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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@mikethesnow said in US Politics:
Quick summary needed please
Since Biden became President
Better or worse?
His lead
Crime
EconomyThanks
Lead: He's plunging in the polls. Biden ran on a ticket of competence and unity and is seen to have failed on both. The chaotic Afghan withdrawal and the Democratic budget in-fighting in Congress being two key examples
Crime: Up, but with big caveats link here
Economy: Slowing and inflation is rising. Concerns about unemployment
Thanks
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The Beeb just had on a Democratic operative, a moderate Republican, then an actual voter from Virginia (voted for Biden last year, then the incoming Republican governor). Fantastic viewing seeing how far away the dems are from actually understanding the factors that driver voter behaviour at the state level.
This lady was just like any reasonable person; she does support Biden's infrastructure bill and other social support bill, but all that is happening at the national level. As a result, that's beside the point for her vote in the recent election. Rather, she wants her kids to go to school and learn the basics without political interference (right or left, she explained). As a result the message and policies of the republian respond to her needs, he says/will try to have schools open and get her kids learning math and English and that's what swung her vote.
Amazing to hear it so simply explained after having the democratic operative bleat on about how 'Dems have to keep fighting to get rid of lying Republicans'. The treat voters like idiots and rightfully got bitten in the arse.
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@voodoo said in US Politics:
Amazing that Biden is favourite to be the next Dem nominee still. And given that, not so surprising that Trump is fav to be the enxt President
Sleepy Joe sounds like a one term Prez based on the info on here. I don't know how the Dems unseat him as the nominee or whether they even want to. If we thought Biden vs Trump 1 was a cripple fight, heaven help us for B vs T 2
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@voodoo The tide even within MAGA movement is to Ron DeSantis. I’d handicap him right now at 3/5 to be next POTUS, but three years is a long time. He’ll demolish Kamala. I place Biden at even-odds he doesn’t make it past next November, and 3/2 he’s gone by June.
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As above, neither 45 nor 46 will be in the contest. It’s DeSantis vs Kamala — unless the incumbent Kamala is primaried and challenged at DNC, where I’d wager against her, b/c she polls badly even within her own party. This is a candidate who received exactly zero delegates in the last primaries, including her own party, and Dr Jill Biden is personally trying to kneecap her.
Adding: Energy for DTJ within MAGA base is not there. Three big strikes against. 1) He didn’t staff his office/cabinet/appointments with MAGA loyalists and original “base” supporters, but instead filled those positions with regime lifers and backstabbers, he didn’t “drain the swamp”; 2) Failure to pardon Julian Assange; 3) Isn’t rallying support for locked-down Jan 6 defendants. He’s lost confidence with his base, and they know how divisive he is with independents.. The energy is toward DeSantis. Right now Tucker Carlson is more persuasive (and effective) communicator of MAGA platforms than DJT.
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Surely there is no way Biden makes another term. I guess they might be forced to put him up depending on succession planning and primaries.
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It’ll be medical. And most Americans will go, yeah, obviously. He isn’t up to the physical and cognitive demands of a part-time gas station attendant right now, let alone President of the United States, and everybody knows it.
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@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
Surely there is no way Biden makes another term. I guess they might be forced to put him up depending on succession planning and primaries.
Half of the Democrat Party don't want an old white man in the job. The remainder will provide him with their full support while pointing out they have all their faculties...
He only got the job because they thought he could ride the Obama train to getting rid of Trump.
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The real eye-popper last night was New Jersey state Senate, where a truck driver spent $153 against an incumbent with a $1 million campaign in a blue state with one-million more registered Dem voters. Team Blue is shitting themselves.
NJ state Senate president trailing Republican truck driver who spent $153 on campaign
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@gt12 said in US Politics:
The Beeb just had on a Democratic operative, a moderate Republican, then an actual voter from Virginia (voted for Biden last year, then the incoming Republican governor). Fantastic viewing seeing how far away the dems are from actually understanding the factors that driver voter behaviour at the state level.
This lady was just like any reasonable person; she does support Biden's infrastructure bill and other social support bill, but all that is happening at the national level. As a result, that's beside the point for her vote in the recent election. Rather, she wants her kids to go to school and learn the basics without political interference (right or left, she explained). As a result the message and policies of the republian respond to her needs, he says/will try to have schools open and get her kids learning math and English and that's what swung her vote.
Amazing to hear it so simply explained after having the democratic operative bleat on about how 'Dems have to keep fighting to get rid of lying Republicans'. The treat voters like idiots and rightfully got bitten in the arse.
There's a common theme in America where people who say they don't want politics in schools do, they just don't want politics they don't like.
As an example, people lambasting critical race theory often have no idea what it is when asked, and definitely don't understand that it's purely applicable to American jurisprudence with no application outside that.
Likewise lessons on American history and the causes of the American Civil War - how is it remotely controversial that this was primarily fought on the issue of the legality of slavery when the primary sources from the time (speeches and other writings by senior Union and Confederate politicians/leaders) say that's what the primary issue was?
For another one, how does someone come to a conclusion that there are two sides to the Holocaust that have to be taught? (at least that was walked back rapidly by the administration of the school in Texas that originally decided that)
How is young earth creationism still a matter of debate and how is it anything other than political for that to be included in a curriculum as a political decision?
Obviously I've cherrypicked Republican BS - feel free to add Democrat BS so we can point and laugh at them as well.
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@godder said in US Politics:
@kirwan said in US Politics:
@godder I can undestand parents not wanting 8 year olds segregated by race, which has been happening.
Agree, that's the antithesis of what the civil rights movement was for.
Some teachers are saying they won't teach white kids as well. So this CRT stuff is poison.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
He only got the job because they thought he could ride the Obama train to getting rid of Trump.
I think a lot of the Dems problems stem from letting their antipathy to Trump get in the way of developing sensible policies. Trying to show how virtuous they were compared to Trump by offering free medical care to refugees crossing the Mexican border - what could possibly go wrong?
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@godder said in US Politics:
@gt12 said in US Politics:
The Beeb just had on a Democratic operative, a moderate Republican, then an actual voter from Virginia (voted for Biden last year, then the incoming Republican governor). Fantastic viewing seeing how far away the dems are from actually understanding the factors that driver voter behaviour at the state level.
This lady was just like any reasonable person; she does support Biden's infrastructure bill and other social support bill, but all that is happening at the national level. As a result, that's beside the point for her vote in the recent election. Rather, she wants her kids to go to school and learn the basics without political interference (right or left, she explained). As a result the message and policies of the republian respond to her needs, he says/will try to have schools open and get her kids learning math and English and that's what swung her vote.
Amazing to hear it so simply explained after having the democratic operative bleat on about how 'Dems have to keep fighting to get rid of lying Republicans'. The treat voters like idiots and rightfully got bitten in the arse.
There's a common theme in America where people who say they don't want politics in schools do, they just don't want politics they don't like.
As an example, people lambasting critical race theory often have no idea what it is when asked, and definitely don't understand that it's purely applicable to American jurisprudence with no application outside that.
Likewise lessons on American history and the causes of the American Civil War - how is it remotely controversial that this was primarily fought on the issue of the legality of slavery when the primary sources from the time (speeches and other writings by senior Union and Confederate politicians/leaders) say that's what the primary issue was?
For another one, how does someone come to a conclusion that there are two sides to the Holocaust that have to be taught? (at least that was walked back rapidly by the administration of the school in Texas that originally decided that)
How is young earth creationism still a matter of debate and how is it anything other than political for that to be included in a curriculum as a political decision?
Obviously I've cherrypicked Republican BS - feel free to add Democrat BS so we can point and laugh at them as well.
You're missing the point.
This interview had someone there who explained that:
she wants her kids to go to school and learn the basics without political interference right or left
I can't speak for her (and I can't find the interview as it was live), but she was primarily a democratic voter turned off by progressive policies. She was just a regular working person who wants her kids to go to school - as she explained (from my memory) she said that they only covered 40% of the math curriculum last year, but have new educational policies being forced on them (she actually didn't say CRT) and just wants her kids to learn the basics.
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Just when you thought things couldn't be crazier.
The latest: The Wall Street Journal first reported that the Justice Department was in talks to pay $450,000 per person to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of the families affected. When asked about the payments this week, President Biden had said, "That's not going to happen." Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday his response was to the $450,000 figure and not the payments themselves.
(my opinion is that the Dems are soft on illegal immigration not because of humanitarian grounds, but because rather a conscious choice to import votes and change long term demographics.- evil stuff)
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Sealed indictments. More coming. Hopefully Durham will expose and punish the Clinton scammers who concocted the Russiagate hoax. This isn’t 4chan qanon talk — right now reporters from NY Times and Washington Post are spelling it out. I wonder if they’ll return their Pulitzers.
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