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He's a liberal.  He supports Social Security, Medicare, the SNAP program, high and generous funding levels in education, health care... he's also very pro-union.  He's to me, just a liberal Democrat on ideology.  I think that for a lot of his career that word "liberal" (or "librul") was something you couldn't be or didn't want to be, because that word has and still has a negative connotation to so many people.

Even Donald Trump is not really that different from other conservative Republicans in the basic policy positions.  Basically in 2024, you have a choice between a liberal vision and a conservative vision and I'm talking about the federal government - the kinds of people that they will appoint.  It's in many ways an original argument about the size and scope of federal power, and also want government can and should do, and also how to spend money and on whom/what.

I noticed many years ago that no state legislature changes the number of seats that it has as often as North Dakota. Here has been the number of seats in the Senate/House of ND ever since Reynolds v. Sims 60 years ago (according to Wikipedia page "Political Party Strength in North Dakota.")
1965-1966 -- 49/109
1967-1972 -- 49/98
1973-1976 -- 51/102
1977-1982 -- 50/100
1983-1992 -- 53/106
1993-2002 -- 49/98
2003-present -- 47/94

this is just as bad as requiring masks in public

Politicians are so eager these days to get up in people's faces (literally) and tell them what to do!  Very bad trend.  Let people do what they want - this is a free country goshdernit.  FREEDOM should be our national word.

Rudy served with papers last night

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I think a big part of it is that suppliers, unlike scalpers, have to worry about the stickiness of prices on both sides. They don't want to raise prices now only to have to lower them later when demand cools; they would rather have consistent pricing not only for reputation reasons but also for their own financial projections. So they try to price their products for the steady-state of the market. That means that they are slower to react to surges of demand than scalpers, who feel free to change their prices extremely rapidly. If the surge in demand is sustained enough to change the baseline level of demand, prices will eventually go up, just more slowly.

'Surge pricing' i.e selling tickets on line like in an auction would accomplish the same thing and allow the actual supplier (the artist) and not the scalper to capture the consumer surplus.

My exact point is that they don’t want to do this and laid out reasons why. The rationale is stronger for  producers like NVIDIA than for Taylor Swift, of course.

He only got 5 years in jail.

The extra 8 months were for wearing those glasses in a public place causing fear.

If Biden’s pollster showed him tied, the thread would be 8 pages by now….

And you know that in 1996 there would be Dole truthers convinced until the bitter end that he’s about to win!

There would be blue avatars saying that there's no way a draft-dodging, weed-smoking, affair-having President who tried to impose a socialist healthcare plan on America and took people's guns away will be re-elected and that even Democrats are disgusted with Clinton.

“POLL: By how many points will Clinton get blown out in Tennessee and Kentucky?”