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Someone needs to ask Gizmo Santos if he's a Van Helsing.

 

Could be the Lindbergh baby.

 

Omar's ouster is proof that there are no more moderate GOP votes to be found in the House. The purity is complete.

What goes around, comes around. After 2024, when the Dems are likely to regain the House, a whole bushel basket of Pubs are going to bounce down the Capitol steps on their keisters.

 

The Daily Yonder, a publication of the Center for Rural Strategies in Whitesburg, Ky., with a well-reasoned reply to Krugman’s parachute essay referred to here several pages back:

Last week, the New York Times published an opinion essay from economist Paul Krugman on a purported “rural resentment” that has led to the rise of right-wing extremism. Krugman packs a ton of punches into a short article, and misses the mark with most.

His first claim is that “ever since the New Deal rural America has received special treatment from policymakers.” He name drops farm subsidies but also pooh poohs subsidies from the USDA-run Rural Housing, Utilities, and Business-Cooperative services, which he says are paid for by urban America because rural people don’t pay enough federal taxes to foot their own bill.

Krugman grumbles about paying for rural people despite the fact that rural America has been disenfranchised by decisions made by Republicans and Democrats, not by some sort of innate financial mismanagement. …

While Krugman is correct in saying farm subsidies increased under the Trump administration, those subsidies didn’t predominantly benefit the smaller-scale, rural farmer who made, on average, $9,109 per-farm from two subsidy programs created under the Trump Administration, according to the nonpartisan research organization Environmental Working Group. …

No, the majority of those subsidy payments went to the largest corporate farms in the country – by size, the top 1% of agribusinesses received an average subsidy of $524,689 per-farm, and the top 10% received an average subsidy of $185,412 per-farm. And some of these farms are run by billionaires who don’t live in or represent rural America, but are benefitting from a broken tax system that allows the country’s wealthiest people to skirt federal taxes.

On to the next resentment.

“What about rural perceptions of being disrespected?” asks Krugman. He quickly answers his own question by brushing off this legitimate issue: it’s just “human nature” to have negative views about “people with different lifestyles,” he writes. Yet, rural stereotyping – rural disrespect, as Krugman puts it – can play a huge role in influencing the public and, importantly, policymakers, to write off rural America as a lost cause. The most common misconception is that rural America is a whitewashed, simple, backwoods band of rednecks, not worth advocating for or supporting. Even though nearly one fourth of rural Americans are part of a racial or ethnic minority. And that’s just the beginning of why stereotypes like this are wrong. (See: our history of the word redneck, among other things.)​

https://dailyyonder.com/what-the-new-york-times-got-wrong-rural-rage/2023/02/02/

 

With a photo!

https://www.yourbigsky.com/billings...n-from-ground-in-mt-faa-not-making-statement/

 

Seriously, the RWSM is going to crank it to 11 since a Democrat is in office while that balloon floats along. But WTF can a balloon gather intelligence-wise that their spy satellites and TikTok can’t?

 

Revised AP African American Studies To Focus Mostly On Herman Cain’s Rise To Pizza CEO

 

Satellites can't pick up the specific smell of Terre Haute.

 

The things that cost "George Santos" precisely $199.99

 

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Also, when Boris F. Johnson makes more sense than Republicans, you know something is wrong.

Boris Johnson chastises Republicans for their fear of Tucker Carlson