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

 

[soy_king]

"They're not communist because they disagree with my personal definition of communism" riveting post.

That's the actual definition of communism, dumbass.

 

[Papa Pizzaria]

That's the actual definition of communism, dumbass.

I thought it was when we supported trans rights.

 

[GuntPunt]

By the way, introspection is still dead.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

By the way, introspection is still dead.
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It's just the latest in a long line of examples of listening to what they accuse others of doing, because they're doing it right now or planning on it.

 

[SITHRAK!]

If you want an actual, world economy shattering event that will happen in the next few decades, keep your eyes on the Three Gorges Dam.

And the Yellowstone supervolcano, the San Andreas fault, and AOC becoming the first female president. Truly the future holds horrors no mortal man should be called to witness.

california and new york

The two states with the highest population of a certain group of people who have, um, strong opinions about how America must be remade, and who her foreign aid should go to.

 

[Gar For Archer]

And the Yellowstone supervolcano, the San Andreas fault, and AOC becoming the first female president. Truly the future holds horrors no mortal man should be called to witness.

Difference with Yellowstone and San Andreas Fault is that while people like to say they’re “overdue”, this isn’t really true. Yellowstone in particular has erupted only three times in the past, with 800k years between 1&2, 600k years between 2&3, and 600k years between the last eruption and now. If it’s following a pattern (and that’s a big if, the sample size is fucking three) it could erupt tomorrow, or it won’t erupt for another 200,000 years, or for another 200,000 years after that, and neither of these possibilities would be statistically anomalous.

3GD, on the other hand, is a chink-made unnatural disaster just waiting for a bad storm season to fuck its shit up.

 

[Papa Pizzaria]

By the way, introspection is still dead.
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lmao this guy's overacting.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Tucker running 3rd party would be one of the biggest spoilers in history.

Yeah he'll probably do it against DeSantis and cost us a decent president. It's the GOP. We can never get what we deserve.

3GD, on the other hand, is a chink-made unnatural disaster just waiting for a bad storm season to fuck its shit up.

Or a war with China where one missile blows the whole thing. But since our military is in terrible shape, we can't be that lucky. It'll somehow still be holding back the waters in 2032.

 

[BlueSpark]

Musk is a shitlib and the people on both the left and right who think that him buying twitter will mean less anti-right censorship are delusional.

 

[Meat Target]

Copium! Get your copium here!

Budowsky: Why a Biden comeback may be coming

While Democrats face challenges in the midterm elections, this is the first of two columns breaking ranks with many in the commentariat class by suggesting the real possibility of a President Biden comeback, which is worthy of serious discussion today.

Readers might do a search for “Joe Biden,” “2020 Iowa caucus” and “2020 New Hampshire primary,” where words such as “humiliating” and “disaster” were widely used — and his candidacy for president was pronounced dead and buried by almost all political analysts.

Then do a search for “Biden South Carolina primary.”

You get the idea.

Today we will emphasize the health care and personal safety issue of COVID-19, where Biden has been an outstanding leader and manager, and the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine, where Biden has been a far superior commander in chief than his predecessor, President Trump, and his wartime nemesis, Russian despot and strongman Vladimir Putin.

When Biden became president in January 2021, America was finishing one of the most horrible months in the history of COVID-19 with more 95,000 Americans dead that month. He assembled a first-rate team of medical experts, heeded their advice, organized and managed the attack against the deadly disease, and passed major economic legislation that avoided a depression and created record-setting numbers of high paying jobs.

A riveting and powerful television ad should be produced dramatizing these achievements of Biden and Democrats in Congress, AND what they will accomplish next!

Equally dramatically with democracy under attack around the world, Biden has been a compelling leader of the free world, the exact opposite of Trump, and a far superior commander in chief than Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine has been a disaster for Russia.

While Trump divided, criticized, and ripped apart the NATO alliance, Biden unified, strengthened and lifted the alliance of democracies historically and profoundly.

While Putin criminally invaded Ukraine, committed war crimes and genocide and crimes against humanity that were epic and sickening, and thought he could exploit NATO divisions, and Trump at that time praised Putin, Biden brought the alliance together. He organized powerful and effective sanctions against Russia and mobilized an armada of weapons for Ukraine from allied nations that stand rock-solid together for Ukraine and democracy!

In February, on the eve of the Russian invasion, I wrote a column suggesting that Biden, NATO and Ukraine can defeat Putin. With the powerful management of Biden and NATO leaders, and the courageous and brilliant leadership of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and all Ukranians, that outcome is now very possible, which few suggested when the war began.

With democracy under attack, the forces of democracy won a huge victory in the French presidential election with the reelection of President Emmanuel Macron, and defeat of Putin ally and Trump admirer Marine Le Pen.

On COVID-19 and Ukraine Biden has demonstrated sound judgment, strong leadership, good management, and important results for which he deserves great credit.

In the near future I will write part two of this column involving economic and domestic issues.

For now, two points. First, Biden and Democrats are competing against Republicans whose Senate and House leaders are among the most unpopular politicians in America, and are spending much time now publicly discussing their stated contempt for Trump. Trump is dodging subpoenas, court orders and investigations while he still, incredibly, seeks to overturn the 2020 presidential election today.

Second, there is a chance that Democrats can gain Senate seats, because of Trump’s interventions and some good Democratic candidates, and could maintain control of the House.

Democrats will pass some new economic initiatives before the midterms. Biden will execute some important executive orders. Biden and Democrats have a strong case to take to an American people facing economic trouble and seeking economic solutions that Democrats offer and Republicans obstruct.

The Democratic rally cry is appealing and true. Keep us in control of the House! Give us just one more Democratic senator! And here is how we lift your lives, from California to Florida to Ohio and, you bet, West Virginia!

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and former Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), who was chief deputy majority whip of the House of Representatives.

 

[The handsome tard]

I was playing a game with my friend online and things devolved into politcal sperging. We talked about how comedians arent allowed to be funny anymore and he went into the "oh its both sides" when its clear thats not the case. I eventually said "The president is a leftist! How are leftists not the mainstream? Blaming Trump on Biden's second year is insanely desperate."

Then, I shit you not, he said "Thats the thing, Biden isnt a leftist president, he is a centrist president. He is pretty much a 'mini Trump' of sorts"

I got a little bit shocked at the sheer stupidity of what I just heard and said "Oh so NOW he isnt leftist anymore, he is a centrist. Im sorry but that reeks of 'true communism hasnt really been tried'."
The conversation eventually moved on from that but it astounds me what leftists will say now that Biden has and is still is shitting the bed and how they gotta elect a true "leftist" president next time.

He is a close friend of mine and we accept our different opinions but I make it clear " X, dont ever get into a political debate, you wont win." He got insecure and pissed but thats par for the course.

 

[Meat Target]

Biden is now discussing cancelling student debt. Dems are getting desperate for votes in the midterms.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I was playing a game with my friend online and things devolved into politcal sperging. We talked about how comedians arent allowed to be funny anymore and he went into the "oh its both sides" when its clear thats not the case. I eventually said "The president is a leftist! How are leftists not the mainstream? Blaming Trump on Biden's second year is insanely desperate."

Then, I shit you not, he said "Thats the thing, Biden isnt a leftist president, he is a centrist president. He is pretty much a 'mini Trump' of sorts"

I got a little bit shocked at the sheer stupidity of what I just heard and said "Oh so NOW he isnt leftist anymore, he is a centrist. Im sorry but that reeks of 'true communism hasnt really been tried'."
The conversation eventually moved on from that but it astounds me what leftists will say now that Biden has and is still is shitting the bed and how they gotta elect a true "leftist" president next time.

He is a close friend of mine and we accept our different opinions but I make it clear " X, dont ever get into a political debate, you wont win." He got insecure and pissed but thats par for the course.

Just to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think Biden was ever pitched as a progressive president. He was marketed as a centrist “return to normalcy” president, and even on the Right I don’t think he himself is seen as progressive/leftist, as much as he is a doddering puppet controlled by progressive/leftist interests.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Then, I shit you not, he said "Thats the thing, Biden isnt a leftist president, he is a centrist president. He is pretty much a 'mini Trump' of sorts"

Yeah he is virtually the same as Trump on his own. But neither Biden nor Trump were working with their own politics. Biden's controlled by the progressive left, Trump was controlled by neocons. But a vote for Biden was still idiotic because it was obvious he would be managed. At least with Trump you could think he'd be independent.

Biden is now discussing cancelling student debt. Dems are getting desperate for votes in the midterms.

They control both houses. What's their play, to trick voters into thinking the GOP still has power?

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Was the purchase of Twitter very unexpected by this Administration as well as the MSM/Corporate/Political class?

How does it change the political landscape?

 

[Meat Target]

They control both houses. What's their play, to trick voters into thinking the GOP still has power?

To stimulate Dem voter turnout. It was a campaign promise, after all.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

Right, I have mentioned before the twin follies of the Democrats. let me describe the twin follies of the Republicans.

Obedience to Authority and Trust in Systems.

Just as with Democrats hyperfocusing on single solutions and ignoring problems with the now, so to do Republicans have a set of follies which sometimes are strengths but which explain their many failures.

Republicans follies are first that they place an extreme respect into hierarchy. They tend towards viewing the world as fundamentally a system of ladders and whoever is on a higher wrung should have gotten there purely through their own merit and thus they should be obeyed in any field that falls under their authority. This pairs well with an absolute trust in the systems at play. A belief that the systems created either governmental or personal have been made by those wiser than they and thus are capable of dealing with situations as they come up.

Now, if hearing this you think it sounds close to reality, you are probably more mentally right-wing and just as susceptible to these follies as any other person on the right-wing.

The overreliance on authority and the systems makes Republicans slow to capitalize on opportunities that occur outside those systems. They prefer the slow and steady route as a general class and may ignore opportunities which present themselves in the now and focus instead on longer term goals. Conversely, they tend to hyperfocus on issues that will occur later often choosing to forgo entirely opportunities that they are given due to not having a present solution for those potential problems.

And if any of this sounds familiar but reversed, its because it is. Effectively Democrats and Republicans both have mirror images of their strengths and weaknesses. This is why when they get together they tend to do better (For good or ill for the people) than if they were by themselves because their strengths can overcome the other's weaknesses.

That's a very goood description. It fits with what it looks like from an outsider.

And just for some low-hanging fruit, it's sort of the fable of the Tortoise and the Dangerhair.

 

[Absolutego]

To stimulate Dem voter turnout. It was a campaign promise, after all.

Specifically, it was a campaign promise that almost entirely appealed to the 18-34 college educated demographic, who are, by far, the segment of the Democrat base with the absolute rock bottom approval rating for Biden.
Quinnipiac, among others, had him south of 25% approval among them, and that's with the assumed massaging of data.

 

[Cubanodun]

Biden is now discussing cancelling student debt. Dems are getting desperate for votes in the midterms.

This has been discussed to death here, is never going to happen

Was the purchase of Twitter very unexpected by this Administration as well as the MSM/Corporate/Political class?

How does it change the political landscape?

Now they dont own the public plaza and Elon is giving everyone tomatoes to throw at them with impunity

 

[Meat Target]

This has been discussed to death here, is never going to happen

It's been reported in just the last 24 hours.