Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

@Frank Apisa,

georgeob1, and many other Trumpists, have a romantic and rather quaint notion of the presidency, where the functioning chief executive is really more of an idealized imperial figure with absolute control over the human and natural events which occur during his reign. The idea that something like a pandemic might actually produce negative effects on the world economy just doesn't seem believable – no, there must be one person to blame – supply chain disruptions and inflation must be the direct result of the doddering Evil King – he even forced China Evergrande to miss a third round of bond payments. He made OPEC limit oil production, and he's directly responsible for the shortage of electronic chips. He even caused Hurricane Ida and I heard that plans are in the works to steal Christmas! But luckily, all we have to do is replace the Evil King with their doddering old guy and suddenly national problems are caused by chance events on the world stage and their guy is blameless, just a victim of unfortunate timing and bad luck.

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@ManOfTruth,

there are more of us than you, and the country rejects your hate speech. that's why biden is prez ;and trump isn't.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

georgeob1, and many other Trumpists, have a romantic and rather quaint notion of the presidency, where the functioning chief executive is really more of an idealized imperial figure with absolute control over the human and natural events which occur during his reign. The idea that something like a pandemic might actually produce negative effects on the world economy just doesn't seem believable – no, there must be one person to blame – supply chain disruptions and inflation must be the direct result of the doddering Evil King – he even forced China Evergrande to miss a third round of bond payments. He made OPEC limit oil production, and he's directly responsible for the shortage of electronic chips. He even caused Hurricane Ida and I heard that plans are in the works to steal Christmas! But luckily, all we have to do is replace the Evil King with their doddering old guy and suddenly national problems are caused by chance events on the world stage and their guy is blameless, just a
victim of unfortunate timing and bad luck.

You nailed it here, Hightor.

We gotta hope they do not prevail. If they do...if Trump is returned to the presidency...we are done as a democracy.

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@georgeob1,

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A sad spectacle from the start to the likely bad finish. The American people are the victims.

Indeed. Who among us doesn't wake each morning fearful for the future of American democracy since Trump's attempt to overturn an election that put a liberal in the White House tragically failed.

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@hightor,

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georgeob1, and many other Trumpists, have a romantic and rather quaint notion of the presidency, where the functioning chief executive is really more of an idealized imperial figure with absolute control over the human and natural events which occur during his reign...But luckily, all we have to do is replace the Evil King with their doddering old guy and suddenly national problems are caused by chance events on the world stage and their guy is blameless, just a victim of unfortunate timing and bad luck.

Memory, as we know, can be conveniently plastic when that is convenient.

And this convenience has great utility in the political realm where a person holds it as absolutely axiomatic that liberalism must fail and conservatism will succeed. It's a story where the characters are precisely drawn, their trajectories inevitable, and where the final chapter reveals that the righteous was righteous all along and the evil was evil all along.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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A sad spectacle from the start to the likely bad finish. The American people are the victims.

Indeed. Who among us doesn't wake each morning fearful for the future of American democracy since Trump's attempt to overturn an election that put a liberal in the White House tragically failed.

Indeed!

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A decided lack of substance in the responses to my post above, coming from people who appear every bit as fixed in their preferred perspectives, as they profess I am in those they assign to me. The few concrete items listed like Hightor's reference to hurricane Ida and the growing worldwide supply chain issues have nothing whatever to do with anything I wrote. Instead I listed specific failures associated with the actual actions of our current President and the Legislative program his socialist handlers in the Congress are pursuing.

In any event the ongoing downward spiral in public reactions to the increasingly evident policy failures of the administration, and the evident ineptitude of its leaders is undeniable.

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@georgeob1,

georgeob1 wrote:

A decided lack of substance in the responses to my post above, coming from people who appear every bit as fixed in their preferred perspectives, as they profess I am in those they assign to me. The few concrete items listed like Hightor's reference to hurricane Ida and the growing worldwide supply chain issues have nothing whatever to do with anything I wrote. Instead I listed specific failures associated with the actual actions of our current President and the Legislative program his socialist handlers in the Congress are pursuing.

In any event the ongoing downward spiral in public reactions to the increasingly evident policy failures of the administration, and the evident ineptitude of its leaders is undeniable.

You insist on looking at this from the perspective of, "How good is the Biden administration doing for America?"

You ought really to check out the alternative of, "How good would it have been if Trump had won a second term?"

That second question would be related to, "Would Germany had been better off during the 1940's if Hitler had not been in power?"

My take: No matter what, the Biden administration is a MUCH better thing for America than a second Trump administration would have been.

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@Frank Apisa,

You are comparing what Biden has actually done with things you suppose and prejudge that Trump would have done. Absurd.

Interesting isn't it that many of Biden's now evident failures, including those on our southern border, the increasingly hostile public reactions to Biden's "scientific" policies regarding COVID; our currently rising inflation fueled as it is be fast rising energy prices we can no longer control; etc. involve concrete actions Biden thoughtlessly took to reverse Trump policy initiatives and actions.

In his mindless efforts to usurp powers reserved to the states in our Constitution and to legislate government control of everything from health care to preschool, public education and personal bank records, Biden has revealed himself to be a true authoritarian. Happily his feeble ineptitude limits his reach.

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@georgeob1,

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In any event the ongoing downward spiral in public reactions to the increasingly evident policy failures of the administration, and the evident ineptitude of its leaders is undeniable.

George, that is a sentence which you have never written when describing the Bush or the Trump administration regardless of polling far worse than how Biden now polls and regardless of failures in policy and/or reactions to negative trends in national/world events or in describing the characters and scandals of those in GOP administrations.

I've been curious to hear from you, to discover your thoughts about what has happened to your party and to conservatism in America particularly since Trump gained office and behaved as he has behaved - with almost unrelenting support from the rest of the party.

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our current President and the Legislative program his socialist handlers in the Congress

And this seems to be why you think as you still do. I really don't know what depths of dishonesty and moral degradation and what levels of authoritarianism your party can fall to that might cause you to doubt your allegiance to a political ideology which has grown to hate representative democracy to its very bones.

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@blatham,

No where did I suggest that negative popular reactions were unique to the Biden Administration. Things like that rise and fall in every administration. My point was instead that the one occurring now, with respect to the accumulating failures of the policies of the Biden Administration, appears to be gaining focus and momentum very fast, involving several disparate issues, all apparently coalescing in fast spreading public reactions., and that this is likely to have very adverse consequences for them in the next election.

I think it would be very hard to describe the long-term, utterly sectarian, hard ball tactics of the Pelosi/Schumer leadership in the Congress as anything favoring a democratic legislative process.

Their current legislative agenda involves huge, several thousand page draft legislation, written by hired consultants, and dumped on the Congress without any bipartisan committee review and debate. It includes sweeping expansions of Federal government control of elections, child care, public education, heretofore private records in banking; adds a variety of new taxes, and proposes to dump unprecedented sums of public money into and economy that is increasingly stagnant and infested with growing inflation. Regular order Federal budget legislation disappeared during the Obama years and hasn't yet resurfaced. These largely Democrat programs have created a growing bureaucratic state structure which has for decades assumed and internalized the legislative and judicial functions of our government.

That is the real threat to our representative democracy now.

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@georgeob1,

georgeob1 wrote:

You are comparing what Biden has actually done with things you suppose and prejudge that Trump would have done. Absurd.

NO, no, no. I am comparing what Biden is doing (although he has only been at it for 9 months...and had been handed a huge mess)...against what would almost certainly have been an extension of the most corrosive administrations I have seen during my 85 years, George.

Trump was an unrelenting abomination...a traitor to our nation and its values. I see no reason to suspect he was going to change his spot, so to speak.

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Interesting isn't it that many of Biden's now evident failures, including those on our southern border, the increasingly hostile public reactions to Biden's "scientific" policies regarding COVID; our currently rising inflation fueled as it is be fast rising energy prices we can no longer control; etc. involve concrete actions Biden thoughtlessly took to reverse Trump policy initiatives and actions.

In his mindless efforts to usurp powers reserved to the states in our Constitution and to legislate government control of everything from health care to preschool, public education and personal bank records, Biden has revealed himself to be a true authoritarian. Happily his feeble ineptitude limits his reach.

On his worst day in office so far, George, Joe Biden has been a far better president for America than Trump was on his very best day in office.

If I had my vote to give again...I would give it to Joe Biden over Trump immediately...and feel great about doing so.

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@georgeob1,

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I think it would be very hard to describe the long-term, utterly sectarian, hard ball tactics of the Pelosi/Schumer leadership in the Congress as anything favoring a democratic legislative process.

As opposed to the thoughtful, bipartisan, constructive tactics practiced by every Republican congress since Newt Gingrich?

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That is the real threat to our representative democracy now.

No, the real threat to representative democracy will occur in 2022 in polling stations where party operatives will be allowed to oversee vote counting and where state legislatures have been newly granted the ability to overturn the results of elections.

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@georgeob1,

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In his mindless efforts to usurp powers reserved to the states in our Constitution and to legislate government control of everything from health care to preschool, public education and personal bank records, Biden has revealed himself to be a true authoritarian. Happily his feeble ineptitude limits his reach.

If there's one adjective that doesn't fit a "true authoritarian" it's "mindless".

When states demonstrate incompetence, practice racial and gender discrimination, show unwillingness to address environmental pollution, and allow two-tier educational systems which harm the poor, the federal government can and should step in as it has an overriding responsibility to "promote the general welfare" of citizens.

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@hightor,

Hear hear

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Leaked Border Patrol docs show mass release of illegal immigrants into US by Biden administration

EXCLUSIVE: At least 160,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S., often with little to no supervision, by the Biden administration since March – including a broad use of limited parole authorities to make more than 30,000 eligible for work permits since August, Border Patrol documents obtained by Fox News show.

The documents give a partial snapshot into how the Biden administration has been releasing enormous numbers of migrants into the U.S., often with little to no oversight, supervision or immediate risk of deportation.

BORDER CRISIS OVERWHELMING OFFICIAL, COMMUNITIES AS MIGRANT NUMBERS KEEP SURGING

Since March 20, at least 94,570 illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S. with Notices to Report. Those who receive such a notice are only required to check in with an ICE office when they get to their final destination – which could be anywhere across the country. Those who check in are not deported or detained as their immigration proceedings move forward.

Meanwhile, since Aug 6th, the administration has released roughly 32,000 immigrants into the U.S. via parole – which gives migrants a form of legal status and the ability to apply for work permits.

Federal law says parole authority is to be used on a case-by-case basis for "urgent humanitarian purposes" and "significant public benefit." Typically only a handful of parole cases are granted by officials, but the Biden administration has been using it more broadly, including in its parole of tens of thousands of Afghans into the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome.

Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who served under President Biden, reviewed the documents and told Fox News that he believes the administration is abusing its parole authority.

"By law and regulation a parole shall only be granted on a case by case basis and only for significant humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. Neither of these appear to apply to the current situation," he said, adding that the number of paroles brings into question the review and approval process.

"As a field chief, I don’t believe I ever approved more than 5 or 10 paroles in a year," he said. "When I did, I ensured that the alien was monitored continuously and was detained or removed as soon as the circumstances allowed."

SEN. BLACKBURN TOURS BORDER, SAYS CRISIS ‘CANNOT CONTINUE’ AS SHE CALLS ON BIDEN TO STEP UP

The documents also show that since Aug 6, the administration has released an additional 40,000 illegal immigrants on their own recognizance. The documents also show that on one single day in Del Rio sector, 128 single adult illegal immigrants were released into the U.S. without ATD – which typically includes tracking by an ankle monitor or phone.

Texas braces for the arrival of 60,000 migrants at the borderVideo
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official told Fox that mechanisms like paroling, the use of NTRs and enrolling migrants in Alternatives to Detention (ATD) "provides mechanisms to require family units released from CBP custody to report to ICE within a specified time."

The official also cited figures that show that between 2014 and 2020, 81% of those released into the U.S. did report in for their immigration proceedings.

The agency has not released its numbers for September, but in both July and August there were more than 200,000 migrant encounters, marking some of the highest numbers in two decades. Since then, migrants have kept coming in large numbers. According to the documents, Rio Grande Valley encountered 5,900 migrants in one week, while Del Rio encountered more than 2,900 in the same period.

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has repeatedly claimed that the border is not open, reportedly warned officials of a worst case scenario of up to 400,000 encounters if Title 42 public health protections were ended.

Republicans have blamed the Biden administration’s rapid rollback of Trump-era border protections for the ongoing crisis at the border. The administration however has focused on an explanation emphasizing "root causes" like poverty, corruption and violence in Central America.

"The downturn in economies, the attendant rise in violence, the downturn in economies made more acute by reason of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the suppression of any humanitarian relief over the past number of years, and the pent-up thirst for relief among many different populations," Mayorkas told Yahoo News this week. "I think an accumulation of factors contributes to the rise in migration that we've seen."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leaked-border-patrol-docs-release-immigrants-us-biden-administration

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Democrats are getting absolutely crushed in new polls…

Democrats and their party-aligned elites and globalists are on a tight time line to take over the world, cripple the Constitution, capsize capitalism, seize individual liberties, force vaccines into the arms of Americans who don’t want vaccines, and sell that particular brand of socialism-slash-communism-slash-governance-by-surveillance that better belongs with Chinese than liberty-loving Americans.

November 2022 approaches. And by all indications: Democrats are going down. As in Bruce Springsteen “down.” And that means one thing: Cue Lovin’ Spoonful’s daydream.

“Herschel Walker’s Senate bid roars to life with massive fundraising numbers,” Fox News wrote, about the Heisman Trophy winner’s massive campaign draw to win the Georgia seat from Democrat Raphael Warnock.

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The news from around the nation — and from sources not so friendly to conservatives — is similar.

“Republicans gaining ground on Democrats in Virginia statewide elections, poll finds,” The Washington Post just wrote.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s daily emailed pleas for money show his desperation.

“[Glenn] Youngkin climbed in the polls,” his campaign wrote, just a few days ago. “Then the experts at The Cook Political Report moved the race to a toss-up. And right now? Republicans’ enthusiasm is at an all time HIGH.”

Yes. That’s ‘cause Americans are sick and tired of authoritarian Democrats. And the sick and tiredness has been creeping for some time now.

“Democrats could suffer a big fall in 2022 elections,” The Boston Globe wrote, back in July. Fast-forward a few, and it’s more of the same.

“This poll should terrify Democrats ahead of 2022,” CNN wrote in September, about an Iowa poll showing only 31% of that state’s residents approved of Joe Biden’s handling of his presidential duties.

J. Ann Selzer, a pollster who gave Donald Trump 35% approval at this same time in his administration and Barack Obama, 36%, said to the Des Moines Register about Joe Biden’s 31% approval-62% disapproval: “This is a bad poll for Joe Biden and it’s playing out in everything that he touches right now.”

Like the other Democrats in his party? Apparently. Biden is like Midas, only opposite. Everything this president touches turns to doggie doo-doo.

So, too, his silent shadowy vice president, Kamala Harris. She’s so missing from the public stage that she’s sparked a whole new takeoff of “Where’s Waldo?” Democrats no doubt think she’s so hated that keeping her locked away and tucked from view is the best chance they have of boosting her popularity. But it’s a race to the bottom.

“Biden sinking so fast in polls even Kamala Harris is topping him,” The Boston Herald wrote in late September.

It’s not quite a win when the closest competition is a last-round pick. Americans shouldn’t have to go dumpster diving for their leaders.

“V.P. Kamala Harris’ Poll Numbers Are Higher Than President Joe Biden’s,” Black Enterprise chirped in late September, in a story about how Democrats are seeing the vice president as a potential pick for president in 2024. Let them. Poll numbers higher than terrible still a crappy candidate make.

“Democrats Set to Lose Control of Senate in 2022, Polling Suggests,” Newsweek reported this month.

In all fairness, there are plenty of polls suggesting otherwise. Then again, polls always point to massive Democrat wins — record-breaking Democrat sweeps, even. They’re rarely right; as a matter of fact, polls are a generally pretty sucky way of determining the winds of political change, even when favoring the conservative side of things. The numbers are too easily skewed; the findings, too easily manipulated; the conclusions, too easily fabricated for political gain and steam. The only polls that really should be paid attention to at all are the polls that paint Democrats in a poor light — because these are the polls the Democrat-loving media don’t want to report but have to, because the poor lights are too obvious to ignore. Even then, they sugarcoat.

Common sense, not polling, is a much better scale.

And on common sense, it’s becoming more and more apparent: Democrats are going down. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci recognizes that; why else would the guy “give” us not just Christmas, but also Halloween this year — after first trying to “take” Christmas 2021, as he did in 2020 and for all the holidays? He knows the angst grows. He knows the time grows short.

The left can’t keep forcing its tyrannical ways onto free Americans without expecting some sort of backlash. From vaccine mandates to Afghanistan betrayal to rising inflation to delayed shipments of products, everything the Democrats have been doing has led to failure.

“‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart and rivals to hire their own ships,” Reuters wrote.

“Supply chain issues lead to empty shelves and delivery delays,” CBS News wrote.

The levy is about to explode.

Americans are about to have their say.

Democrats are about to go down. Thankfully. The country can’t stand much more of their madness.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/12/democrats-are-going-down-down-down/

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Hillary Clinton calls for more Big Tech censorship

Her proposed solution to the "constitutional crisis."

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for more censorship on Big Tech platforms, singling out Facebook as the most problematic.

In a recent interview with The View, the 2016 presidential candidate blamed former President Donald Trump and Facebook for the Jan 6 riot at the US Capitol, which she described as a “constitutional crisis.”

According to her, the solution is more censorship.

“…[it] gives me absolutely no satisfaction in saying this, because I think we’re at a very dangerous, continuing, high-level attack on the legitimacy of our government and the election of our president,” she said.

“Obviously, our former president is not only behind it, he incited it, he encouraged it, and he continues to do so,” Clinton added.

She continued to argue that “democracy is at stake” as a result of online “misinformation.| She singled out Facebook as the most problematic platform in the spread of misinformation. In Clinton’s opinion, removing online disinformation is crucial to upholding democracy in the US.

“When you combine [claims of election fraud] with disinformation from Facebook, you’ve got a volatile mix. We’re still in the midst of a concerted, well-funded effort to undermine American democracy,” she explained.

In recent months, Facebook has been blasted by some for not censoring enough “misinformation.” More recently, internal documents leaked by the Wall Street Journal preceded the latest big push for a crackdown.

https://reclaimthenet.org/hillary-clinton-calls-for-more-big-tech-censorship/

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TRUMP: If You’ve Had COVID, You Don’t Need The China Virus Vaccine [VIDEO]

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/10/trump-if-youve-had-covid-you-dont-need-the-china-virus-vaccine-video/

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@Frank Apisa,

Frank Apisa wrote:

ManOfTruth wrote:
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You are so popular...one would think they would rush to respond.

That's fine. But then it needs to be noted that the moderators here are censoring my topics for political censorship reasons and only promoting one political opinion.

I've been posting in this forum for about 20 years...and I have never seen any indication that the moderators are censoring particular political opinions. We have many posters who post comment after comment that favor your side of the political equation, MOT.

If your threads are being shut down, it almost certainly is not a result of bias...but rather that you are doing something prohibited.

If you have written to them using the "contact us" system and they have not responded, you are just out of luck. They do not get paid; they are essentially overworked...and apparently Robert has abandoned ship, so he is not going to help you.

Send another request using the "contact us" method. Maybe someone will answer.

BTW, They know who you really, really are and do not appreciate sock puppets!

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