US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Bakarina]

Did she have a stroke at some point? Or maybe minor bells palsy from the vax? Half of her face seems to be lagging when she changes her expressions.

Injected botulism is still effected by gravity in the grand scheme of things.

She's also got early-stage dementia. She's flubbed lines a fair few times, and this latest example of mixing up Hungary and Ukraine is... well, you'd think out of anyone a Congressman would remember where they stored their dirty money, right?

We sure it isn't syphilis?

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

Now that oil is up around $100 (and up 5 cents today where I live), Biden's staffers seem to believe that releasing oil from the SPR will magically fix everything again. Because it worked the last time, right??

Just returned home from a two week road trip Mom passed, she was 86 from AZ to AL and back to AZ (approx 3500 miles round trip). My truck is diesel. On the way out, diesel was about $3.59 a gallon most of the trip. On the way back, it had jumped to over $4 a gallon, $4.25 at all the major truck stops. EVEN IN TEXAS where fuel is usually the cheapest in the nation, right there with Oklahoma. Such irony, I thought to myself as I drove through the Permian Basin (Midland - Odessa) along I-20 in Texas with more oil wells busy pumping that you can even count.

Total spent on diesel? 240 gallons, $966.41 = $4.02 per gallon (average)

Releasing oil from the SPR ain't gonna save any of us a single damned red cent.

 

[teriyakiburns]

You'll think they keep the grifting base located in Switzerland, a place that even if it was threatened with being invaded would be a hard nut to crack.

No. The swiss pride themselves on their impartiality and lack of corruption when it comes to holding money. If thedy allowed political graft of that sort within their borders, all that gold would leave in short order, and then what would they have?

I'll admit it's not a perfect settlement; a bunch of pretty corrupt agencies and organisations are headquartered in Zurich, but the principle is that their corruption takes place elsewhere. The swiss just keep their money safe.

 

[JustSomeDong]

Just returned home from a two week road trip Mom passed, she was 86 from AZ to AL and back to AZ (approx 3500 miles round trip). My truck is diesel. On the way out, diesel was about $3.59 a gallon most of the trip. On the way back, it had jumped to over $4 a gallon, $4.25 at all the major truck stops. EVEN IN TEXAS where fuel is usually the cheapest in the nation, right there with Oklahoma. Such irony, I thought to myself as I drove through the Permian Basin (Midland - Odessa) along I-20 in Texas with more oil wells busy pumping that you can even count.

Total spent on diesel? 240 gallons, $966.41 = $4.02 per gallon (average)

Releasing oil from the SPR ain't gonna save any of us a single damned red cent.

My buddy has 3 F250s, 1 for him and 2 for his crews to use. He himself bought a '99 ranger I helped him fix up. It was supposed to just be a fun truck, for our dirt bikes and atvs and our redneck shenanigans, cheaper than driving his work truck everywhere. He has to have the crews use the 250's because the work they do requires the payload, but he realized that since he's stepped back somewhat into a less hands on role as his business grew, that he could save a couple hundred bucks a week by driving that little old ranger himself most of the time. Shit is crazy.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I've always chalked up the slurring and and missed lines to day drinking.

Keep in mind that the root word for "Senate" is "senex". Or, "old man". The House isn't far behind either (Pelosi being unliving proof of that).

For all we made fun of the Soviets for being a gerontocracy, we're really not that different.

 

[Compositesludge]

Oh yeah, I open my Fidelity account and the numbers are redder than the Soviet flag.

I'm thinking about getting my fiduciary a bottle of scotch as thanks for not just throwing in the towel in these trying times.

 

[b0x]

Not only if but -when- people asked me if I thought Trump had committed a variety of legal skirting I had said, without hesitation or pause, 'without a doubt'.

Well, I guess I was incredibly wrong.

Trump has done things that are questionable. He has bent the rules in Real Estate, and he was found to have leveraged his Foundation towards his political campaign. It's also rumored that Trump had ties to some associates of Epstein, which is how he met his then model wife Melania.

But since normies rely on the MSM for all their news, they perceive that Trump is much worse than Hillary or Biden. Most of them don't know about Hillarys Uranium deal with Russia, or the boasts from Biden about the Ukrainian prosecutor. They've read enough MSM articles to rationalize away Hunter Biden, Hillarys private server, the steele dossier, and the Trump wiretapping, just to name a few.

 

[Gehenna]

A big difference between business and politics is in business, is it's pretty important to keep yourself legally clean. You can be a giant douchebag and an unethical snake, but if breaking laws can be traced directly back to directives you gave your employees, you can get absolutely screwed by a government compliance attorney who's decided he's had enough of your shit. The whole reason businesses hire armies of lawyers and accountants is to stay technically clean. Of course, a fair number of them cross the line and rely on political patronage to protect them, but that's more the exception than the norm. When you do skirt the boundaries, you don't do dumb shit like hand a politician a bag of cash with "Quid Pro Quo" stamped on it. You make a donation to his campaign and invite him to a gala, all of which is legal.

This quite different from politicians, who flagrantly break laws and rely on good-old-boy networks and mutual blackmail to keep them out of jail.

Here's the thing. he cannot even have done -that-.

A lot of it, in fact, the vast majority is only technically 'legal' but any determined prosecutor could nail them on it. The only reason they do not is that it'd be more work than it would ever be worth to throw some CEO behind bars on it.


But Trump? What bigger prize could there be?

 

[Snekposter]

I've always chalked up the slurring and and missed lines to day drinking.

We sure it isn't syphilis?

Nobody's saying things have to be mutually exclusive.

Unless Hungary is where they're moving the grift now Ukraine is compromised.

Na. Orban's been cracking down hard on international fuckery. Soros and his associates are pretty much banned from there, possibly even under pain of extra-judicial death. The Democrat dirty money is not welcome there, especially since as part of the EU its subject to all sorts of anti-corruption laws which are funnily and sadly enough, much stronger than US ones.

 

[BubbleButt]

Mothafuckaz 'bout to learn what a pyrrhic victory is.

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

Nancy Pelosi has got early-stage dementia. She's flubbed lines a fair few times, and this latest example of mixing up Hungary and Ukraine is... well, you'd think out of anyone a Congressman would remember where they stored their dirty money, right?

Its a testament to the mindfucking and gaslighting that politicians in America in their 80s and some close to 90s are described as having "early stage" and "early onset" dementia. You'd need to think these dingbats are going to live to be over 150 years old for this to be early onset dementia. Congress has been literally demented for the last 20 years and the president right now is floridly, luridly, forgetting-his-wife's-name-and shitting-his-pants-in-public senile. Explains a lot, right?

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Somehow, and I cannot believe it myself, Trump is apparently the cleanest motherfucker in both business and politics.

That realization actually made me think about a lot of things when it was really driven home. Makes you just fucking hate these people even more.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

Somehow, and I cannot believe it myself, Trump is apparently the cleanest motherfucker in both business and politics.

Trump is a big mouth he wears everything on his sleeves.

 

[Meat Target]

Its a testament and mindfucking to the gaslighting that politicians in America in their 80s and some close to 90s are described as having "early stage" and "early onset" dementia. You'd need to think these dingbats are going to live to be over 150 years old for this to be early onset dementia. Congress has been literally demented for the last 20 years and the president right now is floridly, luridly, forgetting-his-wife's-name-and shitting-his-pants-in-public senile. Explains a lot, right?

Black magic and adrenochrome can only do so much.

 

[The Ugly One]

Keep in mind that the root word for "Senate" is "senex". Or, "old man". The House isn't far behind either (Pelosi being unliving proof of that).

For all we made fun of the Soviets for being a gerontocracy, we're really not that different.

We're actually worse. We've got a lot of octogenarians in power, while the guys we think of as the elderly figureheads in the USSR were in their 70s.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Its a testament to the mindfucking and gaslighting that politicians in America in their 80s and some close to 90s are described as having "early stage" and "early onset" dementia. You'd need to think these dingbats are going to live to be over 150 years old for this to be early onset dementia. Congress has been literally demented for the last 20 years and the president right now is floridly, luridly, forgetting-his-wife's-name-and shitting-his-pants-in-public senile. Explains a lot, right?

No, early stage and early onset are very different things. Saying someone has early stage dementia just means that they're in the early stages of visible, inevitable decline. Pelosi is still lucid, mostly, and still capable of functioning with relatively little assistance, but there are clear signs of decline beyond what you'd expect from mere senescence. That's early stage dementia. Early onset would be if she were at this stage in her 50s.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Based Blonald Blumpf back at it again with the spot-on observations.

Libcucks:
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"NU-UH, PUTIN PLAYED YOU LIKE A DRUM, DRUMPF!"

Sad thing is they would say something like that under the basis of not starting a war with Russia over the 2016 election

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Re Gas Prices.

You think that shit is insane, I was giving the Lady who works in the Cigarette shop at my store her break and after Taxes ONE PACK of Cigarettes was over ten dollars, I do not know how anyone affords that shit.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I wonder who they're going to ship the Strategic Reserve to this time?

I'm betting on Germany.

Because it ain't going into our gas tanks.

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

You know, if Germany feels so strongly that Nord Stream 2 shouldn't be operational, why does it take billions of cubic meters of natural gas from Nord Stream 1 every year? If they feel that strongly, Russia should say Germany can't take natural gas from Nord Stream 1. They can pay through the nose for liquified natural gas from America and nations in its sphere of influence. I mean, if it'd be morally monstrous to use Nord Stream 2, why did Germany use Nord Stream 1 for 11 years and why do they still want to use Nord Stream 1?