Giving almost complete control of 2 out of the 3 branches of our federal government to Demorats is like giving a loaded handgun, car keys and your wallet to a drunk teenager.
So far the results from Brandon have been similarly predictabe.
Mail in ballots say differently. Illegal and legal immigrants voting say differently. Neither are allowed to vote, but NYC is saying they can.
I have no doubt mail in ballots did swing a few election results in the last cycle (whether or not they were legal mail in ballots is another question) but, measures are being taken to put stricter controls to authenticate votes to ensure they are not fraudulent. Liberal states where that isn't being done wouldn't make much difference in a general federal election anyway. NYC, well supposedly those illegal aliens votes only count for local issues. I'll agree, it shouldn't happen but, I don't get a say about what happens in NYC.
I have no doubt mail in ballots did swing a few election results in the last cycle (whether or not they were legal mail in ballots is another question) but, measures are being taken to put stricter controls to authenticate votes to ensure they are not fraudulent. Liberal states where that isn't being done wouldn't make much difference in a general federal election anyway. NYC, well supposedly those illegal aliens votes only count for local issues. I'll agree, it shouldn't happen but, I don't get a say about what happens in NYC.
Rams
You must think legal immigrants can vote since you ignored them in the blurb. They cant. That is who NYC is saying can vote now.
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You must think legal immigrants can vote since you ignored them in the blurb. They cant. That is who NYC is saying can vote now.
"Can" is a loaded word... hah. "DO" is another thing. I DO think there are people who vote who shouldn't, either intentionally, or unknowingly. There are literally illegals in CA every year who vote, that don't know that they're not supposed to.
Yeah it isnt unbiased, a stretch? You be the judge of its truth.
article: "It began with Joe’s unconditional surrender of Afghanistan and was followed by the Build Back Better bust and the deadly fiasco on our Southern border. Added quickly to the mix were skyrocketing inflation, lots of empty shelves, the Supremes embarrassing denouncement of a clearly unconstitutional vaccine mandate, COVID tests becoming unobtainium while omicron surged, the filibuster remaining as strong as it was a year ago thanks to good Sens. Manchin and Sinema, and the fact that Russia is making ready to launch an invasion of the Ukraine, which could trigger a third world war, in which Joe Biden would be the defender of the free world!?
The Biden-Harris administration tried to get the focus off of its near-daily faux pas by uploading a Jan. 6-themed “democracy is under threat” speech onto Joe’s teleprompter. The speech caught hold of the media’s news cycle for about a day, but the respite didn’t last long, despite hard-sell attempts by Pelosi et al.
Next, Joe tried pivoting to voting rights, but when voting rights advocates themselves boycotted his speech, his pivot lost its luster. The speech itself – “Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” – was about as easy for most Americans to stomach as a fistful of ghost peppers. It was, in fact, more of a cry for help – another what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-Joe exemplar. ... The Biden-Harris administration is trapped inside a hostile media spotlight, a victim of their own incompetence. They’re like a cornered animal – desperate for a way out, but clearly willing to settle for anything that would shift the public focus off of their ever-growing list of foibles. They’re a consistent bunch, that much is true. They consistently lurch from one self-inflicted crisis to another, while we pay the price for their mistakes. ... “President Biden left Washington tonight to spend the weekend at home in Delaware. He probably couldn’t wait to get out of town after one of the worst weeks of his year-old presidency. A series of setbacks from voting rights, the Supreme Court blocking his vaccine mandate for large businesses, and soaring inflation driving up prices for consumers. And today we saw the news that retail sales last month were awful. Plus omicron is still causing havoc, with staffing shortages and empty shelves, and some say Democrats are upset with the White House over testing shortages. I could go on. It’s a bad week for the president. Is there any other way to cut it?”
Based on happenings, I suppose few people like Joe and Kamala's idea of what "better" meant.
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the "Build Back" part is supposed to mean.
It's as though they somehow want us to believe that this entire country is like bombed out Berlin or Tokyo in 1946
Even before Brandon took office there has been a dark, dystopian, depressing, view of America emanating from his administration and it makes the "malaise" of the feckless Jimmy Carter years look like a sunny day.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the "Build Back" part is supposed to mean.
It's as though they somehow want us to believe that this entire country is like bombed out Berlin or Tokyo in 1946
Even before Brandon took office there has been a dark, dystopian, depressing, view of America emanating from his administration and it makes the "malaise" of the feckless Jimmy Carter years look like a sunny day.
I'm trying not to be a huge ass about it, but my thought is that "Build Back Better" was probably something he mumbled at a speech somewhere as he was trying to get his words and thoughts together. I'm willing to bet that some Millennial hipster on his campaign thought to himself... "OMG, this is perfect... BUILD BACK BETTER!!!" ... and it became a thing.
It's not even correct grammar. At least "Make America Great Again" can be a statement / sentence on its own. What does build back better even mean? I can theorize that they can try to make it mean go back to Obama's goals / plans... but at least "Build Back Better" acknowledges in its meaning that Trump was in fact "rebuilding" America, and now the Biden team has latched onto that and states they want to do it a slightly different way. ?
"Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars"
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The prices of corn and soybeans have increased and demand is up for American exports.
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While the focus of the Biden administration has been on its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and more recently the global standoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, the farm sector has fared quite well under the new administration, as farmers ease off of government bailouts and see a boost in commodity prices.
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. . . in 2021, the majority of net farm income came from commodity sales and actual production "off the farm." Whereas in 2019, a "big chunk" of the income was coming from Market Facilitation Program payments, which were at the core of the Trump administration's effort to mitigate losses from its disputes with China and other trading partners.
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Vincent Smith, a visiting fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said the Trump administration "severely disadvantaged" farmers with an ill-advised trade policy.
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Building on an executive order from July 2021, the Biden administration announced earlier this month it intends to provide $1 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to help expand independent processing capacity, and provide funding that would give independent meat producers access to cold storage and other equipment to improve distribution of their products.
I was rooting for Biden to succeed as President even though we could all see he was struggling long before he was given the nomination. I fully acknowledge that if Covid would never have happened, Trump would have gotten a second term, as the economy was firing on all cylinders before that, and incumbent Presidents rarely get voted out when things are going well. However, 2020 did happen and Biden gets voted in to hopefully steady the ship. You have to support him, as it's generally in the best interest to everyone. I also liked the fact that he implied he'd be a one term President, he could potentially be a maverick politically and fix things by mediating the political divide like the proper statesman that Joe always implied he was and then get out.
When it was being narrowed down on the Democratic side, I thought Biden was the most levelheaded choice, a more moderate leader, who was not going to lead the country down a destructive path like Sanders or Warren or someone who has done very little like Buttigieg.
Unfortunately, just about every decision he and his administration has made; policy change, foreign policy, Afghanistan, Ukraine, China, Korea, Covid, immigration, economics, inflation, transportation, energy, race relations, CRT, education, crime, law and order, etc. etc. has been harmful to the country...........and worse yet, it has hurt the majority of the country, the lower and middle class.
Anybody that does not describe this administration as a collective train wreck, has political blinders on and has so much more loyalty and allegiance to their political party, then they do for this country and our future.
This is turning out to be worse than a train wreck, since a train eventually stops, the death and mess is cleaned up, and issues are investigated and corrected. This train is not stopping and continues to do damage along the way....much of it will not be repairable for some time.
I keep hearing the Obama quote, which went along the lines of "Never underestimate the ability of Joe, to f*ck things up" (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/14/obama-biden-relationship-393570)
And it's something new every week, right down to this past week's discrimination in his Supreme Court nomination process. He has eliminated 9 out of 10 potential candidates, not based on the content of their character, but based on the color of their skin. You would think he would have learned a lesson with his cabinet choices in KH and PB, based on things other than their qualifications and experience. He's pandering to a political base that will vote "D" anyways, regardless of the issue, instead of making decisions that should be in the best interest of the country as a whole.
It is getting embarrassing. I'm starting to wish for an alternate universe where Hillary would have run and won.
To answer the questions:
Is America better off now that it was four years ago? The above would say a resounding no.
Are you and your family better off than four years ago? Yes, but only because of decisions that I made at the beginning of the Trump administration that paid off long term, but I'm really starting to worry about the next 3-4 years because I have no idea how to best navigate these chaotic waters. Say what you will about the Trump presidency (and he was/is an egotistical pr!ck) at least you could figure out how to best play the game. The gains I made in the previous four years could easily be wiped out in the next four.
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Unfortunately, just about every decision he and his administration has made; policy change, foreign policy, Afghanistan, Ukraine, China, Korea, Covid, immigration, economics, inflation, transportation, energy, race relations, CRT, education, crime, law and order, etc. etc. has been harmful to the country...........and worse yet, it has hurt the majority of the country, the lower and middle class.
I can't really fault anything that you've said except the notion that Grandpa Gropey is actually making any substantive decisions beyond whether he wants applesauce or pudding from his caregivers.
Seventy-four of Biden’s top 100 aides are directly from the Obama Administration.
Brandon is nothing more than a ventriloquial figure.
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I'm trying to figure out his definition of BETTER......
Rams
If you do just a little digging on the origin of that slogan you will discover that it was originally created and used by the UN for some relief program.
From there it was plagiarized by UK PM Boris Johnson and then it was purloined by the people running Brandon.