American Politics

[Paulie97]

And we have no one else to blame but ourselves as we have created a system of government that has legalized payola in the form of lobbying and we continue to elect politicians from two parties that are completely vested into the corrupt system.

We are a country that values freedoms. That includes the first amendment and the right to make campaign contributions which relate to our interests. Calling it "corrupt" doesn't make it "corrupt. " You were right the first time though when you called it legal. There are though some disclosure requirements and limitations, and you are free to withhold support from candidates that accept $ from certain entities.

I mean in the past you've been in here supporting full on socialism in the way of worker cooperatives. The Crazy Bernies have had their chance at national politics. Better luck next time.

[ShooBree]

Perhaps you should have listened.

Even Democrats are acknowledging the fact that Biden's policies are bad for regular Americans.

Biden's a left wing extremist.

[Goatscrot]

Sorry, I can't speak to your "minted coin" reasoning. Simply put, most countries (or business for that matter) pay back debt, by taking-in more than they spend.

My point is there is really no debt. The "debt" so to speak is simply the amount of dollars in circulation that have not been taxed back. And if the so-called debt is denominated in your currency and you are the sole currency issuer then there is no reason that you cannot pay off that so-called debt at any point. And again there is no worry of hyperinflation as long as there is productive capacity. The US is nowhere near its productive capacity. Our problems in the United States are not a result of monetary policy, they are a result of fiscal policy. And we have no one else to blame but ourselves as we have created a system of government that has legalized payola in the form of lobbying and we continue to elect politicians from two parties that are completely vested into the corrupt system.

[Spidy]

Learn how modern fiat currencies work. A coin could be minted to pay off that "debt" at any time. The "debt" is simply the amount of currency in circulation that hasn't been taxed back. Taxes are really not necessary to pay for what most of the federal government spends. As long as there is productive capacity, natural resources and labor, there is no worry of hyperinflation.

Sorry, I can't speak to your "minted coin" reasoning. Simply put, most countries (or business for that matter) pay back debt, by taking-in more than they spend.

So no, China does not have the United States by the balls, not by any stretch of the imagination.

Okay, perhaps not just yet. Or it that they are just squeezing tighter?

And tariffs are simply passed on to the United States consumer. Whether we like it or not China is here to stay. We live in a multi-polar world now. And I would say that having one superpower has not been good for the planet. I am no fan of the CCP (China was actually much more open and less oppressive before the Xi regime), but 80% of the people who have been raised out of poverty in the last 30 years are Chinese. I do think for the United States and the world cooperative efforts will yield better results than antagonism.

This we can agree upon.

US Treasures are generally considered one of the safest bonds around in global investment markets. That is of course, while the world see still sees the US, as a stable country to invest in (for now).

Unstable US administrations, regimes and insurrections, like the one we just had, will only serve bolster countries like Russia and China to undermine our stability to repay our debt and the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.

[Goatscrot]

China, who owns an estimated $1. 1 trillion in USA Treasuries.

Inevitable! I'm just waiting for China to snap it's fingers!

Learn how modern fiat currencies work. A coin could be minted to pay off that "debt" at any time. The "debt" is simply the amount of currency in circulation that hasn't been taxed back. Taxes are really not necessary to pay for what most of the federal government spends. As long as there is productive capacity, natural resources and labor, there is no worry of hyperinflation. So no, China does not have the United States by the balls, not by any stretch of the imagination. And tariffs are simply passed on to the United States consumer. Whether we like it or not China is here to stay. We live in a multi-polar world now. And I would say that having one superpower has not been good for the planet. I am no fan of the CCP (China was actually much more open and less oppressive before the Xi regime), but 80% of the people who have been raised out of poverty in the last 30 years are Chinese. I do think for the United States and the world cooperative efforts will yield better results than antagonism.

[Spidy]

It is official that 3 liberal agencies call Trump worst ever even before he took office. Do I need to find 4 conservative agencies to explain how much worse Obama was? You probably believe CNN is not liberal will report Biden the same way they reported Trump.

Biden will be even worse than Obama based on his first 10 days. It should be a fun election in 2022👍.

The same can easily be said about "Foxy" News. Do you think they will report Biden the same way they reported "Agent Orange"?

But I'll give you this much, "Foxy" News, did inevitably come to their senses, w/r to the election results. FINALLY!

[Vagabundo1]

Bolsonaro is President until 2022!

Just sayin. Haha.

It is official that 3 liberal agencies call Trump worst ever even before he took office. Do I need to find 4 conservative agencies to explain how much worse Obama was? You probably believe CNN is not liberal will report Biden the same way they reported Trump.

Biden will be even worse than Obama based on his first 10 days. It should be a fun election in 2022👍.

[Golfinho]

Biden will be even worse than Obama based on his first 10 days. It should be a fun election in 2022.

All the Biden supporters must be enthralled by his choice for Assistant Secretary of Health. Maybe some here may even want to date 'her'. https://www.healthcareitnews.com/new...cretary-health.

[Spidy]

It is official that 3 liberal agencies call Trump worst ever even before he took office ...

Perhaps you should have listened.

[Travv]

Trump was breaking up the China trade where US jobs and factories were shipped overseas and the owners profited by using Chinese slave labor by firing their US workforce. Apple and Nike come to mind. Trump was jacking up the import taxes on Chinese goods, screwing up this profitable trade at the expense of American workers so he had to go. As Abraham Lincoln was also a strong advocate of import taxes to encourage US manufacturing jobs, he was also an advocate of US manufacturing goods in US factories using US workers, so this has a strong precedent in US history. But this benefits US workers and not the factory owners. China wanted him gone and so did the Establishment. Follow the money. Trump wasn't good, but he was better than Hillary or Jao Xiden. At least he wasn't a professional political parasite who lived off a government paycheck for most of his life. Looks like a bunch of Robinhood rebels are hitting the Big Guys on Wall Street this week. If they can't get a good paying job due to the China Covid shutdown and China taking US jobs, they can form wolf packs and hunt Hedgies on Gamestop. LOL.

China, who owns an estimated $1. 1 trillion in USA Treasuries.

Inevitable! I'm just waiting for China to snap it's fingers!

[Canada]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...d-worst-presi/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...nt-Of-All-Time

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/polit...sis/index.html

"Agent Orange", worst president in history. Even the, Republican Ex-Govenor "The Terminator", Arnold Schwarzenegger: Trump 'will go down in history as the worst president ever'. Well at least he got that right.

But according to "The Terminator", "Agent Orange", WON'T BE BACK. Kkkkkkkkkk!

It is official that 3 liberal agencies call Trump worst ever even before he took office. Do I need to find 4 conservative agencies to explain how much worse Obama was? You probably believe CNN is not liberal will report Biden the same way they reported Trump.

Biden will be even worse than Obama based on his first 10 days. It should be a fun election in 2022👍.

[Spidy]

A majority of Europeans believe America's political system is broken, that China will be the world's leading power within a decade, and that Joe Biden will be unable to halt his country's decline on the world stage, according to a report.

While many welcomed Biden's victory in November's US election, more Europeans than not feel that after four years of Donald Trump the US cannot be trusted, according to the study by the European Council on Foreign Relations.

"Europeans like Biden, but they don't think America will come back as a global leader," said the thinktank's director, Mark Leonard. "When George W Bush was president, they were divided about how America should use its power. With Biden entering the White House, they are divided about whether America has power at all."

The survey of 15,000 people in 11 European countries, conducted at the end of last year, found that the shift in European sentiment towards the US in the wake of the Trump presidency had led to a corresponding unwillingness to support Washington in potential international disputes.

At least half of respondents in all 11 countries surveyed felt, for example, that their government should remain neutral in any conflict between the US and China, while no more than 40% in any country said they would back Washington against Russia.

"It's clear that the tumultuous Trump presidency has left an indelible imprint on Europe's attitude towards the US," said Ivan Krastev, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, an NGO in Sofia, and an ECFR board member. "The majority of Europeans are now sceptical about the capacity of the US to shape the world. It makes many, rightly or wrongly, want to opt for a more independent role for the EU in the world."

In their report, Leonard and Krastev note that while more than 60% of those polled believed the US was "broken", most evaluated the EU and their own countries' systems much more positively an opportunity, they argue, to harness the collective power of the bloc for the benefit and protection of its citizens.

The survey found that 51% of those polled did not agree with the statement that under Biden the US was likely to resolve its internal divisions and seek to address international issues such as climate change, peace in the Middle East, relations with China or European security.

Amid a widespread sense of growing Chinese superiority, 79% of those polled in Spain, 72% in Portugal, 72% in Italy and 63% in France said they thought China would overtake the US as the world's leading superpower within the next decade.

Just over 32% of all respondents and a startling 53% of respondents in Germany felt that after voting for Trump, Americans could not be trusted. Only in Hungary and Poland did significantly more people disagree with that view than agree.

Just 10% of those polled saw the US as a "reliable" security partner that would always protect Europe, while at least 60% in every country polled said they doubted their country could depend on US support in the event of a crisis.

The authors say the geopolitical consequences of this shift are significant: two-thirds of those surveyed said it was now important that Europe look after its own defence, including 72% in Portugal, 71% in Sweden, 70% in France and 69% in Poland.

At least half of respondents in every country surveyed said they would prefer their government to be neutral in a conflict between the US and China. Across the 11 states surveyed, only 23% of respondents thought their country should take Washington's side against Russia, with 59% preferring to remain neutral.

Between 38% and 48% of respondents in seven countries thought the EU should adopt a tougher international stance on issues such as trade, taxation and regulation, while most countries considered Germany was now a more important country to "have a good relationship" with than the US.

The poll also revealed that in nine of the 11 countries Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden where the same question was asked in previous years, the average share of people saying the EU's political system worked very or fairly well had risen from 46% to 48%.

It found that people who believed their own national political system was working, which was more often the case in northern than in southern Europe, were more likely to say the EU was a success.

The report identified four "tribes" that went a long way to grouping respondents' positions, depending on whether they felt the EU, US or China were rising or declining. The biggest tribe, "In Europe we trust", comprised 35% of respondents, while only 9% belonged to "In America we trust".

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...de/ar-BB1cSkOB

China, who owns an estimated $1. 1 trillion in USA Treasuries.

Inevitable! I'm just waiting for China to snap it's fingers!

[Spidy]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...d-worst-presi/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...nt-Of-All-Time

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/polit...sis/index.html

"Agent Orange", worst president in history. Even the, Republican Ex-Govenor "The Terminator", Arnold Schwarzenegger: Trump 'will go down in history as the worst president ever'. Well at least he got that right.

But according to "The Terminator", "Agent Orange", WON'T BE BACK. Kkkkkkkkkk!

[Canada]

In Bidens first 10 days signed 28 executive orders when previous presidents did 3-7. Trump did 7 and CNN went ballistic with his abuse of power. Biden effectively in 10 days killed hundreds of thousands of jobs in the oil industry, pipelines and manufacturing. Biden response yesterday was: These hundreds of thousands of people will have better jobs in the future so just suffer and starve to death until the future. Biden does not realize we are living today and not in the future. Today he is bragging that he rejoined the Paris Peace Accord which strengthens China. In the Paris accord USA has to cut their emissions by about 3% per year which they pretty much have been doing in the past 5 years. Total world emissions for USA is currently about 13%. China currently is at 26%. USA has to cut by 3% per year. China and India do not have to cut. In fact they can increase as much as they want until 2030. So if USA cuts their emissions by 50% by 2030 (Biden wants 70%) USA will produce 7% of the world emissions. China will increase to about 40% and India will increase another 10%. So by 2030 the world emissions will be about 120% of what they are today. USA will have hurt the energy business, steel business, car manufactures and almost 50% of the industries to accomplish nothing. Since India and China do not have to start cutting until 2030 they may actually double or triple their emissions by 2030 so they can start cutting by 3% in 2031.

I agree their is a place for green energy in the future by why do we want to ruin the lives of millions of USA citizens.

[ScatManDoo]

You are kidding right? You can't fix stupid.

That's why TrunpShip was mocked so much by educated journalists.