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

 

[Ow The Edge]

FTFY.

Depends. Vermonters should do okay, but I have my doubts about the future of Oregon and Washington. Probably the best place to be is one of those Alaskan villages north of the Artic Circle. You're already frozen off for most of the year so self-sufficiency is a nonnegotiable, and no hordes of city-folk are going to be headed that way.

 

[Absolutego]

not too hard go believe given the sudden increase of young, healthy people developing heart issues or dying out from heart issuess these days. Just one of life's many mysteries.

Except this happened nearly 20 years ago.

 

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I only rated you Feels cuz I can't rate you Optimistic. Because what you just said.....yeah, you are shitting rainbows right now. Ain't no way the super-"green" Brandon administration is gonna concede on domestic oil production, even if gas prices get to an untenable point. Their hubris (and the aforementioned debt collector in Buffet) wouldn't allow it.

They literally don't think it's a problem. They keep using the term "transition" or "transitory." They think $10+ a gallon gas is not only just fine, but a goal. Remember, the left doesn't believe in economics, not in any sane and rational way. They literally don't think money is a thing. But the climate damage that cars cause? THAT is worth something to them -- worth more than anything you want in life. Worth more than your life. If they can make the economic cost match what they consider the climate cost of running a car, well, you're just hurting as much as the planet's hurting, and you deserve it. Please stop taking photos of their private jets, it embarrasses them, and embarrassing them is a sin against their egos. Beyond the economics of gas engines, they think the electric car fairy is just going to shit out enough heavy metals to replace all the cars in the world with magic electronic vehicles that don't generate pollution, please don't ask where the power comes from. Or they think they'll get us down from 1 car / family to 1 car / neighborhood, Great Reset bullshit.

Think of them not as clueless politicians. That's not how they consider themselves. Instead, take the approach that they consider themselves our Moral Superiors, the Nannys that will sheperd a bunch of unruly, stupid children into a glorious green future. Us getting mad at $5 a gallon gas? That's just us being unreasonable, we'll see the light in a few years. Or we won't, but we'll get over it. Or we won't get over it, but oh well, too bad, we can't do shit because they made the decision for us. Picture a smug as fuck parent ignoring a tantrum from a child that doesn't know any better -- that's their self-image. It's up to the rest of us to beat it out if them.

We've already seen their reaction to the Supply Chain crisis. They're literally ignoring it. The Manufacturing crisis. Literally ignoring it. The baby formula. Ignored it for months until it became politically radioactive, then did a photo op and went back to ignoring it. We know they don't consider unintended consequences. The idea that $5+ a gallon gas is going to hit everything else will come as a surprise, just like everything else, and like everything else, it'll be someone else's problem, and only after they ignore it for a year or more. Don't worry, they'll have the numbers that show things are just fucking dandy even if everyone else knows better.

 

[Scale Smerch]

I know people are saying that Biden won’t reopen Keystone but we may reach a point where he has no choice. Gas prices don’t seem to have a “Ceiling” and if they don’t find a way to get them under control shit’s gonna get rough.

I know right now they’re pushing the “Just live with it, there’s nothing we can do” narrative but if reopening Keystone gets traction and Republicans can focus on that going into the Midterms (Doesn’t matter if they legally can) it’ll get reopening Keystone into the public conversation and that alone may be enough to get some concessions on domestic oil production from Biden.

Although I'm all for restarting Keystone, just doing so won't help, at least anytime soon. It would take 6-12 months to get the pipeline operational and supplying the gulf refineries, and that's before the inevitable flurry of eco-activist lawfare certain to drag things out even more. Unfortunately it wouldn't provide any immediate relief, though would be a good sign Biden's handlers are taking their failures seriously for once.

I think the company that owned Keystone has already ripped out the network of pipes that had been installed.

Basically they would be starting from scratch which means a decade of permits and bribing people again just to get it to where it was. Unless Biden decides to use the Defense Production Act (since that seems to be the hammer Biden reached for the most) which.... Oh ho ho ho... Would probably end his administration.

Keystone is dead. Simply put.

Nawh the pipe is still there, it costs cash to rip it up and TC Energy like any other company isn't going to throw more money at a failed venture. That's what makes the current scenario all the more frustrating, the infrastructure is there to completely turn things around in a year or so (you know, in time for 2024) - and the Biden administration is doing fuck all.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

America has been an empire for a long time. The empire is falling. What comes next is a division of the empire's former territories with some being ruled by foreigners. If you're in a White-majority state you're already in the best possible position. Those who aren't should move before that's no longer possible.

No, we’re still in the Republic phase, assuming we’re following Rome’s trajectory. Republics often are more aggressive than empires, especially when they are young and growing. We haven’t had decades of civil strife/civil war let alone a Caesar. There are more parallels between the fall of the American and Roman republics than there is between the US and the Western Roman Empire.

America’s geography is much more favorable than Rome’s, so barring a nuclear war it doesn’t have a peer/threat in the Western Hemisphere. Unless Brazil gets its act together in the next century or two.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

So, from what people are saying, shit's gonna be really fucked by the end of the year, isn't it?

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

No, we’re still in the Republic phase, assuming we’re following Rome’s trajectory. Republics often are more aggressive than empires, especially when they are young and growing. We haven’t had decades of civil strife/civil war let alone a Caesar. There are more parallels between the fall of the American and Roman republics than there is between the US and the Western Roman Empire.

America’s geography is much more favorable than Rome’s, so barring a nuclear war it doesn’t have a peer/threat in the Western Hemisphere. Unless Brazil gets its act together in the next century or two.

Not to mention modern communications and transportation technology have seriously dented the main cause of most empire failures - Decadence and incompetence in the central government combined with long transport and communication lines, meaning the state was both ineffective and slow to respond to crisis, and either had its capable leaders marching constantly from one disaster to the next, or installed local capable leaders that eventually decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.

Modern communications and transport extend the effective reach of even incompetent governments immensely. It'll take you a week or so to drive coast to coast in American. Even if you double that from strive and degradation of infrastructure, that's entirely feasible for in person unfucking, and radio makes that minutes for general directive.

Politically, the same issues as history has shown are bubbling up, but the rest of the circumstance is radically different and probably unpredictable.

So, from what people are saying, shit's gonna be really fucked by the end of the year, isn't it?

Barring a sudden sweep of competency from world governments, its not gonna be better than today at the very least. Difficult to say how far into the shit it'll go.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Lessons for Biden from the Democrats’ blowout in California

Liberal Democrats known as progressives have never commanded a political majority. Not even close, really. That’s why progressive candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bombed in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, while the more centrist (at the time) Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination, then the presidency.
The high point for progressives may have been the Green New Deal, which the newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spearheaded in 2019 after her come-from-nowhere upset of a party stalwart. Democrats re-took control of the House that year, and the Green New Deal was a vision for sweeping, egalitarian change in the energy sector and much of the economy. It wasn’t a legislative package, but a manifesto for ending 40 years of crony capitalism.
It's been mostly downhill from there, and the majority of Democrats themselves may have now tired of progressive visions of a mythical Shangri-La. In the June 7 primary elections in California, voters recalled the progressive San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, whom they elected in 2019. Boudin crusaded against “two systems of justice,” one for the wealthy and one for everybody else, and he advocated alternatives to prison for many convicts. San Francisco’s liberal voters endorsed that view a couple years ago, but with worsening crime, homelessness, drug use and untreated mental illness on the city’s streets, they’ve now said, enough of that!
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Concerns about urban crime also propelled developer Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Caruso, a former Republican who recently switched to Democrat, ran as the tough-on-crime candidate, vowing to put 1,500 new cops on the beat. His main opponent, Rep. Karen Bass, ran on her record as a prominent Democrat and years of outreach to LA’s Black and Latinx communities. Caruso’s surprisingly strong showing will force a runoff in November.
The California results follow another upset in the Virginia governor’s race last year, where Republican newcomer Glenn Youngkin beat Democratic titan Terry McCullough in a race that hinged largely on culture wars over school curricula. State and local races don’t automatically translate into identical outcomes at the national level, but it’s hard to think of any progressive policies that are catching on with mainstream voters, while some — especially “defund the police” — are utterly dreadful.
'Prepare yourselves for permanent minority status'

The implications are ominous for President Biden and his fellow Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. “If national Democrats don’t wake up to what happened to progressives … this cycle prepare yourselves for permanent minority status,” Jim Kessler, a long-time Democratic operative now at the Third Way think tank, tweeted after the California primaries.
One immediate consequence of the progressive drubbing could be Biden’s action on student-loan forgiveness. Like many issues, student debt divides Democrats. Sanders and Warren have pushed hard for forgiveness of $50,000 in student debt, or more, by executive action, if necessary. Biden backs up to $10,000 in debt forgiveness, but he wants Congress to do it by passing a law, and the votes aren’t there. Not all Democrats would vote for even that much forgiveness, and Republicans loathe the whole idea, as do many policymakers, who say it would be poorly targeted aid helping Americans who in many cases are better off to start with.
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins student debtors to again call on President Biden to cancel student debt at an early morning action outside the White House on April 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We The 45 Million)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins student debtors to again call on President Biden to cancel student debt at an early morning action outside the White House on April 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We The 45 Million)
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The Biden administration recently canceled $5.8 billion in debt for 560,000 borrowers who attended the now defunct Corinthian Colleges, which defrauded students in a variety of ways during 20 years of operation. But that’s a tiny portion of the $1.8 trillion in all student debt. The Biden White house has hinted for weeks that some kind of broader relief is coming, but it’s shaping up as a lose-lose outcome for Biden. Young voters are disgusted with Biden, who they think promised something he hasn’t delivered. Maybe Biden could win them back with a huge debt write-off, but that's very unpopular among moderate voters, who think it’s an unfair giveaway to a privileged group, while people who paid their loans or worked their way to school or didn’t go to college get nothing. Whatever Biden decides, he’ll enrage a significant bloc of voters.
Biden’s whole presidency has been a tug-of-war between Democratic progressives who expect Biden to back their expansionist social-welfare goals and party centrists like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin who won’t go along with that. Biden has drifted to the left since getting elected, letting Congressional Democrats lard up his “build back better” legislation in 2021 with hundreds of billions of dollars for social programs that aren’t especially popular. The BBB package collapsed in December, when Manchin said he couldn’t vote for such a costly and overstuffed bill. Progressives can't stand Manchin, but his views are much more closely aligned with the moderates and Independents who put Biden over the top in the 2020 presidential race—and he's far more popular in his home state, where most voters are Republicans, than Biden is with any group of voters.
There’s still a slim chance Democrats could revive some of the BBB elements this year, such as green energy investments, with modest tax hikes to pay for those and to also help reduce yawning budget deficits. One of many Democratic concerns is that voters will show up in November with little memory of their 2021 rescue plan or the bipartisan infrastructure bill Biden signed, and instead rate the Democratic party as a fractured mess that can't get anything done. So there's still a desire to pass something to dangle in front of voters during the next few months.
It might be too late. Voters are already rejecting some of the ideas most closely associated with the Democratic party—and those are the more liberal Democrats progressives thought they could count on. They can’t, not when big ideas seem radically disconnected from everyday life.
Rick Newman is the author of four books, including “Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success.” Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.

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[AnotherPleb]

I know people are saying that Biden won’t reopen Keystone but we may reach a point where he has no choice. Gas prices don’t seem to have a “Ceiling” and if they don’t find a way to get them under control shit’s gonna get rough.

I know right now they’re pushing the “Just live with it, there’s nothing we can do” narrative but if reopening Keystone gets traction and Republicans can focus on that going into the Midterms (Doesn’t matter if they legally can) it’ll get reopening Keystone into the public conversation and that alone may be enough to get some concessions on domestic oil production from Biden.

They will deepthroat Putin's slavic cock and beg him to ship his oil before they reopen Keystone.

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

The bitch is owned. He's the 'reasonable Republican' they roll out to tell boomer cons that opposing rainbow clown world means you're an extremist. He's way past his sell by date.

I think it is absolutely incredible that going to Wikipedia has nothing about the Joe Scarborough resignation after an intern he was having an affair with, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in his office when that is literally all anybody remembers about Joe Scarborough's political career,
This is what they have to say about somebody who resigned from congress when he was 38...

In May 2001, five months into his fourth term in Congress, Scarborough announced his intention to resign to spend more time with his children. Of his resignation, Scarborough said, "The realization has come home to me that they're at a critical stage of their lives and I would rather be judged at the end of my life as a father than as a congressman."[32]

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Donald Trump brought it up and called him Psycho Joe, that's about as much as anybody's talked about it in 20 years. He's a guy with a dead body in his office with a 19 year long television career. He's got to be a spook somehow given that and who he is married to.

 

[WeDon'tNeedToWhisper]

All that shit that they pumped him full of during the campaigning (the little that he did) and the debates to pause his dementia has come full circle.
I remember, I think it was HK-47 who pointed it out, that Biden's hands were shaking(?) in a very strange way that was a tell tale sign of serious mental decline or dementia.. This was probably a year and a half ago.

Youtube's comment section automatically capitalizes Biden, but not Trump, of course. If you just type in 'joe', they'll capitalize that too. Faggots.

 

[CrippleThreat]

So, from what people are saying, shit's gonna be really fucked by the end of the year, isn't it?

No, things can be better! Just gotta hope Biden and his handlers shape up!

 

[Disc]

All that shit that they pumped him full of during the campaigning (the little that he did) and the debates to pause his dementia has come full circle.
I remember, I think it was HK-47 who pointed it out, that Biden's hands were shaking(?) in a very strange way that was a tell tale sign of serious mental decline or dementia.. This was probably a year and a half ago.

Youtube's comment section automatically capitalizes Biden, but not Trump, of course. If you just type in 'joe', they'll capitalize that too. Faggots.

mate... trump is an actual word. Like in cards. You blithering diphead. This isn't a Black and white situation.

 

[Cuckoman]

Now the Demonrats are running a different gaslighting campaign: "BIDEN ISN'T AS BAD AS YOU THINK HE IS, HE'S DOING GREAT, THE ECONOMY IS DOING BETTER THAN EVER". The problem is, normies are seeing their bank accounts being hit harder than Chris Brown hit Rihanna, and they're like "lolno, you're full of shit". Question is, what exactly are they gonna do from here on out?

Come on. Most of these people are just wagies that work to produce a message that their clients want to push.
And it is not exactly like they have a lot to work with.

Imagine having a job in this economy and being able to feed your family depends on you coming up with some slogan that "it is actually not as bad as you think it is". lol.

This was my bi-partisan post for the day. Now programming will resume to normal.

 

[Michael Wade]

National guard is being called up to defend the supreme court. this should get interesting. https://welovetrump.com/2022/06/08/breaking-national-guard-preparing-for-deployment/

 

[Super-Chevy454]

National guard is being called up to defend the supreme court. this should get interesting. https://welovetrump.com/2022/06/08/breaking-national-guard-preparing-for-deployment/

I guess it's time to grab some sandwitches, pizzas and all because the pop-corn won't be enough. And the "peaceful" George Floyd riots will look like a picnic to what's coming ahead...

 

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National guard is being called up to defend the supreme court. this should get interesting. https://welovetrump.com/2022/06/08/breaking-national-guard-preparing-for-deployment/

I'm sure CNN is ready for around the clock coverage and photo filters to make it look like a military junta crackdown, or perhaps a mass white nationalist uprising?

Nah, just kidding. They'll take a single picture of a fence or something and then memory hole it in favor of "EVIL WHITE MEN STEAL POWERFUL HOLY NIGRESS WAMMYNX RIGHT TO MURDER INCONVENIENT SPAWN."

I guess it's time to grab some sandwitches, pizzas and all because the pop-corn won't be enough. And the "peaceful" George Floyd riots will look like a picnic to what's coming ahead...

I can't wait for the June 13th commission to find out just how these violent leftist terrorists got so out of hand and were allowed to smash into the building and terrorize the... oh I can't even finish it. The worst thing is, like when the leftists did literally what the 1/6 guys did -- same building, even -- it'll be shown as a good thing, how they were "fighting for women's rights." No kangaroo court for the party's blackshirts.

 

[Kane Lives]

National guard is being called up to defend the supreme court. this should get interesting. https://welovetrump.com/2022/06/08/breaking-national-guard-preparing-for-deployment/

So they're really planning for a Category 5 chimpout? I wonder if the Nasty Girls will actually have their magazines loaded, or will they be walking around with just empty guns?

 

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So they're really planning for a Category 5 chimpout? I wonder if the Nasty Girls will actually have their magazines loaded, or will they be walking around with just empty guns?

While I wouldn't put it past the left to sacrifice a few dozen of their idiot footsoldiers to make a new Abortionist Kent State, Biden's already freaked out about his poll numbers and approval rating, and I can't see them oking it.

Then again, if the DNC Civil War has gone spare, then hey, why not throw Biden under the most bussy of busses? After all, the Media can just claim it was the GOP's fault for daring to "stop" the massive expansion of federal powers baby murder.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

While I wouldn't put it past the left to sacrifice a few dozen of their idiot footsoldiers to make a new Abortionist Kent State, Biden's already freaked out about his poll numbers and approval rating, and I can't see them oking it.

A new "Abortionist Kent State", imagine the possible memes that would come from this.