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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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Winner gets their salary doubled.
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One of my clients did the opposite. They have two sites in the US, one in the boonies in California, another in Colorado, and they just imported an entire site's worth of Chinese and Indians. It's great, I get a contact from them, and since it's not flagged as EU my "anti-bugman defenses" go down, then I reach out and it's someone with the mental age of an 8 year old speaking pigeon English demanding I violate all kinds of security policy to give him access to medical records or somesuch bullshit, all while the sounds of a restaurant / kindergarten go on in the background.
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I mean, sure, but they're also by far the least trusted part of the country and people believing the news are more telling on themselves than representative of what the majority thinks.
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I wonder how massively unwise they're being - H-1B sponsors are entirely visible online, and you can see that past page 1 the number of sponsored laborers ber company drops to 50 or so
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Anecdotal, but today at work an old lady sperged to me about how his son over at the US has been hit hard due to gas prices, i kinda feel bad, since you guys have all the resources and shit to drill and get your own gas. I as a dumb foreigner and stranger to the american politician's way of thinking can't believe that isn't happening, even if things are looking bad, and it's proyected to be worse in the coming months.
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Is H-1B the only way to bring shitty bugmen into the country to work for you?
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Nigga I'm pretty sure their salary is paid out in Chris Chan prison drawings
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What gets me and tickles my pickle is that this was the first time Jill ever had to actually interact with the plebians. She has always, -always-, avoided it like the plague and enjoyed the fact that she was above them all. Now tat the meat puppet is failing though she went out tog race them with her presence and to solve the issue with a core demographic and hooo boy is it backfiring.
Zelinsky would turn so god damned fast and hand over everything to Putin. Same for whoever replaces him.
I am personally fine with it now that the subtitle is added. Now the general title is more accurate to what we actually discuss in here, while the subtitle provides a more specific focus that fits the prior title.
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H-1B (technical) and H-2B (non-technical, non-agricultural) are the only ways I'm aware of to bring nonresident laborers into the US for the purpose of work
(Edit: H-2A is the agricultural visa)
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Still better than the national average salary
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I still stand by the fact that “Dr.” Jill Biden managed to distract the average Americans from learning about giving more billions of aid to Ukraine and Hunter Biden’s leaked videos and texts, and that’s probably the most clever and sinister thing she’s done to date.
It says a lot, too, since I don’t actually know what else she’s done when not essentially carrying her husband on her back.
It says a lot, too, since I don’t actually know what else she’s done when not essentially carrying her husband on her back.
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Kudos for not removing the Joepedo graphic from the front page, at least. A real chef's kiss that ties the whole thing together.
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Buyer's remorse: Democrat mother 'embarrassed' over Biden support, 'feels manipulated' by media
Some Biden voters are having buyer's remorse over the president's handling of issues like COVID and the economy as Americans continue to face an uphill battle against pandemic-related policies and sky-high inflation.Democrat mothers Mikaela King, Natalya Murakhver, and Marissa Caro-Cortese joined "Fox & Friends First" to discuss why they are worried about the president's policies and the direction of the country.
"From my perspective, my personal experience, he's made it a whole lot worse for people like me who voted for him," King, who is a single mother, told co-host Carley Shimkus. "So I feel not only embarrassed, but I just feel very manipulated by… social media portraying him as someone who is going to fix the country."
King explained how she has three jobs to make ends meet, and still struggles to feed herself under Biden's economic policies as inflation sits at a 40-year high.
Murakhver cited COVID-related policies affecting children's mental health as her priority as students face psychological repercussions from the pandemic.
"I'm a lifelong Democrat, I voted for Biden," Murakhver said. "I believed him when he said that… kids would be back to normal and school would be fully reopened within the first hundred days."
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Imagine trusting Biden lol
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I lost my IT job of twenty years to some H1N1 poo in the loos. Took my salary and about thirty others and hired around seventy of these grimy dibble dobbles.
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this but unironically
also, isn't it weird the amount of harassment this thread receives from jannies? pretty sure this is the 3rd
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We should put this on our money.
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Vote for blue, pay the dues
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This is emblematic of just why the Democrats prior strategies are coming to a head and backfiring. They have long been running on a strategy of promising individual groups what they specifically want while running effectively on the charisma of their candidate to keep it together. And this worked... for a time. Clinton and Obama could work with it because they had the charisma and so when they inevitably failed to make good on their grab-bag of promises they weren't held to account and voters had been transitioned on board from "I am voting for this one issue" onto I am part of the cult of Clinton/Obama".
The problem was that this strategy was always doomed to eventually fail. And once it fails, it becomes a lot harder to use in the future. The strategy relies upon a built in trust with Democrats. It requires nobody to really ever stop and think about the broken promises. The process is Promises > Election > Shift to individual worship > Ignore broken promises.
But as soon as there is even one incident of failing to complete the process, it vastly reduces the ability to bring people on board with promises again. Biden has successfully ruined the Democrats entire primary political strategy.
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I guarantee you if the Republicans found a way to get anchor babies to quit voting straight blue the Dems would make their 1994 superpredator comments look like a tasteless joke. That border wall would be built yesterday and they'd all claim credit for keeping our country safe from the endless tides of rapists, murderers, and drug dealers constantly crossing.
So, Much Ado about Biden then, given he's got nothing going on?
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INCOMING!
Watch out for the inflation report tomorrow. The Administration is already sending out their firemen to control and spin the story.
https://rollcall.com/2022/07/12/biden-administration-tries-to-get-ahead-of-red-hot-inflation-report/
Biden administration tries to get ahead of red-hot inflation report
Voters anxious over high prices as Democrats face rough midterm campaign
White House officials launched a defensive strike Tuesday against what they expect will be a dour report marking another month of soaring inflation.
One day before the release of the consumer price index for June, President Joe Biden’s top economic advisers issued a memo designed to temper the likely public reaction to a new round of recorded price spikes.
The CPI data coming Wednesday “will largely not reflect the substantial declines in gas prices we’ve seen since the middle of June,” wrote National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Cecilia Rouse, chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a five-page memo designed to provide “context” for the upcoming report.
They said gas prices have already fallen 5 percent from the June average, to around $4.68 a gallon, and “gas prices can be expected to decline in the weeks ahead” if wholesale prices remain at current levels.
“That elevated price in June is both out of date to where the market is today and out of date to what American consumers, more importantly, are actually experiencing today,” a senior White House official told reporters in a conference call.
Gas prices are particularly important because volatile energy and food prices have been “heavily impacted” by the war in Ukraine and will likely account for more than 40 percent of the CPI number for June, Deese and Rouse wrote.
So-called core inflation, which strips out the volatile food and energy prices, has already shown signs of easing, they said, and is now running at an annualized rate of 4.2 percent this quarter, down from 4.5 percent in the first quarter of this year and 6 percent in the final quarter of 2021.
They also pointed to inflation as a global phenomenon, reaching 8.6 percent in the eurozone and 9.1 percent in the United Kingdom. And a strong U.S. labor market — having recovered from all the job losses during the pandemic shutdowns — is now “in a better position than many other countries to transition from an historic recovery to lower inflation and stable and steady growth,” they wrote.
Stemming the elevated public concern over inflation may be pivotal to Democratic hopes of passing a downsized “Build Back Better” package that could raise roughly $1 trillion in new revenue over a decade, with half of the money going toward deficit reduction. The package is likely to offer some combination of prescription drug savings and energy tax credits, among other things.
The key Democratic holdout on the partisan budget reconciliation package, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, has repeatedly stressed the need to curb inflation as he considers any compromise legislation.
“My main concern is this: How do we bring inflation down, and how quick can we do it?" Manchin told CNN this week, when asked about reconciliation talks.
Republicans are betting that inflation will be their winning ticket to campaign victories this fall, when they hope to gain control of Congress.
A group of GOP Senate Finance panel members scheduled a news conference Wednesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out. They plan to discuss "Democrats’ plans to impose $1 trillion in tax hikes on all Americans, even as the economy faces runaway inflation, and rising odds of a recession and stagflation," according to a media advisory.
A New York Times-Siena College Research Institute poll of registered voters conducted last week found that respondents view the economy and inflation as the most important problems facing the country.
Of those polled, 78 percent said inflation would be “extremely important” to how they vote in November. And Biden’s job approval, typically a barometer for how the president’s party fares in midterm elections, was just 33 percent.
Economists generally believe the headline year-over-year number will top the 8.6 percent figure reported for May, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s model predicting inflation hit nearly 8.7 percent last month, for example. The monthly rise is expected to be similar to June’s at 1 percent.
But core CPI, excluding food and energy, is expected to decline from 6 percent over the previous 12 months to something in the 5.7 percent ballpark. And since June, the monthly rise is expected to come in around 0.5 percent, down slightly from a month earlier.
Economists — including at the Fed, though they use a different measurement, the personal consumption expenditures price index — typically look to core inflation for underlying signs of price shifts since food and energy costs are tied to global commodity markets and aren’t necessarily impacted by Fed policy.
But grocery bills and prices at the pump are among those most visible to consumers. And despite the recent decline in gasoline prices, there are signs it may not last.
“But we’re not completely out of the woods yet -- we could also see a sharp reversal in the decline,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, which tracks retail motor fuel costs, wrote in a blog post this week. “There remains the risk of a spike in prices that could send us to new record levels in August, should any disruptions occur.”
One day before the release of the consumer price index for June, President Joe Biden’s top economic advisers issued a memo designed to temper the likely public reaction to a new round of recorded price spikes.
The CPI data coming Wednesday “will largely not reflect the substantial declines in gas prices we’ve seen since the middle of June,” wrote National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Cecilia Rouse, chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a five-page memo designed to provide “context” for the upcoming report.
They said gas prices have already fallen 5 percent from the June average, to around $4.68 a gallon, and “gas prices can be expected to decline in the weeks ahead” if wholesale prices remain at current levels.
“That elevated price in June is both out of date to where the market is today and out of date to what American consumers, more importantly, are actually experiencing today,” a senior White House official told reporters in a conference call.
Gas prices are particularly important because volatile energy and food prices have been “heavily impacted” by the war in Ukraine and will likely account for more than 40 percent of the CPI number for June, Deese and Rouse wrote.
So-called core inflation, which strips out the volatile food and energy prices, has already shown signs of easing, they said, and is now running at an annualized rate of 4.2 percent this quarter, down from 4.5 percent in the first quarter of this year and 6 percent in the final quarter of 2021.
They also pointed to inflation as a global phenomenon, reaching 8.6 percent in the eurozone and 9.1 percent in the United Kingdom. And a strong U.S. labor market — having recovered from all the job losses during the pandemic shutdowns — is now “in a better position than many other countries to transition from an historic recovery to lower inflation and stable and steady growth,” they wrote.
Stemming the elevated public concern over inflation may be pivotal to Democratic hopes of passing a downsized “Build Back Better” package that could raise roughly $1 trillion in new revenue over a decade, with half of the money going toward deficit reduction. The package is likely to offer some combination of prescription drug savings and energy tax credits, among other things.
The key Democratic holdout on the partisan budget reconciliation package, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, has repeatedly stressed the need to curb inflation as he considers any compromise legislation.
“My main concern is this: How do we bring inflation down, and how quick can we do it?" Manchin told CNN this week, when asked about reconciliation talks.
Republicans are betting that inflation will be their winning ticket to campaign victories this fall, when they hope to gain control of Congress.
A group of GOP Senate Finance panel members scheduled a news conference Wednesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out. They plan to discuss "Democrats’ plans to impose $1 trillion in tax hikes on all Americans, even as the economy faces runaway inflation, and rising odds of a recession and stagflation," according to a media advisory.
A New York Times-Siena College Research Institute poll of registered voters conducted last week found that respondents view the economy and inflation as the most important problems facing the country.
Of those polled, 78 percent said inflation would be “extremely important” to how they vote in November. And Biden’s job approval, typically a barometer for how the president’s party fares in midterm elections, was just 33 percent.
Green shoots?
The June CPI reading is expected to be a harsh one for U.S. households’ wallets, though perhaps with some positive signs.Economists generally believe the headline year-over-year number will top the 8.6 percent figure reported for May, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s model predicting inflation hit nearly 8.7 percent last month, for example. The monthly rise is expected to be similar to June’s at 1 percent.
But core CPI, excluding food and energy, is expected to decline from 6 percent over the previous 12 months to something in the 5.7 percent ballpark. And since June, the monthly rise is expected to come in around 0.5 percent, down slightly from a month earlier.
Economists — including at the Fed, though they use a different measurement, the personal consumption expenditures price index — typically look to core inflation for underlying signs of price shifts since food and energy costs are tied to global commodity markets and aren’t necessarily impacted by Fed policy.
But grocery bills and prices at the pump are among those most visible to consumers. And despite the recent decline in gasoline prices, there are signs it may not last.
“But we’re not completely out of the woods yet -- we could also see a sharp reversal in the decline,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, which tracks retail motor fuel costs, wrote in a blog post this week. “There remains the risk of a spike in prices that could send us to new record levels in August, should any disruptions occur.”
Watch out for the inflation report tomorrow. The Administration is already sending out their firemen to control and spin the story.
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