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01-24-22 05:44 #6163
Posts: 1604What are the fascists for?
Speaking for an impressive 1 hour and 51 minutes, President Joe Biden delivered the question that should define the rest of 2022, "What are Republicans for?
For the first year of the Biden presidency, Republicans have been able to universally oppose the Biden agenda while escaping scrutiny to offer alternatives. It's hardly surprising for a political party that didn't even bother to write a party platform at their last political convention. But the media's penchant for diving head-first into "Democrats in disarray" narratives while so casually accepting GOP obstructionism is a tremendous disservice to the American people.
You cannot chronicle the Biden administration's perceived shortcomings addressing COVID-19 without first acknowledging the context that the Republican Party has done anything and everything possible to sabotage life-saving health care initiatives and promote misinformation.
You cannot report on efforts to protect voting rights in America without first talking about the 19 states that have enacted new voting restriction laws or the unanimous opposition from Republicans in Congress to measures that would shore up the right to vote.
You cannot chastise the president for not having enough news conferences or doing enough interviews without pointing out that "the former guy" told more than 30,000 lies in four years.
When you look at some of the takeaways that followed the president's news conference, it's not hard to understand why he does so few of them.
Politico led with the headline "Biden breaks up with Bernie." In actuality, Biden was answering a loaded question about trying to "pull the country so far to the left." What he said was, "you guys have been trying to convince me that I am Bernie Sanders. I'm not. I like him, but I'm not Bernie Sanders. I'm not a socialist. I'm a mainstream Democrat, and I have been. " On what planet is that a breakup?
The Washington Post's "analysis" was headlined, "Biden's marathon Q&A forces White House to play cleanup – twice. " The so-called cleanup centered on the president saying out loud what everyone around the world knows to be true about the situation between Russia and Ukraine and acknowledging the obvious reality that the Republican Party's efforts to sabotage democracy may in fact impact the legitimacy of elections to come.
Who deserves more scrutiny?
I guess the media would prefer that next time Biden just flat-out lies to them. Do they really miss President Donald Trump that much?
Biden and Democrats have offered the American people an ambitious and robust policy agenda. One so popular that Republicans such as Rep. Ashley Hinson are taking credit for its successes despite voting against them.
Looking ahead to the coming year and the midterm election, the media should not allow Republicans to get away with just saying "no" to everything and anything. Rather than fixate on two senators in the Democratic Caucus, maybe spend some time looking at the 50 who have an "are" next to their name.
Rather than labeling the Democratic agenda as too far "left," maybe ask the Republicans to produce their own alternatives. Rather than parsing the truthful words of a president acting in good faith, maybe pay more attention to the avalanche of lies being told every single day by the GOP. Rather than clinging to the outdated notion of "both sides," maybe adapt to the times and start calling things as they are, rather than how you wish they were.
Ask yourself, who deserves more scrutiny: a president who acts with integrity, sincerity and honesty or the party that believes the free press is the "enemy of the people."
The fascists believe that it is the former and not the latter.
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01-24-22 05:02 #6162
Posts: 1604Evidence?
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
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01-24-22 03:34 #6161
Posts: 5490Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
But you certainly made your point that presidents do indeed create or destroy jobs and can produce and preside over Great Recessions or avert and avoid them.
Far from being mere refs, Presidents are stewards of the economy. They propose what goes or does not go into budgets and legislation. They lay out full economic agendas.
Of course, it is then up to Congress to go with it or reject it. And history clearly shows when Repub presidents largely get their way, as Reagan did in his first year in office, what follows is economic disaster and all too often a Great Recession vs when Dem presidents largely get their way, as happened for FDR, LBJ, Clinton, Obama and even Biden so far, what follows is historic jobs creation, economic expansion and, guess what, no Great Recessions.
Presidents are faced with dozens of economic decisions on proposals and plans every day that can either lead to more jobs created and economic expansion for the country or to jobs destruction and economic contraction.
The actual historical data and record of results of at least the past 100 years show Dem presidents overwhelmingly choose to support and promote the former while Repub presidents, including Reagan, overwhelmingly choose to support and promote the latter.
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01-24-22 02:07 #6160
Posts: 1604The only thing that is fabricated is
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
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01-24-22 02:06 #6159
Posts: 428Your posts prove it
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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01-23-22 23:10 #6158
Posts: 428Biden and I
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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01-23-22 22:10 #6157
Posts: 1604Forrest Gump was correct
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
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01-23-22 21:56 #6156
Posts: 1977More lies
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that over half of Americans (56%) support the Build Back Better Framework, but that support is primarily driven by Democrats. Eighty-three percent of Democrats support the plan, while only 28% of Republicans do. However, although support for the plan is split along party lines, individual components of the plan garner high support from all Americans. Expanding Medicare coverage gets the most support (80%), followed by imposing a 5% tax on incomes of over $10 million a year (70%), and universal preschool (69%). Investing in the immigration system (53%) and imposing a 15% minimum corporate tax (56%) are least supported, with the lack of support primarily from Republicans. Finally, 57% think Americans would be positively impacted, and a majority think they would personally benefit from the bill being passed.
The sample includes 449 Democrats, 381 Republicans, and 91 independents.
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01-23-22 21:09 #6155
Posts: 428Hunter Biden
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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01-23-22 21:07 #6154
Posts: 42870% is a made up number
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
52 senators got it right and the American people are grateful.
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01-23-22 21:01 #6153
Posts: 1977It's scary, but he might be right about it.
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Despite the litany of criminal charges that should've been brought against Trump already, he's yet to be charged with anything.
I mean, just his RECORDED phone conversation with Georgia officials when he's OPENLY PRESSING them to change the votes in his favor -- how can it possibly NOT be criminal, for fuck's sake? That's a third world territory.
It's impossible to believe that anyone other than Trump could've blatantly committed so many criminal offences, one after another, in broad daylight and gotten away with it. Who's Teflon Don now?
Mindboggling, really.
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01-23-22 20:56 #6152
Posts: 1604There you go again
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
You can howl at the moon all you want but the House Committee will hold public hearings and those hearings will prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the one-term, twice-impeached former guy tried to stage a coup. The fact that he and his henchmen were incompetent will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody.
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01-23-22 20:51 #6151
Posts: 1604And yet
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
Of course, since the poll contradicts the narrative for the fascists, they will say that polls don't mean anything. What they really mean is that polls they don't agree with don't mean anything. Polls that they agree with are valid.
In fact, 50 RethugliKKKan Senators represent something less than 25% of the American people.
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01-23-22 19:51 #6150
Posts: 2344Donald Trump is a criminal and he belongs in jail
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
You are right that TrumpShit is going down no matter what.
But Ivanka turned 40 years old last year, and the rest of her life is with her same-age husband, not some 75 year old hamburgler.
Ivanka and Jerod ran as fast as possible from TrumpShit.
I don't think they have been in the same room since they fled soon after the failed coup.
Ivanka & Jared have a simple choice (I think they made it in January right after Ivanka tried to talk daddy down from his glee over the rioting).
TrumpShit will definitely drag Ivanka down with the corruption of The Trump Oganization's frauds.
Unless she breaks free.
Any good student of Grandpa Fred Trump and Roy Cohn know that when someone's becomes a problem.
You best dump them in the gutter.
Or prison, where they can no longer hurt you.
There never was any room in the Kosher home that Jared and Ivanka keep.
Just room for the kids, that need both of their parents.
Jared is a lifelong democrat that gave money when Hilary ran in 2008.
That was the year where Jared gave his endorsement to Barack Obama in his campaign against John McCain.
Ivanka is a real Trump. She demands loyalty.
But doesn't give any if it costs.
Donald Trump is a criminal and he belongs in jail, with Ivanka's help, or not.
Ivanka is going to help herself.
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01-23-22 18:55 #6149
Posts: 428Thank you 50 republicans and 2 democrats
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]