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Post by jdredd on Feb 6, 2020 14:20:38 GMT -5
Listened to about 20 minutes of our Used-car-salesman-in-chief giving a victory lap speech on the failed impeachment. He was patting his toadies on the back while he rambled on and on about this or that. I got bored. But I admit he may be the perfect American President for this Age of Excess. I doubt many voters would want to replace him with an old Socialist crank, or a bland centrist who says "malarkey". And definitely no woman. Oh wait, there is that Gen X mayor from some Midwest town who claims to be qualified. How many people will buy that? I suspect black and Hispanic voters will stay home in droves just like in 2016 if he is nominated.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 18, 2020 14:02:23 GMT -5
As I said elsewhere maybe, I've been reading about events in Asia at the end of WWII. This may be heresy to Democrats, but I think Truman might have been a worse President than Trump. Also, the French were such dirtbags they made the Japanese look good.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 2, 2020 2:16:41 GMT -5
If it had been Obama who cut a deal with the Taliban, do you think the right would have crucified him? We all know the answer.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 4, 2020 2:11:32 GMT -5
Since I started voting in 1972, we have had three worthless Democratic centrist Presidents. What have they accomplished in almost 50 years? Changed health care rules? That's about it. So why should I vote for Biden?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 6, 2020 17:34:46 GMT -5
I think the C-19 crisis is an instance of it not really mattering who is in the WH. What would Hillary have done that Trump didn't? What would Biden do that Trump isn't?
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Post by jdredd on May 22, 2020 22:14:24 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/democrats-biden-warren-ticket.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics"Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks with Elizabeth Warren about once a week. They review the latest developments on the Covid-19 crisis and the collapsing economy. They trade ideas about how a Democratic president, like Mr. Biden, might rescue the country. They exchange tales about their lives sheltered in place, he in Wilmington, Del., and she in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren are members of the same generation, Democrats shaped by modest upbringings who became United States senators and candidates for their party’s presidential nomination. But with Mr. Biden now actively considering Ms. Warren to be his running mate, it’s their ideological differences — and whether they can build a complementary, productive relationship — that will ultimately determine whether she emerges as No. 2 on the ticket." I sure hope Biden doesn't pick Warren, and if he does, that he doesn't win. I really don't want to wake up every day that he was Prez and hope that he had dropped dead overnight.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 29, 2020 0:31:50 GMT -5
Even though Trump claimed his reelection made this "the most important Presidential campaign in American history", today I'm feeling (and it's just a feeling) that it makes little difference who is inaugurated in 2021.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 25, 2020 10:44:36 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/trump-republicans-election-transition.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Chris Edelson, an American University professor who has studied the expansion of presidential power during national emergencies, said Mr. Trump’s comments represented a unique threat to a central pillar of democracy. “It’s impossible to underscore how absolutely extraordinary this situation is — there are really no precedents in our country,” he said. “This is a president who has threatened to jail his political opponents. Now he is suggesting he would not respect the results of an election. These are serious warning signs.” Douglas Brinkley, the presidential historian, said, “This may be the most damaging thing he has ever done to American democracy.” Over the past four years, establishment Republicans have tried to adjust to Mr. Trump’s disruptions, either ignoring his comments or dismissing them as a temporary news-cycle diversion rather than a threat to the democratic process . Republicans appeared on Thursday to be trying to reassure the public about the electoral system while withholding personal criticism of the president, a balancing act that shows their political codependence — one that has led G.O.P. lawmakers, with few exceptions, to faithfully execute his wishes." So what is really important is not who is in the WH but who's party.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 2, 2020 10:54:43 GMT -5
The success of Donald Trump proves one thing: Anyone can be President no matter how ignorant or depraved.
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Post by Turk on Nov 3, 2020 14:41:26 GMT -5
The success of Donald Trump proves one thing: Anyone can be President no matter how ignorant or depraved. Except Slow Joe
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Post by jdredd on Dec 23, 2020 0:41:22 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/biden-border-asylum.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"In a message intended to prevent a rush to the southwestern border, the incoming Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it would not immediately reverse restrictions imposed by President Trump that have effectively halted asylum and left thousands of migrants stranded outside the United States. The Trump administration progressively tightened restrictions on asylum, effectively sealing the border to asylum seekers by forcing them to wait in Mexico for the duration of their immigration hearings and disqualifying people who did not first seek protection in a country they passed en route to the United States. During his campaign, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. promised to swiftly reverse those and other Trump administration border policies. But on Tuesday, Mr. Biden and his top advisers seemed to walk back those pledges." So here it starts. Excuses why Biden can't undo Trump immigration policies. I'm expecting the same thing in environmental and foreign policies.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 14, 2021 13:42:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/climate/trump-spotted-owl.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"The decision is the latest in a series of midnight regulations the Trump administration has pushed out in recent weeks that privilege industry over protecting the environment, including shielding industry from fines and prosecution if they kill migratory birds and reducing protections for animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act." Here's a reason to be stoked about Trump hitting the road.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2021 23:32:39 GMT -5
Well, I'm done holding my breath. The Trump regime is history. And one of the first things Biden did is tell the greedy Canadians to take their pipeline and shove it. And put a halt to moronic border wall construction. People may have lost jobs but maybe they can get new ones doing projects worth doing.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 11, 2021 14:58:40 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/biden-approval-rating-cnbc-economic-survey/2021/02/11/id/1009619/"President Joe Biden holds a 62% approval rating in one of the first polls to ask Americans about their opinion of the new president's job performance, besting the first ratings shown by the past four Commanders-in-Chief, CNBC reports. According to CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey, Biden’s first approval rating is about 18 points higher than the first approval rating of his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. It also beats the first ratings that former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton received. Biden holds strong support on his handling of the economy, uniting the country, and fighting the coronavirus pandemic, according to a special online version of the survey." Might be a lesson here not just for the far right but also the far left.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 12, 2021 14:41:31 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/white-house-biden-guantanamo-review/2021/02/12/id/1009791/"The Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay with the goal of closing the controversial facility in Cuba, a White House official said on Friday. Aides involved in internal discussions are considering an executive action to be signed by President Joe Biden in coming weeks or months, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, signaling a new effort to remove what human rights advocates have called a stain on America’s global image. "We are undertaking an NSC process to assess the current state of play that the Biden administration has inherited from the previous administration, in line with our broader goal of closing Guantanamo," National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne told Reuters." I was wondering if Guantanamo would come up with Biden after Obama's feeble attempts to shut it down.
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