Social Democracies are usually prosperous, happy democracies; even businesses and commercial interests do well.

Authoritarian hell holes like Russia, China, NK, and others with Socialist or Communist facades hiding Crony Capitalist governments are thrilled to see Trumpublicans turning America into the same kind of Authoritarian hell hole.

KEEPING the music alive:

Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Jesse Welles and Daniel Donato

#11

A distinction sans any difference; just another lame Whataboutism that changes nothing I said.... Trump is bankrupting the country more and faster than ever.

But I do have confidence that someday you'll learn how to make an argument to the point made rather post an attempted distraction that merely highlights the fact that you have no argument at all to what was said; merely a sad deflection.

We should just call it what it is, the Epstein Distraction War.

BJ happily sides with the enema every time!

- NY State Troopers

A couple of years after Woodstock, I had a Penn State Hwy Patrol officer in that wide brimmed hat and black leather high-boots stop my 18 wheeler on the side of one of their mountains... one of the first I'd ever seen.

He stopped me for a bad tail light, but he seemed to get a kick out of telling me that they usually found boys from Texas in trucks down the side of of that mountain.

Great sense of humor.

Trump is Bankrupting the American Casino just like he did all his Casinos... so how is that surprising?

I was taking my Draft physical and listening to Country Joe sing about my friends coming home in a box.

'Nam was a war for the MIC to get rich on Gov Defense Contracts... so, nothing much has changed all the way to Iran now.

Jorma is still alive and kicking (ok, barely) with his ytube channel.

Richie Havens - Freedom at Woodstock 1969 (HD)

Hic! Wow, man... don't take the brown acid, you'll double post!

Woodstock, the song, performed live 1970 in London on the BBC by it's author:

Woodstock, the song, performed live 1970 in London on the BBC by it's author:

Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 Woodstock live concierto HQ

Also see:

"The magical thinking sold to the American people was that giving tax cuts to the rich would improve the lives of the majority. Laffer's theory provided a foundation for supply-side economics and was illustrated by the Laffer Curve, which he famously drew on a paper napkin for then-White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney in the 1970s.

If the notion that cutting taxes increases revenue seems counterintuitive, there's a good reason: It's not supported by research. When that idea becomes the basis for government policy, it can have disastrous consequences."

1Nutjob... still the Perfect Revers Barometer:

"Key Takeaways
Supply-side economics asserts that tax cuts and deregulation spur growth by enriching businesses.

Critics argue supply-side policies disproportionately benefit the wealthy and exacerbate inequality.

Historical data shows tax cuts don't consistently lead to job creation or investment boosts.

Evidence suggests supply-side economics doesn't guarantee stronger economic growth or higher tax revenue.

The theory lacks evidence that tax cuts pay for themselves through increased revenue."

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He appears to have been told not to make himself look smarter than the Pres.

And he's doing a bang up job of it!

SPEAKING of Beauty....

"I Taught Them Everything!" Little Richard on Discovering The Beatles (1970) | The Dick Cavett Show

- the accusation has lost its meaning.

Only to his most shallow-minded defenders like yourself.

Normal people have read, or remember, the definition of Fascism, and can clearly see the similarities in this particular iteration (look it up) of a far rwing authoritarian racist movement with a psychopathic leader.

- First lady experience is virtually meaningless.....except for Hillary.

Michelle Obama on line 1 for you.... she was leading DJT in polls by a dozen or more points in 2024.

1Nut Math excludes the FACT that immigration in this country has for decades been a net plus for the US Economy.

"The fiscal picture

Immigrants are a fiscal boon to the U.S. In a new report released by the Cato Institute, the authors update a model created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the impacts of immigrants on the U.S. government's budget.

Their findings are clear:

In each year from 1994 to 2023, across all levels of government, immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.

This resulted in a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 U.S. dollars over that period, including savings on interest payments on the national debt."

more:

Rwingers still choose to believe the Myth of Trickle Down Economics... you know, because Reagan. Even though Reagan's economic team, and the inventors of Supply Side Economics, later said it never, ever werked.

- Nothing that Both Sides can point to and agree, "That's Wrong."

Not even Israel's genocide in Gaza.

But then, Israel pays both sides for the privilege, though one side has more detractors of their policies than the other, which hasn't resulted in any effective reigning in of the terror.

#14

Graft is the norm in China, where Crass Capitalists hide behind Communism rather than Republicanism the way they do here.

They are actually on of the most corrupt governments on the planet, along with Russia and North Korea.

BJ making exotic excuses for his Cult Leader is ... very sad indeed.