Lol, nice description
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Typical Marxist concern. You hear this sort of tripe from European Marxists, too. They all focus on democracy.
Personally I’m far more worried about the loss of our Republic, something the Marxists support to their cores as they distort and viciously attack The Constitution of the United States of America at every opportunity.
Biden approval by category
The latest ABC/Ipsos poll is out. Democrats were oversampled, but that is commonplace. Here are the results for Biden by category:
• For handling of COVID-19: 53% approval
• For handling of inflation: 28% approval
• For handling of crime: 36% approval
• For handling of gun violence: 32% approval
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good poll results but I need to rant on their language.
The left wins the argument by controlling our language. What the heck is “gun violence”. Is this like the SUV that ran down and killed people in Waukesha? if magically all guns disappear do they really think that violence will end?
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“He’s got to condemn this shit ASAP,” Donald Trump Jr. texted. “The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.”
“I’m pushing it hard. I agree,” Meadows responded
So it is what some have said all along - Trump was ripped apart over his response to the last insurrection against Federal property, when he called out the reinforcement to defend against the “peaceful protestors” that were trying to torch it. So he kicked back and and decided this is what they wanted last time, so he’s going to let it go - exactly what everyone bitched the he should’ve done last time. No “coup”; everyone insisted that defending federal property against rioters is wrong, and he listened and respected that demand.
This is just another case of people deciding that the only acceptable message is “Trump bad!”, regardless of what he does or says. Even when he’s doing what Democrats expressly desired, despite his own advisors objections.
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So true.
Trump was convinced his election loss was bogus. Everything he said or did was based upon that belief.
And it’s entirely possible he was, and remains, right. But we’ll never know. Thanks to COVID the energized forces on the other side were able to engineer a successful end run around standing voting laws and regulations in five or six pivotal states critical to Trump’s chances. Their efforts bore fruit big time, swinging the election to Biden. Trump’s outrage is/was understandable. But his rath should have been directed inward for having allowed it all to happen. And who knows, maybe some of it was.
Trump was simply not a sufficiently skilled or experienced politician to realize in time what was being done to his election chances. He got outflanked and outfoxed by the Biden team, aided as it was by the pandemic. I am convinced that absent the pandemic Trump would have won that election going away.
It (his reaction) had nothing to do with the election. It was him saying “This is what they told me I should do when Federal property is facing rioters. They told me that using law enforcement to defend federal property was wrong. I disagree, but this is what they demanded, so this is what we are doing.”. Yes, I’m sure the nature of the rioting made it easier for him to swallow his submission to the demands of the left over the advice of his advisors, but that was tangent. I’ll bet anything that had the prior denouncing of any use of police force against rioters not occured, and Democrats had stood against the rioting rather than endorse it, Trump would’ve had the same lines of law enforcement surrounding the Capital as he had surrounding the courthouse in (I believe it was?) Oregon.
This was nothing but a gold ol’ example reaping what you sow. Every single one of them pointing a finger at Trump, has three fingers pointing at themselves. Which sounds about right. “Ahhh! It was an attempted coup!!!” Is just their means of distracting from that fact.
Will the Democrats stopping staging coups of our institutions? Here’s some updates on the FDIC and the FHFA.
Who controls the FDIC?
The way a number of U.S. regulatory agencies work is that there is a professional career staff, who do the work of the agency, and there is a politically appointed chair, who is appointed by the president and is the boss of the staff and runs the agency and sets its regulatory agenda. But there are also often some other commissioners or board members who are there to vote on the agency’s big decisions.[6] Often there are about four of those people, and about two will be Democrats and two will be Republicans, and the chair will also be partisan and will break ties. And the job of the majority-party commissioners or board members is to vote to approve new rules and actions that the chair wants, and the job of the minority-party commissioners is to write zingy dissents and tweet and give speeches about how the agency has run wild by over- or under-regulating, depending on which party is in the majority.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is in a weird place right now[7] in that:
- Its chair, Jelena McWilliams, is a Republican, appointed by Donald Trump to a five-year term in 2018,[8] but
- The other four seats on the board of directors include one vacancy and three Democrats.
So the Democrats are the majority party on the board, but the chair is a Republican. The ordinary procedure is that the chair sets the agenda for the agency and then the board votes on it. In this situation you might expect that to produce a lot of inaction — the chair proposes to do stuff, and the majority of the board votes it down — which I suppose is more or less what a Republican bank regulator would want anyway.
But here the Democratic majority members want to do stuff, but not the stuff the Republican chair wants to do, so they have proposed their own agenda…
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Who will run the FHFA?
I am sure no one is interested in this but periodically for the last seven years I have pointed out that the status quo in which Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are effectively owned by the federal government is (1) fine and (2) not going to change anytime soon. Sometimes — like when the Trump administration was going around saying it was going to re-privatize Fannie and Freddie — this was, maybe not a bold call exactly, but at least something you could disagree with. Now it is even less bold, but it’s still true:
President Biden plans to nominate Sandra Thompson to become the permanent director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the White House said, tapping a career regulator to head the agency responsible for overseeing mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. …
The two mortgage-finance giants have been under government control since the 2008 financial crisis. In the run-up to the crisis, they took on increasing risks, primarily to compete with Wall Street firms and later because lawmakers wanted them to support a weakening housing market.
The Biden administration has said it isn’t in any rush to return Fannie and Freddie to private hands, a reversal from the Trump administration, which pushed to put the companies on a path to exit conservatorship. Progress was slow and the Trump administration ultimately ran out of time.
The administration is instead expected to use Fannie and Freddie to support its general affordable-housing goals and a push to close a racial homeownership gap.
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More crap “journalism”:
appeared to have balked at extending the expanded child tax credit through the legislation,
Manchin, a 74-year-old centrist, has expressed concern about skyrocketing rates of inflation bedeviling the U.S. economy and may worry the credit is inflaming the rise in prices.
So of course he’s opposed to it. Except:
“I’m not opposed to the child tax credit,” Manchin insisted Wednesday. “I’ve never been opposed to the child tax credit.”
Of course, they even state how their reporting is crap:
Manchin’s Democratic colleagues have sought to push the legislation, which includes the expanded tax credit, through the Senate
The Washington Post previously reported Manchin wants to remove the credit from the broader social policy legislation, and that he apparently remains wary of the bill’s price tag,
So reality is it’s the Democrats insisting on packaging this credit with the much larger bill. And Manchin is objecting to the size of the much larger bill, not this particular credit the Democrats decided to include in it - he’ll [presumably] support the credit as a stand-alone bill. But forget that, our benevolent Democrats want this credit, and Manchin must be the one preventing it.
It’s just another use of the common Democrat tactic - demanding their partisan agenda be tied to other stuff that everyone agrees on, then blame those who oppose their partisan agenda for tanking the stuff everyone agrees on. Ignoring the pesky fact that it is actually themselves who are holding the popular stuff hostage, by insisting it be tied to their wish list of unpopular stuff. And the so-called “journalists” blindly eat it up.
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They are not blind. They are willing participants and propagandists. Coincidentally, I just saw a story on the local news report about “child tax credit in danger”. So it’s all up and down the food chain.
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Truer words . . . . .
I went through the cold war from start to finish, so I know propaganda when I hear it. What the mainstream American media is spewing today is, indeed, pure propaganda.
Difference is back then real Americans were not stupid enough to lap up the drivel. Today too many Americans are.
Run Hillary Run! Clinton '24
Kamala is hopeless and never will become POTUS. Clearly Hillary is the most electable woman in the Democrat party. And it’s not even close.
Hillary’s only electability problem: her complexion.
Easy solution: Multiple applications of suntan lotion.
So will Hillary begin her re-entry into politics by running for Governor of New York next year? Why not. She would win easily. And what a launch platform for her 2024 POTUS run!
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the blowout spending bill doesnt have the votes, and they’re “delaying” it until next year when, hopefully, it still won’t have the votes.
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Exuding confidence in who will run for 2024. Probably Hillary.
How the House select committee finally exposed Trump’s empire of lies
Nice long article that keeps repeating this claim. Without ever mentioning what lies the House Select Committee supposedly exposed.
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First their midterm strategy of bringing in lots of newly legalized immigrants to vote for 2022 failed, axed as part of the Built Bigger as unrelated to budget reconciliation,
So predictably, without the votes to pass that, they’re going to try to pass some law to make it easier to fake votes in 2022. The way their policies and inflation are going, they’re going to need all the dead folks they can dig up…
The sudden shift in focus to voting rights on Wednesday signaled the Democrats’ growing sense that the tax and spending bill won’t get passed in 2021. Yet voting rights efforts have failed repeatedly this year, only underscoring Democrats’ inability to use their slimmest of majorities to realize the president’s domestic promises.
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Our country’s fate hangs by a thread but we’re still alive. The only way to pass the voting fraud law is to nuke the filibuster.
. . . and written on that thread are three names:
Sinema, Manchin, and Tester
We’re still just over a year away from likely Congressional sanity. I sure hope we make it. 
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Rasmussen daily polling is showing Biden wildly under water, by 28 points now down from 30 points.
Largest like number for Trump was 26 points, and that was only very briefly. Biden’s number is running steadily in the deep red.
As one of the older participants here, I can tell you past generations of Americans saw through Biden readily . . . and rejected him consistently for national office. Too many of those people are today dead. Pity. So much wisdom lost. 
Following and confirmation of Biden’s daughter’s diary and more of the details therein. This, although not published, was used as an excuse to raid the inconvenient journalist O’Keefe / Project Veritas.
She was in rehab and left her diary behind at her friends where she’d been staying. Does it remind you of another inconvenient Biden kid who keeps leaving things behind that the press works hard to ignore?
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