US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Status
Not open for further replies.
BidenGIF.gif
 
Last edited:
Click to expand...
Oxous said:
With Biden completely struggling to energize the base… might he finally crack on student loans and try to ram some shitty solution through?
View attachment 2922134
Click to expand...
What can Biden actually do about student loans? Can he really just write up an executive order and poof, gone? Because it seems like total bullshit.
 
Oxous said:
You love to see it.

Joe Manchin says Bernie Sanders is not what 'the majority of Americans represent' after Sanders hinted at Manchin getting primaried​

(article)
  • Joe Manchin fired back at Bernie Sanders after Sanders suggested Manchin could face a primary challenger.
  • The two senators are both in Democratic leadership, but they have an increasingly fraught relationship.
  • Manchin has come under fire for his position on the filibuster and Build Back Better.
Sen. Joe Manchin snapped at Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday after the former presidential candidate and Vermont senator mused that Manchin could face a primary challenge after he voted against the party's efforts to weaken the Senate filibuster.

"Well Senator Sanders is not a Democrat," Manchin told Newsy's Nathaniel Reed while back in West Virginia, pointing out that Sanders is a self-described Democratic socialist. Manchin said Sanders' ideology is "not what I think the majority of Americans represent."

Manchin and Sanders are both members of the Senate Democratic leadership. But they have an increasingly icy relationship due to their divergent views on how to move forward on Biden's economic agenda and voting rights.

"They have forced us to have five months of discussions that have gone absolutely nowhere. I think it's up to the people in their own states," Sanders said to reporters last week when asked if he would support a primary challenge to Manchin, HuffPo reported.

Manchin told Newsy he would welcome a primary challenge. A successor to a dominant West Virginia family and a former governor, Manchin has easily dispatched previous primary challengers. He won his 2018 primary by nearly 40 percentage points.

"I've always had primary challenges. I've been running since 1982," Manchin said. "And I've never ran… one race where there wasn't a primary. So it's nothing new for me."

Sanders, who is an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats and ran twice for Democratic presidential nomination, supported an effort to make an exception to the Senate filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. Manchin has said he supports the legislation itself, but he and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have remained staunchly opposed to any efforts to weaken the filibuster.

Manchin also dealt a significant setback to Biden's agenda in December when he declared that he could not support the president's climate and spending plan, known as "Build Back Better." Sanders has repeatedly pressed for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a vote on the proposal in its current form even if it fails.
Click to expand...
OLD MAN FIGHT
OLD MAN FIGHT
OLD MAN FIGHT
 
GuntPunt said:
What can Biden actually do about student loans? Can he really just write up an executive order and poof, gone? Because it seems like total bullshit.
Click to expand...
Well, 85 Congress Democrats including Schumer seem to think he can just do that. What they’re asking for is whether the DOE says Biden has the authority but the implication is that they already believe he has it.
 
GuntPunt said:
What can Biden actually do about student loans? Can he really just write up an executive order and poof, gone? Because it seems like total bullshit.
Click to expand...

The debt of student loans in the US is about 1.58 trillion dollars, this is not the sort of debt you can just brush under the rug, this defit matter for the american coin and any news of the american goverment just excusing this amount of money would mean further devaluation of the dollar, which is just wonderfull in a nation suffering with inflation.

Biden might get some hurrays if he forgive student debt loans, but the hurt will be 10X worse when shit hits the fan.
 
Bolo said:
The debt of student loans in the US is about 1.58 trillion dollars, this is not the sort of debt you can just brush under the rug, this defit matter for the american coin and any news of the american goverment just excusing this amount of money would mean further devaluation of the dollar, which is just wonderfull in a nation suffering with inflation.

Biden might get some hurrays if he forgive student debt loans, but the hurt will be 10X worse when shit hits the fan.
Click to expand...
So not going to happen since he didn't do it when he had the "Mandate of Heaven" before Afganistan and not going to do it now to pump up inflation to get killed harder in the midterms. Maybe 3 months before to rally the base and not get the immediate affects to inflation, but not now.
 
Josterman said:
I found this guy waking up to the truth View attachment 2922001
And here is what jack booted thug bill Palmer had to sayView attachment 2922002View attachment 2922003View attachment 2922004
Link to the tweet
And this the tweet that got bill fumming
Click to expand...
I read through that nigger from Baltimore's thread, he does have good takes but ultimately interprets those polls as people don't wanting Trump to return despite Trump's record turnout and in general, I have given up on the polls. However Virginia and New Jersey does show a trend that does not look good for Joe Biden.

Ultimately that nigger will go back to voting blue since they are buck broken to hell and doesn't acknowledge how much BLM has fucked his community or that Biden is doing jackshit on keeping the border closed and other issues as well.

His main concern is mostly education and yet most of the niggers voted into office by these Democrat niggers, like we saw in Mississippi love CRT.

I won't tell the niggers to vote GOP since McConnell and McCarthy have no serious plan beyond sucking off corporate America but disavow the Democrats is what I can advise them.
 
Gehenna said:
For now, unlikely. I haven't heard of Pelosi having any health issues beyond being 81. Modern medicine as it is, and with the healthcare that congress-critters get, she's unlikely to just keel over.
Click to expand...
she is 81 and an alcoholic
she is under huge amounts of stress
she is going to keel over at some point, she can't just show up and supervise clerks occasionally like Ginsberg
 
ForTheHoard said:
Pelosi grew up in a time that promoted modesty and ladylike mannerism. As a woman of status, she probably spent plenty of time around mammy, cunty matriarchs, but it was still considered popular and civilized to present yourself with traditional mannerism.
Click to expand...
oh my fucking god you people

Herb Caen had a famous blind item about Pelosi getting tanked in North Beach and talking about how her mom used to line her and her sisters up and wax all their armpits

modesty and ladylike mannerisms my ass, she's been a public figure as long as you've been alive, I don't know where you would have gotten this impression
 
Josterman said:
I found this guy waking up to the truth View attachment 2922001
And here is what jack booted thug bill Palmer had to sayView attachment 2922002View attachment 2922003View attachment 2922004
Link to the tweet
And this the tweet that got bill fumming
Click to expand...

The full thread is a good read, bet they're calling him Uncle Tom for speaking out against CRT

screenshot-threadreaderapp.com-2022.01.27-00_49_20.png

threadreaderapp.com

Read and Share Twitter Threads easily!

Thread Reader helps you read and share the best of Twitter Threads
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com

archive.md

Thread by @IsaiahLCarter on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

archived 26 Jan 2022 16:49:01 UTC
archive.md archive.md

 
Oxous said:
Well, 85 Congress Democrats including Schumer seem to think he can just do that. What they’re asking for is whether the DOE says Biden has the authority but the implication is that they already believe he has it.
Click to expand...
Why? Amid another potential war, why would they remove the incentive to go into the military? Faggots in Congress love throwing young men to the wolves if it means their pocket books get thicker.
 
Bolo said:
The debt of student loans in the US is about 1.58 trillion dollars, this is not the sort of debt you can just brush under the rug, this defit matter for the american coin and any news of the american goverment just excusing this amount of money would mean further devaluation of the dollar, which is just wonderfull in a nation suffering with inflation.

Biden might get some hurrays if he forgive student debt loans, but the hurt will be 10X worse when shit hits the fan.
Click to expand...
I'm not saying "A C C E L E R A T E", but I am saying, "mistake in progress, do not interrupt".
 
SSF2T Old User said:
Donald Trump Golf Game, when?

Seriously, it's like that's all this dude does in his spare time.
Click to expand...
For a senior citizen it's good exercise with low rates of injury. He can proceed at his own pace, includes cardio with the walking and full body range of motion as well. He looks to be in pretty decent shape from it, so great.

For a businessman and politician it's a great game, gives a lot of time to talk business deals and strategy in a loose and informal setting that encourages thoughtfulness and discourages intensity or ratcheting.

I'm not really seeing anything but upsides here.
 
if you guys want to really understand the CA politicians in power right now you should read Herb Caen actually. And Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. That's the world that these old fucks were in their prime in. Everybody's already read Maumauing the Flak Catchers but give it a reread as well.
 
barleyrugsoap said:
she is going to keel over at some point, she can't just show up and supervise clerks occasionally like Ginsberg
Click to expand...
She could probably get away with not even showing up if she claimed to have the plague. Or someone else could claim she has the plague if you want to go into marionette theory.

Interesting... When I saw the thread about the proxy voting rules, I thought it was a way to force compliance and steal votes away from other representatives because lol if the proxy votes against the wishes of the person they're representing, who's going to want to deal with the optics of publicly visible party infighting?

But with your post about how she'd need to push work onto others to conserve her strength, I can't help but wonder...
 
Dergint said:
She could probably get away with not even showing up if she claimed to have the plague. Or someone else could claim she has the plague if you want to go into marionette theory.

Interesting... When I saw the thread about the proxy voting rules, I thought it was a way to force compliance and steal votes away from other representatives because lol if the proxy votes against the wishes of the person they're representing, who's going to want to deal with the optics of publicly visible party infighting?

But with your post about how she'd need to push work onto others to conserve her strength, I can't help but wonder...
Click to expand...
no she's got to physically be present in DC and SF because she's doing secret backroom stuff that has to happen in person.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom