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The hypocrisy of this is staggering. we watched Trump for 4 years charge the secret service outrageous amounts to stay at his properties not to mention his daughter getting Chinese patents, etc... and now all these complicit GOP fucks are clutching their pearls because Joe may have helped Hunter, not a civil servant, based on the testimony of a convicted felon.
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It was already out there that Joe talked to him, but all indications were it was friendly nice to meet you stuff. No business deals discussed. Democrats at the meeting want the transcript of the meeting because it shows. Republicans just want to say he's corrupt because he was talking a corrupt businessman. If they ever did up email or phone conversations that show otherwise they have absolutely nothing on him |
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It may well be no business deals discussed but I can easily see Joe being aware of the players in the room, the reason for the meeting, and Hunter prepping him with some key details & stuff to say or not to say (normal stuff in any big meeting). I'd be surprised if there are actual transcripts but an email summary/recap is probably more likely. Yes, I'd like to see those come out if not already. |
Joe should get a handle on this. I assume Adams went so public because things weren't getting done through regular channels. I don't know why Joe isn't helping, I think its reasonable for NY to get more $.
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Eric Adam's is great. He just complains about how shitty his city is and wonders if there is anyone in charge of that city who might be able to help.
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Falling a few times surely accelerates the decline.
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No surprise that the GOP has been lying about what's been said about Biden,
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I guess it's been reported that Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her. Not sure there is any precedent for that in the Senate but not very encouraging to have a United States Senator who can't make decisions for herself.
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Probably a stupid question, but is the daughter allowed to vote in the Senate in her mother's name? Assuming the report is true. |
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Everybody over sixty should have a trusted child with power of attorney. It's a guard against chaos if a sudden illness or injury occurs. I've always heard it recommended as you get older.
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Biden is putting his name on economic progress, but will voters just drive right by? | CNN Politics
I love this. Fuck these assholes who take credit for jobs and projects they voted against. There should be some provision that states if they take the money they have to publicly admit they voted against it. |
dola- I would be fine if there was a rule that if your rep votes against funding their district doesn't get any of it.
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Better hope it's not serious or no more judges get confirmed till 2025.
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FBI announced today that they shot and killed a man in Utah today that they were trying to serve a search warrant on after he made various threats against the President, VP, and several people involved in the Trump indictments
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Somewhere, an overweight balding guy in sunglasses, a Jason Aldean shirt and a miscolored American Flag hat is yelling something about Ruby Ridge in front of his freezer chest in the garage.
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These people are such fucking ghouls
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Anything to keep the grift going.
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Just wait until the "say his name" banter starts up
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Seems like a reasonable guy. I hear that it is ok to do crimes as long as you really believe deep in your heart the other side stole an election.
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Reading through the warrant, it was Truth Social that turned him in to the FBI.
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Well, at least we got a couple dozen weapons out of the hands of an irresponsible gun owner, fucking Clown, how did he think that would any other way than what he asked for?
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The spin on this is already amazing. Is it really so hard for these people to say, yeah, this guy was on our side but he was a looney who put horrible shit on social media and we disavow his actions.
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In just over two years, credit card debt has increased from 770B to break the 1 trillion mark for the first time. I'd say that's an unsustainable problem.
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There's a huge difference between national debt and consumer debt. I would say both are bad in general, but the consequences of them are not the same.
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It was nice while it lasted, but here comes another funding battle.
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Good, dig deeper. Fair odds there's more dirt hidden away (or ignored) somewhere.
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Why hadn't that been done? They drag this stuff out forever, and this is going to be right in the middle of the election season. Jack Smith and David Weiss should have gotten these appointments 2-3 years ago. None of this stuff just happened yesterday.
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So Hunter offered up access for 5M, while his dad was VP, but his dad had nothing to do with it. And that alone is impeachable for Joe.
But, Kushner, who was actually working in the WH, was the main point of contact for the ME and Saudi's and had a direct line to the president, gets 2B directly from the Saudi's and they bought his albatross of a building and Kushner PROFITED while he worked in the WH, but he's now out of office, so it's all ok? Like he doesn't have any sort of connections or contact anymore? Really? That's the line of demarcation? |
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I really don't know if it was a sweetheart deal. I read some that said yes, I read some that said no (so no surprise there wasn't a consensus). But I am glad it's going to trial and see it play out. The special prosecutor thing was apparently a surprise and quick. Weiss asked on Tue and Garland okayed today. I do wonder if there was some "new evidence" that escalated his role ... dunno. Looks like 2024 is going to be full of Trump/Hunter trial stuff. |
So now Republicans who begged for the Special Counsel are unhappy because its the same guy who made the plea deal with Hunter
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Josh Marshall has a good thread on how the legal system is tilted towards GOP expectations. On the one hand a Dem admin investigates and will take Hunter to trial. On the other, everyone just assumes Trump will end all investigations if he wins.
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Human traffickers might have killed a 3 year old. Cross country bus trips in this heat are not a good idea for little kids.
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Texas: What about the unborn child's rights?
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There's a chance they'll get away with that specific argument on a technicality. But yeah, poor defense strategy.
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Republican Presidents destroy the economy. Democratic Presidents build it back up. Republican Presidents run up debt. Democratic Presidents bring the budget deficit down. Republican Presidents piss off allies across the world. Democratic Presidents diplomatically bring them back into the fold. Republican politicians, and specifically Republican Presidents, are nothing but a problem for this country. |
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"fake news, fake news!" even though a copy of the letter is out there. |
Joe, the good news is recession is off the table.
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The bad news is because the economy is so strong (projected 3Q annualized GDP is 5.8%) that Fed may be hesitant to take the brakes off the inflation fight. Meaning, rates/beatings will continue until inflation/morale improves. A tad worried for Joe right now. The Fed was projected to start decreasing rates in early 2024. If not, the economy/inflation may become a big issue next year. |
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New York Dems at it again.
She Disagrees With Roe v. Wade. Brooklyn Dems Just Picked Her for Supreme Court. - THE CITY |
This article surprised me. I assume the focus group was conducted fairly as it was by a "liberal-leaning polling firm" HIT Strategies.
Personally, I think Joe has been okay on the economy and certainly not "pathetic". (It can become pathetic if inflation/markets don't get under control but I'm not there yet) 'Pathetic': Voters of color slam Biden's performance on the economy - POLITICO Quote:
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New campaign phrase for 2024, "It's the grocery store, stupid." When prices on everyday items are inflated so much over just three years ago working people feel that pain the hardest.
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You mean the capitalists aren't liking capitalism when it affects them?
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Biden has been pretty bad and the polls show it. One of the few good things he did was get us out of Afghanistan.
Lets be honest, his campaign (and Dems in general) is just that the other guy is worse. It's been working and probably will work as long as Trump is the face of the Republicans. But doing anything above that would go against their donors and just not going to happen. |
Nice move Biden. But am a little confused on our alliances in APAC.
From what I understand, South Korea wants to join the Quad but its the US that is hesitant. Maybe this paves the way to SK joining the Asian NATO with Japan, Australia, India & US. I think India is likely the weak/hesitant link and SK will be more aligned with our interests. At Camp David, Biden hails ‘new era of partnership’ between U.S., South Korea and Japan - POLITICO Quote:
And while we're at it, Philippines should be next to join the party. They were aligning more with China under Duterte, but BongBong Marcos now seems to understand the China threat and has invited US back. |
Good step in the right direction. Much more to do but have to start somewhere. Pharma, Providers and Payers all need to be worked on.
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This is assuming, of course, that enough voters are influenced by TV and social media enough to believe that the higher costs of living, inflation, chaotic immigration, and the exodus of corporations and people from high tax states to lower taxes states over the last couple of years was all instrumented by the GOP. I think the Dems hade positioned their strategy very well to pull that off. |
To the surprise of no one, the GOP have decided a shutdown is OK. I'm sure Edward64 will have some illuminating take on how Dems are to blame while trying to appear neutral, but this is literally the GOP's best play as we push towards 2024. Their base will eat it up and undecideds will only remember how the government shut down under Biden and anything negative associated with it is his fault. Like how prices keep rising because Conservative business owners finalized realized they can get away with it because the President will be blamed. They get the bonus of record profits and hurting their political opponents.
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Following up on the Jacksonville shooting and DeSantis being booed and the 942nd push for "Surely this will allow for a meaningful conversation on gun control" (to fail like the previous 941), just had a thought.
Saw an article that talked about how the United Kingdom's Prime Minister was issuing a crackdown on "Zombie Knives" (ie, very large knives up to machetes, stuff you would see in a Zombie Movie. And before you go "libruls wokemindvirus.." this is no Left-Wing fantasy. This is the leader of the Conservative party, who are fighting culture wars all over the place, doing this. Now, here's my thought. This is two different worlds, when it comes to weaponry. In the UK, a right-wing party is proposing a crackdown on big knives, where here in the US, people are pushing "Hey, I want to carry my AK-47 into a crowded store, and you can't stop me" policies. Just... two different worldviews. |
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You know, if your McConnell keeps on freezing up again and again it might be time to just reformat it. I hope they saved the product key. |
It's on a ... what predated the 5.25" floppy?
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I realize that these people all bring it on themselves by hanging on too long.
But watching McConnell, Feinstein, etc. publicly humiliate themselves like this is so sad. They should be retired and sitting in a garden surrounded by grandkids. |
The sad thing is we almost need McConnell to hang on for eternity because his replacement is almost certainly going to be massive shitbag who will just try to fuck things up worse.
The question being about re-election almost makes this seem like an Onion video.
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This was just McConnell pretending to be as bad off as Biden mentally to avoid a question he didn't want to answer. Brilliant!
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He's strokin'! That's what he be doing.
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Really cool that the country is run by people who would be in a nursing home if they were anyone else.
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Damn, I mean it's a pretty good thread post if I remember it 20 years later.
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Sanjay Gupta thinks stroke or seizure is less likely (able to walk away), see about 5 min mark.
He said long list of possibilities but offered up like "parkinsonian and meds were wearing off". He had a good insight. He said his aides didn't seem surprised by it implying this may be happening more than just the past 2 episodes. IMO time to give McConnell & Feinstein the gold watch retirement party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN39Ukn3788 |
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Dude is legit gonna die in the chamber...
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I'm assume the Capitol Dr. and his Drs. are legit. You'd think they should recommend him sit down for any press conferences though.
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There's no reason to think that overall McConnell isn't in control. Any calls for staff or family to step in are silly because it seems clear that McConnell doesn't want to resign or change his duties and until that changes he's going to stay where he's at.
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So why did Nikola Motors, which scammed investors out of billions of dollars recently, is now getting millions in dollars of government grants?
NIKOLA SECURES $41.9 MILLION GRANT, ACCELERATING ZERO-EMISSIONS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HEAVY-DUTY HYDROGEN FUEL CELL ELECTRIC TRUCKS IN CALIFORNIA Thanks Dark Brandon. |
The $10k student loan forgiveness shot down by the Supreme Court got a ton of attention but what's going on right now seems to be flying under the radar and is even more impactful for hundreds of thousands of borrowers.
The rules about who qualifies for loan forgiveness changed, to where the main qualifier seems to be months you owed (whether you paid or not), and what kind of payment plan you were on (though I'm still unclear on that one). Thousands and thousands of people are having six figures of debt wiped out overnight. A bunch of people I know got the "golden email" (as they're calling it on reddit), and then, a few weeks later, poof, all gone. I still have about $40k left, haven't gotten a golden email, am unclear on the rules, but I think I'm not eligible because I've never been on a income-based or standard repayment plan. At least my interest rates are still low. I started over 6 figures of debt after law school and was able to get some public service-based grant forgiveness grants here and there. Still though, after this recent flurry of new forgiveness, the Biden administration says the total will be 3.4 million borrowers got some kind of forgiveness, $116.6 billion in total forgiven. This is all something that would a have a very mixed reaction if it was emphasized more by the administration as an accomplishment, a lot of people aren't a fan of it obviously, but, shit, Obama talked so much about student loans but Biden acted and changed a lot of peoples' lives. |
None of Bidens accomplishments are ever highlighted by the media because it doesn't generate clicks. Just the infrastructure bill alone should have him miles ahead of Trump who never passed anything even close.
The reality is every media mogul wants Trump to win. It is good for business because he provides a 24-7 news cycle. So instead of highlighting things like infrastructure, record job growth, CHIPS act, climate bills, et...they highlight things he can't control like inflation, high gas prices due to corporate greed, his age, etc... |
The praying Bremerton coach here that sued to get his job back and won at the Supreme Court resigned after 1 game.
It wasn't about the job. It was about being a right wing celebrity and landing speaking engagements that pay him far more than the coaching job does. |
When was the last Presidential election in which something like the infrastructure bill was a major determining factor?
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The total number of jobs created/saved by those programs combined is estimated, at the high end, to be nearly a million a year. That's perhaps a hair over one half of a percent of US employment. How is that comparable to health care, which has been and continues to be a topic of tense debate for decades and which is an issue of major concern for a significant numer of people? Then you factor in inflation, which impacts everyone and highly impacts generally the same people who are highly impacted by rising health care costs.
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Of course they do. That's not the point. Virtually no voters for President vote for the candidate who will do the best job on roads and bridges though. Whether they should or not is beside the point. Taxes, health care as mentioned, Social Security, scandals, abortion/gay marriage/etc., general economic conditions, other culture war stuff, foreign policy at certain times ... these drive narratives and debate. Infrastructure does not, and the last time it even arguably did is probably Eisenhower. |
Which was my exact point. Media focuses on the negatives Biden can't control instead of the positives he made happen.
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I was more responding to GrantDawg, but I would say that's not a 'media' thing but a 'voter' thing. It's not the media's job to laud Biden's accomplishments. Voters and other media consumers could focus on those issues, and the media would follow suit. But they don't.
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Most people don't read the news or think deeply about these things. The may at best read headlines, at least unless the article is about Joe Jonas' divorce. But they do see big factories being built, large bridges going up, and road improvements. What they see versus what they hear. What they feel versus what the reason. |
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This is probably true in areas where those things are concentrated, but that's not most places. You can't have factories and bridges going up everywhere with the number of jobs being discussed (and a lot of the jobs aren't even of that type). I can't tell you a single thing that's happened anywhere near me as a result of those programs. That doesn't mean it isn't happening in some places, I know it is. It does mean that this visceral, visual/experiential impact is not the one most people will have. I can't find anything indicating a better than break-even assessment on Biden even when the jobs issue is isolated and it's not about the broader economy (where it's sharply negative). |
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