Whoever is behind Biden’s campaign has gone completely mad. Is the goal to make Vance and Trump look like centrists? 
Term Limits for the Supreme Court?!
The Wall Street Journal reports Biden Planning to Back Major Changes to the Supreme Court
As Republicans gather in Milwaukee, President Biden is making his own news: He is planning to throw his support behind sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, part of an effort to appeal to progressives less than four months before Election Day.
The president is expected to soon call for legislation that would set term limits and impose enforceable ethics rules on Supreme Court justices, according to people who have been briefed on the discussions. He is also considering backing a constitutional amendment that would limit or overturn the sweeping immunity granted to presidents, the people said.
Biden and his advisers have been working behind the scenes to lock down the support of progressive lawmakers, who have largely continued to back the president even as other Democrats have called on him to abandon his re-election campaign. The president, in a recent speech, called for eliminating medical debt, another issue championed by progressive lawmakers.
Constitutional Ignored
Like all Federal judges, Supreme Court Justices serve lifetime appointments on the Court, in accordance with Article III of the United States Constitution.
The actual wording is “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”
Justices can be impeached.
Rent Control
I played that several times and this is what I come up with “I am about to announce you can’t raise it more than 55 dollars.”
Massive applause.
Dear Biden Speech Writers
Dear Biden speech writers, you are advised to not use the % sign in teleprompts because Biden might confuse % with a 5.
Also, I suggest a much larger font. Otherwise “rent more than 55%” might come out like “board man 55 dollars” which is what Biden actually sounded like as he struggled with the teleprompter.
Someone Please Explain
Will rent control, medical debt cancellation, and unconstitutional Supreme Court silliness (or proposed amendments), appeal to independents on average?
Step-by-step, Biden gets more and more radical. But the Progressive wing is already 100% behind Biden. This cannot possibly gain the Democrats any votes.
I thought the same about Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance for Vice President. But Biden’s proposal is worse.
I will discuss Vance in a second post.
Powell Says the US Really Needs to Fix the Unsustainable Deficit
Dear president Biden, please note that Powell Says the US Really Needs to Fix the Unsustainable Deficit
And here you go promising free money to eliminate medical debt, more student loan forgiveness, and every other wet dream of the Progressives including rent control that has backfired everywhere it’s been tried.
What is it about unsustainable path you fail to understand? If you took every penny from every billionaire, you would not come close to paying for everything you want to do.
Rather than rent controls, the government should develop legislation to mandate a Renter’s Pension Plan for landlords with more than 1000 tenants. Renters who sign a lease for more than one year would receive 2% of their rent as savings. Sign a 5 year lease and 4% of your rent goes into savings. Sign a 10 year lease and get 6% of your monthly rent as savings. A 15 year lease would be 8% of rent going to savings so someone paying $1000 per month would have $80 put into savings every month.
If the tenant breaks the lease early or damages the apartment, the landlord could withhold pension funds to recover their losses. If a tenant moves to another building or city, their lease continues in the new place. If the rent is higher in the new place, so are the monthly savings.
Many renters have no employer benefits or pension so this gives them access to the group benefits market. Long term renters would have guaranteed savings if they had a pension plan supported by their landlord. The landlord could also give tenants access to group benefits like dental or life insurance.
Few if any would want to sign more than a 1 year lease
Landlords might not want to offer that either
If they did, it would go up by the amount of pension saving
I agree, however the convenience of being able to move anywhere in the country and continue your lease may attract people who don’t want the hassle and risk of selling a house. If your parent is sick and you need to move from New York to Florida, you simply pick a place in Florida and your lease continues at your new place. Someone else moves into your New York home.
In order for this to work, the legislation would have rules similar to pension transfers. It’s not a perfect idea but currently does not exist anywhere.
25th Amendment.
The regime demands more unconstitutional, anti-free market authoritarian powers extending even further beyond the unconstitutional, anti-free market authoritarian powers it has already illegally seized. Washington DC is the disease. Term limits, a balanced budget amendment, Originalism, and ending the Fed is the cure.
So you want term limits for politicians but not judges? You think term limited politicians won’t have a revolving door of grifters who will ensure that they go from government office to a corporate boardroom of their donors?
Just elect better politicians and vote out the deadwood
No Fed? Who creates/controls money? How do we wage war without a Fed?
Almost lost War of 1812 as First Bank Charter expired mid-war.
Wait, I know, Mish-Bucks!
I’ll agree Fed is too powerful/political … maybe on autopilot using Taylor Rule?
Makes me wonder, is anything in the USG run by algorithm? (better than pols).
Not that it would pass congress but landlords will get around the 5% cap on rent by not renewing the leases for the current tenants. They will do whatever maintenance needs to be done and rent the unit to new tenants for whatever amount they want. This will back fire as tenants will have to move every year. Landlords are NOT required to extend leases to current tenants.
In rent-control regions like NYC landlords are required to extend leases to current tenants. Take a look at Mia Farrow, for one.
Funny how Biden wasn’t crowing about SC term limits when Ginsberg was in…
Biden keeps digging a deeper hole for the Dems.
People want their country back. That is this years Election theme.
The more this kind of lunacy gets proposed the more the radicals of the Left who are in control in Bidens party expose themselves to Public awareness.
Normies which is most of the population thought this was just a passing phase. They are now understanding just how far Left the Dems are positioning themselves.
Agree. The First Rule of Holes applies: When in a hole, stop digging
People want free stuff, hence the applause at the NAACP. Roman Emperors got applause for all the free bread — until it stopped being delivered. Odd thing is, we never hear what happened when the bread stopped: I suppose all the civil strife, mass executions, rioting and looting by rival factions sort of overwhelmed the groaning noise of the great masses of poor who survived solely on Roman handouts of Panem. Let that be a lesson for us. But I suppose it shall not.
Oh yeah, rent control, that will work…….LOL. Anyone in NYC want to comment?
And no not the bastards living in rent controlled apartments that have been in their family for 50 years and the son or daughter living there while quietly making $300,000 a year or has a trust fund
So like Trump, they are not controllable, so they must go… at the right time of course, so they can select whom the right ones are, and will be.
Hmm… I wonder if the rules will change, when the “Correct” people are placed into the positions?
Still getting ads that cover your writing. Very irritating! Too bad – I have enjoyed your articles for years, and still do, but if this keeps up I will just stop going to your site.
Get an ad blocker. Or try another browser.
I am not sure it’s his site as much as something else jumping in between and popping up the ads.
Brave browser for laptop, no ads.
“Constitution Ignored”
As they say, democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding who is for dinner. The Constitution stands in the way of that. Thus Democrats want to pack the court, to have their way to ignore the Constitution, by imposition of the court. A Democrat SC would have approved the Biden mandate of the dangerous Covid shot, leading to additional mandates.
Democracy in the USA? You have got to be kidding. The U.S. is not now, or ever has been, anything but an oligarchy=TPTB with Representative Republic pseudo-democratic pig lipstick.
However, we certainly HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a Bastion of Liberty for TPTB.
From the first time I became dimly aware of this pseudo-democratic situtation we-the-people have in the USA, I dispensed with politics and/or ideology or even economic systems, and just looked at the election voting math.
So, here (VERY briefly) is what I came up with:
1789 George Washington elected POTUS
1790 Total US Population = 3,929,326, of which 813,365 were Free white males 16 and over, of which adult landed white males (Assuming all adult landed white males voted – a logical assumption for the first election), 100% of eligible voters in that election = ONLY 43,782 !
The Constitution math on the population count to trigger another Representative slot in the House (30,000 for the first Rep, and more than 30,000 for an added Rep, and so on) was “acceptable” ONLY if all adult humans had been eligible to vote, which our Founding
FathersOligarchs made sure was NOT the case.It requires a great deal of wishful thinking based imagination, which too many of my fellow Americans suffer from, to say THAT is a “Representative Republic”, never mind anything remotely resembling a “democracy”.
The Senate was Oligarchy Heaven from the start, so there is no point in even talking about the Senate.
Then there was 1913, when our “House of Representatives” total count was (UNConstitutionally) corked, to make certain that every vote counted less and less, as the population grew.
Of course, after that, and even when Jim Crow voter suppression was addressed (sort of) later on with the Voting Rights Act (which was trashed some years ago by the Roberts Supremely Fascist Court), all that women voting and Native Americans voting, and other lipstick on the undemocratic US pig, did nothing to stop the increase in olgarchic POWER.
2008 Barak Obama elected
2010 Total US (Resident) Population 308,745,538
90% of registered voters voted.
TOTAL Registered voters – 225,499,000 (That sure looks democratic, but the Oligarchic devil is in the Duopoly and House max Rep Count details, never mind the Duopoly Party elites who decide who is on the ballot for POTUS.).
So, way back in 1789, the EXTREME MINORITY (go ahead and figure what percentage 50,000 “eligible voters” is of 4 million people… SEE: OLIGARCHY from the GETGO!) REPRESENTED BY White Landed Men had ONE Representative Congress Critter per 30,000 Population.
Just as of 2010 (it’s even worse NOW in 2024), with all the “added eligible voters”, we Progressed (SEE: ORWELL) to ONE Representative Congress Critter per MORE THAN 700,000 Population (SEE: OLIGARCHY).
Famous Last Words:
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” — Thomas Jefferson
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JULY 12, 2024 BY 🕯️🗽 ANIS SHIVANI
The Empire, Not Just Biden, Has Dementia
SNIPPETS:
Trump came along with his fake working-class grievances and the simplistic reduction of the world to those who belonged and those who didn’t in the wake of a neoliberalism that had reached the end of its persuasiveness for non-believers.
To resuscitate what was left of the American empire, what was then needed was a vacant mind, a vacant stare, a man who came so far from the past—a literal walking zombie from the era before consciousness of race and class registered even on neoliberal terms—that global military aggression could proceed apace again, as if the last fifty years hadn’t happened.
It is as if the last fifty years of even gestural progress in social justice terms hadn’t occurred.
Democracy in the USA? You have got to be kidding. The U.S. is not now, or ever has been, anything but an oligarchy=TPTB with Representative Republic pseudo-democratic pig lipstick.
However, we certainly HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a Bastion of Liberty for TPTB.
Way back in 1789, the EXTREME MINORITY (go ahead and figure what percentage 50,000 “eligible voters” is of 4 million people… SEE: OLIGARCHY from the GETGO!) REPRESENTED BY White Landed Men had ONE Representative Congress Critter per 30,000 Population.
Just as of 2010 (it’s even worse NOW in 2024), with all the “added eligible voters”, we Progressed (SEE: ORWELL) to ONE Representative Congress Critter per MORE THAN 700,000 Population (SEE: OLIGARCHY).
Why is that, anyway? We ought to have 15,000 representatives in Congress. My town should have its own representative. That would make corruption work a different way, wouldn’t it? MUCH less cost to run a campaign, but also much less needed to buy a vote. But in that case, how much would one give back if one receives so little in a donation. Only congressional leaders would need huge campaign warchests, and then the corruption would be more apparent. I say, build a new Capitol for 15,000 in front of the old Capitol (Museum) and let’s see some constitutional government for once.
People spotted the assassin for 26 min. Thomas Crooks was in a “sniper” position,
on a slopping roof, exposed to secret service snipers, for at least 30 min. Who
gave the order to expose Trump on stage. Why Trump assassination attempt was
not stopped ??
You are asking the right questions.
Unfortunately, the actions of inept people and the actions of evil people are often identical in appearance. Only by knowing their intentions can we decide if they planned to do harm or if clumsy negligence caused harm. There’s no way to know (yet) if this was typical bureaucratic incompetence or something more sinister. We may never know, but I’m betting on incompetence.
Still getting fffing popups blocking the text. Its not the antivirus spam. it is ads. Not getting on my phone or imac just windows computer using chrome.
….and Safari!
Use DuckDuckGo
If he is proposing all these out of the ballpark measures it means that he is losing the business community at a rapid rate. Since they are lost to the Democrats or soon will be, there is no reason to hold back from batshit crazy economic proposals that seem to have been inspired by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela fame. I wouldn’t short Trump now.
I don’t know why he wants term limits. The uni-party has gotten almost everything they wanted. Besides, everyone knows if the court was majority left this would never be brought up. It reeks of an act of desperation to stop his slide down any further.
DikHead is supposed to defend the constitution, not violate it!!
Biden is desperate for votes. As Mish said, this election will be decided by renters, so Biden is going for the renter vote.
Biden and the leftists who are really running the country have gone to DEFCON 1 panic mode. I knew this day would come.
The Supreme Court was, for several decades, a valuable tool for the progressives. The application of liberal interpretation to the constitution worked wonders for the left. As time went by, it became apparent that a “free for all” approach to constitutional interpretation was the equivalent of having no constitution at all. With the emergence of conservative, or originalist, legal thinking, the court put the brakes on the runaway destruction of the constitution. This has not been popular with the left. Today, the supreme court has become the shield against the authoritarianism which has emerged from the progressive quarter. It is a very thin line of defense.
Folks who claimed it was “a living/breathing document” failed to remember our Founders gave us a way to change it if we didn’t like what it said.
How about mucking up a Pres Candidate that will address the problems we are facing and already have that are being ignored?
NO?
That’s exactly what we have in Pres.Trump!!
That’s what universal, tax payer funded eductrination of all captive offspring, was specifically enacted to prevent.
How about term limits for members of Congress? Stopping the insider trading stock tips to get rich once inside. People are way too old with possible degenerate neurological disorders to function: Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Get SCHUMER OUT!!
I’m in favor of term limits for Congress. It was never meant to be a career
One term only make it double the current terms, also elinimiate all donations while having the govt finance each campaging with a fixed amount.
Government financing is dangerous. Unless you want government workers to control campaign financing. And it’s pretty certain that government financing would lock in incumbents more than they are now.
Term limits will do nothing. Where will you find these angels amongst men? Congress and the President represent the mores and desires of the body politic. With that said, the problem isn’t the politicians….it’s the body politic. That’s a tough pill to swallow for most people.
You can have all the checks and balances that you like and they don’t mean squat if the populace is generally ok with violating them. Violation of the checks and balances started shortly after the ink was dry on the Constitution. What we have is the best we humans can muster so make the best of it.
Stupid Stupid Stupid
Term limits – the sitting president will replace his current guys facing the limit with another one of his guys
Rent control – so much for maintenance, remodeling or new construction.
Debt cancellation – like college debt forgiveness it will encourage stupid decisions.
I much prefer the JD Vance model: WORK YOU ASS OFF despite the cards you have been dealt.
Clearly an attempt to grub up some votes from ignorant people.
“Rent control – so much for maintenance”
Didn’t a building in Florida recently fall down due to neglected maintenance which was in turn due to lack of money?
Deferred maintenance is the first thing to get cut when money is tight.
That was a condo building. Different economics.
JD Vance: It’s shocking that none of the noises I’ve heard have mentioned the most compelling reason for JD Vance: Trump’s death would not help his enemies.
A similar consideration explains Kamala. Does anyone think Biden would not have been 25th’ed long ago if the current VP were someone else?
I thought the exact thing when Joe was VP
Excellent observation about the current VP. There is singular not a more pathetic political figure than Kamala Harris. Amazing that she’s just a heart attack away from becoming commander-in-chief.
If you want to accelerate the demise of the USA, it takes only two words: President Harris.
“If you want to accelerate the demise of the USA, it takes only two words:…..”
Federal Reserve.
Harris and the other idiots are certainly not helping; but they’re neither relevant nor meaningfully different from each other. Not one single one of them who will EVER, come what may, do anything but ringfence the theft racket The Fed has put in charge of once-was America.
Money printing is what destroyed America. The rest is just silly roundoff to distract the unintelligent and economically illiterate with.
“Money printing is what destroyed America.”
I would have to say that I owe you a beer!
Term limits Joe??? You will get your wish on November 5th. Buh bye Biden!!!
The Constitution has sensible lower age limits. In the modern world of long lingering lives, it makes sense to cap the age of supremes, presidents, and legislators. Apply the age limit starting with newbies, to avoid age number choice being dominated by existing old folks.
I would hesitate tinkering with things. You’re making broad assumptions about old folks. Yes, more people live longer lives today, but even 250 years ago many people still lived well into their 80s and 90s.
What skews the “average lifespan” between today and years gone by, even 100 years ago, is the decrease in child mortality. Kids who lived past the age of five would live normal lifespans. But many children died of infant diseases that are uncommon today in the first world.
Pre-industrial-revolution, the attrition rate for kids (compared to today) was horrendous. Really horrendous. But, compared to today, it was simply not true that if you lived to, say, 20, you were good for 80. Adults died like flies back in the good old days.
You can see this when you look at population trees for pre-IR peoples. They look like the bottom of a xmas tree up to adulthood. So lop off that bottom and you’ve still got a xmas tree.
30 years ago, worldwide population trees at UN/blah_blah.gov topped out 80+. The Italy and Japan trees were ridiculous. The top, 80+ bar was a huge, overhanging bar on the female side. And on the male, too, but it was hard to notice, given the female bar. Such is true all over the world now. So population trees go to 100+ now.
Keep in mind, Biden, with all his apparent disabilities, is plop in the middle of his statistical group’s age-of-death bell curve. Ditto, Trump. We’re talking about a *lot* of people, here. Put a 40 year old, filtered for general fitness, in a lifetime job that’s good for their health. You better figure on them going to 90, easy. Such was not the case, pre-IR. The big difference is old-folk disabilities don’t kill them now. They just stop driving.
The Panderer in Diapers … SCOTUS is a favor to the MIC / Progressive Storefront (yes, weird but that’s how it works), Rent well the Admin is reading you Mish, Medical is a sop to Bernie / Barry which circles back to the MIC and the grand biology experiment that the American people have become. Flip through the list of biologics at DARPA website. Last twenty years, the focus has been biological warfare, defense, augmentation, cybernetic melding of human / machine / silicon.
Government (taxpayer subsidized) debt cancellation of any kind is playing anyone who had no debt or payed back debt as suckers, who are now making up the difference for those not paying to the criminal big heathcare and higher ed enterprises. Let the hospitals/ doctors and colleges eat their own sh- cooking to eliminate the moral hazard.
worse than that, its a violation of CONRTACTS. If Agreements arent kept, there’s lawlessness
Also, Mish, the Google ads that I see are blocking your text, making it very difficult to read the article. I cannot do a screenshot but it’s pretty bad. I can read it by scrolling and have a tiny window at the bottom of the screen where I can all the way across, but the ads to the left of my screen overlap the text of your article by an inch or so making it unpleasant.
I can’t do ad blockers since most of my scrolling is on a work computer.
All three are insane proposals.
Term Limits: While Congress could in theory change the term limits, Article III of the US Constitution allows for them to continue with good behavior. Historically, this has been interpreted as a lifetime appointment. Changing this would require an amendment….virtually impossible to achieve today. Proposing impossible things isn’t leadership.
Debt cancellation: Even talking about this makes the problem worse, as people are more likely to not pay medical debt now in hopes it will be forgiven. It’s irresponsible to discuss this at all at any level as it encourages bad behavior.
Rent Controls: This is a way to guarantee 5% rent increases every year. Landlords will want to take advantage of the ability to raise rent when they can, even when it’s not justified as they will not be able to raise it as much as they want in the future. 5% rent increases will get enshrined into rent. Also, in places where housing is in a shortage, this will make it worse, since Landlords will be limited to 5% rent increases and will face larger risks.
Biden’s got to go! I’m just “biding” my time until “Biden” goes!
Debt cancellation: expanding the definition of “victims.” People with too much debt are victims. Victims need help. Victims are defenseless. And it’s always someone else’s fault.
I suppose rent controls would fall under this victim-itis too. People now need to be protected from their landlords, as all landlords are unscrupulous money-grubbers.
Crazy bastards