Donald J. Trump (For everyone else except Victor)
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
Did Warren actually say cracking down on surveillance pricing would be a "solution" to food prices? AFAICT, the article shows her aiming completely valid criticism at Trump failing to live up to the promises he made. That's a far cry from Warren claiming she has a realistic solution.
You are correct that the comment about surveillance pricing in the original NBC article that I linked was attributed to the executive director of a think tank, not Warren. Warren has pushed a very, very similiar point in the past.
To be clear, agribusiness is a good place to look for antitrust violations, including outright price-fixing. I don't mean to suggest otherwise. But I do not believe using the FTC to crack down on surveillance pricing or similar practices is likely to be successful. In fact, I think that the most likely outcome of such an effort would be the creation of bad decisional law.
If anyone thinks Trump could do anything about grocery pricing they are dreaming . Though Kamala promised the same thing .
I saw an interesting piece on Tariffs were the USA put tariffs on washing machines . This raised the prices of washing machines being imported of course but the manufacturers in the USA raised their prices on washing machines as well. As well dryers which were not subject to tarifs went up the same amount .
No one can stop corporate greed
You are correct that the comment about surveillance pricing in the original NBC article that I linked was attributed to the executive director of a think tank, not Warren. Warren has pushed a very, very similiar point in the past.
To be clear, agribusiness is a good place to look for antitrust violations, including outright price-fixing. I don't mean to suggest otherwise. But I do not believe using the FTC to
I'm not going to argue whether or not stopping grocery surge pricing is a bad idea, but I don't see Warren saying her plan will be a complete solution to grocery prices; she's just saying that surge pricing will harm consumers. She might well be wrong on that point, but afaict she's not grandstanding in a way that would have been out of line even in a pre-Trump era. It's also fair game for her to point out Trump's failed promises. All of this seems like it's how politics has always been done, nevermind the fact that Trump is out there every day promising to give idiots bags of magical beans.
greed = profitability... one is a simpleton's characterization, the other is the basis for the free market economy.
Having low or zero profitability is not virtuous... it just means you suck at business.
the first peoples to complain about inequality and 'labeling' are the first ones to employ them to characterize a failed position.
I'm not going to argue whether or not stopping grocery surge pricing is a bad idea, but I don't see Warren saying her plan will be a complete solution to grocery prices; she's just saying that surge pricing will harm consumers. She might well be wrong on that point, but afaict she's not grandstanding in a way that would have been out of line even in a pre-Trump era. It's also fair game for her to point out Trump's failed promises. All of this seems like it's how politics has always been done, ne
Fair enough. After reading the actual letter rather than the news article, I believe that I overstated things a bit in my OP on this topic.
POTUS can do some stuff to lower food prices, but even the fastest interventions require at least a few months to have sizeable effects.
And the tariff game Trump wants to play doesn't help at all in that regard.
The "day one" promise of price reductions was a lie / exaggeration, he could have limited himself to a resolve to do everything in his power to reduce prices as soon as possible with the same effect.
But it's not directionally false, even if technically false
greed = profitability... one is a simpleton's characterization, the other is the basis for the free market economy.
I agree that describing corporations as "greedy" is a little silly. Corporations making as much money as possible (within the confines of the law) is hardwired into the current economic system. If we don't want the world to work that way, then the entire economic system has to be rewired from the ground up. Simply yelling at corporations to not be greedy is pointless. You might as well be yelling at a polar bear to be nicer to the seals.
POTUS freezing federal aid almost across the board (Congress controls the purse strings supposedly) is an 8.7 on the Stalin-Hitler dictator scale.
So happy my wife hit 10years of public service and had her loans forgiven last year.
Feel terrible for anyone hoping for their very much earned PSLF.
**** Trump!
Social Security and Medicare are exempted and there are some other provisions and allowances, but probably thousands of things are up in the air. The Trump administration sure doesn't have any clue about what programs are affected. Hopefully a lot of police, military and prison funding gets held up.
POTUS freezing federal aid almost across the board (Congress controls the purse strings supposedly) is an 8.7 on the Stalin-Hitler dictator scale.
Firing most of the inspector generals without cause and firing all the lawyers in the Justice Department who worked on any of the Trump cases also ranks pretty high on this scale.
Got the official letter today from our state’s superintendent of education, that schools can’t turn away ICE. I don’t know what the districts are going to do in response to this. Our superintendent is extremely vindictive. He’ll suspend teaching licenses and revoke accreditations in a heartbeat. We are ****ed.
The libs did a lot of deportation so legs to stand on and all, but man, it's just an amazing horror show that people actually support and want cops in military costumes storming elementary schools and dragging children away.
Got the official letter today from our state’s superintendent of education, that schools can’t turn away ICE. I don’t know what the districts are going to do in response to this. Our superintendent is extremely vindictive. He’ll suspend teaching licenses and revoke accreditations in a heartbeat. We are ****ed.
why ****ed? what's going to happen worst case?
The libs did a lot of deportation so legs to stand on and all, but man, it's just an amazing horror show that people actually support and want cops in military costumes storming elementary schools and dragging children away.
this is the empathy hacking approach which is not going to work anymore.
can't create the conditions for crime to proliferate then appeal to empathy when the state violence necessary to interrupt crimes gets nastier because you refused to act when it was less messy.
rational adults realize that after decades of disregard for the rule of law, the accumulated amount of situations to fix requires swift and merciless actions
The libs did a lot of deportation so legs to stand on and all, but man, it's just an amazing horror show that people actually support and want cops in military costumes storming elementary schools and dragging children away.
It was the secret service that entered the school not ICE or cops. A child had wrote a threatening letter to the President. They investigate all of those
this is the empathy hacking approach which is not going to work anymore.
can't create the conditions for crime to proliferate then appeal to empathy when the state violence necessary to interrupt crimes gets nastier because you refused to act when it was less messy.
rational adults realize that after decades of disregard for the rule of law, the accumulated amount of situations to fix requires swift and merciless actions
by terrorizing elementary school kids?
