American Politics

[PVMonger]

No future for you. You can't let go of the past. Just like a broken record. You are so amazed by the great job Trump did as president that it gets under your skin and you have to talk about it constantly. The past is for losers.

I am absolutely amazed that the one-term, twice-impeached former guy continues to prattle on about a stolen election, 18+ months ago. I am absolutely amazed that he brings up lots of other old stuff at his propaganda events. I guess he isn't living in the past. (snicker, snicker).

I realize that you fascists aren't very smart, so I'll say this once more. We are keeping the focus on January 6th so that America doesn't forget. You fascists, on the other hand, are running away from the mess created by the one-term, twice-impeached former guy as fast as you can. Why else would you keep howling at the moon?

[Canada]

Living in the past means keeping the focus on all of the criminal acts committed by the one-term, twice-impeached former guy, his thieving children and the idiots who tried to overturn the election. Also the duped Republican legislators and the former guy's full-of-it supporters.

That's the only reason you fascists are howling at the moon over things that everybody knows a President has not control over. Because when the criminality comes to light, there isn't going to be a single place in the US that they can hide. Well, the former guy can take his kids and his wife and go to Russia. The rest of the fascists can't.

No future for you. You can't let go of the past. Just like a broken record. You are so amazed by the great job Trump did as president that it gets under your skin and you have to talk about it constantly. The past is for losers.

[EihTooms]

Keep living in the past. You will have no future talking about the past when the USA has the most incompetent president ever. Most of the American people and the world knows Biden is taking the USA to new lows. A Republican president in the future is going to have his work cut out to clean up Biden mess. Just like Trump had to clean up some of Obama's mess.

Yes, as soon as the Repubs throw out likely Dem ballots and only count Repub votes to install another Repub president who is openly laughed at by our allies for his astonishing ignorance of foreign affairs, wipes out millions of USA jobs with the Repubs' typically disastrous economic decisions, racks up a housing and financial crises or two, at least one Bear Market crash every couple of years along with the requisite Great Repub Recession, you'll feel much better.

[Xpartan]

He used the term "fake news" on Business Insider. Fascists just can't believe that the former guy was as bad as he was.

If FUX "News" ever told the truth, his head would explode.

Not really. They screamed at Chris Wallace on more than one occasion.

This crowd are like true religious fundamentalists. They don't take kindly to any dissent -- from anyone.

[PVMonger]

Keep living in the past. You will have no future talking about the past when the USA has the most incompetent president ever. Most of the American people and the world knows Biden is taking the USA to new lows. A Republican president in the future is going to have his work cut out to clean up Biden mess. Just like Trump had to clean up some of Obama's mess.

Living in the past means keeping the focus on all of the criminal acts committed by the one-term, twice-impeached former guy, his thieving children and the idiots who tried to overturn the election. Also the duped Republican legislators and the former guy's full-of-it supporters.

That's the only reason you fascists are howling at the moon over things that everybody knows a President has not control over. Because when the criminality comes to light, there isn't going to be a single place in the US that they can hide. Well, the former guy can take his kids and his wife and go to Russia. The rest of the fascists can't.

[PVMonger]

You called it exactly correct.

I think he has also called the Wall Street Journal "fake news" when it proved other right wingnut talking points as false.

Delusions run deep for some.

He used the term "fake news" on Business Insider. Fascists just can't believe that the former guy was as bad as he was.

If FUX "News" ever told the truth, his head would explode.

[Cali Guy]

"We The People".

We the people in all we do.

Reserve the right to scream "Fuck you".

(Hey-yeah) ow.

(Hey-yeah) huh..

Great song. Lets go Brandon.

[Cali Guy]

Ignore the obvious. If you live in USA right now you know that Biden is the worst president in the last 40 years. It is right there in front of you every day. From Afghanistan to the open borders. From highest inflation in over 40 years to highest crime rates seen in decades. From high gas prices to possible war in Ukraine. We are living it every day. Posting about past presidents or administrations with fake news posts is just irresponsible and foolish. America is waking up to this disaster. You need to also.

Facts are facts and democrats are finally seeing it. Democrats across the nation are condemning Biden disasters.

[Canada]

"You would think that given the fact Donald Trump was impeached for illegally withholding congressionally approved aid to Ukraine, his supporters might take the current crisis as an opportunity to have a seat.

You would think that since Trump in June 2020 advocated for drawing down USA Troops in Germany, and after having spent years weakening NATO with his attacks and criticisms, that the current urgent need for strength within the Western alliance would have Trumpists hitting their own mute buttons.

You would think that with Russia threatening the international order over the possibility of invading a sovereign neighbor, the Trump-cheering section would dial it down a bit given the 45th president's signature public toadying to Vladimir Putin, the man who singlehandedly created the current crisis.

You might even think that since the response of the Biden administration to the current Russian threat has been dramatically more robust than the responses of the last three administrations to Putin's aggressions, incursions, and violations of international law, that Team Trump might even offer up a little praise for the current president. After all, even Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did, for goodness sakes. There are vital national security interests at stake, after all..

Keep living in the past. You will have no future talking about the past when the USA has the most incompetent president ever. Most of the American people and the world knows Biden is taking the USA to new lows. A Republican president in the future is going to have his work cut out to clean up Biden mess. Just like Trump had to clean up some of Obama's mess.

[ScatManDoo]

Who wants to bet that if he replies to this post, he will use some form of the term "fake news" 'cause that's really all he does.

You called it exactly correct.

I think he has also called the Wall Street Journal "fake news" when it proved other right wingnut talking points as false.

Delusions run deep for some.

[PVMonger]

"You would think that given the fact Donald Trump was impeached for illegally withholding congressionally approved aid to Ukraine, his supporters might take the current crisis as an opportunity to have a seat.

You would think that since Trump in June 2020 advocated for drawing down USA Troops in Germany, and after having spent years weakening NATO with his attacks and criticisms, that the current urgent need for strength within the Western alliance would have Trumpists hitting their own mute buttons.

You would think that with Russia threatening the international order over the possibility of invading a sovereign neighbor, the Trump-cheering section would dial it down a bit given the 45th president's signature public toadying to Vladimir Putin, the man who singlehandedly created the current crisis.

You might even think that since the response of the Biden administration to the current Russian threat has been dramatically more robust than the responses of the last three administrations to Putin's aggressions, incursions, and violations of international law, that Team Trump might even offer up a little praise for the current president. After all, even Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did, for goodness sakes. There are vital national security interests at stake, after all.

This is precisely the sort of moment when, historically, America's political parties have tried to tone down their partisan bickering and present a united front to the world. But no, not this GOP.

Even with Trump not occupying the White House, Republicans and the warped cogs in their giant message machine continue to see their mission as strengthening not the USA And our allies, but Russia; and serving not the national interests, but their own political self-interests.

Drawing on the Trump playbook, their approach is not only facts be damned, but that history never happened. It is once again: "Who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?

They are taking short-term memory loss and turning into a movement, making cognitive dysfunction a requirement for admission into a MAGA fairyland in which rivers of Fox News disinformation continue to flow from the well-springs of Russian propaganda, in which heroes are magically transformed into villains, friends into enemies, and good into evil.

(Remember the hubbub in 2020 about science possibly having discovered a parallel universe in which key laws of physics were reversed? Sorry, science, but we did not need a complicated experiment in Antarctica searching for high-energy particles from outer space to find it. All you had to do was watch Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News host who has gone so far off the deep end with his pro-Kremlin rants that even Russian media is worried his lunacy reflects badly on them.).

The frozen seafood heir turned human fountain of anti-American bullshit is not, however, the only Republican seeking the limelight these days to spew indefensible nonsense that only draws attention to their own past failings.

Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, wrote an op-ed for Fox News headlined: "Russia-Ukraine conflict puts Biden administration's weakness on full display. "

It opens with a giant self-inflicted wound, making the case that the current administration is showing "abject weakness" by arguing that Biden was weak with Iran—ignoring the Trump administration's gift to Iran of pulling the USA Out of the nuclear treaty, thus freeing Iran to ramp up their region-destabilizing nuclear program, as has happened. Pompeo also says Biden was weak in Afghanistan for finally pulling the USA Out of its longest war—an act that was hastened by Pompeo's own negotiations with the Taliban and Trump's decision to cut and run at an earlier date in a manner that would have been even more devastating. And Pompeo slams Biden for failing to be tough with China—a country with which Trump and his kids canoodled for profit even while he was in office.

But reality ain't no thing to Pompeo, a man who all by himself is the answer to the question, "What's the Matter with Kansas?

So, let's go to the tape. What has Biden done?

Reject Putin's demands? Check.

Prepare massive, multi-tiered sanctions against Russia that are ready to go into effect the minute Russian troops cross the border? Check.

Guarantee to support Ukraine? Check.

Rally the allies? Check.

Not noted, of course, in Pompeo's prescription, were the steps the Trump team took to cozy up to Russia, undercut relations with Ukraine by firing an effective ambassador and withholding aid in exchange for help with a domestic political agenda, regularly criticize NATO, and—as noted above—withdraw US troops from Europe that are now central to Biden's strong response to this crisis.

Pompeo is not alone.

The "Biden is weak" chorus in Foxlandia has been strong and incorporated many of those who, along with Trump, dramatically weakened America's standing in the world. (If you don't think Putin's current threat to Ukraine was based in part on his calculation that Trump's divisiveness and assault on USA Democracy has weakened us, then you are not paying attention.)

Human weathervane Nikki Haley—who, like her colleagues, does not seem to remember Trump's shameful display of kissing up to Putin at the expense of the USA Intelligence community in Helsinki—stated: "Russia smells blood in the water because we have never had a president as weak as Joe Biden. "

Former Trump Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who undermined the USA Intelligence community by turning his post atop it into a political operation regularly contradicting the findings of his own people, also had the audacity to criticize Biden—who has been put into the position of spending much of his term undoing the damage done by Trump and his team.

Who else chimed in? None other than disgraced former Speaker of the House turned crackpot-for-hire Newt Gingrich. He not only repeated the canards about Biden and Putin, but also argued that Biden was weak on China.

The reality is: Biden pulled out of Afghanistan to complete the pivot to Asia that others have discussed but not made a reality, elevated the core Pacific alliance known as the Quad with its first leaders summit, created a new security alliance in the region with AUKUS, and brought a new realism to USA -China policy, framing the strategic competition between the two countries in tougher terms than any of his modern predecessors.

The reality also holds that Trump's record on Russia—and the damage he did with our allies and at home—set the stage for the crisis that Biden and his team are expertly managing today. Don't forget Trump said on the campaign trail that he would consider lifting sanctions on Russia and recognizing occupied Crimea as Russian land. His rationale? "The people of Crimea," Trump said, "from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. ".

Gingrich is worried Biden's not being tough enough on Russia and China? Trump lobbied to have Russia be allowed to rejoin the G7—which had previously booted Russia from its membership after the theft of Crimea from Ukraine. Trump even blamed the invasion of Crimea on Barack Obama, rather than Putin, saying it was Obama's fault "because Putin didn't respect President Obama, didn't respect our country. "

In other words, not only are the GOP critiques of Biden's handling of this crisis completely out of place, they are stunningly hypocritical and stunningly craven—even for this group of compulsive liars. It's all part of a calculated disinformation campaign designed to both inflame the GOP base while also providing cover for the manifold errors and betrayals of the Trump years.

Finally, the GOP slanders are proof that, once again, the Trumpist GOP's initial response to almost everything is projection. In their accusations that Biden is weak they reveal not only their fear that he is actually strong, but are projecting their own desperate weaknesses in bearing the impossible burden of having to defend their records as part of the worst of any American administration in history.

[Canada]

Facts like "Only Presidents Johnson, Carter, and Kennedy enjoyed stronger GDP growth in their first term. " But what does Business Insider know? They're only a business publication. Because Canada, Cali and the rest of the fascists believe that Tucker "Nobody in their right mind should believe anything I say" Carlson knows better. https://businessinsider.mx/biden-eco...1-8/?r=US&IR=T.

Who wants to bet that if he replies to this post, he will use some form of the term "fake news" 'cause that's really all he does. Well, that and use "alternative facts".

The one-term, twice-impeached former guy's popularity was limited to fascists, insurrectionists, white supremacists, xenophobes, homophobes, transphobes, election fraudsters and deplorables. It is a sad state of affairs that there are 71+ million of them that vote.

Ignore the obvious. If you live in USA right now you know that Biden is the worst president in the last 40 years. It is right there in front of you every day. From Afghanistan to the open borders. From highest inflation in over 40 years to highest crime rates seen in decades. From high gas prices to possible war in Ukraine. We are living it every day. Posting about past presidents or administrations with fake news posts is just irresponsible and foolish. America is waking up to this disaster. You need to also.

[EihTooms]

Facts like "Only Presidents Johnson, Carter, and Kennedy enjoyed stronger GDP growth in their first term. " But what does Business Insider know? They're only a business publication. Because Canada, Cali and the rest of the fascists believe that Tucker "Nobody in their right mind should believe anything I say" Carlson knows better. https://businessinsider.mx/biden-eco...1-8/?r=US&IR=T.

Who wants to bet that if he replies to this post, he will use some form of the term "fake news" 'cause that's really all he does. Well, that and use "alternative facts".

The one-term, twice-impeached former guy's popularity was limited to fascists, insurrectionists, white supremacists, xenophobes, homophobes, transphobes, election fraudsters and deplorables. It is a sad state of affairs that there are 71+ million of them that vote.

Only for 20 days.

Despite the fraudulent slates of electors that will give testimony to keep him out for good.

Donald Trump is a criminal and he's headed for jail.

We must accept the fact that for "conservatives", Repubs, Bothsiders and other America-hating cults that love to install government officials whose only mission is to produce Great Repub Crashes, Great Repub Recessions, Great Repub Depressions and Wipe Out Millions upon Millions of USA Jobs by any means necessary, including manipulating the world into a deadly, international travel and economy-destroying Pandemic if your Repub guy or gal can find a way to make every bad decision possible to produce one and mass murder millions of people along the way, the historically positive achievements of American patriots like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the Dems is most definitely a horrible outcome.

Those kind of positive results for America is the exact opposite of everything they, their chosen pols and their devoted benefactors and perennial supporters and campaigners in Mainsteam Media want to happen.

[PVMonger]

A reminder that we had the worst president ever last year and he is probably going to be worse this year. For people living in USA they are suffering with highest inflation and highest gas prices in 40 years. Now Biden is going to get us into a war. He is a disgrace and 200,000,000 citizens of USA know it. His popularity is limited to illegals, criminals and fools.

Facts like "Only Presidents Johnson, Carter, and Kennedy enjoyed stronger GDP growth in their first term. " But what does Business Insider know? They're only a business publication. Because Canada, Cali and the rest of the fascists believe that Tucker "Nobody in their right mind should believe anything I say" Carlson knows better. https://businessinsider.mx/biden-eco...1-8/?r=US&IR=T.

Who wants to bet that if he replies to this post, he will use some form of the term "fake news" 'cause that's really all he does. Well, that and use "alternative facts".

The one-term, twice-impeached former guy's popularity was limited to fascists, insurrectionists, white supremacists, xenophobes, homophobes, transphobes, election fraudsters and deplorables. It is a sad state of affairs that there are 71+ million of them that vote.

[ScatManDoo]

A reminder that we had the worst president ever last year.

Only for 20 days.

Despite the fraudulent slates of electors that will give testimony to keep him out for good.

Donald Trump is a criminal and he's headed for jail.