sillygoose
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The presidency is simply the face for the administration for public consumption, not the actual person in charge any more.
United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread
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49ersfootball
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Uncle Joe cannot handle strong aggressive criticism.
Is he actually having a mental breakdown? I mean, how long do they expect to keep him out of the spotlight ranting inanely and being confused? How long can they keep this up, because it's clear he's falling apart.
Being the President is not an easy job. It is said to age you 10 years per year on the job. Biden wasn't actually all there to begin with when he was put into this role. Did none of his masters think about this? About what happens when an actual crisis happens and the leader of the free world isn't capable of doing anything rational?
No. Of course they didn't. What's the old saying? "Those the gods wish to destroy they first make mad?" That would explain our current situation quite well. Hubris leads to insanity and stupidity, and to disaster.
And we're supposed to put up with this for three and a half more years?
Being the President is not an easy job. It is said to age you 10 years per year on the job. Biden wasn't actually all there to begin with when he was put into this role. Did none of his masters think about this? About what happens when an actual crisis happens and the leader of the free world isn't capable of doing anything rational?
No. Of course they didn't. What's the old saying? "Those the gods wish to destroy they first make mad?" That would explain our current situation quite well. Hubris leads to insanity and stupidity, and to disaster.
And we're supposed to put up with this for three and a half more years?
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Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
If the Independence Day movie was real we're fucked with this sad excuse for a president and an adminstration obsessed with white supremacists and the alt right.
If we're an analogy to the Roman Empire, we will need a Year of Four Presidents. And given everyone behind Biden in the line of Succession, that's a lot of idiots with chaos to cause.
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Having someone tell me what he said.
They arnt wrong.
He is saying we have a treaty to defend Taiwan, putting it like what we have with NATO and Japan and ROK.
What we have with Taiwan is the very least to basically Lend Lease them stuff to help them fight.
Not that we won't help them out.
Technicalities.
I will go AWOL if we do not defend Taiwan.
I actually won't but I will get out of the military again that point
Were not an anology to the Roman empire. The american empire has not happened yet, if anything we are in the Grachi bro's period of the republic you know the last chance the republic had of actual reform before it all ended in bloodsoaked civil wars.
In other words we have a deluded increasingly psychotic leadership class who is obessed with their own power and increasily out of touch with the values and foundational standards of their society and an increasingly pissed off populist movement.
This has happened in numerous other civilizations a political class that is increasingly corrupt, hidonistic and breaks the social contract more and more and is so wrapped up into their own Apolion bullshit that they destroy the culture that made them rich and powerful essentially purely out of spite.
Our problem is that this is happening through out the entire western world instead of just a couple countries, so you know everyone's suffering the same issue.
Terthna
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For what it's worth I really, really hope you're right about us ultimately defending Taiwan; because if we don't, China is going to drag a lot more people down with them when they inevitably implode than they might otherwise.
VicSage
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The Federal Government gets around that by going "Oh, you don't want to do X? Well, I guess I'll just have to take this money I
Wargamer08
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Breaking both social and political contracts like that have serious consequences. Most red states for example pay more federal tax then they receive in federal funds. The White House withholds federal funds, already allocated, to a large enough or blatant enough way? Well that’s when the “fun” begins.
Actually no they do not; in fact most Fed tax revenue comes from blue states, while Red states require more Fed revenue to keep thier stuff running.
Red states do contribute more food production than blue states, but not more tax revenue for the Fed gov.
You are repeating leftard lies. Anything they claim is untrue or at the very least twisted to favor their own side.
No, I'm spouting economic realities.
Blue states on average do create more Fed tax revenue than Red states, because of how the modern economy has shifted away from the sort of industry that most red states rely on for thier tax base and towards jobs/industries based in large blue cities.
Texas, Florida, and maybe Arizona might be exceptions, because of thier strong internal economies and urban areas compared to say Wyoming, North Dakota, or Alabama. Blue states also tend to have more seaports and international business, so more international tax revenue factors in as well.
The Red states can boast legitly about food production, but not Fed tax revenue.
Last time I looked at the stats Barcle was correct.
The caviet is that the left says the wealth exists because of them and their polices.
This is not true or at least not in the way they think it is.
First you have an area that has access to markets, resources, and the like. People settle this area and set up rule of law and business's come. As wealth comes people arrive, in mass, but not every one is successful, political forces notice these people and promise to appopiate wealth in various forms from other people to benifit them. Seeing a chance at free stuff they are voted into office.
Initially things are fine some programs do in fact help, then you end up hitting rates of negative return on investment, the buracracy eats up more and more of the wealth demanding more resoruces while delivering less and less. Taxes, debt and other things go up to feed a welfare system that gets more and more creaky as more demands are made from it. Psychopaths see power and join the buracracy and political class and grifters steal more and more from the public purse making everything worse and worse.
Productive citizens are purposefully kicked out of the region because they oppose the ever more naked grabs for power until one day the system runs out of other peoples money and everything collapses. The corrupt take the money they stole from the public purse and flee to other countries stealing even more on the way out to make themselves comfortable. A few stay behind thinking their political contacts will keep them safe. They are often wrong.
The now bankrupt and destroyed region is if it is lucky taken over by the sane who begin to rebuild the shattered economy If they succede the same parasitical people who fucked things up come back to cause the exact same problems they started.
She's too anti-gun for my vote.
That's like my only real problem with her.
So I probably wouldn't vote for her, but I wouldn't be overall concerned if she won, like I am about Biden
Airedale260
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Well, given that both NATO and Taiwan are publicly doubting America’s commitments to defense I’d say that’s not exactly reassuring anyone at the moment.
Don’t get me wrong, we absolutely SHOULD step up to defend them, but at the same time the fact that Biden fucked this up so badly with no more than soft protests from his advisors (as opposed to Trump who tried a unilateral pullout after November and got immediately slammed for it by both the Cabinet and GOP members of Congress) is a concern that everyone currently in charge is more interested in shielding Biden than honoring treaty commitments
As I recall, the main reason for this is really because the way it’s counted includes military spending as the big reason, i.e., the money we spend to finance our bases (which are mainly in red states) is included in that figure.
In other words, the money is spent within a state but NOT supporting it.
And as an added bonus, the blue states were able to finance a lot of this due to the SALT deduction, which for years was reducing the amount of money the feds got so the states with high taxes could reduce the harm they did to their citizens. When that got capped, it put the states in a position of having their budgets way out of whack and having to either heavily borrow, cut spending, or drastically jack up their rates.
Even national review is starting to openly question if Biden is in possession of his full facilities. They're a fairly restrained, center right publication, it has to be pretty serious for them to be taking this stance.
Something Is Wrong with the President | National Review
The problem is, as @Airedale260 noted earlier, the democrats don't have any good opitions in response to this. Harris is the VP solely on the basis of her race and gender, if she was a white guy with her background she'd be a minor cabinet secretary at most (which we know because Xavier Barrera, the white dude who replaced her as AG, is now a minor cabinet secretary). She flamed out in the primary largely on the basis of her being spectacularly unlikable and transparently evil, qualities that have not gone away since then, to the point that the DNC powers that be are attemptimg to work behind the scenes to salvage her reputation, without viable success thus far. Harris as the president is unelectable on her own merits.
Something Is Wrong with the President | National Review
The problem is, as @Airedale260 noted earlier, the democrats don't have any good opitions in response to this. Harris is the VP solely on the basis of her race and gender, if she was a white guy with her background she'd be a minor cabinet secretary at most (which we know because Xavier Barrera, the white dude who replaced her as AG, is now a minor cabinet secretary). She flamed out in the primary largely on the basis of her being spectacularly unlikable and transparently evil, qualities that have not gone away since then, to the point that the DNC powers that be are attemptimg to work behind the scenes to salvage her reputation, without viable success thus far. Harris as the president is unelectable on her own merits.
Yet we all think the point is to get her elected via being VP with Biden, then running her for the next couple elections, fraud and all to keep her pres