Julie's jots and shots...: August 2024

Monday, August 26, 2024

August 26, 2024

Been too busy to post for a few but this is a good'un. Country over party. Unless you're a cult member...

"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future." --JFK

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Monday, August 19, 2024

August 19, 2024

So, after watching some of the DNC today I just kept thinking "How can anyone be proud of these people? How can anyone think their plans are sane?"

Bring in millions of people from many countries, and most of them have no permanent home. They are being given $5000 in debit cards, $15,000 in food cards, free housing for 2 years, all medical is free...and that's just for starters. They will give them Medicare and Social Security. If Social Security is so precious to Dems, why are they okay with Kamala's plan???

It's shameful. That's the only word for it, it's shameful all the way around. Kamala never got voted into anything--I thought democracy was so important to Dems? I thought coups were bad things to Dems? What do you call what they did to Biden? Maureen Dowd got it right. I'm not big fan of hers and she has raised the ire of many Dems who once thought she was so great.

The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup, by Maureen Dowd

If you don't have a subscription to The New York Times, go to this link (although I thought The NYT was the bible for Dems...)

The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup, by Maureen Down

Absolutely shameful. Every Democrat should be ashamed, because the ruin that would come at the hand of Kamala is on them. And I hope they love what will happen, because they won't be exempt.

Now go do the right thing.

PS: Scuttlebutt is that Biden plans to abdicate just before midnight tonight. We shall see. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

August 17, 2024

LMAO. Doesn't anyone else pay attention? The bias is so obvious!

Friday, August 16, 2024

Oh...

Those are for starters. Kinda shocked lamestream media is actually somewhat factual...

August 16, 2024

Are price controls a good thing? Some of us remember the 1970s. And some of us remember history (Russia, anyone? Venezuela?). And some of us (me!) are married to economics majors. From a government website, opens in PDF.

The Economics of Price Controls Link HERE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

"Inflation has grown rapidly over the last year and reached a 41-year high of 9.1 percent in June 2022. In response, some policymakers have proposed implementing price controls (in particular, price ceilings) to reduce the cost of inflation for consumers. Instead of sustainably lowering prices, price ceilings cause shortages, reduce product quality, and can make longer-term inflation worse."

KEY POINTS

• A price ceiling creates a government-mandated maximum price that sellers can charge their customers.

• Price controls can lower prices for some consumers but also cause shortages which lead to arbitrary rationing and, over time, reduce product innovation and quality.

• Price controls during the 1970s caused shortages, especially of oil and gasoline. Rapid inflation followed the repeal of price controls.

• Price controls on prescription drugs—such as those imposed by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022—stunt pharmaceutical innovation, imposing large, long-run costs on Americans that outweigh the short-run benefits of lower prices."

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it--is this what you want? It's what Kamala wants. She tries to hide it under the guise of "price gouging" which obviously shows she has no idea what price gouging is.

She doesn't understand a lot of things, she just thinks they sound good and the maroons who are going to vote for her are too stupid to know, too. And too stupid to look it up. She doesn't even know the definition of inflation...

Now she wants to give first time home buyers $25,000. Vote buying. But who will pay for that? She's already said our taxes will go up. And all that will do is raise house prices by $25,000! We have to take in millions of illegal immigrants, and she's going to fix prices?! Hello, rationing! Hello black markets! Better learn to grow yer own.

Now go do the right thing.

Thursday, August 15, 2024

August 15, 2024

It amazes me how so many Dems are screeching "Trump lies! All he does is lie!!!!"

What are the lies? Write them down, then refute them intelligently with primary sources. Any parrot can learn "Trump lies!!!!" Can a parrot learn to think, analyze, reason, use logic? Neither can most Dems, it seems.

Like Tim Walz and his Stolen Valor. "What difference does it make? He served!!" Yes, he served. So did JD Vance. We would be pissed at JD if he lied about his service. But the Dems take up for every lie coming down the pike! C'mon...it's obvious.

Here's a good reasoning on the Stolen Valor thing. It's a blatant lie; it's very dishonest. Would you like someone taking credit for your work? Don't act so morally upright, virtuous ,and indignant, over supposed lies by Trump, when your own side is LYING RIGHT TO YOUR FUCKING FACE! Provable lies! Answer your clue phone.

** MUST WATCH—JD Vance brilliantly summarizes why so many veterans are furious about Tim Walz's lies about his rank and service:

“Tim Walz claimed he carried a weapon in war, he’d never went into war."

"Tim Walz said he didn’t know his unit was about to deploy to Iraq when even his own press release at the time said that he knew exactly that."

"Tim Walz claims to be a Command Sergeant General, even had it printed on his challenge coin & he knew he never achieved that rank."

"This is not about disparaging anybody’s services including Tim Walz. This is about disparaging the dishonesty, and asking Kamala Harris why are you showing such poor judgement by standing by a guy who insulted our veterans and lied about his service.”

Video Here:

Now go do the right thing.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

August 14, 2024

Somethin' don't add up. Kamala keeps screeching that Trump is going to do away with Social Security. He didn't do that during his first term and consistently says he will never cut SS. He said so again today at his rally in Asheville, NC. Go look it up.

Notice how the Dems always screech that the Republican opponent with do away with SS? But they never do. Many use it as a bargaining chip--lookin' at you, Obama--but Trump has not done that.

All facts easy to check. Here's something else easy to check, if you know basic bath, and a good grasp on logic: Kamala wants illegal immigrants to be granted amnesty and become voting citizens and given Medicare, SS, etc. Millions of immigrants who have not paid into the system. Which one do you think will "do away with Social Security"?

Collect the dots. Then connect the dots. If you vote for the Dems, you're voting to...do away with Social Security! So make up yer minds...do you want SS? Or nah?

Do you hate Trumps (alleged) lies? Then why are lies from Kamala and Walz okay?

That's what's on my mind at the moment. Til later--