American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Yes, that is what makes a true due diligence based prediction for the outcome of the midterms impossible.

On the one hand, the Dems have the repeated pattern of the 1st midterm of a new president going against them. They also have going against them with Biden and the Dems today the pattern of Dems losing significant numbers of congressional seats in subsequent midterms after passing truly great, historic, American life-improving legislation and programs as happened with FDR, LBJ, Clinton and Obama due to the effective demonization of those soon-to-be revered Great American Attributes by America-hating Repubs and their typically supportive pundits in Mainstream Media.

Add to that the extreme gerrymandering by Repubs to create new districts out of the likely Dem new arrivals that miraculously remained predominantly white Repub along with the new rules and laws being passed by Repub state legislatures to grant their loony QAnon overlords the power to throw out all the big city ballots and not count them at all if the outcome of the count does not please them..

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/n...dering-ny.html

[EihTooms]

I have my masters in finance so I probably have more reading comprehension than you. The people that support Trump work for a living and hire millions of employees. The people that support Biden are criminals, people on welfare, BLM and Antifa who are all a drain on society. And as far as the news, Fox was Number 1 for the 20th straight year with viewers increasing every year. Fake News CNN is going the opposite way declining every year. Real Americans want real news. That is why Fox News is getting watched and stays number 1.

Applying your masters in finance, if your best friend was manufacturing a consumer product and was offered a free one-time-only commercial spot on the highest rated Fox News Channel program, either The Five or Tucker Carlson or on the lowest rated regular network news hour, CBS Evening News, which offer would you advise him to snap up in a heartbeat?

[EihTooms]

I will take your bet for serious money. Let's say $100,000. Money put up in advance in trust. I will take your bet and I assure you I will win because Trump will never go to jail. Was this just another of your lies? Were you lying or are you really going to make this bet?

Where did you see me offering to make this bet?

Was it the same place you imagined seeing and hearing defeated, twice-Impeached former so-called president Trump doing or saying anything as intelligently, well-informed and competently as current President Biden?

[PVMonger]

I have my masters in finance so I probably have more reading comprehension than you. The people that support Trump work for a living and hire millions of employees. The people that support Biden are criminals, people on welfare, BLM and Antifa who are all a drain on society. And as far as the news, Fox was Number 1 for the 20th straight year with viewers increasing every year. Fake News CNN is going the opposite way declining every year. Real Americans want real news. That is why Fox News is getting watched and stays number 1.

You claim to have great reading comprehension. Where, in the three (that's 3, meaning more than 2 and less than 4) points the OP posted did he ever mention the word news. Yet here you are mentioning "news"?

Comprehension is fundamental and you do not have it.

[PVMonger]

I see you are still infatuated with Trump. More than a year later losers are still infatuated with Trump. They can't talk about Biden because of Biden failing policies both domestic and international. I bet the fools will still be posting a year from now on Trump.

I am just passing on news. If the news is about the one-term, twice-impeached former guy, so be it.

The only reason you fascists comment on it and on Biden is because you are running away from January 6th as fast as your little fascist legs can carry you.

[ScatManDoo]

I see you are still infatuated with Trump. More than a year later losers are still infatuated with Trump. They can't talk about Biden because of Biden failing policies both domestic and international. I bet the fools will still be posting a year from now on Trump.

I for one, am far more amused and entertained by TrumpShit than any other political shit. So I will still talk about TrumpShit.

Most amusing today is T-Shits attack today on his most pathetic lackey, Lindsey Graham.

Graham had the audacity to say that the folks who attached the capital, and were convicted, should not receive blanket amnesty.

BTW: TrumpShit's declaration yesterday (and his doubling down today) that he would give his criminal houligan's amnesty.

Means he finally went too far.

He started, what will be, a straight line decline for him.

His popularity, even with members of his own party is going to begin its decline (if iit didn't start already).

Donald Trump is a criminal, and he is headed for jail.

Less and less people are going to miss him.

[PVMonger]

I will take your bet for serious money. Let's say $100,000. Money put up in advance in trust. I will take your bet and I assure you I will win because Trump will never go to jail. Was this just another of your lies? Were you lying or are you really going to make this bet?

Nowhere in the original post did the OP say that he was betting anything. No wonder you voted for the one-term, twice-impeached former guy.

ROFL.

[Canada]

Before Trump signed and passed his one and only significant economic legislation on the last possible business day of 2017, that godawful waste of $2.5+ Trillion, The Tax Cut and Jobs Act, a fellow poster here who apparently was a longtime sucker for the perennial pro Repub election Mainstream Media falsehood that "Republicans handle the economy better than Democrats" wanted to bet me $1 that the USA economy would then soar to the tune of 10 quarters of 3%+ GDP growth or some such nonsense. I was supposed to bet it wouldn't.

Of course, as it turned out Trump, Moscow Mitch and the other Repubs who put that piece of crap together had conned American taxpayers into flushing $2.5+ Trillion down the shitter in exchange for fewer jobs created with it than without it, no noticeable improvement in Real GDP growth with it than without it and I don't think it ever produced even a single quarter of 3% GDP growth before Trump's spectacularly horrible economic stewardship and decisions plunged us into another, say it with me, Great Repub Crash and Recession.

I didn't take the bet. Yes, I lost a whole $1 by not placing it on the one most easily predictable outcome of any political party's likely economic results in history.

But I just couldn't bring myself to bet "on" the economic failure of America, which is what that bet would have been for on my side of it. Not even for $1.

Now somebody wants you to bet serious money that someone who was the President of the United States, an honored position touted by Americans as the Leader of the Free World, is enough of a stone cold criminal as his own words and behavior provide evidence for over and over again that even the millions of dollars his sucker cult followers send him won't keep him from being indicted, charged, convicted and required to spend well-deserved time behind bars..

I will take your bet for serious money. Let's say $100,000. Money put up in advance in trust. I will take your bet and I assure you I will win because Trump will never go to jail. Was this just another of your lies? Were you lying or are you really going to make this bet?

[Cali Guy]

So the one-term, twice-impeached former guy said recently that Mike Pence absolutely had the authority to not count electors from certain states. In other words, he thinks that Mike Pence could pick the President.

Did he realize that means that in 2024, Kamala Harris will get to pick the next President?

He also has been saying for the last 2 years that he won the 2020 election. If that's true, he can't run again because the Constitution forbids more than 2 terms.

I see you are still infatuated with Trump. More than a year later losers are still infatuated with Trump. They can't talk about Biden because of Biden failing policies both domestic and international. I bet the fools will still be posting a year from now on Trump.

[EihTooms]

I will add another one. Their wealth and great lifestyle from working hard, building companies and hiring thousands of people.

Most successfully if not exclusively during Dem administrations. Same as Trump did.

[Cali Guy]

There are three major problems with all Trump's fan boys without exception.

1. Their catastrophic lack of reading comprehension.

2. Their unquenchable thirst for deluding themselves.

3. Their raging hatred for public figures who dislike their god.

Maybe stick to your beloved newsmax? Just saying.

I have my masters in finance so I probably have more reading comprehension than you. The people that support Trump work for a living and hire millions of employees. The people that support Biden are criminals, people on welfare, BLM and Antifa who are all a drain on society. And as far as the news, Fox was Number 1 for the 20th straight year with viewers increasing every year. Fake News CNN is going the opposite way declining every year. Real Americans want real news. That is why Fox News is getting watched and stays number 1.

[EihTooms]

ET,

Why does it not surprise me that you have eclectic taste in women. LOL. But then again, maybe you know what you are doing. From my good times in the PI, I know that devout church going gals like Laura Ingraham can really put out once they are sufficiently aroused and I bet with the lights off Jeanine Pirro gives excellent head.

But I had more delectable girls in mind when I mentioned Fox News Gals. Girls like Katie Pavlich, Courtney Friel, and Jenna Lee. I would go down on all three and then have interesting conversations with them over dinner. Real GFE. Ha Ha Ha!

Hmm. I am not finding that any of those three women are currently anchoring their own program on Fox News Channel the way the two lovelies I cited do and the way Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow do on MSNBC. I think one might still be an occasional guest commentator. Just based on a Google Search.

Maybe you could chat about how to keep a job over dinner. But I am all in favor of treating them to DATY. As long as they are fully shaved or waxed and never talk about politics, that is.

[Cali Guy]

At least, not in the past 100 years or since the data for this kind of thing has been available:

There were 4.6 million more job openings than unemployed workers in December

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/01/ther...ndroidappshare

Of course, Repubs have a quick fix for a problem like this and for the kind of Trump's Pandemic Supply Chain Destruction Inflation the world is faced with today; they simply do what they usually do when they have the chance, which is to find some new and unprecedented way to crash the USA economy and wipe out millions of USA jobs.

In no time at all, any possibility of "too many jobs" "wages rising too much" and "prices rising to meet our capacity to pay them" will vanish into thin air and disappear just like that dream Trump told us his Pandemic would seem like any minute now way back in early 2020.

I know Repubs are champing at the bit, howling at the moon and clawing at the unyielding earth with their bare claws to get in there and do exactly that as soon as their extreme gerrymandering and plans to impose new rules to throw out likely Dem votes and only count the rest come to fruition.

There are jobs openings because democrats don't want to return to work. Democrats are waiting for more free stuff from Biden. They are lazy and would rather collect UIC or welfare than actually work. Pretty simple.

[Axel Heyst]

"A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin, as you know, there is a great deal of pressure on you to help pass the Build Back Better Bill, which will build a bridge to the 22nd century, give everyone a free Disney+ subscription, cure cancer, make the Little Red-Haired Girl fall in love with Charlie Brown, and save America. Will you finally vote to support it?

Joe Manchin: It's pretty expensive. I don't think we can afford it. It has a lot of stuff we don't need. It'll drive up inflation, which is already becoming a major concern. So I'm not a fan.

Raju: Senator Manchin, as you know, racist Senate rules require the consent of 60 members before a bill can proceed to a vote. Will you join Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, and other middle-of-the-road Americans who say it's time to end the filibuster?

Manchin: Seems like a bad idea. It's the kind of thing the other party will use against us the next time they get a chance. Besides, if you're going to do anything major, you should probably secure a bipartisan consensus first. So I'm not crazy about that idea.

A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin, America urgently needs the Build Back Better Act, which is the only legislation currently proposed that will stop the country from literally dissolving and trickling into the oceans like melting snow. Will you vote to support this precious bill or would you rather all of the babies die?

Manchin: I think America has other priorities at the moment. So I'm thinking it's not a good idea.

Raju: But surely you won't side with Strom Thurmond by continuing to support the pernicious filibuster?

Manchin: I don't think we should nuke the filibuster, sorry.

A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin, isn't it about damn time you grew a pair and supported the Build Back Better Act?

Manchin: It's bad legislation. So, no.

Raju: You have to be freaking kidding me. But what about the stupid filibuster that is crushing American dreams like so many M&Ms disappearing under a steamroller?

Manchin: The filibuster isn't going anywhere.

A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin, the Build. . .

Manchin: Back Better Act? It's garbage. I'll never support it in a thousand lifetimes.

Raju: But the fili-.

Manchin: The filibuster stays, my man. How many times do I have to tell you?

Raju: You've never told me this before. This is the first time I've asked you.

A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Another bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN media reporter Brian Stelter gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin. . .

Manchin: I think we're done here.

Raju: What do you mean?

Manchin: You're going to ask me how I'm voting on Build Back Better and whether I'm going to blow up the filibuster.

Raju: How did you know that?

Manchin: I have this funny feeling this has all happened before. I call it theéja Raju.

(Cut to).

Stelter: Today on CNN, we tell you what's on Fox News Channel. American Democracy is under siege, and yet Fox is incessantly reporting on local school boards, which are supposed to operate free of interference from annoying voters. Brianna?

A bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju gets out of bed and gets dressed.

(Cut to).

Another bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " CNN media Reporter Brian Stelter gets out of bed and gets dressed.

(Cut to).

Another bedroom. The clock radio strikes 6:00. Sonny and Cher singing, "I Got You Babe. " MSNBC anchor Joy Reid gets out of bed and gets dressed.

Raju: Senator Manchin-.

Manchin: Are you going to do that thing where you ask me the same thing you've asked me for 150 consecutive days?

Raju: I don't know what you're talking about.

Manchin: It's like you're living the same day over and over again without realizing it.

Raju: That's impossible. Today has never happened before.

(Cut to).

Stelter: Today on CNN, we tell you what's on Fox News Channel. Basic American freedoms are under siege, and yet Fox News Channel is doing a demented report on how people are trying to (makes air quotes) "censor" Joe Rogan. Brianna?

(Cut to).

Reid: Tonight on MSNBC, we're done fooling around. We've got an exclusive. Buckle up. Are you ready? We've got the scoop on how everything is racist. I promise you, you have never heard anything like this before. ".

[EihTooms]

So the one-term, twice-impeached former guy said recently that Mike Pence absolutely had the authority to not count electors from certain states. In other words, he thinks that Mike Pence could pick the President.

Did he realize that means that in 2024, Kamala Harris will get to pick the next President?

He also has been saying for the last 2 years that he won the 2020 election. If that's true, he can't run again because the Constitution forbids more than 2 terms.

He doesn't think anything through because with his supporters he knows he doesn't need to.

Look, if by now he knows he lost the 2020 election fair and square then he is the most dangerous America-hating liar and conman ever. But if by now he doesn't know he lost fair and square then he is the most dangerous blithering idiot ever.

Yet, all 74 million of his supporters would vote for him to sign and pass whatever crap economic legislation his spineless Know Nothing congressional Repubs place in front of him, make serious life and death decisions regarding National Security and face our adversaries at the negotiation table this very day.