American Politics

[QUOTE=Travv;2662083]Washington, D. C. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was surprised to learn last week that black representation is very important to President Biden. This comes after Biden previously attempted to block Thomas's nomination while viciously attempting to destroy his life and reputation.

"Black representation matters, folks!" said Biden to a group of journalists outside the White House. "I have always been extremely passionate about black people being judges on, um, courts and stuff. It's all I've dreamt about since I was a young boy on the tough streets of Baltimore!

When asked about how he felt about Clarance Thomas being on the court despite his best efforts, Biden replied: "Who?" before reaching down to sniff his pet cat which he had mistaken for a very small child.

Thomas, who had been smeared over sexual harassment claims that were never actually filed, was humiliated on live TV by Joe Biden who, at the time was a 49-year-old balding racist serving in the senate. Biden turned the confirmation hearing into a circus because he disagreed with Clarence Thomas' views on a few things.

"I can't rightfully vote for someone who thinks babies deserve to live," said Biden at the time. "Plus, you're a black! Whoever heard of such an outlandish idea as a black on the court! I vote nay!

Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a woman of color to the court yesterday, and promised to pick someone "clean and articulate."[/QUOTE]Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit that should have been put on trial rather than nominated to SCOTUS. Uncle Thomas- Uncle Tom for short.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2662141]Polls show the public's rating of Biden's handling of the economy is at a record low. Biden's overall approval rating has plummeted. Forty-five percent of Americans say inflation has put a strain on household finances.

The Federal Reserve is expected to raise its target interest rate in March, months earlier than market watchers thought last year. Swaps prices prior to the release of consumer prices on Thursday implied about a twenty-five percent chance that the Fed will raise its target by two notches, a half a percentage point, at the March meeting, breaking the recent pattern of raising the target by just one-quarter of a percentage point at each meeting. After the release, the odds of a half-point hike jumped to 44 percent. Fed watchers are also debating how many times the Fed will hike rates, with swaps prices now implying at least three and perhaps four hikes this year. Many analysts, however, increasingly think the Fed will hike five to seven times this year as inflation proves less tractable than officials believed.[/QUOTE]Polls Shmoles.

Out here in one of California's retirement villages.

The villagers have been screaming that the interest rates on their savings grow from. 15% to over 2%.

Seems like financial-type things are returning more to normal under senior Joe Biden.

Thank god.

[QUOTE=Travv;2662083]Washington, D. C. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was surprised to learn last week that black representation is very important to President Biden. This comes after Biden previously attempted to block Thomas's nomination while viciously attempting to destroy his life and reputation.

"Black representation matters, folks!" said Biden to a group of journalists outside the White House. "I have always been extremely passionate about black people being judges on, um, courts and stuff. It's all I've dreamt about since I was a young boy on the tough streets of Baltimore!

When asked about how he felt about Clarance Thomas being on the court despite his best efforts, Biden replied: "Who?" before reaching down to sniff his pet cat which he had mistaken for a very small child.

Thomas, who had been smeared over sexual harassment claims that were never actually filed, was humiliated on live TV by Joe Biden who, at the time was a 49-year-old balding racist serving in the senate. Biden turned the confirmation hearing into a circus because he disagreed with Clarence Thomas' views on a few things.

"I can't rightfully vote for someone who thinks babies deserve to live," said Biden at the time. "Plus, you're a black! Whoever heard of such an outlandish idea as a black on the court! I vote nay!

Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a woman of color to the court yesterday, and promised to pick someone "clean and articulate.[/QUOTE]I am sure that Joe Boden's opposition to Clarence Uncle Tom's appointment to the Supreme Court.

Was because he didn't want a bad lawyer on the bench.

Thomas is bottom half.

[QUOTE=Travv;2662083]Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a woman of color to the court yesterday, and promised to pick someone "clean and articulate."[/QUOTE]As long as she "Speaks Well" the RNCult might not censure her.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662192]What's your point? Did you really think we'the get through a pandemic that's killed almost a million Americans without similar economic catastrophic events? SERIOUSLY? BTW, Harry Truman had a 22% favorability rating in October of 1948. Ask Thomas Dewey how that worked out for him.[/QUOTE]Even worse than the Pandemic for the inflation is the $2 trillion tax cuts gifts Trump unconditionally gave to his billionaire friends for absolutely no reason at all.

Here you go: here is some money, it's free.

Not surprisingly, every time the crackpots read or hear about these $2 billions, they pretend to be blind and deaf.

Huh, huh, what's that?

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662197]Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit that should have been put on trial rather than nominated to SCOTUS. Uncle Thomas- Uncle Tom for short.[/QUOTE]The point is that while Biden voted against Thomas, he was responsible for shutting down Anita Hill's testimony. That clenched the POS Thomas' confirmation.

In other words, Biden enabled one of the worst justices ever. I don't know what crackpots are complaining about, corrupt judges are their thing.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662195]Only an uneducated idiot thinks an American President has control over oil prices.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/675589[/URL]

The oil embargo struck in October of 1973. In November of 1973, Nixon signed the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act which further regulated oil prices. The Act created a two-tiered pricing system. "Old oil" those wells drilled before 1973 had a price ceiling of $5. 25 a barrel ($19.44 in 2011 dollars). "New oil" was defined as oil from wells that began operation after 1972, or production from old wells above the wells' 1972 production levels. The price of new oil could be as high as $11 per barrel ($40.74 per barrel in 2011 dollars), close to the world price at the time of roughly $12 per barrel ($44.44).

Who is the idiot now? Congratulations, Sammy, you earn the title of DD.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662192]What's your point? Did you really think we'the get through a pandemic that's killed almost a million Americans without similar economic catastrophic events? SERIOUSLY? BTW, Harry Truman had a 22% favorability rating in October of 1948. Ask Thomas Dewey how that worked out for him.[/QUOTE]Winger Repubs always pretend to be angered and exasperated over the fact that these Great Dem Recoveries from Great Repub Crashes and Recessions are never as smooth sailing and hassle-free as their beloved Great Repub Crashes and Recessions go.

Gee, it seemed so easy for Hoover, Reagan, Bush2 and Trump to plunge the economy into a spectacular downturn, why can't the Dems clean up the Repub mess and get us back to normal better, faster, easier and without it costing anybody anything the way their Repub counterparts always assure us they could do it but never, ever do? As FDR so eloquently pointed out about his idiot Repub adversaries once upon a time.

Or maybe they really are so stupid to be genuinely angered and exasperated over such a thing and aren't pretending at all.

I remember when Obama-Biden and the Dems were pulling us out of the spectacular mess of a downturn produced by classic failed Repub policies and stewardship at the hands of Bush2 and his fellow Repubs. It was a slower Great Dem Recovery from a Great Repub Crash and Recession than previous ones because that time around the Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repubs did not merely largely get out of the way and let the Dems handle it.

No, that time around Moscow Mitch decided the most advantageous political strategy for their side with the first black man in the Oval Office was to obstruct, impede, slow-walk and thwart every known and proven effective recovery effort by Obama and the Dems in as close to total Repub unanimity as is possible for the Party.

And, politically, it did work for them as witnessed by the worst possible outcome of imo the most critical election in the past couple of decades, the 2010 Midterms. Lousy for the country, but a great political strategy for the Repub Party. As would have to be the case, of course.

But it took an astonishing summit of ignorance and arrogance for Repubs to spend nearly all 8 of the Obama-Biden administration years belly-aching about the Dems' still amazing historical Recovery from what was in those pre-Trump days the worst Great Repub Crash and Recession since the Hoover years because it was "the slowest" Great Dem Recovery lately! LOL.

If you listen closely, you'll still hear idiotic Repubs belly-aching about how "slow" that one was compared to all the others.

Now it appears they're belly-aching over how scary fast and too much too soon too effective this Biden-Harris Great Dem Recovery is from Trump's Great Repub Crash and Recession.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2662279][URL]https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/675589[/URL]

The oil embargo struck in October of 1973. In November of 1973, Nixon signed the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act which further regulated oil prices. The Act created a two-tiered pricing system. "Old oil" those wells drilled before 1973 had a price ceiling of $5. 25 a barrel ($19.44 in 2011 dollars). "New oil" was defined as oil from wells that began operation after 1972, or production from old wells above the wells' 1972 production levels. The price of new oil could be as high as $11 per barrel ($40.74 per barrel in 2011 dollars), close to the world price at the time of roughly $12 per barrel ($44.44).

Who is the idiot now? Congratulations, Sammy, you earn the title of DD.[/QUOTE]What did the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act do? Fast forward to 1974 when we had odd-even gas rationing. And higher prices on gasoline than ever before. So, no, the President tried and failed at controlling gasoline prices.

As an aside, was Nixon and the Republican party (prior to signing the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act) for or against doing so. They were against it.

So, Elvis, it appears that you are a Republican Douche. But we already knew that.

[QUOTE=Travv;2662083]Washington, D. C. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was surprised to learn last week that black representation is very important to President Biden. This comes after Biden previously attempted to block Thomas's nomination while viciously attempting to destroy his life and reputation.

"Black representation matters, folks!" said Biden to a group of journalists outside the White House. "I have always been extremely passionate about black people being judges on, um, courts and stuff. It's all I've dreamt about since I was a young boy on the tough streets of Baltimore!

When asked about how he felt about Clarance Thomas being on the court despite his best efforts, Biden replied: "Who?" before reaching down to sniff his pet cat which he had mistaken for a very small child.

Thomas, who had been smeared over sexual harassment claims that were never actually filed, was humiliated on live TV by Joe Biden who, at the time was a 49-year-old balding racist serving in the senate. Biden turned the confirmation hearing into a circus because he disagreed with Clarence Thomas' views on a few things.

"I can't rightfully vote for someone who thinks babies deserve to live," said Biden at the time. "Plus, you're a black! Whoever heard of such an outlandish idea as a black on the court! I vote nay!.[/QUOTE]There was a report the other day that I saw online. I can't find the report now for some reason. I thought I saved it but I didn't.

Anyway, the report detailed a test given to various people of different political stripes. The object of the exercise was to determine the how much "race" influenced somebody's choice for a Supreme Court Justice.

The first exercise involved showing the credentials (and nothing more) of 4 potential nominees and having the respondents say whether the person was 1. Highly Qualified; 2. Qualified or 3. Unqualified. There was virtually no difference between the respondents answers based upon the political party of the respondent and most (like 80%) respondents said the nominees were highly qualified and no respondent said that the nominees were unqualified.

The second exercise involved showing the picture of the nominee and the credentials and asking the same question. For each nominee, there was very little change on how Democrats viewed the nominee. However, almost 80% of Republicans said that the nominees were unqualified.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2662293]Winger Repubs always pretend to be angered and exasperated over the fact that these Great Dem Recoveries from Great Repub Crashes and Recessions are never as smooth sailing and hassle-free as their beloved Great Repub Crashes and Recessions go.

Gee, it seemed so easy for Hoover, Reagan, Bush2 and Trump to plunge the economy into a spectacular downturn, why can't the Dems clean up the Repub mess and get us back to normal better, faster, easier and without it costing anybody anything the way their Repub counterparts always assure us they could do it but never, ever do? As FDR so eloquently pointed out about his idiot Repub adversaries once upon a time.

Or maybe they really are so stupid to be genuinely angered and exasperated over such a thing and aren't pretending at all.

I remember when Obama-Biden and the Dems were pulling us out of the spectacular mess of a downturn produced by classic failed Repub policies and stewardship at the hands of Bush2 and his fellow Repubs. It was a slower Great Dem Recovery from a Great Repub Crash and Recession than previous ones because that time around the Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repubs did not merely largely get out of the way and let the Dems handle it.

No, that time around Moscow Mitch decided the most advantageous political strategy for their side with the first black man in the Oval Office was to obstruct, impede, slow-walk and thwart every known and proven effective recovery effort by Obama and the Dems in as close to total Repub unanimity as is possible for the Party..[/QUOTE]Please advise me when the great economic recovery happens in the Biden presidency. All we have seen so far is people returning to their prepandemic jobs and highest inflation in 4 decades. There are still less people working now than in Trump prepandemic years. People returning to their jobs has nothing to do with Biden success. Biden was only successful in getting gas prices and food prices to skyrocket. But Biden success includes putting millions of people back into poverty. All the increases in peoples wages during Trump presidency is gone to Biden record inflation. There is no comparing Biden to Trump as Biden is so totally incompetent. As bad as some people think Trump was Biden has proved to be far worse.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2662198]Polls Shmoles.

Out here in one of California's retirement villages.

The villagers have been screaming that the interest rates on their savings grow from. 15% to over 2%.

Seems like financial-type things are returning more to normal under senior Joe Biden.

Thank god.[/QUOTE]Nothing normal about record inflation at 7.5%. Making 2% interest won't pay the increase in housing, transportation, gas and food. Losing proposition under Biden.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662190]Again, bullshit. The XL pipeline was designed to carry tar oil directly to ships that would then ship to India and the rest of Asia. There was never any intent for this nasty shit to be used in the US, it's too dirty to be used in our plants. BTW, it's heating oil, not petroleum grade. Therefore, the loss of the XL Pipeline had absolutely no effect on the price of gas, or the price of fucking tea in China, for that matter. Try to look in the mirror and understand just how profoundly ignorant you are and STFU.[/QUOTE]Then why are we buying heavy oil from Russia. USA can only get heavy oil from Canada, Venezuela and Russia. Are you telling me Biden shut down the heavy oil refineries in USA. Can you please provide proof that USA has shut down their heavy oil refineries.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2662050]The Wisconsin primary is only a few days away.

Wisconsin is currently a purple state. I think it used to be a blue state. It sure looked blue in 1984 for George McGovern.

Most of its state government seats are filled with republican asses. Wisconsin went for Trump in 2016, not so much in 2020.

Current campaigners for the democratic party have their grassroots efforts this week in support of police, law and order and support of Democracy.

They're happy to point out that their opposition actively defunds police (no BBB), obstructs justice in all corners, all corners!, and supported the coup efforts that opposed democracy.

These Wisconsin activists encouraged democrats across the nation to join their phone banks.

Technology allows democrats, wherever they live, to link up and make phone calls this week.

Many of the republican candidates are folks supported by Donald Trump.

To sit on election boards and serve their leader's order for future elections..[/QUOTE]We can't wait for the midterms. This forum will be a little quieter when Republicans have the House and Senate control. Democrats are panicking already. They are finally listening to the science and dropping the mask mandate in their cities trying to get votes. They are even going to start funding the police. It is going to be a happy November.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2641326]I think we should all be a bit sad today. Biden's Build Back Better bill has been stalled. I was so looking forward to this fantastic legislation that was opposed by so many because we did not understand like Eihtooms. I was crying in my beer. I so wanted the BBB present for Christmas.

Can you imagine how many out there are preying for Manchin to change his mind or scheming for his undoing?

But it does not matter. The article of the day is here: [URL]https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/[/URL].

The author of the article is liberal Glenn Greenwald and he followed up this 12 year old story with this tweet: That it's all Joe Manchin's fault, that the Good and Compassionate Democrats would have done such great things for America's poor and working class if not for this sole Bad Senator, is the game they always play. Here's what I wrote in Salon in *2010 (:

The primary tactic in this game is Villain Rotation. They always have a handful of Democratic Senators announce that they will be the ones to deviate this time from the ostensible party position and impede success, but the designated Villain constantly shifts, so the Party itself can claim it supports these measures while an always-changing handful of their members invariably prevent it.[/QUOTE]Life long democrat Donald Trump will continue his dismatling of the evil party and give the democrats stronger majorities after the midterms.

I like that the Donald has found his calling, and is deaf enough to stay focused on it.