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Post by jdredd on Mar 12, 2021 11:22:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/biden-covid-relief-bill.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=HomepageThis has been one of the most quietly consequential weeks in recent American politics. The Covid-19 relief law that was just enacted is one of the most important pieces of legislation of our lifetimes. As Eric Levitz writes in New York zine, the poorest fifth of households will see their income rise by 20 percent; a family of four with one working and one unemployed parent will receive $12,460 in benefits. Child poverty will be cut in half." "In a polarized era, the legislation is widely popular. Three-quarters of Americans support the law, including 60 percent of Republicans, according to a Morning Consult survey. The Republican members of Congress voted against it, but the G.O.P. shows no interest in turning this into a great partisan battle. As I began to write this on Thursday morning, the Fox News home page had only two stories on the Covid relief bill and dozens on things like the royal family and cancel culture." "This moment is like 1981, the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, except in reverse. It’s not just that government is heading in a new direction, it’s that the whole paradigm of the role of government in American life is shifting. Biden is not causing these tectonic plates to shift, but he is riding them." "This is not socialism. This is not the federal government taking control of the commanding heights of the economy. This is not a bunch of programs to restrain corporate power. Americans’ trust in government is still low. This is the Transfer State: government redistributing massive amounts of money by cutting checks to people, and having faith that they spend it in the right ways." "I’m worried about a world in which we spend borrowed money with abandon. The skeptical headline on the final preretirement column of the great Washington Post economics columnist Steven Pearlstein resonated with me: “In Democrats’ progressive paradise, borrowing is free, spending pays for itself and interest rates never rise.” But income inequality, widespread child poverty and economic precarity are the problems of our time. It’s worth taking a risk to tackle all this. At first Biden seemed like the third chapter of the Clinton/Obama center-left era. But this is something new." Every once in a while Mr. Brooks hits the nail on the head.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2021 13:57:16 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/us/politics/china-russia-biden.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Sixty days into his administration, President Biden got a taste this week of what the next four years may look like: a new era of bitter superpower competition, marked by perhaps the worst relationship Washington has had with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with China since it opened diplomatic relations with the United States. It has been brewing for years, as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Xi Jinping of China took sharp turns toward authoritarianism. But it blew up in open fashion this week, after Mr. Biden agreed with the proposition that Mr. Putin is a “killer” and the Chinese, meeting with the United States for the first time since the new administration took office, lectured Americans about the error of their arrogant view that the world wants to replicate their freedoms." If Biden wants to emulate Reagan, he is off to a good start with his bluster against Putin.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 24, 2021 17:39:33 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/immigration-border-crisis-mexico/2021/03/24/id/1015041/"President Joe Biden is to blame for the border crisis, Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday. "Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so," Obrador told reporters during a Tuesday press conference. “People don’t go to the United States for fun, they go out of necessity,” he added." OMG, what a criminal!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2021 15:45:59 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opinion/biden-us-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"On March 12, President Biden signed a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief act into law. Just 10 days later my Times colleague Jim Tankersley reported on a $3 trillion package of jobs, clean energy and infrastructure proposals. The Biden administration is throwing up epic spending plans at a bold, dazzling pace." "Ten years ago, I would have been aghast at this leftward shift. But like everybody else, I’ve seen inequality widen, the social fabric decay, the racial wealth gap increase. Americans are rightly convinced that the country is broken and fear it is in decline. Like a lot of people, I’ve moved left on what I think of the role of government and income redistribution issues. We surely need to invest a lot more in infrastructure and children." Even Mr. Straddle-the-fence is starting to feel the heat.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 7, 2021 13:31:15 GMT -5
I guess we have gotten what some people wanted: Instead of a crazy court jester in the WH, we got a boring old man. Is he senile? Well, so was Reagan in his second term. I doubt Biden will have one, but according to the radio blowhards, that was the plan all along. Like it or not, most people get slow in their old age. Look at me.
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Post by Turk on Apr 7, 2021 19:33:08 GMT -5
He's not a Ronald Reagan anymore than an unicellular organism, Dementia Joe, China Joe, Dump-Shit Joe is the lowest life form to have ever occupied the WH. He makes bed bugs proud.
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Post by Turk on Apr 7, 2021 20:37:13 GMT -5
The plan was to have the Kamel Toe Hoe become prez. We should be proud to have the first ho occupy the Oval Office with red lights blasting. The left has found the gutter then brought in a backhoe to dig deeper. Trump butt hurt the left because he spoke the truth, the left has become full scale vomit to America and the world.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 9, 2021 15:18:19 GMT -5
This is what is so great about this board. People on both ends of the political spectrum can co-exist. By the way, it is way past due we had a ho in the WH IMHO.
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Post by Turk on Apr 10, 2021 18:30:19 GMT -5
This is what is so great about this board. People on both ends of the political spectrum can co-exist. By the way, it is way past due we had a ho in the WH IMHO. I would expect the ho will make hookers legal. Works in Holland. But this is what American politics have become Joe and the Ho. I love it.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 13, 2021 16:35:26 GMT -5
Actually I am now reading the Biden is being compared to FDR. And why not? Some people compared Trump to Ch-rchill.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 29, 2021 12:41:38 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/politics/biden-china-russia-cold-war.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics"His speech to Congress was laced with the themes of a new iteration of Cold War competition — more technological than military — without ever uttering the words Cold War. America’s adversaries, Mr. Biden said, are looking at America’s deep polarization and the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol “as proof that the sun is setting on American democracy.” “We have to prove democracy still works,” Mr. Biden said, repeating a rallying call he first used a month ago, and that aides say he often invokes in White House strategy sessions." Listened to part of Biden slurring his way through his sort-of State of the Union speech yesterday. Painful. And he joins with the majority of the American press cheerleading some alleged competition with China for world domination. Gotta get those Millennials fired up. Hopefully they won't give a sh^t.
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Post by jdredd on May 3, 2021 20:26:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/opinion/sunday/biden-fdr-americans.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Sunday%20Review"Some Americans worry about the cost of Biden’s program. That’s a fair concern. Yet this is not an expense but an investment: Our ability to compete with China will depend less on our military budget, our spy satellites or our intellectual property protections than on our high school and college graduation rates. A country cannot succeed when so many of its people are failing. As many Americans have criminal records as college degrees. A baby born in Washington, D.C., has a shorter life expectancy (78 years) than a baby born in Beijing (82 years). Newborns in 10 counties in Mississippi have a shorter life expectancy than newborns in Bangladesh. Rather than continue with Herbert Hoover-style complacency, let’s acknowledge our “grave internal disorder” and summon a doctor. The question today, as in the 1930s, is not whether we can afford to make ambitious investments in our people. It’s whether we can afford not to." Here's Mr. Kristof comparing Biden to FDR.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 7, 2021 21:24:45 GMT -5
My question with Biden is will he be the fifth President starting with Clinton who sucks?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 5, 2021 20:30:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/joe-biden-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"At this point, however, we have enough data in hand to declare that the economy is booming. In fact, it’s booming so strongly that Republicans have pivoted from claiming (falsely) that we’re experiencing the worst job performance in decades to lauding the employment numbers and giving credit to … Trump’s 2017 tax cut. Back to that in a minute. First, let’s try to put this boom in context, by noting that the economy is running hotter than it did during the “Morning in America” boom that gave Ronald Reagan a landslide victory in the 1984 presidential election. We’ve gained three million jobs since Biden took office, or 600,000 jobs a month. This compares with gains of 340,000 a month in the year leading up to the 1984 election."
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Post by jdredd on Aug 14, 2021 18:16:18 GMT -5
So Biden will get the blame for Afghanistan even though he is the fourth President having to deal with George W’s big blunder. Not that I care, he is the fifth dickhead President in a row. And definitely a one-termer.
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