American Politics

[Cali Guy]

I do not think Biden's statement was as widely reported as it should have been: "There is no federal solution. This needs to be solved at the state level."

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/l...-down-covid-19

Again, you will have the usual nonsense, ZH? That is a right wing nut blog, but Biden said what he said.

Will Eih recant his blathering on the pandemic being Trump's fault? Nah. You can quote numbers all day long and show these brain dead Democrats that who was in office did not matter, but they still won't buy it. To me, even though Biden has thrown in the towel, these same douches still believe that all would be well with the pandemic if not for Republicans.

On the supply chain issues, though, that mess is all political, and all the blame should be directed at the Dems. First off, Obama put into law regulations that were passed like 8 years ago but are just enforced today. One of them is that truck drivers can only work 8 hour shifts, and this is sent from trucks via computer to a regulatory agency. So when you have a supply chain crisis and want to move goods: wouldn't it be smart to change that to 10 or 12 hours (which it used to be)? You would think so right? Nothing on this.

The issue in the ports are the trailers that move around the supply containers. The cranes pick up the containers off the ships, but the trailers are what move them around. Obama put in a law that trailers, even ones that were still good, could not be more than 5 years old. The problem is the pandemic interfered with production of trailers, so a lot would put out to pasture while fewer were coming in. Again, there is a pretty simple solution. Allow the older trailers to be inspected for safety and used right? Again, that is not being done..

This pretty much sums up the democrats failures with no clue on how to get it back on track.

[PVMonger]

CNN, Chris Cuomo.

NBC, Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw.

FUX, Jamie Horowitz, Charles Payne, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Judy Slater, Bob Beckel (fired for racist comments), Kimberly Guilfoyle (she left and her accuser was paid $4 million).

Score: CNN 1, NBC 2, FUX 6 or 7.

At least us "socialists" can count. The MAGA cult just makes stuff up.

[Paulie97]

Ah, I had a spare moment to research it after a sweet ST with a cute 21 year old Thai girl last night and it is conclusive; Despite Trump's Pandemic Supply-Chain Destruction Inflation that we are currently experiencing around the world, Biden's far superior economic stewardship did indeed produce better USA holiday sales results in his first year in office than in each of Trump's 4 miserable years in office:

"Business has doubled local retailers see big boost in holiday sales

https://www.wdbj7.com/2021/12/27/bus...holiday-sales/.

It's good to see that you have your priorities straight! Wink It's also good that our side of the isle has someone as dogged as say Canada / Cali Guy, so someone can take a break for a few months, come back, and be sure of having plenty to read.

That said I'll play the devil's advocate for a moment. There's a lot of different measurements when it comes to a president's economic report card. For example if you pick just one while ignoring the others, and beat that drum loud enough then voila! You have an argument, or at least a talking point. But even that doesn't tell us the sorts of jobs created under Carter. How do the numbers hash out when it comes to pay? How many part time? And if there was a recession you can just blame it on the previous guy by focusing on the negative bullet points on his economic resume. This is why so many political arguments involve talking past one another.

Also, what about "Lincoln's Civil War?" Arguably he provoked the armed conflict with his refusal to abandon Ft Sumter, even though the north had withdrawn from other southern forts. Readings of the letters home of southern soldiers reveals more of a local mindset, that they were fighting to repell an invasion with little mention of slavery. Only 25% of southern families owned slaves. Though the slavery question was the clear reason for succession as seen in the minutes of a number of state governments, so any claims that the war wasn't over that are absurd.

There were firebrands on both sides leading up to succession, as well as Constitutional questions on the legality thereof, especially considering that not one southern state supported the election of Lincoln. But since your Republican disasters go all the way back to Lincoln, tell us why you think he was responsible for the war. Should the north have just let the south go?

Happy New Year.

[Elvis 2008]

I do not think Biden's statement was as widely reported as it should have been: "There is no federal solution. This needs to be solved at the state level."

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/l...-down-covid-19

Again, you will have the usual nonsense, ZH? That is a right wing nut blog, but Biden said what he said.

Will Eih recant his blathering on the pandemic being Trump's fault? Nah. You can quote numbers all day long and show these brain dead Democrats that who was in office did not matter, but they still won't buy it. To me, even though Biden has thrown in the towel, these same douches still believe that all would be well with the pandemic if not for Republicans.

On the supply chain issues, though, that mess is all political, and all the blame should be directed at the Dems. First off, Obama put into law regulations that were passed like 8 years ago but are just enforced today. One of them is that truck drivers can only work 8 hour shifts, and this is sent from trucks via computer to a regulatory agency. So when you have a supply chain crisis and want to move goods: wouldn't it be smart to change that to 10 or 12 hours (which it used to be)? You would think so right? Nothing on this.

The issue in the ports are the trailers that move around the supply containers. The cranes pick up the containers off the ships, but the trailers are what move them around. Obama put in a law that trailers, even ones that were still good, could not be more than 5 years old. The problem is the pandemic interfered with production of trailers, so a lot would put out to pasture while fewer were coming in. Again, there is a pretty simple solution. Allow the older trailers to be inspected for safety and used right? Again, that is not being done.

Domestic trailer production also plummeted due to the end of Trumps tariff on Chinese trailers. Yeah, Biden just got rid of that Trump tax. It seems like a no-brainer to reinstate that tariff but that is not happening either. China is refusing to produce more trailers, and this is China fucking the USA again, and time after time, our government is unable to pivot away because we are so dependent on them.

What was done was a reshuffling the numbers. Now a ship that is further off the coast is not counted. Keep in mind there are thousands of containers on these ships. With 100 ships at 10,000 containers apiece, you are talking about one million containers at sea. That is a staggering number and it is getting worse. A million containers need to be unloaded and put onto trucks and rail. One million!

I was listing to a podcast about where there are supply issues: tennis balls, tires, and cream cheese. The other surprising one is paper. Eih touched on this and said Trump had problems selling a book because of his creating a paper shortage. Of course, that is not true.

This one is funny too. The USA is a next exporter of lumbar so how come we have a paper shortage. The environmentalist whackos have made paper production so cost prohibitive it was cheaper to move production abroad. So again, the solution is to roll things back to where there were no shortages but again for some reason this cannot be done.

[Canada]

Fox "News" is Number 1. Number 1 is sexual harassment claims. Roger Ailes had so many sexual harassment claims that even the Murdochs couldn't stomach it and they fired him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

And we all remember that paragon of virtue. Bill O'Reilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_(political_commentator).

And of course let's not leave out Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...n-sean-hannity

So yes, Fox News is the number 1 rated cesspool of sexual harassment and abuse. If only the network was as dedicated to honest journalism as it is to getting laid.

This is truly the biggest joke of 2021. After what CNN and NBC have gone through in 2021 with sexual harassment and pedafiles with their anchors and producers someone posts a joke like this. Only an idiot would try to fabricate lies like this. I know that half this board is dumb socialists that might applaud you for this but the world knows a fool when they see one.

[Paulie97]

FUX "News" is not number 1 when compared to all news, both broadcast and cable. That is a fact.

Why do you continue to fabricate false information and distort words?

It's a debate style, if you want to call it that. It involves ignoring all refutations while repeating the same lies over and over. It's dishonest and lazy, and was the primary method used by the 45th POTUS. Sadly it's also effective in the political sphere, especially when dealing with a poorly educated audience.

https://fallacies.escepticos.es/inde...to-ad-nauseam/

[Canada]

First, what is a socialist? You seem to call everybody a socialist who is to the left of thinking that the Holocaust and slavery were great ideas.

Second, did the former guy want to make America great? His slogan was "Make America Great Again". See, it is the "again" part that you don't understand. Nobody, and I mean nobody, would object to Make America Great. But the "again" part suggests that America was great once, then got not great, and the former guy wanted to make it great "again". But how far back was America "not great"? Was it not great during Reagan? Was it not great during Bush I? Was it not great during Bush II? Nope. The "again" part of the slogan referred to Obama. A black dude had the temerity to to elected President and the former guy (and his cult) wanted to wipe that stain from the face of America.

Third, what do cult members have against a great America? Why to they want America to fail? The MAGA cult wants things to back to the 50's, preferably the 1850's. Back to when women couldn't vote. Back to when it was legal to own somebody. Back to when LBGTQ people stayed in the closet. That's what MAGA wants.

Not everyone is a socialist but there are 3 or 4 socialists on this forum including you. The democrats are fighting back against people like you again. America was great in the past and parts of it slowly eroded thanks to Obama. Obama brought racism and division into the country and Trump just wanted America to be great again. Socialists won't say make America great again and don't want America to be great again. Socialists hate capitalism and prosperity. They hate people working hard and succeeding because they won't work hard and won't succeed. Socialists want equality. They want everyone but the government to be poor. They want big government and government control. They want free stuff. They want censorship in our schools and news. Just like what is pushed on America now. Everything you post is anti American and socialistic so if you want to know a socialist looks like just look in the mirror.

[EihTooms]

Elections have consequences. Economic decisions made by those elected have consequences.

Case in point:

Largest Increase In U.S. Poverty Recorded In 2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybe...h=25d8468132bd

Thanks, Donnie. You saved us a few measly million dollars in 2018 by deciding to defund the CDC and remove all our Pandemic Prevention and Response team members from those Chinese labs against all expert advice and warnings not to do something so stupid and dangerous.

Then you compounded that colossal historic mistake by spending almost a year lying about the airborne risks and deadly nature of the virus that predictably emerged and mocking the known effective mitigation efforts, thereby converting a likely manageable regional endemic into the worldwide Trump's Pandemic it is today in all its current and future variants.

Meanwhile, you tried with all your powers on the world stage to discourage anyone and everyone on the planet from bothering to invent a vaccine for it or taking one if any company was foolish enough to waste their time and money inventing one.

By contrast:

Child tax credit lifted 3 million kids from poverty in July

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/25/...y-in-july.html

The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-fr...t-poverty/amp/

America is substantially reducing poverty among children.
The Biden administrations biggest success has not received enough attention

https://www.economist.com/united-sta...ldren/21804765

Thank you, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

[EihTooms]

Wow ET, you are unbelievable! This latest rant tops your Jimmy Carter beat inflation rap. Things must be terribly boring in BKK for you to waste so much time with these hilarious narratives. Do you really think anyone takes them seriously?

Ah, I had a spare moment to research it after a sweet ST with a cute 21 year old Thai girl last night and it is conclusive; Despite Trump's Pandemic Supply-Chain Destruction Inflation that we are currently experiencing around the world, Biden's far superior economic stewardship did indeed produce better USA holiday sales results in his first year in office than in each of Trump's 4 miserable years in office:

"Business has doubled local retailers see big boost in holiday sales

https://www.wdbj7.com/2021/12/27/bus...holiday-sales/

NEW RIVER VALLEY, Va. (WDBJ) - New data from Mastercard SpendingPulse shows holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years.

Local malls and business owners say theyre seeing similar trends on top of record-breaking numbers.

Business has doubled its--- its at least doubled, said Jeneen Wilson the owner and operator of Primped 365.

Many local retailers report 2021 has been one of the best holiday shopping seasons in a while.

Researching the data and the actual record of results is so much faster and easier now with Google Search and all that.

For example, do a search for How Carter's Fed Chairman tamed inflation and then one for Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms and you'll see what I mean.

Oh, on the latter, check out the column at the far right of the Jobs Creation chart labled "Average Annual Increase" per USA president over the past 100 years or so and you might be surprised by that info. I wasn't. But you might be.

Really, it's just amazing how fast and easy it is to be well informed these days.

[Villainy]

Fox News ratings are still number 1

Who told you Fox was the number one rated?

Fox "News" is Number 1. Number 1 is sexual harassment claims. Roger Ailes had so many sexual harassment claims that even the Murdochs couldn't stomach it and they fired him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

And we all remember that paragon of virtue. Bill O'Reilly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_(political_commentator).

And of course let's not leave out Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...n-sean-hannity

So yes, Fox News is the number 1 rated cesspool of sexual harassment and abuse. If only the network was as dedicated to honest journalism as it is to getting laid.

[Cali Guy]

Or, as Repubs and FUX News Channel fake news anchors would spin it, Further Proof That Biden And The Democrat Party Are Destroying America!

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/26/desp...ndroidappshare

What happened to crippling inflation? Biden halted the never opened Keystone Pipeline, didn't he?

It doesn't seem to have fazed the American consumer very much, if at all.

Hmm. We know this year beat last year while Trump's Pandemic was Crashing the USA economy and wiping out 10's of millions of USA jobs. Now we know it beat the year before that, too.

Also, whatever happened in 2017 is irrelevant to Trump because he and his Repubs hadn't passed even one significant economic "stimulus" legislation until a day or two before Christmas that year. So that wouldn't have been a factor by the time the 2017 Christmas shopping season was essentially over.

Even though I have not yet researched it, I'm guessing Trump's 2nd presidential year (2018) holiday season retail sales results were not as good as this first one under Biden either since the first of Trump's two Bear Market Crashes was raging in December of that year.

Therefore, it is for sure Sleepy Joe's first holiday season sales results were better than anything Trump touched with his disastrous economic stewardship in at least 3 out of his 4 years of the worst presidency of all time and quite probably beat all 4 of them.

Thank you, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

Are you kidding me? Thanking the democrats for highest inflation in 40 years and putting millions of people into poverty. What do have against American families having a decent life? Food and gas prices at all time highs. Families not being able to afford heating oil. Why do you want USA to suffer like the other communist and socialist countries. Your thoughts resemble a sadist or serial killer.

[Canada]

Or, as Repubs and FUX News Channel fake news anchors would spin it, Further Proof That Biden And The Democrat Party Are Destroying America!

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/26/desp...ndroidappshare

What happened to crippling inflation? Biden halted the never opened Keystone Pipeline, didn't he?

It doesn't seem to have fazed the American consumer very much, if at all.

Hmm. We know this year beat last year while Trump's Pandemic was Crashing the USA economy and wiping out 10's of millions of USA jobs. Now we know it beat the year before that, too.

Also, whatever happened in 2017 is irrelevant to Trump because he and his Repubs hadn't passed even one significant economic "stimulus" legislation until a day or two before Christmas that year. So that wouldn't have been a factor by the time the 2017 Christmas shopping season was essentially over.

Even though I have not yet researched it, I'm guessing Trump's 2nd presidential year (2018) holiday season retail sales results were not as good as this first one under Biden either since the first of Trump's two Bear Market Crashes was raging in December of that year.

Therefore, it is for sure Sleepy Joe's first holiday season sales results were better than anything Trump touched with his disastrous economic stewardship in at least 3 out of his 4 years of the worst presidency of all time and quite probably beat all 4 of them.

Thank you, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

Cancelling keystone pipeline was one of the several mistakes Biden made on his energy policies contributing to higher oil prices and higher transportation costs for crude oil. Gas increasing in price by over 50 per cent definitely adds to inflation. What happened to crippling inflation? Biden crated it and now the poor are suffering from it. Spouting lies about Trump economics does not erase the crippling inflation of 2021.2022 will be worse. Thanks Nancy, Joe and Chuck for ruining so many American lives. Thanks Nancy, Joe and Chuck for putting do many children and families in poverty.

[PVMonger]

Fact is Fox News is number one in the ratings. No matter how much you try to fabricate false information and distort words the fact remains. And CNN hits low records monthly. Fox is number one because more people watch it than watch fake news.

FUX "News" is not number 1 when compared to all news, both broadcast and cable. That is a fact.

Why do you continue to fabricate false information and distort words?

[PVMonger]

Socialist can not live in reality or the present. If you notice none of them are knowledgeable about current events. Biden has 11 months of pure failures. His popularity among everyone including democrats has cratered and a socialists biggest worry is a past president who wanted to make America great. Why do socialists hate America and not want America to be great. They have fought through all of Trump presidency to stop MAGA. What do you have against a great America? Why do you want America to fail? Almost all your posts in last 2 years are against America success.

First, what is a socialist? You seem to call everybody a socialist who is to the left of thinking that the Holocaust and slavery were great ideas.

Second, did the former guy want to make America great? His slogan was "Make America Great Again". See, it is the "again" part that you don't understand. Nobody, and I mean nobody, would object to Make America Great. But the "again" part suggests that America was great once, then got not great, and the former guy wanted to make it great "again". But how far back was America "not great"? Was it not great during Reagan? Was it not great during Bush I? Was it not great during Bush II? Nope. The "again" part of the slogan referred to Obama. A black dude had the temerity to to elected President and the former guy (and his cult) wanted to wipe that stain from the face of America.

Third, what do cult members have against a great America? Why to they want America to fail? The MAGA cult wants things to back to the 50's, preferably the 1850's. Back to when women couldn't vote. Back to when it was legal to own somebody. Back to when LBGTQ people stayed in the closet. That's what MAGA wants.

[Axel Heyst]

Even though I have not yet researched it, I'm guessing Trump's 2nd presidential year (2018) holiday season retail sales results were not as good as this first one under Biden either since the first of Trump's two Bear Market Crashes was raging in December of that year.

Therefore, it is for sure Sleepy Joe's first holiday season sales results were better than anything Trump touched with his disastrous economic stewardship in at least 3 out of his 4 years of the worst presidency of all time and quite probably beat all 4 of them.

Thank you, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

Wow ET, you are unbelievable! This latest rant tops your Jimmy Carter beat inflation rap. Things must be terribly boring in BKK for you to waste so much time with these hilarious narratives. Do you really think anyone takes them seriously?