Though Trump does concede that he could be prosecuted if he were first impeached and convicted.
But when he was impeached the first time (withholding aid, obstructing congress, ignoring subpoenas, attempting to bribe zelensky to announce an investigation into Biden), they voted not to convict with specific intention that he should be tried before a jury…
So congress openly refuses to convict, but Trump says he’s immune from criminal conviction unless congress convicts.
Sounds like this immunity is a fast track to dictatorship.
What about Amy Coney Barrets religious moral compass? Shouldn’t a good Christian help the poor and homeless? Isn’t that what Jesus would do? Or would he send the poors to jail because it’s now illegal. /s
Just to add a bit of context, it is normal for the supreme court to not hear certain cases just because of how the system works. Cases aren’t just brought before the supreme court, they start at lower levels and move up as they are challenged. Challenge something all the way and it may end up at the supreme court.
When the supreme court makes a decision on a case, there is no further argument and it sets a national precedent which should only be able to be changed by new legislation in Congress (emphasis on should because apparently they can just change their fucking minds on rulings that had been settled for decades).
If they are worried about setting a national precedent on a given issue, or if they believe the prior ruling from the circuit court is sufficient, they can choose to not hear a case. This makes whatever the circuit court decided the final verdict, but preserves the possibility of different circuit courts reaching a different verdict should a similar case be brought before them, in essence keeping the debate on the table until it becomes necessary to set a national standard.
They do not care about this, and they never have. Seriously, conservatives have literally no values. They defy every. single. conviction they attest to hold dear.
The democrats aren’t saints… But they at least seem to hold onto some semblance of uniformity. It’s quite ironic, really… The conservative ones seem to actually be the democrats when it comes to values and decorum.
This is a ridiculous argument and, honestly, reminds me of corporate thinking. Is the line going up this quarter? That’s all that matters. Yes, assuming inflation is CPI, the last year has seen wage growth. For two years before that, it showed an even more severe wage decline. It seems a bit out of touch to say “Hey, look, I know your savings are dry and your spouse dropped out of the work force because childcare costs outpaced their income but it’s starting to get better! If we use this particular method to examine your well-being the last year was back to normal so quit whing and be grateful!”
The first article linked is alleged to demonstrate that wages have exceeded inflation for over a year. That article includes text like this after this graph:
if we look at the fourth quarter of 2019, which was the last quarter before COVID, the real wage is $362. Now nearly four years later, it sits only $3 higher at $365. Four years of zero wage growth is also something that could perhaps bother people.
So instead they looked at a longitudinal study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which assumes CPI is the rate of inflation. They ended up with this CPI adjusted wage growth graph.. Even with their metric it shows wage growth being in the red from early 2021 and not recovering until 2023.
The previous guy in office drove up the debt and gave tax cuts to the very wealthy. Climate change is ruining crops. Russians are hampering Ukraine from producing grain. Fungus ruined a lot of of the cocoa crop. Bird flu has hit the poultry industry. Corporate greed is rampant. Still, eggs at $3 a dozen make 6 meals. Avocados are still $1 a piece on sale. Lay off the prime rib and filet mignon, you will be fine.
For me my everyday prices have doubled but my wage has not. I don't know whos wage it is that is keeping up with inflation. Oh wait is that the one where they cut out all the purchases people have to make everyday?
I mix up words a lot, but you know. my profile stuff. go far enough and you might find one of mine that mentions the issues we have with inflation go back to when the obama erra interest rate increases where not kept up and indeed were completely reversed. that caused the super heated market and such.
We have an over emphasis on finance in our system. After off shoring everything for decades we got cheaper goods for a while and with the dollar as the world’s currency we got to export a lot of our inflation. On the shorter time frame we’ve pumped a ton of money into the system. The powers that be could’ve put that money to work building out manufacturing instead the money went into assets and now stocks and houses are really expensive. So basic inflation is going on too much money chasing too few goods and it is because the big inflation has been going on in assets. And the deflation from technology has about run its course, everyone has a smart phone and a flat screen TV.
This is the end result of 40+ years of pushing the tax burden onto the middle class all in a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private. The elites have captured the political system to benefit themselves and the rest of us just watch as our institutions are slowly dismantled. Meanwhile what are we investing in actually building? Infrastructure… not really. Better social safety nets… hell no. We are investing in making more weapons… because this is what happens when a small group of elites has too much control in a system we the little guys end up fighting their stupid wars.
I got a “raise” this year but it was half of the rate of inflation. This has happened several years in a row. My numbers get bigger but my money does less. Overall my income is less than when I started even though it looks like more, and I feel like I’m going crazy when everyone around me is happy with the same wage increases.
yeah I have been passively looking for a job that will pay what I was getting in 2021 as far as the cost of goods goes and so far most things end when I give my wage requirements.
… Could we maybe focus on all the other things that are ludicrously high? Like hey… rent and/or housing prices? I could see some people being pissed if they thought their home value would go down, but fuck the damn rental companies charging sky-high “market rates” for shitty apartments that haven’t been improved in over a decade.
Utilities, healthcare, debt, education, foreign aid, environment, tech spyware, freedom of the Internet, insurrection. I got depressed and stopped listing things… I am happy for any kind of a win, but I stopped giving ticketmaster money in 2007. This is so overdue, it’s only becoming a priority because Biden thinks he can win over swifties. It’s hard to pretend that this should be a priority, at least free us from cable monopolies first.
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