American Politics

[Elvis 2008]

Repubs are thriving when economy is in tatters. No, they won't do shit for economy, but they're great at 'xplaining how Dems are to blame when economy is in tatters.

Expensive gas is good for Repub. Cheap gas is bad for Repubs. Cheap gas distracts people from voting right. As in ultra-right.

Man, you dumb Dems do not understand anything.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hi...bits-aaa-finds

The DoE's official implied gasoline demand data shows the weakest demand since the COVID lockdowns (on a seasonal basis) and weakest overall since 2013.

And this is good?

[DramaFree11]

So the massive increase in food and gas prices, the recession talk, the war in Ukraine, and the Covid debacle (which was cured by the war in Ukraine) have not affected you, but Trump's tweets did?

I am glad to see you have your priorities in life correct.

You forgot to mention a massive increase in violent crimes, totally unacceptable. The drug problem is out of control and at an all time high, but let's ignore the problem and hope it just goes away.

Meanwhile they are still obsessed with Trump and Russia. Russia is is a minor issue, they real problem is China.

[EihTooms]

Biden just took a page out of Trump's vaccine playbook to solve gas price problems - Business Insider, July 26th 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...ms/ar-AA1005pM

If Burden simply kept copying what Trump was doing for us, we wouldn't be in such a dipshit situation. But still, better late than never. We know Burden won't give credit to Trump for the strategies, but at least started following now. Good.

Where is the part where Biden defunds the CDC and pulls all the Pandemic Prevention and Response teams out of those Chinese labs against all expert warnings not to do something so stupid and dangerous then compounds that idiocy by publicly lying for a critical year in exactly the way a World Leader would need to do in order to produce a deadly Pandemic that requires extraordinary measures to create vaccines for it, mass murder millions around the world, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, destroy global supply-chains, requiring years long closures triggering hyper-inflation on the recovery etc, etc, etc?

I didn't read that Biden did anything like all those things Trump did in your link.

[PVMonger]

Paulie97 in your vehement defense of the Nancy Pelosi's Jan 6 House Inquisition you omit the key fact in my post that the star witness, White House assistant Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony was 100 percent hearsay. And wait for it, within hours of Ms. Hutchinson's allegations, the Secret Service agents actually involved came forward and said what Ms. Hutchinson testified to under oath did not happen.

Now if this spectacle was really an honest, fair minded inquiry into what actually occurred on Jan 6 and the days leading up to Jan 6, you would think the committee would have subpoenaed the Secret Service agents involved and listened to their sworn firsthand testimony. BUT NOOOOOOOOOO, the committee did not do that and did not explain why the Secret Service agents were not called. But everyone knows why they were not called.

So, we can argue the semantics over what to call this disgrace, this soviet era show trial, this inquisition, but no fair minded American can call this thing an inquiry. That is why most Americans have tuned out and are not watching this disgraceful spectacle. They know the verdict was decided before the 1st witness was called.

"Judge and jury walk out hand in hand.

Dietrich movies, close up boogies.

Kissing * in Cannes.

Grotesque music, million dollar sad.

Got no tactics, got no time on hand".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcH8C4vWvVw&t=41s

Hutchinson's testimony was 100% hearsay? Not even close.

First, hearsay only applies to a trial. Are the hearings a trial? Nope. So I call BS on your statement for that reason alone.

Need more proof? How about this: https://lawandcrime.com/jan-6-commit...e-complicated/ or https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...imony-00042985.

But you'll just call it "fake news" because that's what "FUX snooze" says it is, right?

[EihTooms]

Repubs are thriving when economy is in tatters. No, they won't do shit for economy, but they're great at 'xplaining how Dems are to blame when economy is in tatters.

Expensive gas is good for Repub. Cheap gas is bad for Repubs. Cheap gas distracts people from voting right. As in ultra-right.

I guess, Trump could help. He could beg Russia to do something about gas.

Like, I don't know.

Russia, if you're listening.

I hope you're able to find a way to give us some economic pain.

$6 per gallon would be fantastic.

Can't you keep invading? Why stop at Ukraine? The more the merrier.

There're so many "Stans" in your neighborhood, you know, worth invading. It would be genius!

I think you will probably be rewarded mightily for your kindness.

Let's see if that happens. Chop-chop.

Repubs don't need the economy to be "in tatters" under Dem stewardship in order to falsely declare, "The economy is in tatters under Dems"!

First of all, it has been more than 100 years since the USA economy could have been remotely described accurately as being "in tatters" under Dem stewardship.

Today's USA economy is not "in tatters. " Far from it. It is so strong under Biden and Dem stewardship, even Trump's Pandemic Supply-Chain Destruction Inflation has barely put a dent in consumer spending, not caused so much as a hiccup in Dem Biden's historic jobs creation or caused Dem Biden's record fast decline in the unemployment rate to tick up a mere point.

It is even doubtful that the official arbiter of "recessions", the NBER, will designate this point in time as a "recession" even if the GDP Growth rate contracted a tad last quarter:

Here's how to know if we're in a recession, and it's not what you think.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/26/here...ndroidappshare

Most people think that back-to-back negative GDP quarters constitute a recession, but thats not the case.

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the official arbiter of recessions, and uses multiple other factors in making its determination.

The NBER would be laughingstocks if they said we had a recession when we were creating 400,000 jobs a month, said Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

So whenever anyone alive today ever heard Repubs or their loyal and devoted benefactors and election campaigners in Mainstream Media declaring "The economy is in tatters!" due to Dems being at the helm, they were lying.

Now, to cite when the USA economy was truly "in tatters" under and due to Repubs, one only has to look at the Repub Trump to Dem Biden handoff just 18 months ago.

And the Repub GW Bush handoff to Dem Obama-Biden 12 years prior to that.

And the Repub GHW Bush handoff to Dem Bill Clinton 8 years before that.

And so on.

[Xpartan]

Today the most reputable and reliable poll of polls service shows Repubs with less than a single percent advantage over Dems on their Generic Ballot question.

At only 0. 7%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...eneric-ballot/

That is a "falling off the cliff" level of decline for Repubs in just a few weeks.

Considering they have two huge historic advantages this time around in that it is the first midterm of a POTUS from the other Party as well as the first midterm after the Dem POTUS and (nominal) majority passed truly historic legislation destined to become revered and virtually untouchable as the basis for what makes America great (Dems are always punished for this in the next midterm due to Repubs launching full force into demonizing the Dems' historically positive accomplishment), this midterm ought to be an easy Red wave for Repubs and a big one.

But their disastrous recent and historic results combined with their astonishing level of anti American, anti Freedom, anti Democracy, BIG Government Authoritarian Dictatorship Love is making it way more difficult for them than it ought to be.

Then again, their hatred for America and democracy has meant they are only busy installing QAnon Repub loons in positions to throw out ballots with votes they don't like all around the country. So I suppose it won't matter how godawful they do in the election.

Repubs are thriving when economy is in tatters. No, they won't do shit for economy, but they're great at 'xplaining how Dems are to blame when economy is in tatters.

Expensive gas is good for Repub. Cheap gas is bad for Repubs. Cheap gas distracts people from voting right. As in ultra-right.

I guess, Trump could help. He could beg Russia to do something about gas.

Like, I don't know.

Russia, if you're listening.

I hope you're able to find a way to give us some economic pain.

$6 per gallon would be fantastic.

Can't you keep invading? Why stop at Ukraine? The more the merrier.

There're so many "Stans" in your neighborhood, you know, worth invading. It would be genius!

I think you will probably be rewarded mightily for your kindness.

Let's see if that happens. Chop-chop.

[Gino02]

Sadly, this is the main problem.

[Gino02]

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding, red light tickets as they pile up: Report - Fox News, July 26th 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ch...rt/ar-AA1003qp

[Gino02]

Biden just took a page out of Trump's vaccine playbook to solve gas price problems - Business Insider, July 26th 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...ms/ar-AA1005pM

If Burden simply kept copying what Trump was doing for us, we wouldn't be in such a dipshit situation. But still, better late than never. We know Burden won't give credit to Trump for the strategies, but at least started following now. Good.

[Gino02]

Hard times ahead: How Biden and the Fed are driving America into a recession - USA Today - July 26th 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...ion/ar-AAZYTyW

[EihTooms]

Today the most reputable and reliable poll of polls service shows Repubs with less than a single percent advantage over Dems on their Generic Ballot question.

At only 0. 7%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...eneric-ballot/

That is a "falling off the cliff" level of decline for Repubs in just a few weeks.

Considering they have two huge historic advantages this time around in that it is the first midterm of a POTUS from the other Party as well as the first midterm after the Dem POTUS and (nominal) majority passed truly historic legislation destined to become revered and virtually untouchable as the basis for what makes America great (Dems are always punished for this in the next midterm due to Repubs launching full force into demonizing the Dems' historically positive accomplishment), this midterm ought to be an easy Red wave for Repubs and a big one.

But their disastrous recent and historic results combined with their astonishing level of anti American, anti Freedom, anti Democracy, BIG Government Authoritarian Dictatorship Love is making it way more difficult for them than it ought to be.

Then again, their hatred for America and democracy has meant they are only busy installing QAnon Repub loons in positions to throw out ballots with votes they don't like all around the country. So I suppose it won't matter how godawful they do in the election.

[ScatManDoo]

Captain Pennywise strikes again. Hahaha.

Still feeling burnt JuskTK?

[Elvis 2008]

As for whether "things are better" under Biden, well nothing has really dramatically changed for me. I just go about my life feeling better about a US President that isn't unhinged, madly ranting and twitting at the drop of hat 15-min. of every day and is actually putting in the work (and not at a golf course). Or isn't a grifter, crook or con man.

Just tough luck though, for Biden having to deal with a couple of DINOs in the Senate and a backward and regressive SCOTUS majority, determined to drag American back to the dark ages.

So the massive increase in food and gas prices, the recession talk, the war in Ukraine, and the Covid debacle (which was cured by the war in Ukraine) have not affected you, but Trump's tweets did?

I am glad to see you have your priorities in life correct.

[JustTK]

We "our" seeing results.

Captain Pennywise strikes again. Hahaha.

[EihTooms]

You can call him whatever you want, and I can do the same with Bill Clinton, but Clinton was a good president and so was Trump. Carter and GW Bush were much better character wise than either Clinton or Trump but were horrible performance wise. The fact that all you can do is call him names means that he was in fact good.

LOL. Carter and Clinton produced results that are still among the top 3-4 best of all time, particularly on the critical issue of USA private sector jobs creation.

GW Bush and Trump produced across-the-board results that are among the absolute worst of all time. On the critical issue of USA jobs creation, perhaps only Repub Herbert Hoover had a worse record than either one.

But at least Hoover didn't also ignore the most blatantly obvious pending terrorist attack intel of all time and then compound that criminally negligent National Security botch by lying us into two counter-productive quagmire wars in the Middle East as GW Bush did.

And Hoover didn't decide to lay the foundation of any potentially deadly Pandemic to emerge and spread unabated, make sure it became one when the first predictable opportunity came along, lie in sync with our stated foreign adversaries to successfully mass murder at least a million Americans and cap off his historically disastrous so-called presidency by leading a violent, cop-killing mob of lemming followers to attempt the overturning of a free and fair election and the overthrowing of American democracy as Trump did.

Therefore, by comparison to GW Bush and Donald J. Trump, Herbert Hoover was a pretty good president. As were Charlie Manson and Jack the Ripper. By comparison to GW Bush and Donald J. Trump, that is.