Crash Course: Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it

Authoritarians always screw up the economy — come to think of it, GOP presidents have done that for decades Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZXhxem5kYTM0Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWwmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMHMxNjY0YWdicS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWxXA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbXRoaGJkZzdrMy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWxXA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMjVvMmk5ZWtwaS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWxXA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZnFoMnF5M3EyaC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWxXA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcHZkdnYzMzgzcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWxXA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it From Kirk Swearingen: If Americans actually paid attention to how other countries are dealing with inflation, they might feel a lot better about the Biden economy. For that matter, if Americans were better versed in the [writings and actions of our founders](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZzN0ZHU1dm45Mi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWwmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), they might understand that they believed in a strong central government and sometimes held surprisingly progressive ideas about how to manage an economy. 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Frequently, they radically overdetermine what a suicide means. In the wake of suicide, there is often — perhaps always — a desire to understand, a need to explain. Suicide scrambles our critical radars. It unsettles our usual frames of reference. It confronts us with an opaque message voiced in fatal and unverifiable idiom. It is a text whose author has already disappeared. Any response to such an act, including my own, is also a kind of trespass and failure. This does not mean that nothing can be gained from such an endeavor, that nothing can be learned from trying to understand the messages a suicide might contain. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvb3VteGs3NGdoZy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWwmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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The Kentucky Derby is tamed, and it's a shame From Brian Karem: The divide between the classes is as dramatic as ever in society and that is reflected at the Kentucky Derby. Outside the gates at The Downs, those in the surrounding lower middle-class neighborhood still charge to park in their front yard – and sometimes not much more than they got 50 years ago. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaG9vY3ZtcTN1aC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW00eDU1ZHoweWwmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZjPGZjdm5d8prlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). [Unsubscribe from this list](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoGevFP0RCaHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL3Vuc3Vic2NyaWJlP2lkPUAzNTQzOTUyVwNzcGNCCmYzxmY3ZuXfKa5SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Copyright © 2024 Crash Course, All rights reserved. 1000 N. 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