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

 

[Lards and Lasses]

* Chicago
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BEE--YOUTIFUL East St Louis

Would like you to hold their Swisher Sweets.

No one mentioned Freeport

I see you, too, have an all-consuming hatred of Illinois. Really wish my family settled on the other side of the river.

Fuck off, we're full

 

[Spirelord]

I just want to correct you, SW and Southern Ohio have some legit hills and elevation. The rest of the state is Asian Woman levels of flat, a few bumps here and there. SW Ohio is the best part of the state, but the Califags have discovered it, so it's only a matter of time. Maybe the weather will be bad enough this year to scare them off.

UHHH DON'T LISTEN TO THIS GUY he crazy, doesn't know what he's talking about- it's a crater like Sparta. Yeah, we more or less are like Sparta, throwing minority children off of cliffs in a similar manner that Sparta did their defectives. Because of that they had to use their bodies in the chili so no one would question it. A-Also, also, Cincinnati's a German sister city to uhhh Munich, and that means Ohioans are allied with LITERAL FORMER NAZIS. So please God stay away, I hear Detroit has great value on land if you want to move, or maybe Nevada- they're sex positive and love sex worker rights! Please keep thinking of it as the nothing state...

A bit more on topic, do you think Biden and co will ever encourage the Californian flight by making it so you get tax breaks or something if you've moved to a less populated state? It feels like something that should've happened at this point because it's untapped potential to fuck with the politics of so many areas. I'll look into it if I missed something but it's odd that's never come up as a thing outside of the state driving people out and not encouraging emigration to shift elections.

 

[lolwut]

Fuck off, we're full

Bullshit, you've still got room for one more because I guarantee my shithole St. Louis apartment is still vacant after the vax mandates forced me out of my job and back to my home in (what a black colleague referred to as) lynchaniggaville.

 

[soy_king]

The image of chinese troops pressganging normal cargo ships into beach landing duty has my warboner rock hard. If they try that for the actual landing force I will die laughing, but not as fast as they'll die trying to use container ships offensively.

I don't know what would be funnier, them actually trying that, or them trying that and still winning bc US support to the ROC would be so dismally catastrophic

 

[CrippleThreat]

The McCain stuff reminds me of new BS in Nevada for the GOP primary. I don't know Nevada politics but I saw Amanda Milieus going hard against Sam Brown recently.

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In Nevada you have Adam Laxalt as the MAGA candidate, but Sam Brown is a severely injured ex-soldier also running, and now starting to play up his disfigurement to get sympathy. But he's also a carpetbagger from what Milieus has said, and knowingly or unknowingly trying to split the vote and trying to pretend there wasn't fraud in 2020, when Milieus was working Nevada and if you saw the Stephen Crowder videos has the most blatant fraud with addresses. Milieus doesn't give a fuck but you know the GOPe are going to make Brown a Crenshaw 2.0/McCain 3.0 character who no one will dare criticize because of his injuries which means nice juicy RINO policies.

Laxalt's always been the clear frontrunner since the Trump endorsement. His maternal grandfather was also a senator (the "Paul" for his middle name).

Brown is a fucking carpetbagger. Nigga ran for Texas state House in 2014, before driving to Nevada in '18. Stupidly, the NV GOP endorsed Brown at their convention.

If the average GOPer still has a lust for military RINOs who can't lift the arms, can only see out of an eye, and look like this:

Then, the party is lost. Thanks for your service, Mr. Brown. Now, fuck off.

 

[Meat Target]

https://archive.ph/LEYKE

Inside a Biden White House adrift​

Amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings, the president’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break — and that angst is rippling through his party.

WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.

Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.

Crises have piled up in ways that have at times made the Biden White House look flat-footed: record inflation, high gas prices, a rise in Covid case numbers — and now a Texas school massacre that is one more horrific reminder that he has been unable to get Congress to pass legislation to curb gun violence.
Democratic leaders are at a loss about how he can revive his prospects by November, when midterm elections may cost his party control of Congress.

“I don’t know what’s required here,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., whose endorsement in the 2020 Democratic primaries helped rescue Biden’s struggling candidacy. “But I do know the poll numbers have been stuck where they are for far too long.”

A West Wing shakeup?

Speculation is churning that Biden could shake up the West Wing staff, although that’s not about to happen right away. Multiple people close to the White House said they’ve heard that chief of staff Ron Klain will depart at some point after the midterms, and one has heard him discuss leaving.

Should Klain go, a potential successor is Anita Dunn, a White House adviser and Biden confidant whom he often turns to when his fortunes look bleak. Dunn began working at the White House at the start of the term, then left and returned in early May at Biden’s specific request. No woman or person of color has ever been the White House chief of staff since the position was created after World War II.

Other possible replacements include Steve Ricchetti, a longtime Biden aide who is a counselor to the president, and Susan Rice, the domestic policy chief. After he lost the Virginia governor’s race last year, Terry McAuliffe spoke to the White House about taking a senior role as an adviser to the president, Cabinet secretary or chief of staff, people familiar with the matter said.

The White House didn’t make Klain or Dunn available for comment. Remi Yamamoto, a senior White House communications adviser, said: “As Ron has said publicly, he has not set a time frame, and this is not a discussion on the top of anyone’s mind here.”

This article is based on interviews with more than two dozen current and former administration officials, lawmakers, congressional aides and other Democrats close to the White House who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss the president’s private conversations.
Any assessment of Biden’s performance needs to take into account the epic challenges he faced from the start.

“They came in with the most daunting set of challenges arguably since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only to then be hit by a perfect storm of crises, from Ukraine to inflation to the supply chain to baby formula,” said Chris Whipple, the author of a book about White House chiefs of staff who is now writing a book about the Biden presidency. “What’s next? Locusts?”

Biden wonders the same thing.

“I’ve heard him say recently that he used to say about President Obama’s tenure that everything landed on his desk but locusts, and now he understands how that feels,” a White House official said.

Managerial breakdowns

Amid a rolling series of calamities, Biden’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break. “Biden is frustrated. If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” said a person close to the president.

An assumption baked into Biden’s candidacy was that he would preside over a smoothly running administration by dint of his decades of experience in public office. Yet there are signs of managerial breakdowns that have angered both him and his party.

Biden is annoyed that he wasn’t alerted sooner about the baby formula shortage and that he got his first briefing in the past month, even though the crisis had long been in the making. (The White House didn’t specify when Biden got his first briefing on the formula shortage.) His nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Robert Califf, told Congress last week that the agency was sluggish and that it had made “suboptimal” decisions as parents hunted for formula on empty store shelves.

Beyond policy, Biden is unhappy about a pattern that has developed inside the West Wing. He makes a clear and succinct statement — only to have aides rush to explain that he actually meant something else. The so-called clean-up campaign, he has told advisers, undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he’s not fully in command.

The issue came to a head when Biden ad-libbed during a speech in Poland that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Within minutes, Biden’s aides tried to walk back his comments, saying he hadn’t called for Putin’s removal and that U.S. policy was unchanged. Biden was furious that his remarks were being seen as unreliable, arguing that he speaks genuinely and reminding his staff that he’s the one who is president.
Asked about the staff’s practice of clarifying Biden’s remarks, the official said: “We don’t say anything that the president doesn’t want us to say.”

Democrats unnerved

Biden’s angst is rippling through the party. Democratic lawmakers are sparring among themselves and blaming the White House for their dim prospects in November.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., said the White House has failed to put forward what she called an “intellectually honest” plan to combat inflation — a burden that ranks first among Americans’ economic concerns, polling indicates. A bill the House passed to crack down on alleged gas price gouging isn’t an answer, she said.

“If I sound frustrated, it’s because I hear from my constituents,” Murphy said. “They’re struggling. This is not a time for political games. It’s not the time for finding bogeymen.”

A spokeswoman for her office said she hasn’t talked about policy with a senior White House official in six months. The White House official countered that Murphy has been in “very regular contact with our staff here.”

Biden’s frustrations

Biden has vented to aides about not getting credit from Americans or the news media for actions he believes have helped the country, particularly on the economy. Unemployment rates have dropped to below 4 percent — pre-pandemic levels — but polling indicates most Americans believe the economy is in bad shape. Biden grouses that Republicans aren’t getting their share of the blame for legislative gridlock in Congress, while he’s repeatedly faulted for not getting his agenda passed.
The president has also told aides he doesn’t think enough Democrats go on television to defend him. A particular sore spot is his slumping poll numbers; he’s mystified that his approval rating has dropped to a level approaching that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, ranked by historians as one of the worst presidents in history.

“He’s now lower than Trump, and he’s really twisted about it,” another person close to the White House said.

At a meeting with advisers about a month ago, Biden was surprised to see polling that indicated he had dropped among suburban women, according to two people familiar with the meeting. An adviser said Biden gets weekly polling briefings that delve into “key demographics” and that, because he is kept apprised regularly, he didn’t have that reaction. (At a news conference in September, Biden said flatly, “I don’t look at the polls — not a joke.”)
The White House official denied that Biden is feeling frustrated. “What he’s pushing for is to make a sharper case for all that we have accomplished thus far,” this person said.

A few weeks ago, Biden started employing a midterm election tactic that has been a go-to for sitting presidents: villainize the opposition. He has sought to tether Republicans to Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda. But Biden has been leaning on White House aides to come up with a message that captures the stark choice voters face. Biden himself thought up the phrase “Ultra MAGA,” which he and other Democrats have started using in hope of drawing a clear contrast with Trump’s movement.

The phrase tested well in polling reviewed by the White House, but it also had the unintended effect of firing up the Trump faithful. Merchandisers have found a hot market for “Ultra MAGA” T-shirts.

“He shares the view that we haven’t landed on a winning midterm message,” a third person close to the White House said of the president. “And he’s putting a lot of pressure on people to figure out what that is.”

No reprieve ahead

One of Biden’s prescriptions for his political troubles at the start of the new year was to travel outside Washington more. As he has gotten out in the country, he has also gotten an earful from Democrats about what his administration is — or isn’t — doing.
“People confront him,” said a top Democratic donor who has witnessed such conversations at fundraisers. “All he’s hearing is ‘Why can’t you get anything done?’”

It’s no wonder. About three-quarters of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, a recent NBC News poll found — only the fifth time in the last 34 years that so many Americans have been dissatisfied with the nation’s direction.

There is no respite after the midterms. The 2024 presidential election season begins in earnest once the last races are called. No sitting president wants to be challenged for the party’s nomination; Biden can’t count on a free ride.

“We’re on a track — a losing track,” Faiz Shakir, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said of the Democrats.

 

[Flan Handler]

Anita Dunn as chief of staff. You Dems think it’s bad now? Holy shit she is so awful. Tone deaf and repulsive. That should right the ship!

 

[notafederalagent]

Spoiler: Archive

The focus groups they use to come up with these terms and stories are cringe as fuck.

AP: Jill Biden says she, president settle arguments by ‘fexting’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
2022-05-31 14:49:50 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disagree, they don’t hash it out in front of other people. Instead, she says, they argue by text — “fexting” as they call it.

Jill Biden also told Harper’s Bazaar magazine in an interview that her divorce from her first husband taught her to be independent and that she has drilled that lesson into her daughter and granddaughters.

She says she could soon be sharing White House living quarters with a teenage granddaughter.

When Joe Biden was vice president, the couple decided to settle disagreements by text to avoid fighting in the presence of their Secret Service agents — and dubbed it fexting.

After she recently texted him in a fit of pique, he told her, ”‘You realize that’s going to go down in history. There will be a record of that,’” she said. Presidential communications are preserved for the historical record. She told her interviewer, “I won’t tell you what I called him that time.”

The first lady appears on the cover of the publication’s June-July issue, available on newsstands June 7. Harper’s Bazaar said it’s the first time in its 155-year history that a U.S. first lady has been so prominently featured.

Jill Biden was 18 when she married her first husband. But by her mid-20s, she was divorced, alone and on her own for the first time in her life. The breakup dealt her an emotional blow as she had idolized her parents’ union and thought she’d have a marriage as long-lasting as theirs.

She finished college and became a teacher.

“I knew I would never, ever put myself in that position again, where I didn’t feel like I had the finances to be on my own, that I had to get the money through a divorce settlement,” she said.

“I drummed that into (my daughter), Ashley, ‘Be independent, be independent.’ And my granddaughters,” she said. “You have to be able to stand on your own two feet.”

Jill Biden met then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1975, and they were married two years later.

She kept teaching throughout his rise in national politics, eventually becoming the first first lady to hold a paying job outside the White House. She fits her responsibilities as first lady around her twice-a-week teaching schedule at Northern Virginia Community College.

Granddaughter Naomi is engaged to be married and is planning a White House wedding reception in November. Another granddaughter recently told the first lady that she landed an internship in Washington and would like to move into the executive mansion for the summer.

“I’m going to be raising a teenager?” Jill Biden exclaimed.

 

[The Dude]

Laxalt's always been the clear frontrunner since the Trump endorsement. His maternal grandfather was also a senator (the "Paul" for his middle name).

Brown is a fucking carpetbagger. Nigga ran for Texas state House in 2014, before driving to Nevada in '18. Stupidly, the NV GOP endorsed Brown at their convention.

If the average GOPer still has a lust for military RINOs who can't lift the arms, can only see out of an eye, and look like this:
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Then, the party is lost. Thanks for your service, Mr. Brown. Now, fuck off.

He looks like Willem DeFoe face-fucked an angle grinder.

 

[Witthel]

 

[Some Badger]

What exactly does Ron Klain stand to gain from stepping down as chief of staff besides no longer being tied to the Biden regime? I recall @Gehenna saying a while back that Klain is largely responsible for trying to ram the more insidious parts of the Dems’ agenda. I doubt he’s out of the Washington game entirely. That would be too optimistic.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Sussman acquitted, swamp protects its own.

 

[Pig Cups]

Admit it, you *knew* it was going to work out this way.


“A jury rejected Durham's claim that the lawyer lied to federal agents when sending them dirt on Trump's alleged links to Moscow.

Prosecutors claimed that Sussmann misrepresented himself to former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker when he asked for a meeting in 2016, where he then presented alleged links between the Trump Organization and a top Russian bank.

Durham claimed the attorney posed himself as a concerned citizen when in reality he was working on behalf of Hillary Clinton and a tech executive named Rodney Joffe.”

Source

 

[Meat Target]

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

Anita Dunn as chief of staff. You Dems think it’s bad now? Holy shit she is so awful. Tone deaf and repulsive. That should right the ship!

The article says Joe Biden came up with Ultra MAGA when that was Anita Dunn's idea. Ron Klain is the front guy and fall guy. He was functionally replaced over half a year ago so replacing him with Dunn who has already been the behind-the-scenes chief of staff for months isn't going to do anything. The other idea is making the mouthpiece for the Obama set, Susan Rice, the official chief of staff. That won't do anything, either. They've got nothing.

 

[LillWeeb]

Laxalt's always been the clear frontrunner since the Trump endorsement. His maternal grandfather was also a senator (the "Paul" for his middle name).

Brown is a fucking carpetbagger. Nigga ran for Texas state House in 2014, before driving to Nevada in '18. Stupidly, the NV GOP endorsed Brown at their convention.

If the average GOPer still has a lust for military RINOs who can't lift the arms, can only see out of an eye, and look like this:
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Then, the party is lost. Thanks for your service, Mr. Brown. Now, fuck off.

Because boomer cons, and GenXers who drive their big pick up truck with the punisher skull symbols , to the big pig smoking on the weekend love these type of people or least the idea of them. They think the military is on the side of the people, when push comes to shove, and not the government. When these people see these type of candidates they think since they injured in action they truly are on our side and for freedom.

 

[Meat Target]

Those spineless faggots.



As far as Sussmann goes: disappointed, but not surprised. Nepotism and favoritism win again.

 

[CrippleThreat]

As far as Sussmann goes: disappointed, but not surprised. Nepotism and favoritism win again.

It's just a Swamp. It's not coincidental that all of these important people know these other important people, and they've all been involved with each other's lives.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

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Except I'd say that the threat has backfired. See: the parents' response to Beta O' Roruke and Brandon.

Those spineless faggots.

They haven't shown the bill to the House Repubs because they know it'll fail. Gun control is yet another carrot on a stick to their base.

 

[Meat Target]