#IT&039;S THE ECONOMY STUPID

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Monday, February 24, 2020

Monday, February 24, 2020

I had an idea strike me this morning, and while I don’t know how on the nose it is, it’s given a sense of clarity to a lot of things. I’m just getting down and will do more with it, maybe, at a later date. All of this is outside my wheelhouse and has more in common with being an interested student, like if I were writing about epistemological philosophy, Taoist thought or the Many-Worlds Theory.…

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"It's The Economy, Stup -- . . . oh."

“It’s The Economy, Stup — . . . oh.”

The proggies are trying hard to hide the fact that Obama’s economy was pathetic and that Trumps’ economy is already setting records that win elections.

Always nice to see Ron, isn’t it?  That clip is from 1980, when Ronald Reagan ran on a promise to cure President Carter’s “economic malaise.”  I put that clip up to make the point that our economy is always at the heart of our elections and at no…

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Friday, January 29, 2021

Friday, January 29, 2021

You know, it’s been a fairly slow and uninteresting day, politics wise. That’s nice once in a while even if it makes it difficult to come up with stuff to write about. Granted, that’s just my perspective and I’m still recovering from that Hank Williams biography. In any event, this is the last Friday in January and the world keeps turning regardless, so let’s check it out. The saga of Redditors…

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Friday, April 17, 2020

It has been an odd day. Granted, we’re living in the Strangest of Days and the New Normal would be unrecognizable five years ago, so that’s not saying much. But this was particularly squirrelly.

It’s just hard to wrap the ol’ brain matter around the President of the United States of America, reacting to AstroTurfed “protests” against Democratic-run states’ governors’social distancing efforts by…