American Politics

[Spidy]

With his announcement, Donnie "the Devil" J. Dummkopf, says that he's running again for POTUS. So it looks like this time the Repubs, will undoubtedly, have to do the heavy lifting themselves, to clean house and rid themselves of the Orange Menace.

Question is, can the ballsy and plucky, upstart from Florida defeat the bloviating, bombastic, evil grifter from Mar-O-Largo? Or can Agent Orange, once again rally his insurrectionist lunatic fringe base and hold onto his cult following to thwart the "Nancy Sinatra, white wellington-boots wearing" newcomer?

No doubt, much to the chagrin of the Repubs (most of whom, stayed away from the announcement), the Dems couldn't have wished for a better outcome to a brighter victory path for the 2024 elections, as an eminent Civil War, looms large in the Repub caucus.

So do the GOP/Repubs, have the guts to fight Trump, or let him self-destruct? Either way we'll get to see the fortitude of their moral conviction OR lack thereof.

Is the Repub 2024 campaign, done before it even begins, with Agent Orange at the helm? Déjà Vu anyone?

[Tiny 12]

Your answer:

You do know that those bits of legislation passed by Reagan, Bush2 and Trump in their first year or so added huge numbers to the deficit ($2. 5 Trillion in Trump's case), produced zero positive results vs negative results and did zero to lesson but plenty to exacerbate the Great Repub Crashes, Great Repub Recessions and Great Repub Massive Jobs Losses that followed, right?

And only ONE each? And that one, at best, mostly produced nothing in exchange for the huge amounts they added to the deficit while, at worst, contributed to the three worst Great Repub Crashes, Great Repub Recessions and Great Repub Massive Job Losses in history?

LOL. Uh. Ok.

Sure, that is much better than the multiple historic, positive accomplishments of Biden so far, which is still racking up record job and wage gains, no discernible "recession" anyone can find or even artificially induce yet, saved millions of American lives and oh by the way are also cutting Trump's deficits by hundreds of billions annually.

All in a time frame when by now Reagan's accomplishments had plunged us into a whopping ten consecutive months of 10%+ Unemployment Rates in what was then the deepest economic decline since The Great Repub Depression, GW Bush had already delivered his first Recession, ignored his critical August PDB to usher in 9/11 and then lie us into at least three quagmire, economy-crippling wars and Trump's $2. 5 Trillion turd was producing a million fewer jobs with it than without it and he had just laid the CDC defunding and staff elimination groundwork for producing his fabulously positive Trump's Pandemic.

Good choices.

I've got some blank participation certificates for sale if anybody wants them. Cheap.

Say you're a small business owner. Some mafioso comes to you and offers you protection in return for 50% of the profits from your business. By protection, he means he won't get his thugs to kneecap you if you don't pay up. Then another mafioso takes over. He comes to you and offers protection for 30%, and he's also going to get rid of the 80,000 enforcers the previous guy was going to hire to implement more creative ways of extorting money from you and torturing and maiming you. Which are you going to prefer? That's why I "revere" (using your word) tax cut bills. Now you, and anybody who's figured a way to suck more out of the federal government than he pays in, may not feel the same way.

I don't like big deficits, and that's why I give so much credit to Clinton and a Republican Congress for actually running budget surpluses. I would "revere" any bills that would lower federal spending and make our federal government smaller and more efficient. But those are few and far between.

We've covered the rest of this and I'm too lazy to look it up, like I did in my last post. Your $2.5 trillion figure assumes the TCJA tax cuts will be extended. CBO and JCT estimated the figure would be around $1.5 trillion. But that was before corporate tax revenues rose more than expected, so that now they're higher than they were projected to be if the TCJA had never been implemented. The total "lost" revenues would have totaled less than a trillion if Democrats had seen fit to eliminate the cuts. But they didn't. Anyone who's not an idiot, and I include Joe Biden in the "not an idiot" category, realized the federal corporate tax rate was far too high before the TCJA. Biden "only" wanted to jack it back up to 28%, less than the 35% it was at before the TCJA. The decrease in the corporate rate and changes to eliminate corporate tax loopholes had positive effects. Corporations brought lots of money back to the USA, and became more competitive since they no longer had to pay at the highest rate in the developed world. I believe part of the reason for low unemployment and the increase in median household income pre-COVID was because of the drop in the corporate rate, and Trump's deregulation, which increased the incentive to do business and invest in America.

Your beliefs about the recession and unemployment during Reagan's term are just more of your attempt to explain economic history solely based on the party of the president and in a way that reflects favorably on Democrats. The recession resulted from Volcker raising rates during the Carter Administration and maintaining them into Reagan's administration.

Similarly, you're still blaming a global pandemic on Trump and Republicans. And entirely crediting Biden and Democrats for growth in the economy and jobs that resulted from a rebound in the economy after the deep, pandemic-induced recession.

As to Bush's wars, I agree. I didn't vote for him (or Trump), and thought from the outset the invasion of Iraq was a big mistake.

[Tiny 12]

Tiny12:

"lingering" only means lasting for a long time or slow to end. It has nothing to do with being smaller.

Those corporate profits, and I am sure they would be pleased to capture 0. 95% of total USA GDP most years, do not apply to every corporation because not every corporation is price gouging. But obviously the gas and oil companies are price gouging as are some drug manufactureres, as addressed in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. Products for which most consumers of them have no competitive option.

And those corporate profits are garnered from fewer unit sales due to inhibited supply-chain flow, right?

Welcome to price gouging.

Apparently you don't understand the math. If corporate profits increased by less than 1% of GDP over the most recent year for which data is available, and if corporate profits increased less than the inflation rate, you can't attribute an outsize portion of the 9.1% increase in CPI over the same period to outsized profits. Now you could poke a hole in this argument if you were looking at an earlier period in time, say 6/30/2020 to 6/30/2021, but since you're making a statement about "lingering" (meaning current) inflation, you're just plain wrong.

We've already discussed this:

....Problems with logistics, lockdowns, and in general a fall off in supply happened at the same time $5 trillion+ in COVID stimulus, over 25% of GDP, was pumped into the system.

What's the other half of the explanation? You had a big increase in demand, because people had lots of free money, at the same time you had a shortage of goods. In other words, demand was greater than supply. Businesses sitting on lower cost inventory jacked up their prices. When something like this happens, businesses realize outsized profits until something changes. Most often it's an increase in competition and capacity, but perhaps in this case a rejiggering of the supply chain (additional supply) will bring prices and profit margins down. At some point many businesses will lose money. The weak get knocked out of business, capacity is shuttered. Then it starts all over again. It's called the business cycle.

The Progressive shills believe the proper reaction to the business cycle is to impose price controls or windfall profits taxes on corporations, even though those have been tried and they only fuck things up worse.

There are things the Biden administration and the Democrats, who control Congress, could do to counteract this. One example is quit threatening to shut down the oil and gas producers, so that they're afraid to invest in increasing production. Another is to end the Trump tariffs. And a third is to cut out the corporate welfare. I don't know exactly what's in the Infrastructure legislation, the semiconductor bill, and the green legislation (that is, the inflation reduction act). But undoubtedly lots of pork that benefits businesses. The tariffs and the corporate welfare are crony capitalism, which will drive up corporate profits at the expense of the consumer. And don't let your prejudices get the best of you. The Democrats are just as bad or worse than the Republicans at this. Why do you think it's the Democrats now who hang out at country clubs, while the hard working men and women on the factory floors are Republicans?

Are you one of those Country Club Democrats? You sure haven't complained how your stock funds have performed during the Biden administration. I'm not sure you understand, but the most important determinant of the value of your stocks and the dividends they pay is corporate earnings. You're as big a beneficiary of presumed price gouging as anyone on here.

As to the oil and gas companies, looking at the S&P Oil & Gas Production Select Industry Index, the average return on equity over the last decade was negative. Now they're making money and the progressive Democrats want to kneecap them with a windfall profits tax, and ban fracking, and basically put them out of business. And then Biden and others complain the oil companies aren't investing in production growth. No wonder.

[PVMonger]

Hey, Edwin Edwards, a populist Democrat, did the same thing in Louisiana.

I'd throw out a quote of Edwards from 1983 that's remarkably similar to Trump's "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." But Edwards' statement may violate forum policies.

I remember the quote you're referencing. About Edwards saying that the only way he could lose a particular election was to get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. That, of course, is similar to Donnie the Dumbass but not the same. And Edwards, as I recall, never did run for President.

A more telling reference was given by an Edwards voter. "he's crooked but he's an honest crook."

And that, right there, is the difference between Edwards and Donnie the Dumbass. Edwards might have been an honest crook but everybody knows that Donnie the Dumbass was a dishonest crook. Charging the Secret Service rack rates to stay at his properties was BS and you know it. Donnie the Dumbass was in it for one thing, and one thing only. himself. I pity the poor SS agents who will have to have adjoining cells in prison with Donnie the Dumbass in order to protect him.

[EihTooms]

Tiny12:

Wrong. First, there's nothing "lingering" about 7. 7% YoY CPI inflation. Secondly, as I said previously, through the latest quarter for which data is available, the annual increase in corporate profits, 7.7%, was less than the YoY CPI inflation, 9.1%. Furthermore, the annual increase in corporate profits was only 0.95% of GDP.

"lingering" only means lasting for a long time or slow to end. It has nothing to do with being smaller.

Those corporate profits, and I am sure they would be pleased to capture 0. 95% of total USA GDP most years, do not apply to every corporation because not every corporation is price gouging. But obviously the gas and oil companies are price gouging as are some drug manufactureres, as addressed in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. Products for which most consumers of them have no competitive option.

And those corporate profits are garnered from fewer unit sales due to inhibited supply-chain flow, right?

Welcome to price gouging.

[EihTooms]

Wrong. First, there's nothing "lingering" about 7. 7% YoY CPI inflation. Secondly, as I said previously, through the latest quarter for which data is available, the annual increase in corporate profits, 7.7%, was less than the YoY CPI inflation, 9.1%. Furthermore, the annual increase in corporate profits was only 0.95% of GDP.

Wow, you've really lightened up your criteria. For about a month you've been asking me and others to come up with a list of bills "revered" by the American public passed when a Republican was president, and Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. You came up with your own list going back to the Roosevelt era. Now there are two problems replying to your challenge. The first is, what you really want is a list of bills revered by Democrats passed when Republicans controlled all the levers of government. The second is that over the period in question Democrats controlled the presidency, senate and house for 36 years, compared to only 8 years for Republicans.

This new challenge is a lot easier, because you don't limit it to the few years when Republicans controlled everything.

I lied by the way, I don't really give diddly squat about that participation certificate, so I'm not going to look up the names of the bills like you asked. But these measures are what I revere that were passed during the first two years of the aforementioned presidents' terms.

The cut in the federal income tax rate from 70% to 50% during the Reagan administration.

The cut in the federal capital gains and dividends tax rates to 15% during the George W. Bush adminstration.

The cut in the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% during the Trump administration.

Now if you wanted to expand that from the first two years, then I also revere the cut in the tax rate to 28% and the cut in the capital gains rate to 20% during the later parts of the Reagan and Clinton administrations respectively.

Onto your broader question. Again, I'm a neoliberal, anarcho capitalist, libertarian, small government Republican, so I tend to revere bills that cut the size and power of federal government. However, here's a list Roll Call put out on their 50th anniversary. These are their "ten bills that really mattered" from 1955 to 2005, according to a blue ribbon panel of Congressional scholars. I believe we should kick out the Tonkin Gulf Resolution which most of us here probably agree sucked. Of the nine left, five were passed during Democrat presidential administrations and four during Republican administrations. And furthermore, of the five Democrat bills, at least three, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act passed with a higher percentage of Republicans voting in favor than Democrats.

https://rollcall.com/2005/05/02/ten-...ally-mattered/

Civil Rights Act (1964) Democrat.

Voting Rights Act (1965) Democrat.

Medicare and Medicaid acts (1965) Democrat.

Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956) Republican.

Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981) Republican.

National Defense Education Act (1958) Republican.

Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act (1965) Democrat.

Clean Air Act Amendments (1970) Republican.

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) Democrat.

Your answer:

The cut in the federal income tax rate from 70% to 50% during the Reagan administration.

The cut in the federal capital gains and dividends tax rates to 15% during the George W. Bush adminstration.

The cut in the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% during the Trump administration.

You do know that those bits of legislation passed by Reagan, Bush2 and Trump in their first year or so added huge numbers to the deficit ($2. 5 Trillion in Trump's case), produced zero positive results vs negative results and did zero to lesson but plenty to exacerbate the Great Repub Crashes, Great Repub Recessions and Great Repub Massive Jobs Losses that followed, right?

And only ONE each? And that one, at best, mostly produced nothing in exchange for the huge amounts they added to the deficit while, at worst, contributed to the three worst Great Repub Crashes, Great Repub Recessions and Great Repub Massive Job Losses in history?

LOL. Uh. Ok.

Sure, that is much better than the multiple historic, positive accomplishments of Biden so far, which is still racking up record job and wage gains, no discernible "recession" anyone can find or even artificially induce yet, saved millions of American lives and oh by the way are also cutting Trump's deficits by hundreds of billions annually.

All in a time frame when by now Reagan's accomplishments had plunged us into a whopping ten consecutive months of 10%+ Unemployment Rates in what was then the deepest economic decline since The Great Repub Depression, GW Bush had already delivered his first Recession, ignored his critical August PDB to usher in 9/11 and then lie us into at least three quagmire, economy-crippling wars and Trump's $2. 5 Trillion turd was producing a million fewer jobs with it than without it and he had just laid the CDC defunding and staff elimination groundwork for producing his fabulously positive Trump's Pandemic.

Good choices.

I've got some blank participation certificates for sale if anybody wants them. Cheap.

[Tiny 12]

But why? Why does a transparent drifter who's always lying through his teeth has such a grip on the Republican Party? Does it say nothing about the party?

Hey, Edwin Edwards, a populist Democrat, did the same thing in Louisiana.

I'd throw out a quote of Edwards from 1983 that's remarkably similar to Trump's "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." But Edwards' statement may violate forum policies.

[Tiny 12]

Tooms needs a copy of 1984 signed by Orwell as a prize.

Tooms can crank out as many of those prized participation certificates as he wants with a $60 printer. And we're going to dig up and pay for an autographed copy of Orwell's 1984? Respectfully Elvis, NO F*CKING WAY.

Easy. It makes total sense when you drink a bottle of mezcal, eat the worm, and bang your head against the wall a few times. Of course, now I do not know where I am.

You forgot the hallucinogenic mushrooms. It won't work without those. Sounds like it's time for a Oaxaca road trip!

[Xpartan]

There's more truth in your post, as it relates to a large segment of the Republican Party, than I like to admit. A lot of it is because of Trump's influence on the party.

But why? Why does a transparent drifter who's always lying through his teeth has such a grip on the Republican Party? Does it say nothing about the party?

[Elvis 2008]

Damn it Elvis, I don't think we're going to get Tooms to award us that special participation trophy or certificate or whatever it is.

Tooms needs a copy of 1984 signed by Orwell as a prize.

So maybe you could explain how you come up with the Democrats' definition of gridlock?.

Easy. It makes total sense when you drink a bottle of mezcal, eat the worm, and bang your head against the wall a few times. Of course, now I do not know where I am.

[Tiny 12]

...we now know a sizable percentage of the lingering Inflation is nothing more than corporate price gouging, addressed that issue on a couple of important factors brilliantly.

Wrong. First, there's nothing "lingering" about 7. 7% YoY CPI inflation. Secondly, as I said previously, through the latest quarter for which data is available, the annual increase in corporate profits, 7.7%, was less than the YoY CPI inflation, 9.1%. Furthermore, the annual increase in corporate profits was only 0.95% of GDP.

Easy to confuse a historic legislation or two passed by Biden when there have been so many.

However, I am wondering which POTUS of the past 80 years or so you think passed more positive legislation for America in his first two years than Biden, since that was my point.

I mean, I get that you don't think all of it was positive because you read some negative comments about some of it somewhere.

But in order to refute my point shouldn't you at least name another POTUS who passed more, ok, potentially positive legislation in his first two years than Biden has?

Trump?

Clinton?

Reagan?

Bush 1 or 2?

And do tell us what those Acts or Bills were.

Wow, you've really lightened up your criteria. For about a month you've been asking me and others to come up with a list of bills "revered" by the American public passed when a Republican was president, and Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. You came up with your own list going back to the Roosevelt era. Now there are two problems replying to your challenge. The first is, what you really want is a list of bills revered by Democrats passed when Republicans controlled all the levers of government. The second is that over the period in question Democrats controlled the presidency, senate and house for 36 years, compared to only 8 years for Republicans.

This new challenge is a lot easier, because you don't limit it to the few years when Republicans controlled everything.

I lied by the way, I don't really give diddly squat about that participation certificate, so I'm not going to look up the names of the bills like you asked. But these measures are what I revere that were passed during the first two years of the aforementioned presidents' terms.

The cut in the federal income tax rate from 70% to 50% during the Reagan administration.

The cut in the federal capital gains and dividends tax rates to 15% during the George W. Bush adminstration.

The cut in the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% during the Trump administration.

Now if you wanted to expand that from the first two years, then I also revere the cut in the tax rate to 28% and the cut in the capital gains rate to 20% during the later parts of the Reagan and Clinton administrations respectively.

Onto your broader question. Again, I'm a neoliberal, anarcho capitalist, libertarian, small government Republican, so I tend to revere bills that cut the size and power of federal government. However, here's a list Roll Call put out on their 50th anniversary. These are their "ten bills that really mattered" from 1955 to 2005, according to a blue ribbon panel of Congressional scholars. I believe we should kick out the Tonkin Gulf Resolution which most of us here probably agree sucked. Of the nine left, five were passed during Democrat presidential administrations and four during Republican administrations. And furthermore, of the five Democrat bills, at least three, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act passed with a higher percentage of Republicans voting in favor than Democrats.

https://rollcall.com/2005/05/02/ten-...ally-mattered/

Civil Rights Act (1964) Democrat.

Voting Rights Act (1965) Democrat.

Medicare and Medicaid acts (1965) Democrat.

Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956) Republican.

Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981) Republican.

National Defense Education Act (1958) Republican.

Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act (1965) Democrat.

Clean Air Act Amendments (1970) Republican.

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) Democrat.

[EihTooms]

OK, I'm going to try a different tack. Maybe "we'll just have to disagree" will be sufficient to get a highly prized participation certificate. I'll try that. I guess poking fun at you for confusing the American Rescue Plan with the Build Back Better Bill was not going to get me a certificate. That was stupid on my part. You don't make fun of the Judge and come away with an award.

I strongly disagree with your statement that Biden accomplished more positive legislation than any POTUS for the past 80 years. I don't think any of his headline legislation was positive. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan blew our national debt out by 8.5% and supercharged inflation. The infrastructure bill, chip bill, and green "Inflation Reduction Act" bill may have had some good points, but they were mostly corporate welfare, i.e. pork. Biden did get a lot of negative legislation passed, but I can't say it was the worst of any POTUS for the past 80 years.

Yes, you are right that I confused the American Rescue Plan with the Build Back Better Act that was trapped in so much Sinema + Manchin + 50 Repubs in the Senate Gridlock that it had to be abandoned and brought back in a smaller form later as the Inflation Reduction Act, which, since we now know a sizable percentage of the lingering Inflation is nothing more than corporate price gouging, addressed that issue on a couple of important factors brilliantly.

Easy to confuse a historic legislation or two passed by Biden when there have been so many.

However, I am wondering which POTUS of the past 80 years or so you think passed more positive legislation for America in his first two years than Biden, since that was my point.

I mean, I get that you don't think all of it was positive because you read some negative comments about some of it somewhere.

But in order to refute my point shouldn't you at least name another POTUS who passed more, ok, potentially positive legislation in his first two years than Biden has?

Trump?

Clinton?

Reagan?

Bush 1 or 2?

And do tell us what those Acts or Bills were.

[Tiny 12]

But not to worry. Repubs will double-down on their idiocy. They will impeach every Democrat politician whose name they can spell. They'll investigate Hunter Biden for the next 2 years while ignoring the fact that Jaren received 2 billion dollars from the Saudis. They will shut down the government at least once and blame it on the Dems. They will continue to claim that every election that they don't win is fraudulent.

And yes, you are correct. Sabotage is the name of their game. It is the only thing they have in their playbook. Except for grievance politics and backing every cockamamie conspiracy theory that Q comes up with.

There's more truth in your post, as it relates to a large segment of the Republican Party, than I like to admit. A lot of it is because of Trump's influence on the party.

[Tiny 12]

Gridlock can be achieved regardless of political party. It can result from Consevative vs Liberal, pro Universal Healthcare vs pro For Profit Only Heathcare, whatever.

Biden was hoping for a gain of at least 2 Dems in the Senate, numbering 52, in order to thwart the Gridlock posed by Sinema and Manchin in his own Party. He will have to settle for 51 this time around, at best.

If merely squeaking out a 2-3 House seat advantage by one Party "achieved Gridlock" as Elvis hilariously twisted himself into a pretzel trying to prove in another failed attempt to coax one of those highly prized Participation Certificates out of me, well, that would mean many administrations of various Parties got nothing signed and passed throughout their term / s.

Which, although this might come as a shock to history-challeged Repubs like Elvis, didn't happen.

No president in modern history faced more potential Gridlock in his first two years in office than Sleepy Joe Brandon....Biden had a mere 5 Dem seat advantage in the House. The rest were America-hating, Dem-hating QAnon Repub loons. He had 47 Dems and 1 Independent on his side in the Senate. The rest were Sinema, Manchin and 50 America-hating, Dem-hating QAnon Repub loons.

Yet he still managed to accomplish more positive legislation, many bipartisan, and positive results for America in these first two years than ANY POTUS of the past 80 years minimum including this current historic first midterm election result.

Biden is a razor sharp, calm, reasoned and seasoned professional who knows WTF he is doing and how to do it. Not a deeply in debt, failed former reality game show host.

OK, I'm going to try a different tack. Maybe "we'll just have to disagree" will be sufficient to get a highly prized participation certificate. I'll try that. I guess poking fun at you for confusing the American Rescue Plan with the Build Back Better Bill was not going to get me a certificate. That was stupid on my part. You don't make fun of the Judge and come away with an award.

I strongly disagree with your statement that Biden accomplished more positive legislation than any POTUS for the past 80 years. I don't think any of his headline legislation was positive. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan blew our national debt out by 8.5% and supercharged inflation. The infrastructure bill, chip bill, and green "Inflation Reduction Act" bill may have had some good points, but they were mostly corporate welfare, i.e. pork. Biden did get a lot of negative legislation passed, but I can't say it was the worst of any POTUS for the past 80 years.

And thank goodness for Sinema and Manchin! You should be thanking your lucky stars too. I don't know whether you're still a California resident, in the top couple of tax brackets, but if so you'd be paying over 50% tax on your rental income, capital gains and dividend income if not for those two. You should have been praying for Kyrsten's and Joe's good health every night for the last two years, like Mitch McConnell and I did.

[PVMonger]

You didn't just say " we would have gridlock. " What you said was this:

There are no alternative meanings to your words. Alternative meanings come later when you attempt to qualify the pure and unadulterated joy derived from the fact that the Reps might once again be able to do what they always do best: sabotage.

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/9/8177815...olicy-sabotage

What a party!

It seems like every Repub on the planet ([Deleted by Admin]) forgets that the Turtle said that his one goal was to make Obama a one-term President. The forget as well that when gasoline was over $4 per gallon in 2008 under W, how Repub politicians were falling all over themselves trying to explain how the President wasn't responsible for gasoline prices.

Now we have stupid Repubs calling for Biden's head because evidently President's do control the price of gasoline. Dumber-than-dogshit Repubs can't spell hypocrisy but they sure think that every voter is as stupid as they are.

But not to worry. Repubs will double-down on their idiocy. They will impeach every Democrat politician whose name they can spell. They'll investigate Hunter Biden for the next 2 years while ignoring the fact that Jaren received 2 billion dollars from the Saudis. They will shut down the government at least once and blame it on the Dems. They will continue to claim that every election that they don't win is fraudulent.

And yes, you are correct. Sabotage is the name of their game. It is the only thing they have in their playbook. Except for grievance politics and backing every cockamamie conspiracy theory that Q comes up with.