Understanding the US - Again

[drnayar]

Palki Sharma on why Trump should never get the Nobel Prize:
https://youtu.be/gO_OE5G-R_E?si=U7orT0_mjZzox7zd

When a clown moves into a palace he doesn't become a king the palace instead becomes a circus.

[KL Dubey]

AmberG and Vauytuvan,
I suggest not getting triggered by each others posts. Stop replying to each other.

It's getting tiring to see two PhDs on an ego fight.


Ramana

My Rs 200/- ...the above advice is ineffective. E.g., I have entirely blocked this poster and stopped replying to him 1 year ago, but he still sends a barrage of replies to my posts (many times pasting my posts into his reply box). In fact the number of useless replies to my posts from this poster has increased multifold AFTER I blocked him. The issue here is the continued slander and useless comments on other posters who are no longer replying. Plus the constant labeling of posters on US party lines.

Is this how a respected forum should be run ?

Those who do not listen to moderators should be banned, and have no place in this forum. I mean, this is a no-brainer right ? No PhD required of the moderator either.

[A_Gupta]

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped Blacks achieve political representation.

In 1965, there were only six Black members of the House and no Black members in the Senate. By the 118th Congress (2023-2025), that number had grown to 60 Black members in the House and four Black senators.....The share of Black representatives in the House of Representatives is approximately equal to the percentage of the US population that is Black (13%).....

The US Supreme Court has chipped away at this legislation over the years, and word on the street is that they are ready to essentially completely do away with it. This means that in principle, states in the US can revert to pre-1965 practices. Whatever the states actually do, the invalidation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or significant parts of it will be a political earthquake in the US.

[bala]

Biden admin cut budget of the BLS.

These survey businesses are all BS in today's age. The US Govt can figure out actual numbers of employed, since businesses provide data to EDD and IRS on those who on their payroll. At any given time, there is data on actual employed in the US. Those who are being paid unofficially will not be accounted for, but big data processing will catch these discrepancies. US also has FINRA data which records all transactions on finance, nothing is left off. There is simply too much data by many govt agencies which provide the accurate picture. BLS can be axed completely without missing a beat. Laid off Statisticians can become data scientists for private companies, since most AI algos are statistics based, especially clustering algos.

I remember surveys predicting H. Clinton victory, but it turned out to be completely false. Surveys are silly and often times biased. People don't accurately tell you the real facts. Reading any survey result is laughable because there are too many assumptions in built. Companies do such surveys on their employees feeling mighty pleased. But employees don't reveal actuals and sometimes go along with the theme. There is the usual attrition in any company.

Claims by vendors like Apple that no one can get access to their records is also BS. The US NSA can break any encryption code. The NSA taps global data on the internet at the trunk level. All phone data, every click on every app is gathered by telecom (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc) providers, vendors like Apple, Motorola, Samsung, etc. They do big data analysis on such data.

[chetak]

U.S. markets lost over $1 trillion in value today amid India tariffs, weak Amazon earnings, and disappointing jobs data.

https://www.reuters.com/business/stocks ... 025-08-01/

[chetak]

"India has not been a great global actor. They are buying sanctioned Russian oil," says US Treasury Secy Scott Bessent.

So when Europe buys Russian gas, it’s strategy. When India buys cheaper oil for its poor, it’s BETRAYAL?

Clown


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bus ... 025903.cms

[A_Gupta]

IRS can tell who is employed, but not who is unemployed, and who is seeking work.
In any case, BLS trues up its statistical model with IRS data periodically.