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

 

[mold]

1. He brought this upon himself. He was the one that not only acts like a /pol/tard but invited them to the site to begin with. But rather than just deal with it, he insists on kicking the hornet's nest because a few people have their fee-fee's hurt.
2. Josh can not take any kind of criticism that involves him. He will say things like "you can criticize me, I don't care" but then turn-on his bi-polar mode and snap back at you because he can't handle banter. Of course people are going to fuck with a guy that has such thin skin, that's fucking internet 101. If you ignore it, people are going to leave you alone, it's THAT FUCKING SIMPLE!!!
3. Josh has created a cult of personality around him with the "True & Honest" members and the janny trannies. He acts like he's the guy with the biggest brain in the room when in reality his ramblings are retarded at best and schizophrenic at worst, but braindead people lap it up without question.

"It's his site, he can do what he wants" is like saying "_____ is a private company, they can do whatever they want", and look how well that fucking turned out with Elon Musk and Twitter.

you are not doing any of the work

there is an enormous amount of work

you do none of it

and yet you have all these opinions

 

[AnotherPleb]

I'mi honestly surprised the TDS thread has survived in the cults section this long. A&H is the evil right-wing cesspit. The rest of the site is "apolitical". Which means you either need to not take a politically charged stance, or you need to conform to leftist orthodoxy because it's "normal". If you don't, you're "bringing politics in".

How many times has a troon thread devolved into radfem oinking about how much "meeeeeen hate wimminmmm". That's not a decidedly lefty viewpoint? How productive are those BDS threads? Or are they just a massive circlejerk about "Schizoid Right-wing CHUDS"?

One of the intractable problems with politics on forums is that conservative opinions are Politics, and leftist opinions are Not Politics unless they explicitly allow you to call them Politics.

The end point is that the right will suffer the left while the left will suffocate the right.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

you are not doing any of the work

there is an enormous amount of work

you do none of it

and yet you have all these opinions

- Brandon/TPTB when asked about inflation/the baby formula shortage/supply chain crisis/etc.

Seriously, just because we're not in Nool's shoes doesn't mean that we can't criticize him for hyper-fixating on such an insignificant part of the website.

 

[mold]

- Brandon/TPTB when asked about inflation/the baby formula shortage/supply chain crisis/etc.

Seriously, just because we're not in Nool's shoes doesn't mean that we can't criticize him for hyper-fixating on such an insignificant part of the website.

wtf comparing Null to Elon Musk and the *president of the united states of america*

 

[BubbleButt]

wtf comparing Null to Elon Musk and the *president of the united states of america*

My kingdom for a moon sticker

 

[AnotherPleb]

- Brandon/TPTB when asked about inflation/the baby formula shortage/supply chain crisis/etc.

Seriously, just because we're not in Nool's shoes doesn't mean that we can't criticize him for hyper-fixating on such an insignificant part of the website.

wtf comparing Null to Elon Musk and the *president of the united states of america*

Getting rid of AnH won't make payment processors welcome this site as the culture of accountability is anathema to the ruling class.

 

[mold]

Getting rid of AnH won't make payment processors welcome this site as the culture of accountability is anathema to the ruling class.

no, it will just make Null less annoyed

why would people run something that annoys them? they don't owe you

 

[Getting tard comed]

wtf comparing Null to Elon Musk and the *president of the united states of america*

-Pete Carrol not running the ball on the 1 yard line in the Superbowl with 'BeastMode' Marshawn Lynch as his RB.

Is that a better comparison for you? People can criticize something stupid they are observing even if they aren't or haven't done it.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

why would the President benefit people that annoy him? He doesn't owe you

You see how fucking stupid that sounds? Same principle here.

 

[teriyakiburns]

wtf comparing Null to Elon Musk and the *president of the united states of america*

Look up the definition of "analogy".

 

[XYZpdq]

Look up the definition of "analogy".

anal gay?

 

[elite_club]

no, it will just make Null less annoyed

why would people run something that annoys them? they don't owe you

I wonder if the average a&h tard is more or less likely to benefit the site, whether it be through donations directly, or by encouraging shitpost recidivism that brings attention and indirectly bringing donations to the site.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Why the fuck are they batshit insane?

Also look at how much of a ugly motherfucker this dude looks like lol.



A House Democrat plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15's with a 1,000% tax — and it could pass Congress without GOP votes (Archive)

The US has experienced a string of mass shootings in the past three weeks in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma, that have left scores of adults and children dead.

The recent violence is prompting one House Democrat to draft a measure aimed at severely restricting access to the AR-15-style weapons used by different gunmen in the carnage. Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means panel, wants to impose a 1,000% excise tax on assault weapons.

"What it's intended to do is provide another creative pathway to actually make some sensible gun control happen," Beyer told Insider. "We think that a 1,000% fee on assault weapons is just the kind of restrictive measure that creates enough fiscal impact to qualify for reconciliation."

New AR-15-style guns range from $500 to over $2,000 depending on location, NBC News reported. That means a 1,000% tax on the weapon would add $5,000 to $20,000 to their final sales price — and would probably keep it out of reach from many younger Americans.

Some details of the bill still aren't finalized, such as when the tax would kick in and what to do with any revenue raised. It's also unclear how much money it would generate. One out of every five weapons purchased in the US in AR-15 style rifle, per the National Shooting Sports Foundation in a 2014 court brief. Gun sales have surged since then and reached their second-highest level recorded last year.

Law enforcement agencies and the US military wouldn't be subject to the tax, Beyer said. The legislation would also apply only to future assault weapon sales — and not to the 20 million AR-15-style rifles already estimated to be in circulation across the US. Other guns used for hunting and other recreational purposes would also be exempt.

Bullets wouldn't be subject to the new tax. But high-capacity magazines that can carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition would be aggressively taxed at that level.

Beyer's definition of an assault weapon closely mirrors a measure that Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island is pushing. That bill would ban weapons with at least one military characteristic like a pistol grip or a forward grip.

House Democrats are rallying around their own expansive gun-control package separate from ongoing Senate negotiations on a narrower bill centered on mental health, red flag laws, and a modest expansion of background checks. The House bill is expected to fall flat in the upper chamber due to stiff GOP resistance.

That outcome prompted Beyer to eye reconciliation, the legislative tactic allowing proposed laws to bypass the Senate's 60-vote threshold known as the filibuster and pass with a simple majority. Democrats employed the maneuver in 2021 to approve both the stimulus law and the House-approved Build Back Better bill over united GOP resistance.

One expert says his measure likely qualifies for inclusion in a smaller spending bill containing pieces of President Joe Biden's climate and tax agenda. Democrats hope to revive it by summer's end.

"Taxes get more deference in budget reconciliation than other policies from a parliamentarian point of view," Zach Moller, director of the economic program at the center-left Third Way think tank, told Insider.

"So a pure excise tax that isn't set so high as to end all sales should pass the Byrd rule," Moller said, referring the rule governing what meets the requirements to be included in a filibuster-proof bill.

The federal government already imposes a 10% tax on the importation and sale of handguns, per the Tax Policy Center. The tax rate is 11% for other guns and ammunition.

Beyer said he was open to negotiating the 1,000% tax rate. "There's nothing magical about that thousand percent number. It's severe enough to actually inhibit and restrict sales. But also successful enough that it's not seen as an absolute ban."

There are instances stretching back decades of Democrats seeking massive tax increases on guns and ammo to make them unaffordable. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York said in 1993 that he wanted to tax handgun ammunition "out of existence" to curb crime, The New York Times reported.

Then in 2020, a pair of Democrats introduced similar measures to raise taxes on weapons to prevent gun violence, though not at the scale Beyer is seeking. Both Rep. Hank Johnson and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts put forward plans to triple the tax on handguns to 30%, as well as nearly quintuple the tax rate on shells and cartridges to 50%.

Those went nowhere in Congress — and the Beyer plan faces steep hurdles as well. Democrats will likely be wary of Republicans further casting them as tax-and-spend liberals in an election year where the party faces major headwinds to keep control of Congress. It may also violate Biden's pledge to not increase taxes on people earning under $400,000.

Little research exists on whether hiking taxes on military-style assault weapons could help prevent violent crime. Generally, that path has been used by states and cities to raise money for public safety initiatives, not prevent gun violence.

Excise taxes exist for alcohol, cigarettes, and soda in some localities meant to discourage people from purchasing them. But a major tax on AR-15 style rifles hasn't been implemented at the state or local level.

"We don't have a lot of information on what would happen if gun taxes are raised," Robert McClelland, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, told Insider. "But a gun tax at 1,000%, I can't see how it would not dissuade some people from purchasing a taxed firearm."

 

[JohnDoe]

Sounds suspiciously like a poll tax to me, but this is the tactic when the pesky 2nd keeps them from just banning things outright.

 

[Meat Target]

Thing is, they could claim it's no different from the NFA (which is just part of the US Tax Code), which they would be doing without formally amending the NFA.

I wonder if it could be challenged in court, maybe on the grounds of exorbitant taxation or Murdoch v. Pennsylvania, the latter of which decided that the government may not impose a tax to turn exercising a constitutional right into a licensed privilege.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

-Pete Carrol not running the ball on the 1 yard line in the Superbowl with 'BeastMode' Marshawn Lynch as his RB.

Is that a better comparison for you? People can criticize something stupid they are observing even if they aren't or haven't done it.

Do you remember where you were on that fateful day?

 

[JustSomeDong]

1. He brought this upon himself. He was the one that not only acts like a /pol/tard but invited them to the site to begin with. But rather than just deal with it, he insists on kicking the hornet's nest because a few people have their fee-fee's hurt.
2. Josh can not take any kind of criticism that involves him. He will say things like "you can criticize me, I don't care" but then turn-on his bi-polar mode and snap back at you because he can't handle banter. Of course people are going to fuck with a guy that has such thin skin, that's fucking internet 101. If you ignore it, people are going to leave you alone, it's THAT FUCKING SIMPLE!!!
3. Josh has created a cult of personality around him with the "True & Honest" members and the janny trannies. He acts like he's the guy with the biggest brain in the room when in reality his ramblings are retarded at best and schizophrenic at worst, but braindead people lap it up without question.

"It's his site, he can do what he wants" is like saying "_____ is a private company, they can do whatever they want", and look how well that fucking turned out with Elon Musk and Twitter.

Did this nigga really just compare the farms with Twitter? Apples and oranges, they ain't.

 

[GuntPunt]

That article kind of reinforces my idea of their new implementation of their policies.

1. Make everything you want gone unaffordable, like gas powered cars, meat, home ownership
2. Take away the guns before they find out what you're doing.

 

[teriyakiburns]

anal gay?

anal logie

Biden review jeopardizes more than 2,000 oil and gas leases | News | …

archived 5 Jun 2022 17:44:51 UTC

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Biden review jeopardizes more than 2,000 oil and gas leases

CASPER — The Biden administration will redo the environmental review of more than 2,000 Wyoming oil and gas leases sold between 2015 and 2020 — including virtually all of the

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CASPER — The Biden administration will redo the environmental review of more than 2,000 Wyoming oil and gas leases sold between 2015 and 2020 — including virtually all of the leases issued under former president Donald Trump — in accordance with a trio of settlement agreements approved Wednesday by a federal judge.
None of the leases have been vacated, but their future is uncertain. The Department of the Interior now has to reevaluate and retroactively justify more than two dozen lease sales. If it decides it can’t, or its reasoning doesn’t satisfy the court, the sales could be reversed and any existing permits revoked.
Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for plaintiff WildEarth Guardians, said the decision was unprecedented.

“This is getting to the heart of the federal oil and gas program,” Nichols said. “The question here will be not whether it’s OK to lease in the Red Desert or the Powder River Basin, but whether the federal oil and gas program even makes sense in the midst of the climate crisis.”
Industry responded by asking Congress to play a greater role in decisions affecting the energy sector.
“Backroom court settlements like this, negotiated by the Biden Administration and its anti-domestic oil and gas allies, will continue to decide the fate of Wyoming’s primary economic driver until Congress reasserts its control and establishes a coherent national energy policy,” Ryan McConnaughey, communications director for the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, said in an emailed statement.
WildEarth Guardians and several other environmental groups filed three lawsuits against the interior department, in 2016, 2020 and 2021, challenging the climate analysis for a total of nearly 4 million acres leased for oil and gas development across Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Utah.
Close to 2.5 million of those leased acres — more than 3,500 square miles — are located in Wyoming.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the department in 2019 to reassess some of the Wyoming leases. A year and a half later, he declared the agency’s second attempt inadequate.

Around the same time, the interior department acknowledged “the same sort of deficiencies” in subsequent sales’ climate analyses, said Kyle Tisdel, senior attorney and climate and energy program director for the Western Environmental Law Center, another plaintiff.
If the agency wants future lease sales to hold up in court, Tisdel said, its climate analysis will have to meet the higher bar the cases have established. Federal attorneys have cited Contreras’ decisions and other, similar rulings to explain why it took the Biden administration more than a year to complete the review process for its first round of onshore lease sales.
Wyoming’s first Biden-era sale is scheduled to offer 129 parcels, spanning about 130,000 acres, later this month.
The interior department agreed in March, shortly before announcing the upcoming sale, to reassess the climate impacts of most of the disputed Obama-era and Trump-era sales, including all 16 held in Wyoming. Contreras upheld the deal on Wednesday. Some of the affected leases have already been invalidated by other federal courts over environmental concerns: In March, a Montana judge threw out 193 Wyoming leases sold in December 2017 and March 2018 after finding that the interior department didn’t adequately consider threats to sage grouse.
In the cases before Contreras, the environmental groups argued, successfully, that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the department to assess the “direct, indirect and cumulative effects” that new leasing would have on the environment and the climate. But the oil and gas industry thinks that’s an inaccurate interpretation of the landmark 1970 legislation, which doesn’t mention climate change.
Many in the industry feel unfairly targeted by the pause on new leasing and other executive actions aimed at lowering emissions.
“Some groups will not be satisfied until NEPA is twisted into a law unrecognizable to its drafters, used to halt all mineral resource production in Wyoming,” McConnaughey said.
Meanwhile, now that the settlement is finalized — surviving an attempt by the American Petroleum Institute to have the case dismissed over questions about jurisdiction — WildEarth Guardians sees this as the Biden administration’s chance to follow through on its climate commitments.
“I think, to the extent that they decide to uphold prior leasing decisions, they’re going to have their work cut out for them,” Nichols said. “They have a high bar, and we’re going to hold them to that high bar.”

 

[Meat Target]

Also, I'm starting to believe in a political form of Lookism; my ideolological opponents consistently happen to be extremely ugly people.