Well yeah, compare this to ebola response if you want to see how clear the institutional rot is. That was also a pretty low risk threat in the US but hospitals were clearly indicated the plan for outbreaks and given training metrics and were designated as local response sites. CDC was on the ground and public health gears moved.

Seriously folks, tossing aside potential liberation theology allies is not praxis.

Didn’t stop the guy who did win from sucking off Trump anyway even though he didn’t get the endorsement:

A passionate supporter of President Trump, Sam led Sheriffs for Trump in 2016 and was the President’s N.C. Campaign Chair in 2020.

https://www.sampagenc.com/

Be a puppet state either way, she just wants to signal that she’d be an enthusiastic puppet.

Her entire legitimacy at this point consists of being recognized by Western organizations and now grovelling to a hostile foreign power. She’d be the worst type of puppet.

LBJ wouldn’t.

It was a shit system in the first place, designed to consolidate power.

I guess it’s just a strange thing to threaten: “watch out or you’ll be in trouble with yourself”

Face prosection from who exactly? Pam Bondi controls indictments for tampering with evidence and Congressional contempt actions are referred to the DOJ which then go to… Pam Bondi.

I couldn’t roll my eyes harder at this level of zeroing in on random drugs based on someone getting an IV.

By energy infrastructure improvements you’re talking about building houses and installing solar panels in places that nobody can live in because the only jobs are building houses and installing solar panels right? Because if ridgeline wind turbines, rail electrification and improvement, and grid backbone power lines are what you’re talking about I don’t think that’s in the bill.

I’m extremely skeptical as to the impact on these investments in the first place. Retraining workers to install solar panels and drywall and building a solar panel installation warehouses in an area that doesn’t have the economic engine to buy this new construction seems extraordinarily backwards. It’s like a free market version of China’s ghost cities but worse because you don’t even get actual infrastructure from it.

YEAH BROTHER, HOG CRANKING.

Would be useful if those fed dollars the author is decrying was much more than military jobs and general entitlements like ag grants, Medicaid, and SNAP. Like yeah, their legislators don’t care about those folks either. But we ain’t exactly pulling a TVA anymore here so playing like neolib Clinton era bare minimum spending on poverty is a grand handout is pretty silly. For the most part nobody in the South or the Rust belt has gotten shit post NAFTA. The new deal has been dead for a long time but we’re sure they owe us for managing poverty.

All Mamdani had to do was go in there and say both him and Trump are mavericks out to fix the system by breaking the dumb neoliberal rules and Trump would be all for it. You tell Trump you’ve got similar qualities that are good and he’ll think you’re hot shit for gassing him up.

I’m not minimizing the impact of people if the natural rent extraction of the market would result in the collapse of the system. The savings are overstated precisely because it creates a very poorly optimized mixed system. And if there’s one thing markets are optimized to do it’s extract rents from these things. See: the entirely of the American public private partnership. Medicare part D is the most recent egregious example on its own.

In the end we needed a lot more than even Medicare for all because the administrative bloat in the healthcare system needs a flamethrower taken to it even after the giant leeches of the insurance companies were removed. But it’d be a start.

Public healthcare in any reasonable iteration uses regional agencies solving regional problems with cooperative agreements or wholly public enterprises. Right now the nursing home system that is top heavy even while it relies on a combination of Medicare and Medicaid should be example enough of that. Medicare for all alone would just create the worst of both worlds of bloat just like we see with US defense, infrastructure, and increasingly space funding.

So I wanna give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene.

These videos of reality are devastating to my attempts at dehumanizing rhetoric! Kids today are anti-literate.

This dudes main contribution that I can see is some sort of attempt to peg happiness to income so we can figure out just how many bread and circuses the proles need for us to keep them content. Like yeah, Trump is operating well outside of the lines by talking about grocery prices going down, but these dudes have been going full ham about how income inequality is actually a healthy thing.

He’s just lying dude. There’s nothing to be that shocked about. I figure a Brookings economist would be familiar with these things. Maybe not since neoliberals seem to have some sort of massive aversion to ever contemplating material reasons for these things.

Hasn’t been one in the anglosphere in general for a long time. The NDP is the closest but they’ve given up their working class cred years ago. And labor, well, if Blair didn’t convince you they were a lost cause Starmer will. I’m not familiar enough with auspol but I’d imagine the trend holds.