Your questions have been answered by others. The answers disagree totally with you. Trump has for years been regarded by the majority as our all time worst prez. That has not changed. After 4 years of trump malfeasance biden has done pretty well with every good agenda and positive plans which the gop mired in the big lie has done its best to sabotage. And THAT is the truth, not your blind obedience to conservative phantasms.
maybe so, but at least WE are educable. how can you refute lies spoken by that man shown right on TV in real time??
If Biden would have said the horrid things Trump had uttered and said his dummy dumb things about covid, the neocons would been lookin for a rope
REMEMBER, Trump said almost everything that should scare the **** outta living humans RIGHT ON THE AIR.
YOU ACTUALLY GIVE HIM A PASS ON HIS AUTHORITARIAN (AND STUPID)UTTERANCES??
Trump was fairly often guilty of sometimes vulgar oversimplifications things and hostile epithets directed at his opponents. However the policies he enacted were well-conceived, and very effective in stimulating economic growth, increased employment and workforce participation (something that had fallen during the Obama years) and energy independence. The latter was particularly significant in that it severely limited OPEC and Russia's control of world petroleum prices and improved our balance of trade. He also recognized the dangerous decline of American industry that had occurred over the previous two decades, took some constructive steps to arrest its decline and build a foundation for regrowth. He forcefully addressed a decades-long building crisis on our southern border - a result of long - term government delay in addressing the issue and a number of unwise executive actions by Obama. He also dealt constructively and with remarkable economy of force, with the actions of a hostile Iran, thereby bringing new stability to the Middle East & Gulf regions.
All of that progress has been reversed in just 10 months under our current administration, itself a strange combination of left wing zealotry, efforts to extend government control into every aspect of our lives, corruption, and sometimes breathtaking incompetence on the part of Biden's appointees.
In stark contrast Trump focused on effective actions to enhance the economy and security of our country, doing so efficiently and without the unnecessary growth of bureaucratic control of our lives that has arisen in the current administration.
The Democrat Party is increasingly divided between left wing zealots focused on the creation of a totalitarian government, and moderates who are increasingly fearful the results of the forthcoming election. Biden's (if that is the right term) Legislative program is stalled in continuing squabbling among Democrat legislators. Indeed, apart from a number of ill-conceived and destructive executive actions, the Administration is chiefly notable for its stunning lack of success advancing its planned Legislative program (fortunately for us al) .
Biden's role in executive leadership (if you can call it that) has so far been an unhappy combination of inept weakness in international policy (generating several expressions of contempt from foreign leaders) continuing episodes of dementia, and authoritarian irritability and scolding of the American people, mostly on matters attendant to his so far inept management of government actions relative to the COVID epidemic. It is remarkable to note that in just a few months he has turned a country that eagerly sought vaccinations to one that now increasingly resists them, largely as a result of the silly authoritarian rules and irritable scolding of an inept and increasingly incoherent, demented old man who assiduously avoids any unscripted dialogues with the press.
In his years in the Senate Biden was a widely recognized lightweight, given to episodes of plagiarism and blatant lies about his background who would follow any political breeze that came his way. He was a candidate of desperate convenience for the Democrat Party after all their alternatives failed to generate much enthusiasm. It hasn't worked out well for either them or our country.
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Wed 27 Oct, 2021 11:52 am
Everyone will be utterly surprised to learn that John Eastman has been lying about his legal blueprint to overturn the election...
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Former Trump legal adviser John Eastman told an undercover progressive activist on camera that he stood by his blueprint on how Mike Pence could subvert the 2020 election for Trump – despite insisting as recently as last week to the National Review that he totally didn’t believe those ideas could work.
Eastman told the activist that there was “no question” that his legal reasoning was solid.
Eastman also said that the reason why Pence ultimately didn’t go along with the lawyer’s plot was because the then-vice president was “establishment guy at the end of the day.”
So much for Eastman’s backtracking last week, when he told the National Review that the memo’s main argument that Pence is the ultimate arbiter of certifying the Electoral College votes “doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” and that the idea that House Republicans, upon theoretically being given the power to do so by Pence, could replace Biden electoral votes with Trump votes was “crazy.”
And THAT is the truth, not your blind obedience to conservative phantasms.
Small change MJ - not conservative, I respect most well established conservative views; it should be "autocratic phantasms".
What “well established conservative views” do you respect?
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Wed 27 Oct, 2021 01:37 pm
An interesting situation is developing around the ongoing, somewhat desperate, efforts by Democrats in Congress to craft some reduced form of their "infrastructure" legislation that they can agree on. The issues arise from the rising opposition a growing number of key elements in this unusual draft law which addresses issues ranging from new taxes and new powers for the IRS , to child care, amnesties for illegal immigrants, added subsidies for solar power, and even a few new elements of transportation infrastructure. The tensions within the Democrat Congressional delegation arise between left wing zealots in pursuit of their favorite programs, and moderates, including a growing number of increasingly nervous Democrat legislators, concerned about the forthcoming mid term elections.
The forthcoming Gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey have the potential to significantly exacerbate this already difficult situation. A Democrat loss in either state (something which appears likely) will raise the anxieties of many Democrat legislators about their own prospects in the Mid term elections, thereby increasing the current divide in the Democrat delegation. Biden desperately needs some legislative success to somehow sustain the illusion of an effective Presidency, so the stakes are very high for all. It will be interesting to see what unfolds in the coming weeks.
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Wed 27 Oct, 2021 01:44 pm
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Democrats’ biggest problem isn’t in Congress. It’s in your state capitol.
If you pay a lot of attention to politics, just about every day you’ll see news of some outrageous thing that a Republican like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said or did. But David Pepper, the former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, wants you to be aware of something more frightening.
“For every Marjorie Taylor Greene, there are hundreds of statehouse members” just like her, Pepper told me. “They’re on the inside, drawing the lines and setting the rules.”
Pepper has written a book titled “Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call From Behind the Lines,” which persuasively argues that the site of the most pernicious corruption and assaults on democracy is not where congressional Republicans roam. It’s in the statehouses, which Pepper calls “the most corrosive danger America faces.”
All the battles we observe at the national level — over abortion, tax policy, the environment, health care and the fate of American democracy itself — are playing out in state capitols. Some years ago — while Democrats were essentially sleeping — Republicans figured out that it would be relatively easy to take over at the state level, then use that power to make it almost impossible for Democrats to win, locking in their control and creating a playground for special interests.
What makes it possible is the fact that so little attention is paid to state government.
Do you know who your state representative is? How about your state senator? There’s a good chance you don’t, even if you’re a political junkie. That’s because politics has been so nationalized, and there are so many sources of information on Washington, even as local journalism has steadily withered away.
The fewer reporters there are in state capitols, the easier it is for corruption to flourish. And that’s particularly true in places such as Pepper’s home state of Ohio, where through aggressive gerrymandering, voter purges and other voter suppression measures, Republicans have successfully engineered a system that completely insulates them from accountability.
The result is state legislatures populated by officeholders who are largely anonymous to the voting public, but who are surrounded by swarms of lobbyists. “No one knows who they are,” Pepper says, but “insiders in the capitols know exactly who they are.”
We have a kind of national myth that the federal government is where all the self-dealing and corruption happens, while states are the seat of wisdom and virtue. In fact, it’s often just the opposite.
States Republicans control — both heavily conservative ones and more closely divided ones such as Ohio or Wisconsin — are where the GOP is most aggressively working to create what is essentially “competitive authoritarianism." Under it, formal systems of democracy continue to exist, but there’s no real electoral competition.
Democrats haven’t truly mobilized against this assault on their ability to participate in their own governance, and we see it every election. “Democrats tend to get more excited about that one dynamic candidate” rather than thinking systemically, Pepper told me.
In recent years, huge amounts of liberal money flowed into virtually unwinnable races, not because of strategic thinking by Democratic donors but because a compelling Democrat ran against a reviled Republican.
So in South Carolina in 2020, Jaime Harrison raised a staggering $130 million to lose to Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) by 10 points. In Kentucky, Amy McGrath raised $94 million and lost to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) by almost 20 points. That money could have turned the tide on dozens of statehouse races, where far smaller amounts are spent.
Pepper saw it in 2010 when he ran for state auditor. As the election approached, he watched money pouring in to his opponent’s coffers from strange places, like employees from out-of-state corporate interests. Why would they care about an auditor’s race in Ohio?
Well, the auditor sits on the board that draws state legislative lines, which means a role in whether Republicans could gerrymander the state beyond democratic accountability. Which would be very good for corporate interests.
Paying more attention to states also would highlight the problems of the corrupt, unaccountable system that exists in so many places — creating an opening to make a case for change to voters. “It’s inevitable that there’s a decline in public outcomes under the current system,” Pepper told me.
Schools do worse, services decay, problems don’t get solved — and that, Pepper argues, offers Democrats an opportunity. He points to Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas, a Democrat who got elected in 2018 in a deeply Republican state by attacking GOP mismanagement.
Pepper has 30 pieces of advice for Democrats to address their problems at the state level — from passing federal voting legislation, to boosting local journalism, to directing more contributions to key local races. None is a silver bullet, and all will be made more difficult by Republicans’ success in purging accountability from the state political system.
But the most important message is that Democrats can’t make state politics an afterthought. “There’s almost a sense of resignation that statehouses are just going to be this way and we can’t do anything about it,” Pepper told me. “That resignation is when you lose.”
Yet another fallacious argument for increasing Federal government involvement in the internal affairs of our states, on issues reserved for the several states under our Constitution.
It's not that bad Frank. The Mid term elections will likely restore some sanity to our Congress. Unfortunately we're stuck with the very unlikable team of Biden & Harris for a while, and that will likely be a continuing drag on Democrat fortunes.
I'm glad to see what appears to have been an awakening to the reality of the present Administration on your part.
I blame Biden for certain things, but ending our stay in Afghanistan is not one of them. He ended one of the stupidest wars a country ever fought.
Except that Biden didn't initiate the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump did. That's a FACT. Biden just took over, and then turned it into a disaster by allowing the Taliban to murder 13 American soldiers, leaving God knows how many other Americans stranded to die, and also handed the Taliban 90 BILLION dollars of taxpayer funded military weapons.
Those blunders simply wouldn't have happened on Trump's watch. Period.
I'm sick of this bait and switch from Biden sheeple. It is, in fact, possible to support the withdrawal form Afghanistan and also be disgusted by Biden's disastrous handling of it. The worst foreign disaster that any U.S. president ever had a hand in.
I ALSO THINK JOE BIDEN HANDLED THE WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN BETTER THAN TRUMP EVER SHOWED HE WOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT.
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IT IS MY OPINION THAT OUR ECONOMY WILL BE THE BETTER FOR EVERYONE AS A RESULT OF THE KINDS OF POLICIES BEING PURSUED BY JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS IN THE CONGRESS.
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Can any Biden voters here answer these questions with a simple yes or no answer as well as a straight face?
...I posit that none here can respond civilly without lying.
And so there you have it folks. None here can answer my question without bold faced lying.
It is an objective FACT that Biden's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan was the worst foreign incident in the history of the U.S., and it has been documented as such widely.
Also, Biden and the democrats economic policies (specifically the plan to unendingly print TRILLIONS of dollars out of thin air among other lunacy) do not stand up to the simple test of arithmetic. It's pretty cut and dried, as a country we simply cannot spend more money than we have. And it's because of the democrats and Biden, as well as their idiotic voter base, that we as a nation are facing a future of hyper inflation and even a Venezuela style economic collapse.
Liberals can't do basic math.
And so once again we see just how mentally ill the Biden voters are.
‘Playing with our free speech’: Author of anti-Biden rap ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ CENSORED by YouTube talks to RT after TOPPING US chart
One can’t find Bryson Gray’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on YouTube or Instagram, but the rap track using the meme phrase to criticize US President Joe Biden has surged past Adele’s new single to become the most popular on iTunes.
“I don’t even curse, and I’m the most censored rapper in the world. How is that possible?” Gray told RT on Monday, commenting on the fact that YouTube deleted his song. The Google-owned video platform claims his lyrics contain “medical misinformation” about the coronavirus pandemic. Gray calls it censorship.
If you can ban art, you can ban anything.
Featuring Tyson James and Chandler Crump, Gray’s rap takes aim at Biden’s handling of the economy, the pandemic and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, among other things. The Democrat’s approval ratings are currently in freefall.
Unlike many rap songs, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ isn’t expletive-laden. The title comes from a meme, created in early October when a NBC sports reporter tried to spin the fact that the crowd at a NASCAR race was chanting “F**k Joe Biden” instead. Since then, it has spread as an expletive-free way to criticize the sitting president – and avoid censorship. Until now, that is.
‘Let’s go Brandon’ is more than just a funny anti-Biden meme. It empowers Americans against the ‘fact-checkers’ and censors
“They're playing with our free speech; nobody's messing with them, they're messing with us,” Gray told RT. He described the behavior of the Biden administration as “nothing more similar to a dictatorship.” Pointing to an example, he said the current government is “trying to segregate vaccinated and unvaccinated,” saying it was “like Jim Crow 2.0,” a reference to racial segregation laws in the US during the early 20th century.
YouTube banned Gray’s track on October 21, saying one of the lyrics contained “medical misinformation” about the coronavirus. They gave him a second “strike” soon thereafter, but said they would respond to his appeal. Facebook-owned Instagram deleted the music video as well.
On Twitter, Gray’s official page is still up as of the time of writing – but one can no longer get his name suggested by the network’s search, even when “CCG BRYSON” or “@RealBrysonGray” is copy-pasted there.
The censorship seems to have backfired, however, as ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ shot to the top of iTunes charts over the weekend, overtaking Adele’s ‘Easy On Me.’
“We did it!” Gray tweeted on Sunday. “Stop being afraid of censorship. Stop being afraid to be canceled. STAND UP. Thank y'all so much! KEEP IT GOING!"
Interestingly enough, Google searches for “iTunes charts” kept returning previews that started at second place, as if first place did not exist.
There are currently three ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ songs in the US top 10, Gray pointed out – one at number three and the other at number 10 – but only his has been banned. It’s the only one featuring no profanity.
“Why is the most censored rapper in the country someone that doesn’t even curse in songs?” Gray told Fox News over the weekend. “Why can you rap about murder, sex, and drugs but when I rap about questioning the government I get banned? Is this still America?”
“I don’t even curse, and I’m the most censored rapper in the world. How is that possible?”
The white liberals silencing a black man who isn't even cursing. Reminds me about how the democrats founded the KKK, and how Biden and Hillary were best friends with Robert Byrd.
Because white liberals are the most racist people on the planet.
In the United States, the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution states that any power not explicitly granted to the federal government lies solely in the states.[4][5] However, since World War II, the Supreme Court has consistently ruled against cases challenging the powers of Congress, with exceptions during the Rehnquist Court.[6] In effect, the Supreme Court has decided that Congress has the power to determine the scope of its own authority
Still, one can't help but be nostalgic for the wonderful history of States, particularly in the South, doing liberty stuff like curbing blacks from the voting franchise. Thank goodness we still have some States thinking like you think. Ever got a woman pregnant who aborted the fetus, george?
The Supreme court has decided no such thing. There have been exceptions approved by the court based on other individual arguments and criteria. However he Congress has become expert in making certain Federal payments to States conditional on State compliance with specified Federal criteria.
As for the rest, you appear to be losing your composure.
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Wed 27 Oct, 2021 06:37 pm
@ManOfTruth,
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“I don’t even curse, and I’m the most censored rapper in the world. How is that possible?”
The white liberals silencing a black man who isn't even cursing. Reminds me about how the democrats founded the KKK, and how Biden and Hillary were best friends with Robert Byrd.
Because white liberals are the most racist people on the planet.
Interesting observation. I don't believe they are necessarily the worst racists out there, but it interesting to observe the frequency with which they propose to impose legal distinctions on the rest of us that are explicitly based on race, and so frequently indulge in clearly racist rhetoric and political positioning
However as good progressives everywhere they thoughtlessly require that we judge them, not on the justice or effectiveness of the programs they impose on us, but rather on their presumed good intentions in enacting them. More of their authoritarian " I had to kill a few of them for the good of the others" These are all of course very familiar of behavior t0 students of the Communist and Fascist tyrannies of the 20th century
A difficult day in a Senate Judiciary Committee for AG Garland. It turns out the prose in Garland's letter to the FBI, directing them to track and pursue parents found to have disrupted school board and related meetings and/or otherwise have "harassed" school officials, and treat them as potential terrorists under standing FBI national Security Programs, was virtually identical to the text in the National schools association's, now rescinded, letter to the White House, requesting that action. In addition Garland's testimony confirmed that he conducted no independent investigation of these allegations before he released his directive - almost immediately after hearing from the White House. Overall the AG had a tough day and handled it poorly.
So much for Biden's fatuous claims for a Justice department independent of political influence. Indeed Biden is sustaining a career-long pattern of misusing his various offices for personal and political gains, for himself, his brother and his infamous son.
Sadly Garland declined to rescind his directive, even though the Education Association that requested this action from Biden "rescinded " it's letter requesting it.
More in a continuing story of authoritarianism, hypocrisy, and stunning incompetence.
Former VA Gov. McAuliffe also had an interesting couple of days hosting political campaign appearances first by VP Harris and then ole Joe Biden. A reliable sign of desperation on all their parts - and it showed vividly in their recorded words and demeanor.
