God bless a good man
Jimmy Carter has died
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> He sure seemed like a legitimately good man. And I think this is where politics around the world has gone wrong. A decade or two ago I would genuinely have been happy for the leader of a country, or mayor or whatever elected leader to date my sister or to watch my kids or something like that. These days it feels like the most narcissistic a-holes get voted in. I wouldn't trust these people with my dog, and basicall…
Yesterday I watched an episode of a tv-show here in Norway ("A-laget") where people with severe autism, downs and similar interviews famous people. This episode was them interviewing our prime minister. And he was honestly so sweet, even when they asked questions with no filters. He also visited a ski-podcast I listen to, and there as well he came across as a very likeable guy. I don't vote for him, but I honestly th…
Good to hear there are more world leaders that are genuinely good people.
I hope we can make it "normal" again around the world.
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And Reagan also had the Iran Contra controversy which was selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. When asked in a deposition about what he knew, Reagan famously said, "I don't remember". It may have been a legal tactic to avoid culpability, but it could also have been real and highlighted the man's cognitive decline. Or worse, his advisors knew about the cognitive decline, kept information from him, an…
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Terrible. He should have resigned, but was too proud to.
But also, you know, this isn't a left/right issue. It's mostly one of power.
There's a republican member of congress right now that's in a retirement home and hasn't been in congress since July.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/kay-granger-c...
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What’s your reasoning there? The Soviet economy wasn’t especially dependent on the American presidency.
By announcing a complete vaporware known as SDI, while making a good impression it was very real, Reagan hinted at the possibility of changing the balance of power squarely to the American favor. The Soviets could not afford losing that balance, and they bought the Star Wars story -- hook, line and sinker -- so they went down the path of developing a similar system, and by doing so diverted even more money from the welfare of their citizens into the military-industrial complex. The citizens didn't like what was being left for them, so the system soon collapsed.
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#125One could argue he set the stage for the 1980s economic boom by making short term sacrifices that cost him re-election. It was his administration that did market-oriented deregulation around airlines and trucking industries (meaning you didn't need to have a licence to ship goods across state lines and go through monopoly trucking companies to get your goods to market) as well as appointed Paul Volcker as Fed chair w…
For these reasons, Jimmy Carter is my third-favorite president of the 20th century, behind my favorite, Calvin Coolidge, and my second-favorite, Dwight Eisenhower. I am a very big fan of Paul Volcker and I’m glad Jimmy Carter nominated him as chair of the Fed. I wish Reagan kept Volcker as chair during Reagan’s second term.
FDR doesn't make the cut?
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Look at U.S. factories now vs the 1980s - way fewer workers but making more stuff. Yeah, companies moved jobs overseas, but they also went big on automation to boost efficiency. That's a huge reason factory jobs disappeared. As for COVID origins, let's not perpetuate unproven theories.
Nothing unproven about covid coming out of wuhan lab House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-conclude... Two-thirds of Americans believe that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab in China https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/45389-americans-b... also, Harvard Business Review agreed that "some U.S. regions lost manufacturing jobs a…
FTA: "Two-year probe led by Republicans faults agencies for pandemic response, as Democrats on panel challenge final report’s findings on SARS-CoV-2’s origin"
Yeah, the lying-ass republicans repeating the same bullshit Russian-made talking points, meanwhile the Democrats who aren't on the dole disagree.
What gullible Americans "believe" on some random poll site doesn't matter. Belief in something doesn't make it true.
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After Ted Kennedy killed a woman[1], he never should've tried to run for president. And I say that as a Cape Cod native. When he finally died in 2009 he was literally replaced in the Senate by a Republican, throwing the Democrats into chaos. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident
That replacement didn't last long. The Democrats had an absolutely historic filibuster-proof majority. It's a bit odd that blue Massachusetts would choose a Republican, even a relatively moderate one, to replace Kennedy, but for the Senate as a whole it was something of a reversion to the mean. He did not win re-election, and was replaced by Elizabeth Warren. It did derail the Democratic agenda, but mostly because Re…
The ACA was a huge change. People generally know about the parts about mandates et al.
The provisions for moving beyond paper was one of the biggest, and most relevant to people here. Examples are the use of electronic records, the incentives to actually use them (both for patents and for metrics), etc.
Due to the market power of Medicare, it also changed payments from per procedure to per outcome.
Many of these changes were quite deep. I would not use trivial to describe it.
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Terrible. He should have resigned, but was too proud to. But also, you know, this isn't a left/right issue. It's mostly one of power. There's a republican member of congress right now that's in a retirement home and hasn't been in congress since July. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/kay-granger-c...
Politicians should realize that staying in too long will harm their own party.
RBG got replaced with a conservative, Biden sank the Democratic ticket, Kay Granger hasn't been present to vote with her fellow Republicans, ...
This should absolutely be a bipartisan issue.