Aaaaahahahaha-ha-ha-aaaaaahahahahaha!
That's a good one, Bob. We hate fake news, so we want the fake news president who's told more lies in his official capacity in 3.6 years than all presidents combined.
Another red tsunami just like 2018? I'll be on the beach waiting.

Come on Bobby, even you are better than that twaddle.

Edit:
32.9% drop in GDP is a great job to you, but Obama's constant positive and higher than Trump's numbers were proof he's incompetent.
180000 dead Americans and rising faster all the time with no end in sight is a great job to you, but two dead by Ebola (a more deadly and more infectious disease btw) with zero infections in America is a horrific failure Obama should have quit over.
A conservatively estimated 30000000 jobs lost, 1/2 permanently (some estimates say over 50000000) is a great job to you.
Failed trade talks and wars that have cost us hundreds of BILLIONS in losses is a great job to you, and Obama's successful trade deals and no trade wars made him a failure.
Untold trillions wasted thanks to a disastrous pandemic response, much stolen thanks to zero oversight is a great job, but the federal loans Obama offered to halt the Republican recession were socialism because he took collateral for the money and didn't just hand it out for nothing.
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Odd how America does so much better when you say we are failing, and infinitely worse when you say we are doing a great job....almost like you're rooting for our failure....comrade.

ECB Research Bulletin:

In an economy with its own fiat currency, the monetary authority and the fiscal authority can ensure that public debt denominated in the national fiat currency is non-defaultable, i.e. maturing government bonds are convertible into currency at par. With this arrangement in place, fiscal policy can focus on business cycle stabilisation when monetary policy hits the lower bound constraint. However, the fiscal authorities of the euro area countries have given up the ability to issue non-defaultable debt. As a consequence, effective macroeconomic stabilisation has been difficult to achieve.

Translation:
- all members of the eurozone effectively use a foreign currency
- they can default, because they do not and cannot issue debt in their currency
- fiscal policy has thus been completely neutered

Ergo, national parliaments have a significantly smaller policy space compared to countries with their own currency. Our parliaments intentionally surrender power to unelected technocrats, even control of the national budget, which is the primary power available to any parliament anywhere.

"Sorry, lad. We cannot pay for healthcare/pension/infrastructure/education/wages/X, we have to maintain a balanced budget to appease the market." Yet it is still illegal to call for the guillotine...

Meanwhile, Japan doesn't give a fuck. The BoJ has been vacuuming up outstanding debt like there's no tomorrow. It currently holds in excess of 40% of all government debt, effectively canceling it. It's just book-keeping. The Treasury issues the debt, the CB buys the debt. Both are part of the consolidated government sector, ergo no debt. "Hyperinflation!", they scream. Can you hear them? Except Japan has been fighting deflation for two decades, with no end in sight.

Yet the inflation-hawks are still treated as persons of authority. Flat-earthers, the lot of 'em.

And my country wants the rest of Europe to sign on to the most moronic law in German history: the "Schuldenbremse", which makes running a deficit illegal at the constitutional level (except for undefined "emergencies"). They are either a) brainwashed, b) idiots, or c) straight up evil. And I'm not sure which one I prefer.

While I love it when developers have the courage and funding to do something bold and different artistically, I imagine I wouldn't feel better after playing that.

I get the appeal of more typical horror; being afraid is thrilling and can feel liberating when you know you're actually safe. But the feeling I get from this is not that it's scary but more along the lines of "wow, look at those suffering freaks suffer with no end in sight". It's like spending a few hours looking at the most disturbing pictures of birth defects and leprosy you can find, without the possible benefit of empathizing with a real experience that other people could have.

I'm not trying to denigrate people who like it, I'm just baffled. Can anyone explain the appeal to me?

When i first heard of Gravity, before release, it was hailed to be accurate and that the writers did tons of work to make sure it's realistic. But.. then comes the producers.. and once you start to manipulate the tiniest part to make it look more cool, that's a slippery slope with no end in sight..

If we're measuring the success of the bailouts by who got income gains, we're missing the big picture. The point of the bailouts wasn't to redistribute wealth. It wasn't to fix the economy long term. The point of the bailouts was to stop the bleeding, and fix a short term crisis.

I'm disappointed Obama hasn't done more to fix the economy long term. Yes, some wealth redistribution is necessary for the health of the economy. Criticize him for that, I have no problem with it.

Criticizing the bailouts via statistics of income gains broken down by economic class is ridiculous. It's like criticizing using water to put a house fire out because it didn't fix the termite problem. The bailouts were fantastically successful because we're sitting here looking at a excruciatingly slow recovering economy instead of staring at a second Great Depression with no end in sight.

>> ^EMPIRE:
oh... so the crash is an opportunity for assholes like this to make a buck.


What he says is that anyone can make money during a crash; and this is true. The problem is that when markets plummet, people see no end in sight. So they panic sell and then turn paper losses into real losses and further precipitate the downturn. I've seen it happen so many times it boggles my mind.

I think Warren Buffet said it best: people will buy anything on sale except for stocks.

You didn't read my post and you're setting me up as a straw man to argue against.

Obama's language in his executive orders that this is all about talk about respecting "international obligations, domestic laws, and humane treatment". So, I gather that means the only way rendition/abduction/arrest is going to be legit is if there's no reasonable government in place to do an extradition from like say a dude in Somalia plotting to blow up the French Club's trip to Paris. The language also specifies that it would be temporary confinement before due process and never to someplace where they could be tortured. The whole thing is ripe for nasty abuse but as I understand it they're trying to set up a legal framework that does not violate tenants of our society... it is a huge fucking legal mess but I don't see evidence that it's trying to do the stuff you're saying.
>> ^NordlichReiter:

>> ^alizarin:
Obama's renditions are different than Bush's in that :
Bush stuck people in Guantanamo for years with no end in sight or sent them to foreign countries to be tortured. Obama decried that.
Obama wants to maintain the ability to do renditions to places like Bagram only if it's
- for short periods of time (not endlessly imprisoning people without a trial)
- not putting them places where it's reasonable to expect they will be tortured
- not doing anything that's against domestic laws, international obligations, US policy, or humane treatment.
- plus he did effectively close Guantanamo imprisonment
- info
Still way too lacking in checks-and-balances protection from abuse for my tastes but you could make a good argument that he's not being hypocritical.

Utterly disgusting. Secret abductions? How does that not violate some tenant of our society? Due, fucking, process. How about some Equality Before the Law? Treat terrorists for what they are, criminals.

>> ^alizarin:

Obama's renditions are different than Bush's in that :
Bush stuck people in Guantanamo for years with no end in sight or sent them to foreign countries to be tortured. Obama decried that.
Obama wants to maintain the ability to do renditions to places like Bagram only if it's
- for short periods of time (not endlessly imprisoning people without a trial)
- not putting them places where it's reasonable to expect they will be tortured
- not doing anything that's against domestic laws, international obligations, US policy, or humane treatment.
- plus he did effectively close Guantanamo imprisonment
- info
Still way too lacking in checks-and-balances protection from abuse for my tastes but you could make a good argument that he's not being hypocritical.


Utterly disgusting. Secret abductions? How does that not violate some tenant of our society? Due, fucking, process. How about some Equality Before the Law? Treat terrorists for what they are, criminals.

Obama's renditions are different than Bush's in that :

* Bush stuck people in Guantanamo for years with no end in sight or sent them to foreign countries to be tortured. Obama decried that.

* Obama wants to maintain the ability to do renditions to places like Bagram only if it's
- for short periods of time (not endlessly imprisoning people without a trial)
- not putting them places where it's reasonable to expect they will be tortured
- not doing anything that's against domestic laws, international obligations, US policy, or humane treatment.
- plus he did effectively close Guantanamo imprisonment
- info

Still way too lacking in checks-and-balances protection from abuse for my tastes but you could make a good argument that he's not being hypocritical.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Gee, if Bush was yukking it up with 18% unemployment I bet the kiss-ass libmedia would be acting a little less obeisant.
 


Obama isnt the reason there is 18% unemployment right now. Get real. Obama came into office in the middle of an epic economic crisis, and has been doing damage control from day 1. Sure, perhaps he could have done more, or done it differently, but I very much doubt he, or anyone else, could have turned the ship around in a little over a year. The high unemployment rate is a result of DECADES of political neglect and economic mismanagement, One of Bush'es specialities, by the way.

Which brings us to the theme of presidents making inappropriate jokes, do you remember that little war that Bush started in '03, the one in Iraq? Yeah, of course you do, because 7 years later, theres still no end in sight. But do you remember if Bush ever told us why he had to start that war? Yup, thats right: Weapons of Mass Destruction, those very same WMD's Bush pretended not to find at this dinner a year later, after thousands of soldiers and civilians had been killed on his order to go find them. Now THAT is how you make a sick joke.

Yes, of course...being unemployed for months or years with no end in sight is just like losing your iPod.

Says the cocksucker who pulls 6 figures for blowing hot air out his ass...

Excellent! (Premtive vote). It's actually really great to listen to while I'm working because it's visual work (can't write to standup). I was planning on starting it over and listening to the first part again, but I'll listen to this one now!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
A bar with no end in sight. And just to make sure you get no work done: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dylan-Moran-Like-Totally-full-show

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
So. Funny! I listened to about a quarter of it yesterday at work, and left it open. When I got back today to finish it I was amazed that no one else had voted for it! I hope there was a bar at the show.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Thanks schmawy

I saw his latest show a couple of weeks ago and it was excellent. It's being released on dvd in a few weeks.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
*quality

A bar with no end in sight. And just to make sure you get no work done: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dylan-Moran-Like-Totally-full-show

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
So. Funny! I listened to about a quarter of it yesterday at work, and left it open. When I got back today to finish it I was amazed that no one else had voted for it! I hope there was a bar at the show.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Thanks schmawy

I saw his latest show a couple of weeks ago and it was excellent. It's being released on dvd in a few weeks.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
*quality

fantastic netrunner!
seen all except terror storm.
might i suggest a few more:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Orwell-Rolls-In-His-Grave
and
http://www.videosift.com/video/No-End-in-Sight
and
http://www.videosift.com/video/Peace-Propaganda-the-Promised-Land-1
and
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-1
and
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-War-On-Democracy-by-John-Pilger
and maybe a little arundhati roy to top it off
http://www.videosift.com/video/We-Featuring-the-Words-of-Arundhati-Roy
to name a few really excellent documentaries.

so you dismiss anything i say due to poor punctuation and my ability as a run-on-sentence king?

I see it as being no less of a violation of logic than your assumption that 'everything I read is biased' simply because you disagree with my perspective. If you do not desire to be treated with hasty assumptions, then I respectfully suggest that you do not make hasty assumptions about others. Rope-a-dope no jutsu... Sieko...

this situation is 100 yrs in the making with no end in sight. the amount of political BS we all have to sift through to get a modecum of truth is staggering.

I like my solution personally. First, relocate all the Jews and Palestinians on opposite sides of the planet. Second, declare all of Israel/Palestine an international museum and never let anyone live there again except for curators and archeologists. It’ll never happen, but that’s the only solution.  No one gets anything they want.