got better, there was still a feral drive for payback, and the results are still with us. Where are we in this scenario? I think we have too much in common with high rollers with limitless markers. We are convinced that we're winners because the house keeps bringing us drinks and slinky women keep rubbing up against us, but a quick running of the numbers says that we can never break even. My guess is that you're pretty bright, and it concerns me that all of this isn't obvious to you. BSBD, Winsor