American Politics

[EihTooms]

"You do know that it is the American consumer who ultimately pays those Failed Loser Trump Trade War Trump Tariffs, right?

It is not Indians in India or the Chinese in China who ultimately pay those Trump / Repub hyper inflated prices.

Who Really Pays the Tariffs? USA Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices.

Dec. 15,2021.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-really-pays-tariffs/

Oh, Tariffs can be imposed without crippling the domestic economy or reducing jobs creation if the accompanying economic legislation and stewardship is sterling, brilliant, highly effective enough to override the damage done by them. Shhh. Don't tell Larry Summers about that. It would crush him.

Biden / the Dems have been able to manage that result.

Trump / the Repubs did not. And never will. It is simply beyond a Repub's grasp to know how to do that and do it. ".

What do we know?

We know all of you evil mofos hate the USA.

Like you, you haven't stepped a toe inside the USA in 12+ yrs and never plan on returning (if I was president your citizenship would be revoked).

You're now arguing that Chinese tariffs imposed on Chinese imports brought down Inflation / Prices on those goods their / there and that saved the USA economy?

I'm not even sure what to put into a Google Search to find out what the hell you are talking about and where the hell you picked up such an idea.

Is that a new mentally deranged Twisty Repub Trump concoction to revise the historical fact that his economic and national security policies and stewardship produced the worst results of all time?

[MarquisdeSade1]

"You do know that it is the American consumer who ultimately pays those Failed Loser Trump Trade War Trump Tariffs, right?

It is not Indians in India or the Chinese in China who ultimately pay those Trump / Repub hyper inflated prices.

Who Really Pays the Tariffs? USA Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices.

Dec. 15,2021.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-really-pays-tariffs/

Oh, Tariffs can be imposed without crippling the domestic economy or reducing jobs creation if the accompanying economic legislation and stewardship is sterling, brilliant, highly effective enough to override the damage done by them. Shhh. Don't tell Larry Summers about that. It would crush him.

Biden / the Dems have been able to manage that result.

Trump / the Repubs did not. And never will. It is simply beyond a Repub's grasp to know how to do that and do it. ".

What do we know?

We know all of you evil mofos hate the USA.

Like you, you haven't stepped a toe inside the USA in 12+ yrs and never plan on returning (if I was president your citizenship would be revoked).

(you're so pro illegal alien, I would give your citizenship to someone else).

You are pro anything, anti USA.

And pro anything pro CCP.

Lets hear your "honest" (LMFAO) opinion of TPP?

If tariffs are bad for the USA why does the CCP and you (and tiny12) hate them so much.

CCP tariffs imposed on the CCP have brought down prices their which have saved the USA economy.

From the likes of Scumbag Joe and Scumbag Nancy.

Joe Manchin also helped by blocking BBB Scumbag Joe tried destroying the USA with.

I think Manchin would be a decent President he and I see things very similarly!!

[Xpartan]

The 34% number I put up as high schoolers participation rate is for entire student body, trans participation rate is 10-12%, according to some studies. But I used the 34% to demonstrate how miniscule the number is, even after inflated and doubled. The article attached demonstrates how small it really is in certain states. Example of the Article (listed below) states that in Ohio, a larger state had a total of 13 students participated since 2015. I'm going to assume that when you asserted "competing female athletes" it relates to individual like track and field, tennis, wrestling, etc. From the Ohio example, if you factor in team sports (basketball, volleyball, soccer, etc), which I thing would be more appropriate, we're looking at less than 1 person per year.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stat...es-some-places

Your second question, and only considering individual sports, we would have seen domination of titles in every state, which is not true, so it is possible for straight females to defeat trans females in competition. Strongest and fastest don't always win. Usain Bolt had bad days where he's human and loses.

Usain Bolt fastest 100 M is 9. 58/ Flo-Jo is 10.49. Most male Olympians go under 10 seconds. And you can say ah-ha "see? And you would be correct. But we are not talking about the Olympics but rather high schools, where we encourage the kids to go out have fun, be healthy with exercise, and hope they learn about comraderies and friendships (good sportsmanship).

This is a eye-opening article, thanks. I must concur.

Fischer, the Post reports, is the only known transgender student athlete in the state.

In Utah, one of the states where a judge has temporarily blocked a sports ban, parents lodged formal complaints after one student excelled beyond her competitors in a state-level competition last year, according to the Deseret News. The complaints resulted in an investigation into whether the student is transgender (she is not). According to the Post, Utah has 75,000 student athletes in the state. Only four of them are transgender."

Ohio is currently considering a ban on transgender students in sports, after the state House of Representatives passed a bill that would do as much in June. The initial bill would have required genital inspections on any student whose biological sex was disputed, but that measure has since been removed, according to The Hill. But the Cleveland Scene reports that of the 400,000 student athletes in Ohio, only 13 since 2015 have been transgender, and only three have competed at the high school level.

My goodness, what a bunch of morons!

[EihTooms]

I think President Joe Biden, has figured out Republicans - Just call their "SORRY-ASS" bluffs!!!

Since it's abundantly clear, Republican politicking, is really just some sort of, butchered western style of "kabuki theater" and is really all just performative. It stands to reason, the moment you ante up and practically give them everything they want, they pipe-down, shrivel-up and fold-up like a cheap tent.

If it is NOT yet clear to Repubs by now...Biden is playing CHESS to their CHECKER play.

NYT: On the Border, Republicans Set a Trap, Then Fell Into It

• "Congressional Republicans thought they had set a clever trap for Democrats that would accomplish complementary political and policy goals.
  
  Their idea was to tie approval of military assistance to Ukraine to tough border security demands that Democrats would never accept, allowing Republicans to block the money for Kyiv that many of them oppose while simultaneously enabling them to pound Democrats for refusing to halt a surge of migrants at the border. It was to be a win-win headed into Novembers elections.
  
  But Democrats tripped them up by offering substantial almost unheard-of concessions on immigration policy without insisting on much in return. Now it is Republicans who are rapidly abandoning a compromise that gave them much of what they wanted, leaving aid to Ukraine in deep jeopardy, border policy in turmoil and Congress again flailing as multiple crises at home and abroad go without attention because of a legislative stalemate."
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/u...aine-bill.html

Yes, at very selective times (like now), I think Dems should call Repubs bluff. Thereby essentially taking away anything the Repubs have to bemoan and "b1tch about" or campaign on....kkkk!

However, Trump TV will still lie about it in order to bamboozle the dumb Repub hillbillies who fall for his shit to continue supporting and voting for Trump and his Repub Party of Open Borders, High Crime, Economic Disasters, Massive Jobs Destruction, Repeal of Democracy and Replace it with Authoritarian Dictatorships at Home and Abroad, etc;.

Border deal sponsors went on Fox News to debunk a false claim about the bill. Fox kept spreading it.
The network continues to spread the falsehood that border deal will allow 5,000 migrants across the border every day. The bill would actually trigger a wave of new border restrictions.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-new...t-spreading-it

Pro Repub Media don't even wait for a few minutes of history to pass before launching into their classic Twisty Repub Revisionist History of it! LOL.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/...ut-of-excuses/

[Spidy]

Trump, ChristoFacist Mike and the Repub Pink Tinkle House Majority LOVE and PREFER Open Borders and widespread Fenantyl Addiction so much they simply cannot bring themselves to agree to even put up for a vote the Border Crisis Solution Bill that a Ruby Red Repub Senator from a Ruby Red Repub State negotiated and was quite happy about:

Mike Johnson Won't Bring Senate Border Bill Up For A Vote.
Because you know who is pulling his strings!

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/02/m...te-border-bill

Otherwise promoted in MSM polls as "handling the border crisis better than Biden and the Dems. " Lololol.

I think President Joe Biden, has figured out Republicans - Just call their "SORRY-ASS" bluffs!!!

Since it's abundantly clear, Republican politicking, is really just some sort of, butchered western style of "kabuki theater" and is really all just performative. It stands to reason, the moment you ante up and practically give them everything they want, they pipe-down, shrivel-up and fold-up like a cheap tent.

If it is NOT yet clear to Repubs by now...Biden is playing CHESS to their CHECKER play.

NYT: On the Border, Republicans Set a Trap, Then Fell Into It

• "Congressional Republicans thought they had set a clever trap for Democrats that would accomplish complementary political and policy goals.
  
  Their idea was to tie approval of military assistance to Ukraine to tough border security demands that Democrats would never accept, allowing Republicans to block the money for Kyiv that many of them oppose while simultaneously enabling them to pound Democrats for refusing to halt a surge of migrants at the border. It was to be a win-win headed into Novembers elections.
  
  But Democrats tripped them up by offering substantial almost unheard-of concessions on immigration policy without insisting on much in return. Now it is Republicans who are rapidly abandoning a compromise that gave them much of what they wanted, leaving aid to Ukraine in deep jeopardy, border policy in turmoil and Congress again flailing as multiple crises at home and abroad go without attention because of a legislative stalemate."
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/u...aine-bill.html

Yes, at very selective times (like now), I think Dems should call Repubs bluff. Thereby essentially taking away anything the Repubs have to bemoan and "b1tch about" or campaign on....kkkk!

[Spidy]

Is Trump looking to reprise his dubious TV role in a reboot of Apprentice, once again? Arguably, many would say, was the ONLY job (pretending to be a CEO/Businessman), he was ever qualified in doing.

But with the recent RNC 2020, 2022 (Repub "Pink Trickle" House) and 2023 election primary losses, Trump is poised once again, to cast blame, fault and the onus of the Repub failure, on one of his fellow insurrection "loyalists" and "lackeys". Who will it be this time?

Yes, it's painfully clear that, yet another Trump "loyalist", may soon find themselves, being outed under the Apprentice catchphrase, "You're fired!".

Trump indicates it's time for RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to step down...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...tep-rcna137383

Oh yeah! Ronna McDanial's (RNC Chair) fate, is all but sealed, as if she were a contestant on said TV show. But however and just maybe, with enough grovelling, sycophants like Ronna McDaniel, can bend the knee (no doubt), and renew her undying pledge, to the Orange Throne?

NOTE: Similar fates and dysfunctional behavior, are also being played-out across the country, as RNC Chair infighting, in several key states, have Repubs continuing to meltdown, in disarray, in this Trump "mob boss" style leadership era.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...each-mayorkas/

Why not just let the CCP appoint the guy they wanted to run the CDC CCP virus response.

Oh wait they did, Tony the TURD Fauci.

[MarquisdeSade1]

You do know that it is the American consumer who ultimately pays those Failed Loser Trump Trade War Trump Tariffs, right?

It is not Indians in India or the Chinese in China who ultimately pay those Trump / Repub hyper inflated prices.

Who Really Pays the Tariffs? USA Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices.

Dec. 15,2021.

Oh, Tariffs can be imposed without crippling the domestic economy or reducing jobs creation if the accompanying economic legislation and stewardship is sterling, brilliant, highly effective enough to override the damage done by them. Shhh. Don't tell Larry Summers about that. It would crush him.

Biden / the Dems have been able to manage that result.

Trump / the Repubs did not. And never will. It is simply beyond a Repub's grasp to know how to do that and do it.

[Spidy]

Right-wing Trump deranged nutter, decapitates his own father!

Yet another right-wing nutjob, murderer/killer and Trump cultist, named Justin Mohn, a Pennsylvania (PA) man, murders his father in a cold blooded beheading, then posts the murdered gruesome corps, online via YouTube.

Once again, the right-wing psycho was acting on the usual dumb right-wing, "Trumpian" psychotic cuckoo paranoid bullshit. And of course the call to arms for so-called "patriots". Apparently he decapitated his father, because he'd worked as federal government employee for 20 years, calling his dad a traitor, along with all government officials.

Justin Mohn charged after allegedly beheading father in Pennsylvania
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-mohn-youtube/

Just another, in a long Line of right-wing nutjob, wacko, brainwashed murderers:

• There's the wackjob with a hammer, who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband, now up on attempted murder charges, is using the "conspiracy defense".

• Or the gunman who opened fire inside a Washington pizzeria, psychoticly motivated by the "Pizziagate" Conspiracy theories.

• Or dimwitted and gullible 18 year gunman (mostly heavily radicalized and brainwashed through right-wing online chat groups), who murdered ten in the May 2022 massacre at a grocery store in a predominantly Black, neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y.

• Or the wackjob murderer, who killed five in Colorado Springs, Club Q shooting, largely patronized by the LGBTQ community

All have fallen down one or another "right-wing conspiracy rabbit-hole", only to remerge it would seem, as radicalized thugs, gullible foot-soliders and/or murderers and killers bound for "murderer's row", "an early grave" or "phoney martyrdom".

[CheckMate1]

Just to be clear, I'm not against transgenders (when transitions are truly justified), but imagine that you have to compete with someone who's a priori faster and stronger than you are. How can you accommodate trans (even if there are very few of them) that wouldn't hurt competing female athletes who don't naturally possess these abilities? Is it even possible at all?

The 34% number I put up as high schoolers participation rate is for entire student body, trans participation rate is 10-12%, according to some studies. But I used the 34% to demonstrate how miniscule the number is, even after inflated and doubled. The article attached demonstrates how small it really is in certain states. Example of the Article (listed below) states that in Ohio, a larger state had a total of 13 students participated since 2015. I'm going to assume that when you asserted "competing female athletes" it relates to individual like track and field, tennis, wrestling, etc. From the Ohio example, if you factor in team sports (basketball, volleyball, soccer, etc), which I thing would be more appropriate, we're looking at less than 1 person per year.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stat...es-some-places

Your second question, and only considering individual sports, we would have seen domination of titles in every state, which is not true, so it is possible for straight females to defeat trans females in competition. Strongest and fastest don't always win. Usain Bolt had bad days where he's human and loses.

Usain Bolt fastest 100 M is 9. 58/ Flo-Jo is 10.49. Most male Olympians go under 10 seconds. And you can say ah-ha "see? And you would be correct. But we are not talking about the Olympics but rather high schools, where we encourage the kids to go out have fun, be healthy with exercise, and hope they learn about comraderies and friendships (good sportsmanship).

[EihTooms]

Trump, ChristoFacist Mike and the Repub Pink Tinkle House Majority LOVE and PREFER Open Borders and widespread Fenantyl Addiction so much they simply cannot bring themselves to agree to even put up for a vote the Border Crisis Solution Bill that a Ruby Red Repub Senator from a Ruby Red Repub State negotiated and was quite happy about:

Mike Johnson Won't Bring Senate Border Bill Up For A Vote.
Because you know who is pulling his strings!

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/02/m...te-border-bill

....."As speaker Johnson calls this even worse than expected, the lead Republican senator who negotiated the bill, James Langford of Oklahoma, responded to those comments."

LANGFORD: I'm a little confused how it's worse than expected when it builds border wall, expands deportation flights, expands ICE officers, border patrol officers, detention beds, how it creates a faster process for deportation, how it clears up a lot of the long term issues and loopholes that have existed in the asylum law, and it gives us emergency authority that stops the chaos right now on the border. So I'm a little confused. I'll have to be able to get with the speaker's team on that and find out what part would be quote, unquote, worse than what we expected, based on the actual text. Hopefully they've had an opportunity to actually read through the text.

Otherwise promoted in MSM polls as "handling the border crisis better than Biden and the Dems. " Lololol.

[Spidy]

Article entitled OPINION
Not going to justify or dismiss this article.

I feel for the 1% of the population going through this, the individual, their families, the doctors who have to advise them of options. Why I feel this topic should not be political is that this subset of the population deserves to be able to go through this process privately. What I mean by this is, whether they're going to go to the bathroom, or being on a youth team sports not "designated" for them is inconsequential to US. But for whatever reasons, some of us feel like our chances / freedom is being taken away.

How? Because a straight person like to be in a public bathroom not having to, by chance, look at another human going to the bathroom who don't look like them. We did this already with other differences for many years in the US, South Africa, and Germany, and other countries.

Great post! Once again nicely put!

Yes, much of the right-winger agendas, would have Americans pay more attention looking over in the "right corner", while they take away your REAL freedoms and rights (ie. abortion, women's healthcare or affordable healthcare) over from the "left corner" of the political spectrum.

Unlike people who are invested in this subject, to be soooo outraged by the thought of someone who isn't like them is SHARING a public spot, I don't care. ...

#2, that we are "protecting" kids from Pedos. ...
#3, it creates an unfair advantage for transgenders to compete with a girls in high school. ...

Raw stats: 1. 4% of pop between 13-17 identify themselves as trans; 34% participates in sports. Total 13-17 in US is about 300,000. ...

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...united-states/

To me, the article demonstrates how hard it is go through life "not Normal". Decisions you and I never need to think about or have to make. And then, how some among us go out of our ways to make it even harder on their lives just trying to live a "normal" life. I say this for black people who have to live through segregations, jews through the nazi era, gays throughout history, and now transgenders.

Right-wing politics have always used "minority" groups of society to inflame and enrage their base and divide the populous along racial, ethnic, cultural and sexual orientation lines. Especially when they can't run on a "the economy is bad...vote for us!" campaign.

Unfortunately it's a much proven divisive tactic, to obfuscate and scapegoat (as you've eloquently mentioned), the REAL problems of society.

Don't forget, it really says something (mostly foul) about a political party (ie. were NOT a REAL party), that negatively focuses more on issues of the 1%, than those of 99% of their populous.

Oh, no instead of addressing REAL ISSUES, they would have Americans heads in the sand, chasing "fool's gold", talking about meaningless culture wars, meaningless fictional purple character's sexual orientation, or as previously mentioned and foretold, the ominous boogeymen/boogeywomen, come to drag us all to hell.

Whether it is:

• - book burning/banning {dictionaries included}
  - bathroom hijinx
  - the "boogeymen" and "boogeywomen" (ie. like Taylor Swift)
  - purple dinosaurs and purple teletubbie babies

It's ALL JUST ONE BIG DISTRACTION to turn and look over in the "right-corner" at less meaningful and ridiculous issues for the majority of Americans.

The funny (and most hilarious) thing, about what right-wing QAnon/MAGA politics is clearly showing Americans, that even when good, viable bi-partisan bills and policies are put on the table, to address REAL problems...THEY DON'T WANT TO SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS! (Note: Especially if it is the Dems, initiating said bi-partisan legislation. Which is almost always!)

WHY don't Repubs, want to solve real problems...you ask?

• Simple put, "hate", "nihilism", "anarchy", "thuggery", "grifting" and "do nothing" politics have become the order of the day for Repubs and Trump.

• Simple put, on the one hand, they want to distract Americans (especially they're base) from anything substantive. And while distracted, "pick your pockets" clean, thus benefiting their wealth rich and billionaire donor class.

Personally, I'll continue to primarily focus on the bi-partisan good being done to benefit ALL Americas.

[EihTooms]

60%? I vote for 160%, and India should be next
"Being a classic Repub, America's economy doing historically well today while China's economy is crap really, really bothers Trump.

Therefore, he is already floating his plan to "turn this economy around" in classic Repub fashion should just enough of the American electorate prove themselves incapable of choosing the correct answer for what 2+2 equals and put him back into the White House:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tr...04/id/1152208/

You do know that it is the American consumer who ultimately pays those Failed Loser Trump Trade War Trump Tariffs, right?

It is not Indians in India or the Chinese in China who ultimately pay those Trump / Repub hyper inflated prices.

Who Really Pays the Tariffs? U.S. Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices.
Dec. 15, 2021

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-really-pays-tariffs/

Oh, Tariffs can be imposed without crippling the domestic economy or reducing jobs creation if the accompanying economic legislation and stewardship is sterling, brilliant, highly effective enough to override the damage done by them. Shhh. Don't tell Larry Summers about that. It would crush him.

Biden / the Dems have been able to manage that result.

Trump / the Repubs did not. And never will. It is simply beyond a Repub's grasp to know how to do that and do it.

[EihTooms]

Beware Trump's admiration for Putin, Xi and Erdogan.

https://www.ft.com/content/28e1e7da-...3-9a26f8c3cba4

https://news.knowledia.com/GB/en/art...37efe246b56267

Turkey's inflation sees biggest monthly jump since August, near 65% year-on-year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/05/turk...ndroidappshare

In January, Turkish inflation logged its biggest monthly jump since August with a 6.7% rise from December, while year-on-year inflation hit nearly 65%.

Food, beverages and tobacco, as well as transportation, all increased between roughly 5% and 7% month-on-month, while housing was up 7.4% since December.

The figures come two days after Turkeys appointment of a new central bank governor, Fatih Karahan.

Do not doubt for one minute that Donald Wannabe Dictator Trump, ChristoFacist Mike, Moscow Mitch, virtually every Repub in Congress and every Repub voter would dearly LOVE to trade the historically positive USA Economy, Recovery, Expansion, Jobs Creation, Wage Gains and National Security as produced by President Joe Biden and the Dems for the horrific crap Economic and National. Security conditions produced by Trump's Authoritarian Dictator Idols in a nanosecond!