American Politics

[JustTK]

Then at the start of the 20th Century, immigration was ended, and America enjoyed 70 years or enormous prosperity and success. Until the effects of the 1965 Immigration Bill (and other disasters) began to kick in.

P.S. The video you attached was by an openly Marxist Jewish college professor. Was it supposed to be a joke?

A "Marxist Jew". Not sure if he is a Jew, but he is certainly a socialist. Was that supposed to be a reason not to respect his opinion?

I see a problem in our communication. You refer to neo-liberals as "leftists". I call them right wingers. So we have that confusion to overcome.

You seem to confuse causation with correlation. Just bcos events happened concurrently, doesn't mean that one caused the other. There are various reasons why the USA went thru a period of properity prior to the 1970's. From 1820-1970 real wages in the USA rose without much pause due to economic prosperity caused by geographical, geological and political good fortune. It had very little do with sound economic policies. From 1970 to date, real wages have fallen without break.

What caused this change in the 1970's? Various factors worked to reduce real wages:

• Prior to WW2, the USA was the New World in its golden age – a place of untold and readily available resources, huge expanses of undeveloped land – a country that was perfectly positioned to develop and deliver goods to a largely choked and overexploited Europe. Rapid economic expansion and the genocide of the indigenous people meant that there was always high demand for labour, meaning rising wages.

• The advent of computers in everyday life meant more automation – fewer jobs available.

• Aftereffects of WW2 – USA didn't enter the war until late and so was largely unaffected. All other super powers were destroyed. This meant USA had a free reign to dominate the world economy, which it did. This was a golden opportunity for the USA, but it was temporary and it changed in the 1960's-70's. Slowly Japan, Germany, later Korea, and now China, rose up to compete against and overcome US industry – initially motor vehicles, computers, entertainment systems, now pretty much everything bar war equipment. The US response was to move production overseas and buy imports – fewer jobs available.

• 1970's saw a cultural shift in the role of women. Encouraged to make a career, compete against men, be independent – greater demand for jobs.

• Due to global competition, foreign policy and imperialist exploitation of poorer nations, cheap labour flooded in to USA – greater demand for jobs. It reaps what it sows.

Domestic and international politics are dominated by rich and powerful individuals and corporations – the oligarchs. These policies are designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the weak; it's a systematic exploitation of its own people and those of other nations. This is why we see a neglect of healthcare, of education, of housing, of infrastructure, and a lack of respect to the rights of people from weaker countries that hold natural resources. And it's why there is blanket control of mainstream media that represents the views of the oligarchs as if they are second nature. No other options exist, and other opinions are ridiculed as the views of extremists, dangerous madmen, or terrorists. I see that in your comment about Richard Wolff.

[PVMonger]

Good ole Ruthie was chatting with some law students on a panel at the University of Chicago law school.

And said Roe was "bad law" and a bad ruling etc etc.

Maybe this is why she wouldn't retire she wanted to take a fall for the dems and let "bad orange man" replace her with the final vote needed to correct the evil of Roe.

I'm guessing her good friend Scalia convinced her whist her was "porking" her with his salami to do just that LMAO.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...pected-legacy/

Post script.

Actually, Ginsburg said nothing of the kind. If you stop getting your news from the sources you post, you'd see that.

But don't take my word for it, take the University of Chicago (where you said she called Roe v. Wade a "bad ruling" She said "My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change," Ginsburg said. She would've preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women's rights. " She also said "Roe isn't really about the woman's choice, is it?" Ginsburg said. "It's about the doctor's freedom to practice. It wasn't woman-centered, it was physician-centered. " https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ju...w-school-visit and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/u...oe-v-wade.html.

So, no, Ginsburg didn't say that Roe v. Wade was a "bad law" or a "bad ruling". You know who says those things? Rightwingnut media and the rightwingnuts who get their information from those sources.

[Elvis 2008]

If the body needs oxygen (in other words, the person needs help breathing) you put them on a ventilator

No, that is wrong. It requires more energy to exhale than inhale. Ventilators are used more commonly to assist with getting rid of CO2 than giving oxygen, and you have no clue how ventilators works and what their side effects are.

Now you are using recent studies to say that what doctors did two years ago was the wrong approach. Wow.

Oh, it is even worse than that. The first time I saw someone with Covid and hypoxia, I instantly deduced that the projected need for ventilators was way, way overblown. In fact, a lot of the reason that people died was that they were put on ventilators prematurely. The reason I was not militant about not pointing it out was a correction was already under way.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/04/venti...ead-of-better/

But this says a lot about you. You are flogging me, approving of the massive amount of money wasted on ventilator production, and aligning yourself with experts but are clueless to the fact the experts have changed their minds. Your not keeping up is the reason you do not recognize the Fauci follies. In your mind, the thousands of unused ventilators littering warehouses around the country was money well spent as those spending such money had their hearts in the right place.

To me, that is wasted money by pols looking to score points and bash Trump, and all that money spent on useless ventilators could have been used to actually help people. Once more, when I objected to destroying the economy for Covid, that is not to say I want more money in my pocket (though I am not against that) but more money for people who are really sick.

For some boneheaded reason when it comes to Covid and Ukraine, the Democrat response is the first thing that we need to do is to financially slit our wrists to show we care.

It was amazing that a liberal like Taibbi and a conservative like Ben Shapiro completely saw eye to eye on this and in essence were saying the Covid experts were full of shit. Bill Maher did as well but not you PVM. To you, it is we Dems listen to the experts no matter what even after the experts have changed their minds. In your mind, buying all those unused ventilators was sound policy.

[Elvis 2008]

BTW, today the RCP poll of polls' Repub advantage has dropped down to a scant 1. 3 percentage points. I am sure they are scrambling to find a Rassmussen or Trafalgar poll or two out there somewhere to add to their mix to help calm the nerves of their target Repub viewers.

A week ago, I checked the futures on the midterms. Betting on Republicans sweeping both houses was 78 cents to win one dollar. For Dems, it was 22 cents to win a dollar, so you can win nearly 5 X your money.

I would not bet this. It is too little a reward and Republicans taking the house is practically a sure thing, and the Senate is likely to happen too. But it is right up your alley, Mr. 1000% returns. LOL. Have you put your money where you mouth is? This is a no brainer five bagger for you. LOL.

As for what to run on, that is easy: not being Democrats.

Dems tried to rig the 2016 election and then tried to take down Trump with Russiagate which is known to be a complete and utter fraud. Did they apologize for that? Show any remorse? Fuck no. They are doing 1-6 hearings in essence to say that you better not protest against our fraud again. The Dems instead of saying, "Ok, we understand why you are angry" are doing all they can to flog those involved.

Fox News used to say that there were a few bad apples in the FBI. Even Ben Shapiro was incredulous to the total and complete rot in the FBI, and Matt Taibbi was in total agreement. Then there was the Hunter Biden laptop censorship and intelligence experts saying the laptop was classic Russian disinformation.

So you ask what Republicans can run on? An objective FBI, apolitical intelligence agencies, an end to censorship, innocent until proven guilty, and due process. Hell, Dems have spent six years trying to make it so Trump cannot even run again. And why? Because Trump exposed how corrupt the system is. Taibbi said it best. Trump is a guy who has been privileged all his life sticking up for the common man. How fucked up is that? Polices that benefit the public and not the rich are derided as being populist. Sure Trump annoyed people and said cringe worthy things but he also called out things that needed to be. So the venom for Trump is not based on his policies but those screwing the taxpayers and want to stay hidden.

Do you know how you define a Dem? It is a person who looks at the millions Hunter Biden was pulling in for doing nothing at Burisma, throws up their arms, and says, "That is just the way it is. " They do not understand that line has been used to justify all this nation's past sins and could be used to justify slavery. The other "defense" of this indefensible behavior is whataboutism and trying to say the Trump children were just as bad whatever that means. The reality is there is no justification for this kind of filth. It is not illegal but the kind of behavior that gets someone out of office.

So the modern Dem just blows off Hunter Biden, the FBI, intelligence community, censorship, Fauci's follies, Russia gate, and calls those voting Republicans racist and stupid. So the answer to the question of what will Republicans run on is simple? We the Republicans are in the party that is not batshit crazy.

[Gino02]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes back on 'irresponsible' Montana trip criticism amid state-funded travel ban.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...ban/ar-AAZhFLH

Gavin Newsom bans (California) state funded travels to 22 states where laws discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents about what these people do in their personal lives, but it's morally and ethically OK for him to travel to one of those states (Montana) for a personal trip? What happened to following his own moral and ethics compass in personal lives?

Typical democrat libtard LOL.

[Gino02]

From your link:

Fine. Glad to see that level of panic and concern. I hope that feeling grows even more urgent heading into November.

Considering there is zero legislative fix for any of those things without more Dems in Congress, particularly the Senate, the absolute dumbest and most counterproductive message Biden could send right now is, "We, the Party that has cleaned up and fixed every horrific Republican Party disaster in history can shout and scowl America out of this disastrous Repub mess too! And we can do it even before or instead of you nice folks getting off your butts to vote for us. Yep, we're that good"!

Repubs already have 150+ years of midterm precedence on their side this year. I don't see how making voters think shouting and scowling is the fix for what ails them over actually voting into office more of the problem solvers and fewer of the problem creators will help rather than hurt the Party occupying the White House at this time right along with America in general.

Stay on point please. Biden is a useless junk, admit that first. No further explanations or proofs needed.

Your kinds, including Biden, keep blaming others for their failures which is exactly what you just shown us above. Again. LOL.

[EihTooms]

I wish I could!

But it doesn't help when Biden says nah, I'm not going to pack the court. Because packing the court is the only solution that doesn't require rewriting the Constitution. Or keep doing nothing and see what happens in November.

Yes, because they didn't have the majority. But also because they didn't have to. Trump almost effortlessly created the crackpot supermajority in SCOTUS. Why pack the court?

Again: they didn't have to pack the court -- the chips just fell their way after the death of Justice Ginsburg.

And today Dems have the WH and the Congress. Try to explain the voters why they couldn't have brought 2 Dems in line to confront the most dangerous judicial activism in the last, I don't know, 100 years?

LOL, Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

You're safe with me. I'm a left-leaning centrist. Last time I voted for a Repub was 2001. By then I hadn't yet fully realized that 'party' was pure poison.

Unfortunately, one doesn't have to vote for Repubs. Staying home will have the same effect, and I guarantee you that a lot of independents and even some Democrats won't feel like going out.

Repubs made dozens of attempts to repeal Obamacare before, during and after Trump. No way Trump could have banked on the death, retirement and Moscow Mitch manipulation to give him his chance to install his promised anti Sex-For-Pleasure SCOTUS majority.

If Moscow Mitch thought he could have given Trump the stick figure cartoon illustrated instructions on how to pack the court for all of their America-hating Repub goals and wishes during Trump's worst presidency and Constitutional Crisis Per Day tenure without it backfiring on his Party badly, he would have.

So Trump increases the SCOTUS by 4 justices in order to repeal everything great for America accomplished by the Dems and then Biden increases it by another 4 in order to clean up that disastrous mess produced by Trump, Kamala adds another 4 to better prepare us for the latter half of the 21st Century and then the next Repub increases it by another 4 in order to take the country back to pre Civil War era conditions and on and on?

Even Moscow Mitch could not see the advantage in setting that up without a Super Majority vote in Congress to support it. And there is no chance of that happening now.

[EihTooms]

Democratic criticisms of Biden get louder and broader.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...der/ar-AAZgTMe

- Washington Post.

Even the MSM Washington Post is reporting that Democrats are criticizing Biden, louder and broader. When will the libtard "experts" in this forum learn and change their mind? I predict NEVER.

From your link:

"In the view of many distraught Democrats, the country is facing a full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force. Democracy is under direct attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law. Shooting sprees are routine, abortion rights have ended and Democrats could suffer big losses in the next election, they wrote.

Fine. Glad to see that level of panic and concern. I hope that feeling grows even more urgent heading into November.

Considering there is zero legislative fix for any of those things without more Dems in Congress, particularly the Senate, the absolute dumbest and most counterproductive message Biden could send right now is, "We, the Party that has cleaned up and fixed every horrific Republican Party disaster in history can shout and scowl America out of this disastrous Repub mess too! And we can do it even before or instead of you nice folks getting off your butts to vote for us. Yep, we're that good"!

Repubs already have 150+ years of midterm precedence on their side this year. I don't see how making voters think shouting and scowling is the fix for what ails them over actually voting into office more of the problem solvers and fewer of the problem creators will help rather than hurt the Party occupying the White House at this time right along with America in general.

[Xpartan]

DINO wingers Manchin and Sinema are not in the White House.

Please explain how Joe Biden or anyone else in the WH does what you suggest with 48 Senate votes.

I wish I could!

But it doesn't help when Biden says nah, I'm not going to pack the court. Because packing the court is the only solution that doesn't require rewriting the Constitution. Or keep doing nothing and see what happens in November.

If a crooked, unprincipled, America-hating "fighter" Repub so-called potus could have done what you think Biden is too weak and old to do, Trump would have saved time, not waited for a SCOTUS justice to die and would have DONE it.

But he didn't because he couldn't.

Yes, because they didn't have the majority. But also because they didn't have to. Trump almost effortlessly created the crackpot supermajority in SCOTUS. Why pack the court?

Not even the craftiest, most highly motivated and determined America-hating Repub Senator of all time, Mitch McConnell, could get the SCOTUS packed the way you and some "whiny" joutnalists expect Biden to do if he had another America-hating Repub in the White House and only 48 America-hating Repub Senate seats.

Again: they didn't have to pack the court -- the chips just fell their way after the death of Justice Ginsburg.

And today Dems have the WH and the Congress. Try to explain the voters why they couldn't have brought 2 Dems in line to confront the most dangerous judicial activism in the last, I don't know, 100 years?

Considering Biden's connection and knowledge of the Senate, he probably knows better than any POTUS since LBJ who and where he has any chance of votes on both sides of the aisle to get anything done, which battles can be won and which battles will just go down in counterproductive defeat.

The last thing I'd want the only people standing between America and Trumpistan to do is listen to the opinion and advice of typically pro Repub Mainstream Media journalists and pundits for anything.

You want the country run by America-hating "fighters" whose overall results throughout most of their entire existence have been, not surprisingly, the absolute worst of all time, by all means don't vote for Dems. Vote for Repubs.

That's what the Repub Party is there for.

LOL, Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

You're safe with me. I'm a left-leaning centrist. Last time I voted for a Repub was 2001. By then I hadn't yet fully realized that 'party' was pure poison.

Unfortunately, one doesn't have to vote for Repubs. Staying home will have the same effect, and I guarantee you that a lot of independents and even some Democrats won't feel like going out.

[EihTooms]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022...ot-optimistic/

From your link:

Carville also advised that President Joe Biden and the Democrats would do more to help the black and brown people in America deal with record-high gas and food prices than the Republicans.

Hey, no kidding? You mean the only Party that has produced all of the major economic expansions, likely all of the net positive USA jobs creation and none of the Great Depressions / Recessions and massive USA jobs destruction of the past 100 years would do more to help all Americans recover from this latest Great Repub Economic Disaster than the only Party that has produced all of the major economic downturns, massive USA jobs destruction and none of the major economic expansions and USA jobs creation in those same 100 years?

That's the understatement of the Century.

BTW, today the RCP poll of polls' Repub advantage has dropped down to a scant 1. 3 percentage points. I am sure they are scrambling to find a Rassmussen or Trafalgar poll or two out there somewhere to add to their mix to help calm the nerves of their target Repub viewers.

[MarquisdeSade1]

ROFL.

As for SCOTUS, even Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged that Roe v Wade was bullshit and there was no Constitutional right to have an abortion.

Of course you wacko leftists didn't mind them making other bullshit decisions like declaring in opposition to the entirety of human history and nature that two fags could get "married". But now that the court has moved back to sensible, Constituional decisions, you're having meltdowns and threatening the Justices. LOL.

P.S. Imagine being a wacko leftist and calling someone else a "Red Menace".

Good ole Ruthie was chatting with some law students on a panel at the University of Chicago law school.

And said Roe was "bad law" and a bad ruling etc etc.

Maybe this is why she wouldn't retire she wanted to take a fall for the dems and let "bad orange man" replace her with the final vote needed to correct the evil of Roe.

I'm guessing her good friend Scalia convinced her whist her was "porking" her with his salami to do just that LMAO.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...pected-legacy/

Post script.

And don't forget that fool Thurgood LMAO.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...egacy-00038638

[MarquisdeSade1]

You really don't know who Ted Kennedy was? That indicates you're not very knowledgeable or well-educated, and perhaps unqualified for these kind of debates.

But to answer your post, you say "I do not know many people who are for open borders, left or right". Well exactly!

Hardly any Americans want open borders, but the leftist govt / media leadership (and to be fair, many RINOs as well, who are perhaps an even greater problem than the leftists) does, for a variety of reasons (cheap labor, undermine solidarity among (and unltimately replace) heritage Americans, become a permanent dependent underclass allowing the deep state to grow, etc).

So you have a situation where the likes of Sleepy Joe, Heels Up Harris, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, plus various fake news "journalists" will look directly into the camera and lie that the border is secure, when they know full well it is wide open and useless, low IQ turd world refuse with no skills or even English language, are streaming across by the millions into a life of welfare handouts, govt-provided legal aid, and anchor babies.

(And they really are garbage: the only people that want to make the dangerous illegal trek north are the worthless underclass who are too stupid and generally useless to get along in their own countries. It is not middle class Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Somalians, whoever, that are coming. It is high school dropouts, criminals, gang members. So if the average IQ of a 3rd world country is, say, 85, the average IQ of the illegals from that country will be significantly lower..

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...t-in-virginia/

[MarquisdeSade1]

The demonstrably Repub-leaning RealClearPolitics' Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a statistically insignificant 2 point lead over Dems with a typical MoE+/- 3. 5 points:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...vote-7361.html

The more poll-inclusive FiveThirtyEight site Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a 1. 6 point lead:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

I'm sure the trend is frighteningly obvious to Moscow Mitch and Spineless Kevin.

With the Party not in the White House winning seats in 37 of the past 40 midterms since the Civil War, Repubs are struggling to make a case for why on earth anyone would want to vote for them this year.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022...ot-optimistic/

[Chris P]

ROFL. CNN's ratings the lowest since 1993. MSNBC no better. Wonderful to see the fake news media collapsing under its own lies.

https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratin...nn-prime-time/

[Chris P]

Considering Biden's connection and knowledge of the Senate, he probably knows better than any POTUS since LBJ who and where he has any chance of votes

LOL. Biden doesn't know what his name is. It takes all his severely limited mental focus to listen and repeat what he hears in his earpiece while simultaneously not pooping his pants, and he fails at that pretty often. Just ask the pope.

Did you see the video a few weeks back of Obama schmoozing the room at the White House while Biden tried in vain to get his (or anyone's) attention before standing looking vacantly at a curtain? Probably not as the fake news obviously wouldn't run it, so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALnb5cUAsI.

I'll say one thing for Obama: he is quite charismatic. Back in 2008, before social / alt media and youtube were really a thing, the mainstream media was all that most people saw, and they were absolutely gushing in their praise and promotion of Obama. The fawning interviews, the scanning shots showing huge crowds at Obama rallies (funnily enough they kept their cameras fixed entirely on Trump during his rallies, which were even bigger than Obama's), combined with Obama's own charisma and fluency created a genuine sense of excitement, anticipation, and indeed inspiration. Plus the fact that there was very little opposition media to counter Obama's falsehoods. Which garnered him 69 million votes.

And now we are supposed to believe that Sleepy Joe Biden, who has never inspired anyone to do anything other than leave the room, who spent the entire 2020 campaign locked in the basement failing to understand how Zoom worked, and who faced serious opposition from non-fake news sources that Obama didn't have to contend with, got 81 million votes? 12 million more Americans voted for him than voted for Obama in that historic 2008 election?

LOL.