(05-20-2021, 01:52 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(05-19-2021, 09:24 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-19-2021, 08:14 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:We will serif Biden continues the pattern of getting his legislative agenda passed over obstructionist opposition, justifying killing the filibuster, and pushing the blame onto the Republicans. I for one will be looking at the legal aftermath, with the various legal difficulties Trump, his family, and his administration. Biden had a good first 100 days, but I have a feeling we are pushing on into a more intense summer.(05-13-2021, 04:20 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:How is America doing as Biden is busy playing politics?(05-12-2021, 07:02 PM)Einzige Wrote: That... doesn't change the fact that Biden's Administration tobdate has been way closer in tone and effectiveness to Bill Clinton than to Franklin Roosevelt.
If you live in a fact free reality, you can imagine any tone and effectiveness that will advocate your worldview. For me, I see Biden as solving problems using approaches that are popular while ignoring the delaying obstruction of the Republicans. I don't see anything wondrous, but he seems to be moving forward.
Biden is who we thought he would be as President without the proof to back it up.
He won far and square, and nobody is better known as a political figure in America than Biden except perhaps Obama.
81M-74M in the popular vote, and 306-232 in the Electoral College where it counts. This is despite Democrats having no chance (or willingness) to do late-season canvassing. Trump did much to engender mass distrust even before the attempted self-coup to illegally extend his Presidential term by nullifying an election that he lost. Yes, he lost it. It was surprisngly close to a Trump win, with a rather small even shift (an even 0.2%) giving America the dubious pleasure of a Second Term of Donald Trump and quite likely a dictatorship.
Quote:Biden faked his way into office like Obama and he's trying to fake his way through like Obama did too.
Nobody has a clearer record of achievements and votes than does Joe Biden. He is no pig in the poke.
Quote:Here's the reality, the Democrats have already burned it's bridge with the rest of America and the Biden supporters have already earned their place in the rest of America's who gives a shit about them column.
No, it is Trump supporters who have burned a bridge with Americans who prefer rationality, rule of law, wisdom, and intellectual integrity. Admit it: Donald Trump has huge gaps of character that I would not want in a subordinate. Unless I were in an industry such as entertainment or the arts in which character matters little, I would not hire him. To be a factory worker? Well, maybe that would break his narcissism, but I would rather let someone else do that. Fast food? He wouldn't last a week. Retailing? The question is whether he would insult a customer or boss or have a blow-up. Skilled trade? Do you think that his type willingly gets his hands dirty? Teaching or library work? Aside from having little desirable learning and having himself as the focus of the classroom or library, he'd be a disaster. Accounting? Too creative, and not in the positive sense. Writing, editing, or journalism? Do you see coherent communication? Police officer? He would be the worst sort, a brutal cop with sloppy paper work.
Most people who do real work have their narcissism broken, or they learn the hard way through vocational failures. In an economy in which most people are subordinate to some boss, Trump is the sort of person who tries to order people about before he has earned the position in which to do so. Most people chafe in jobs too small for their spirits, as someone said to Studs Terkel in Working. You might try reading that some day to understand what is demanded of people from domestic servants to pro athletes and elected officials or judges.
Quote:You could be lucky and die of natural causes before the misery of being stuck smack dab in the middle of a multi faceted war sets in and becomes the norm.
Maybe -- if people like you transform America into another Yugoslavia or Rwanda.
Quote:Where will I be, I'll be living in the American states while you're paying for past sins associated with your skin color or being rounded up and sent off to death camps.
I have never had problems with Jews for having German ancestry. Of course, all decent people hate Nazis. Unless your type instigates genocide, there will not be any race war. With Obama-like leaders (and the generational cycle suggests that Obama-like leaders, whether conservative or liberal will be the norm after Biden) the crackdown will be swift and un-theatrical. Take note: many of those who will prosecute miscreants in the Michigan Plot and the January 6 insurrection are Generation X.
Quote:Now, to be honest, I don't care if your government has the right to go after you like it's going after Trump. You might read that some time (it still holds up well) in explaining how people actually think of their work.
America has no revolutionary-socialist party on the brink of winning anything by either election or revolution. Regrettably the Republican Party has accreted some fascist tendencies that scare the Gary, Indiana out of me.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.