Charlie, looked at the gateway pundit clip... Gosar isn't batshit crazy here, he's plastered like the Sistene Chapel! He's bobbing and weaving in search of a lamp post to cling to and struggling to slur his speech and think at the same time. The only thing missing is a thought bubble... "wow the floors are pitching wildly is this maybe an earthquake or something?" Or "all I got to do is stay upright and finish a sentence and no one will be the wiser!"
OK the Federalist Society is a pretty gruesome group. Financed by billionaires who care little for the US. If you don’t like him,include me, don’t go. Let him talk to his own. Don’t grace him with your presense.
Why not pence? Because he can't be alone in a room with a woman. And he can't stand up to trump or a go p voter. So how on the world could he stand for, or up to, anything???
Re: Silicon Valley Bank bailout. For a practical solution, I strongly recommend Sebastian Mallaby's column that appeared on the Washington Post's site this afternoon:
Since it's behind a paywall, here's the conclusion for those who don't have full access:
"But there is a solution. After the 2008 crisis, the Fed began to conduct regular stress tests on the largest lenders. These tests are a way of making routine the act of asking questions: Would the bank remain sound if the economy experienced a recession, the dollar fell sharply or oil prices spiked? The lesson from last weekend is that even medium-sized banks need this sort of attention.
During the Trump years, policy shifted in the opposite direction. Congress rolled back some of the post-2008 safeguards, and the Fed decided there was no need to burden midsize lenders unduly. But if depositors won’t discipline the bankers, regulators must do so. Otherwise, bailouts will become dizzyingly common — and far more expensive to the economy than proper regulation."
These law students are a disgrace to freedom and the US Constitution. All should never be admitted into the profession and all should get useless degrees reinforcing their immaturity and ignorance. As for the Dean, he is a feckless boob who needs to be replaced ASAP. This is what you get when you indulge whiny, aggressive and immature behavior in children - they become intolerant, arrogant and entitled adults who seek to dominate, destroy and abuse those with whom they disagree with.
"...a governor’s office that seemed driven by a preconceived political narrative, bent on a predetermined outcome, content with a flimsy investigation and focused on maximizing media attention for Mr. DeSantis."
This is exactly how a President DeSantis (heaven forbid) would operate. He's just a quieter version of TFG.
What if everyone just stopped playing the game? Fed Soc invites a crazy person? Don’t go. Encourage your friends not to go. You don’t put out a fire with more oxygen, you smother it. Pay no attention to people trying to start a fight. If you go to fight on their terms you will lose because they already have a plan for making you swing and look like a fool.
Did the idiot law students behave rudely and perhaps with illiberal intent? Sure. Do I like the fact that my presumably-ideological allies acted like jerks? No.
Do they scare me as much as desantis removing an elected prosecutor or punishing Disney for nakedly political reasons? Or signing laws that have K-12 teachers afraid of a felony indictment if they hand their students a book?
Not in any way shape or form. I know which one frightens me more, which one I find most concerning, and it's not the idiot kids.
Is it reasonable for FDIC to provide insurance on corporate accounts for amounts greater than $250k if the cash is held for a specific purpose, such as, say, for employee payroll? Maybe it would make sense to have a short-term insurance class dedicated to something like that where a cash asset can be guaranteed, for a few days, or the time it takes to transfer a risk-free asset like a treasury bond account to the payroll disbursement account and then disburse payroll. If a company wants to have its cash insured above a level of $250k, it would have to spread the account over multiple banks so that every account has 250k or less. For a large company that could be quite onerous, although maybe there are intermediaries that can handle transactions like that. Apparently you can't just create a bunch of LLCs specifically for the purpose of insuring more than 250k. If you are doing everything right and need to keep cash on hand to pay your employees, maybe it's reasonable to allow those kinds of transfers to occur in an insured way.
About Tim Miller's article today, maybe the Colorado GOP is doing exactly what it should. Maybe our political parties should have policy goals and not just election goals? Our political parties should say these are the policies for which we will advocate, and then work to find quality candidates to do that advocating, and to persuade voters to support those politices and those candidates.
We've given too much power, and especially too much government backing, to the two major political parties. The government should not be in the business of selecting party candidates through primary elections' selecting party candidates is party business. The government should not insist on winner-take-all elections, even when the winner has only a plurality of votes. The government should set the requirements for appearing on our ballots, let all candidates who qualify and apply appear on our ballots, and then hold ranked-choice elections so that candidates with majority support win our elections.
If the Colorado GOP truly represents the desires of Colorado Republicans then that's what they should say - and they should lose their elections!
What a great system. If I get a margin call, I must pay IMMEDIATELY or else. If well heeled, rich tech snobs or greedy bankers have a liquidity crisis, they get a bailout........... seems fair to me, go USA!
Given what is happening right now in terms of bank failure, Florida restricting 1st Amendment assembly rights to peaceful groups at the state house, judges holding secret hearings, Pence saying one thing in public but refusing to say it in a grand jury proceeding...the Stanford thing just isn't too important. Provocateurs at work in a private institution...not 1st Amendment related.
Republicans aren't going to rid themselves of Trump until someone repeats what Pence said over and over out loud in front of Republican voters. Instead they allow Trump to lie about the 2020 election, January 6 and his deplorable endorsements to which he has no defense. It's his glass jaw but apparently no Republican has the nerve to break it.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/stop-the-chaos-law-schools-need-to-crack-down-on-student-disrupters-now/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=hero&ut m_content=related &utm_term=second
Charlie, looked at the gateway pundit clip... Gosar isn't batshit crazy here, he's plastered like the Sistene Chapel! He's bobbing and weaving in search of a lamp post to cling to and struggling to slur his speech and think at the same time. The only thing missing is a thought bubble... "wow the floors are pitching wildly is this maybe an earthquake or something?" Or "all I got to do is stay upright and finish a sentence and no one will be the wiser!"
OK the Federalist Society is a pretty gruesome group. Financed by billionaires who care little for the US. If you don’t like him,include me, don’t go. Let him talk to his own. Don’t grace him with your presense.
No, Second hand reporting on MAGA nonsense here at The Bulwark is as close as I come.
Why not pence? Because he can't be alone in a room with a woman. And he can't stand up to trump or a go p voter. So how on the world could he stand for, or up to, anything???
No need to go on.
Re: Silicon Valley Bank bailout. For a practical solution, I strongly recommend Sebastian Mallaby's column that appeared on the Washington Post's site this afternoon:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/13/silicon-valley-bank-bailout-regulation/
Since it's behind a paywall, here's the conclusion for those who don't have full access:
"But there is a solution. After the 2008 crisis, the Fed began to conduct regular stress tests on the largest lenders. These tests are a way of making routine the act of asking questions: Would the bank remain sound if the economy experienced a recession, the dollar fell sharply or oil prices spiked? The lesson from last weekend is that even medium-sized banks need this sort of attention.
During the Trump years, policy shifted in the opposite direction. Congress rolled back some of the post-2008 safeguards, and the Fed decided there was no need to burden midsize lenders unduly. But if depositors won’t discipline the bankers, regulators must do so. Otherwise, bailouts will become dizzyingly common — and far more expensive to the economy than proper regulation."
These law students are a disgrace to freedom and the US Constitution. All should never be admitted into the profession and all should get useless degrees reinforcing their immaturity and ignorance. As for the Dean, he is a feckless boob who needs to be replaced ASAP. This is what you get when you indulge whiny, aggressive and immature behavior in children - they become intolerant, arrogant and entitled adults who seek to dominate, destroy and abuse those with whom they disagree with.
"...a governor’s office that seemed driven by a preconceived political narrative, bent on a predetermined outcome, content with a flimsy investigation and focused on maximizing media attention for Mr. DeSantis."
This is exactly how a President DeSantis (heaven forbid) would operate. He's just a quieter version of TFG.
What if everyone just stopped playing the game? Fed Soc invites a crazy person? Don’t go. Encourage your friends not to go. You don’t put out a fire with more oxygen, you smother it. Pay no attention to people trying to start a fight. If you go to fight on their terms you will lose because they already have a plan for making you swing and look like a fool.
Did the idiot law students behave rudely and perhaps with illiberal intent? Sure. Do I like the fact that my presumably-ideological allies acted like jerks? No.
Do they scare me as much as desantis removing an elected prosecutor or punishing Disney for nakedly political reasons? Or signing laws that have K-12 teachers afraid of a felony indictment if they hand their students a book?
Not in any way shape or form. I know which one frightens me more, which one I find most concerning, and it's not the idiot kids.
Is it reasonable for FDIC to provide insurance on corporate accounts for amounts greater than $250k if the cash is held for a specific purpose, such as, say, for employee payroll? Maybe it would make sense to have a short-term insurance class dedicated to something like that where a cash asset can be guaranteed, for a few days, or the time it takes to transfer a risk-free asset like a treasury bond account to the payroll disbursement account and then disburse payroll. If a company wants to have its cash insured above a level of $250k, it would have to spread the account over multiple banks so that every account has 250k or less. For a large company that could be quite onerous, although maybe there are intermediaries that can handle transactions like that. Apparently you can't just create a bunch of LLCs specifically for the purpose of insuring more than 250k. If you are doing everything right and need to keep cash on hand to pay your employees, maybe it's reasonable to allow those kinds of transfers to occur in an insured way.
How is Stanford threatening our future? Conservatives have cried wolf over college PCness since the 1980s
About Tim Miller's article today, maybe the Colorado GOP is doing exactly what it should. Maybe our political parties should have policy goals and not just election goals? Our political parties should say these are the policies for which we will advocate, and then work to find quality candidates to do that advocating, and to persuade voters to support those politices and those candidates.
We've given too much power, and especially too much government backing, to the two major political parties. The government should not be in the business of selecting party candidates through primary elections' selecting party candidates is party business. The government should not insist on winner-take-all elections, even when the winner has only a plurality of votes. The government should set the requirements for appearing on our ballots, let all candidates who qualify and apply appear on our ballots, and then hold ranked-choice elections so that candidates with majority support win our elections.
If the Colorado GOP truly represents the desires of Colorado Republicans then that's what they should say - and they should lose their elections!
What a great system. If I get a margin call, I must pay IMMEDIATELY or else. If well heeled, rich tech snobs or greedy bankers have a liquidity crisis, they get a bailout........... seems fair to me, go USA!
Given what is happening right now in terms of bank failure, Florida restricting 1st Amendment assembly rights to peaceful groups at the state house, judges holding secret hearings, Pence saying one thing in public but refusing to say it in a grand jury proceeding...the Stanford thing just isn't too important. Provocateurs at work in a private institution...not 1st Amendment related.
Republicans aren't going to rid themselves of Trump until someone repeats what Pence said over and over out loud in front of Republican voters. Instead they allow Trump to lie about the 2020 election, January 6 and his deplorable endorsements to which he has no defense. It's his glass jaw but apparently no Republican has the nerve to break it.