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So, he has a year remaining, what's left for him to do?
He's already taxing the billionaires
And he is leaving us with this bit of lovely dystopia.. Nice juicy target there... How much longer will they be able to deny they've been hacked?
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Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @05:56AM (4 children)
All the more reason he needs to step aside and put a woman in charge.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @11:14AM (1 child)
How very cisnormative of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @05:15PM
So words. Such big. Wow
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:19AM (1 child)
They're prepping Hillary again
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=should+hillary+run+2024&btnG=Google+Search&iflsig=ALs-wAMAAAAAYeOpvaDhEAdBVvv2kVaVXpG3uaz6ppO1&gbv=2 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:25PM
w007
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @06:35AM (6 children)
Fistula hole into a digestive tract, is not a real person, he is something of a lame soylentil. A soylentil with no legs to stand on. A soylentil employed by the National Republican Committee for Pretending there is Bi-partisanship Possible. A Political Action Committee headquarted in St. Petersburg. With the Peters.
So let me suggest the Paul Ryan, or the Rand Paul, or the Ryan Ron Paul alternative: How about we don't let the darkies vote? And give tax breaks to billionaires, since they have earned them, by being better than poor people, by having more money, that they got from their absentee parents?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @03:33PM (3 children)
>> He's already taxing the billionaires
Gives them enough windfalls to change the climate, and they kick back a little. Sounds fair.
All Joe has to do is be very-very quiet for a few months, and nobody'll notice. At least until they can maneuver the right replacements in place. After all, nobody wants Harris, Nancy, or Hillary. AOC was born Oct 13, 1989, and you have to be 35 to be VP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @03:43PM (2 children)
AOC will be eligible Oct 13, 2024. Do you have to be 35 to run or just to hold office?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @04:14PM (1 child)
By the Constitution, to serve. How much attention does anybody pay to that ol' thing, anyway?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @08:16PM
To the most relevant politician who earned her way? Lots :) still salty she raised more money for Texas than anyone else?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @03:49PM
"If these 10 men were to lose 99.999 per cent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 per cent of all the people on this planet," said Oxfam International's executive director Gabriela Bucher. "They now have six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people."
- Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge [theregister.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:24PM
- Choose One, But Only One: Defend The Billionaire's Bubble Or The US Dollar And Empire [zerohedge.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @05:18PM (1 child)
Biden lamed himself without even waiting for midterm elections. The progressives are burnishing their escutcheon by declaring him a useless sell-out, the republicans want very little to do with him, the centrists have no time for his symbolic genuflections to the progressives. He has utterly failed to stake a claim on anything that would bring the country together, and even the things for which he might have claimed credit are now millstones (voting rights legislation, Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID handling).
It's like watching a kid with severe muscular control problems shove an ice cream up his nose instead of taking a lick. You can feel sorry for him, but that ice cream is still up his nose, and however haplessly he did it to himself.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @07:44PM
A vote for Biden was a vote for the politburo. As you can see, a big table is about those seated there getting their share. There are too many commoners, anyway.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @05:34PM (12 children)
that is why people voted for him, do nothing? Sounds better than do fascism!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @06:25PM (9 children)
How about - do something constructive? Or even rebalancing the intrusive structures that allow government to get all up in people's business from abortions to snowblowers? Y'know, un-fascism?
Too high a bar? Or too disruptive to your false dichotomy?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @09:25PM (5 children)
Don't you worry, we wanted that but it would have required Republican voters to cross the divide and support Sanders. Sadly you somewhat reformed Republucans now calling yourselves Libertarians only want less government and without understanding the scaled tax brackets you think taxing the rich is an attack on joe average. Also, you're easily scared with words like socialism, while nazi is more of a rallying cry, but I digress.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @01:37AM (4 children)
You wanted to rebalance the government's intrusiveness - and your vehicle was Sanders?
Seriously?
Mister get-the-government-up-everybody's-medical-affairs-all-the-time?
Mister capital-gains-are-already-double-taxed-but-lets-make-that-worse?
Mister my-green-new-deal-is-even-more-autocratic?
I think you only understood every second word of the GPP, and the sad +1 Informative is mostly reflecting your state of mind.
I'm sorry.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @02:05AM (3 children)
Re-read your comment and understand why no one bothers trying to have adult conversations with rightwing wackjobs. To you compromise means doing what you want. Pretty sad, but then again you are the party of filibuster-your-own-bill so I doubt anyone will be surprised.
PS: "I'm sorry"? You should be sorry but we all know you aren't
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @02:18AM
It might be easier for you if you had a point. Just spewing bigotry and hatred does not promote stimulating debate.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @03:33PM (1 child)
So, you're interested in getting republicans to support Sanders ... on the grounds of an earlier post suggesting a reduction in destructive interference in society on the part of government ... and you regard a (brief, abbreviated) list of the Sanders platform's most noted destructions and intrusions as not being relevant and useful?
In other words, because someone tells a relevant, verifiable truth is "why no one bothers trying to have adult conversations with rightwing wackjobs" - I'm not even a rightwinger, but in your world I must seem like one.
This is telling us more about you than about anyone else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:44AM
"and you regard a (brief, abbreviated) list of the Sanders platform's most noted destructions and intrusions as not being relevant and useful?"
Heh, that is the quality you consider valid? Whatever NAZI ;^)
(Score: 2) by dwilson on Wednesday January 19 2022, @09:08PM (2 children)
Well when your options are 'do nothing' or 'do worse', nothing is a pretty good choice.
I mean, you can harp all you want about 'do something constructive' but when that option isn't on the table, continuing to harp about it speaks volumes about -you-, nevermind any false dichotomies you want to point to.
- D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 20 2022, @12:02AM (1 child)
Doing nothing just lets worse happen, so you still end up with worse. Doing nothing is why we have worse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 20 2022, @08:51PM
But if you do nothing, you have plausible deniability.
It's a lot more satisfying than "the dog ate my defense plans."
Well, present company would be "I was napping at the time."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @08:32PM (1 child)
Spoiler alert, it's not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @09:20PM
Tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot. Thanks for playing, better luck next time.!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Subsentient on Saturday January 15 2022, @09:00PM (28 children)
Water is wet. I knew Biden would be shitty, but I still expected more of him than what happened in Afghanistan. That is unforgivable -- he ignored his advisors and an entire country lost their freedom as a direct result. When a nation falls into a terrorist state because of your choices, you have fucked up.
Still, I prefer Biden's brand of senile old sex offender to Trump's brand of senile old sex offender.
Bad times ahead guys.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @09:32PM (4 children)
I mean fuck Biden, but the withdrawal was an agreement made by El Dumbo, and US sentiment had been pro withdrawal for a long time. It is just stupid to blame Biden for this and reeks of continued partisan horse shit. May we never go back with the military. Again fuck Biden for breaking promises and being another corpirate sell out, but fuck drumpf 100x more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @05:58PM
Yeah! And all you get is fucked... But vote for them anyway because you have no choice, right?
(Score: 1, Touché) by khallow on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:03PM
El Dumbo wasn't the dude asleep at the wheel.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Monday January 17 2022, @03:54AM (1 child)
Oh the problem wasn't that we withdrew. I think we did need to get out eventually. I just object to the fact that the withdrawal was so rapid, chaotic, and incompetent that to this day there are still American citizens trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Biden was given dire warnings by his advisors that they were moving too quickly, repeatedly, and he ignored them. Historically Biden said "we're here to bring these people democracy and the rule of law" etc etc, but as soon as he had finished aggressively shitting the bed on Afghanistan, he's all "we were never there for nation building", fucking liar. Then again, find me a politician that isn't constantly lying.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:16AM
Well why the hell would anybody believe that? The most plausible reason for invading Afghanistan was to reopen the opium pipeline that the Taliban had completely closed off, let's stop with all this weepy "democracy" bullshit, it's strictly business
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @09:49PM (2 children)
You can't blame Biden about Afghanistan. He didn't listen to advisors, for the same reason he doesn't listen to anybody. He reads the teleprompter, tells stories about what he thinks he used to know, tries to retain lucidity as long as he can, and then he goes home, and he sits in his chair, and he looks out the window. Pick a name from a hat: Susan Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Obama... the heads of a few tech companies and a few other James Bond villains; it's a big table, and Joe's not sitting at the head head of it.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @11:03PM (1 child)
Ask someone who has to work with people suffering from mental decline. Ups and downs, good hours and bad, are the norm. One time they're talking about details of the day just fine, the next time they're worried about streams of water running down the walls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @04:38PM
Talking to someone with mental decline, someone who is sliding into what we're seeing and talking about. They wanted to know what they could do, since they couldn't do or remember so many things that made life so precious. How do you explain the goodness of life, the value of each little thing, to someone who knows that it's slipping away — vanishing — around them? Someone for whom fair-weather friends have moved on?
Be thankful for what you've had. Be thankful for what you still have. Be thankful for having one more opportunity, today. Maybe tomorrow.
It was a great country. I'm thankful.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 15 2022, @10:43PM (5 children)
Leaving Afghanistan is one of the very few good things he has done, I mean of course, if we had left. It's weird to watch the blood thirsty mass media plead for us to go back in. Now, his method of "leaving" was, embarrassing to say the least, not sure what message is being sent with that.
Trying to be funny, are ya?
I question your ability to tell the difference, or what is your metric
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @10:46PM (4 children)
I believe that most of us believe leaving Afghanistan was a good thing. The problem is the humiliating, wasteful, inhumane way it was done.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @11:34PM (2 children)
There is no clean way to withdraw. The results show it was a waste of effort.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:04PM (1 child)
You can do a lot better than that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @02:28AM
The powers that (apparently) be couldn't figure out a graceful exit strategy, there's no reason to expect some random AC could do a better job.
Well, I take that back. Random chance doesn't sound that bad. Or improbability... turning Afghanistan into a herd of cows would likely be an improvement.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 17 2022, @05:48PM
The biggest failure with the withdrawal was that TPTB did not expect the Afghan forces to offer zero resistance to the Taliban. I mean, they were there for 20 years, didn't they have some kind of clue about that?
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @10:51PM (13 children)
- Donald Trump Jr. on Joe Biden’s Mental Decline: He’s Had Two Brain Aneurysms Requiring Surgery [breitbart.com] September 3, 2020
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @11:37PM (12 children)
Like Jr is known for telling the truth.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @11:50PM
Many people say Junior has two brains. Neither one works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @01:53AM (8 children)
Because Joe is soooooo smart, that DJ must be lying. As is the doctor he is quoting. As are the medical experts in the field. As are your own eyes and ears, when you watch what Joe is like.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @02:07AM (3 children)
Sorry little buddy, we don't like Biden either but aren't into your clickbait misinformation. Even if its true, still don't care, already knew he is old, racist, creepy, and named joe. Still better than old, racist creepy criminal and traitorous sex offender likely pedophile donnie trump.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:11AM (2 children)
I thought TDS would fade away after Trump lost. Apparently not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:20AM (1 child)
This is the 'Xi' variant. It's harder to catch because, according to ratings, spreading is down 90% at CNN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:26AM
Well, CNN is firing a lot of staff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:22AM (3 children)
Witch Doctor?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:37AM (1 child)
The one who sewed up Joe after his two brain surgeries?
Or maybe it was the one who gave him a physical last November, but didn't bother doing cognitive testing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:54PM
Probably Dr. Phil or Dr. Nick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @05:13PM
Dr. Jill Biden.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:15PM
Junior is what they call Abby Normal.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 17 2022, @05:52PM
Or Breitbart, for that matter.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:54AM (14 children)
Biden was never meant to complete his term. The Party will work desperately to keep him operational for another year, and a little bit. Kamel Toe is going to take over for him, and she'll be in the best position to remain in the office for ten years. Joe is a place holder, nothing more and nothing less. When the idiot is no longer useful The Party is going to have him declared incompetent due to senility.
This is what the fools voted for - if there really are 80 million such fools.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @03:57PM (3 children)
You were hoping for Caribou Barbie?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:41PM (2 children)
Unlike the other side, Republicans have to promote candidates who are electable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @11:13PM (1 child)
Then why wasn't she elected? Election Dysfunction?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @03:40AM
She was the VP candidate under McCain. He was a RINO, and she was there in a fruitless attempt to mollify the base. The media knew that she was more popular than McCain — who knew he didn't have a chance — so they played softball with Mc, and targeted her for destruction, which is the only reason you remember her. I can smell collusion from my porch...
Besides, ask Dan Quayle, Joe Biden, or Kommie Harris, if the VP candidate matters.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:34PM (8 children)
No way! Kommie couldn't get 1% of the CA primary vote. Nobody liked her then; nobody likes her now. She can't even keep a staff working for her. The semi-smart money is on Hillary swooping in with some smooth maneuvering by Congress and the 25th Amendment and such, but I don't believe it.
I think they're planning on trying to make it look like things are going great until November — and it would be suicide to switch horses in the middle of whatever the streaming disaster they can hawk — while they desperately seek someone, anyone, they can promote as the second-coming of Obama. Obviously they don't have anybody — not even Mrs. O or Oprah — but they'll get the machine working overtime to promote the most attractive candidate. I thought at first it would be a tech mogul, but they're imploding so fast.
I don't think they can pull it off. Messiahs are hard to create to order.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:38PM (7 children)
There is no route to the White House for Hillary until 2024, and the party isn't going to back her then.
Doesn't matter how popular Harris is. She's in the White House now. When Joe goes down she takes over. If she's the resident when the next election kicks off, The Party is going to keep her there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @04:54PM (6 children)
The premise is that they'll have a brand-new, incredibly-popular incumbent before the '24 election, because of course the incumbent has the advantage. It obviously won't be Kommie. Maybe they're grooming superstars, but all of 'em so far have burned out quickly. Somebody from sports or showbiz or an internet influencer? I'm kind of out of touch with who's hip and cool and gear and what's happenin' now... unless it's nobody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @05:24PM (1 child)
Grouchy Fauchi seems popular.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @08:08PM
He's older'n just about anybody except Nancy. And her eyebrows aren't rising, the rest of her is sagging.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:09PM (3 children)
If you're speaking of Harris, then you don't understand how badly "obviously" has turned on you. If Biden goes, Harris is the obvious incumbent pick for 2024. It will be her election to lose. It doesn't matter how many times she gets called "Kommie" or whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:53PM (2 children)
Kommie's party lives and dies by polls. She has lower numbers than Joe.
• She's always been a commie dupe
• First thing is to get rid of audios of her cackling
• Then videos of her smirking
• Then records of her job
• Then hide the records of her bailing out terrorists
• Try to convince everyone that she's black again, not Indian, and her family didn't own slaves
• Get her a style consultant so she doesn't look like an insurance agent
• Get her a personality consultant to make her likable
Try an internet search for "limbaugh kommie harris"
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @11:54PM (1 child)
Right, because communists are those who rise to the top in hypercapitalist regimes. You've got some nuts twisted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @08:30PM
Try an internet search for "hypercapitalist"
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @03:38PM
Here's the simple solution: