But there are signs of maturity emerging.
Stephanie Ruhle is the Democrat hack who was a cheerleader for the orgy of pandemic spending, which Biden's economic adviser Jared Bernstein (who famously can't explain the fiat money system) thanked her for, and who once opined that it was good enough for Kamala to say bread costs 50% more because that proves she's not avoiding the issue.
House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson’s funding bill :
A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal to fund the government on Wednesday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown at the end of the month.
Fourteen Republicans joined virtually every Democrat in voting
against the spending plan — which paired a six-month stopgap bill with a
measure that would require proof of citizenship to vote — bringing the
final tally to 202-220, with two voting present. Three Democrats crossed
the aisle to back the measure. [Davis of North Carolina, Golden of Maine, and Perez of Washington State]
The Speaker faced a troika of GOP opposition, with hard-line conservatives criticizing the use of a continuing resolution; defense hawks voicing concern about the impact the long-term funding bill would have at the Pentagon; and moderates expressing worries about having a shutdown threat so close to the election.
The roll call vote is here. 5 Republicans didn't bother to vote, mostly liberals from New York. Libertarian fool Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Gazpacho Greene voted present. The 14 Nay Republicans included cranks Biggs, Boebert, and Burchett, as well as grandstander Matt Gaetz and Nancy Look At My Big Tits Mace.
Don't blame Donald Trump or Speaker Johnson, or the 199 Republicans who supported them.
Spot gold was down 0.2% at $2,652.99 per ounce by 1657 GMT after hitting an all-time high of $2,670.43 earlier.
-- Gold consolidates after smashing record on rate-cut momentum
The political environment suggests the election is Trump’s and Republicans’ to lose. Nearly every indicator of the election context is favorable to the Republican Party, and those that aren’t are essentially tied rather than showing a Democratic advantage. Nevertheless, the two major party presidential candidates have similar favorable ratings in Gallup’s September poll, echoing presidential preference polls that suggest a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Harris.
Here.
On Monday, October 6 Jim Cramer came on the Today Show at 7am and told people who needed their money in the next five years to sell their stocks.
The S&P 500 fell from 1099 to 848 by October 27th, almost 23%, on its way to the March 9, 2009 closing low at 676 (there was an intraday low of 666 on March 6).
Over 500 bank failures marked the era fueled by these events, and more than 6 million lost their homes.
And no one went to jail.
Nothing good will come of ending the filibuster, either, not with the country this divided.
Although the filibuster is not in the constitution, the senate filibuster rule was as old as the constitution, and it acts like the veto power of the president which is in the constitution, except it is the senate's veto over the house so to speak.
It helps keep things bipartisan, and often slows down things which haven't been thought through enough. Obviously it hasn't been foolproof.
It doesn't occur to these people that Republicans would retaliate in kind when they regain control of both chambers of Congress, passing their biggest ideas on simple majorities.
Retiring Senator Joe Manchin said ending the filibuster would turn the Senate into "the House on steroids," which is exactly right.
Retiring Senator Kyrsten Sinema said Republicans would use the new power "to ban all abortion nationwide", which is unlikely but possible.
But still Kamala persists, because she's not too bright.
Gold prices surged to a record high on Tuesday as a cocktail of factors, from hopes of further U.S. rate cuts and China stimulus measures to elevated Middle East tensions, lifted demand.
Spot gold steadied at $2,625.25 per ounce after hitting a record high of $2,639.95 earlier in the day.
U.S. gold futures were flat at $2,651.30.
More.
One year ago gold was ~$1,825.
And updated 39 minutes ago lol:
Spot gold was up 1.1% to $2,656.38 per ounce after earlier hitting a record of $2,654.96. U.S. gold futures gained 1% to $2,680.00.