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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Prices go up faster than they go down. They rose fast as costs went up. They didn’t go down because profit margins were higher than what any of them lost from customers leaving. (Doubling the price of goods and halving the customers leaves companies ahead.) When other companies also kept prices high, suddenly all incentives went away.

    Also, people have become entitled. Everyone. Just look at McDonald’s. They kept raising prices, way above competitors. They just kept raising prices until people stopped going there, but they never stopped. Even when they couldn’t afford it or they could go somewhere else.

    People are feeling inflation and prices still aren’t coming down.

    Honestly, I think government’s part in the higher prices are close to zero. People don’t want to give up their conveniences and capitalism just doesn’t work the way people think it does.


  • I’ve been thinking since the election, there needs to be a rebranding. Most Republican voters agree with “liberal” policies. Most liberals agree with “progressive” policies. We need to start calling it what it is.

    Bernie, AOC, Warren are liberals.

    Clinton, Biden, Harris are conservatives.

    DeSantis, Trump, Huckabee-Sanders are authoritarian elites.

    Liberals are pissed because we keep reaching across the aisle in hopes of centrism from the DNC candidates. And conservatives won’t even vote for their values.




  • Biden had to make the case that he has been successful AND he’s the right person to continue to help people. Which is what both have done.

    It’s what Obama had to do in 2012. It was probably impossible to do this election.

    Biden focused too much on his accomplishment (which are legitimate), although he wasn’t going to make a eloquent case regardless given his speech problems and his ego.

    Harris practically ONLY talked about how she would help people with inflation and other struggles like home buying. But she didn’t make her case well enough (nor do I think she could have).


  • Option 1, SCOTUS deems that the constitution “isn’t actionable” like they did with the 14th amendment already.

    SCOTUS already defied the constitution by allowing Trump to run. People think a third term isn’t feasible for some reason. They’ve also made decisions based on completely theoretical cases. Stopping SCOTUS requires 2/3 of congress which isn’t happening.

    Option 2, the president does whatever he wants and SCOTUS simply allows it all to happen as they have consistently done.