American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Bangladesh and Pakistan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/w...mran-kahn.html

They are trying to turn us into a 3rd world shithole, just look at the southern border.

[EihTooms]

"Biden was justifiably angry. He was referring to a border issue. He got the leader's name right but obviously had the border with Mexico on his mind as well, likely from having just engaged in a few hours working on convincing Open Borders Repubs to finally fund the border protections they have been squealing like stuck pigs about for years.

A one word misspeak like the one Biden made happens with professional media hosts reading a teleprompter every 30 minutes.

Now, if Biden had said, "Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico" without even noticing he got it wrong, I would worry about his mental capacity.

If Biden had said, "I talked to the Covfefe of Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico", then I would say he is ready for the loony bin today.

The longtime hardcore Trumpster Repub Special Prosecutor did not indict Joe Biden because Joe Biden did not ignore a subpoena to give back the relatively few classified documents his staff packed, did not defiantly and criminally announce, "They are MINE! They belong to ME"! He did not then try to hide them. He did not then suggest anyone else hide them. Joe Biden, unlike Trump, is too lucid, too aware, too cognitively competent to do something that ridiculously stupid in the first place or as spectacularly stupid as to think he could get away with it in the second place.

It's pretty simple really.

Re your link; Who the hell would listen to Kudlow regarding anything related to the economy, much less anyone affiliated with Breitbart appearing on Kudlow supposedly knowledgeable about the economy? Lolol.

If only they could have found Trump wandering aimlessly around the nearest KFC kitchen and led him by the hand to the studio, that would have represented a Historic Summit Meeting of Economic Ignoramuses.

President Drink Bleach says what? Trump now claims he beat George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Trump was already dumb, but he's getting worse yet MAGA doesn't care. The press should cover his decline anyway.

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/27/dri...-barack-obama/

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Biden was justifiably angry. He was referring to a border issue. He got the leader's name right but obviously had the border with Mexico on his mind as well, likely from having just engaged in a few hours working on convincing Open Borders Repubs to finally fund the border protections they have been squealing like stuck pigs about for years.

A one word misspeak like the one Biden made happens with professional media hosts reading a teleprompter every 30 minutes.

Now, if Biden had said, "Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico" without even noticing he got it wrong, I would worry about his mental capacity.

If Biden had said, "I talked to the Covfefe of Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico", then I would say he is ready for the loony bin today.

But he didn't.

Also, by stark contrast, Nancy or is it Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Trump and his numbskull kids have in just the past 1-2 years admitted under Oath that "I don't recall" well over 100 times among them on critical legal questions, not just 2-3 times.

I love that a lifelong Repub Special Prosecutor Trump administration appointee has put a partisan Repub James Comey-style inapproriate political spin out there to the effect that a "Well-meaning, sympathetic old Dem with a poor memory" can and has whipped the piss out of every Repub so-called potus in history on economic, national security, lower crime, jobs creation, wage growth, GDP Growth and Stock Market Gains results. Lolol. ".

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...prosecute-him/

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Does anyone still have any doubts about MAGA's dick-sucking priorities?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/o...s-ukraine.html".

MAGA Republicans' hatred and contempt for Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian cause is shockingly vehement. Candace Owens says she wants to "punch" Zelensky. Donald Trump Jr. Calls him an "international welfare queen. " Carlson says he dresses "like the manager of a strip club. " It's all bizarre and unreasonable. And it all fits the broader MAGA narrative.

Let's break it down, step by step. First, if you're stumped by the notion that Ukraine is a villain, you may need reminding of a conspiracy theory that is now largely forgotten but was prevalent on the right at the time of Donald Trump's first impeachment. In his infamous conversation with Zelensky — the one that triggered the impeachment — Trump asked Zelensky about a "CrowdStrike" server allegedly being held in Ukraine.

This is a reference to a longstanding MAGA claim that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered with the 2016 election. There's no evidence of any kind to support the allegation, and Trump's own advisers repeatedly debunked it. But my Times colleague Scott Shane described how the theory gained purchase on the right nonetheless. "On 4 chan and pro-Trump spaces on Reddit, on websites like ZeroHedge.com and Washington's Blog," he wrote in 2019, "you can find plenty of speculation about evil manipulation by CrowdStrike and secret maneuvers by Ukrainians — often inflamed by Mr. Trump's own statements. ".

Combine that claim with the fact that Hunter Biden had a lucrative business relationship with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and MAGA found itself with the perfect villain to counter the Trump-Russia narrative. Trump wasn't in bed with a hostile power in Russia; the Democrats were in bed with a hostile power in Ukraine.

But it goes further still. To MAGA, Putin isn't just innocent; he's admirable. Heroic, even, in some ways. He isn't defined as an authoritarian dictator at the helm of one of America's chief geopolitical rivals. No, he's defined as an anti-woke leader who defends Christian civilization by taking on the decadent West.

In a 2017 speech at Hillsdale College, the Claremont Institute's Christopher Caldwell declared that if "we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time. " In Caldwell's words, Putin "is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. ".

In 2021, The American Conservative's Rod Dreher praised a Putin speech condemning the West and said that Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban were "completely clear and completely correct on the society-destroying nature of wokeness and postliberal leftism. " (It should be noted that Dreher has nonetheless unequivocally condemned Putin's invasion.) A 2022 exchange between Steve Bannon and Erik Prince, the founder of private military contractor Blackwater, was even more illustrative. Bannon hosted Prince on his podcast shortly after Putin's invasion and proclaimed Putin "anti-woke. " Prince replied supportively that the people of Russia "still know which bathroom to use. " And Bannon kept the thought alive, asking, "How many genders are there in Russia?

Jordan Peterson, meanwhile, went so far as to imply that Russia's aggressive attack may have been merely self-defense against the threat of Western cultural decadence. The culture war, he mused, may be "serious enough to increase the probability that Russia, say, will be motivated to invade and potentially incapacitate Ukraine merely to keep the pathological West out of that country, which is a key part of the historically Russian sphere of influence. ".

There is an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Ideally, the phrase means that Americans set aside their domestic differences to address foreign threats to the nation. But in this hyperpolarized era, the far right gets this equation precisely backward. They are aiding Vladimir Putin because they see him, too, as opposed to their domestic enemies.

Before the war, MAGA's combination of hostility toward Ukraine and admiration of Putin created a very particular narrative: Rugged, manly, traditional Russia was physically and spiritually stronger than the liberalizing West, and it would roll over Ukraine with only token resistance. Indeed, before the war, Ted Cruz shared a tweet in which he contrasted Russian and American military ads. The USA Ad, he claimed, showed our military to be "woke" and "emasculated. " But the Russian ad reeked of masculine aggression. How could the West — let alone tiny Ukraine — stand against such manly men?

[Elvis 2008]

Does anyone still have any doubts about MAGA's dick-sucking priorities? As I type this newsletter, continued American aid for Ukraine is in grave doubt. Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to conduct a friendly interview with Vladimir Putin. And were receiving reports from the front lines that Russia is advancing, in part because of Ukrainian ammunition shortages. In short, the war is reaching a critical stage, and Ukraine may lose because Republicans are willing to hand authoritarian Russia a historic military victory rather than supply further aid to a democratic ally.

Oh, I see. If Ukraine wins, it is because of Democrats. If it loses, it is due to Republicans. This is what I mean about being a Democratic douche.

So the interview had not even happened, but the NY Times called it "friendly". This is the paper that likes to call itself the paper of record literally being douche like and commenting on something that had not even happened as fact.

And if you are a Democratic douche, you do not need to see this interview. You do not need to listen to Putin. We will tell you what to think about Putin. You are a MAGA POS loser if you actually listen to Putin and make up your own mind about what he said. You can ignore the whole thing because it is "friendly". It is propaganda. We the NYT will tell you what to think.

Of course, I watched the interview. Tucker brought up Nordstream and who Putin thought blew it up. He did not say. He said look at who is capable and who said they would. Of course, he meant the USA. He then said of Germany that it is paying through the nose for LNG versus getting gas from Russia. The economic sanctions that were supposed to be so effective have hurt Germany more than Russia and Russia has overtaken Germany as Europe's largest economy. https://www.intellinews.com/russia-o...-basis-286944/#text=Looking%20 at%20 GDP%20 in%20 PPP, in%20 Europe%2 see%20 worth%20%245.3%20 trillion.

And Russia was supposed to be hurting so.

Then of course, there was the dollar, the basis for American power. Putin cannot believe that the dollar, the cornerstone of American power, is being tossed away. He said Russia has gone from doing 50% of its transactions in dollars to 13%. For those of us who understand economics, we want there always to be a high demand for the dollar. Putin is asking why are you messing with that demand.

What I see is Americans losing. I see Germans losing. I see Russians losing. I see Ukrainians losing. The only winners I see are neocons and the American military industrial complex. They have won and are winning. And they are trying to convince everyone that victory over Russia, whatever that means, is worth the price, any price, so they can keep on winning.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Biden was justifiably angry. He was referring to a border issue. He got the leader's name right but obviously had the border with Mexico on his mind as well, likely from having just engaged in a few hours working on convincing Open Borders Repubs to finally fund the border protections they have been squealing like stuck pigs about for years.

A one word misspeak like the one Biden made happens with professional media hosts reading a teleprompter every 30 minutes.

Now, if Biden had said, "Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico" without even noticing he got it wrong, I would worry about his mental capacity.

If Biden had said, "I talked to the Covfefe of Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico", then I would say he is ready for the loony bin today.

But he didn't.

Also, by stark contrast, Nancy or is it Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Trump and his numbskull kids have in just the past 1-2 years admitted under Oath that "I don't recall" well over 100 times among them on critical legal questions, not just 2-3 times.

I love that a lifelong Repub Special Prosecutor Trump administration appointee has put a partisan Repub James Comey-style inapproriate political spin out there to the effect that a "Well-meaning, sympathetic old Dem with a poor memory" can and has whipped the piss out of every Repub so-called potus in history on economic, national security, lower crime, jobs creation, wage growth, GDP Growth and Stock Market Gains results. Lolol. ".

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...utm_term=third

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...tm_term=second

LMFAO.

[EihTooms]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonio...h=4d85fbfa7f83

Like they do on the farm!!

Biden was justifiably angry. He was referring to a border issue. He got the leader's name right but obviously had the border with Mexico on his mind as well, likely from having just engaged in a few hours working on convincing Open Borders Repubs to finally fund the border protections they have been squealing like stuck pigs about for years.

A one word misspeak like the one Biden made happens with professional media hosts reading a teleprompter every 30 minutes.

Now, if Biden had said, "Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico" without even noticing he got it wrong, I would worry about his mental capacity.

If Biden had said, "I talked to the Covfefe of Mexico Mexico Mexico Mexico", then I would say he is ready for the loony bin today.

But he didn't.

Also, by stark contrast, Nancy or is it Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Trump and his numbskull kids have in just the past 1-2 years admitted under Oath that "I don't recall" well over 100 times among them on critical legal questions, not just 2-3 times.

I love that a lifelong Repub Special Prosecutor Trump administration appointee has put a partisan Repub James Comey-style inapproriate political spin out there to the effect that a "Well-meaning, sympathetic old Dem with a poor memory" can and has whipped the piss out of every Repub so-called potus in history on economic, national security, lower crime, jobs creation, wage growth, GDP Growth and Stock Market Gains results. Lolol.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Well, now that is very interesting considering Trump's Tariffs didn't do one good thing for the USA economy any more than his $2+Trillion deficit addition TCJA created more jobs with it than without it or his defunding and removal of the Pandemic Prevention and Response teams from those Chinese labs 5 months before the first Covid cases emerged there or his lying about it in sync with Xi's wishes all through 2020 did.

But after Biden and the Dems proposed, fought for and passed the American Rescue Plan, the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure DECADE, along with supporting Union AND Non Union jobs, wage gains, all producing more jobs and wage gains under Bidenomic than under any Repub or two even three Repubs of the past 100 years or so ever produced in their entire so-called presidencies as well as lowering crime was in some way due to the extra consumer tax every American had to pay in tariffs Trump stupidly imposed that drove the USA Agriculture and Manufacturing industries into recession even before Trump's Pandemic Mass Murdered a million Americans and wiped out Tens on Millons of jobs?

LOL. Good thinking. Trump must have come up with that idiocy for you, right?

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...report-harris/

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonio...h=4d85fbfa7f83

Like they do on the farm!!

[EihTooms]

Agreed.

Yes, revisionist history, lies, innuendo, obfuscation, fake impeachments, falsehoods, false equivalencies, projection, fake "photoshopped" Hunter Biden texts messages by Bryon Donald (R-FL), Taylor Swift boogeyman/women, purple dinosaurs/Teletubbie culture wars and QAnon conspiracies is all they have left, in that proverbial "political fuel tank"..

Take the one of the latest Trump fueled, fake-ass and staged stunts he pulled, when trying to rival President Joe Biden's success and solidarity win, with the UAW labour strikes. Note, this was the very 1st time a sitting US President had ever jointed the picket-line of striking auto workers, which had a whooping support of 75% of Americans.

So naturally and not wanting to be outdone, but true to form, as he's done in the past, fraudster Trump pays for "kabuki theater" style auto union rally.

New campaign finance filings, show Trump paid $20,000 to the nonunion auto parts plant (MI) Sept 27, 2023, he used to stage the event and had NON-UNION WORKERS and ACTORS, to hold up signs to pretending to be union workers. Many of the fake signs said "union members for Trump" and "auto workers for Trump" and all of the people interviewed, holding the signs, turned out to be neither.

Trump and Repubs, are just simply a fake, embarrassing and dangerous cult!

Trump paying actors to pretend to support him goes back to the very beginning of his Trump Brand Infomercial so-called presidential run.

Your example:

Trump paid $20,000 to rent plant for fake union auto worker event: filing.
Feb 5, 2024

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-paid-20...061218337.html

And in the beginning:

Donald Trump reportedly paid actors $50 to cheer for him at his 2016 announcement.
June 18, 2015

https://www.businessinsider.com/paid...ncement-2015-6

Trump knew from his years as a teleprompter-reading fake successful businessman game show host that if you falsely portray yourself as popular or highly regarded among at least some people somewhere and often enough there is a good chance the most gullible, lonely, weak-minded rubes out there will eventually consider you their lord and savior.

[Xpartan]

Originally Posted by Elvis2008
But this is just Xpartan and his Democratic name calling brain at work. If you are against the billions being poured down the drain in Ukraine, your sole reason for wanting that according to him is you love Putin and want to suck his dick.

Does anyone still have any doubts about MAGA's dick-sucking priorities?

Why MAGA Loves Russia and Hates Ukraine

As I type this newsletter, continued American aid for Ukraine is in grave doubt. Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to conduct a friendly interview with Vladimir Putin. And were receiving reports from the front lines that Russia is advancing, in part because of Ukrainian ammunition shortages. In short, the war is reaching a critical stage, and Ukraine may lose because Republicans are willing to hand authoritarian Russia a historic military victory rather than supply further aid to a democratic ally.

Ronald Reagan isnt just rolling over in his grave; he may also lurch from it in a fit of incredulous rage. This is a remarkable and potentially catastrophic reversal by a political party that is in a state of near-total, frequently random ideological transformation.

To explain the intensity of Republican resistance to Ukraine aid, I need to return to a concept I wrote about in November: that of bespoke realities. My friend Rene DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, coined the term, and she wrote that it refers to the bubble realities constructed by communities that operate with their own norms, media, trusted authorities and frameworks of facts.

Among those who oppose aid to Ukraine, there are certainly several paleoconservatives who object on classic isolationist grounds: Its not our fight, our support is costly, we might find ourselves inadvertently embroiled in war, and so on. But the mass Republican movement against Ukraine is rooted far less in policy than it is in a particular bespoke reality of the MAGA universe, in which Ukraine is a pernicious villain, Putin is a flawed hero and Russia should have crushed Ukraine long ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/o...s-ukraine.html

[Spidy]

More Trump Revisionist History? AKA Lies? ...

But after Biden and the Dems proposed, fought for and passed the American Rescue Plan, the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure DECADE, along with supporting Union AND Non Union jobs, wage gains, all producing more jobs and wage gains under Bidenomic than under any Repub or two even three Repubs of the past 100 years or so ever produced in their entire so-called presidencies as well as lowering crime was in some way due to the extra consumer tax every American had to pay in tariffs Trump stupidly imposed that drove the USA Agriculture and Manufacturing industries into recession even before Trump's Pandemic Mass Murdered a million Americans and wiped out Tens on Millons of jobs?

LOL. Good thinking. Trump must have come up with that idiocy for you, right?

Agreed.

Yes, revisionist history, lies, innuendo, obfuscation, fake impeachments, falsehoods, false equivalencies, projection, fake "photoshopped" Hunter Biden texts messages by Bryon Donald (R-FL), Taylor Swift boogeyman/women, purple dinosaurs/Teletubbie culture wars and QAnon conspiracies is all they have left, in that proverbial "political fuel tank"..

Take the one of the latest Trump fueled, fake-ass and staged stunts he pulled, when trying to rival President Joe Biden's success and solidarity win, with the UAW labour strikes. Note, this was the very 1st time a sitting US President had ever jointed the picket-line of striking auto workers, which had a whooping support of 75% of Americans.

So naturally and not wanting to be outdone, but true to form, as he's done in the past, fraudster Trump pays for "kabuki theater" style auto union rally.

New campaign finance filings, show Trump paid $20,000 to the nonunion auto parts plant (MI) [Sept 27, 2023], he used to stage the event and had NON-UNION WORKERS and ACTORS, to hold up signs to pretending to be union workers. Many of the fake signs said "union members for Trump" and "auto workers for Trump" and all of the people interviewed, holding the signs, turned out to be neither.

Trump and Repubs, are just simply a fake, embarrassing and dangerous cult!

[EihTooms]

"You're now arguing that Chinese tariffs imposed on Chinese imports brought down Inflation / Prices on those goods their / there and that saved the USA economy?

I'm not even sure what to put into a Google Search to find out what the hell you are talking about and where the hell you picked up such an idea.

Is that a new mentally deranged Twisty Repub Trump concoction to revise the historical fact that his economic and national security policies and stewardship produced the worst results of all time?

Yes saved the USA from a horrible mentally defective Scumbag Joe / Democrat recession.

As did Manchin blocking BBB.

Well, now that is very interesting considering Trump's Tariffs didn't do one good thing for the USA economy any more than his $2+Trillion deficit addition TCJA created more jobs with it than without it or his defunding and removal of the Pandemic Prevention and Response teams from those Chinese labs 5 months before the first Covid cases emerged there or his lying about it in sync with Xi's wishes all through 2020 did.

But after Biden and the Dems proposed, fought for and passed the American Rescue Plan, the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure DECADE, along with supporting Union AND Non Union jobs, wage gains, all producing more jobs and wage gains under Bidenomic than under any Repub or two even three Repubs of the past 100 years or so ever produced in their entire so-called presidencies as well as lowering crime was in some way due to the extra consumer tax every American had to pay in tariffs Trump stupidly imposed that drove the USA Agriculture and Manufacturing industries into recession even before Trump's Pandemic Mass Murdered a million Americans and wiped out Tens on Millons of jobs?

LOL. Good thinking. Trump must have come up with that idiocy for you, right?

[MarquisdeSade1]

"You're now arguing that Chinese tariffs imposed on Chinese imports brought down Inflation / Prices on those goods their / there and that saved the USA economy?

I'm not even sure what to put into a Google Search to find out what the hell you are talking about and where the hell you picked up such an idea.

Is that a new mentally deranged Twisty Repub Trump concoction to revise the historical fact that his economic and national security policies and stewardship produced the worst results of all time?

Yes saved the USA from a horrible mentally defective Scumbag Joe / Democrat recession.

As did Manchin blocking BBB.

[EihTooms]

"You do know that it is the American consumer who ultimately pays those Failed Loser Trump Trade War Trump Tariffs, right?

It is not Indians in India or the Chinese in China who ultimately pay those Trump / Repub hyper inflated prices.

Who Really Pays the Tariffs? USA Firms and Consumers, Through Higher Prices.

Dec. 15,2021.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-really-pays-tariffs/

Oh, Tariffs can be imposed without crippling the domestic economy or reducing jobs creation if the accompanying economic legislation and stewardship is sterling, brilliant, highly effective enough to override the damage done by them. Shhh. Don't tell Larry Summers about that. It would crush him.

Biden / the Dems have been able to manage that result.

Trump / the Repubs did not. And never will. It is simply beyond a Repub's grasp to know how to do that and do it. ".

What do we know?

We know all of you evil mofos hate the USA.

Like you, you haven't stepped a toe inside the USA in 12+ yrs and never plan on returning (if I was president your citizenship would be revoked).

You're now arguing that Chinese tariffs imposed on Chinese imports brought down Inflation / Prices on those goods their / there and that saved the USA economy?

I'm not even sure what to put into a Google Search to find out what the hell you are talking about and where the hell you picked up such an idea.

Is that a new mentally deranged Twisty Repub Trump concoction to revise the historical fact that his economic and national security policies and stewardship produced the worst results of all time?