He'll learn you HOW TO BE A HIPSTER! I did a little bit of a Thought Experiment a week or two ago. For the sake of this here positationing, I looked into a future where Hillary Clinton's presidency was a historic success of peace and prosperity. (Just go with it. We're thinkering.) How much of the credit, I wondered, would go to Bill Clinton instead of his dumb wife, the "president"? I figured the answer was "pretty much all of it."
I really think this is partly why the country continues to move left. The die-hard racists, homophobes and sundry other assholes all feel emboldened to share their thoughts, and the majority, being decent human beings, naturally move away. I'm sure there will be times when I can't agree with this, but I want the idiots and the monsters to be in the open and clearly articulating what they think about everything. It's the best PR against them.
Glass-Steagall wasn't repealed till '99. It ought to have been rewritten and strengthened, but changes in the financial system had made the '36 statute unworkable before Clinton was elected.
Look, I am the last New Dealer; I think we should go back to the New Deal and run it over without the racist Southern Democrats this time; but we're not gonna do that. At least, though we could let time's arrow flow forward in our critiques.
Factories were moving jobs to low wage sections long before NAFTA. I was editorializing about that in the Des Moines Business Record in '84.
There was a widespread belief around that time that 60 years of stable financial markets demonstrated that the monied class really had learned from its horrible mistakes.
I did not share that belief, although it did have a certain specious appeal: If the people controlling economic practices are not capable of learning, what hope is there?
Truth is, unsupervised markets fail. There is a great reluctance to accept that, so we will continue to have crashes. It is too ad B. Clinton shared te common belief, but unsurprising inasmuch as he is a centris and conformist.
Not true. The institutions that drove the failure would not have been regulated by G-S. Bear, Countrywide, Lehman, AIG, the rating agencies were not banks.
The only player that would have been regulated under G-S was WaMu, and while it was a nasty piece of work it wasn't going to crash the system by itself
You are correct; someone flagged it and since their comment history was hidden, I assumed it was a wingnut. They contacted me and are unbanned & back in the good graces of the comentariat
I think Hillz will do more for the country than Barry and Bill put together. I hope she wins by a landslide so she does not have to compromise. She's all about policy and process and hopefully leave the GOP in the dust wondering wtf happened.
...and Wall Street. Don't forget, she's the ONLY CANDIDATE EVAH who's taken money from Wall Street. (What does that even mean, any way - "Wall Street"? Is there some sort of consortium of ALL the companies in New York, sitting in smoky back rooms deciding who will GET THE MONEYS OMG? It's the laziest sort of meme-thinking, I can't even.)
All of the upfists from all of the universes for Barbara Jordan!!!
Or they could fuck already and get it over with.
I really think this is partly why the country continues to move left. The die-hard racists, homophobes and sundry other assholes all feel emboldened to share their thoughts, and the majority, being decent human beings, naturally move away. I'm sure there will be times when I can't agree with this, but I want the idiots and the monsters to be in the open and clearly articulating what they think about everything. It's the best PR against them.
"A human being wrote this. Another, higher-ranking human being looked at it and said, 'Yeah, let's run with that.' "I paraphrase a bit.
Here come the Wonks,Like a bat outta hell,Someone gets in our way,Someone don't feel so well!
Shoulda elected Barbara Jordan and got through all that at one time
Glass-Steagall wasn't repealed till '99. It ought to have been rewritten and strengthened, but changes in the financial system had made the '36 statute unworkable before Clinton was elected.
Look, I am the last New Dealer; I think we should go back to the New Deal and run it over without the racist Southern Democrats this time; but we're not gonna do that. At least, though we could let time's arrow flow forward in our critiques.
Factories were moving jobs to low wage sections long before NAFTA. I was editorializing about that in the Des Moines Business Record in '84.
Sheesh.
There was a widespread belief around that time that 60 years of stable financial markets demonstrated that the monied class really had learned from its horrible mistakes.
I did not share that belief, although it did have a certain specious appeal: If the people controlling economic practices are not capable of learning, what hope is there?
Truth is, unsupervised markets fail. There is a great reluctance to accept that, so we will continue to have crashes. It is too ad B. Clinton shared te common belief, but unsurprising inasmuch as he is a centris and conformist.
But to blame him for the zeitgeist is silly
Not true. The institutions that drove the failure would not have been regulated by G-S. Bear, Countrywide, Lehman, AIG, the rating agencies were not banks.
The only player that would have been regulated under G-S was WaMu, and while it was a nasty piece of work it wasn't going to crash the system by itself
You are correct; someone flagged it and since their comment history was hidden, I assumed it was a wingnut. They contacted me and are unbanned & back in the good graces of the comentariat
Back to your xbox, Bernie Bro. The grownups are about to take over.
Amen, sister.
I think Hillz will do more for the country than Barry and Bill put together. I hope she wins by a landslide so she does not have to compromise. She's all about policy and process and hopefully leave the GOP in the dust wondering wtf happened.
...and Wall Street. Don't forget, she's the ONLY CANDIDATE EVAH who's taken money from Wall Street. (What does that even mean, any way - "Wall Street"? Is there some sort of consortium of ALL the companies in New York, sitting in smoky back rooms deciding who will GET THE MONEYS OMG? It's the laziest sort of meme-thinking, I can't even.)
Attack by proxy 54% (and growing) of the electorate ? Oh yeah that'll work just fine. For a Hlllz Second Term!
Lincoln.