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

 

[The Last Stand]

Raising the retirement age? So we can keep working and working until we're damn near Hillary Clinton's age?

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

Raising the retirement age? So we can keep working and working until we're damn near Hillary Clinton's age?

You gotta look at politics the same way you'd look at WWE. You have good guys and bad guys and its the bad guy's job to make the good guy look good. So when the good guy is a geriatric child sniffer, the bad guys have to do everything short of lighting puppies on fire to make the good guy look better by comparison.

 

[The Last Stand]

So much for Republicans being the working class party. Who wants to keep working and working until they grow old with no promised safety net? Also, I hate how they don't answer the question presented to them.

Can somebody explain the fentanyl crisis in connection with medication and Mexico?

 

[LurkTrawl]

You gotta look at politics the same way you'd look at WWE. You have good guys and bad guys and its the bad guy's job to make the good guy look good. So when the good guy is a geriatric child sniffer, the bad guys have to do everything short of lighting puppies on fire to make the good guy look better by comparison.

Repopulation crisis = make people work longer so the ponzi scheme that is social security is given another few years before its nature as a fucking scam is unveiled. Also so there's a sum total of more laborers as to somewhat alleviate the competency crisis and the pressure retired elderly will put on a system with too few hands in every single facet of productivity.

Who wants to keep working and working until they grow old with no promised safety net?

Brother anybody who paid attention and was capable of sequential logic figured out that the "promised safety net" was bullshit ages ago.

Nobody apparently thought to ask "what happens if the population ever dips significantly below replacement rate?" in the past eighty years.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Reading about the Republican debates has me imagining them as a small cluster of World War Z zombies, stumbling over each other while some looney toon tunes blares at a decible level too dangerous for the human ears. You know, a friday night for the Aristocrats.

 

[The Last Stand]

Now they're talking about abortion. This is going to be good.

Repopulation crisis = make people work longer so the ponzi scheme that is social security is given another few years before its nature as a fucking scam is unveiled. Also so there's a sum total of more laborers as to somewhat alleviate the competency crisis and the pressure retired elderly will put on a system with too few hands in every single facet of productivity.

You will work labor until we say you don't, scrub.

 

[Hüftpriester]

Nikki Haley having a normal one

 

[silverstacks]

And Republicans in both states have supermajorities in the legislature, so there's not much those governors can get away with.

when they have the good ol' boy's son as governor, because they have nothing to lose with a republican supermajority in the house and senate.

Given the safety of voting a democrat in with 2/3 majorities in the legislature

It helps that for Kentucky at least the Republicans have a supermajority so they can stop anything Beshear actually tries to do legislatively, including overriding any of his vetoes.

So here's my concern with all that, and I'd be glad if someone could tell me where I'm wrong.

Mitch McConnell is obviously on borrowed time at this point, and I think even Rand Paul is dealing with health concerns of his own. If either of them resigns, it would be up to Kentucky's governor to appoint the replacement senator. The law there is that he must pick from a list of candidates pre-approved by the state legislature (i.e. Republicans), but Beshear has already confirmed that he would just ignore this law and appoint a Democrat.

Does anyone honestly think the GOP would put up any meaningful resistance to that? I sure don't.

 

[The Last Stand]

Nikki Haley having a normal one
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Motherfucker, I was just about to say that.

Tim Scott brings up a great point regarding abortion legislation. 15-week limit on abortion and being pro-life AFTER the baby is born. Alright, reasonable enough. Nikki is getting butthurt about the topic in question.

 

[FunPosting101]

Raising the retirement age? So we can keep working and working until we're damn near Hillary Clinton's age?

The optimistic take would be that some of the government is smart enough to try and get out ahead of coming advances in anti-aging medicine. The more realistic take is that they're doing everything they can to keep social security going.

Repopulation crisis = make people work longer so the ponzi scheme that is social security is given another few years before its nature as a fucking scam is unveiled. Also so there's a sum total of more laborers as to somewhat alleviate the competency crisis and the pressure retired elderly will put on a system with too few hands in every single facet of productivity.

Brother anybody who paid attention and was capable of sequential logic figured out that the "promised safety net" was bullshit ages ago.

Nobody apparently thought to ask "what happens if the population ever dips significantly below replacement rate?" in the past eighty years.

If it comes right down to it, they'll just start printing money wholesale to keep programs like social security going. Nobody has a good solution to the long-term issues posed by below replacement birth rates yet.

 

[X Prime]

Does anyone honestly think the GOP would put up any meaningful resistance to that? I sure don't.

If that's true, and I would not be shocked that it is, Kentucky voters are morons.

 

[The Last Stand]

Now everybody is piggy backing off the Black guy's abortion point.

If that's true, and I would not be shocked that it is, Kentucky voters are morons.

Kentuckians are morons in general.

Nobody apparently thought to ask "what happens if the population ever dips significantly below replacement rate?" in the past eighty years.

If there's no people to work, then how will shit get done?

 

[LurkTrawl]

If there's no people to work, then how will shit get done?

It's almost as if it's an existential threat to the civilization we live in that realistically has no solution.

If it comes right down to it, they'll just start printing money wholesale to keep programs like social security going. Nobody has a good solution to the long-term issues posed by below replacement birth rates yet.

I eagerly await framing my first trillion dollar american bill. I hope they put Floyd's face on it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Tim Scott reminds me of a random preacher in some small town that hasn't left the town in years.

 

[MMS-China]

That would require forward thinking, which the Republicans lack. I find it humorous that the GOP is supposedly against limiting Americans, but are stanch believers of just abolishing it.

I'm constantly amazed at much of this threads insistence the Politicians are actually trying to win, and are just not trying hard enough. Instead of simply cashing their cheques, getting their lobbyist kickbacks, and then voting on whatever bill they were told to by their donors. Maybe doing a nice video or interview once in a while to make it look to the public like they are doing something.

The biggest schizm of the Democrats vs Republicans to me from the outside looks more like Corporate Communism vs Corporate Trotskyism. They only have a difference of opinion of exactly how the US should implode.

 

[The Last Stand]

Only thing Chris Christie opens up is his mouth during buffets. Only open heart he'll have is open heart surgery after pigging out on Oreos and butter.

 

[LurkTrawl]

The biggest schizm of the Democrats vs Republicans to me from the outside looks more like Corporate Communism vs Corporate Trotskyism. They only have a difference of opinion of exactly how the US should implode.

Not even that, just minor differences on how they get kickbacks and from where.

These people by and large don't have principles and don't expect the U.S. to implode. If they did they'd have righted the ship to some extent sometime in the past thirty to forty years in an effort to keep from strangling the golden goose.

The fact you think they even disagree on two forms of corporatism is funny. Look at the record of near-unanimous bipartisan voting.

 

[The Last Stand]

Pay attention to the handshake at the end, Vivek just brushed past Nikki Haley's palm. Damn.

That's nothing compared to what Trump will do to Nikki, Christie and definitely DeSantis. May as well bring some vaseline to that debate.

 

[verissimus]

Only thing Chris Christie opens up is his mouth during buffets. Only open heart he'll have is open heart surgery after pigging out on Oreos and butter.

You had a bad day today or what, because you're extra salty today.

 

[The Nothingness]

It is a very strong contention of mine that making abortion a "right" will destroy medicine in this country as we know it.

Imagine how an abortion becomes a "right", and doctors become increasingly uncomfortable with it (I can't imagine being an abortion doctor and not having it affect you the same way that, say, repeated exposure to the death penalty does), and start refusing people who just need to learn the lesson that they need to be more responsible with their sexual choices.

Then they hear that they need to perform the abortion because it's a "right". Would you want to have to face that, or a malpractice lawsuit from someone looking for trouble (ya know, like the whole "bake the gay cake" business)?

Well...when one medical procedure becomes a right, how long before other ones become "rights", and why would you want to be a doctor in that kind of environment, when someone can demand a procedure even though a doctor recommends not to undergo it?

All for the right to have sex...something never afforded men, I'll add.

I think there has been a number of undercover videos where abortion doctors are either desensitized or sound gleeful over what they do. I have yet to read about a doctor who change of heart like former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson.