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

 

[Meat Target]

How does having multiple banking failures and a default under your presidency help your party?

You can brush them all under the rug with "remember that one time the Chuds refused to compromise, and it led to the world economy imploding?"

Biden's first term has been a shitshow of inflation, war, crime, and international humiliation. The Right couldn't turn that into a Red Wave. Why?

When is this "pendulum" gonna "swing back"? Because it sure as hell isn't happening fast enough.

 

[The Ugly One]

People tend to notice absurd inflation and their shrinking bank accounts. Anyone I see or have talked with is fed up with the Government spending and sky high inflation.

Do you talk to a lot of people who aren't middle class white males? Because the government doesn't care what we think. There aren't enough of us to tip an election.

Biden's first term has been a shitshow of inflation, war, crime, and international humiliation. The Right couldn't turn that into a Red Wave. Why?

The GOP, as usual, had no positive message. "We probably wont be as bad, I guess," turned out to not drive people to the polls.

 

[Meat Target]

The GOP, as usual, had no positive message. "We probably wont be as bad, I guess," turned out to not drive people to the polls.

One would think "we won't molest your kids, leave you at the mercy of criminals, or declare you guilty of the sins of people who died 200 years ago!" would be a winning message.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

People bring that up over and over but does it really work? I don't think it does honestly these news rags that spout that bullshit have no credibility left and it shows. Look at the viewership for the MSM or the like/dislike ratio on news videos.

It matters a lot to legit voters
So it makes fuckall in current elections lolololol

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Can someone explain to me why the VA and Social Security are getting the ax under the House proposal? Why not cut Princesky Zelensky's allowance, or the DoJ's inquisition budget?

Probably because of a combination of those RINO types, a misunderstanding of the new paradigm of the opposition, and also suicidal thoughts like you said.

The truth is no one in D.C. wants to cut the Ukraine funding outside of the Freedom Caucasus and maybe another half dozen people. The McCarthy's and McConnell's probably wont even entertain the idea.

It is possible this is a attempt at again trying to attack Trump and MAGA. Trump has spoken that he doesn't want to cut those things but people acuse him of wanting to anyway.

And then you have the more optimistic idea that a collapse of the US economy caused by the defaulting on the debt would force D.C. to stop wasting money on the outside and refocus on Veterans, Medicaid and Social Security out of simple self preservation.

One would think "we won't molest your kids, leave you at the mercy of criminals, or declare you guilty of the sins of people who died 200 years ago!" would be a winning message.

It would. But they were too worried it might be too "radical" and scare off "muh middle ground centrists" and went instead with more Bush and Cheney types instead to the point they were sabotaging people who Trump chose first to instead push turds they thought had "mass appeal" like that turk faggot Oz in PA that they made lose to a literal stroke patient, because having someone attack the Sacred and Perfect Electoral System was worse than pedophile apologia and saber rattling with a nuclear power over a 3rd world shithole know for neonazism and child porn production.

 

[The Ugly One]

One would think "we won't molest your kids, leave you at the mercy of criminals, or declare you guilty of the sins of people who died 200 years ago!" would be a winning message.

If they'd actually said that, maybe they would have won! Instead, it was, "Our top priority, as a party, is defeating Russia in Ukraine."

And then you have the more optimistic idea that a collapse of the US economy caused by the defaulting on the debt would force D.C. to stop wasting money on the outside and refocus on Veterans, Medicaid and Social Security out of simple self preservation.

There's no viable path to solvency in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security without cuts to benefits. Inflation it is, then.

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

Do you talk to a lot of people who aren't middle class white males? Because the government doesn't care what we think. There aren't enough of us to tip an election.



The GOP, as usual, had no positive message. "We probably wont be as bad, I guess," turned out to not drive people to the polls.

Mostly spics and black people surprisingly. Also White males must make some difference because the GOP got the popular vote for the midterms and still won the house.

 

[ForTheHoard]

When is this "pendulum" gonna "swing back"? Because it sure as hell isn't happening fast enough.

It probably has something to do with 70% of the republican party that's helping the left hold it back.

 

[tehpope]

Biden's first term has been a shitshow of inflation, war, crime, and international humiliation. The Right couldn't turn that into a Red Wave. Why?

People don't come out for Midterms. Calm down and go touch grass.

 

[spaztocate9000]

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[Sock-to-Lurk]

Anyone interested in moving to Oklahomo?

There's a new nation forming on 3,300 acres. Neat!

Details

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[Some Dumb Faggot]

You can brush them all under the rug with "remember that one time the Chuds refused to compromise, and it led to the world economy imploding?"

Biden's first term has been a shitshow of inflation, war, crime, and international humiliation. The Right couldn't turn that into a Red Wave. Why?

When is this "pendulum" gonna "swing back"? Because it sure as hell isn't happening fast enough.

The Dems lost the popular vote and spent like 16x as much on the midterms yet still lost the house and can't push though legislation.

 

[Meat Target]

There's no viable path to solvency in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security without cuts to benefits.

There is, but it involves heaping hefty taxes upon Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Fink. But that won't happen, because Libby rhetoric about "paying your fair share" suddenly evaporates once it's directed at the donor class.

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

There is, but it involves heaping hefty taxes upon Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Fink. But that won't happen, because Libby rhetoric about "paying your fair share" suddenly evaporates once it's directed at the donor class.

You could take every single penny from each of those guys combined and it still wouldn't cover what is spent on medicaid and social secruity yearly. The yearly defecit is over a trillion dollars currently. Also none of those guys just have their networth sitting in a bank account most of it is in the stockmarket which is imaginary money

 

[ForTheHoard]

There is, but it involves heaping hefty taxes upon Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Fink. But that won't happen, because Libby rhetoric about "paying your fair share" suddenly evaporates once it's directed at the donor class.

Taxing the rich isn't a solution for overspending. It just chases off your rich people. Unlike other countries, our oligarchs are free to leave and put their money in places the IRS can't touch it. Even if you did tax the shit out of them, it wouldn't be enough money to do anything. I think the total net worth of the top 20 American billionaires would be enough money to run the government for a few months.

The truth is, the only way to pay for our current level of spending is to fuck over the middle and lower class. The amount of taxes unaccounted for from a waiter collecting tips or you selling your neighbor a lawnmower far exceeds what they can get out of the 1%. The income tax came with a promise that it would only be used against the rich but a guy living under the federal poverty line still gives 30% of his earnings to the big guy.

The problem is spending, not insufficient revenue streams for the government. The founding fathers started chopping heads over a 4% tax on tea. Now the "patriots" give half their earnings away to pay for regime change in 3rd world shit holes and beg for more.

 

[Meat Target]

The Dems lost the popular vote and spent like 16x as much on the midterms yet still lost the house and can't push though legislation.

It was supposed to be a wave election, on par with 1994 or 2010.

And now the R's are getting ready to waste this paltry comeback. Instead of using their majority as a weapon for long-term agenda wins (like Pelosi did in Trump's second half), they're trying to crawl back under the rock of Zombie Reaganism and "compassionate conservatism."

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The only way to fix the books is to cut spending. Massively. And it means cutting a lot of shit.

You can actually keep the Veteran Aid around easy. The real big holes are Social Security and Medicaid. Medicaid has at least a theoretical fix in that a lot of it is fucked over due to a huge network of price fixing and de-facto cartels and oligopolies of insurance companies and hospitals bloating prices, along with the FDA being a glorified monopoly that ensures shit like 10 dollar insulin shots can never happen because they won't allow anyone to start a new company to make and sell insulin without their "authorization" that will never come, allowing the people who are "authorized" to set the price at will.

Social Security is the real big hole here. It was never meant to support so many people.

 

[Meat Target]

The only way to fix the books is to cut spending. Massively. And it means cutting a lot of shit.

Social Security is the real big hole here. It was never meant to support so many people.

In other words, the problem will continue until the boomers go extinct.

 

[Betonhaus]

The only way to fix the books is to cut spending. Massively. And it means cutting a lot of shit.

I do not believe that to be possible anymore. So many US dollars were printed in the past three years, and it's being dropped faster then a steaming turd. There is now way to roll things back to a former status quo where things worked, and attempting to do so will only make things steadily worse.

The only way is to push through, and figure out a new path forward. I do not believe a RINO-controlled Republican party can do so. A Trump-controlled one that's prepared to do bankruptcy proceedings may be, but things need to play out more first. Unless things fall apart in time for the election enough that tptb have exhausted all methods for blocking Trump from becoming president, a continued near-deadlock may be the best path forward. And with elections continually being fortified that seems likely.

 

[ForTheHoard]

In other words, the problem will continue until the boomers go extinct.

They set the precedence that the government provides. When the boomers die, their kids will demand more, and they will have a legal argument when you try to take their gibs. I cant remember if it was a Roman or a Greek that said a democracy will fail once the voting populous realizes they can vote to keep the money printers turned on.