Embarrassing them is the greatest sin.
There are dumb people who made this choice, sure, but I think this transcends stupidity for too many. At this point whether they will admit not or not this is what they want. Their party hates this country and pounds that message on every front. Their radicals are cultish. We deserve to suffer for our sins. Perhaps they just arent used to suffering personally, and got too comfortable inflicting it on others.
Because it's Trump's fault after all.
Somehow.
'But we're allowed to be casually racist, our hearts are in the right place!'
And then 'accidentally' leak said data when it suits them.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings definitely comes to mind.
What you're describing has been my impression for awhile. It's always come off to me as the seasoned DC insiders looting and pillaging while setting up the current crop of young activists to be left holding the bag, but - even whatever semblance of that is going on seems to be falling apart.
It all seems to be falling apart. No one is president, no one seriously wants to be president on the left, no one wants to take responsibility for Anything. It's extremely destructive, but they don't care. They don't market. They don't even really explain things or fluff it up with much effort.. just phoning it in.
I expected more, I guess? Maybe I shouldn't have.
Endure indeed, and not in a fashion to become complacent.
Can't it be both?
And to compound it, politics is entertainment for them and they have fun building up this epic drama where they then can be the Hero of the story.
They want it to be true, therefore, no need to make it any more complex. Ridiculously narcissistic and I hope at least some of their audiences see it for what it is.
Yes and no. He's still playing Mr. Senator - 6-3 on immediate merits, 5-4 on the Roe reversal itself. He had to be a snake and do a stand alone concurrence to say 'well, you see, it's complicated..'
It's still a massive step in the right direction but it gives lower courts a bit of extra wiggle room to chew on to find exceptions and carve out arguments for the eventual re-litigation on another theory down the road. Things will be messier, but Roberts gets to preen his feathers and say that he was the Principled Statesman tempering the court from being too bold.
Really wish we can eventually impeach him so he can go run for Senate to pursue his true passions. He has no business running SCOTUS.
He has no business actually being a senator either, but better he try and fail in that arena then what he's doing now
Media narrative laundering, in other words
This. They are greedy, and they project their failings onto others. Combine that with a stubbornness that doesn't know when to quit when they're behind, and you have an entity that just simply wont stop until they're forced.
This feels like an unforced error. Would have been better to try and ride the outrage train for five months instead of seven. I think someone got impatient.
I work in the mortgage sector, but in a more specialized niche portion of it after having gotten laid off from the normal part of it a few years ago. Back of house type work, not sales.
Can confirm on the layoffs, they are rampant in what we call Retail sector (conventional mortgages, government backed loans, your typical 'normal' loan done by big banks or big name lenders). They've been gorging on refinance business, and now that that's drying up really fast they are getting absolutely wrecked by being too dependent on them and getting greedy. The market's not healthy, and we're in a spot were there's abject panic in some places and if you look at rates side by side, they are currently comparable to where they were right around the start of the pandemic.
Of course, it's the direction and momentum of rates that matters a great deal. The retail sector is very exposed to these boom-bust cycles, and the business model of getting people to take out short term ARMs with the intent of pressuring them to refinance in a few years to a Fixed loan is a lot of times outright predatory. It's risky for everyone - including the lenders, and you're seeing exactly why playing out right now.
It's hard to say exactly what will happen as a result of all this, it's like 2008 all over again, except different, except worse, and a lot more volatile and unpredictable. I agree with the pinecone sentiment, just wanted to share my little window of perspective.
It would be ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) that are among the higher risk on this front. You often see them as 5 or 7 year fixed terms that then shift to variable interest rates for whatever the remaining term is, they play off people's gambling mindset of 'well, I'm absolutely going to refi before the fixed term runs out'. The banks offer those loans for a reason; enough people fail to refi in time they make out like bandits after.
Like any kind of mortgage they're a tool with a purpose, but people get convinced to over-borrow or do risky things they probably shouldn't all the time. Practically speaking, this will largely mean both the ability to borrow going forward for any reason will become more expensive and harder to secure, because underwriting standards are going to tighten. Risk of default is higher, investors in Mortgage Backed Securities (or any debt security) are going to change which kinds they buy into based off it. The lenders will not want to make loans they can't sell, and the market adjusts.
There's only one!
Yet another case in point this white house doesn't give two shits about their P.R. It's all on auto-pilot, probably had an intern write it while half asleep.
I hate to agree, but we've been bearing witness for the last several decades to the need for people to learn (by feeling) the recklessness of what they blindly support. Society got too soft and too complacent. It took a long time to dig the hole this deep, it will take a comparable effort to climb back out. Long and steady, or short and violent. Maybe a mix of both.
Just, over time a fair question is can they keep what they've gained? They're so focused on taking to the exclusion of almost anything else. Money is finite. Respect for unearned authority is finite. Something will give.
But then I do think more than a few are just not caring at all for the future and are effectively enjoying it while it lasts.
Ah, yes, the classic 'Conservatives in the Mist' take where the brave journalist ventures into a strange, terrible land full of savage, unknowable cretins.
This is one of the more cartoonishly unhinged ones I've seen in awhile!
It's hard to take anything from this White House seriously when they are so impotent they can barely pull together a coherent messaging strategy. This feels like more angry-foot-stompy act because they don't know how to do anything else.
That doesn't mean it's not dangerous, but they have a pattern of barking and expecting either people to fall in line, or for the press to badger them into compliance.
Because 'it's okay when we do it' wasn't nipped in the bud when it began to get out of control back around Occupy Wall Street being a thing. Democrat voters have no interest in self-policing or reforming their party, and would rather someone else just take care of it for them. They've just completely checked out and their silence remains utterly deafening.
Rittenhouse turned away from our camera.
The nerve!
It's anecdotal and skewed, but skimming through comments on stuff like Economics Explained's recent video about whether not Brexit would be 'as bad as we thought' -
If those are reflective of young UK leftists, it's at least simmering-under-the-surface bad. General disdain, an assumed stance that the brexiteers are all children of caveman like intelligence who enjoy chaos, are stupid, had no idea what they're doing, blablabla, and basically what Impossible1 is saying - they're waiting for the stupid old racist people to die so their Inevitable and Virtuous belief system wins by default and they can restore rationality to the world.
There were a few stubborn folks offering counterpoints but they were getting either ignored or shoved aside via downvotes.
It was... depressing. Not surprising, but they are just lost, wandering around talking only among themselves and being pretty spiteful. But what else can you expect from trendy, globalist friendly economics commentary on youtube?
Thanks for the recommendation, I just may give this one a look. I sunk a lot of hours into the first XCOM, something like it set in the cold war sounds pretty interesting.
Cue a fresh wave of concern about doing something about 'dangerous' online disinformation.
These people seem to think that silencing dissent will just make it magically go away. They're very determined in their stubbornness - heaven forbid they try and seek an understanding.