Monday, June 17, 2024

Political Nesting Dolls



Mathematician Robert Coveyou once said, “Random number generation is too important to be left to chance.

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The Wall Street Journal revealed private correspondence of the terror group’s military chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
Sinwar admits openly that he wants more Palestinian casualties. They are “necessary sacrifices” that will “infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honor.”
So, do you think Sinwar will pick up on Blinkin's 'peace plan?'

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Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population.
The jump in Latino entrepreneurship has driven up the overall share of new businesses owned by immigrants, who accounted for 36% of launches last year compared with 25% in 2019, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data. New business creation by white and native-born Americans has slowed in the past two years, following a broad surge early in the pandemic.

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Political Nesting Dolls

“Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin, seniors with diabetes only have to pay $35 a month!” Biden said at his State of the Union address in March. “And now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it!”

The Democratic incumbent is trying to use lower insulin costs as proof that he has helped lower consumer costs despite the stubbornly high levels of inflation that have loomed over the U.S. economy’s post-pandemic recovery.

For Trump’s part, the former president signed an executive order in the last year of his administration requiring federal community health centers to pass on insulin discounts to customers, his own effort to lower insulin prices. Biden later paused that policy when he took office as part of a larger freeze to allow his administration to review new regulations set to go into effect.

“Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!”

Both candidates are whipping the economic waters, pretending the laws of economics can be guided and disciplined, playing to the popular fantasy of political cause and effect. And, like the statement "The border is secure," or the phrase "Birthing Person," these claims must be taken in context, in the Wonderland of Political Reality.

Not to say the Red Queen can't sentence you to death...

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