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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
Biden ran and won as Not Trump:
According to a Morning Consult exit poll, 44 percent of Biden voters said they were primarily voting against Trump (only 22 percent of Trump’s voters said they were voting mainly against Biden). Just 54 percent of Biden’s voters said they cast their ballots primarily as a vote for him. (James Antle)
He was supposed to be the soothing, caring antidote to the vulgar blowhard inhabiting the White House. He was the grandfather figure who would move in, restore sanity and calm everything down. Instead, chaos has increased, and the bratty leftwing children are running with scissors and demanding a bank-breaking trip to progressive Disney World.
Eight months in, Joe Biden’s presidency is collapsing on every front.Joblessness has been rising for weeks, inflation remains high, his own border chief is warning of a record-breaking migrant surge in October, and the president’s planned private-sector vaccine mandate is still MIA.Biden put all his (limited) energy into legislation to transform the nation into Bernie Sanders’ dream welfare state — and that scheme’s imploding too, as Democrats descend into infighting. (NY Post)
What's Going On?
I'm an Occam's Razor guy, so I go for the straightforward analysis: Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse. Once they wheeled him inside the gate, leftwing activists and pointy-headed progressives spilled out and took over every corner of the Executive branch, encouraging the far left rabble in Congress to go for the whole enchilada.
Biden is not up to the task. This is not an insult, we all grow old, but I think his faculties are declining rapidly, and were during the campaign where the press guarded him like it was the 1940's. The kids are running roughshod over him, and We The People will pay the price.
What say you?
I’m sure the “hold your nose and vote” factor played well for Biden.
ReplyDeletePresident always get undeserved blame as well as undeserved credit for events out of their control.
The Dementia or Grandpa Joe pitch reminds me how Obama was supposed to have been born in Kenya. The think tanks and propagandist knew what works and what to keep on page 1 of the playbook.
Ronald, I brought up his decline in a respectful and non-joking way. It is out there for everyone to see. I truly wish the man and his family well.
DeleteNow, I have a serious question for you. Did you expect him to be a moderate president, or did you expect him to throw in with the far left progressives?
I may be wrong, but I think many who voted for him expected him to be a moderate. Curious to hear your opinion.
DeleteThere would not have been the “born in Kenya” meme had Obama and his handlers provided a full and honest disclosure of his background. Of course, once questions of his birth/eligibility to serve as president hit the internet, the DNC/Soros Organizations did a superb job turning it around to Obama’s advantage.
There are several aspects to the question of suitability to serve as president. I seem to recall that JFK won the election over Richard Nixon because (a) the Illinois mob made it happen, and (b) Tricky Dicky needed a shave before a live broadcast. As it turned out, neither man was a very good president.
Then we had Johnson vs. Goldwater. Goldwater lost the election because he spoke honestly with the American people about our situation in Vietnam; Johnson won the election because of the TV ad showing a little girl playing in a field of flowers that was nuked by someone. Turns out, Johnson was a complete disaster as president ... so much so that we’re still suffering the slings and arrows of his corrupt administration.
The world today is as dangerous to the peace and security of our nation as it has ever been. Times are different, of course, and attending circumstances ... and yet “we the people” still must choose between dumb and dumber. It’s depressing to think that’s all we’ve got. Maybe we should be looking more carefully at the candidates rather than which party they belong to. You know, stuff that really matters to a responsible society.
Now Joe ... was never intellectually gifted, demonstrates serious psychological issues (pathological lying being one of them) and his lack of lucidity should be of concern to everyone. That we are somehow willing to give any candidate or president a pass because of their party affiliation suggests that “we the people” are as unsuitable for voting as some of these people are for serving as president.
SF, I held my nose and voted Biden.
DeletePerhaps we need to define a far left progressive vs a moderate but no, I did not expect his agenda to be near as pro-labor or as bold in other areas.
Mustang, I disagree that an early birth certificate release would have satisfied the propaganda machine. The Romney campaign pretty much admitted so by saying it was a good thing to keep going. You just don’t toss a working conspiracy theory n today’s political times.
Both Biden and Trump are "figureheads" voted for in the "hope" that the tyrannical direction of our government could somehow be altered. It cannot. It will go wherever the corporatocracy tells it to go, where the government bureaucrats who travel through those corporate revolving doors tell it to go. It's one of the now "fixed laws" of the commons...
ReplyDeleteBeryl Crowe, "THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMON REVISITED" (1969)
EROSION OF THE MYTH OF ADMINISTRATORS OF THE COMMONS
"Indeed, the process has been so widely commented upon that one writer postulated a common life cycle for all of the attempts to develop regulatory policies. The life cycle is launched by an outcry so widespread and demanding that it generates enough political force to bring about establishment of a regulatory agency to insure the equitable, just, and rational distribution of the advantages among all holders of interest in the commons. This phase is followed by the symbolic reassurance of the offended as the agency goes into operation, developing a period of political quiescence among the great majority of those who hold a general but unorganized interest in the commons. Once this political quiescence has developed, the highly organized and specifically interested groups who wish to make incursions into the commons bring sufficient pressure to bear through other political processes to convert the agency to the protection and furthering of their interests. In the last phase even staffing of the regulating agency is accomplished by drawing the agency administrators from the ranks of the regulated." [p.p. 60-61]
Today's "progressive activist" is tomorrow's paid corporate counsel for a Green Energy Corporation.
DeleteThe Big Trick" that Presidential Candidates and politicians of both parties play today to get people to vote for them in this simulacra of a political system is to pretend that there are "simple solutions" to "complex problems"... like more/ bigger government.. and/or "hope" for "change". Trump was to the 20-teens what Ross Perot was to the early 1990's... a man offering simple "business solutions" (ie "tariffs on China) that would de-complexify/ solve our problems, as opposed to Democrats offering "more government" as the simple panacea that would clear out the fog (instead of making it more complex by a factor of x10) of complexity.
DeleteAn "experienced professional", Joe Biden, will be IN CHARGE and will solve our problems by "directing needed changes". What did we get? Americans stranded in Afghanistan. Mandatory Covid vaccination Round 3. Dueling trillion dollar infrastructure bills. A stalled economy with thousands of ships lining up at American ports to deliver goods that are no longer reaching their customers.
Politics can no longer solve America's problems. It's a simulation of a solution. It's an inter-passive medium for keeping the rage of American taxpayers from exploding into the kind of action that comes from "actual" self-determination.
What, you don't believe that our election system is merely the "simulation of a political system?" You learned NOTHING from the Arizona Election audit or the resistance to its' imitation of other voting locations? You think that your votes affect political change and that voting audits lead to the institution of voting reforms?
DeleteThe mistake of January 6, 2021, was in believing that politicians who are elected to "represent the people" actually "care" what citizens think. That's why those people who did believe it are still rotting in jails around the country.
DeleteBiden would do well to roll back Trump's massive taxes on the consumer economy (aka the imbecilic 18th Century tariff policies) and get logistics moving again.
DeleteStaying the course on Trump's Make America Irrelevant agenda is stupid, as seen in the Afghan fiasco and the fleets of container ships sitting off our west coast while our shelves go bare and our stores go empty, is stupid. What exactly will Trump's LaRouchean campaign for the Presidency from prison in 2024 look like? "Biden didn't change any policy of consequence so vote for me and get the same economic ignorance and foreign policy suicide, BUT ALSO the incoherent Tweets you crave!"
It's hard to grade Biden's performance in office thus far. When does he start?
Hey, at least...
DeleteThe only "mistake" of January 6th is that DC didn't run out of meat wagons clearing corpses of insurrectionists and wannabes with bulldozers, much less not taking the time to enhance the video of Ashli Babbitt's demise in forward and reverse so we can see the bullet split her throat like a watermelon and come back together back and forth over and over like a gory accordion. With a laugh track.
DeleteI vote we ship your job to China last week... with a laugh track.
DeleteTC should change his name to Butch
DeleteI wouldn't want to confuse him with ducky...
DeleteYou seem to have been ensnared by the farcical but sadly all too common misconception among Trump supporters that you all deserve dignity and respect.
ReplyDeleteAttacking the Capitol to construct a gallows and call for leaders to be hung is as asinine as it is terroristic. Whether it's over some moonbat meteorite worshipper upset about the existence of plumbing in Saudi Arabia or a Trump troglodyte upset that he took the Republican Party and himself to a ripe solid national electoral ass whoopin in 2018 and 2020, it's still a terroristic threat.
Trump bends to the Taliban. Real Americans do not. Sorry not sorry to be blunt, but STFU you dipshits. Dust yourselves off, abandon your love affair with the Adderall snorting grifter, and get serious. Stop working so hard for cakewalk Democrat victories.
I wrote two posts on the January 6th events. Neither had one word supporting the idiots involved, so your keyboard commando theatrics are wasted here.
DeleteI support them. The "gallows" had a sign, "This is art", just to prove that the Left and their Never-Trump Neocon bretheren are the most humourless bastards ever to grace the planet. And like so many others before you, you've once again proven that sentimenr true.
DeleteBeware of those in whom the urge to punish is strong. Nietzsche,
Did that Viking shaiman in the Senate chamber scare you, too, beamish?
DeleteMaybe you and Greta Thunberg should date.
DeleteThe Left does it every day lest no one take them "seriously." It's time they start taking the "right" seriously.
Delete...but not as "seriously" beamish else they would have been "armed" with more than bear mace.
DeleteSo the continuation of the "election was stolen" nonsense is "art" too?
DeleteLose elections by imitating the left. It's genius.
Do you think that "protests" will motivate politicians to repair our broken election system? How'd that work out for Venezuelans?
DeletePoliticians today have only one goal. To spend your money as they see fit. Will it be $1.5 trillion tomorrow or $3.5 trillion? I don't think that the "serious protestors" are going to settle for $1.5. Do you?
DeleteThey'll go to your home, beamish. They'll put you in the brig if you cricize them.
DeleteNeocon bretheren are the most humourless bastards ever to grace the planet.
DeleteOne left wing party isn't enough?
Do you think that "protests" will motivate politicians to repair our broken election system?
DeleteDon't we need a broken election system to protest first?
Don't resist them beamish, and that's what we'll soon have. One Left wing party.
DeleteArizona exposed the election "simulation". The "trust" has been broken.
DeleteNo ballots were rejected, no matter how dubious their origin or non-compliant with basic regulations.
DeleteThey'll go to your home, beamish. They'll put you in the brig if you cricize them
DeleteI gave up no rights when Scheller volunteered to go save us from Afghan beatniks on donkeys.
The Arizona audit found more votes for Biden that weren't counted. It's almost as if shitting on their popular Senator's funeral guaranteed Trump's loss there even if you didn't count all the Biden votes at first.
DeleteDon't resist them beamish, and that's what we'll soon have. One Left wing party.
DeleteWell damn. Let's rally around the dork in the buffalo horns that wants organic vegan impossible burgers in jail.
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Mitch McConnell is a vegan? Who knew?
DeleteThink Nancy and Chuckie Schumer will take him seriously in the absence of people willing to go protest and light bonfires on their front lawns?
DeleteThink Nancy and Chuckie Schumer will take him seriously in the absence of people willing to go protest and light bonfires on their front lawns?
DeleteSounds like a quick way to find out they believe in private property and own guns on your way to a Darwin Award. 🤷
Silver... Biden indeed may be in a mess and wounded politically. But can you explain to me why the GOP opposes raising the debt ceiling that will allow the US to pay for spending that occurred during the Trump Admin?
ReplyDeleteIs it really just the desire to burn the entire house down so as to create total chaos and give the GOP the chance to finally end longtime Dem social programs?
I mean for McConnell, he seems to have gone so far in, there's no coming back short of total humiliation.
Anyone, what's the end game here? What exactly is the message the GOP is sending to the American people, at least in this instance?
Dave, I think Mitch’s endgame is to get the pitch fork people to believe that the torch people want to take their pitch forks away.
DeleteDave,
DeleteI am not a Republican and I am not a GOP spokesmouth, so you're asking the wrong guy. I am also extremely uninterested in political tactics of either side. It's all BS all the time as far as I am concerned.
I think it's quite clear that McConnell and the GOP want the Democrats to use that 50 vote procedure, can't think of the name of it right now, to raise the debt ceiling, thereby pinning the whole thing on them. It's a political tactic. I I am not defending it or criticizing it. Both sides do it, that's the way it goes in DC. Our government is broken at every level.
Dave, what Silverfiddle said. But in addition to that, I’m not sure if you’re being obtuse or simply fulfilling the role of a party hack. If you understand the budgeting process, you know the President outlines his wish list to the Congress, whose job is to actually craft the budget, approve it, and send it back to the White House for enactment. So, to say that we’re suffering the effects of a Trump budget is at best disingenuous. Or perhaps you refer to all those times when Congress refuses to pass a budget, and the government stumbles into a series of continuing resolutions.
DeleteSpending is what Congress does for a living. They no longer even care what we the people think about spending ... they just do what they do. Congress not only has the constitutional authority to borrow and spend, but it also has the authority/responsibility to limit how much debt the federal government can create. No one argues that this is an easy process or decision, but good old Dick Gephardt tried to make it easy for his fellow democrats by tying ceiling increases to passages of the budget. This started in 1979. Instead of forcing a separate vote to increase spending, Gephardt proposed that the debt ceiling be raised automatically when Congressional approval of its budget. Or, as some might suggest, pass the budget, and shut up. On the other hand, the GOP thinks that the passage of the budget and raising the debt ceiling should be separate issues. What is your problem with that?
Unlike All-State, we (the people) are not in good hands with Congressional shenanigans, the order of the day. What shenanigans are we speaking about? Well, the monkeyshines that are packed into the Democrat’s budget, for one thing. When Congress demands $3.5 (or more) trillion to address infrastructure, and the infrastructure label becomes a catch-all for a lot more than infrastructure, and then to achieve that enormous amount of malarky spending requires an increase in the debt ceiling, don’t you just get a bit nervous? Or, don’t you care so long as it’s the Democrats who intend to spend our country into oblivion while professing to love America the most?
I don’t have a problem with infrastructure spending. I simply want those earmarks to improve infrastructure rather than socialist programs that benefit relatively small segments of our society. Infrastructure (to me) means bridges and tunnels, not free housing to illegal aliens and California’s millions of homeless people. I’m happy to debate spending priorities but let’s at least call spending projects by their proper name (which is the monkey business part of this entire novella).
Mustang, don’t confuse raising the debt ceiling with budgeting or spending.
DeleteRaising the debt ceiling is about not defaulting on our present obligations and to keep government operations operating. Mitch understands this because he’s on record saying so as well as advocating it- when his party is in power. When the opposition party is in power, he seems to prefer a potential economic catastrophe as that would easily be blamed on Team Biden.
Now the infrastructure bill is an entirely different issue. Trump ran on a promise to do great things with it but it never materialized.. McConnell is for it as well but again, when his party is in power. When not in power, his approach to it is akin to a couple of room mates where one says “you know, I think we really need to paint the walls” and the other says “yeah but we could never agree on the color so let’s just douse it with gasoline and throw a match to it”.
Well Boco... as Ron pointed out, let's not conflate raising the debt ceiling and spending. Raising the debt spending is a process whereby we agree to pay the bills we have already accrued.
DeleteNow, unless I am missing something, economic advisors of all stripes, Trumpsters included, have all said failure to do so will send us over a financial cliff. And it will crush US retirement accounts and endanger social security payments.
All as we are plunged into another recession.
You are 100% correct... we can argue the spending priorities all day. But defaulting on our loans, which is what would happen should we refuse to raise the debt limit, seems like a short sighted political move to me, designed to garner support from people who don't understand the system.
Or the danger.
SF, if you are as you say, "extremely uninterested in political tactics of either side" because as you say, "It's all BS all the time as far as I am concerned", how is it that you have an automatic default defense of "Both sides do it, that's the way it goes in DC".
DeleteWell, not so and I would gladly elaborate in detail but you've told me before this isn't a toilet stall to graffiti things you don't want to hear.
But for recent history, the Trump tax reform plan failed spectacularly in regards to its promises while spiraling the deficit to the tune of $ trillions with an "S". That wasn't a result of "both sides".
Nor are the issues before us today nor are a reasonable debate of them.
Likewise, undoing that Trump tax fiasco, among many, aren't policies of "both sides".
I get that we're ideologically miles apart and that it's indeed a politically divisive political era but if you will forgive my boldness, it's ridiculously naïve and intellectually lazy to rely on a crutch that supports "well, uh. they all do it".
There's actually very little in today's politics that supports that mindset.
The "Trump Tax Cut" was implemented in 2017. US revenue collection continued to go up.
DeleteSince you've raised the issue of tax cuts, where do you stand on Democrat demands that the SALT Cap be repealed, which would result in billions flowing back into the bank accounts of rich people?
DeleteFrom Bloomberg:
What would repealing the cap cost?
Restoring the full SALT deduction would cost the U.S. Treasury $88.7 billion in lost revenue for 2021 alone, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. A multiyear repeal would cost considerably more...
Donald Trump increased taxes on the rich. Where do you stand?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-12/all-about-salt-the-tax-deduction-that-divides-u-s-quicktake
To be fair, the "Trump Tax Cut" did result in a slightly lower revenue as percentage of GDP, but looking at the chart, you see that decline started before the tax cut, and is now coming back up.
Deletehttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
I’m in flight with limited internet access and apologize for delayed responses but would ask you this question.
DeleteWhat precisely is that black stuff in chicken shit?
The answer?
The same damn thing as the white stuff. It’s chicken shit.
I would suggest that perhaps you’re trying to pick the white out of chicken shit while pretending it isn’t chicken shit.
The facts I have provided prove that "tax cuts" did not increase the federal debt, since they did not reduce federal revenue. Ergo, it was increased SPENDING that increased our debt.
DeleteRonald: I will debate ideas and policy all day long. I do not argue political tactics because it requires the arguers to defend the indefensible. Repubes and DemonCraps both employ shameless hypocrisy and indefensible tactics.
Ronald. I have presented FACTS in good faith, and even offered the concession that revenue/percentage of GDP took a slight dip. Please, look at the facts I have presented. This is not a defense of Trump. It is getting to what caused the huge deficits during Trump's presidency: Its the spending.
DeleteNow, tell us, where do you stand on the SALT cap?
DeleteSF, respectfully, I don’t know what you’re relying on as facts but the deficit grew $7.8 trillion under Trump and everyone from Moodys to S&P to Tax Policy Center to the CBO contributes a bulk of that to TAJC. This really isn’t arguable.
DeleteThe SALT deduction cap was an absolute scam to add an extra tax to blue communities and not red ones in which would off the revenue that blue states use to operate.
Every aspect of TACJ was a scam and even if you see that as hyperbole, it never produced the jobs promised or the revenue. It should be, as Mitch says, pulled root and Branch.
“Trickle down” has failed spectacularly since Reaganomics.
Ronald, please, I beg you, go look at the amount of revenue collected year by year. Revenue collection continued to go up after the tax cut. I am neither defending nor attacking the tax cut. I am asking you to go look at the numbers. Spending drove all that debt. Not the tax cut. In order for the tax cut to cause that debt, it would have to result in that amount being lost in revenue collection. That is not the case.
DeleteRonald, do you understand what s a l t is? It allows rich people to write off the state taxes they pay. This is the federal government reimbursing rich people for the taxes they pay in their state. Please, take off your ideological lenses, and look at the facts.
DeleteTax cuts, particularly of this magnitude will always provide an economic bump but that doesn’t define the success or failure of the bill.
DeleteThe hit to the deficit, as outlined by the CBO, will be around $2 trillion over a 10 year period.
Also, the 2017 tax scam (because that’s precisely what is was on every aspect) failed to deliver as cracks were emerging prior to COVID as manufacturing jobs were hemorrhaging Sept, Oct, and Dec of 2019 (up slightly in Nov but only due to 42k striking GM workers returning to work).
The SALT deduction has been in existence for over a century. This cap disproportionately affects high-tax states which are generally blue states. New York estimates its taxpayers would pay $121 billion of extra federal taxes from 2018 to 2025.
Oh, and 2025 is the year that the tax breaks of $15 to $25 a week for the peons will expire. The wealthy who are getting a $million or better break each year keeps theirs forever. Considering reversing this bill is called a “tax hike” for the wealthy, can we fairly say the bill is on course of a wage deduction for the working grunts? White or black chicken shit? Your choice.
How do you feel about the amount of taxes Amazon pays?
I don't like corporate tax breaks, including those to Amazon. But that is not even the issue. Please stay focused.
DeleteDid you look at revenue collected by year? Revenue collections continue to go up after the tax cuts. Granted, maybe they would have gone up more without the tax cuts, but will never know that. Bottom line: the tax cuts did not cause the deficit explosion, spending did.
Your salt argument hinges on your opposition because it impacts blue states. That is an incoherent argument. The salt tax disproportionately hits rich people because they pay more in state taxes. Would you hold the same opinion on salt if it disproportionately hit red states and rich Republicans?
You are not arguing from a principled position
I would be careful about hanging my hat on CBO projections. The CBO has routinely over the decades projected that this bill or that bill will "pay for itself."
DeleteWe all know how that worked out
Well, I’m not sure we all do know that. Perhaps you can provide an example or two where the CBO grossly missed their mark.
DeleteWe have $28 trillion reasons to know. Anyway, the CBO sez the $1 trillion infrastructure bill will cost $250 billion over 10 year, which is gold at the end of the rainbow optimistic.
DeleteDog eat homework?
DeleteDo some research
DeleteCBO
Focusing only on CBO is too narrow. We have a Democrat-Republican government that continually sells us pie in the sky "its all paid for" when actually none of it is paid for and we are at least $28 trillion in debt.
I've been very patient with you, and I have argued in good faith and brought facts to the table. I don't need your shitty snark.
DeleteYou have dragged this thread way off the question of what caused the debt to increase, I keep showing you facts, and you keep changing the subject.
The newlywed aspects aside (**grin**), I find that I cannot watch the news much the past two months. My beloved republic is floundering worse that I thought possible in less than 12 months.
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