I'm being pedantic, because I get what you're saying and I agree with you, but I honestly don't know if he is. To me, lying carries some kind of strategy and reason, and I don't think the things he spews actually have that. I think they just come out of his mouth.

You're trying to apply internal logic, but there clearly isn't any. The owner is exclusively at the will of external influences.

I recently was off for paternity leave. "Doesn't anybody work anymore?" was practically daily as we were running errands. I started to respond "I wouldn't know, I'm not regularly here at this time since I work. How often are you here?"

The Jim Thorpe courthouse hand print.

Also New Hope has a bunch of ghost stories.

There's a guided food tour (and you should be able to add wine) of New Hope offered by Amazing Co. I haven't done the New Hope one, but the other ones we did take you to a park or another cool spot to eat all the food you picked up along the way. It would be cool to do their food tour, which is a scavenger hunt, and then propose at the last spot.

My dad was an NRA instructor who administered qualifying and I went with him a few times because I was shooting too. Some of the cops were beyond atrocious. We're talking from 7 yards away not even hitting paper. It wasn't uncommon for officers to be on their 4th or 5th qualifying attempt and still struggle.

You could do Doylestown/Newtown/Yardley and spend a day in each. A lot of good restaurants and bars and there's enough around to fulfill a day with.

At my job, several people on my team are employed through co-employment. That means we essentially hire a staffing agency to fill them. We're not allowed to give direct feedback to the employees, only to their management. It's a nightmare specifically for this.

I've had employees who were terrible, and I give clear feedback to their management, but it never gets back to them. Then they're shocked when they get fired, and of course their management places all the blame on me.

I had a team member who was actively buying a house. I did everything I felt I could possibly borderline get away with that wasn't putting my job completely at risk. It wasn't enough, he bought the house and lost his job about a month later. I really like every other aspect about my job, but this has been brutal.

In 90s culture, the worst thing you could be in any clique was to be a poser. Now it feels like everyone is obviously fake and it's a competition to be the most fake and outlandish for the sake of attention.

This was my mother-in-law. She would've had a much better quality of life in a home, but "they're for old people." So she lived a miserable 8 years in bed watching TV with her only socialization being her aid and the handful of people she talked to on the phone.

Yes, economic logic is circular. I'm glad you finally realized that it's cyclical in nature and the entire point of economic policy is to perpetuate that cycle. You are now ready for Economics 101. Congratulations!

Your own logic is self defeating. If these principles you're claiming were actually valid, we would already have an example of it being successful. Instead, we don't. You know why? Because when they're put into practice, they fail.

No, it really couldn't. We literally have history to point to to prove this. And the fact that you want to live in theory instead of reality says it all.

The interstate highway system was a major boon for our economy. That wasn't getting built by private hands. Tesla wouldn't be Tesla without government subsidies, they probably wouldn't even exist. Government investment in research is spurring pharmaceutical industries and will soon be bringing microchip manufacturing jobs to the US.

Meanwhile point to your capitalist or libertarian utopia that's better than the US economy. I'll wait...

Well that's the loss of the middle class and the economic failure of small towns. Those were part of the fallout from the loss of unions.

I blame Reagan for the state our country is in, both wealth disparity and division. There were 2 paths for America to go when he was elected: we could embrace the necessary changes to maintain middle class jobs in the face of globalization, or we could pretend it was only temporary and then start scapegoating groups to promise once they were addressed, we'd be back to normal. He chose the latter and doomed many towns to economic failure.

I honestly believe that whole format had him thrown off. They prepped him to try and say too much and frequently when he went second, he tried to defend what he thought Trump would rebut with instead of making the point in the first place.

And then there's Trump just making shit up, which adds to the above and his stutter and you get what you got last night.

And addressing climate change, and investing in our failing infrastructure. Remember how it was Infrastructure Week under Trump for about a year and a half and nothing was accomplished? Yeah, Biden actually got it done.

I will pay more for 4 & 1/2 years of daycare than I did for 5 years of college where I got 2 degrees.

Yeah, Biden can't be replaced. There's no one else with enough national recognition to carry the states that need to be carried. I doubt Newsom would win the Midwest, Georgia or North Carolina. I think PA would be a tossup and he'd probably so well in Arizona. And he's probably the best hope.

What fucking planet do you live in where childcare and housing are optional?

So the country under Democratic leadership experiences GDP growth, and you're asking what Democrats are getting wrong? Should the takeaway not be that all but 2 states are better off today than they were in 2019?

At a previous company, our CEO would use our company cards to pay bills on behalf of our clients and then charge the client. His thinking was it was free airline miles.

What he didn't consider was sequential liability, or lack thereof. We had a client run up $500k in spend, then they declared bankruptcy. We were on the hook for that $500k. It nearly tanked the company, and we ended up being acquired shortly after because we still weren't in a good place financially. All because he thought he was getting free airline miles.

It depends a lot on what the lifetime value of the customer will be. If it's something you expect then to keep purchasing regularly, a low price is a viable way to gain adoption. But if it's something like a mattress where you're only going to buy it every 10+ years, you're going to have less money available to keep acquiring new customers.

Man, it would be great if poor people just stopped being poor, wouldn't it?

Why do you think they're not able to buy assets? Because the cost of daycare, rent, utilities, and food leave them with nothing left. The solution is increased wages. And what leads to increased wages? Monetary circulation. Guess what wealth disparities cause? Money to be concentrated and not circulated.

What's hard to understand about this? We see time and again money spent on government programs produces a positive return on investment. It helps people build wealth and savings. We literally just saw this happen.

And growing wealth is accomplished how? By acquiring new assets or holding appreciating assets. Increasing income tax on the wealthy will redirect some of the money used to acquire new assets back into public investment. What's so complicated about this?

Everyone is acting like higher tax rates on the rich will tank the economy despite the fact that the rates used to be much higher when the economy was also successful.

Show me someone who makes millions of dollars leveraging only their own efforts. The truth is that those people are making money off of all the things our tax dollars go to. They're leveraging technology based off of government research funding. They're leveraging subsidies. Why should the people who most benefit from the government spending the money they collect in taxes not be expected to pay more in taxes to keep perpetuating the system?

That's the exact model that has built the American economy, but now all of a sudden people want to opt out because they have been successful. That's only going to result in the decline of our economy.