also mexico

Better check those numbers again. There was one year were supposedly Clinton ran a surplus. One year. But even that didn't hold up after revisions.

looks like he was everywhere

```In Switzerland, Trotsky briefly worked within the Swiss Socialist Party, prompting it to adopt an internationalist resolution. He wrote a book opposing the war, The War and the International,[59] and the pro-war position taken by the European social democratic parties, primarily the German party. ```

Yes there were many revolutions in Russia before the one that stuck.

I know Lenin was living in France before things became convenient for him to coopt the movement that was already going.

Lucky Lenin. Opportunist.

Very much so.

He was waiting for the chaos and disorder.

For decades..

Douchebag. Trotsky was a mensch.

you should read up on the russian revolution

what they did to the royal family is sickening

I have.

What the royal family did to the people is also sickening.

Yeah... I think it may have been by term. I forgot where I read that. He did add $1.4T overall.

Yeah, they didn't know what to do with them until someone got hammered and made the call.

Funny how inane the actual executy part went down.

They didn't know what to do until they were afraid of the white army on their border if the white army got a hold of Nicholas.

Or any surviving kin.

Yup. Can't reinstall dead people.

the children did nothing

They didn't, but you have to understand this is Tsarist Russia.

also nicholas was far removed from the public

The children were potentially going to be accepted as the next rulers by the public.

he probably barely knew of any suffering of the people

@meglide That's why I have a disdain for accounting and finance. They can fudge numbers to look good or bad to serve whatever purpose they require.

Blows my mind any time they let them live. Napoleon got exiled, came back and just got another exile ride. I see a trend, guys. Maybe not a good idea.

Well to be fair to Clinton that one year he did get very close to balancing the budget. Accounting and finance figures out how to cut me a paycheck each month. That makes it kind of hard for me to have disdain for them.

I admit that's too strong a word. I have other personal reasons, but not relevant. I may have been looking at budgets, which is way different from actual. I usually double check things like that before posting. Lesson learned. My point was that as a former governor and having down an adequate job on the economy, he did pretty well. Of course, he may have a hand in the policies that led to the 2008 crash. Now that I think of it... forget I said anything.

you will always be able to find some policy from a previous administration to blame your failures on, or dismiss and take credit for

its nothing new in politics

I read the opening paragraph on this story and it caught me by surprise. My son had told me earlier that this was trending, but still... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/27/mini-desk-trump-mocked-speech-little-table-diaperdon-twitter-president-furniture

It's twitter, what did you expect? Haha!

#murdererinchief also tends sometimes.

I know... but did you see the leprechaun desk dig? @Maw

okay, but demographics is what helped Clinton in regards to the budget. He was president when the baby boomers reached the height of their working years just before they started to retire. So lots of money going in, not much money taking out. The budget surplus was really the social security fund excess revenue covering the difference (I think)

I believe it was Y2K... All of these businesses with legacy systems were compelled to either patch their existing systems or replace them. When most did the cost benefit analysis, they found that patching was about 60% the cost of replacing. When one company in an industry/segment decided to upgrade, the rest followed suit to ensure no one got a competitive advantage. So many companies investing in their technical infrastructures at the same time was unprecedented. Clinton had the good sense to not screw it up and rode the wave.

@RobertGrulerEsq You should consider starting the stream a few minutes early with a generic slide or a countdown to start just to make sure everything is up and running.

Instead of me bumbling around for 20 seconds 😛

Also so I don't have to keep refreshing. Is it up yet? Is it up yet?