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Thursday GNR: Bidenomics for All [1]
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Date: 2023-07-13
Last week I left out a particularly important Bidenism: Rebuilding the economy from the middle out and the bottom up. Even Republicans like the results, when that means economic growth in their districts that they can crow about after voting against it.
x Tommy Tuberville is pleased with Alabama's broadband funds. John Boozman secured $2.2B for Arkansas roads and bridges. Robert Adenhart lauds $1.6M bridge grant. All these Republican hypocrites voted AGAINST President Biden and the Democratic Party's Infrastructure and Jobs Act. pic.twitter.com/sWCHgKNHaG — Tony - Resistance (@TonyHussein4) July 12, 2023
Column: Bidenomics has been a boon for working class voters. Why don't they give him credit? Energy prices? They came down by 20% in May compared with a year earlier. Fuel oil prices fell by more than 37% and gasoline by 19.7% in the same period. This month has seen further declines, with the average price per gallon down to $3.54, according to the AAA, a drop of 29.6% from the peak of $5.03 last June. Lower-income workers were the chief beneficiaries of Biden policies and the general economic environment in recent years. Those earning an average of $12.50 an hour recorded a gain of 6% after inflation from 2020 through 2022, Politico's Victoria Guida reports. Now we just have to make sure that we get the word out on the good we are doing and will do for all of them, and on their politicians’ hypocrisy, to everybody remotely persuadable, especially in swing states and districts. And GOTV as hard as possible to the Woke, those who already get it. And the semi-Woke, who get it, but haven’t been voting. And anybody who remembers or has heard about the successes of FDRonomics or Trumanomics or Great Societyonomics.
x During the midterms Republicans wailed about the recession that never materialized.
We were in a period of high inflation which is coming down except for the corporate greed keeping prices artificially high.
Unlike trickle down, #Bidenomics actually works!#Fresh#wtpBLUE pic.twitter.com/932yu1UsSb — Jennifer Bennon (@jennobenno) July 7, 2023
And so much more. Rural broadband and renewable energy investments (manufacturing and rooftop solar, and EVs, and...). I will have much more such news on our next Renewable Tuesday.
Remarks by President Biden on Bidenomics
You know, I’m here to talk about what we’re doing to invest in America — and I mean invest in America, all of America; it’s starting here South Carolina — and to talk about the progress we made building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not trickling down. When you build from the middle out and bottom up, everybody does well, and the wealthy still do very well. With that trickle-down economy, not a whole lot dropped on my dad’s kitchen table growing up. It’s all part of an economic vision for this country.
I have started writing a series on real economics for Readers & Book Lovers. I just have to work out a schedule with them, and then we can get stuck into Adam Smith, and Walras on supply and demand coming into balance, and Pigovian taxes on externalities, and the Unbalanced Budget Amendment, and Universal Basic Income, and Medicare for All, and...Well, you’ll see.
Pete Seeger "Which Side Are You On?"
Let’s hear it for Bidenomics!
x Bidenomics in action:
The U.S. is enjoying the strongest post-COVID recovery of any major economy in the world. pic.twitter.com/JKUuDanEaU — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 12, 2023
I mean it! No joke! Check it out!
x The consumer price index was up 3% in June from 12 months earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday in its monthly inflation report. pic.twitter.com/nvirejzzKZ — Ivan Loans 🇭🇷🇺🇸🚀💰📈 (@IvanLoans) July 12, 2023
I will spare you the Chicken Littles and Debbie Downers in the Wrong-Wing media like the National Review and worse, and the Bothsiderists in the MSM. And Larry Summers, who has successfully predicted a dozen of the last zero recessions.
Oh, BTW, you should continue to ignore approval polling, which has Biden at 35%. Every time things get better, the other side screams louder about him going far too far, and our side demands that Biden isn’t going far too far enough. You just can’t make some people happy. Something about attachment to desire, it must be.
A Great Jobs Report and a Vindication of Bidenomics
Today on TAP: Now, the Federal Reserve should just leave well enough alone. This economy is about as good as it gets. Real wages have begun to rise, especially in the service sector, but not enough to cause general price pressures. The inflation rate, measured by the Consumer Price Index, rose at an annual rate of just 1.2 percent in May. Inflation has averaged 4 percent over the past year, but has been steadily declining. The main weakness in the economy is the result of some problems of failed regional banks, but that reflects feeble bank regulation and not macroeconomic factors.
Yes, wages are rising faster than inflation. Dark Brandon and We The People have killed Reagonomics dead. We still have more than 40 years of that oppression to undo, and centuries of racism, but we know how, and we’re on it.
Biden Takes Victory Lap Over 209k Jobs Report: ‘This is Bidenomics in Action’
x Bidenomics is so successful that Congressional Republicans are taking credit for its results. pic.twitter.com/Bwk3f3kgaV — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 13, 2023
Audio of Woody Guthrie singing about Fred Trump
Repellent Rascals Rushing to Ruin
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
👇👇😂😂👇👇
Denying Denial
MSNBC chyron: Oklahoma Superintendent: “Tulsa Race Massacre not About Race”
Ryan Walters denies saying Tulsa Race Massacre was not about race
Paddy Ryan (1939) The Man that Waters the Workers' Beer
I put in strychnine
And kerosene
and it makes them terribly queer.
Oh, I’m the man, the jolly fat man
That waters the workers’ beer.
Regular Good News
💙💛❤️💜 🖤 💛 💚💙❤️ 🧡 💜 🖤 💛💚❤️💜💙💛❤️🧡💜 🖤 💛 💚💙
The Long Arm of Jack Smith
Jack Smith particularly interested in Dec. 2020 Trump meeting
I should say. Watch these spaces.
NATO
Turkey is getting US F-16 fighter jets, and Erdogan has dropped its opposition to Sweden joining NATO. The confirming vote in the Turkish Parliament will be next week.
NATO has reaffirmed its commitment to inviting Ukraine to join the alliance AFTER the current war is over. Ukraine is not happy about those terms. We’ll see whether NATO evolves on the deal it can offer.
Biden met with Erdogan and Zelenskyy in Vilnius.
Ukraine is getting cluster munitions temporarily while the US and others ramp up production of other artillery shells.
DEI
The Global Parity Alliance—a cross-industry group committed to advancing DEI—launched the DEI Lighthouse Program to identify initiatives that have resulted in significant, quantifiable, scalable, and sustainable impact and surface what those initiatives have in common. The ambition is that equipping leaders with these best practices will help focus DEI efforts on what works best, ultimately contributing to faster, scalable progress across the global business community and surrounding ecosystems.
UBI
Where guaranteed income programs are growing in the US The cash payment programs are intended to address income inequality and poverty. Yes. What if we could completely do away with poverty and the whole misch-masch of welfare, including Medicaid, at the same time? Keeping programs for the disabled, of course. Would Wrong-Wingers rejoice at the achievement of one of their fondest dreams, or would they complain that we’re doing it all wrong by giving the poor money instead of giving the ultra-rich tax cuts?
Student Loan Forgiveness
7 Student Loan Forgiveness Routes Still Around After ‘Wrong’ Supreme Court Ruling
Biden's Plan B on student loan forgiveness relies on Higher Education Act: What to know
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
But before we get stuck into all that,
Willie Nelson - Dark As A Dungeon (Lyric Video)
But he won’t, because the former miner will be making or installing or maintaining solar panels or wind turbines or batteries, or lobbying Congress to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies and other relics of a nearly bygone era. Or voting in Congress.
x Travel to the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The journey begins with a ground-based image, then transitions into views from the Digitized Sky Survey Spitzer Space Telescope before arriving at #JWST’s image of the star-forming region. 1/ pic.twitter.com/EjRq6ovql0 — Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) July 12, 2023
x Achrioptera spinosissima is a large stick insect from Madagascar.
(Photo Bruno Kneubuhler) pic.twitter.com/DCj8ufkL7o — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) July 12, 2023
Get ready to move over, Webb. The partially built Very Large Telescope in Chile is even more humongous.
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy. It is one of the world's most advanced optical telescopes, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes. The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer’, the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, allowing astronomers to pick up much finer details of the cosmos than would be possible with the ATs or the UTs alone.
x The VLT Survey Telescope has captured stunning imagery the Vela supernova remnant. These remains of a gigantic star are located about 800 light-years away from Earth.
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. pic.twitter.com/uPkTJseBQC — Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) October 31, 2022
The biggest, baddest telescope ever will be LISA, a gravitational wave telescope in solar orbit, with a light path millions of kilometers long.
Now look what you get when you combine a whole bunch of ginormous telescopes.
x The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova Remnant E0102-72.3
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/ESO/F. Vogt et al.); Optical (ESO/VLT/MUSE & NASA/STScI)
Why is this neutron star off-center? Recently a lone neutron star has been found within the debris left over from an old supernova explosion. pic.twitter.com/UdGOV0aUg5 — Black Hole (@konstructivizm) July 7, 2023
Why? Because the core collapse and supernova explosion were not symmetrical, and gave the resulting neutron star a kick of several hundred km/s.
x Amazing trilobite beetle larvae!
(Photo Nicky Bay) pic.twitter.com/FD72N502Sx — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) July 5, 2023
x There are only 20 Hainan black-crested gibbons left in the wild.
(Photo Lee Kwok Shing) pic.twitter.com/8j5Dlax6q8 — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) July 9, 2023
x Only the US, the former Soviet Union and China have made successful lunar landings.
https://t.co/ZmREBcCAQp — Reuters Science News (@ReutersScience) July 13, 2023
All four countries want to stake a claim to the quadrillion dollars worth of helium-3 in the dust layer on the Moon, in hopes of success in controlled fusion power.
Renewable Friday: Helium-3 Moon Madness
x 🧬💥 Unraveling the gender gap in cancer survival.
Two studies help to explain why colorectal and bladder tumors take a bigger toll on men than women, paving the way for targeted treatments.
Read more:
https://t.co/kEZipTRA7m#CancerResearch #GenderGap #Insight pic.twitter.com/RulvbJpLhZ — BGI Genomics (@BGI_Genomics) July 11, 2023
x Due to high temperatures, low rains, and pest infestations, the $55 million lavender industry is nearing a breaking point
https://t.co/clkPtuoqnh — National Geographic (@NatGeo) July 13, 2023
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
Support your local cartoonists, the striking writers, and the actors who just went on strike at midnight Pacific time, among others.
Our DK cartoon supply is increasing, but I increasingly don’t find a lot of them funny. YMMV.
"It's Not the Heat... It's the Stupidity" — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update x 3)
World’s hottest days ever
Hope (The Thing with Feathers)
OK, Mavis, sing us out.
"Hard Times Come Again No More" Mavis Staples
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