Fuck you and your beliefs, you disingenuous lying jackass.
Your trolling is a negative contribution to the Dope.
Fuck off.
So, let’s unpack this.
Democrats were mean to Romney. This causes the right to vote for Trump, an extremist. And because Both Sides are Just as Bad, this going to lead to the Democrats running someone just as toxic.
But when Republicans accused Bill Clinton of literal murder, angry Democrats responded by running Al Gore for president.
After a Republican president gets us involved in several wars, Democrats ran John Kerry for president. Republicans called him a coward and a war criminal. Next cycle, outraged Democrats elected Barack Obama.
Eight years of racist lies and conspiracy theories later, Democrats, now fully radicalized, ran Hillary Clinton for office. Republicans called her a pedophile cannibal, and voted in Trump.
Four years of Trump, and the Democrats, and the left, who at this point are clearly on the edge of a Red revolution, elects… Joe Biden.
Hooboy, you really called it there didn’t you? Look how extreme the Democrats are! Joe Biden is basically Che Guevara, amirite?
Hey, way to refute her point! You really aren’t very good at this, are you?
A Joe Biden that is doing everything the left wants. And it’s not just about the guy at the top. The Trump years saw the surge of a hard left wing in the Democratic party, and a hollowing out of the moderate wing.
Which is why it’s now a ‘compromise’ to push for 4.5 trillion dollars in spending - an amount that would have been outrageous to contemplate during the financial crisis, but which Democrats now want to spend while the economy is overheating and inflation is rising.
They basically have accepted the wackadoodle Modern Monetary Theory, because it’s the only economic framework that would even remotely justify what they are currently doing.
I did feel kind of bad about picking on him to make my point. Did.
There’s no proof-positive data that people are staying home because of the stimulus packages. In some states, the jobless numbers went down after cutting benefits; in other states, the jobless claims still increased. It’s a mixed bag, which suggests that the reasons for the labor shortages are complex, not attributable to one factor.
As a taxpayer, I’d rather pay for a low-wage employee without any health insurance to stay home and out of the path of the virus than to have that employee go out and get a major medical emergency and be left bankrupt and unproductive for months or even years forward.
Current inflation is likely transitory. We’re dealing with breakdowns in the supply chain and pent up demand from middle and upper class consumers with some household savings. There are still a lot of people at the bottom rungs of the socioeconomic ladder who are desperately holding on, facing the threat of eviction. Once a person becomes homeless, it tends to be a life-altering course.
You’re analysis is missing a key element here: taxation. I tend to agree with you that we cannot borrow into perpetuity without taxation of those who can afford it, but there’s a solution to that, which is increasing taxes on the wealthy. Problem is, they are increasingly getting a stranglehold on the political system.
You, good sir, are either a liar or a fucking idiot.
Hardly.
Well, that’s scary. Thank God for Joe Biden then.
You’re suggesting that Joe Biden is not a part of the moderate wing of the Democratic party?
It’s almost startling how entirely out of touch you are with American politics.
Fair enough, and, before I explain why I disagree with your views, let me say I am somewhat conservative by international political standards. I once represented the Conservative party in my native UK.
I don’t beat up on the GOP based on some kind of tribal loyalty but because I think that they, in fact, are the great danger to the US, and demonstrably have been so, to the extent that democracy itself is seriously at risk.
Firstly, may I ask did you also oppose the Trump tax cuts? $2.3 trillion is a big chunk of change, and this is supposed to be a list of things where Democrats’ policies are worse.
Secondly, of course a case could be made that the reason that the economy has survived covid so well is because of this stimulus. And sure, some people might try to make the same argument about the trump tax cuts. I wouldn’t dream of claiming the trump tax cuts were dangerous without including an analysis of their potential positive impact (spoiler: not nearly enough to outway the cost)
Finally, in your next paragraphs you go on to say how much GDP growth there is and that the economy is potentially overheating. Well, perhaps wages should finally increase to come towards the increases in productivity we’ve seen over past decades? IMO a lot of this employment crisis is a market failure; that employers feel a menial job is only “worth” $X, and are very reluctant to pay $X’
But in the past, employers benefitted from the tax payer subsidizing miserly wages (e.g. by giving workers food stamps).
If the new reality becomes an adequate social safety net, such that employers need to pay a living wage, then good. Those businesses that won’t pay that, fuck em. Those that can’t pay it, were unlikely to survive very long; if a few dollars difference in wages would pull you under then it was just a matter of time anyway.
Firstly, is a nationwide network really on the cards?
But secondly, and more importantly, where did you get the idea that trains have a higher carbon footprint than cars? Most research I’ve seen emphatically says the opposite.
Much of the opposition to this project is just based on fears of Russia increasing its influence and bypassing Ukraine. In terms of CO2, we cannot overnight have zero requirement on fossil fuels and this is a relatively small part of the overall European energy mix.
From a climate change POV it would be pure hypocrisy for the US to sanction Russia over this, although note several sanctions still remain.
Oh wow, I actually thought the rest of your post was being serious.
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Anyway, in general this was the typical list of trying to squint hard to find anything to criticize Biden over. Versus the hundreds of thousands dead over covid, fanning an insurrection and the various white supremacist terrorist groups, needlessly separating kids from their parents, selling out the country for personal gain (Ukraine), pardoning corrupt cronies and so making a mockery of US justice etc and these are off the top of my head.
This right here is why we need conservatives on the board. I strongly disagree with the assumptions and conclusions in this post. If not for people writing it, there would be no one to discuss it with.
The best thing about American conservatives is that the people who gobble propaganda and believe in a comfortable fantasy world of cartoon simplicity think that everyone else is delusional.
Chef’s Kiss
It’s as if he doesn’t even live here.
Oh, wait.
He’s from CANADA, not fucking Turkmenistan. There cannot possibly be a country more integrated and affected by US politics and dependent on US economy.
Honestly, sometime you say shit that just makes you look like an angry reactionary simpleton.
Maybe stick with throwing shit down the quarry.
Are you saying that you are seeing functional differences between SS and some dude in a Turkmenistan Troll farm?
I may not agree with SS on many political views, but he is a fellow Canadian and it’s not at all odd to me that he has an abiding interest and opinion on US politics. Canadian spend inordinate amounts of time and energy talking about US politics because of the very direct impact it often has on Canada.
Yeah, the only thing that’s notable about Sam’s interest in US politics is the vast gulf between how authoritatively he talks about it, and how much he actually knows. “He’s Canadian, what does he know about US politics?” is a stupid take.
That’s our Sam alright. Often wrong, but never in doubt.
What? Seriously, where did you get this idea?
I’ll admit that Biden came out of the box swinging, more than I expected. But he’s a “liberal,” whatever that means, not a “leftist.” He’s a neoliberal who’s been around forever. He would have been perfectly happy back in the sixties/early seventies in the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. Remember when they used to call him “the senator from MBNA”?
He’s hardly trying to usher in the dictatorship of the proletariat.
We’ve really got to stop stripping words of all meaning. That’s the thing that makes any kind of dialogue impossible. I mean, if language just doesn’t work anymore, where do we go from there?