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

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Tanner Glass said:
It's very simple.

Does your company rent its office space? Then they most likely broke the lease and are now saving tons of cash and are super happy about WFH. They now have a huge budget to do semi-regular "destination" meetings for higher ups.

Does your company own its office space? Then they're stuck with a really expensive asset (in the case of Google, Meta, Apple - billions of dollars) that they cannot sell off to anyone else that is rapid deteriorating in value. They want WFH over so they can start using their buildings again AND so the buildings don't go into a huge freefall of losing value.

Not a single Fortune 100 executive team ever was required to come into the office - even pre COVID. They would have lavish offices for the 4 times a year they would come into the office, WFH has been a way of life for C-Suites for probably close to 15 years.

It's unlikely there's going to be a housing crash (because demand still feels really strong) but for commercial real estate? Demand is low and still plummeting.
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Minor power leveling my significant others companies like that. They have a large building that is specially designed for their industry to sell it would take many years in the current market. Working from home, which they've been doing for years now means that the building sits idle. So now they're requiring people to do a mixed model 3 days in 2 days out. The housing market is blooming, however there's just endless amounts at least in my area of retail space just sitting around empty for at least 5 years now. Even before the pandemic which only made it worse. Drive-thru some of those strip malls sometimes and you'll see the occasional Mexican market and payday loan and that's it
 
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I get there will always be some theatrics and directions in politics, but this is just grating.

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the saddest thing about all this is
it would be so great if comedians and the media would laugh at all the shit happening from biden and his ilk
but no
NOT MY HECKIN BIDENERINO
you can't make fun of my guy
 
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ZehnBoat said:
the saddest thing about all this is
it would be so great if comedians and the media would laugh at all the shit happening from biden and his ilk
but no
NOT MY HECKIN BIDENERINO
you can't make fun of my guy
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That's the sheer irony of it all

Not even the left wanted Biden. They had other candidates picked, but after they all fell down like a stack of Dominos, Biden was the only one left, and it didn't help that Bernie flipped everyone the finger a SECOND time.

So now they are stuck with an old senile corpse... the same corpse that everytime he opens his mouth he makes an as out of himself more and more. And rather than just admit they fucked up, they continue to double down because being human and just admiting they were wrong is the worst possible thing they could ever do, probably for ego related reasons
 
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Looks like NY indictment pushed back to retool the special effects, it's the political equivalent of Captain Marvel 2

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Matt Gaetz makes Lloyd Austin even more of a token hire, so much even Milley needs to try and distance himself

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Trump pointing out the obvious, you can know a country is weaker than you but you don't make it so apparent unless you want to get in an actual war.

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Congress is trying to ban VPNs and install a second Patriot Act.
Here's the bill itself:

Actually it's worse than that, apparently it just gives the White House carte blanche to shut down whatever website they feel like on a whim.

Oh, lovely, it also includes civil forfeiture of property.
 
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China, Brazil strike deal to ditch dollar for trade​

BRASILIA - China and Brazil have reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, Beijing’s latest salvo against the almighty greenback.

The deal will enable China, the top rival to US economic hegemony, and Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, to conduct their massive trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging yuan for reais and vice versa instead of going through the dollar.

“The expectation is that this will reduce costs... promote even greater bilateral trade and facilitate investment,” the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) said in a statement.

China is Brazil’s biggest trading partner, with a record US$150.5 billion (S$200 billion) in bilateral trade last year.

The deal, which follows a preliminary agreement in January, was announced after a high-level China-Brazil business forum in Beijing.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was originally scheduled to attend the forum as part of a high-profile China visit, but had to postpone his trip indefinitely on Sunday after he came down with pneumonia.



The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Bank of Communications BBM will execute the transactions, officials said.


China has similar currency deals with Russia, Pakistan and several other countries. AFP

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Jesus christ we're watching the Dollar fall apart in real time.
 
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Sithis said:
Re: the RESTRICT act

Apologies for not remembering which one of you fine spergs said it, but I recall recently someone posted regarding dissent, how governments worry so much about loud public dissent when what they should really worry about is when people start meeting in private groups and talking in hushed tones about how much they hate the status quo.

The RESTRICT act is interesting because it's like they're creating that exact environment. If people can't complain and mildly fedpost on twitter etc without being taken to court, that's not going to stop people from having those opinions, it's just going to take away something else (their place to vent for catharsis) and lead to people meeting in small groups and whispering amongst themselves about how much they want to see DC lawns painted with a fine red mist.
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A nigger liberal on Twitter....actually thinking critically about something? We really are in the End Times.
 
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They used Tik Tok as the trojan horse to pass this, thinking it would distract people and get it passed by using some sort of "patriotic" appeal because these complete and total retards in D.C. think it is still 2008 and that they can just switch from being anti-america to pro-america and no one will notice.

Except people cared, both the people who want Tik Tok gone and ones who like it and want it to stay got curious. Especially after the drama when Trump tried to ban it. And they found all the dirty tricks being pulled on it.
 
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I don't think Big Tech is going to just accept it as it stands, its too broad and too powerful. The Naive short sighted look is "Ah but they can use it to shut down competition and enforce a defacto monopoly!" which works for all of five seconds before remembering they have vastly more surface area to be attacked by anyone else, and are competitors with equally powerful Big Tech entities. They all know if if passes, it becomes a legal war to see who can weaponize its loopholes first. Even if you patch them post-fact, you can't easily unfuck something that sees a state level suppression - Your clients will pay a fortune in a panic to switch away less they get fucked by it too, and they'll never forget or risk that again.

That being said, we're in peak clown world, and I could totally see them all thinking they can be the winner of the hunger games.
 
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Sithis said:
Re: the RESTRICT act

Apologies for not remembering which one of you fine spergs said it, but I recall recently someone posted regarding dissent, how governments worry so much about loud public dissent when what they should really worry about is when people start meeting in private groups and talking in hushed tones about how much they hate the status quo.

The RESTRICT act is interesting because it's like they're creating that exact environment. If people can't complain and mildly fedpost on twitter etc without being taken to court, that's not going to stop people from having those opinions, it's just going to take away something else (their place to vent for catharsis) and lead to people meeting in small groups and whispering amongst themselves about how much they want to see DC lawns painted with a fine red mist.
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Oh? People were already talking about the Restrict Act? How far back does this go? It seems I'm late to the party.
 
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