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I seriously wish that at the end of the civil war all the slaves were emancipated and given transport north and then the Union said "Congratulations on you succession! Now go **** off." Then the U.S. leaves the confederacy to it's own misery without the economic benefit of slave labor. Other than New Orleans I can't think of a redeeming place in the southern U.S.. I'd be happier if they were not part of my country.
The world would likely be a MUCH worse place.

First, the US Civil War wasn't fought to free the slaves. That was a messaging pivot made following the Trent Affair to keep England out of the war. The US Civil War was fought to keep the south from seceding.

Second, the US ended up being the most powerful country in the world following WWI and WWII due to being mostly unscathed at a time when the rest of the world's industrial base and financial centers were rubble. That doesn't happen if the outcome of the UC Civil War was secession because the north and the south would have ended up on opposite sides causing the war on this side of the Atlantic.

World War One could have gone the other direction if the US didn't jump in when they did. If not for the US being what it was in 1940, there would have been no one to stop Imperial Japan from taking the areas of iron, rubber, and oil resources to become a superpower. If not for the US being the world's dominant superpower following WWII, there would have been no Pax Americana during the time the world developed atomic, and then nuclear, weapons.

Abraham Lincoln may have saved the entire world.
 
Most governments tend to run out of steam after ten years. I just find the nature of the criticisms interesting painting him as a Canadian Jeremy Corbyn or something which as far as a new he was far from.
He was so obsessed about climate protection and refusal to build pipelines to east and west coast from Alberta. Now we stuck shipping oil to USA only and can't even cut oil supply as retaliation to orange turd tariffs as it would cut it from Ontario and Quebec ( two provinces which were most opposed to pipelines ). Had we had those pipelines done we could be showing orange turd middle finger and ship it to east or west of Canada to different markets easily.
 
He was so obsessed about climate protection and refusal to build pipelines to east and west coast from Alberta. Now we stuck shipping oil to USA only and can't even cut oil supply as retaliation to orange turd tariffs as it would cut it from Ontario and Quebec ( two provinces which were most opposed to pipelines ). Had we had those pipelines done we could be showing orange turd middle finger and ship it to east or west of Canada to different markets easily.

Energy policy is should be the most important priority for any government. We've had 15 years of chaos and ridiculously high energy prices in a country rich is both fossil fuels and renewable energy but the conservatives have continued to destabilise the industry to keep climate change as an election issue. (They're also deep in the pocket of the miners.) They've driven investment from the market, allowed Australian natural gas to be sold overseas at rates that are a fraction of what it is sold at locally. (Dubai makes more money off tax on Australian gas than the ****ing Australian government!!!) There's even the prospect of power outages this summer due to the lack of natural gas available on the domestic market while we export shed loads to the middle east and Japan.
 
Remember the Age of Enlightenment? Me either, before my time too. Sometimes called the Age of Reason. Currently, human reason, rational minds, are not exactly dominating the American scene. And, as a result, governance will only be harder. Conspiracism owns the day.


 
Remember the Age of Enlightenment? Me either, before my time too. Sometimes called the Age of Reason. Currently, human reason, rational minds, are not exactly dominating the American scene. And, as a result, governance will only be harder. Conspiracism owns the day.


How dare people think conspiracy theories such as it being likely COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab, Hunter’s laptop wasn’t actually Russian disinformation as 51 former intelligence officials claimed, or Joe Biden wasn’t sharp as a tack but only had jetlag. I wonder if the current popularity of seeking alternatives to the official narrative might be in some way motivated by voices of authority constantly being found to be lying. Do you think that might play a part?

This bit buried deep in your linked Atlantic piece was amusing to me.

As Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger wisely notes, “The line between unsupported conspiracy claims and reliable investigative research is neither as firm nor as stable as many of us would like to believe.” Thiel is right that some liberal commentators and mainstream outlets were too quick to dismiss the question of whether COVID-19 originated anywhere other than a Wuhan meat market. At one point, a New York Times reporter suggested on Twitter that racism underlay any suspicions that the virus had escaped from a research lab.

Peter Thiel is correct, but how can he even suggest the thing to have been correct about? That is conspiracy theory!
 
Hey, did you hear about that Trump-loving J6 couple who threw a bomb and permanently injured a cop? He got five years. His wife got no years. Yeah, those J6ers really got off easy. Oh, wait, my mistake. They were not J6 defendants. They were a couple of Antifa scumbags who were mad because conservative commentator Michael Knowles was going to speak about transgender baloney.

 

The Fed Can’t Pin Inflation on Trump​

The central bank has the power to maintain stable prices, and there is more to the President-elect’s economic policy than tariffs.

The Federal Reserve first blamed high inflation on the Covid-19 pandemic. Then the war in Ukraine became the accepted contrivance. The Fed’s stories came wrapped in gauzy rhetoric about supply-chain disruptions. Now that these excuses have grown tired and outdated, leading monetary policymakers have developed a new scapegoat for inflation: President-elect Trump’s proposed tariffs.
 

Republicans on the House's chief tax-writing committee made clear during a hearing Tuesday that their top priority is making permanent the massive giveaway to the rich that Donald Trump and the GOP pushed through in 2017.

Smith characterized the 2017 tax cuts as a boon for ordinary Americans, but the law's benefits were heavily skewed to the wealthiest.

The same would be true of an extension of the individual tax cuts, which is expected to be part of a sprawling party-line reconciliation bill. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy noted in a recent analysis that "Trump's plan to make most of the temporary provisions of his 2017 tax law permanent would disproportionately benefit the richest Americans."

"No amount of misinformation can hide the truth: This massive new giveaway to the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations comes at the expense of working and middle-class Americans."

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the committee, said at Tuesday's hearing that "when Republicans inevitably tell you that the GOP tax scam gave everyone in America a tax break, remember this one contextualized fact: Extending the law gives people making over $1 million a year a $78,717 average tax cut—288 times higher than the $273 those earning under $50,000 would receive."

"Those millionaires won't feel the effects of cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, or higher premium costs, but America's working families sure will," Neal added, referring to the GOP's plan to slash key aid programs to help offset the enormous cost of extending the 2017 tax breaks.

"Last time Trump and the GOP held a trifecta, they moved fast to create new tax breaks rewarding wealthy corporations for moving jobs overseas and harming hard-working families across the country," David Kass, executive director of the progressive advocacy group Americans for Tax Fairness, said in a statement Tuesday. "Now, they're working to pass new tax breaks that will allow these same powerful corporations to evade paying their fair share and eliminate American jobs."

"The disastrous effects of the Trump tax scam are not theoretical—they're reality," Kass added. "It didn't raise wages for everyday people or protect our jobs and it certainly didn't pay for itself. Instead, it doubled billionaire wealth and added over $1.5 trillion to the deficit.

Trump and the GOP's aggressive push for a new round of tax cuts received a boost from the deep-pocketed Koch network, which is pumping tens of millions of dollars into a nationwide campaign to build support for a proposal that would predominately reward a small sliver of the U.S. population.

"If asked to choose between healthcare and food for low-income kids or tax cuts for giant corporations, Chairman Jason Smith and the Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee are proving that ten times out of ten, they'll choose the corporate giants," said Tony Carrk, executive director of the watchdog group Accountable.US. "American families are set up to lose because President-elect Trump and his congressional allies are eager to raise our costs in order to help their wealthy donor friends."

Thank god! The wealth gap isn't nearly wide enough. Thanks trump!
 
Biden is getting absolutely savaged for his awful farewell address. There was actually a rumor being floated the address was pre-taped but the strongest defense of it being done in a single take was that no handlers would have let it air if they had the ability to edit it.


It isn't only right wing sources panning the speech.

 
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