United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread
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prinCZess
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I am compelled to take this opportunity, as I do whenever I can, that repealing the SALT cap is a massive gift to the wealthiest Americans and little more than a veiled stimulus to shittily-run states with bloated and sky-high tax rates.Oh thank goodness... I thought this 3.5 trillion spending plan might actually cost something. But doesn't seem to be the case now lads and lasses... Nothing to worry about here.
White House chief of staff tells Wall Street titans $3.5 trillion spending plan will ‘cost zero’
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain on Wednesday claimed in front of an audience of Wall Street titans that the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bonanza would “cost zero.” He sa…nypost.com
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100% this!
I've been saying for years the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was basically enshrining the true equalizers on the world stage, nuclear weapons, into the hands of the elite few at the benefit of the elite few and denying the benefits of both nuclear warheads AND their delivery systems to the vast majority of the world population.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
He considered Scott Morrison as some fella down under.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Would that make him a DINO to the current Democrats?
No, it makes him one of the last of the Blue Dogs, and his position is one of the few that the Dems cannot actually attack publicly without offending part of their own base.
If we had a dozen more Dems like Manchin, and a dozen more GOPer's like Rand Paul, our nation's wounds could be healed pretty easily,
However that is unlikely to happen, even if getting moderate dems in might be more feasible and effective at curbing the Far-Left than any amount of GOP hardliners.
Airedale260
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As I've pointed out more than once, the GOP has in fact been as effective as a minority party can be. Getting your priorities passed isn't something that can happen without Democrats because 1) 51 is a bigger number than 49, 2) even if they did somehow do that, the guy who makes the decision on whether to sign into law or veto a bill. And 3) they can't invoke the Administrative Procedures Act without being in the majority.
On the other hand, none of the Democrats' big priorities can be accomplished without 60 votes, and the Republicans have been very effective in blocking anything not related to spending (so no Supreme Court packing, no DC statehood, no $15 minimum wage, etc).
They probably consider him a fascist. That seems to be the general catchall since it covers anyone they don't like.
f1onagher
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The general accusation I've seen is that he's a corporate crony doing all this to enrich himself and his daughter. I'm not going to lie, if this is all due to corruption I'll pitch in for a few strippers myself.
The other side of this mess is that the "Justice" Dems are trying to imitate the Freedom Caucus and hold the "bipartisan" bill hostage to get their bigger boondoggle passed. The part they've missed is that these situations were win/win for the FC who were interested in stopping government overreach and thus were content if all they accomplished was setting the building on fire. The JDs actually want to pass something and thus playing chicken hurts them too.
It's fun to watch and you can set off a reddit board with ease using the subject.
LordsFire
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Him being a Democrat, I probably disagree with him on a long list of policy issues, but I will say this much for the man:
He's taking a difficult stand to keep things from barreling towards civil war at full speed.
We're right back to the bad parts of the Obama years.
Rand Paul is right that every time we kill innocents accidentally with drones like this, we create 1000 or 10000 more actual Islamic extremists and people who want to hurt the US.
Exactly. That one bomb that killed 10, probably caused 1000 more terrorists to exist.
I know I would hate and want to kill the country that murdered my family in the streets.
Robovski
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But this makes WAY more. Randomly blowing up innocent people is not only wrong, but evil, and people seeing us as evil for condoning these acts are not wrong for thinking that.
StormEagle
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I mean…I’d think that blowing up ten innocent civilians for no discernible purpose or gain probably made a few more terrorists than helping out some rival village or clan.
What’s the civilian death toll of the drone war at this point? And how many brothers, sons, uncles, cousins, etc… have become terrorists out of a desire for vengeance for those wrongful deaths.
I’m not saying drone strikes can’t be effective tools in the US arsenal, but we seem to have been rather haphazard and reckless with our usage of them.
I think it’s high time we re-examine our combat philosophy pertaining to drone usage, and maybe stop striking targets unless we’re sure we’re not drone striking a wedding/funeral/birthday/random families car.
Fuck you Biden; this is because that district voted in Boebert, who has been a continuous thorn in Pelosi's and Biden's side.
There is hardly any BLM land east of the Mississippi; no reason the headquarters for the agency needs to be in DC.
EVERYTHING causes more. It doesn't matter what we do.
Because sometimes a target is only available at certain times, and you have to take them then.
But since epeople want everyone on the ground out, and troops on the ground are the safest way to have no casualties other then intended.