Ever saw a heroin addict withdraw "softly"?

I'll believe it when I see it.


And often, that "withdrawal" is really replacing it with something else that is a bit less "bad".

So, I'm sort-of waiting for "Not-QE5-this-time-it's-different-and-we're-really-tapering-pinky-swear".

Well at least being senile allows him a plausible excuse for lying, can't even remember what he had for breakfast, let alone what he said last week

That is the problem indeed. But unless one believes in "modern monetary policy" or whatever this fantasy is called, some tightening will need to happen.

Well, it should happen.

But when was the last time, politicians did something that is painful now but with good long-term prospects?

Especially in the US?

If that was easy, they'd have fixed global warming a long time ago....

Afghanistan withdrawal a week ago.

I said "good long-term prospects".

;-)

Perhaps look it up then, it's not exactly a secret.

Thank you, tremendously helpful.

What it seems to be in terms of, well, theory, has little to do with what people make of it in the political debate. It is a soundbite that has people take off and fight. A bit like BLM.

You want to understand or discuss you need to do your homework. Criticising others doesn't get your homework done.
In what way?

CRT replaced Marx' bourgeosie(oppressors) and working class(oppressed) with other groups (defined by race/ethnicity, sex, and other difficult or impossible to change personal traits including LGBTQABC+-/Z ) but the oppressor/oppressed approach persists. Being oppressed victimises the purportedly oppressed, it removes agency (and thus responsibility) and gives moral authority. Intersectionality increases the victimhood status the more boxes someone ticks, and therefore his or her victimhood status and moral authority: a black trans lesbian speaks with far more authority among the woke than a hetero white woman.

In that framework there's only one oppressor group: men.
Typically white men only. Oftentimes old white men only. Which btw is sexist, racist, and ageist in itself.

The Dems have applied this in the form of identity politics, for blacks for instance their skin is supposed to define party affiliation. Hence Biden's racist "you're not black if you don't vote Democrat".

You've phrased that wrongly, the correct way is "EDUCATE YOURSELF!!!!".

Absolutely. And the vicious circle starts - it creates victims.

Until people refuse the pigeonholing, they'll not get their agency back.

No. It gives power. And new mandates.

Who took the jelly out of your donut?

I have neither criticized anyone nor did I ask for an explanation. I merely observed that so far I have heard people talk about CRT - in a very opinionated way - yet struggle to properly explain it. And it is always a discussion with short fuses.

I think he left out some other figures..Wilfully ignore, etc. New terms for people disagreeing. It is strange since it was always granted courtesy to let people own their reasons for seeing things differently. I'd call it diversity but the diversity experts might call me wilfully ignorant?

Your sarcastic "very helpful" contradicts you.

Ooops.

Hi Pancakes,

Did you take the time to watch the video clip in my comment? Namely, how coherent, articulate Biden was during his senate years and frankly, even as VP.

Fast forward, and tell me you cannot notice a mental decline?

My Mom suffered from dementia and to me and others in the media, Biden's decline is painstakingly obvious. Are you so pro Biden that you choose to ignore the obvious?

Regarding Afganistan, why not have an action plan in place? Make sure most civilians are evacuated and military equipment confiscated/air lifted before one executes a hasty, "Dumbkirk" departure?

To me, that is beyond obvious. But perhaps you are the Biden equivalent of a "Trumpster "and ignore all things negative about Biden. He can do no wrong?

What a debacle on all levels and you defend him?

I find that amazing...

Biden's presidency is one of those things, where one keeps trying to achieve something and finally gets it, when it's entirely too late.

If you read "The Unwinding" by George Packer, it will give some insightful stories on Biden and his long path to the White House.

Trump cut down the number of US troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 in mid-Jan.
How much stuff do you think 2,500 troops could carry away?

Of course, Biden could have flown in a lot more troops which the Taliban would have claimed was a breach of the withdrawal agreement and started a new phase of the war.

Shocking that even CNN can produce a piece critical of Biden's failures:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/16/p...ics/index.html

To underscore and cite here: "Biden's mismanagement of the withdrawal from Afganistan"...And this from CNN!

And another passage from the same article:

"Biden now finds himself carrying the political can for two decades of the missteps of others -- after adding his own errors. He will be accused of rushing the US exit to create a favorable political narrative as the President who got US troops home before the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001 — plotted by al Qaeda from Afghanistan — and ahead of next year's midterm congressional elections."

Read the full article please as the criticisms continue regarding Biden. My guess is, the knives are out for him if CNN of all media outlets are printing this...

When you read the following headline, everybody can just sign and say what bunch of idiots the Trump administration are.

I mean it's the logical thing to say, don't you agree?

Except, it wasn't Trump, it was Biden.

The White House has been accused of omitting French president Emmanuel Macron’s scathing remarks from an official press communication on US president Joe Biden’s handling of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan.

The document, carrying a statement from a call between the presidents on 19 August, was released by both the governments, but carried uniquely different stances.

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