A report card on the Biden administration

This is an historic day.

The House narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, approving the landmark $2.2 trillion Build Back Better bill to battle climate change, expand health care and reweave the nation’s social safety net, over the unanimous opposition of Republicans. It is one of the most consequential bills in decades.

For the first time in America's history we had a female President for a short period of time.

For the first time in American history a jury approved of vigilante justice enforced by assault rifles, as a Wisconsin jury declared Kyle Rittenhouse innocent of all charges. Rittenhouse killed two men and wounded another as he was defending the town ... or so he said. Far right extremist across the country are cheering madly. Rittenhouse is their hero.

 

More good news for the Republican Party as it distances itself from Donald Trump, his Big Lie, and the repercussions of his speech inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6.

ABC reports, "Fresh off a national upset win in Virginia and a near-miss in New Jersey, the group of high-profile Republican governors and their strategists are now tasked with replicating their momentum across the map in some of the most highly competitive midterm races in decades -- a goal actively complicated by former President Donald Trump's continued endorsement of primary challengers to incumbent governors who have fallen out of his personal favor. And plans on how they navigate the minefield of remaining undistracted by Trump while not alienating him or his supporters remain fuzzy.

"Rather than embracing or denouncing the former president, the over a dozen governors present who spoke publicly at the conference stressed that their path to winning lies in drilling down on issues-based campaigning -- focusing on things like increasing police funding, combating higher taxes, curbing immigration, etc.

"And to the highly confident Republican Governors Association, there is no more perfect blueprint than freshly-elected Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, who pulled off a gubernatorial win in a reliable blue state in part by nationalizing local issues while keeping the former president, and his continued gripes surrounding the 2020 election, at arm's length."

The governors are encouraged by influential conservatives like Rupert Murdoch. The statements from Murdoch -- who controls a media empire that includes, among other properties, the shamelessly pro-Trump Fox News -- may serve as a test for Republicans who understand just how harmful Trump's dominance of the GOP is, and how it could ultimately sink the party.

Murdoch, addressing the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, said that the United States faces a number of major political decisions that conservatives will fail to shape unless Trump moves on. "The current American political debate is profound," he said, citing education, welfare and economic opportunity. "It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate," he added, "but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past."

Republican governors are not the only ones abandoning Trump. So are many of his supporters. Trump is still being supported by his intelligence challenged cult and his endorsement may be important to some Republican candidates in 2022.

 

Another Red Ink Orgy, this one with massive tax Cuts for the rich that reverse Trump tax Hikes on the Rich.

The Climate crap fools no one.

“CLIMATE” INITIATIVE NOT DOING SO WELL IN MASSACHUSETTS: Charlie Baker drops out of TCI, admitting initiative ‘no longer best solution’ for state. “Gov. Charlie Baker has pulled the plug on a regional climate initiative that would have capped tailpipe emissions and was projected to hike gas prices at a time of record inflation, admitting the multi state-deal is ‘no longer the best solution.’ He backs out of the Transportation and Climate Initiative just days after Connecticut did.”

It was never the best solution for the state.

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Would have added another 9 cents a gallon to already Bidenflated gasoline prices.

 

Yay.

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After reminding the crowd that the election was stolen from them, Trump told the angry crowd on Jan. 6,
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to show strength. You have to be strong.
When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore!”

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas Monday to more people involved with the insurrection, including conspiracy theorist and right-wing media figure Alex Jones and longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone.

Jones is accused of coordinating with Cindy Chafian and Caroline Wren in organizing the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, along with his promotion of Trump’s false claims of election fraud and urging of people to travel to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally.

The Post reports, "Stone, a longtime confidant of Trump, has amplified the former president’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and rife with voter fraud in the weeks leading up to the attack."

Stone was indicted on charges of lying to Congress about what he and then-candidate Trump knew about Russian efforts to discredit Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign, witness tampering and obstruction. The charges related to his efforts during the 2016 presidential race to act as an intermediary between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, the entity that was disseminating the Russian hacks.

Stone was pardoned by President Trump.

The Post continued, "Jones and Stone have promoted extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and have ties to some individuals who have already been charged by the government."

"Jones has spread numerous false claims including the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which he falsely claimed the deadly attack was a “hoax.”

"The committee has asked Stone and Jones to provide testimony by Dec. 17 and Dec. 18, respectively, and to provide the panel with requested documents by Dec. 6."

It is quite likely that Jones and Stone will not testify, and Trump is telling his former associates to keep their mouths shut. What is interesting is, to the voting public, that is an admission of guilt. If they were innocent of the charges against them, would they want not to speak up in their defense? The simple answer is, of course not. If they were innocent, they would want to defend themselves against the charge of participating in an insurrection.

That reasoning also applies to McEnany, Miller, Meadows, Clark, Bannon, Flynn, and a whole host of Trump associates.

In the court of public opinion, as the election grows near, that is sufficient in determining whether the Republican Party deserves control of Congress.

 

Because of the huge volume of testimony, videos, and documents, the Jan. 6 select committee will be able to determine that many of Trump close associates participated in an insurrection, whose purpose it was to overthrow the will of the American people, reject the electoral votes of certain states Trump lost, and install Trump as the President. Some of those associates are current members of Congress.

So, then the question becomes, how will this impact the Republican Party in the mid-term elections a year from now? Common sense would indicate that the GOP will be negatively affected by all this.

That is not necessarily true. That assumption ignores the ignorance factor.

The farmers and rural shop keepers in the rural counties of America, the heartland of the Republican Party, know little about all of this. Moreover, they don't want to know. If they check on the news at all, it is with right wing media sites that tell them want they want to hear, not what they should learn. All they have is their dumb loyalty to Trump. They don't even know why.

Undoubtedly, some Republicans are informed to the extent that they support Trump's attack on American democracy -- free and fair elections.

Want proof? Please scan through this thread, preferably reports made this year. Please note the scarcity of replies from Republicans even though there are several posts highly critical of the Republican Party and its leader. Please note, if they do respond, Republicans rarely deal with the issues in the post they are responding to. Vulnerable, they desperately want to change the subject.

Why don't they deal with the issues? They know little or nothing about the issues. Yet, they will decide who controls Congress after November 2022.

That's scary, scary, but true.

 

The media certainly lied about Rittenhouse and his mother so…

 

I proved my point in post #881.

Once again, no response from the forum's Republicans.

Are we going to allow these people to choose our Congress in 2022 just as they chose our President in 2016? A man who was impeached twice, lost reelection by seven million votes, and incited an insurrection against our government on Jan. 6.

 

Matters are progressing well with the Jan. 6 select committee as they pursue Trump and others for participating in an insurrection against our government. Now the committee is going after the terrorists loyal to President Trump.

The Times reports, "The House committee investigating the Capitol attack issued subpoenas on Tuesday to three militia or paramilitary groups, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, that investigators believe have information about the deadly siege on Jan. 6.

"The subpoenas were issued to the Proud Boys International, L.L.C., and its chairman, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio; the Oath Keepers and its president, Elmer Stewart Rhodes; and the 1st Amendment Praetorian and its chairman, Robert Patrick Lewis. They came a day after the panel subpoenaed the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr., the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and three others."

“The select committee is seeking information from individuals and organizations reportedly involved with planning the attack, with the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 or with efforts to overturn the results of the election,” Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said in a statement. “We believe the individuals and organizations we subpoenaed today have relevant information about how violence erupted at the Capitol and the preparation leading up to this violent attack.”

The Times added, "The panel said members of Proud Boys International called for violence before Jan. 6, and the Justice Department indicted at least 34 people affiliated with the group.

 

So they're finally wanting to talk to people they should actually be talking to. The issue is, their probe runs DIRECTLY in line with the DOJ's investigation. Then again, Biden's DOJ has absolutely no problem running interference with the government but remember the sheer HORROR when it was presumed(or otherwise) that Trump would run interference with the stupid farce that was Russia gate?

 

Yes .. any politician can spend money .. and Biden is going where no man has gone before .. and why not .. might as well spend while we can - because the money tree doesn't last forever -- despite what the fairy tales tell you.

In terms of stoping the Chaos -- Biden has not succeeded .. country just as divided .. crime out of control .. the people out of control .. Authoritarianism - Cronyism - even worse than Carrot Top ..

Biden is doing one thing well -- Keeping the pockets of the Oligopolies who run Washington full .. aka - maintaining the status quo -- look for more of the same over rest of the term.

Under Biden our State Apparatus and Media propaganda machine has been mobilized against the people like never before -- seizing on the Pandemic for an opportunity to increase control -- further cementing utilitariaism .. in this case fallacious utilitarianism .. in an anti science - anti free speech agenda .. both disgusting and disturbing...

 

Example please. What state media? Mobilized by who? IOW, factually prove your assertion.

 

You blind?

 

Did not say anything about a "State Media" .however . . that term would be appropriate for a situation where the mainstream is parroting the State Propaganda narrative. which is part of the mobilization of the State Propaganda machine.

"Prove your Assertion" Listen the CNN/MSNBC .. et al clownshow .. parroting the vax mandate without question .. putting out lies and false narrtatives to prop up the party line . .. without question .. without the other side ..

You blind ?

 

Please be specific. What State Propaganda narrative? Who is disseminating it? By what means? Give me a concrete example.

 

You must begin to understand that Biden thinks 'politically right thinking' is subversive. Specifically, Biden thinks that capitalism is good in personal lives but not good for the gov't. Specifically, Biden doesn't believe in free speech. Specifically, Biden believes in reparations both explicit and implicit (implicit reparations is one of the reasons why Biden called Rittenhouse a white nationalist w/o knowing any facts).

You must also be apprehensive of Biden 'cause Biden thinks moderate thinking is subversive...Er, I don't mean moderate progressive thinking 'cause that's an apt description of Biden's thinking. I mean middle-of-the-road thinking and not middle-of-the-way-far-left thinking or moderate progressive thinking.

 

I can give you a number of false narratives proped up by the media and state propaganda machine.

1) Vax prevents transmission - or "Vax is a Vax" for that matter
2) Natural immunity not as good as Vax
3) Risk of harm from the vax lower than risk of harm from Covid across the whole demographic
4) Risk of harm from the vax extremely low

and on this basis .. consent was manufactured for mandates .. targeting a certain group within society .. reminiscient of what Adolf did with the Yellow Star - taking their livilihoods away on the basis of propaganda and lies.

 

Oh, and the Trump is a racist because of the ‘good people both sides’ lie.

 

I'll take doors #1 and 2 for $300 Bob.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-protection.html

Your state propaganda fantasy just went up in smoke. Unless you won't accept the science. Which is the source of your fantasy.

 

What is your problem .. Quit posting links without citing from those links - information that supports claim.. You do this all the time .. half the time your links don't support your claim --

and how does anything above change the fact that the media and bureaucratic apparatus is pushing one side of the story .. aka "media bias"


What a joke of a post .. on all levels .. as is often the case with you.

 

Joe Biden Speech on COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements Illinois Transcript

Oct 7, 2021
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcript...d-19-vaccine-requirements-illinois-transcript

 

Weekly jobless claims post stunning decline to 199,000, the lowest level since 1969

The ranks of those submitting jobless claims tumbled to their lowest level in more than 52 years last week, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

New filings totaled 199,000, a number not seen since Nov. 15, 1969, when claims totaled 197,000. The report easily beat Dow Jones estimates of 260,000 and was well below the previous week’s 270,000.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/us-...-just-199000-the-lowest-level-since-1969.html

The Following would be absolutely giddy if their MAGA god was in office while the economy posted that kind of number. Yet, they will continue to say Biden is doing a horrible job.

 

Are you not able to open them? They worked for me. For example, here's the title of one.
New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection

 

It is you that needs to open the links that you post .. citing something that supports your claim .. DUH.. Do you not know how to copy and paste ?

Like this ;;;
CDC: 74% Of People Infected in Massachusetts COVID-19 Outbreak Were Vaccinated

https://www.verywellhealth.com/cdc-report-vaccinated-breakthrough-infections-5195483

Any moron can write a headline .. any moron can post a headline... what we are looking for is something that supports your claim.

Like this
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1

2) how does any of this relate to your claim that there is no state sponsored propaganda narrative ?