“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.” ——H. L. Mencken, The Bad Boy of Baltimore, 1926
It's temptinh to blame the plain people for voting against inflation when inflation has been licked. What was never addressed or recognized as the real problem is that their wages never caught up to the inflation that occurred in '21, '22, and, to a lesser extent, in '23.
Lawmakers express doubt over Trump plan to replace FBI’s Christopher Wray Wapo: President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist who has vowed to fire the agency’s leadership and dramatically reshape its mission, was met with bipartisan concern that his appointment could undermine the agency’s independence.
Republicans and Democrats alike argued that replacing Wray – who has held the job since 2017 – with Patel showcases Trump’s efforts to appoint close allies who espouse his views and have expressed support for his plans to take aim at the country’s justice system. -- nordy
And, I, for one, am glad he did. Because DT and his cronies would have tortured Hunter Biden otherwise! Seems to me it's a Christmas present to his whole family. Haven't they suffered enough?
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“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.”
ReplyDelete——H. L. Mencken, The Bad Boy of Baltimore, 1926
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It's temptinh to blame the plain people for voting against inflation when inflation has been licked. What was never addressed or recognized as the real problem is that their wages never caught up to the inflation that occurred in '21, '22, and, to a lesser extent, in '23.
ReplyDeleteYes, in our country money seems to defy gravity. It all floats upward. ~Susan
ReplyDeleteWater trickles down, money trickles up.
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Lawmakers express doubt over Trump plan to replace FBI’s Christopher Wray
ReplyDeleteWapo: President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist who has vowed to fire the agency’s leadership and dramatically reshape its mission, was met with bipartisan concern that his appointment could undermine the agency’s independence.
Republicans and Democrats alike argued that replacing Wray – who has held the job since 2017 – with Patel showcases Trump’s efforts to appoint close allies who espouse his views and have expressed support for his plans to take aim at the country’s justice system. -- nordy
President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, after vowing not to
ReplyDeleteAnd, I, for one, am glad he did. Because DT and his cronies would have tortured Hunter Biden otherwise! Seems to me it's a Christmas present to his whole family. Haven't they suffered enough?
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Michael Popok video: Mexico Humiliates Trump in Trade War on Wall Street [Click]
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