American Politics

[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.

[ScatManDoo]

It's all over, but Shit's shouting.

[Gino02]

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.

This is good. I applaud you that you're way better and more honest than most libtards on this forum who would in straight face lie that things are better under Burden than Trump.

You had to bring the discussion down to how it is just for you now as opposed to keeping the discussion at the broader level "is the country better under Burden than Trump", which we all know that it's way worse now.

In Trump's time, I agree we were bombarded with tweets, some pretty mean even for his supporters like me, but good thing was that things were getting done, US and international economy and peace were kept in a steady path. Some of us understand that how a man talks to me (mean tweets) is way less important than what he does for me (keep us safe from getting killed in wars or making sure we aren't getting into huge inflation or recession etc etc blah blah blah). It's the intelligence to figure out what's important for us and what we can ignore. Like I always say, Trump is no way the best possible POTUS, but compared to all other current choices we have (or had in 2020), he's probably the best. If a better candidate comes along for 2024, I would definitely vote for that better candidate, unfortunately Burden was never that candidate and never will.

[PVMonger]

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.

You seem to want me to say you only had Trump and Biden to vote for so you voted for Biden. Well, you could have voted for a 3rd party candidate or not voted at all. I was so disgusted by the candidates in 2012 I abstained from voting. I thought Obama had reneged on his promises to clean up the banks and Wall Street after voting for him in 2008. That was a mistake though because he cleaned things up more than I thought.

Democratic douche is a term that I use to describe Democrats who turn off their brain and tow the party line. A person who voted Democrat is someone who respects the vote of someone else, and I respect them. A Democratic douche thinks those who vote Republican are stupid, amoral, crude racists. Calling Republicans RepuliKKKans means you are a Democratic douche..

How about this, since you say that both Bill Clinton and Cheeto Tweeto were "good presidents".

Why don't you post actual sources (from the same non-partisan source) that back up your contention. That should be easy, right?

[PVMonger]

Every word of this is not arguable, and hopefully more and more Trump cultists will wake up out of their trance.

Not hardly. RethugliKKKants have drunk so much KoolAid that they're pissing orange.

They believe every lie that is spread on FUX snooze. They believe the election was stolen. They believe that Chinese thermostats changed votes. Or was it Italian satellites? I can never remember which one that was. They believe that "2000 Mules" was the truth. They believe that the one-term, twice-impeached former guy was smart. They believe that Tucker Carlson is smart. They do not believe that Cheeto Tweeto ever said that he loved the uneducated. They do not believe that they are part of the uneducated even though they have proven that they are by their actions.

They have as much chance of waking up out of their trance as they have to get enough IQ points to decorate a domino.

[Axel Heyst]

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

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ant-every-day/

[Spidy]

Democratic douche is a term that I use to describe Democrats who ... A Democratic douche thinks those who vote Republican are stupid ... Calling Republicans RepuliKKKans means ...

It would be a douche move for me to compare GW Bush and Nixon to Obama and Clinton ...

Whoa! Now that was quite the ramble in douche-ary, from the professor with the M.Ed, from the school of doucheness. Got to ask though, is that a degree from Trump University?

Thanks for the explanation in douche-ary...I guess? Yeah. I don't really care truth be known, it's a bit off brand for my type of tomfoolery. But I'm sure other Repub kinfolks will take notes.

... Calling Republicans RepuliKKKans means you are a Democratic douche ...

No not really! Personally I think it's just a really very cleaver play on words. Much like the play on words, when you call liberal type democrats, "libtards". Got to admit "libtards" is pretty good, just not as good or creative as "RepubliKKKants".

Truthfully though, (or perhaps naively) I have always viewed they're usage, as playful terms of endearment. Now if there happens to be a bit of truth in either example, well. I'm not sure what to tell ya.

When the term "RepubliKKKants" is used, no I don't really go from 0 to 100 mph, thinking all Repubs are racist or KKK members. Just like when you call Democrats "libtards", I don't automatically draw the conclusion and think, Elvis thinks all Dems are retards.

... Spidy, are things better under Biden than they were under Trump?

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.

[Spidy]

ROFL the bare-assed chutzpah of a democrat, the party of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein, calling someone else a con-man sex offender cheating husband. ...

I think Jeffrey Epstein was more of an equal party sex offender. But it's funny (but not surprising) how you lump him with (D) Bill "a blowjob is not sex" Clinton. I saw just as many videos / photos and reports of (R) Agent Orange also being at those parties as, Bill. I wouldn't be surprised if either one the ex-Pres. Or both had something to do with his so called "suicide".

... As for tax evasion, you can be sure that if Trump had done that he would have been prosecuted. You don't understand the difference between tax evasion, which is illegal, and tax avoidance, which isn't and which everyone with money does. In fact, you don't understand much at all.

The NY Prosecutors/DOJ, may have something to say about that. Let's hope they have the manpower (and haven't been gutted like the IRS) and have the "passion of a progressive (D)emocrat", to prosecute/jail the orange dude. I doubt he'll go to jail, but I look forward to, the orange dude getting "a good drubbing", from the NY prosecutors.

And those of us not of the "cult-faithless" or bamboozled by Agent Orange's scams, ALL KNOW tax evasion when we see it. The mere fact and unwillingness to provide his tax returns at the start of his presidency/campaign (as every other president before have done), tells you all you need to know about "the grifter, that came to town".

No wonder the NFL owners didn't want him anywhere their business or a NFL team.

[Paulie97]

Truly an ally of Russia if I ever saw one

Damn straight on that again! Trump truly is, is why Russia worked so hard for his election in 2016 and 2020. They obviously are much smarter than you. One YouTube out of context, Trump pronouncing Russia "ru SHA" where the aim is to mock Germany, not chastise Russia. He worked overtime sowing divisions in our alliances and was the laughing stock of Europe.

[Gino02]

Naturally he didn't want to distract from all those goodies by invading Ukraine but it was coming.

Glad we agree that Trump was successful to distract Putin from invading Ukraine, which is called "Effective Diplomacy."