BTW am I on the only crazy person here who watched the electoral college votes

Reminds me of the cold war. Everything the russians said about the US was true, everything the US said about the Russians was true, its their domestic propaganda that made no sense.

I like isms. Keeps people busy.

@Zuluzeit the show must go on. - Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky

Because Texas is going to drop some scathing words to SCOTUS justices. They got cajones, those Texans

I watched a little of it around work.

In January

when reading the ballots

there will be many objections

I am a massive fan of the Federal Reserve which stopped the decennial depressions our nation suffered as a result of going to a national mint system with no national bank to regulate exchanges concerning interest vs. inflation. That left an open hole which the SEC would plug later. Now, we have the problem of having been on a virtual currency economy since we went off the gold standard, and we have no way of determining the accurate value of the economic exchanges needed versus those that appear anyway in order to ensure the correct supply of units of currency.

Think of it like a building. You're talking about what goes on at the upper floors and I'm telling you the foundation is in quick sand.

Yes, I have low blood pressure and didn't want to have to call for an ambulence.

by design

> Because Texas is going to drop some scathing words to SCOTUS justices. They got cajones, those Texans
@ankiwo Texas needs to stay in its lane. They'd blow a gasket for anyone else doing far less than that stunt.

Whithers, food and medicine are currency in a starving nation, certainly not paper and not gold

Zuluzeit, they are gonna do what they are gonna do. They made it into a resolution

Yup. Those chickens will come home to roost

Wasnt Texas where Davy Crockett promised Santa Anna he would survive if he capitulated The Alamo?

Lol close enough

The Alamo is where PeeWee Herman lost his bicycle

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I wouldn't fuck with anyone promising the victor his life.

Doc inspired me to blow off work tomorrow and go gun shopping.

Inspired me a few days ago.

We're closer than we think... so the minutely dig was a little excessive. Our theories can coexist. None of that happens without the elimination of the top tax bracket - that domino starts the rest to fall. The only reason to get rid of it was so some could become obscenely wealthy - instead of just filthy rich. I think that the prosperity brought on by the Y2K driven infrastructure upgrades in the 90's showed what happens when corporations are forced to open the purse strings.

BTW - We should have been able to handle the pandemic much better economically - while still helping to keep the pandemic under control. Trump's fixation of the stock market prevented him from making the tough calls. If some companies needed to stay closed and some were allowed to stay open, he should have enacted anti-Pandemic profiteering laws (could have possibly invoke wartime powers for that) and used the excess profits from companies that were allowed to stay open to help pay for those that did not. There are so many things that could have been done in lieu of allowing so many small businesses to suffer. It's a disgrace.

Frankenstein AR horror story did it.

I challange you to beat me, Zulu

There was no design to it. Lincoln had no idea what the result of the Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 would be and no one else did either. The people invested in bonds (all at once) to save money, which was the only mechanism the politicians could imagine for expanding the money supply. Trusts would try to capture the soon to be unleashed increase in currency when the mass of bonds would come due by raising prices severely in their territories. Then people, unable to get that for which they saved would then reinvest in govt bonds. That resulted in the boom bust. No one foresaw this.

Hahaha I accept.

one beer

"we have no way of determining the accurate value of the economic exchanges" ... that part is by design in a fiat currency system

It was not a fixation on the stock market, it was a determination not to be the controlling fascist dictator the Left/Media has been calling him when he has been the exact opposite. That is why he delegated everything to the states, even when he didn't have to do so.

I wasn't very tired before. Thanks guys. Yawn. Laterz. ✌️ ✌️

The country needed leadership... and that doesn't mean dictatorship. He declined to rise to the occasion. Leaders don't cower because they are afraid of what some might think of them. That's a pathetic excuse.

It is not by design. It is because we cannot calculate the calcium cycle, helium cycle, etc. as they influence market forces which also involve the kinetic energy of capital dependent for release upon the transition of the kinetic energy of labor to dynamically applied force guided by entrepreneurial ability. We cannot by intent design something where we cannot comprehend the centillion elements involved in the process being used.

TaLoN132, this is why Texas is going to jab SCOTUS. Calling them cowards because they allegedly declined to take the case because they were worried about the riots

apparently a clerk heard them yelling through the wall through closed doors

that’s the story that was told at the Electoral College

You lost me with that one. If you're saying we can't account for all the factors and economics I would agree with you. In which case let's just let the market determine what money is.

SCOTUS should have shown some Scrotus (that's the Latin term for sack, I think). But I think they feared both sides. Had they accepted and immediately denied relief - as Thomas/Alito signaled, would that have been better?