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

 

[verissimus]

Wait, we just sent $40 billion to Ukraine, right? Why didn't we use that to Solve World Hunger?

Probably because in the Left's pov, sending money to one of the world's largest "breadbaskets" is solving world hunger. Only problem is, like most foreign/military aid, there is no guarantee the money won't be used for "other purposes".

 

[teriyakiburns]

Probably because in the Left's pov, sending money to one of the world's largest "breadbaskets" is solving world hunger. Only problem is, like most foreign/military aid, there is no guarantee the money won't be used for "other purposes".

Most of the money isn't going to Ukraine. I think there's a breakdown of the bill somewhere up thread, but IIRC a lot of it is purchasing materiel to lease to Ukraine (which is pretty much just pork barrelling), while a big chunk is going to completely unrelated shit that benefits Democrat politicians and donors. It's nothing compared to what they were trying to pull with the infrastructure bill, but it probably pays down some of the interest on all the debts the party owes.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Didn’t they just try to blame this on oil companies for not drilling more? Do they even believe their own bullshit anymore?

They believe their own bullshit because if they don't, they have to acknowledge it's their fault. Their mentality is literally this

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

The mission of any federal three-letter agency is not the wellbeing of the American people, but the wellbeing of the Establishment.

The sooner people realize this, the better. Many people still buy the propaganda.

Didn’t they just try to blame this on oil companies for not drilling more? Do they even believe their own bullshit anymore?

They never believed it. It's just lies to tell the base that says they hate corporations while worshipping them.

Why didn't we use that to Solve World Hunger?

You cannot spend money like that to solve world hunger. All you do with that is create more hungry mouths to feed.

 

[derpherp2]

Most of the money isn't going to Ukraine. I think there's a breakdown of the bill somewhere up thread, but IIRC a lot of it is purchasing materiel to lease to Ukraine (which is pretty much just pork barrelling), while a big chunk is going to completely unrelated shit that benefits Democrat politicians and donors. It's nothing compared to what they were trying to pull with the infrastructure bill, but it probably pays down some of the interest on all the debts the party owes.

iirc like 36B was for "humanitarian efforts and securities" not aid, btw. And 4B was marked for Ukraine itself.

Somehow we're supposed to believe this is helping Ukraine, which would - at best case, have spent that money back at us.
So we're 36B in the red for absolutely no reason.

 

[Wargarbl]

I missed Biden's little speech.

Did he have anything useful to say, or did he just ramble about the fantasy land him and his Administration live in?

I noted a lot of the laptop caste is mocking people not being able to find baby formula and saying that inflation is down and gas prices are going to go down.

Which makes me assume that there's not a single can of baby formula left in the world, inflation is somehow in triple digits, and there's no gasoline left on earth.

Biden said a whole lot of nothing and offered zero solutions, which is abysmal even for him. He usually offers a few things that either won't pass congress or won't help much, but he literally said nothing other than "It's a priority" (tm) and blamed external factors. It was fucking pathetic.

The baby formula shortage is very real & very scary to parents. Even those who were decently stocked are realizing they're going to burn through what they have long before the situation resolves. The government response is absolutely incompetent at best and abjectly evil at worst.

 

[Collections Agent]

It's a political party that runs on Russell Greer logic. The thing that will salvage conservatives' prospects is the Dems' Dunning-Kruger approach to everything.

I don't give a shit about political party, I just don't want the people running the nation to be fucking spergs about social justice while people are being priced out of basic necessities

 

[Blake Chortles]

This whole idea of "Gays are only gay because molestation" is... weird, but I kinda get why some people believe it.

There are a -lot- of very public gay people who turn out to have been molested, and so this is what gives the impression. The problem is that its a case of "The most visible example is not the most representative example". Being molested did likely make these people internalize it as "Oh, I must have been gay", but that does not mean that is all or even most (by far) gay people. Rather, the need to rationalize and internalize that thought makes these people a -lot- more vocal about it than your average born-this-way gay person and thus the most public and visible gay people are... effectively broken people.

So yah, to be shorter. Molestation = Need to rationalize as "I was gay" = "Need to be very vocal about it" = "Most scene example bit not representative of majority".


To use a quick conservative example. When people see Romney being Romney, he was for the longest time the most visible Republican next to McCain but I don't think many people here would say that he was representative of Republicans as a whole. But he would and was cited by the general populace as being representative because he was so visible.

Its not anecdotal though. Something like 60% (its an insanely high number I’ll try to find the exact one and edit it) of lgbt reported being molested. I think bisexuality had the biggest discrepancy, like x percent of heteros report being molested and it was 5x for bisexuals.

 

[WULULULULU]

Man, it's no fucking wonder oil companies are hesitant to do any kind of investment. When you have the Energy Secretary saying that it's a good thing gas is so expensive so that people are more likely to switch to electrics (never mind that fossil fuels are used for most power plants because we're too scared of nuclear), financial institutions being pressured by woke capital to not fund any new ventures, and the government canceling new leases left and right, is that the kind of environment you'd want to sink your resources into? Add onto that the long amount of time to get a new rig up and running (someone mentioned it upthread somewhere, but I seem to recall it being on the order of months), as well as the very real possibility of not having the parts you need thanks to supply chain disruptions, and it's looking like this shit isn't going to be abated for a long time yet.

Not to say that this shit would be completely resolved if Trump were in office, but he at least understood how to get government the hell out of the way and let business do its thing. Biden's handlers and the Democrats in general don't know jack shit about the economy, all they know is how to blame everyone else.

Neat because right now, this is going to the same way but with another country

I've compared Marcos Jr., to Joe Biden for many reasons, one of which is the fact that Marcos Jr., compared to his father Marcos Sr., is actually pretty dumb and a sort-of-puppet to an actual master (either that goes to China or to Duterte's daughter, Sara Duterte, who is the VP, who is kind of similar in some cases to Kamala Harris). The economy in the PH is pretty much run by debt, again, just like China and the US. As I recall, the Marcos family are basically fugitives, which means they may or may not be allowed to visit the US as they have warrants to get into trial for well, stealing quite a lot of shit before (which is weird that Biden for some reason is congratulating their presence).

The economy and stocks of the PH have essentially gone down really hard as many investors are just like as said above, actually scared and are cutting their losses since Marcos has the great chance of changing the economy to benefit him and the rich (why do you think Imelda Marcos has a ton of shoe collections?) while dumping the middle and lower classes to more debt (the quote "the rich get richer and poor get poorer" comes to mind). Add that to their plans to "quell the perception of the Marcoses" (historical revisionism vibes) and laws that aim to "get rid of terrorism" (Anti-Terror Law, which is very dubious on what exactly is seen as "terrorism") and yeah, guess I wanted to post here because the similarities of the US' dumb president is coming down in another country. Do correct me if I've made some mistakes on my post.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

You cannot spend money like that to solve world hunger. All you do with that is create more hungry mouths to feed.

I don't think that he was posting that question seriously - it was a reference to all the twittards that suggested that Elon Musk could have "solved world hunger" instead of buying Twitter. That said, you're not wrong.

 

[WULULULULU]

I don't think that he was posting that question seriously - it was a reference to all the twittards that suggested that Elon Musk could have "solved world hunger" instead of buying Twitter. That said, you're not wrong.

They kinda forget logistics and food supplies is something that cannot simply bought by money unfortunately.

 

[JohnDoe]

Man, it's no fucking wonder oil companies are hesitant to do any kind of investment. When you have the Energy Secretary saying that it's a good thing gas is so expensive so that people are more likely to switch to electrics (never mind that fossil fuels are used for most power plants because we're too scared of nuclear), financial institutions being pressured by woke capital to not fund any new ventures, and the government canceling new leases left and right, is that the kind of environment you'd want to sink your resources into? Add onto that the long amount of time to get a new rig up and running (someone mentioned it upthread somewhere, but I seem to recall it being on the order of months), as well as the very real possibility of not having the parts you need thanks to supply chain disruptions, and it's looking like this shit isn't going to be abated for a long time yet.

That was me bud, and try years, not months. Plus the really expensive parts of getting a lease ready to extract are site-specific, non-refundable, and time-limited. If the administration scuttles the lease mid-rigging, the majority of the money is gone and it is never coming back, completely non-recoverable. If you get that lease back some years later you are starting over from square one.

Same reason why we don't get more industries in this country, most states are full of insane petty bureaucrats that will happily pass laws or regulations in the middle of your construction that will either make your factory impossible to finish or alternatively unprofitable to run. There is no way to assure that the political situation won't ratchet your business into oblivion in the time it takes to actually build it, hence why manufacturing is dead in most states.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Man, it's no fucking wonder oil companies are hesitant to do any kind of investment. When you have the Energy Secretary saying that it's a good thing gas is so expensive so that people are more likely to switch to electrics

"We don't have the public support to move our agenda forward." -the left and the right

"Sabotage the system so that the public has no choice." -mostly the left and sometimes the right

Democracy™

 

[Hallucinogenic Penguin]

People there are sick of them. Many of the most radical liberals are either from Cali or Portland who are too afraid to move to the south or mid west. I can't tell you how many people I've talked to from there who highly dislike Biden and are surprisingly pro gun. Many of them want to get the fuck out and move to Texas since the cost of living is ridiculous. Also a lot more southerners there then you would think.

Those types? They might dislike Biden and talk shit about him but they DESPISE Orange Man with every fiber of their being, which is why they either sat it out or voted for Joe because “vote blue no matter who.” Also the only reason they are pro gun is so THEY can gun down those “evil Nazis” who would dare speak out against troon rights and why open borders are a bad idea. I should know since I had a friend like this. They should stay where they are and reap the whirlwind of their blue bug hive shitholes.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Joepedo from yesterday, walking around screaming acting like republicans were ignoring food shortages in the pandemic. He's angry so that makes up for your baby having no formula, c'mon, man!

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Joepedo from yesterday, walking around screaming acting like republicans were ignoring food shortages in the pandemic. He's angry so that makes up for your baby having no formula, c'mon, man!


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Yeah, those evil heartless Republicans. That's why Dentures Pelosi was showing off her $13.00 per pint ice cream collection in her fridge that costs tens of thousands of dollars while food banks around the country were stripped bare. That curdled cunt. The desperation here is palpable. Biden's handlers have no strategy beyond NO U. Please, please let November be a bloodbath on par with the end of Kill Bill Vol. 1.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Joepedo from yesterday, walking around screaming acting like republicans were ignoring food shortages in the pandemic. He's angry so that makes up for your baby having no formula, c'mon, man!


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His "HULK MAD" mode is so fucking fake. Also his mouth looks like his jaw is gonna break off anytime he widens it. Man can't emote at all, looks like a fucking goblin wearing taffy.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Joepedo from yesterday, walking around screaming acting like republicans were ignoring food shortages in the pandemic. He's angry so that makes up for your baby having no formula, c'mon, man!


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"Lets get kids hooked on infant formula so that parents won't breast feed"
"Lets send all of our infant formula production to china"
"lets set up just in time so that if any disruptions happen ever the entire system irrevocably falls to shit."
"WHY DO REPUBLICANS NOT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE!!!!!"

Fuck off Pedo Joe, I am so fucking sick of being blamed for easily avoidable problems.

Maybe if Hoes stayed home and breast fed their children we wouldn't need formula in the first place, and if we are going to need it we should make it in the good old USA..and we should keep some in the warehouse because the fucking crap lasts forever.

And of course, needless to say 90% of the formula I have ever seen bought is from Welfare Queens using WIC so it is all being done on the Taxpayer dime.

Getting blamed for all of this shit kind of just makes me want to say "Fuck it let the White Trash and Nigger babies die"

 

[Witthel]

 

[XYZpdq]

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8/10 needed more Azov stuff on the kid