Politics Thread

[paulxu]

Stop. His party had full control of Congress for two years and they failed miserably.

And if the Country defaults it won’t be because of the Freedom Caucus.

News flash. The Republicans are in the majority in the House. That's where the decision to default comes from.

[Strange Brew]

News flash. The Republicans are in the majority in the House. That's where the decision to default comes from.

News flash. The current House didn’t spend money like idiots the last two years.

The Country will go into default or become the Weimar Republic if things don’t change.

[Strange Brew]

He's got some much needed infrastructure and other support through Congress.
Unemployment way down. Dow's up 10%.
I'm guessing the math check didn't work out so well, since you didn't bother mentioning it.

Um, what infrastructure has been built?

[paulxu]

Um, what infrastructure has been built?

A lot has started in a year. You can check here, including state-by-state plans.
The bridge in Cincinnati I think is included.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...etter-america/

[Masterofreality]

He's got some much needed infrastructure and other support through Congress.
Unemployment way down. Dow's up 10%.
I'm guessing the math check didn't work out so well, since you didn't bother mentioning it.

As usual, Paul only states stuff that fits his narrative but is incomplete. Biden only got an Infrastructure package passed because Republicans actually did something good for the country instead of playing politics like the Dems did with Trump, wanting to investigate and impeach him over everything rather than doing things for the US. Portman and other Republicans gave Biden the win that the Dems would never give Trump. Biden didn’t do iish. And Biden trying to take credit for a microchip plant in Ohio is total BS. The negotiations with Intel and Republican Gov Mike DeWine have been going on for years before under Trump.
Know why unemployment is “way down”? Nothing to do with Biden. It’s due to recovery/replacement of jobs put on hold during Covid, the retirement of large amounts of Baby Boomers lowering the countable work force and one of the lowest labor participation rates in history at 62.4% lower than at the start of the Pandemic.
Per the BLS:
“ The labor force participation rate in the United States edged up to 62.4 percent in January 2023 from 62.3 percent in the previous month. Still, it remained below its pre-pandemic February 2020 level of 63.3 percent. ”
Oh, and big deal that the “Dow is up 10%” Know how much the Dow rose under Trump? 54.4 %, from 18,339 to 28,323. The NASDAQ IS actually down under Biden-from 13342 at the last day under Trump to 11887 today, and so is my, and most others’ Portfolio.
Actually, Paul, your guess is wrong. The math works out badly for you.

[Masterofreality]

A lot has started in a year. You can check here, including state-by-state plans.
The bridge in Cincinnati I think is included.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...etter-america/

Ask anybody in Cincinnati if the Bridge Infrastructure work has been started on the I 75 bridge.
Planned but no “start” yet. In fairness, it will.

[paulxu]

What's all this Trump talk?
Nice deflection though.

[Masterofreality]

What's all this Trump talk?
Nice deflection though.

Deflection?
I merely answered your false posturing with facts showing how bad your current incompetent President is.
And you can’t respond to any of my points.
Pretty damning for you.

[Masterofreality]

You bring up all this nonsense about Trump this, Trump that, Trump would have shot it down, he even said it didn't happen.

And can't handle the truth, even from your own party.

Oh, and just to put a cap on this bullsheet.
From the Wall Street journal this morning:
“ WASH*ING*TON—The mil*i*tary com*mand in charge of U.S. air de*fenses failed to de*tect sus*pected Chi*nese sur*veillance bal*loons be*fore the re*cent in*tru*sion and learned about them later from in*tel*li*gence agen*cies, the gen*eral over*see*ing the com*mand said Mon*day, ac*knowl*edg*ing a gap in de*fenses.

Gen. Glen Van*Herck, com*man*der of North*ern Com*mand and North Amer*i*can Aero*space De*fense Com*mand, con*trasted those pre*vi*ous lapses in de*tect*ing bal*loons with the air*ship the mil*i*tary tracked and shot down Sat*ur*day. He de*scribed a sur*veillance gap and said the U.S. is try*ing to de*ter*mine why the ear*lier flights went un*de*tected.

“I will tell you that we did not de*tect those threats and that’s a do*main aware*ness gap that we have to fig*ure out,” the gen*eral said at a me*dia brief*ing.”

So the previous administration couldn’t have known about the previous Chinese ballon intrusion because the MILITARY didn’t even know then. It’s only after intelligence agencies have now told them about them.
More debunkery, but that is par for the course with this Admins feeble attempts to defend.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-d...ed-11675616189

[paulxu]

I admit that the military doesn't seem to know about the earlier balloons and had to be informed by the intelligence agencies.
That seems very strange and the general doesn't seem happy about it.

As to Dems blocking Trumps bogus infrastructure...the Republicans held the House and Senate for 2 years under Trump.
Shame on them if they couldn't deliver and it took Biden to negotiate a real infrastructure package.
He just talk about it to secure middle America votes, and it worked once. Not the second time.