Politics Thread

[Strange Brew]

Noem, Gianforte, DeSantis.

So 3 out of 27 for 11%. Great reporting there by the Times.

Curious to see DeSantis’ actual quote too because we’ll, it’s the Times.

[Masterofreality]

So 3 out of 27 for 11%. Great reporting there by the Times.

Curious to see DeSantis’ actual quote too because we’ll, it’s the Times.

I’m sure DeSantis is taking the money in reimbursement for Biden shorting and cutting off the Theraputics that were supposed to be sent to Florida a couple of months ago?

[Masterofreality]

The Dec. #JobsReport report is the worst report of 2021, reinforcing the continued negative economic impact Biden-Harris Admin policies have on Black Americans, especially Black women.

⬆️Overall Black Unemployment INCREASED to 7.1%

⬆️Black Female Unemployment INCREASED to 6.2%

[bobbiemcgee]

3.9 unempl. (3.7% considered full empl.) 7% growth rate. 1.5 million openings for every 1 million applicants.

[boozehound]

I have been paying attention, thanks. I don’t care whether this is the first time he has mentioned trump or not on this issue. he has talked about him numerous times with other things. Why do we need to keep talking about ex presidents and about something that happened a year ago by freaks, let it go and stop giving any credence to it. It’s a circus

I would agree 100% if Trump didn't still seem to be the King of the Republican party.

For example: By nearly any poll the majority of Republicans still say, over 1 year later, that the election was stolen. This is despite any production of widespread evidence of systemic fraud. Because Trump said so. You can hardly find a Republican in congress willing to say that Trump lost a fair election, nor is it easy to find any willing to condemn the events of January 6th without qualification. The few that have done so have been excommunicated. They cannot bring themselves to admit that the lowest polling President in history lost an election in the middle of a Pandemic. Think about that shit.

If everyone had just said: "Damn, that was messed up. Dude lost the election. Then he refused to accept the results. At any point. Ever. Next he paraded Rudi Giuliani, Sydney Powell, and a cast of ridiculous characters out with half baked theories about voting machines and Hugo Chavez. Then he held a rally during the certification that ended with some of his supporters breeching the capitol building. This motherfucker was crazy, and we are done with him." Then maybe everyone could just move on, and the Democrats would look like fools for continuing to bring him up.

For the Democrats' part - they won an election with a ticket that could only have beaten Trump. Any other (realistic) candidate would have crushed them. Biden is uninspiring and Harris has been a complete shit show. They would have gotten no voter turnout with that ticket had people not been so motivated to get Trump out of there. Georgia notwithstanding the down ballot races were a disaster as well. They somehow took that to mean that they had a mandate for massive change and a huge spending bill.

They thought that the vaccine would eliminate the virus, but that didn't happen, so now they are faced with how to hold the House and Senate in the midterms. The only think that they really have to generate interest is keeping the Trump hate alive. The Republicans are playing into that to some degree by not just calling the guy an asshole and moving on. They are too worried about losing his base, which seems to still worship him in a way that I've never seen people worship an EX President. I'm not sure who will benefit the most from this - the Republicans with their energized base or the Democrats using the specter of Trump to drive support behind their shitty candidates.

This whole thing is approaching an Idiocracy level of stupid.

[STL_XUfan]

Happy to see serious sentences against the Ahmaud Arbery murders. That being said, felony murder remains the dumbest law on the books and needs to be abolished.

[GoMuskies]

Happy to see serious sentences against the Ahmaud Arbery murders. That being said, felony murder remains the dumbest law on the books and needs to be abolished.

I don't know. If you decided to take part in an armed robbery and someone gets shot, I don't really have any problem with you going away for life even if you didnt pull the triggger.

[Masterofreality]

3.9 unempl. (3.7% considered full empl.) 7% growth rate. 1.5 million openings for every 1 million applicants.

“Replacing jobs” created under Trump (temporarily sidelined by Covid) < than actually “Creating” them.

[bobbiemcgee]

“Replacing jobs” created under Trump (temporarily sidelined by Covid) < than actually “Creating” them.

https://www.thebalance.com/job-creat...ercent-3863218

[Masterofreality]

“Replacing jobs” created under Trump (temporarily sidelined by Covid) < than actually “Creating” them.

From today’s Enquirer:
“ Statewide, Ohio still has a deficit of more than 200,000 jobs since before the pandemic struck, and just four sectors have fully recovered jobs lost during the pandemic, Policy Matters' research shows.”

Biden isn’t “creating” jobs. He’s even struggling to “replace” the jobs.
Nice try Bobbie.