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

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

The problem with the use of federal power is that it's intoxicating and you can't put it down, because it's such an effective way of dealing with national issues, and its not like Republicansarent averseto expanding the state . Just look at how W bloated the state to fight his bullshit wars and erode your civil liberties, like Al Gonzales deciding to go after old women in California exchanging medical Marijuana using the Commerce Clause.

obviously you shouldn't avoid using federal power, but when so much of it so blatantly violates our basic Constitutional principles, it's hard as a conservative to justify relying on it.

I mean... sure, but lets also be frank. There aren't many other options at this point, and I suspect that at least some of the aversion that you're expressing here was engineered in to help keep the US Right under control decades back.

Power is tool. It exists to be used; and we really shouldn't sweat it when it'd be used towards a genuinely constructive end.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Prime Time #99 is back in DC, calls out Crenshaw who then tries to act like a normal GOPe "we have to be above this" and hides behind dead soldiers who should have never died in the first place.

 

[notafederalagent]

Biden May Buy Oil Just Below $80; Democrats Stymied Trump at $24
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Steven T. Dennis
2022-09-13 21:23:25GMT

The Biden administration is considering replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when oil dips below $80 a barrel, just two years after Democrats blocked former President Donald Trump from filling the reserve at a fraction of that price.

Biden in March ordered the release of a record 180 million barrels of oil from the reserve in an attempt to stem supply shortages and the rapid rise of gasoline prices in the US following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The administration now is looking to protect US oil-production growth and prevent crude prices from plummeting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump in March of 2020 was looking to stabilize the oil industry after Covid-19 hit in 2020 and crushed global petroleum demand. With oil at the time priced at about $24 a barrel, Republicans proposed spending $3 billion to fill up the reserve. But the idea became a political football in larger negotiations on trillions in coronavirus relief, with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proclaiming that his party had blocked a “bailout for big oil.”

That decision effectively cost the US billions in potential profits and meant Biden had tens of millions of fewer barrels at his disposal with which to counter price surges.

It also will take more oil to fill the reserve than two years ago. In March 2020, the reserve had 634 million barrels stored out of a capacity of 727 million barrels. After a record drawdown last week, the reserve is down to 442 million barrels, its lowest level since 1984.

Benchmark US oil futures jumped by almost $3 a barrel after Bloomberg reported the White House plan to restock emergency reserves. The contract settled close to a one-week high at $87.31 on Tuesday, extending the year-to-date advance to 16%.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

Biden May Buy Oil Just Below $80; Democrats Stymied Trump at $24
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Steven T. Dennis
2022-09-13 21:23:25GMT

The Biden administration is considering replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when oil dips below $80 a barrel, just two years after Democrats blocked former President Donald Trump from filling the reserve at a fraction of that price.

Biden in March ordered the release of a record 180 million barrels of oil from the reserve in an attempt to stem supply shortages and the rapid rise of gasoline prices in the US following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The administration now is looking to protect US oil-production growth and prevent crude prices from plummeting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump in March of 2020 was looking to stabilize the oil industry after Covid-19 hit in 2020 and crushed global petroleum demand. With oil at the time priced at about $24 a barrel, Republicans proposed spending $3 billion to fill up the reserve. But the idea became a political football in larger negotiations on trillions in coronavirus relief, with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proclaiming that his party had blocked a “bailout for big oil.”

That decision effectively cost the US billions in potential profits and meant Biden had tens of millions of fewer barrels at his disposal with which to counter price surges.

It also will take more oil to fill the reserve than two years ago. In March 2020, the reserve had 634 million barrels stored out of a capacity of 727 million barrels. After a record drawdown last week, the reserve is down to 442 million barrels, its lowest level since 1984.

Benchmark US oil futures jumped by almost $3 a barrel after Bloomberg reported the White House plan to restock emergency reserves. The contract settled close to a one-week high at $87.31 on Tuesday, extending the year-to-date advance to 16%.

Buy high and sell low!
Jesus fucking Christ is /biz/ in charge of the American economy?

 

[notafederalagent]

Jesus fucking Christ is /biz/ in charge of the American economy?

Something even worse, affirmative action hires.

 

[The Nothingness]

If the Farms go dark again, here are a few things I want to cover.

Dem candidate Tim Ryan wants to "kill" extremist MAGA Republicans.

Major credit card companies now monitoring firearm purchases is another reason to keep cash around.

Finally here is a great meme.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Dem candidate Tim Ryan wants to kill "extremist" MAGA Republicans.

“Some of those answers will come from Republicans, not the extremists that we are dealing with every single day. We’ve got to kill and confront that movement, but working with normal mainstream Republicans, that’s going to be really, really important.”

>normal mainstream Republicans
you mean RINOs

 

[Sithis]

We are entering some of the times I was concernposting about as far back as a couple years in this threads predecessor. Scary shit but hold firm and resolute fellow kiwis, by the grace of God and the power of our autism we shall see victory

 

[mandatorylurk]

Comedy:

Tragedy:




And what is feeling like the real reason the DOJ is so desperate to stop a special master for the MAL raid, which is why they're going after Pillow Man. And notice how lil Ben Shapiro and the NRO cucks have said nothing about it:

 

[MrJokerRager]

Trump posted some fashwave.



Biden going to do some more sanctioning.



I liked this column, written a while ago.

Precedented

As the Justice Department of a Democratic administration raids the home of the opposition leader and serves dozens of subpoenas on his supporters, Tucker Carlson nails the meaning: It’s a political operation, aimed at disincentivizing future participation in politics. Merrick Garland is a completely shameless political operative, using power against enemies.

(There was a video here, but it vanished on YouTube, so I took it down. Will replace if I find it elsewhere.)

But it’s not “unprecedented.” It’s amply precedented, a return to a version of more or less normal. I’ve written about this before (and Jonathan Turley has just written a useful piece on the same topic), so I’m not going to start from the beginning again, but John Adams and Woodrow Wilson put their political opponents in prison, and the Civil War was preceded by a long series of warm-up exercises. Twitter won’t let you speak obvious truths about mRNA injections and the genital mutilation of children (“gender-affirming care”), but the US Mail was closed to abolitionist literature. It has often been the case in America that power seeks to avoid losing an argument by not allowing the argument; open society has been locked in struggle with closed culture for a long time. We lived through a period of relative domestic peace, and it distorts the way we see the evil in our own moment. Here are some coal miners preparing for a labor dispute in 1914:

And here’s the other side of that debate, showing up to represent the views of the mining companies and the State of Colorado:

We are not living through a more tumultuous time.

More recently, Democratic Party lawfare has become an obvious go-to tactic, as a giant scumbag of a local DA performatively indicted a four-term governor in Texas over a budget veto that took funding from her office, and supporters of a Republican governor in Wisconsin had their homes raided by police acting on the directions of mostly Democratic prosecutors. In Michigan, the office of the Democratic attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor to open a criminal investigation into…the Republican candidate for attorney general, the person currently running against the Democratic attorney general. There are no mysteries about any of this: Democrats think it’s a crime to disagree with them, or they at least find it useful to pretend that they do, and they use the criminal justice system to harm and impede political opponents. Merrick Garland is using the FBI to try to keep Donald Trump from running for the presidency again, full stop.

We’ve faced this behavior before, and Americans have defeated this behavior before. Nothing that we face is as dire as the Colfax Massacre. Don’t catastrophize; organize.

What’s striking about the current crisis is the degree to which the political party criminalizing disagreement is running from discussion:

By the way, the attorney general in Michigan is refusing to debate the opponent she wants investigated as a criminal. That’s weakness and panic, and it’s pathetic.

John Adams imprisoned his critics; then he lost the presidency. The naked turn to the suppression of dissent and the use of government power to attack political enemies is a sign of decline and failure. Merrick Garland is the weak man he seems to be. People who act like this have no argument, and they have no future. The same is true all over the world, and a leader who responds to peaceful protest by ordering banks to freeze the accounts of the protesters is not in the ascendant. Drive on.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

It's good to be back.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Hello friends, glad to be able to login. I got bot filtered by the TOR service.

I mean... sure, but lets also be frank. There aren't many other options at this point, and I suspect that at least some of the aversion that you're expressing here was engineered in to help keep the US Right under control decades back.

Power is tool. It exists to be used; and we really shouldn't sweat it when it'd be used towards a genuinely constructive end.

It should also be noted that small government ideas can only succeed when both sides are afraid of what the other would do if they got power, and both sides are scared the other side could take power in the first place.

If the "right" takes power and does nothing with it, not even just rolling back the "left's" rules and regulations, then what does the left have to fear when they increase government power? Nothing.

Regardless, the age of government power limitations is damn near dead with you have people in power destroying capabilities for peaceful power transfer.

 

[Bakarina]

Thank God, I can post again!

The farms on my end has been hairy since we had to go underground and all the changes that have been ongoing for the past week or so.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Kavanaugh cucks again, with the idea being "oh just come back again after all the usual legal bullshit that will take years instead of just doing it now." Gays and Troons really are the most powerful class in this fucking world.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

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Kavanaugh cucks again, with the idea being "oh just come back again after all the usual legal bullshit that will take years instead of just doing it now." Gays and Troons really are the most powerful class in this fucking world.

>dude just sue after the election
>dude you should have sued before the election
>no standing lol
I hate the antichrist

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

Taking a portion of profits for the government to spend is taxation, not something unique to fascism. Please tell me you've grown out of libertarianism.

Fascism isn't defined by economics, it is the idea that finance and corporations should serve the well being of the country and its people, and towards that end the government abhors financial and corporate influence over it. Otherwise finance and corporations quickly partner with the government to parasitically prosper at the expense of the country itself.

But most importantly, it repudiates the core tenant of the sister ideologies of capitalism and communism: that being materialism. Fascism is distinct in that it respects the metaphysical nature of countries, cultures, and peoples. Spiritually, capitalism and communism are the same, and equally as anti-human. But even before that, it is ridiculous to consider Fascism and communism akin by some facile appeal to the fact that they both take money from people and spend that money to maintain themselves.

@Eggplant Wizard

To elaborate on this distinction, here are words from Uncle A himself:

"A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, or efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false."

And history backs these words up; here is a longer form video which goes in to the pre war German economic policies and programs, and their effects on the country.

VertigoPolitix - Hitler's Coup: The German War Against Globalism (Jun 16, 2017)

Credit to "VertigoPolitix." An overview of the socio-economic policies in Germany from 1933 to 1939 considered as a set of nationalist stratagems against the foreign, internationalizing elements tha...

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I'll reiterate, you have to be historically illiterate to equate fascism to either communism or capitalism, which are both materialistic, anti-human, and marxist in origin. Despite their best efforts to convince you otherwise, it is possible to have markets and property rights outside the materialist frame of capitalism. In fact, it could be said that it can't be any other way. Even the capitalism of the last hundred years has been a facade; only the slaves suffer the materialist frame, in markets which were only free in microcosm, being put to work for the benefit of a small group which maintains their metaphysical cause above their profits. In that light it could be said the difference between fascism and capitalism is who determines that higher cause to which even money bows, the metaphysical spirit of those involved, of a country or people directly and honestly, or an international cabal serving lies and delusions, increasingly exercising their power to keep the host populations from developing agency and having their own answers to the question: what is all this for?

Fascism is socialist at its roots. Of course Hitler is going to say “Mine is both different from and better than Marx’s dreck, it actually acknowledges things!” He still regulated the markets, a 100% tax on profits isn’t what one would call “a portion”, as I have said earlier, fascism actually does bookkeeping instead of communist freewheeling, does not make it any better in the end.

Here’s a 4 hour video from a guy that also says Hitler is a socialist. His channel has several references and no I didn’t watch the video recently, it was the first hit when I looked up his channel again, so I’m tossing it out here. His analyses of Hitler are purely to debunk several myths about the guy. Check them all out. He’s gotten a lot of flak for it, but no one could completely shut him down, as far as I can tell anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkyWBPaTC8

 

[9Style]

It should also be noted that small government ideas can only succeed when both sides are afraid of what the other would do if they got power, and both sides are scared the other side could take power in the first place.

If the "right" takes power and does nothing with it, not even just rolling back the "left's" rules and regulations, then what does the left have to fear when they increase government power? Nothing.

It doesn't really matter if "Left" and "Right" are on the same team. Notice how the Democrats singled out MAGA Republicans specifically. Notice how Republicans are rolling back funding on MAGA Republicans specifically.

But at least one funny thing happened today

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1570195880275488768

 

[pwnest injun]

The right has never done the shit that the left is doing. Even Bill's trial was more legit than what is going on right now. Fuck Clinton actually perjured himself and it was hand waved away.

He didn't just perjure himself. He perjured himself during a sexual assault trail. Because he is a sexual predator.

 

[ForTheHoard]

He didn't just perjure himself. He perjured himself during a sexual assault trail. Because he is a sexual predator.

It's also not even in the top 10 of the worst things he's ever done.

 

[Gehenna]

And never forget that it's not a bug but a feature...

Half the reason I only lurked for so long is that most posts would just me thinking how tiresome it all is.

While I'm a it, the cuckservatives still seem pretty happy to be cucking @Gehena, is it still turtle man unsure on how to proceed after the fbioopsie or has the uniparty reached a sort of appeasement?

Because if they are pissed about it they aren't showing it.

Nah, I will break with a lot of the internet punditry and say that they are not -trying- to toss is.

They are, however, deeply incompetent.

Take Graham's abortion bill for example. He knows by now that the 'bounce' is nonexistent, so why push it? The punditry claims it's an attempt to throw but... well, simply put a lot are simply assuming malice from everyone in politics and not even -considering- any other options. So let's provide one. If you actually look at the law, it's basically perfectly in line with Europe, would enshrine abortion -into- law, and doesn't actually ban shit. It is, simply put, an overture across the aisle that would, in a prior year, let a Republican swamp creature gain favor with the Democrat swamp creatures.