American Politics

[Chris P]

Get used to it. After the Trump fiasco you guys are liable to be out of power for a long time, and of course have only yourselves to blame.

Hardly. The 2020 election trended heavily republican. The GOP won a majority of state legislatures; it very nearly won back the House (and will do so in 2022); and the expected big democrat Senate gains didn't materialize either. As for the presidency, Trump had it won at midnight, before the count was stopped in democrat shithole cities, republican observers expelled, and pallets full of ballots for Biden began mysteriously appearing.

All of that, of course, was under the fraudulent democrat "mail-in" voting scam, allegedly due to covid. By next time, the covid excuse will be gone so they will have to return to in-person voting which is much harder for them to rig.

[ScatManDoo]

A collapse could be sudden, but the ship of state has been listing for a long time, the ballast shifting. Hands over hearts won't save it when the debt comes due.

No collapse is ever going to happen.

Debt coming due? What would cause a default? The federal reserve is not going to lose its ability to print money to honor its debt.

[Chris P]

1. You complain about this but you don't provide an alternative.

Build a big, beautiful wall and keep them in Mexico while their "asylum claims" are being processed (most of which are false). That is exactly what Trump was doing, and it was succeeding, with illegal numbers way down in 2020. Unfortunately, as in other areas, Trump's great work has been quickly ruined by Biden's handlers.

[Chris P]

The Biden-Harris plan is better than the trump "let's machine gun them before they get in" plan.

No, letting in hundreds of thousands a month (thus encouraging millions more) and paying millions of dollars for hotel rooms is not a better plan than building a big, beautiful wall so they can't get illegally in the first place.

They can file "asylum" claims in Mexico, which will be processed while they wait. Most of the claims are false but the difference is that once they are in the USA they disappear and never show up for court. And now Biden's handlers have hamstrung ICE and blocked deportations, there is no way to get rid of them even though they broke the law to enter illegally and under false pretenses.

[Chris P]

Once again you are deflecting.

Filing a tax return does not require a photo ID. Using you logic there should be massive frauds in tax refunds with millions of refunds being sent to the wrong people because of a lack of photo ID. Yes, there IS fraud but mostly from identity fraud. And most folks who steal an identity secure a photo ID.

Oops!

You don't need a photo ID to pay taxes, because you are sending money to the government. LOL. Fraudsters steal money, they don't send it away.

This is nothing like voting, and it is idiotic to even compare the two. Secure voting requires in-person voting and photo ID. This is understood all over the world. Except, apparently, in US states with democrat governors and / or leftwing activist judges.

Now please answer the question I asked: do you support the democrat / media-promoted so-called covid passport, which would demand far more than simply photo ID to carry out many basic tasks?

[Paulie97]

Dick Cheney: "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" Unless a Democrat is in the White House.

It just demonstrates that wingnuts are going to cry regardless, as they did throughout the Clinton years in spite of a booming economy and balanced budget. And in the absence of anything else to cry about they'll cry about a BJ.

[John Clayton]

When does the USA lose the reserve currency status?

See eichengreen, "exorbitant privilege'.

We've been super lucky for the last forty years, but, really, what's going to replace it? Bitcoin? EUR? RMB? RUB? I don't see it in the near long term.

[Beijing4987]

A collapse could be sudden, but the ship of state has been listing for a long time, the ballast shifting. Hands over hearts won't save it when the debt comes due.

[Paulie97]

Exactly, and well said.

When the house of cards comes crashing down is the only question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO04VXBIS0M

Get used to it. After the Trump fiasco you guys are liable to be out of power for a long time, and of course have only yourselves to blame.

[Paulie97]

Biggest fraud so far was Biden stimulus. Next biggest fraud will be his infrastructure stimulus which isn't a infrastructure bill but democrats pork for their failing states and cities. Biden here 100 days and already on track to be worst president ever. Even worse than Obama.

The good news is that you have plenty of time to cry, three years and nine months to be exact, so stock up on the tissues.

P.S. It bears repeating that nobody cries like the right.

[Vagabundo1]

Exactly, and well said.

When the house of cards comes crashing down is the only question.

Biggest fraud so far was Biden stimulus. Next biggest fraud will be his infrastructure stimulus which isn't a infrastructure bill but democrats pork for their failing states and cities. Biden here 100 days and already on track to be worst president ever. Even worse than Obama.

[Vagabundo1]

When does the USA lose the reserve currency status?

See eichengreen, "exorbitant privilege'.

[Beijing4987]

Dick Cheney: "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" Unless a Democrat is in the White House.

[Spidy]

Biggest fraud so far was Biden stimulus. Next biggest fraud will be his infrastructure stimulus which isn't a infrastructure bill but democrats pork for their failing states and cities. Biden here 100 days and already on track to be worst president ever. Even worse than Obama.

Yet another myth. Republicans like to promote, that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.

In reality it's the other way around. Red states are heavily subsidized by federal tax money taken from Blue states.

https://apnews.com/article/2f83c72de...cdbc0d3b6bc08c

[Canada]

1. You complain about this but you don't provide an alternative. The US has treaty obligations that prevent certain classes of refugees from being immediately expelled. You are presuming there is accommodation available and it is less expensive than the hotels. Perhaps spell out the economics so we can all share your unique understanding. But as you can't read I will again post the official position for you.

The Biden administration is immediately expelling most people stopped trying to cross the border without legal permission. Those expulsions are happening under Title 42, a public health rule put in place by the Trump administration at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But some places in Mexico are not allowing expelled migrant families to return. Those families are instead processed in the United States, where they face immigration court dates and deportation unless they win their cases.

Under federal policy, children are not supposed to be held in Border Patrol facilities for longer than 72 hours.

Over the weekend, Tae Johnson, acting director for USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced the agency had entered an $86.9 million contract with Endeavors, a nonprofit organization, to provide 1,239 beds at hotel rooms and other services to migrant families who are not expelled at the border.

"Families will be provided clothing, meals / snacks, access to medical care, legal counsel, unlimited phone access, and individual rooms for appropriate physical distancing," reads a statement from ICE.

2. Not a fact, just your opinion. I'm sure Portland will deal with their problems.

3. at least? Maybe? You don't know! Maybe the ones that get through are the ones who will always get through because they are smarter and better organised.

4. So they are not being released but put into camps!

You don't know what I support. You just make things up and call anyone who disagrees with you a socialist. You are repeatedly revealed to be clueless about pretty much anything you comment on.

Trump was a failure, McConnell is a failure, the US is failing because Republicans repeatedly enact policies that have been shown to be geared towards meeting the needs of their donors rather than benefiting the nation. You worry about spending $80 m on hotels when the Cares act has been a huge fraud on the American people with $100's of billions being handed out to the wealthy for nothing, $60 b going to farmers to buy their votes because of the failed China trade war but you don't worry about any of that because as long as Republicans are carrying out their massive frauds you are content.

Biggest fraud so far was Biden stimulus. Next biggest fraud will be his infrastructure stimulus which isn't a infrastructure bill but democrats pork for their failing states and cities. Biden here 100 days and already on track to be worst president ever. Even worse than Obama.