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In 2004 a senior advisor to President George W. Bush famously told journalist Ron Suskind that people like Suskind lived in “the reality-based community.” They believed people could find solutions to problems through careful study of discernible reality. But, the aide continued, Suskind’s worldview was obsolete. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the aide said. “We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

We are in a moment when the reality-based community is challenging the ability of the MAGA Republicans to create their own reality.

Central to the worldview of MAGA Republicans is that Democrats are socialists who have destroyed the American economy. Trump calls Harris a “radical-left. Marxist, communist, fascist” and insists the economy is failing.

In Pittsburgh Harris laid out her plan for an “opportunity economy.” She explained that she would lower costs by cutting taxes for the middle class, cutting the red tape that stops housing construction, take on corporate landlords who are hiking rental prices, work with builders and developers to construct 3 million new homes and rentals, help first-time homebuyers with $25,000 down payment assistance, enact a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries, invest in innovation by raising the deduction for startup businesses to $50,000, and provide low- or no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand. "Kamala Harris, Reagan Democrat!” conservative pundit Bill Kristol said after her speech

For his part, Trump has promised an across-the-board tariff of 10% to 20% that billionaire Mark Cuban on the Fox News Channel called “insane” and Quin Hillyer of the Washington Examiner warned would "wreck the economy"

Just FYI I openly admit that Trump lost last night’s debate and I say that as a moderate conservative.

I also believe it was the most disgustingly biased moderated debate in American history that doesn’t mean I won’t admit Trump put on poor performance. He got (understandably) frustrated and let his ego get the better of him. He let Kamala get under his skin. He’s no stranger to hostile environments either. All he needed to do was respond with “well why didn’t you do that as VP Kamala?” when she gave her bs promises. But he didn’t respond like that until the very end of the debate. He should of done that from the start.

I am also very suspicious about how Kamala never seemed surprised by any question that was asked of her. I watched her primary 2020 debates. I also remember her VP debate with Mike Pence. That was the most comfortable she ever looked in a debate. Ever.

Sure the questions were mostly anti-Trump (the one loaded question asking Trump about Kamala’s race made me want to vomit). She also had the moderators debating Trump for her. But considering how disgustingly obvious it was that ABC was anti-Trump would I be a conspiracy theorist to believe she was likely leaked the debate questions in advance? For now I would like to pretend she wasn’t, but if there is any shred of verified evidence is released about this later I will quickly change my mind

Anyway I predict that the Harris campaign will take that win and run with it. They will do all they can to keep Kamala out of future debates. They will also continue to keep her away from any interview where she will unexpectedly get asked a tough question.

FYI:
It costs more than 3 cents to produce 1 penny.

2/3rds of pennies drop out of circulation into coin jars requiring the constant replacement of these coins that have "disappeared" leading to a spiral where more and more need to be mined every year.

A conservative estimate holds that there are 240 billion pennies lying around the United States.

One out of every two circulating coins minted in the United States has a face value of 1 cent.

$100 worth of pennies weighs about 55 pounds.)

A Federal Reserve survey found that Americans paid with cash just 18 percent of the time.

Because a portion of America’s children will, inevitably, swallow coins, by law all coins are required to be detectable by X-ray.

Coinstar machines have processed over one trillion coins of various denominations, worth about $67 billion dollars.

Coinstar is practically the sole medium by which pennies migrate around the USA.

Pennies occupy disproportionate space; at 50% of a jar, they contribute only about 6% of its value.

Theodore Roosevelt began replacing coins he considered "ugly, artistically of atrocious hideousness,” with designs he liked more. He put Lincoln on the penny because he felt like it & consulted no one about his decision.

The Secretary of the US Treasury could stop producing pennies today; no legislation is needed.

Canada eliminated its 1-cent coin in 2013 but ONLY its physical coin, not the mathematical concept of 1 cent. Payment by any kind of noncash transaction is STILL calculated exactly as it was before the penny was abolished.

The final digit of Canadian cash transactions is rounded to the nearest nickel: 1 and 2, nearest to 0 nickels, round down to 0; 3 and 4 round up to a nickel — 5; 6 and 7, also nearest to one nickel, round down — 5 again; 8 and 9, nearest to 10 cents, round up.

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/ Ronald Reagan and The Great Social Security Heist

Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents in modern history. As a former Hollywood actor, he had an uncommon degree of charisma.

The conservatives absolutely loved Reagan for his efforts to reduce the size of government, but most liberals hated him with a passion. Reagan is still revered by a lot of Americans. This reverence for Ronald Reagan helps to explain how he was able to fool most of the American people to a degree unparalleled by any other modern president.

With the help of Alan Greenspan, Reagan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.

On April 20, 1983, the signing ceremony for the new legislation took place with great fanfare. Below are some of Reagan’s remarks at the signing ceremony.

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In addition to the long-term problem of the baby boomers, the Commission found a possible short-term problem for the years 1983-89. But the outlook improved and became favorable for the 1900s and early 2000s. The possible minor problem for the years 1983-1989 was based on very pessimistic economic assumptions. So, at the time Reagan informed Congressional leaders that Social Security was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, the actual condition of Social Security funding was fairly sound for the next two decades.

Furthermore, Social Security was certainly not Reagan’s “highest priority.” Reagan had never been a friend of Social Security. He was a hardliner when it came to all government social programs. He called unemployment insurance “a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders.”

To some fanfare, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign today launched Republicans for Harris, which will kick off with events this week in the swing states of Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Their goal, campaign officials told Zeke Miller of the Associated Press, is to make it easier for Republican voters put off by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to back Democratic presidential nominee Harris. Curiously, though, in their embrace of the nation’s growing democratic coalition, Republicans crossing the aisle in 2024 are returning to their party’s origins.

The Republican Party itself began as a coalition that came together to stand against an oligarchy whose leaders were explicit about their determination to overthrow democracy. As wealth had accumulated in the hands of a small group of elite southern enslavers, those men had turned against American democracy. “I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that ‘all men are created equal,’” South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond said.

When Democrats tried to call those coming together as Republicans “radicals,” rising politician Abraham Lincoln turned the tables by standing firm on the Declaration of Independence. “[Y]ou say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort,” he said, addressing the Democrats who remained determined to base the United States in enslavement.

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by ‘our fathers who framed the Government under which we live’; while you with one accord…spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new…. Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated.”

Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation on Wednesday requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in Louisiana, making the state the only one with such a mandate and reigniting the debate over how porous the boundary between church and state should be.

Critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, vowed a legal fight against the law they deemed “blatantly unconstitutional.” But it is a battle that proponents are prepared, and in many ways, eager, to take on.

The legislation is part of a broader campaign by conservative Christian groups to amplify public expressions of faith, and provoke lawsuits that could reach the Supreme Court, where they expect a friendlier reception than in years past.

Governor argued that the Ten Commandments contained valuable lessons for students.

“If you want to respect the rule of law,” he said, “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.

It will also include a three-paragraph statement asserting that the Ten Commandments were a “prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.”

That reflects the contention by supporters that the Ten Commandments are not purely a religious text but also a historical document, arguing that the instructions handed down by God to Moses in the Book of Exodus are a major influence on United States law.

“Given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it is imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” said State Representative Dodie Horton, the Republican sponsor of the legislation.

The measure allows for “our children to look up and see what God says is right and what he says is wrong,” Ms. Horton told colleagues. “It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”