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Rick Plant:
Happy Birthday to President Biden. Under Biden the economy is soaring and is the best economy in history!

Biden Has More S&P 500 Records Than Trump
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2021/11/20/biden-has-more-sp-500-records-than-trump/?sh=1ab5f0334547


Trump's economic record is being 'soundly beaten' by Biden as economy bounces back: Forbes

According to an analysis by Forbes that will likely displease former president Donald Trump, current President Joe Biden is blowing by his predecessor's economic records he was so proud of as the U.S. economy comes roaring back.

Chuck Jones of Forbes reports that Trump was in the habit of boasting about economic gains during his administration, but now his records are being "soundly beaten" according to the S&P 500.

Writing, "The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Thursday at 4,704.54 (its third close above 4,700) and fell just short of another record on Friday when it dropped 6.58 points or 0.14% to 4,697.96. The Nasdaq closed at a record high of 16,057, its first close above 16,000 while the Dow Industrials is the laggard at 35,601, almost 1,000 points below its record," Jones added despite rising inflation and the possibility that interest rates could rise the economy under Biden is thriving.

"By President Trump's favorite measure of success President Biden's post-election gains in the S&P 500 Index have soundly beaten Trump's equivalent at just over their one-year election anniversary," he wrote before explaining that, "Charlie Bilello, Founder and CEO of Compound Capital Advisors, has created a chart that shows how many times the S&P 500 has hit record highs in any year since 1929. For 2021 the Index has eclipsed the record 66 times, which is the second highest number to 1995's 77 times. Biden's record number also eclipses Trump's best year in 2017 when the Index broke its all-time high 62 times."

For good measure, he pointed out: "Using the Index's returns from when Biden's election was called the weekend after the election to Friday Biden's market returns are substantially above Trump's by 13.3% and 9.7% from his inauguration."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-economy/

Rick Plant:
Trump stooge Louis DeJoy is finally on his way to being ousted as Postmaster General affer he completely destroyed and dismantled the USPS. Criminal Donald put him in the position in which he has zero qualifications. He was a Trump donor who gave him and the GOP millions of dollars in campaign contributions so in return Trump put him in charge of the USPS as his personal stooge. DeJoy purposely dismantled the USPS by removing mail sorting machines in major post offices in Democratic counties all across America and also removed mail boxes in the towns. He did this so it would cripple mail delivery so mail in ballots wouldn't be received on time helping Criminal Donald to steal the election. DeJoy also wanted to destroy the post office for his own personal gain and as a result Americans are paying higher prices to ship and waiting longer to receive mail and packages.

'Now fire DeJoy': Biden moves to replace Trump-picked postal board members



President Joe Biden won applause Friday for moving to replace Ron Bloom and John Barger, two members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors who've shown unwavering loyalty to scandal-plagued Postmaster General Louis DeJoy even as he's dramatically worsened mail delivery performance.

"It's affirmatively good to remove Bloom and Barger from the board, men who said they were 'tickled pink' with DeJoy's actions."

But replacing Bloom—a Democrat and the USPS board's current chairman—and Barger, a Republican, is just the first step toward rescuing the mail service from the ongoing right-wing assault, progressive advocates and Democratic lawmakers stressed Friday.

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) called Biden's decision to replace Bloom "great news," slamming the outgoing postal board chair as DeJoy's "chief enabler and cheerleader."

"Now fire DeJoy," Pascrell added.

On Friday, Biden nominated former General Services Administration official Daniel Tangherlini and Derek Kan—a Republican and the former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget—to replace Bloom and Barger.

If Biden's picks are confirmed by the Senate, his nominees will have a majority on the nine-member postal board—enough votes to remove DeJoy.

Bloom and Barger were both nominated to the postal board by former President Donald Trump, who repeatedly attempted to sabotage the USPS ahead of the 2020 presidential election, which relied heavily on mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic.

DeJoy—a Trump donor—was selected to head the USPS by the postal board in May of 2020. Upon taking charge of the agency in June, DeJoy wasted little time moving to overhaul mail service operations and slow package delivery.

Last month, DeJoy's decade-long plan for the USPS took effect as experts and Democratic lawmakers warned the changes would ensure the continued decline of Postal Service performance for years to come.

Lisa Graves, executive director of True North Research, told Common Dreams on Friday that Bloom and Barger "disqualified themselves from serving in positions of public trust by their enthusiastic support for Trump donor Louis DeJoy despite all the ways DeJoy has harmed the American people through his dictates, including charging people more for slower and less reliable mail."

"They failed to object to his 'ten-year' plan to weaken the service standards or to DeJoy continuing to receive millions each year from an arrangement he has with his former company, a contractor of the Postal Service that got a $100+ million contract to outsource postal work, among other things," Graves noted. "It's affirmatively good to remove Bloom and Barger from the board, men who said they were 'tickled pink' with DeJoy's actions."

While Graves expressed concern over Biden's choice to replace Bloom and Barger with Tangherlini and Kan—calling them "not the right people at all" for the roles—she said the transition will be "an opportunity for the Postal Service to move in a new direction, given the destructive path chosen by DeJoy and enabled by Trump's appointees."

The Washington Post reported Friday that Biden's decision to remove Bloom—who's currently serving a one-year holdover term that expires in December—"came as a surprise to the postal industry and policymakers in Washington."

"Bloom as recently as last week told confidants he expected to be renominated," according to the Post. "Last week, Trump appointees on the governing board reelected him as chairman over the objections of Biden-appointed Democrats."

The Post noted that at least four members of the Senate Democratic caucus—Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—have pointed to Bloom's enthusiastic support for DeJoy as a reason to oust him from the postal board.

"We need a Postal Service board of governors that is committed to replacing Mr. DeJoy with a postmaster general who will protect and strengthen the Postal Service, not undermine and sabotage it," Sanders told the Post.

In a statement on Friday, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said he's "tickled pink that two DeJoy enablers" are on the verge of being replaced.

"This action is a good thing for the Postal Service and, most importantly, a great thing for the American people," he added.

https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-2655768317/

Rick Plant:
A right wing judge let a white supremacist punk named Kyle Rittenhouse off the hook for murder. Never in my life have I've seen such biased behavior from a judge who is supposed to be impartial. He did whatever he could to get a 'not guilty' verdict including letting the murderer pick his own jurors from a tumbler. Now these were jurors that were dismissed. Dismissed jurors are removed because of clear bias. But the judge let the murderer Rittenhouse pick his own biased jury for his own personal advantage. How the hell is this even legal? Who else in America gets to pick their own favorable jury? Nobody, but this killer was able to pick his own.

This white supremacist is the MAGA poster boy for guns and violence. He is (and has been for over a year) being cheered by the right wing media and GOP politicians as a "hero" for murdering people in the streets with a semi automatic weapon that he shouldn't even be allowed to carry since he isn't even an adult. So the fake "Pro Life" GOP party is cheering on death and a murderer. That should be no surprise since the GOP couldn't care less how many people die from COVID including babies and children.

These are the same right wing hypocrites who still viciously attack a Capitol Police officer for shooting Qanon MAGA insurrectionist rioter Ashi Babbitt for illegally smashing through the Capitol window in which she was a threat to his life so she was shot in self defense. But they praise a white supremacist punk killing people in the streets as 'claimed self defense'. As long as you are white and brandish guns the GOP will make you into a hero for their fascist movement.     
   
So, his mother drove him across state lines so he could walk the streets with a semi automatic weapon looking for trouble. This white supremacist punk is not in law enforcement and had no business being there. When things got heated, he murdered people in the streets claiming it was self defense.

This sets a dangerous precedent where anybody can come armed to the teeth with weapons and shoot protesters in the street and claim 'self defense'. This is pure right wing fascism on display because the far right wants to silence voices they don't like and violently attack them. We've already seen the violent meme that Paul Gosar tweeted against AOC which the entire GOP House condoned except for Cheney and Kinzinger.  The GOP hates Democrats and supports violence against them. We've already seen that in Texas where a 'Trump Train' harassed a Biden campaign bus and attempted to run it off the road. The GOP was gleeful about it and Trump retweeted the incident in full support.

This is the violence the GOP condones and it's getting worse with all the far right wing extremist hate groups that want a civil war and this disgraceful verdict emboldenes these right wing thugs to do the same. The insurrection showed us that these domestic terrorists will do anything to be violent and even try to overthrow the US Government. Now this bogus ruling will indeed allow more violence in America. Steve Kerr has a good take on this below and the bogus verdict green lights more violence from far right violent Proud Boys to carry out similar murders. This ruling says that anybody can be armed and then murder somebody they don't like. Republicans are ecstatic over it. America is slowly becoming a fascist nation with no law and order.     

Rittenhouse verdict step on 'dangerous path': Warriors coach Kerr
https://www.rawstory.com/rittenhouse-verdict-step-on-dangerous-path-warriors-coach-kerr-2655768286/

For far-right groups, Rittenhouse's acquittal is a cause for celebration
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057478725/far-right-groups-rittenhouse-acquittal-celebration-violence

Experts Are Warning That Kyle Rittenhouse’s Acquittal Might Inspire More Far-Right Extremist Violence
“There's precedent for acquittals like this to be used in inciting to and carrying out further violence.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/kyle-rittenhouse-acquittal-far-right-violence-experts

Rick Plant:
Current GOP politicians who have no business being in Congress anyway are actively calling for and cheering on more violence to happen. "Be armed, be dangerous" they are telling their supporters. They want more murders to happen. They are all sick and deranged. These anti American traitors all need to be defeated in a landslide in 2022. We can't allow a GOP party that condones and calls for violence against fellow Americans just because they have different color skin, a different religion, and belongs to another politcal party to be in control of our government. 

'Be armed! Be dangerous!' Republicans celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse verdict
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-celebrate-rittenhouse-verdict/

Rick Plant:
Why Biden's record on jobs has been 'dramatically underestimated'

As one senator put it, "I guess I'm not exactly sure why what's happening isn't being characterized as a booming recovery from a worldwide shutdown."



A couple of weeks ago, the latest monthly jobs report offered great news: The U.S. economy added more than 500,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate improved to a 19-month low. For those concerned about the strength of the economic recovery, the data created new confidence.

The Republican National Committee, however, didn't quite see it that way. Sure the job the numbers were encouraging, but, the RNC said, the news followed months of "bad jobs reports."

All of which led to an important follow-up question Republicans have been reluctant to answer: "What bad jobs reports?" The Washington Post ran an important piece on this overnight, with a headline that read, "The government dramatically underestimated job growth this summer."

The government sharply underestimated job gains for most of 2021, including four months this summer in which it missed more job growth than at any other time on record. In the most recent four months with revisions, June through September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported it underestimated job growth by a cumulative 626,000 jobs — that's the largest underestimate of any other comparable period, going back to 1979. If those revisions were themselves a jobs report, they'd be an absolute blockbuster.

For those who may be unfamiliar with monthly jobs reports, it's probably worth pausing to explain the process.

On the first Friday of the month, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a report on the previous month's job totals. When these new numbers reach the public, there's a temptation to react to them at face value, but there's a problem: The totals are preliminary, and will be revised.

Under normal economic conditions, these revisions are modest and inconsequential. For example, if an initial assessment from the BLS says there were 150,000 jobs created in a given month, and the revisions conclude that the actual tally was 160,000, no one makes much of a fuss.

But in recent months, the revisions have been dramatic — and all in the same direction.

In June, for example, the preliminary tally under-reported the jobs totals by 112,000. A month later, the initial total under-reported 148,000 jobs. The month after that, it was 248,000 jobs.

All told, we're talking about 626,000 jobs that we didn't know were created until officials retroactively updated initial tallies.

To be sure, there's no reason to suspect anything nefarious. The Labor Department relies on employer surveys, and the system was disrupted by the pandemic and the degree to which they affected businesses. It wasn't that the BLS under-reported the job totals on purpose; it just took more time for the BLS to get the full employment picture.

But there's an unmistakable political dimension to this. Over the summer, President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party received months of negative press — even as early voting was getting underway in Virginia and New Jersey — with headlines about discouraging and disappointing jobs totals.

The Post's report added, "From April to June, polls found that most Americans (51 percent) approved of Biden's handling of the economy, according to an average of polls from Fox, NBC, Quinnipiac and The Post. But as bad economic numbers came out and the national political climate turned south, those numbers fell steadily — in October, just 39 percent approved of Biden's handling of the economy, while 57 percent disapproved."

What the public didn't see was a bunch of news stories saying, "Never mind those bad headlines; we didn't realize until later that the job totals were actually great after all."

Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii added this morning, "I guess I'm not exactly sure why what's happening isn't being characterized as a booming recovery from a worldwide shutdown."

The senator's point is sound: The U.S. economy has already created 5.8 million jobs this year — far above any year in recent memory — and it's currently on pace to finish 2021 with nearly 7 million jobs created this year.

By any fair measure, that's a success story Americans can and should feel good about, headlines and RNC press releases based on incomplete preliminary job totals notwithstanding.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-biden-s-record-jobs-has-been-dramatically-underestimated-n1284038

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