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OKAY!
Yes... that was my very dramatic first reaction.
Yes... we still have viable paths to victory.
But now we must do more than hold the line. We need to start looking ahead to what victory will really look like.
Because as I've tried to show you, They have.
Here is what we absolutely know to be true:
1. They fucking cheated.
And it wasn't just Biden. Senators, Representatives, State Attorney Generals, Governors, Mayors... all the local initiatives...
We really do not yet know the extent of the this. If those currently in positions of power are legitimately there by the will of the people.
We don't know if the procedures that allowed this were put in place by officials with no rights to the offices that allowed them to do so.
2. We know half of this nation and all of the rest of the world is being told that even Trump's own (illegitimately gained) Supreme Court is against him.
I have family in Italy & Germany. They were shocked to discover there was any reason to doubt the legitimacy of Biden's win.
The media has absolutely and with clear intent fabricated a narrative and are acting in concert to spread it faster and farther than COVID.
Hey, non sequitor: isn't it funny that in the Hunger Games she was a Mockingjay?
That's a bird that mocks, right?
A mocking bird?
OKAY!
Yes... that was my very dramatic first reaction.
Yes... we still have viable paths to victory.
But now we must do more than hold the line. We need to start looking ahead to what victory will really look like.
Because as I've tried to show you, They have.
Stop talking nonsense. HOLD THE LINE if you are a true Patriot! https://t.co/eoQdYohZwV
— President Elect KRAKEN ( formerly Rabbithole 812) (@812Rabbithole) December 12, 2020
Here is what we absolutely know to be true:
1. They fucking cheated.
And it wasn't just Biden. Senators, Representatives, State Attorney Generals, Governors, Mayors... all the local initiatives...
We really do not yet know the extent of the this. If those currently in positions of power are legitimately there by the will of the people.
We don't know if the procedures that allowed this were put in place by officials with no rights to the offices that allowed them to do so.
2. We know half of this nation and all of the rest of the world is being told that even Trump's own (illegitimately gained) Supreme Court is against him.
I have family in Italy & Germany. They were shocked to discover there was any reason to doubt the legitimacy of Biden's win.
The media has absolutely and with clear intent fabricated a narrative and are acting in concert to spread it faster and farther than COVID.
Hey, non sequitor: isn't it funny that in the Hunger Games she was a Mockingjay?
That's a bird that mocks, right?
A mocking bird?
I find this a really interesting point because to me it seems demonstrably true but also symptomatic of why the West Ham board are never going to turn around their reputation without a sea change in their thinking. (Thread, mute as appropriate)
âWin moreâ is the footballing solution of taking a painkiller for toothache. The pain goes away for a bit but ultimately you still need a painful root canal. And West Ham have needed that for a long time. This current limited success is *despite* the Board, not because of them.
Lest we forget, Moyes did a fine job first time around and was let go so we could pursue a bigger name, waste tens of millions and undo his good work. Theyâre lucky he was still available and willing to work for them again. They donât deserve him.
But winning is helpful because a lot of the time, fans struggle to articulate what needs changing. So if the team is doing well itâs easy for the media to say âYouâre fourth - what more do these West Ham fans want!â and for fans not to have an easily digestible answer.
But we know that a losing streak will arrive, weâll suffer some bad luck and some injuries and then it wonât seem so rosy. And at that point weâll be accused of being fickle, when the reality is that the underlying problems have been present for the entirety of the GSB reign:
A few years ago I was called into a boardroom and asked: \u201cHow do we turn around the headlines for our team?\u201d \u201cWin games,\u201d was my answer. Hugely simplistic and it doesn\u2019t solve deep rooted problems that require greater surgery and strategy from creative brains, but it helps.
— Lee Clayton (@LeeClayton_) January 30, 2021
âWin moreâ is the footballing solution of taking a painkiller for toothache. The pain goes away for a bit but ultimately you still need a painful root canal. And West Ham have needed that for a long time. This current limited success is *despite* the Board, not because of them.
Lest we forget, Moyes did a fine job first time around and was let go so we could pursue a bigger name, waste tens of millions and undo his good work. Theyâre lucky he was still available and willing to work for them again. They donât deserve him.
But winning is helpful because a lot of the time, fans struggle to articulate what needs changing. So if the team is doing well itâs easy for the media to say âYouâre fourth - what more do these West Ham fans want!â and for fans not to have an easily digestible answer.
But we know that a losing streak will arrive, weâll suffer some bad luck and some injuries and then it wonât seem so rosy. And at that point weâll be accused of being fickle, when the reality is that the underlying problems have been present for the entirety of the GSB reign:
The ECB's long-standing negative rates policy remains unpopular in a union of chronic high savings (demand deficits) & yield-hungry investors. Here I argue that the ECB must do everything it can to escape its liquidity trap of ânegative rates foreverâ CC @elerianm @VMRConstancio
First, negative rates are a reflection of a problem. Sub-zero arrived in Europe in 2014 in response to a critical problem of policy credibility â the arrival of the zero lower bound for the ECBâs main policy rate in the face of persistently low inflation expectations /thread/ 2/n
Europe, like much of the developed world, had seen a secular decline in the trend real rate even before the Covid19 shock, reflecting ageing populations and slower trend productivity growth - higher hhlds savings demand, lower business demand for capital #ECB #negativerates 3/n
The structural shock of the pandemic only accelerated the processes that began a decade ago with the Global Financial Crisis and the Euro government debt crises, pushing the eurozone trend rate even lower. #ECB #negativerates 4/n
This leaves the ECB facing a symmetric credibility challenge. In normal times, the ECB policy rate will follow the trend rate lower. If expected inflation adjusts to the demand-determined output gap, then the policy rate must fall below the equilibrium rate to bridge the gap. 5/n
There\u2019s a strong case to be made for allowing eurozone borrowing costs to fall lower, says @komileva https://t.co/bO86NHutqs
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) December 14, 2020
First, negative rates are a reflection of a problem. Sub-zero arrived in Europe in 2014 in response to a critical problem of policy credibility â the arrival of the zero lower bound for the ECBâs main policy rate in the face of persistently low inflation expectations /thread/ 2/n
Europe, like much of the developed world, had seen a secular decline in the trend real rate even before the Covid19 shock, reflecting ageing populations and slower trend productivity growth - higher hhlds savings demand, lower business demand for capital #ECB #negativerates 3/n
The structural shock of the pandemic only accelerated the processes that began a decade ago with the Global Financial Crisis and the Euro government debt crises, pushing the eurozone trend rate even lower. #ECB #negativerates 4/n
This leaves the ECB facing a symmetric credibility challenge. In normal times, the ECB policy rate will follow the trend rate lower. If expected inflation adjusts to the demand-determined output gap, then the policy rate must fall below the equilibrium rate to bridge the gap. 5/n
Pompeo is a perfect example of this thing that just baffles me. He owes America *everything.* His grandparents immigrated from dirt-poor regions of Italy at the turn of the C19th. He graduated *first in his class* at West Point.
He has a law degree from Harvard. He was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. Went to DC and joined a blue-chip firm. Also made a fortune in private enterprise. America gave the grandson of dirt-poor immigrants the opportunity to do all of that.
He knows *damned well* what the Constitution says.
He's also seen enough of the world to know *damned well* how lucky he was to grow up in a country at peace, governed by that Constitution--and to know *damned well* what happens to a country in a civil war
--which is exactly the brink to which Trump has taken the United States, only recently the inarguable leader of the free world. We now have a GOP that thinks, "storming the capitol in an attempt to assassinate our elected leaders" is somewhere between "great" and "no biggie."
He knows *damned well* what the world thinks of us now, and how endangered we are because of it--and not just us, our generation, physically, but the idea of government of the people, by the people, for the people. It could, truly, perish from this earth-
from Reuters:
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 12, 2021
\u201cSecretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg's foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him, European diplomats and other people familiar with the matter said\u201d
He has a law degree from Harvard. He was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. Went to DC and joined a blue-chip firm. Also made a fortune in private enterprise. America gave the grandson of dirt-poor immigrants the opportunity to do all of that.
He knows *damned well* what the Constitution says.
He's also seen enough of the world to know *damned well* how lucky he was to grow up in a country at peace, governed by that Constitution--and to know *damned well* what happens to a country in a civil war
--which is exactly the brink to which Trump has taken the United States, only recently the inarguable leader of the free world. We now have a GOP that thinks, "storming the capitol in an attempt to assassinate our elected leaders" is somewhere between "great" and "no biggie."
He knows *damned well* what the world thinks of us now, and how endangered we are because of it--and not just us, our generation, physically, but the idea of government of the people, by the people, for the people. It could, truly, perish from this earth-
