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I popped my first anti-nausea pill before the SOTU started. Who remembers the poisonous viper, Pelosi, sitting behind President Trump, making puke faces as the President spoke? Tonight, the viper looks oh-so happy, smiling at the world, as she awaits her fair-haired boy's arrival.
Sleepy Joe spends ten minutes telling us how he has united the US, UK, and Europe. Lies - he promised to unite Europe, but Putin actually united Europe and NATO.
"Created 6.5 million new jobs last year . . . " So, uhhhhh, how does that compare to the job situation before the Wuhan Flu escaped the laboratory?
Close up of Pete Buttplug bobble head figure . . . he's enjoying Biden bragging about 'Build back better'. Poisonous lead pipes? Hmmmm - isn't that a Democrat run city problem? Thinking . . .
"Buy American"? Ohhhhh - kay. I'll be watching. Is Hunter still in China, collecting big bucks for access to the President?
Intel's 'Field of Dreams'? Mmmm-hmmm. Computer chips the size of a fingernail? So Intel is going backward 20 years?
"Time to bury the term 'rust belt' and Joe begins stammering. Let's see how bad that gets.
'Lower your costs, not your wages' - so he's trying to roll back last year's faux pas.
Cut the cost of prescription drugs? I need to double check, but I thought Biden shot down laws allowing Americans to order drugs from overseas? Yeah, drugs that cost $1 overseas, cost $100 or more here. WHY?!?!?!
Now a closeup of the AOC bobblehead.
Joe talking about 'cost of child care'. Didn't Obama make a speech about "We don't want mothers to stay home, we want you working!" Duhhh - why does child care cost so much? It has nothing to do with the fact that women can't afford to stay home.
'Make corporations and wealthy Americans pay their fair share' - and every socialist smiles, stands up and applauds - nevermind the fact that most of them are fabulously wealthy compared to the average middle class American. Even Pelosi smiled - and she is as guilty as any congress critter in Washington.
'The watchdogs are back', but who is watching Hunter Biden?
Biden cares about farmers and ranchers - oh yeah, I remember last year. He offered subsidies to hunters and ranchers who are black but none to white. No, he doesn't care about farmers and ranchers, he cares about identity politics.
CDC issued new mask guidelines, all because Biden personally got the virus under control . . . using the vaccines developed under Trump's administration. "I've ordered more pills than anyone in the world". Biden personally developed those pills, I'm swooning with admiration! /sarcasm
"It's time to get back to business"? Thinking - haven't Republicans been saying that for well over a year? Biden finally gets onboard with Republicans? Take those masks off, and get back in class!!
"Can't build a wall high enough" to keep a virus out - and he kinda stumbled again. Train of thought broke, but he recovered well enough. Where is his teleprompter hidden?
Oh - oh - big city violence - he's building up to it - he knows what works - body cams - still waiting for it - breaking the circle of violence - fund the police - still waiting - GUN TRAFFIKING - GHOST GUNS - GUN VIOLENCE - YADA YADA YADA - ASSAULT WEAPONS HOLDING 100 ROUNDS - GUN MANUFACTURERS CAN'T BE SUED - HOW DOES A KNOWN TERRORIST GET A GUN
Bring it on Joe, keep repeating all the lies. Don't let up now - oh, you've run out of lies? Damn, maybe it's time for a nap, you forgot UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK!!!
Katanji Brown Jackson - I won't comment on her, I haven't bothered to check her background. I do resent the fact that he nominated her just because she is a black female. That is his selling point, not her past decisions.
Secure the border? What happened to 'Surge the Border', Joe? You great hypocritical shit!
Roe v Wade? The US constitution doesn't enumerate the right to kill an inconvenient human life. If it does, then we can't condemn Putin, can we?
Beat the opioid epidemic? Better secure the god-damned border, Joe!! BUILD THAT WALL!
Take on mental health? Well, Democrats generally do drive Americans crazy - defund the police, right? Ooops, now you suddenly want to fund the police.
Privacy protections? Children? What about all the rest of us? Outlaw targeted advertising, period - not just for children.
Support our veterans? Just fuck off. Your Democrats are attacking all kinds of veterans. You hate white, male, heterosexual, Christian soldiers, sailors, and veterans. Ohhhhhhh - Major Joe Biden. You don't know if his service contributed to his brain cancer, but you want to suck up the sympathy . . . but we don't politicize our veterans, do we Joe?
Cancer. MRNA vaccines might do it. But, then you'll have to say goodbye to the DNC . . .
Closeup of Debbie Wasserman Schultz bobblehead, the corrupt head of the DNC that cut Bernie off at the knees - twice.
My fellow Americans, tonight, let me express my contempt for Joe and his whole DNC. Save democracy? Yeah, right.
Good night, Joe.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:32AM (6 children)
> Putin actually united Europe
That certainly appears to be his plan.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:38AM
True, but I don't think he meant to unite Europe against him, but under his boot like his heroes Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin tried to do.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:39AM (4 children)
It is time we let Runaway go. Give him the Permaban, to match aristarchus. Once we have removed the causes, the symptoms will recede. If not, Runaway will fester, and SoylentNews will die. Runaway is gangrene. Amputate him to save the community.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:08PM (3 children)
Since Putin went "full aristarchus" and began ranting incoherently about nazis, the West has done to Putin as Soylent News did to aristarchus. Never go "full aristarchus"!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:31PM (2 children)
Fucking SoylentNews Nazis!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @01:03AM (1 child)
See the guy on the (far-)right [dailymail.co.uk] and his tattoos? [newlinesmag.com]
He's a member of the Wagner Group [wikipedia.org] sent to "denazify" Ukraine by assassinating the Jewish president. They were also active in Donbas in 2014 where it's believed they staged attacks against ethnic Russians to be blamed on Ukrainian Nationalists.
Still looking forward to the next "alt-right" submission from Ari when his ban expires?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @07:08AM
Ari, according to myth, legend, and lore, has been perma-banned. FatPhil don't ever want to see him logging into SoylentNews again. So you, valorous AC, have to keep up the good fight, and expose the truth to Soylentils, so they can decide for their selves. In memory of aristarchus.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:38AM (16 children)
He starts off with a whimper and ends frothing at the mouth. Dat boy ain't right!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:45AM (13 children)
Ukrainians are right now wishing the fuck they had a 2nd Amendment guarantee to keep and bear arms.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:48AM (11 children)
No they aren't, military passed out guns like a well regulated militia should ;^) Down with Russian fascists! Long live the decent citizens of Russia, may they throw off the oligarch's yoke!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:52AM (9 children)
That's an observation in ignorance. Ukraine had nowhere near enough guns to pass out. Many of those passed out, were put into the hands of people who have little to no idea how to use them. The 'well regulated militia' seems to consist of every able bodied male in the country, between the ages of 18 and 60, and there aren't nearly enough guns to arm them all, nor is there nearly enough time to train them.
To repeat: "Ukrainians are right now wishing the fuck they had a 2nd Amendment guarantee to keep and bear arms."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:11AM (4 children)
Uh oh the shills arrived. Please educate us oh shitheaded one! Lol fookin wackjob.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:18AM (3 children)
can't educate a fool who doesn't want to learn
(Score: 2, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:20AM (2 children)
Runaway is a Putin sucking ignorant moron. He needs to be banned for SoylentNews, or he will continue to spew. Since aristarchus has been banned, he has only gotten worse. Time to put the rabid dog down!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:21PM (1 child)
Putin is everywhere! Opposition to war is more evidence that Putin is everywhere! Opposition to the Democratic Party is all Putin's doing! Maybe Putin is even the bathroom rapist that the sisterhood of the uterus of the Democratic Party is looking for!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:03PM
Joe Biden is a Putin sock puppet!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:33AM
I also talk daily with Russians and Belarusians, they too are my neighbours, my work colleagues, and my friends. At least half of the people I know fall into the category of being familially connected to the countries currently at war.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:16PM
Ukrainian authorities say citizens don't need to declare captured Russian tanks and military equipment for tax purposes
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:25PM
And yet...and yet!...they are still managing to hold off much of the might of the Russian military. Uh-oh! It looks like your narrative may have a big hole in it. I'm just going to enjoy trotting out this Ukrainian counter-example whenever you guys claim that the 2A is absolutely essential to drive off foreign invaders.
Actually, right now they are wishing Russia would get the fuck out of their country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:05PM
The Ukrainians will just take guns from dead Russians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:21AM
Down with Putin! All power to the soviets!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:25AM
So they could froth at the mouth like American Ammosexuals? They would soon realize, and it seems that they have, that getting all aroused and excited, and lubed up the butt, over the chance of killing a fellow human being does not make a successful defensive posture. Bend over, Runaway! Here it comes Again!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @08:00PM
Now we know what Lauren Boybert was typing so furiously on her phone during the speech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:13PM
I popped my first anti-nausea pill before the SOTU started.
Now Runaway knows how we feel about his posts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:42AM (2 children)
"Closeup of Debbie Wasserman Schultz bobblehead, the corrupt head of the DNC that cut Bernie off at the knees - twice."
Now why would a rightwinger that would never vote for a centrist like Sanders bring that up? Could it be the Russian propaganda at work? Naaaah, certain users swear Runaway is a good ol' traitor boi. Pretty obsessed with closeups of politicians, almost like he is new to these games!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:47AM (1 child)
Runaway's recent voting record? In 2016 he voted for Johnson. In 2020 he voted for Kanye West. We know this, because on voting day, he went home, got online, and told us how he voted.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:23AM
Also told us his home address was 148 Wallaby Way, 116 Sidney, AR. Self Doxxing idiot. Not too bright. Really quite stupid. And he thinks he can critique Joe Biden? Maybe Joe Rogan, who is an ignorant maroon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:45AM (6 children)
That was the plan, you think Putin fucked up this badly for no reason? You heard it from his own lips, they are going to rid the world of nazis. Watch out Runaway, don't want them mistaking you for your sheet covered neighbors amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:49AM (5 children)
Will you be posting a rebuttal?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:22AM (4 children)
Ari's not here, man. But Runaway's neighbors now know who he is. One of them has their Ring doorbell moved slightly for a better view of the Russian operatives base, of operations. Can't say which one, or whether it is an arial drone, camera'ed squirrels, of whatnot, but someone is always watching Runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:33PM (3 children)
Interesting how staff are now totally fine with spam mod abuse. Someone falsely accuses ari of making a post and ari responds by mocking them. Well I presume it is ari, same style etc. Anyway. He fets spam modded for criticizing an idiot? You'll have to be fair admins and spam mod the accusational post as well, flamebait offtopic accusations are worse than so.eone making fun of said idiot. Only thing I know for sure is I made the OP and ari got accused. It is a bad look Soylent News, letting such abuse stand and even FatPhil approved it! Opens the door to spam modding provable lies as offtopic distractions. Then it'll devolve into probable lies and we'll have recreated Fox News!
No real matter, founders abandoned the site and staff are partisan jerks with no desire to improve the place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:07PM (2 children)
Ari, when you switch from one sock puppet to the other, you don't become a new person. Pink ari is exactly the same as argyle ari is exactly the same as paisley ari is exactly the same as cross-fit-trainer ari. And, don't do the white sock - it only brings out your varicose veins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @08:03PM (1 child)
But actually, it isn't Ari! Ask me how I know, and I am in a position to know! You do not know what you think you know, and throwing spam mods at random is bad for the site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:24PM
Note apk got to spam multioles if the exact same comment in any given article before people would correctly spam mod him, you're being targeted out of simole bias because people are tired of your whining. Fair enough really, evidence points to you sock puppeting but you and staff refuse to actually sort that out. Pretty sure everyone knows you've sock puppeted, so unless that is sorted out your credibility is shot to hell. Regardless still not a reason to abuse spam mods, and no matter how tired of someone the staff are they should modban the user throwing those around. Though fatphil made some comment about allowing spam mods for offtopic whining about being banned.
Who knew Teh Mighty Buzzard was right, though I doubt he foresaw rightwingers being the problem. Of course it would be though, they are the ones most vocal about hating any rules on behavior, which obviously was just a fear response because they desire to censor others so badly they thought liberals would do the same to them. This site is an interesting microcosm of conservative politics and why the fascists are always conservatives despite the ideologies they falsely espouse to gain popular support. Was nothing socialist about the Nazis
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:51AM (2 children)
Our local white supremacist has some weird shit going on in under that skullcap.
"Buy American"? Ohhhhh - kay. I'll be watching. Is Hunter still in China, collecting big bucks for access to the President?"
I know Republicans have gone off the deep end, but their tribal politics really trumps actual patriotism? I think I should take up smoking crack, maybe the world will make more sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:53AM (1 child)
Skullcap? Is Runaway Jewish? WTF are you trying to say?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:25AM
Polish Jew, by way of Pennsylvania. Descendant of one of the few to survive. But not turning against his ancestors, an supporting those what holocausted them. Traitor! Violator of Oaths! Quisling!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:55AM
We member trump crapping on vets, and republicans refusing to help vets or the heroes of 9/11 that survived only to get cancer. Now runaway the coward wants to play tough tribal idiot?
Fucking loser.
Don't get me wrong, fuck the corporate whore biden, but fuck the traitorous un-American GOP a million times more. Runaway can fuck himself, no one wants any of that.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:57AM (9 children)
You didn't learn your lesson after getting scammed the first time? Just how dumb ARE you???
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:04AM (8 children)
The private company that built it's little sections of wall actually shut down three human traffiking routes into the US. Biden wants to keep those routes open. Who is the bigger scammer?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:07AM (6 children)
Pizza basement pedos! Damn evil GOP cunts fake newsing some poor pizzeria hoping no one would notice Trump's BFF Epstein and Maxwell. How many young girls do you think Trump raped? We know he raped his wives, how badly would he treat some poor sex trafikkked kid? Makes me sick, and Runaway voted for the pedo twice!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:17AM (5 children)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:30AM (4 children)
Um, Clinton only had the one wife, and if he ever treated her wrong, she would have his balls. Trump the raper and molester, and lecher after teen girls? No such responsibility. Melania would let him get away with anything, like shooting someone on Fifth Avenue or invading Ukraine, so long as she got the green cards for her parents, and a sizeable divorce settlement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:08PM (3 children)
Um, Clinton was a frequent flyer on Epstien's Loli Air.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:31PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:09PM (1 child)
Now you're just being stooooopid. Trump is nowhere near smart enough to ever qualify to drive one of those things. He is challenged by a bicycle just as much as by a car.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:46AM
But he did own the "Miss Teen 'Barely, or not even, Legal' Paegant", and used it to get "dates". What a pathetic looser, as bad as Judge Roy Clark, pedophile.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:49AM
Didn't know "shut down" now meant moved a mile to the side. At least WBTW are nice enough to leave the gate open for them during the day.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:04AM (3 children)
He was teed up for success, but he couldn't resist the urge to dismantle anything he could that Obama presided over. So we got a fucked up pandemic response, made partisan for control over the R voting base, and a million+ dead now which trumpyman said would indicate failure. He gambled and lost, as per usual.
""Created 6.5 million new jobs last year . . . " So, uhhhhh, how does that compare to the job situation before the Wuhan Flu escaped the laboratory?"
So a conspiracy theory to kick off some political mud slinging? I thought we'd seen peak stupid from the resident gun nut. Actually, maybe wishing for 50 million dead progressives because *reasons* was even more stupid. I dunno, I'm no philosopher!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:10AM (1 child)
Can you answer the question? How does the current employment level compare to pre-Wuhan days?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @08:06AM
Total number is higher now by about half a million and the unemployment rate is roughly the same because while lower now it is within the margin of error.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:36PM
The notion that there could be a peak is built on an invisible and unwarranted assumption that there is some upper limit. This type of assumption can creep in to any laboratory measurement, mathematical analysis of a function, engineering calculation, etc.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:09AM (5 children)
I shit you not, he typed that out! Remember the caretaker laying his body over his autistic charge begging police not to shoot? What happened to him? Oh yeah, they shot him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:13AM (4 children)
https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-salt-lake-city-ut/ [bestneighborhood.org]
Thank the Democrats moving in from California. They took a good Republican city, and turned it to crap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:32PM (1 child)
<raises eyebrow>Oh really!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:10PM
Is that a caterpillar crawling up your face?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:49AM
Good Republican city? You mean Zion? Place still infested with Ladder Day Saints, can't buy a drink, and Mike Lee. No, it was always a shithole. Not even talking about the saltflat flies or the nuclear fallout.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:24PM
Uh oh, pearl clutching white supremacist doing his thing. Everyone watch out, they get trigger happy.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by dalek on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:35AM (26 children)
Germany was strongly opposed to exporting lethal weapons, even to Ukraine, but is now doing so. Germany didn't really want to halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline but has done so now. Europe was opposed to sanctions that would heavily restrict Russia's ability to use SWIFT, but they now support such sanctions. Biden has been very critical of Russia and Putin for quite awhile. Did you ever consider that perhaps he has used diplomacy to get European leaders on board with stronger actions against Russia?
If you're pro-life, how can you condone Putin's actions? You've defended him in many comments on this site. Putin hasn't ordered Ukraine to be invaded for the benefit of the Russian people. The war is very unpopular in Russia, and Putin is having anti-war protesters arrested. Putin is causing needless loss of life, military personnel from three countries and many Ukrainian civilians, to strengthen his grip on power in Russia. You can't be pro-life and support Putin's war.
You're blaming current Democrats for problems with infrastructure that was built many decades ago? This country is in a bad place if improving infrastructure to prevent lead poisoning is a partisan issue.
Yes, Operation Warp Speed happened under Trump. He deserves credit for it. Most vaccine distribution happened under Biden, who pushed for a very aggressively timeline to make vaccines available to all American adults. If Trump gets credit for funding vaccine development and expediting FDA approval of the vaccines, certainly Biden deserves credit for trying to acquire a sufficient supply of COVID therapeutics for Americans. Both Trump and Biden botched COVID testing at times, but they both did good things with respect to vaccines and treatments. It's a shame you can't give any credit to Biden for what he's done right.
A lot of drugs are smuggled in through tunnels or via the Pacific Ocean. The majority of drugs illegally entering the US are smuggled through ports of entry. The wall doesn't fix the real problem, which is the demand for drugs by Americans. Perhaps the $25 billion dollars it would cost to build the wall should be spent on addressing the issue of demand in the United States. Of course, that isn't useful for rallying Trump's base.
That pretty much sums up your divisive rant. I could critique much more of your rant but I have other matters to attend to this evening. I said more good things about Trump in my rebuttal, giving credit for Operation Warp Speed, than you did about Biden in your entire rant. Many of your criticisms are ridiculous, laced with hyper-partisan rhetoric and off-topic whining about Hunter Biden and questioning Biden's mental fitness for office. It completely undercuts any legitimate criticisms like your comments about privacy for all and some of the issues with the DNC when you surround them with divisive rhetoric. Biden deserves plenty of criticism for his lackluster first year in office, but your journal is absurd.
There's a big difference between calling it like you see it and criticizing Biden versus mindlessly repeating partisan talking points. Your journal falls into the latter category, which is why I can't take it seriously.
EXTERMINATE
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 02 2022, @04:58AM (25 children)
Nope. I have, several times, pointed out the hypocrisy of various Ukraine and EU, US, and UK positions and decisions. I have pointed out that, collectively, the West has ignored all of Russia's demands over the years. I have pointed out that the West has collectively worked to push Russia into a corner. I have often pointed out that the Democrat party in the US has been using Russia as the boogeyman to frighten everyone into compliance for years.
I have NOT "condoned" this recent invasion of Ukraine, nor have I "condoned" the way in which Russia is waging war.
I pointed out that partisan politics CREATED the issue. That particular problem has manifested in Democrat controlled territory. That is one of the consequences of incompetent leaders appointing incompetent political hacks into positions of responsibility. (we saw much the same thing when Katrina hammered the Democrat run city and state of New Orleans, and Louisiana) The lead problem was created when someone decided to change the PH of the water, without understanding WHY the water plants were run in the manner they were run.
Let's make a deal here. I don't really think Trump deserves a lot of credit for Warp Speed - credit goes to the people who did the real work. Neither does Biden deserve credit for distribution. That was taking place when Biden was sworn in, and would have continued even if Mickey Mouse were elected.
Yes, that pretty much sums things up. It's nice that you found something honest to say about Trump, unlike all of the Democrat party. That doesn't mean that I should say something nice about an abominable excuse for a leader.
Oh, nothing about the poisonous viper comments? I'm disappointed.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Touché) by khallow on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:37AM (3 children)
"Demands"? Well, that's probably the problem right there.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:52AM (2 children)
LOL - it's the evil Russians, from start to finish, and everyone else is as innocent and pure as the driven snow. Have you forgotten the Cuban missile crisis? Those arrogant Americans demanded that Russia cancel it's plans. Of course, we've forgotten that Russia (or the Soviet) demanded in turn that the US remove it's nukes from Turkey.
Yep. Pure as the driven snow. The West would never provoke anyone, anywhere.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:58AM
There is no denying that Putin is an evil man, or that a great many people suffer for it, both inside and outside of Russia.
The USSR put nukes in Cuba in protest of US nukes in Turkey. The stupid part was that the US was already in process of removing those missiles as obsolete, but got stubborn about it to save face. IIRC the Russians saw the increased activity and thought the site was being expanded instead of decommissioned, hence the protest.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:49PM
You just can't stop making excuses for evil, can you? Russia crossed the line, not those other mean countries. This isn't a Cuban missile crisis (remember your empty words [soylentnews.org] about nukes in Eastern Europe? After I already corrected [soylentnews.org] your above misunderstanding of the Cuban missile crisis?) and it certainly isn't getting resolved peacefully like the Cuban missile crisis was. There's no threat to Russia from the Ukraine. There is a threat to Putin himself from having a democracy on his border, even one almost as corrupt as Russia is.
Fuck that. There was no provocation that can justify invading the Ukraine. I hope some day you figure out what evil is. It's not being impure driven snow. Here, the evil is that Putin is killing thousands or more because he's weak - not because he was provoked.
Finally, once again, it's that same garbage [soylentnews.org], you've been writing.
I find it remarkable how you keep failing this way.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:28AM
Shut up, Runaway. The more you go on, the more support there will be for your banishment. You managed to get aristarchus banned, but guess who the second banned account on SoylentNews will be? Hoist by your own cancellation petard, you will be!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by dalek on Wednesday March 02 2022, @08:09AM (18 children)
You have consistently downplayed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Not that long ago, you said that Putin wasn't interested in attacking Kyiv, and that this was a relatively small military operation. You've been portraying Putin's grievances as legitimate, even though his pretext for the war is a combination of exaggerating various issues (e.g., effectively making Ukrainian the official language) and conspiracy theories (e.g., the US helping Ukraine to get nuclear weapons). That looks to me like you're condoning Putin's actions.
As for using Russia as a boogeyman to frighten everyone into compliance, that sounds a lot like many Republicans decrying a myriad of Democratic policy initiatives as socialism. Some of what Democrats said about Russia was exaggerated, such as the allegations of collusion with the Trump campaign. Some of it is very legitimate, particularly the risk of cyber attacks against US infrastructure and using propaganda to create discord in the US. Remember, Mitt Romney said that Russia is the United States' biggest geopolitical foe, and Obama mocked him for it. Romney was right. As for Republicans using socialism as a boogeyman, it's often a way to dismiss a policy initiative they don't like without offering a real rebuttal. Most of what they're criticizing isn't socialism at all, not even close. Republicans have their own boogeyman they use to promote compliance. Some of Democrats' comments on Russia are exaggerated to the point of being unhelpful, but some are correct. Republicans using socialism as a boogeyman is pretty much completely wrong.
You didn't say that partisan politics caused issues with lead in people's water. You said it's an issue in cities run by Democrats.
When Trump took office, he dismantled a lot of programs without understanding their purpose or why things worked the way they did. Many of the people he appointed later in his term were appointed because of perceived loyalty, not because of competence. Republican governors like Ron DeSantis have been criticized for putting partisan politics ahead of doing what's right for people with respect to public health. Yes, it's a huge problem when political cronyism is more important than competence. Pretending like that's an issue specific to Democrats is not helpful.
You're being consistent here. Fair enough.
Biden is the de facto leader of the Democratic party. Just as I credited Trump for Operation Warp Speed, Biden did as well. I think you'll find that many Democrats support Trump's criminal justice reform and approve of it, though they wish Trump had gone farther. Even bad presidents get some things right. That said, Trump lost the election because the American people strongly disapproved of his response to the pandemic. If historians only considered Trump's presidency up to the 2020 election, he'd still be considered a bad president. His efforts to overturn the election will be viewed extremely unfavorably by historians. Trump will be ranked alongside presidents like like Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan, if not right at the bottom of the list. Trump's legacy will probably be determined on how severe and lasting the effects are of eroding democratic norms in the US.
Biden's presidency has been uninspired and at times has been inept. From a historical standpoint, comparing Biden to Trump is like comparing Gerald Ford to James Buchanan, respectively. The economy was bad under Ford and inflation soared. He didn't exactly do a good job handling the withdrawal from Vietnam. He controversially pardoned Richard Nixon. If you have nothing good to say about Biden, that suggests partisanship might be skewing your perception.
EXTERMINATE
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:22PM (8 children)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:01PM (6 children)
We can do more than "say" here. You note earlier that Putin has been "backed into a corner". Well, the thing to realize here is that no matter we try to appease Putin, we can't get him out of that corner because it's an internal problem, not an external one.
No matter how many countries we let Putin invade, he'll still be a murderous, lying thug with growing unrest at home because he's a murderous, lying thug. It's not our doing, but Putin himself. And that's why Putin is proving you wrong so often.
The best we can do is contain Russia until they replace Putin. That's what NATO is for.
Since when have those possibly legitimate grievances justified invasion and the vast human suffering it causes? As I noted before, you had plenty of time to tell us about these grievances. But instead you babble about a small number of Ukrainian Nazis, Russia not being invited to the NATO club (which continues to exist precisely because Russia remains a bad actor), or small scale instances of ethnic discrimination in the Ukraine. None of which is Russia's business much less a legitimate grievance.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:25PM (5 children)
Had to read that again. I thought for a moment you were turning on the US Military Industrial Complex.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:32PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:01PM (3 children)
You couldn't be more wrong. The MIC makes it their business to cause wars, and to keep wars going, so that they can sell more weapons.
What, you don't think the Koch family and George Soros are invested in arms sales?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 03 2022, @01:04PM
So you didn't actually know when you made that claim? And really what about the actions of those billionaires would sell more arms? It seems to me that the only person in this thread who is pumping arms sales is Putin. And he may well have a larger investment in the Russian arms industry than Soros and the Koch family put together. Nobody out here knows what Putin actually owns.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 03 2022, @01:50PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:57PM
They're bad because they're bad. We're not anti-west, like you on the left.
Your "billionaire-bad" is your own opinion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:21PM
Generalissimo Runaway is one of Putin's military advisors. It shows.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by drussell on Wednesday March 02 2022, @03:35PM (8 children)
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are all terrible candidates for US president, but Biden and Clinton are both eminently more qualified to actually be president than Mr. Trump from every imaginable angle, in every imaginable way. (facepalm)
Trump doesn't even understand the basics about how the world works, he is completely unaware of how the country he "led" is even actually supposed to function! Biden may not be a particularly good president, but he's several orders of magnitude better than Trump! History will inevitably treat them as such. To think otherwise is demonstrably absurd!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:38PM (6 children)
"The fact is that he barely knew where Ukraine was. He once asked John Kelly, his second chief of staff, if Finland were a part of Russia" - Trump's own damn National Security Advisor!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:43PM (5 children)
"Biden Mistakes Libya For Syria At G7 Summit"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:11AM (4 children)
I'll take "Snowflake Republican" for $1000 please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:59PM (3 children)
Get a job, hippie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:27PM (2 children)
Stop mooching off welfare and your parents you basement dweller.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:58PM (1 child)
I know you are but what am I?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @11:45PM
A Nazi, duuuhhhhh doiiiii
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:39PM
That's not true. You have a block of wood, a brick, and a cow patty. The fact that the cow patty would be a terrible president doesn't mean that the block of wood or the brick would be a good one.
You could even make the argument that Trump was better because he was so universally opposed by the establishment that he couldn't actually do anything. "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:35AM
Runaway is pro-death. Second Amendment death. Stand your ground death. Darkie death. All kinds of death. That is why he is famous on SN for these Murder-Death-Kill-War journal entries. He watches snuff films. He kills farm animals, and doesn't butcher them out! He runs over turtles on the road, going out of his way to do it! And, don't get me started on the armadillos, badgers, skunks, and possums. Regular death machine on the road, is this Runaway. Of course, in an actual war, or situation where the victim has an equal standing to fight back? His nick ain't "Runaway" for no reason.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @02:20PM (1 child)
Runaway, to quote an old Ukrainian proverb: "Go Fuck Yourself!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @08:12PM
Yes, Runaway, go fuck yourself! And the Ruskies you rode in with!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @05:25PM
Runaway is a russian shill, probably completely made up persona start to finish. Same as many other accounts. Probably hacks some poor sod in Arkansas to proxy a real US IP. How hilarious would it be if Runaway was Putin's hobby account?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday March 02 2022, @06:46PM (5 children)
Yet another unhinged "I hate democrats" rant from our resident ammosexual.
Some highlights for response:
Biden stammering? A speech problem he's had all his life that he needed to work hard to overcome? This is news to you?
Sure, Republicans have been saying that since before COVID19 even started wreaking havoc. They've always thought profits are more important than the nearly 1 million dead. If it were up to them we'd be looking at 2 to 3 million dead right now. Sacrifice grandma to Wall Street!
If you're not going to inform yourself on how well qualified she is for the SCOTUS then why are you commenting on it? Oh right, Biden did something so Runaway must hate on it.
Ah, there it is: the heart of the matter of Runaway's hatred. He's got himself so wound up convinced that Democrats are going to come and take his guns that he's beginning to YELL ON THE INTERNET!
Dude, get a grip. The FUD planted in your head by the NRA and gun manufacturers has turned you into their useful idiot. Democrats are not coming to take your guns. Obama didn't take your guns. Biden isn't going to take your guns. The next Democrat POTUS won't either. The sheriff's office in your neck of the woods might if you go any further down the rabbit hole and completely check out of reality.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:24PM (4 children)
Objection! Runaway is not useful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @07:12AM (3 children)
So, can we ban him? The moderation system seems to be skewed in his favor, the comments suggest he should be modded into the ground, and yet, here we are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:59AM (2 children)
I suspect admin collusion, and Russian Collusion. Lots of different kinds of collusion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:29PM (1 child)
They told him to cool it with the sock puppets for a bit till the drama died down, and he has been slowly working them back into the rotation. Not all staff are on his side.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @02:24AM
But the ones who are not did nothing to stop the railroading of Ari. And now SoylentNews is just as good as Gab, or Parler, or Gettr, or Truft Social. In otherwords, censored.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 02 2022, @07:15PM (4 children)
I will confine myself to addressing only the things that have any element of truth in them.
She should be proud. She could not have looked any finer if her appearance had been worked on by the very best team of morticians and embalmers. North Dakota is where the annual funeral director's convention is held. I doubt they would want to share any of their beauty tips.
If only we could open the floodgates of immigrants we would then have cheap child care workers. People willing to do a job no American would do. Which is why all of Trump's wives are immigrants.
He seemed to stay awake and semi lucid during the entire speech.
I seem to recall that he DID mention universal background checks. But not where these checks can be cashed. I think the crowd was clapping / cheering during that moment and you might not have heard the universal background checks part.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:50PM (3 children)
Odd that you should point that out. Several Washington politicos appear to have been embalmed, including Sleepy Joe and Pelosi.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 03 2022, @04:03PM
You forget Hillary so quickly?
Or Turtle Face Mitch?
And others.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @04:48PM (1 child)
It's a safe bet that no matter what happens, Nancy will look surprised, and Joe will look confused.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 05 2022, @07:27PM
And Runaway will look like an idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @09:53PM (24 children)
"Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people" ... “He’ll never, he’ll never extinguish their love of freedom” ... “And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world.”
“He has no idea what’s coming,” Biden said of Putin. The US president also delivered a strong rebuke to Russian oligarchs, saying the West is “coming for your ill-begotten gains”
“Tonight I can say we’re moving forward safely back to more normal routines,” Biden said. He also encouraged offices to reopen, saying, “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again.”
“I think I have a better idea to fight inflation: lower costs, not your wages" ... “Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, let’s make it in America.”
"Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. ... He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead he met a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people."
"Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression they cause more chaos"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:40PM (15 children)
"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
- Kommie Harris
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @10:55PM (14 children)
Why does The United States continue to buy oil from Russia?
"Well, as you know, on this issue, for example, we applaud Germany in terms in what it has done in terms of Nordstream 2. As it relates to what we need to do domestically as well as what we need to do in terms of this issue generally, we have, as the President said, re-evaluated what we're doing in terms of the strategic oil reserves here in the United States to make sure it will not have an impact, or we can mitigate the impact on the American consumer.
...
"Let's take this one step at a time. Understanding that right now on the issue of energy, our allies have stood firm and unified in a way that many of the pundits didn't predict would happen, to ensure that we are unified in our approach to this issue."
- Kommie Harris
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:05PM (13 children)
Personally I love how triggered you are by a minority female VP. We need to elect more women and POC if only to make asshole white supremacists rage impotently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:13PM (6 children)
We should hire the best qualified for any job. The fact that Kackling-Kommie is of some sort of identifiable race or two, is your problem, not mine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:52AM (5 children)
We did. Let me introduce Vice President Harris. Democrats roll that way.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:53PM (4 children)
You mean, everybody else was worse than that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:36PM (3 children)
Mike Pence? Who did not decide overthrowing the Constitution was a bad thing, until it failed? On advice from the previously most stupid Republican VP ever, Dan Quayle? And don't you remember VP Spiro Agnew? Republican VP candidate, Sarah Palin? It is obvious that all the Republican alternatives were, in fact, worse than that, and the only reason you object to Harris is that you are a fucking racist. Fuck off, racist!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @09:14PM (2 children)
Kackling-Kommie Harris couldn't get 1% in the CA primaries. By your reckoning, 99% of Californians are fucking racists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @02:28AM (1 child)
Still much less than white Arkansawsians!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2022, @03:17AM
Now who can argue with that? I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:24PM (1 child)
Indeed. It looks like Biden is already working on that. [cnn.com] Expect more white supremacist heads to explode with impotent rage in the coming days. Get out the popcorn.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @02:03AM
Sleepy Joe's imprimatur is causing me to second-think my endorsement of strawberry ice cream with chocolate syrup.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:04AM (2 children)
You should see him get triggered by Greta.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:10AM
Garbo! Grr-arr-arr-woo-woo!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @05:14AM
No thanks, only thing I wanna hear from pedos is "oh shit dropped the soap nooooo."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:53PM
Kameltoe is no minority. Female? Half the fucking world population is female. Indian? ~1/4 of the world population is female. Black? Well, she ain't really black, but again, ~1/4 of the world population is female. Kameltoe is less a minority than I am.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:16PM (1 child)
“I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real.”
- Joe
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 02 2022, @11:21PM
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by... you know... you know the thing."
- Joe
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:06AM (3 children)
Sour Grapes from Runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:12AM (1 child)
You're all happy-juicy-grapes about how that State-Of-The-Dumpster-Fire speech went?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @03:37AM
The first presidential State of the Ukraine speech in US political history.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @08:54AM
Runaway has always been like this, since he was rousted out of the Navy with a Less than Normal Discharge. Lots of Issues. But not enough to go Full QAnon Shaman, but close.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 03 2022, @04:07PM (1 child)
Speaking of sour notes, let's not forget all of the Quayle Quotables from the George H W Bush senior back before SN ACs were born. Also to be remembering some of the George W Bush quotables.
Everyone makes gaffes when speaking. Biden more so than most.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2022, @04:31PM
And don't forget, some o' them-thar debates from afore the War Of Northern Aggression, were real barn-burners, I tell ya'.