American Politics

Despite the House Repub clown show, that is led by MTG's continual Russian puppeting, and who leads the charge to disband from NATO, President Joe Biden, is firm in the belief, that the combined strength of NATO is the key to Ukraine defeating Putin.

So Does the Russia's penultimate most "useful idiot", [b]Moscow Marjorie[/b] (aka.Capital Hill Karen, aka.Cruella DeVil on the Hill), even know what the word "ally" means? Or are dictionaries also being banned in Georgia?

Since NATO was formed and founded, it is the most successful defense pack in history of the world. In 75 years we've only invoked Article 5, [b]'The Defense of One, is the Defense of All'[/b], has ONLY been invoked ONCE...for the U.S.A. And that was after 911, where our [b]NATO allies[/b] came to our defense.

[b]63 House Republicans voted against a non-binding, bipartisan resolution...[/b]
[URL]https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/04-6-2022/nato-vote/[/URL]

So while Russia's "useful idiots", Trump, [b]Moscow Marjorie[/b] and 63 Repubs, try to bring down NATO, it is only one of dozens chaotic and anarchist efforts from their [b]"Project 2025"[/b] list of subversive anti-American doctrines to overthrow the Rule of Law and democratic governance, with its anti-democracy, anti-constitutional, anti-human-rights and anti-equal rights, fascist tyrannical dictatorship policies.

Project 2025 Subversive Doctrine, if Trump is elected in 2024 (Note: This is just a short list)

• Mass layoffs of civil servants [b] || [/b]End Birthright Citizenship
• Install Trump loyalists [b] || [/b]10% Tarrif on foreign goods
• Terminate Constitution [b] || [/b]No "two-state" solution
• Investigate political advisors [b] || [/b]Withdraw from NATO

• Mass deportations [b] || [/b]Punish Hospital that provide any transgender care
• Bomb Mexico [b] || [/b]National ban on abortion, women's care, trans care minors
• Shoot Migrants [b] || [/b]Gut the green energy programs
• Electrify Wall [b]|| [/b]Exit the Paris Climate Accords

• Reinstate and expand ban of people from Muslim-majority countries [b] || [/b]Gut the EPA Increase the use of fossil fuels & discard EVs
• Impose "ideological screening", for immigrants[b] || [/b]Enforce the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide
• Revoke student visas for ceasefire protesters[b] || [/b]Allow states to punish women as they see fit

• Terminate the Dept. of Education[b] || [/b]Immunity to all police officers
• Teach "patriotic education" [b] || [/b]Require "stop & frisk"
• Shoot shoplifters [b] || Billionaires go free stealing billions, exempt from prosecution

• Mass tent camps for homeless people[b] || [/b]Federal takeovers of Democratic cities including D.C., Chicago and New York
• Re-institutionalize the mentally ill [b] || [/b]Deploy national guard to protests

Repubs, would love nothing more than, to turn-back the clock and have us go back to the "good old days" of 100+ years of burning fossil fuels, while poking fun and political jabs, at the advances, ebbs and flows of a viable burgeoning clean energy industry, that is relatively speaking [u]only in its infancy, but nonetheless making huge strides.[/u]
[LIST]Let's not forget the technological advances from the past 100+ years of oil, gas, coal and nuclear and hydro was NEVER a straight line from "A to B". And still to this day, has a ton of problems, environmental issues and still gets lots of gov't funding and subsidies thrown it, for what is suppose to be a VERY mature and PROFITABLE industries.[/LIST][LIST]Today wind, solar, BESS and UHVDC lines and systems, are more efficient, more easily and faster to deploy, develop and costs way less per kw/h than traditional fossil fuel energy sources. Even has nuclear beat with its 3x, 4x and 7x cost overruns and avg. 13+ years to build. Meanwhile clean green energy systems are up and running in 6 months to 1 year and very affordable per kw/h, at even larger economies of scale.[/LIST]But Thanks to President Joe Biden (and President Barack Obama), game changing administrative [b]policies and stewardship[/b] like the promoting and developing AI Initiatives (2016), CHIPS and Science Act, along with the Inflation Reduction Act, has paved the way to producing the next round of trillion dollar US tech companies and green energy innovations.

Yes, thanks to President Joe Biden, US tech AI and green energy companies, see a bright future ahead, with all its warts and fare share of gov't subsidies, ebbs and flows, for the next foreseeable 100+ years of clean green energy future. [b](Note: Let's also not forget, the "harvesting of electrons" is a relatively "free energy" source)[/b].

Thanks President Joe Biden!

Thanks again, Joe:

[B]Big Oil given stark warning as a major crude supply surplus expected by 2030.
June 12, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/12/big-oil-given-stark-warning-as-a-major-supply-surplus-expected-by-2030.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that a U.S.-led surge in global oil production is expected to outstrip demand growth between now and the end of the decade, pushing spare capacity to unprecedented levels and potentially upending OPEC+ market management.

The forecast prompted a stern warning for Big Oil from IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, who suggested the worlds largest energy majors may wish to align their business strategies with the changes taking place.

its latest medium-term market report, titled Oil 2024, the global energy watchdog said oil demand growth was on track to slow down before ultimately reaching its peak of near 106 million barrels per day by 2030. Thats up from just over 102 million barrels per day in 2023.

At the same time, the IEA expects total oil production capacity to surge to nearly 114 million barrels per day by 2030 a whopping 8 million barrels per day above projected global demand.

The IEA said this would result in levels of spare capacity not seen before other than at the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020.

It warned that these dynamics could have significant consequences for oil markets, including for the U.S. shale industry and producer economies in OPEC and beyond.

As the pandemic rebound loses steam, clean energy transitions advance, and the structure of Chinas economy shifts, growth in global oil demand is slowing down and set to reach its peak by 2030, the IEAs Birol said in a statement.

This reports projections, based on the latest data, show a major supply surplus emerging this decade, suggesting that oil companies may want to make sure their business strategies and plans are prepared for the changes taking place, he added.

The report comes as countries seek to move away from fossil fuels, with momentum building behind clean and energy-saving technologies. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas is the chief driver of the climate crisis.

The share of fossil fuels in the global energy supply has stayed at around 80% for decades, according to the IEA, although it expects this to drop to around 73% by 2030.

[B]Oil demand in advanced economies to fall further[/b]

Despite the projected slowdown in oil demand growth, the IEA noted that in the absence of stronger policy measures or behavioral changes, crude demand is still expected to be around 3.2 million barrels per day higher by 2030 than in 2023.

It said this growth is largely driven by robust demand from fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the aviation and petrochemical sectors.

In advanced economies, however, the IEA says oil demand is on course to dip below 43 million barrels per day by 2030, down from close to 46 million barrels per day last year. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, the IEA said the last time oil demand from advanced economies was that low was in 1991.

In a landmark 2021 report, the IEA had urged against new oil, gas or coal developments if the world is to achieve net zero by 2050.

The findings of that report were widely criticized by several OPEC+ producers, who advocate for dual investment in hydrocarbons and renewables, until green energy can unilaterally fulfill global consumption needs.

Led by Saudi Arabia, OPEC+ refers to an influential energy alliance composed of OPEC and non-OPEC partners.[/QUOTE]1. Trump said his 2nd term Dictatorship Plans have two goals; Drill Baby Drill and Close the Border. LOL. As is typical for Do Nothing, Know Nothing, Deadbeat Repubs, he is way too late; Dem POTUS Biden has already shouldered all of the heavy lifting and assumed all of the political risk to accomplish part one, brilliantly, and it is only Trump and his lick-spittal obedient lackey Congressional Repubs who love Open Borders so much a bi-partisan, ultra Conservative Comprehensive and Lasting Immigration and Border Security Legislation is not in place this very minute.

2. Trump is great and highly skilled at lowering gas prices by producing Trump's Pandemic Closures, along with wiping out Millions Upon Millions of Jobs, Crashing Stock Markets, Killing Millions of People Around the World, but does not know shit about how to do it during one of the greatest post-Repub Great Economic Disaster Great Dem Recoveries, Economic Expansions and Historic Jobs Creation.

3. Being a Dem, Joe Biden knows what to do about it, knows how to it and WILL do it.

4. Even if Trump's handlers had sat him down and somehow managed to keep him awake for 20 minutes to show him the usual 3-panel stick figure cartoon illustration he needs to have anything explained to him and he eventually DID understand what needed to be done in order to accomplish this historic masterpiece of energy stabilization and OPEC-Killing brilliance accomplished by Joe Biden, he would not do it.

That isn't what Repubs do. They do not put America First this way or any other way. Ever. Trump is more interested in being personally renumerated by his usual means of publicly siding with and blowing America's adversaries and enemies for it.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2922144][b]Oh, those poor babies, Big Oil and OPEC [/b]

Thanks again, Joe:

[b]Big Oil given stark warning as a major crude supply surplus expected by 2030.
June 12, 2024[/b]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/12/big-oil-given-stark-warning-as-a-major-supply-surplus-expected-by-2030.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
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That isn't what Repubs do. [i][b]They do not put America First this way or any other way. [u]Ever.[/u][/b][/i] Trump is more interested in being personally renumerated by his usual means of publicly siding with and blowing America's adversaries and enemies for it.
[/QUOTE]

It's remarkable how Biden's and the Dems administration has held up to stellar adherence and respect for great governance, stewardship, democratic rights and the Rule of Law, amidst the Repub clown show and Russian "useful idiots".

Take the recent example of contrasts in reactions to GUILTY verdicts in the Trump [i][b]"Hush Money Campaign Violations"[/b][/i] vs Hunter [i][b]"Gun Drugged Laptop Dick Pics"[/b][/i] trials:
[LIST]On the LEFT:

- No demanding a change of venue, prosecutor (who BTW was a Trump-appointed Repub U.S. attorney, left in place by Joe Biden) or judge
- No whining from the Dems, no complaints about the DOJ from Biden family
- No endless chants of "rigged"
- No rants, threats or calls of revenge
- No calls for violence, or for riots and mayhem in the streets
- Just a concise statement, by a law abiding POTUS, to say [b]he loves his son[/b] and [b]will be respecting the judgment and Rule of Law[/b] [/LIST]Now contrast that with the those on the right:
[LIST]On the RIGHT:

- The constant whining about a change of venue upstate, change of prosecutors and/or judge (because Trump wanted a loyalist "rigged" judge like Alieen Cannon)
- The constant attempts to use all kinds of partisan political capital to pervert justice and court proceedings.
- The constant drone of whining from wannabe Veeps, Trump sycophants and QAnon\MAGA cultists.
- The constant lying of hack journalists and pundits over at the Repub propaganda machine at FOXY Muse.
- The constant chants of "rigged", "scam", "injustice", "travesty" and a blatant disregard for the Rule of Law.
- The loopy conspiracists, all over the internet (and ISG), spouting rubbish, nonsense and their Russian led disinformation.
- Trump rants, threatens and calls for a "revenge" style dictatorship, should he win in Nov 2024.
- Trump stochastic rhetoric and coded language, calls of retribution and mayhem in the streets, if convicted[/LIST]
[b]America Should Appreciate How Joe Biden Handled His Sons Trial[/b]
[URL]https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-should-appreciate-how-joe[/URL]

Yes, what a difference a trial makes w/r to abiding by and respecting the Criminal Justice System, DOJ and the Rule of Law, and not just when it suits your own agenda, to abide by the law!

President Joe Biden, shows Americans, yet another [b]proud example of how a man worthy of being called POTUS[/b] and hold the highest office in the country, should conduct themselves, even in personal hardship and adversity, when dealing with the law and the criminal justice system.

Unlike his childish "cry baby" predecessor, President Joe Biden's acceptance, respect and noninterference with the Rule of Law, once again reaffirms that, [u][b]NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW![/b][/u]

I wonder how much the Repub cry babies will whine at Trump's sentencing?

[QUOTE=Spidy;2922235]
Yes, what a difference a trial makes w/r to abiding by and respecting the Criminal Justice System, DOJ and the Rule of Law, and not just when it suits your own agenda, to abide by the law!

President Joe Biden, shows Americans, yet another [b]proud example of how a man worthy of being called POTUS[/b] and hold the highest office in the country, should conduct themselves, even in personal hardship and adversity, when dealing with the law and the criminal justice system.

Unlike his childish "cry baby" predecessor, President Joe Biden's acceptance, respect and noninterference with the Rule of Law, once again reaffirms that, [u][b]NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW![/b][/u]

I wonder how much the Repub cry babies will whine at Trump's sentencing?[/QUOTE]You must have missed the part about how no one was celebrating Hunter Biden going to jail. That is because this is the most innocuous and obvious of charges. The real issue was the 10% for "the big guy" and all that that entailed. This case was just a distraction.

It is one thing to say "no one is above the law" but when you prosecute someone with a law you literally made up just to get Trump, that rings on deaf ears. Only thing Hunter Biden is good for is that it shows Dems can go to jail too now.

But Matt Taibbi wrote it better than I could:

Last Thursday, a federal court ordered former chief strategist for Donald Trump, podcaster, and symbol of All Things Evil Steve Bannon jailed for defiance of a Congressional subpoena. Convicted in 2022 for refusing to appear before a House Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot, Bannon on July 1st will join former Trump aide Peter Navarro in a select group of Americans jailed for contempt of Congress since the meat-grinder days of McCarthy and the House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC).

Detractors cheered the timely benching of the host of War Room, which generates millions of downloads as the most influential pro-Trump media program. "Steve Bannon being off the air. Is actually very good for the pro-democracy movement," chortled political strategist Rick Wilson, noting that while Bannon was going away for four months, they're "four vital months. ".

Welcome to the Third World, America. We crossed a big line in the last two weeks, first with the conviction of a presidential frontrunner on comic-book charges, now the revival of a contempt of Congress maneuver we haven't seen since the Hollywood Ten. Nobody's been sent to a logging camp or car-bombed or given a hot lead cure in a doorway, but as any current or former resident of authoritarian countries will tell you, the jailing of political opponents is a sure sign we're on that road.

I returned to America a year after 9/11, following a decade in the burgeoning Russian autocracy of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. That experience allowed me to see how quickly even limited freedoms of speech or assembly can be vaporized. People blinded by dislike of Trump or Bannon should imagine trying to summon sympathy for people like Vladimir Gusinsky and Misha Khodorkovsky, oligarchs who got rich in very dubious privatization schemes but were early targets of political prosecutions in the Putin years (Gusinsky was raided by armed agents four months after Putin's inauguration). For those protesting that Bannon is only headed inside because he's scum who broke the law, political prosecutions always involve a legal violation, often even a real one. Americans just don't know what that looks like. End of link.

It is funny how you Democratic douches so dislike Putin while acting like him.

So Rachel Meadow is afraid of going to jail if Trump wins and why not. Maybe we can bankrupt her like the left did Alex Jones if not throw her in jail. [URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbcs-maddow-says-shes-worried-trump-will-put-her-concentration-camp[/URL].

And now Merrick Garland is likely to go to jail if Trump wins too. [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/us/politics/house-garland-attorney-general-biden-contempt.html[/URL].

You can't send Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon to jail and not send Garland. Hell, Garland should serve more time then those two given what he has done. By not releasing the Biden audio, isn't Garland trying to rig an election? Hell, it has already been reported the transcript and audio of Biden's interview do not match.

Seeing as how New York has found Trump guilty for election fraud, maybe we here in Texas should do the same with Biden. As we learned from New York, we too can prosecute federal offenses. It does not matter if the Feds do nothing. The Feds did nothing with Trump.

Hell, you dumb Dems cheered on making up a law none of you understood to get Trump and were so fucking clueless and arrogant. Like Taibbi said, it is easy to make up laws and prosecute people when they break them. You are literally cheering on a banana republic.

Maybe you do not know this, but you put people in jail who are a threat to others. You do not put them there because you do not like them. It is amazing to see an idiot monger like yourself cheering on rule of law when if it were truly applied, your sorry ass would have been in jail for soliciting a prostitute.

[QUOTE=Spidy;2922235]It's remarkable how Biden's and the Dems administration has held up to stellar adherence and respect for great governance, stewardship, democratic rights and the Rule of Law, amidst the Repub clown show and Russian "useful idiots".

Take the recent example of contrasts in reactions to GUILTY verdicts in the Trump [i][b]"Hush Money Campaign Violations"[/b][/i] vs Hunter [i][b]"Gun Drugged Laptop Dick Pics"[/b][/i] trials:
[LIST]On the LEFT:

- No demanding a change of venue, prosecutor (who BTW was a Trump-appointed Repub U.S. attorney, left in place by Joe Biden) or judge
- No whining from the Dems, no complaints about the DOJ from Biden family
- No endless chants of "rigged"
- No rants, threats or calls of revenge
- No calls for violence, or for riots and mayhem in the streets
- Just a concise statement, by a law abiding POTUS, to say [b]he loves his son[/b] and [b]will be respecting the judgment and Rule of Law[/b] [/LIST]Now contrast that with the those on the right:
[LIST]On the RIGHT:

- The constant whining about a change of venue upstate, change of prosecutors and/or judge (because Trump wanted a loyalist "rigged" judge like Alieen Cannon)
- The constant attempts to use all kinds of partisan political capital to pervert justice and court proceedings.
- The constant drone of whining from wannabe Veeps, Trump sycophants and QAnon\MAGA cultists.
- The constant lying of hack journalists and pundits over at the Repub propaganda machine at FOXY Muse.
- The constant chants of "rigged", "scam", "injustice", "travesty" and a blatant disregard for the Rule of Law.
- The loopy conspiracists, all over the internet (and ISG), spouting rubbish, nonsense and their Russian led disinformation.
- Trump rants, threatens and calls for a "revenge" style dictatorship, should he win in Nov 2024.
- Trump stochastic rhetoric and coded language, calls of retribution and mayhem in the streets, if convicted[/LIST]
[b]America Should Appreciate How Joe Biden Handled His Sons Trial[/b]
[URL]https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-should-appreciate-how-joe[/URL]

Yes, what a difference a trial makes w/r to abiding by and respecting the Criminal Justice System, DOJ and the Rule of Law, and not just when it suits your own agenda, to abide by the law!

President Joe Biden, shows Americans, yet another [b]proud example of how a man worthy of being called POTUS[/b] and hold the highest office in the country, should conduct themselves, even in personal hardship and adversity, when dealing with the law and the criminal justice system.

Unlike his childish "cry baby" predecessor, President Joe Biden's acceptance, respect and noninterference with the Rule of Law, once again reaffirms that, [u][b]NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW![/b][/u]

I wonder how much the Repub cry babies will whine at Trump's sentencing?[/QUOTE]The whiny, desperate MAGA Trump Cult Repub congress' "10% for the big guy" horseshit fell apart so badly and embarrassingly they now have to twist and turn themselves into numbskull Taibbi Pretzels in order to spin this one into a Poor Baby Persecuted America-hating Trump and Repubs Pity Party.

LOL. But they will keep trying. What else have they got? Trump without a teleprompter is, at best, a blithering, confused and babbling reteller of Shark Week and scary Heavy Boat Battery tales of terror.

For those who like to follow the polls, they have Joe Biden, making significant gains in the POLLS in Florida...[b]But Why?[/b]

Trump's is fast losing ground and his lead appears be shrinking in his home state of Florida, to Biden and the Dems, who are now seeing a strong trend, towards retaking and winning Florida, with a odds of a coin-flip.

Why the sudden change in the (FL) polls for Biden, well that anyone's guess? But if I were to venture a guess, I'd say it would be an out pouring of WOMEN, college students and young Floridians, that will also turnout in droves for "ABORTION" and "MARIJUANA" down ballot voting.

And in-the-wake of the GUILTY verdict, the majority of INDEPENDENT voters, are turning to President Joe Biden, and don't want a criminal and felon as their next president.

[b]Donald Trump Gets Troubling News in Home State Poll[/b]
[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-news-florida-poll-1912057[/URL]

[u]Here is one (1) other thought that comes to my mind:[/u]

IMHO, it also appears [i](if it isn't already obvious to anyone)[/i], now that Trump is campaigning again, the nonsensical shit flowing from his trap (cake-hole), is on steroids. I mean, the more the dude, talks (babbles), the more dumb shit come out of his mouth and the more people remember what a buffoon he really is.

Is it any wonder, he DID NOT take the stand to defend his "innocence", in his Hush Money criminal conviction trial?

Thanks again and again and again, Joe.

Not only has Bidenomics produced the greatest recovery from Trump's Pandemic in the USA compared to evert other country on the planet, it is the driving force behind averting another worldwide Great Repub Depression.

Shhh. Please, please don't anybody tell Larry Summers or any numbskull who references a Larry Summers idiocy about how Bidenomics was a dime or two too much ecomomic stimulation to pull The World out of the historic global disaster of Trump's Pandemic:

[B]BUSINESS
World Bank: Impressive US economy is powering the world.
June 11, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://thehill.com/business/4715951-world-bank-impressive-us-economy-is-powering-the-world/[/URL]

[QUOTE]The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy and said the impressive U.S. economy is powering the world.

The latest outlook estimates the global economy will expand 2.6 percent, an increase from the 2.4 percent growth predicted for the year.

In the foreword of the World Banks latest economic outlook, Indermit Gill, the groups senior vice president and chief economist, said the global economy appears to be approaching a soft landing in 2024, meaning a global recession has been avoided despite having the steepest rise in global interest rates since the 1980s.

One of the driving factors, Gill outlined, is the U.S. economy.

The U.S. economy, in particular, has shown impressive resilience, Gill wrote. Growth has remained buoyant in the teeth of the fiercest monetary policy tightening in four decades.

The U.S. economy is one of the reasons that the World Bank expects the global economy will enjoy some upside potential over the next two years, he wrote.

Ayhan Kose, the banks deputy chief economist, told The Associated Press that U.S. growth is exceptional.

And more[/QUOTE]LOL. Just imagine how howling at the moon desperate Trump and his fellow Know Nothing, Do Nothing, Deadbeat, "always always always take credit for the magnificent achievements of Dems who shoulder all of the heavy lifting and assume all of the political risk" Repubs to get in there by hook, crook, lying and committing multiple felonies to steal the next election so they can once again claim totally undeserved and unearned credit for the spectacular USA and WORLD Economy the next POTUS will inherit from this current Dem POTUS and spend all their time playing golf, riding ponies, playing golf, clearing brush down at the ranch, playing golf, sleeping and playing golf!

When they are not publicly siding with and blowing Putin, Xi and every other adversary and enemy of America and scouring the landscape for any potential "Once in 100 Years Disaster" to embrace, exacerbate and plague America and the rest of the world with, that is.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2922286]The whiny, desperate MAGA Trump Cult Repub congress' "10% for the big guy" horseshit fell apart so badly and embarrassingly they now have to twist and turn themselves into numbskull Taibbi Pretzels in order to spin this one into a Poor Baby Persecuted America-hating Trump and Repubs Pity Party.[/QUOTE]LOL. Yeah, half a billion in donations is whining. That is called putting your money where your mouth is. The whining was going on for the left with Rachel mad cow Meadow who will be bankrupted or put in jail if Trump wins office. You Democratic douches have ruled a porn star hooker and criminal, who will say anything to get out of jail, can be believed. Nothing says preserving Democracy like jailing your opponent, trashing the 6th Amendment, tossing guilty until proven innocent, and having a highly partisan jury inset itself into an election. Truth is you Democratic douches love Putin and Xi and their one party rule. That is literally what you are hoping for. You call telling the truth "whining."

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2922286]But they will keep trying. What else have they got? Trump without a teleprompter is, at best, a blithering, confused and babbling reteller of Shark Week and scary Heavy Boat Battery tales of terror. The good news is today the USA has more and better paying jobs abundantly available. [/QUOTE]OMG. Nothing like someone from Thailand telling us how great things are in the USA. Maybe you have been talking to the family of Thais who have relatives who have moved into the USA illegally, but I suspect it is due to your must have missed a few things considering where you get your information.

Here is one headline you must have missed, Over 100% of the Increase in Employment Since 2020 is Foreign Born, [URL]https://mishtalk.com/economics/over-100-of-the-increase-in-employment-since-2020-is-foreign-born/[/URL]

And that was from four months ago. Yesterday, even the chairman of the Federal Reserve called Biden's job reports overstated.

[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-admits-biden-admin-overstating-jobs[/URL]

While the Establishment Survey did indeed report that 272 K "jobs" were added, this number also included multiple job holders; stripping those out, we get that the actual number of "employed" workers plunged by 408 K.

But how is it possible that payrolls rose nearly 300 K while overall employment tumbled by more than 400 K? Well, this is where another propaganda gimmick so frequently abused by the BLS comes into play: the birth death adjustment, a statistical fudge factor that imputes job growth for any given month based on the entirely subjective assumption made by a group of pro-Biden bureaucrats of how many new businesses were created (or destroyed) in the US economy any given moment.

More astounding is that the Birth-Death imputation has resulted in 56% of all "payroll growth", or 1. 9 million statistical "payrolls" in the past year, when according to the BLS a total of 3. 4 million "payrolls" were crated.

While one can debate the quantitative aspects of the jobs report, there is no debating the qualitative: there it's one giant disaster: as we learned in May, whatever the actual number of payrolls (again, not jobs) added, what we know is that the trend of full-time to part-time worker conversions continues, with 625 K full-time jobs lost in May, offset by 286 K part-time jobs. Which is hardly a new trend: in fact, over the past year, the US has lost 1. 2 million full-time jobs, replaced with 1. 5 million part-time jobs.

Finally, there is the data point which we first highlighted more than a year ago, and which has since emerged as the biggest political talking point involving the labor market: the fact that since 2018, the US has created exactly zero native-born jobs, and all the job growth has gone to foreign-born workers.

Here is Powell defending all job gains since 2018 going to immigrants / non-native born workers:

PELLEY: Why was immigration important?

POWELL: Because, you know, immigrants come in, and they tend to work at a rate that is at or above that for non-immigrants.

And as Edward Snowden put it so eloquently, is that he's "not sure I've ever seen the chairman of the Federal Reserve publicly accuse the White House of cooking the books on employment numbers, but here we are. ".

Yes, the one place in the world where you are free to be critical of the USA government is Russia.

And that along with the ridiculously high costs of rent is why Biden will lose. Thank God, it's the economy stupid, James Carville, is not whining about the economic plight of young Americans and the American working poor Biden wants to obliterate.

[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2922249]It is one thing to say "no one is above the law" but when you prosecute someone with a law you literally made up just to get Trump, that rings on deaf ears. Only thing Hunter Biden is good for is that it shows Dems can go to jail too now. ... [/QUOTE]

Elvis 2008, well I'll say one thing, you certainly are a chip of the ol' gobbledegook Trump block. I mean, you couldn't sound more like Trump. Meaning, the more you talk, the more incoherent, blathering, blithering, nonsensical and conspiratorial QAnon/MAGA, Russian political "useful idiot", you become.

Pretty soon, Jewish space laser shooting, Russia's No.2 most "useful idiot", Moscow Marjorie (aka.Capital Hill Karen, aka.Cruella DeVil on the Hill), won't hold a candle to your nonsense. (....kkkk!)

I guess it was the same [i][b]"made up law"[/b][/i], that Michael Cohn, lied for Trump and on behalf of Trump, w/r to the very same crime, 6-years ago.
[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-prison-sentence-explained-1899848[/URL]
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-crime-new-york-manhattan-campaigns-3a0413202e80ab99c9f6377f97d07c04[/URL]

Here's a GREAT SNL Video, 6-years ago, yes pre-May 2024 Trump Hush Money trial. In true SNL brilliance...they "nailed it"! It's funny how SNL & EVERYONE else (except conspiracists such yourself), knew the extent of his Hush Money crimes and the laws he was breaking, 6-years earlier. It was as plain as daylight, for everyone to see.

This should help you refresh your memory of the convict/felon Trump's crimes and the "made up law" he violated. [b]SNL: [/b][URL]www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1K8s-tQGqY[/URL]

I know I had a good chuckle, at how accurate the skit was and how so "in-the-money" and "on-the-money", SNL were.

[u]Who's Celebrating What Now?: [/u]

[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2922249]Maybe you do not know this, but you put people in jail who are a threat to others. You do not put them there because you do not like them. It is amazing to see an

idiot monger like yourself cheering on rule of law when if it were truly applied, your sorry ass would have been in jail for soliciting a prostitute. [/QUOTE]

So now Elvis 2008, your saying, you and Repubs don't want to follow the Rule of Law?

If memory serves, it was [b]YOU, Elvis 2008,[/b] that was waving the pom-poms and doing all the [b]cheering[/b] and [b]celebrating[/b], a GUILTY verdict.
[LIST]If I recall:

- It was YOU, Elvis 2008, that was [b]bloviating[/b] about the $400+ million new reasons to celebrate, a GUILTY verdict.

- It was your [b]"Paycheck Superhero"[/b] dumbass, that got on the phone and wanted to donate all your mongering and prostitute dollars, to reward Trump with a GUILTY verdict.

- It was YOU, Elvis 2008, and your INCEL consipiracist, QAnon\MAGA sycophant notions, that most assuredly told us Dems, [i]"...Oh you guys have fucked up now and given Repubs a reason to come together",[/i] with regards to a GUILTY verdict.[/LIST]So now ask yourself, Elvis 2008, if a GUILTY verdict has Trump, "reuniting" the Repubs and those same gullible Repubs have put $400+ million in his campaign coffers, [b]what exactly is it[/b], that the "Paycheck Superhero" and conspiracist Elvis 2008, ...is whining about?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2922286]The whiny, desperate MAGA Trump Cult Repub congress' "10% for the big guy" horseshit fell apart so badly and embarrassingly they now have to twist and turn themselves into numbskull Taibbi Pretzels in order to spin this one into a Poor Baby Persecuted America-hating Trump and Repubs Pity Party.

LOL. But they will keep trying. What else have they got? Trump without a teleprompter is, at best, a blithering, confused and [b]babbling reteller of Shark Week[/b] and scary Heavy Boat Battery tales of terror.[/QUOTE]Didn't know what the hell Trump's fascination with Sharks were, until I re-watched the SNL video (time index: 6:51) [URL]https://youtu.be/K1K8s-tQGqY?t=410[/URL], where Alec Balwin (masterfully imitating Trump) says to Stormy Daniels, [B]"...we'll always have Shark Week"[/B] (...kkkk!)

[B]Sex, Shark Week, and Hush Money: A Trump and Stormy Daniels Timeline [/B](March 21st, 2023).
[URL]https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-stormy-daniels-timeline-1234700886/[/URL]

Now I am pretty sure Stormy Daniels' vivid recollection of Trump's nutty obsession with sharks and Shark Week, was an indelible moment, that impart, was Trump's undoing.

So when the blithering, blabbering and confused Trump, retells dying as shark chum or by heavy electric batteries in a sinking ship, one has to wonder, was he hearkening back somewhat to Stormy Daniels?

And is the shark a metaphor for the DOJ and the sinking ship, a metaphor for the RNC? And what about the electric batteries?

Perhaps our resident conspiracist (a chip of the ol' block), can help us out, on Russia's No.1 "useful idiot", Shark Week, electric batteries and sinking ships incoherent rants and blubberings?

[QUOTE=Spidy;2922519]

So when the blithering, blabbering and confused Trump[/QUOTE]You must be talking about creepy, sleepy Joe you idiot.

Would you rather have a Polling Problem or an Election Problem?

Actually, Biden dosn't even have much of a Polling Problem if you believe demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' unforgiving No Toss Up States Electoral College Map, its own Consensus of Polls results for Biden vs Trump in the only 3 Battleground states Biden needs to win 270 EC Votes as well as the same in the 538 Polling site; Even if the election were held tomorrow, Biden would only need to close or beat the miniscule Trump 1 to 2. 3 point or less Polling advantage he has in those states to secure a much deserved and well-earned 2nd term win.

Can a 1 to 2. 3 point or less advantage in a demonstrably Winger-leaning polling service and others be surmounted on any election day?

Yep. Quite easily. The truth of that has even finally been admitted by a hard right Winger online magazine. And Dems have been outperforming their polling numbers by at least that much vs Trump and his endorsed candidates in elections since he stole the 2016 election:

[B]Ignore The Polls. Republicans Have A Major Voter Turnout Problem.
June 12, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/12/ignore-the-polls-republicans-have-a-major-voter-turnout-problem/[/URL]

Trump's daughter-in-law must be shifting all that dumb sucker Repub hillbilly donation money from their gub'ment entitlement checks and the big money donations from Corporate Elite CEOs who share a hearty laugh with Trump over the Repub Supply-Side / Trickle-Down scam they love to pull on, say, tip-earning workers in Nevada right into Trump's pocket to keep his failing golf resorts afloat.

Because it doesn't seem to be going into building a meaningful Ground Game presence in those battleground states.

[QUOTE=Spidy;2922512]

So now Elvis 2008, your saying, you and Repubs don't want to follow the Rule of Law?

If memory serves, it was [b]YOU, Elvis 2008,[/b] that was waving the pom-poms and doing all the [b]cheering[/b] and [b]celebrating[/b], a GUILTY verdict.
[LIST]If I recall:

- It was YOU, Elvis 2008, that was [b]bloviating[/b] about the $400+ million new reasons to celebrate, a GUILTY verdict.

- It was your [b]"Paycheck Superhero"[/b] dumbass, that got on the phone and wanted to donate all your mongering and prostitute dollars, to reward Trump with a GUILTY verdict.

- It was YOU, Elvis 2008, and your INCEL consipiracist, QAnon\MAGA sycophant notions, that most assuredly told us Dems, [i]"...Oh you guys have fucked up now and given Repubs a reason to come together",[/i] with regards to a GUILTY verdict.[/LIST]So now ask yourself, Elvis 2008, if a GUILTY verdict has Trump, "reuniting" the Repubs and those same gullible Repubs have put $400+ million in his campaign coffers, [b]what exactly is it[/b], that the "Paycheck Superhero" and conspiracist Elvis 2008, ...is whining about?[/QUOTE]I guess you missed the part where "rule of law" means you go to jail. You have to be a fucking narcissist not to understand that. Or maybe I am wrong, and you are not monger at all but some gay tranny living in his mom's basement where all you care about is who wins an election because you have no life.

[QUOTE=Spidy;2922512]I guess it was the same [i][b]"made up law"[/b][/i], that Michael Cohn, lied for Trump and on behalf of Trump, w/r to the very same crime, 6-years ago.
[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-prison-sentence-explained-1899848[/URL]
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-crime-new-york-manhattan-campaigns-3a0413202e80ab99c9f6377f97d07c04[/URL]

Here's a GREAT SNL Video, 6-years ago, yes pre-May 2024 Trump Hush Money trial. In true SNL brilliance...they "nailed it"! It's funny how SNL & EVERYONE else (except conspiracists such yourself), knew the extent of his Hush Money crimes and the laws he was breaking, 6-years earlier. It was as plain as daylight, for everyone to see.

This should help you refresh your memory of the convict/felon Trump's crimes and the "made up law" he violated. [b]SNL: [/b][URL]www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1K8s-tQGqY[/URL].[/QUOTE]Well, Soy Boy, it is good what you think of as porn because this SNL skit was as realistic as porn. Rule of law is Stormy Daniels pays back every fucking dime she owes Trump because she broke her signed NDA. Yeah, Soy Boy, your idea of a female hero is Stormy Daniels who got $140,000 to do nothing other than shut her mouth and then started flapping her gums once she saw there was more money in it. Once she was caught going back on her word, she was sued for $500,000 and an was sued and lost and then engaged in the same kind of financial engineering Trump was accused of such that she did not have to pay him back. Oh yes, Trump wants that woman, a woman the age of a Grandma who needs makeup put on by the pound to look halfway decent. The reality is more that Trump would rather run her over with a truck than have sex with her.

And like any hooker, she will tell you whatever you want to hear based on who is paying her. So here we go again with her having sex with Trump after she signed a statement saying she did not have sex with him. So here is another law Stormy Daniels has broken and instead of reacting with outrage, you think Trump and Republicans dream of having a woman as great as Stormy. No doubt to you she is a strong woman Spidy. In reality, she is a lying, attention seeking, law breaking, stealing worthless deadbeat over the hill hooker. Does she have anything going for herself outside of fucking Trump twenty years ago?

And Melania Trump wants out of her marriage and went to Cohen to talk about it? Yeah, okay. Nothing says you hate your husband like having a child with him and standing by him. She stood by him even when Trump had competition for the nomination. How much is Melania in line to make off Truth Social? One billion? Two? Oh yeah, women hate a man who makes them billions of dollars. And this skit was put out before Truth social went public. Melania wants out? She does not want her sons's father in his life. How fucking stupid is that? That said prediction was dead wrong does not matter to you Spidy because to you this type of porn is real.

And Micheal Cohen is not the tax cheat, the thief, the convicted liar, the pathetic loser hanging onto the Trump coat tails who longed to be AG and lied about it. No, he is the straight man, the only rational person in the crazy Trump world and was dragged along by Trump's egomanical ways. He did not come up with the payment scheme. He just went along for the ride. He was a victim. Give me a fucking break.

And there was the doctor bit about the records being taken. "I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important. And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What's the matter with that?" he told NBC News.

Gee, what is the matter with that? Let's let a doctor go who is breaking the law, in this case a HIPAA violation. You are not allowed to talk about what drugs a patient of yours is taken. Unfucking real. Hey, Spidy, Mr. Rule of Law, do you have any witness against Trump who has not broken a fucking law?

And anytime anyone of you douches get a group of people lying like we just saw here, and we Republicans go against them, it is a conspiracy theory. The list of so called conspiracy theories is so long now I have lost count. The creation of the Covid virus was funded by Fauci, Hunter's drug use and Russian disinformation, government censorship in social media, government promoting the Covid vaccine when government knew it did not work, NIH scientists making billions off of a vaccine they know did not work, Ivermectin being a dangerous horse dewormer, Ukraine being a winnable victory ETC. The list goes on and on.

On another forum, this Democratic douche Viliany tried to make it out like the FEC with three Repubicans and three Democrats was a corrupt organization. Yes, the Democratic douche version of rule of law is an all Democratic jury like in Manhattan.

The part that cannot get sink into your soy soaked head Spidy is my POV is agreed with by half of America. I did not give $400 million myself Soy Boy.

You want rule of law mo fo? We are going to give it to you. You send a fucking SWAT team to the Trump house with orders to shoot to kill if anyone gets in your way, we are going to make sure that whatever Trump is charged with Biden gets the exact same punishment. You send Bannon and Navarro to jail for contempt of Congress. Merrick Garland goes to jail too. When Alex Jones is pushed into bankruptcy by some Democratic judge, we will make sure the exact same fate occurs with Rachel Meadow and a Republican judge.

And you are so full of shit, you post about "rule of law" on a monger board. You are so fucking arrogant, so full of shit, the thought that you could be convicted and jailed for breaking the law for being a monger does not even register. When you say rule of law, what you really mean is applying grace to Democratic douches while hammering Republicans with the law.

Well, that is not what rule of law means you dumb fuck. Rule of law means every monger here goes to jail.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2922541]Would you rather have a Polling Problem or an Election Problem?

Actually, Biden dosn't even have much of a Polling Problem if you believe demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' unforgiving No Toss Up States Electoral College Map, its own Consensus of Polls results for Biden vs Trump in the only 3 Battleground states Biden needs to win 270 EC Votes as well as the same in the 538 Polling site; Even if the election were held tomorrow, Biden would only need to close or beat the miniscule Trump 1 to 2. 3 point or less Polling advantage he has in those states to secure a much deserved and well-earned 2nd term win.

Can a 1 to 2. 3 point or less advantage in a demonstrably Winger-leaning polling service and others be surmounted on any election day?

Yep. Quite easily. The truth of that has even finally been admitted by a hard right Winger online magazine. And Dems have been outperforming their polling numbers by at least that much vs Trump and his endorsed candidates in elections since he stole the 2016 election:

[B]Ignore The Polls. Republicans Have A Major Voter Turnout Problem.
June 12, 2024[/B]
[URL]https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/12/ignore-the-polls-republicans-have-a-major-voter-turnout-problem/[/URL]

Trump's daughter-in-law must be shifting all that dumb sucker Repub hillbilly donation money from their gub'ment entitlement checks and the big money donations from Corporate Elite CEOs who share a hearty laugh with Trump over the Repub Supply-Side / Trickle-Down scam they love to pull on, say, tip-earning workers in Nevada right into Trump's pocket to keep his failing golf resorts afloat.

Because it doesn't seem to be going into building a meaningful Ground Game presence in those battleground states.[/QUOTE]

Good read on polls and how they are often viewed and misused in politics.

[QUOTE] If you read nothing but posts from conservative influencers on X, youd be convinced that Donald Trump has already won the 2024 election. ...there's no way Trump can lose, or so the
conventional thinking goes.

While its certainly possible the polls are accurate, the outcome of recent elections should give conservatives reason to pump the brakes on celebrating before any ballots have been cast.

[b]Case in point:[/b] A special election held in Ohios 6th Congressional District on Tuesday...While Rulli (Repub) defeated Kripchak (Dem) in Tuesdays matchup and expanded Republicans thin House majority, the election was much closer than originally predicted. Preliminary results indicate Rulli won the race by 9.4 points [b]a more than [u]20-point shift[/u] in Democrats favor...[/b]

[URL]https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/12/ignore-the-polls-republicans-have-a-major-voter-turnout-problem/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

In his article, Shawn Fleetwood, basically goes on to show [b]"the alarming voting trend towards Dems"[/b] and repeats what ISG Dems, have been saying for months.

The fantastic wins and gains for Democrats in the 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 elections, midterm elections, special elections and primaries, throughout the country (and not only in battleground states), is representative of how Americans have shifted or continue to vote for Dems, especially on key issues like when [b]abortion, IVF, contraception[/b] and [b]marijuana[/b] are on the ballot or hang in the balance.

[QUOTE] [b]Despite conservatives hype, [u]election polls are meaningless.[/u][/b] The only thing that matters in modern U.S. elections is getting ballots into boxes. Until Republicans learn to chase ballots and compete with the Democrats election machine, they can continue to expect to lose every significant election under the sun.

[URL]https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/12/ignore-the-polls-republicans-have-a-major-voter-turnout-problem/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Couldn't agree more! This one statement (above) in his article...sums it up![LIST]That when Repubs primarily chase an election win based on [i]"the (fake) polls"[/i], instead of ballots, Repubs like Trump, will only continue to [b]fail[/b] at the ballot-box, [b][i]"fall asleep at the wheel"[/i][/b] and inevitably, will only be fooling themselves![/LIST]