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Steely_D

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Posted: Mar 4, 2022 - 6:49am

 kurtster wrote:

Biden is compromised by son Hunter's activities.

Biden refuses to call Putin's actions war crimes but more importantly also steadfastly refuses to stop the importation of Russian oil, an act that will actually hurt Putin more than anything else we can do.  We currently import 10% of our oil from Putin.



Of course the President is. Even though his offspring isn't being paid to be on White House staff, not trying to solve the Middle East, not using influence to get deals with other countries - he‘s a target for criticism. It's like that line from Newsroom: "the NEA only costs you pennies out of your paycheck but they get to hit you over the head with it anytime they want. It doesn't cost money; it costs votes."

To loosely quote Frank: â€Is that a real problem or is it a Sears problem?”



kurtster

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Posted: Mar 4, 2022 - 5:25am

Biden is compromised by son Hunter's activities.

Biden refuses to call Putin's actions war crimes but more importantly also steadfastly refuses to stop the importation of Russian oil, an act that will actually hurt Putin more than anything else we can do.  We currently import 10% of our oil from Putin.
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Mar 2, 2022 - 6:45am

AP FACT CHECK: Biden’s State of Union is off on guns, EVs
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Posted: Feb 15, 2022 - 6:47am

 westslope wrote:

The USA:

+  9% do not have health insurance coverage.

+  Trump Republicans and Biden Democrats share a deep attachment to an anti-science, anti-data perspective on policy, share the cheap energy entitlement and show a clear preference for obesity-sitting-dementia policies.  

+  Oil prices are ramping up (again) and poor little Joe has no idea what to do.  Time to reinvade Iraq, Joe?   Would you like to invade and occupy Venezuela?  Is there anybody you would like to kill out frustration? 

+   Political mendacity is one of the social values that Americans of all political persuasions deeply share.   The Democrats have been showing us how they shine at making up stuff and repeating it in a loud voice.  Is this any different from what the Trump Republicans did?  

+  All Americans support the Monroe Doctrine.  Many support applying the Monroe outside of the western hemisphere.  The USA is a nation full of people of Great Stature; the laws and rules that apply to others do not apply to Americans.

+  Joe has continued the sanctions against Venezuela because a) both Joe and Trump love ineffective policy, b) transparency and accountability are passé, and c) gratuitously hurting the poor and low-income workers is 'American'.  

+  Both Democrats and Republicans love human rights abusing authoritarian nations as long as their policies jibe with American priorities.  Egypt, Morocco, the Philippines and to a lesser extent the Ukraine are a few examples.  




likely "most" Americans aren't paying attention to any of this nor to any armchair pundit analysis, at least not willingly. Hence the disconnect between the cultural slog and actual preference settings on constructive political/social commentary...



westslope

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Posted: Feb 14, 2022 - 3:52pm

The USA:

+  9% do not have health insurance coverage.

+  Trump Republicans and Biden Democrats share a deep attachment to an anti-science, anti-data perspective on policy, share the cheap energy entitlement and show a clear preference for obesity-sitting-dementia policies.  

+  Oil prices are ramping up (again) and poor little Joe has no idea what to do.  Time to reinvade Iraq, Joe?   Would you like to invade and occupy Venezuela?  Is there anybody you would like to kill out of frustration? 

+   Political mendacity is one of the social values that Americans of all political persuasions deeply share.   The Democrats have been showing us how they shine at making up stuff and repeating it in a loud voice.  Is this any different from what the Trump Republicans did?  

+  All Americans support the Monroe Doctrine.  Many support applying the Monroe outside of the western hemisphere.  The USA is a nation full of people of Great Stature; the laws and rules that apply to others do not apply to Americans.

+  Joe has continued the sanctions against Venezuela because a) both Joe and Trump love ineffective policy, b) transparency and accountability are passé, and c) gratuitously hurting the poor and low-income workers is 'American'.  

+  Both Democrats and Republicans love human rights abusing authoritarian nations as long as their policies jibe with American priorities.  Egypt, Morocco, the Philippines and to a lesser extent the Ukraine are a few examples.  




VV

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Posted: Feb 14, 2022 - 11:36am

 kurtster wrote:

 Probably the most ineffective clumsiest misdirect attempted by you... bravo!  

  
kurtster

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Posted: Feb 14, 2022 - 11:17am

 VV wrote:
 Steely_D wrote:
Yawn. Fight the real enemy.

Nice shut down Steely.  Only the "hits". So cringeworthy I couldn't even sit through them all.
     
 

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Posted: Feb 14, 2022 - 8:15am

 Steely_D wrote:


Yawn. Fight the real enemy.


Nice shut down Steely.  Only the "hits". So cringeworthy I couldn't even sit through them all.
     
kurtster

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Posted: Feb 14, 2022 - 1:35am

 Ohmsen wrote:
 Steely_D wrote:
Yawn. Fight the real enemy.

I thought, that was him?
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Nope.  You would think so.  On the other hand, isn't it cute when they try and have it both ways ?
Steely_D

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Posted: Feb 13, 2022 - 7:14pm

 Ohmsen wrote:
Memo from the US-President: And this man is sitting behind the red knob. OMG!   -   Context!


Yawn. Fight the real enemy.

Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 24, 2022 - 9:59am

 black321 wrote:

But I can't see how anyone could argue either party over the past decade has provided anything of a roadmap for the country's future...unless that future is simply prop up consumer spending on trinkets.

Yep. Remember Kennedy: “we go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.”

The culture has devolved from the pursuit of greatness and happiness to the selfishness of capitalism. Why? Because people are unsure. If they didn’t have to worry that others having health care and education and food and housing meant that they would be forced to do without those things, then there would be less fighting about giving those things to others. And then they can move on to other things.

The failure of our leaders to work together to provide for everyone (and that means sacrificing some golden idols like military spending) means that their constituents are having to home school, to use GoFundMe for health care costs, and living on the streets because they can’t afford homes. This is a primary failure of our government - while they argue about Dr. Seuss.




Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 24, 2022 - 9:54am

 black321 wrote:

Not sure why, but Obama was ineffectual and could have done so much more for the country, given the broad support he had.


Oh come on.


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Posted: Jan 24, 2022 - 9:27am

 Steely_D wrote:

That’s the usual position that Democrats find themselves in, right? Obama had to fix the financial devastation left by his predecessor. Biden is having to do the same. It’s a pattern.
Republican policies are responsible for damage, than Democrats come in and try to help fix it and are called incompetent. “Look how they’re failing.” 
The kid tears up his room, and the parent has to pick it up. 




Well the bit about the great recession is nonsense. That was directly attributed to clinton tearing up glass steagall. 
So we had Bush II destroy our global position, and open the pandora's box of mid-east terrorism. Obama didnt fix any of that...
Not sure why, but Obama was ineffectual and could have done so much more for the country, given the broad support he had. Probably b/c he jammed through ACA, without any GOP support, and half the country against it. Don't get me wrong, i believe in universal healthcare, but not ACA. 
And of course the republicans did destroy the one piece of the legislation that might have actually allowed it to work - individual mandate.
But I can't see how anyone could argue either party over the past decade has provided anything of a roadmap for the country's future...unless that future is simply prop up consumer spending on trinkets.

Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 24, 2022 - 9:05am

 black321 wrote:

Maybe at best they stopped the slide. Certainly haven't done much to bring the country together.


That’s the usual position that Democrats find themselves in, right? Obama had to fix the financial devastation left by his predecessor. Biden is having to do the same. It’s a pattern.
Republican policies are responsible for damage, than Democrats come in and try to help fix it and are called incompetent. “Look how they’re failing.” 
The kid tears up his room, and the parent has to pick it up. 


black321

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Posted: Jan 24, 2022 - 8:25am

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Sure I can. He got handed a country estranged from its allies, a weird deal struck in Afghanistan, an economy where the rich got a tax break, a pandemic that will go away in the spring like magic, a split-in-two America that the former guy encouraged, and a Supreme Court that was rigged. The car was already off the road and on the shoulder and then it started pouring virus-soaked rain. Half the drivers refused to turn on their wipers. 

And oh, boo hoo, Biden didn’t meet the Republicans’ expectations.


So the country was going to hell in a bucket...and what are we doing about it?
I suppose if you don't believe in fiscal responsibility, then  throwing trillions of $ out the window is a plan.
I don't see how democratic leadership has provided any solutions. Maybe at best they stopped the slide. Certainly haven't done much to bring the country together.
And thank goodness for the two democrats who actually seem to have enough marbles to stop the runaway, partisan nonsense.
Didn't Manchin's approval rating shoot up? Does that mean anything?
We need more folks on both sides willing to remove themselves from the tyranny of their own parties, for the good of the country.

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Posted: Jan 23, 2022 - 7:36pm

 Steely_D wrote:


Sure I can. He got handed a country estranged from its allies, a weird deal struck in Afghanistan, an economy where the rich got a tax break, a pandemic that will go away in the spring like magic, a split-in-two America that the former guy encouraged, and a Supreme Court that was rigged. The car was already off the road and on the shoulder and then it started pouring virus-soaked rain. Half the drivers refused to turn on their wipers. 

And oh, boo hoo, Biden didn’t meet the Republicans’ expectations.


You forgot a slight majority in the senate that turned out not to be a democratic majority afterall
Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 23, 2022 - 7:04pm

 black321 wrote:

Maybe. But you cant argue against Biden being incompetent. 



Sure I can. He got handed a country estranged from its allies, a weird deal struck in Afghanistan, an economy where the rich got a tax break, a pandemic that will go away in the spring like magic, a split-in-two America that the former guy encouraged, and a Supreme Court that was rigged. The car was already off the road and on the shoulder and then it started pouring virus-soaked rain. Half the drivers refused to turn on their wipers. 

And oh, boo hoo, Biden didn’t meet the Republicans’ expectations.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2022 - 5:00pm

 kurtster wrote:


In the face of omicron, which is screwing up the supply chain all around the word, what could he have done better? Show your work.

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Posted: Jan 23, 2022 - 4:46pm

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Posted: Jan 23, 2022 - 3:40pm

 HarleyRider wrote:

Jan 22 marked one year exactly since Joe Biden took office as the 46th president of the US and it's been a rough 365 days. In a press conference on Jan 21, his first in 10 months and just the second of his presidency, Biden attempted what the media has begun referring to as a "reset," a desperate new effort to persuade us to support his leadership and policies even as a record number now disapprove of his presidency. But while Biden did not have much success on resetting the direction of his administration, here are five reasons why Biden's presidency has gone so poorly and was likely doomed from the very beginning. 1) Biden can't admit when he is wrong and blames everyone else when things go south. 2) Biden made a corrupt bargain with the radical left and surrendered his presidency to them before it even started. 3) Biden's campaign was built on lies. 4) Biden's "Mr. Nice guy" persona has been revealed as the sham it always was. 5) Biden is an incompetent leader, and has always been regarded as such by those around him.


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