Is the President incapable of giving a speech without a teleprompter?
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| lacking normal Presidential leadership |
The one thing about this sort of speech in front of Congress is that there is no teleprompter. Generally a President will have notes and things to read from, but not having a teleprompter does make it a bit more difficult. Of course, Slow Joe has also not given a solo press conference either. So he appears both incapable of reading a speech or answering questions.
The unofficial answer from Democrats is that Biden is waiting until the Covid relief package is passed, before giving any speech. But that seems more like a bad excuse. In fact, one might argue that it would be good to use that speech as an opportunity to rally for the bill.
80 comments:
Here’s the excuse
Capitol Police chief: Intelligence suggests militias aim to 'blow up' building when Biden addresses Congress
It’s pitiful
The date is not in the Constitution.
He said he wants to get the covid-19 recovery plan, passed before he does the State of the union address in the Capitol building.
The bill will be voted on tomorrow in the house
$15 minimum wage not allowed in Biden’s Covid relief bill, Senate official says
It will get the necessary 51 vote margin.
The Senator from West Virginia said he will vote for the bill because it doesn't have
$15 minimum wage not allowed in Biden’s Covid relief bill, Senate official says
He is not the only President to delay the speech
His approval rating is higher than the former ever
The dementia bs is ridiculous
US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militia s
(CNN) - The US military struck a site in Syria on Thursday used by two Iranian-backed militia groups following rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks, according to a US official.
The strikes mark the military's first known action under President Joe Biden. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks, but were believed to be used by Iranian-backed Shia militias operating in the region.
The site is believed to be used as part of a weapons smuggling operation by the militias. The strikes were carried out to degrade the ability of the groups to carry out future attacks and to send a message about the recent attacks, the US official said.
The decision to target the site in Syria was made from the "top down," a defense official said, and was not because of a specific recommendation from the military.
The strikes come as Washington and Tehran position themselves for negotiations about Iran's nuclear program, potentially complicating an already fragile process.
The US had not definitively blamed any specific group for the rocket attacks or attributed them to any Iranian proxies in the region, but the administration had made it clear where they place the blame.
Earlier this week White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US holds Iran accountable for the actions of its proxies.
This story is breaking and will be updated
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This Woman has a Huge target on her back by the Socialist Democrats.
"The current parliamentarian is Elizabeth MacDonough, who has held the office since 2012, and was appointed by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid."
She did her Job.
She followed the rules, No "$15".
The Dark Winter President fails again.
I find it very telling that alky has no problem with Joe's dementia.
Have you tried playing Mario Kart roger ?
Or are you further along ???
You can make racing car noises as your "car" goes around the track.
Most kids do and I suspect so does Joe. Don't need a teleprompter for that.
Vrooommmmm !!!!
Jack Posobiec
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1365116665860657161
Kamala Harris was not informed prior to the Syrian bombing and is very upset about being left out of the loop, per WH official
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Donald Trump Jr.
Was Joe Biden informed?
ROFLMFAO !!!
Susan Sarandon
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1365107741874774017
Any updates on those immediate $2,000 checks?
Mike Cernovich
Raytheon is about to get $2,000,0000,000 checks.
The war machine is VERY happy with Joe
Slow Joe has taken a check from the Tax payers for 50 + years, yet he can get key parts of his Bill thru "both Houses of Congress".
Matt Couch
https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1364997436331020290
BREAKING: April Fools Day has been cancelled this year because no prank can top the joke running this country right now...
Joe got ready by having his hand on the Mario Kart joystick !!!
Why Newsom is going to be recalled
Reopen California Schools
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1364731729953443840
Try to hold back tears watching this Southern Californian mom break the news to her 4th grade daughter. #WhyWeFight
Brett Giroir
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrGiroir/status/1365039238249611265
I am so tired of the continuing lies that @potus inherited a #COVID19Vaccine mess, when in fact 99% of current vaccine manufacturing and distribution is EXACTLY as planned and explicitly described by Trump Administration's Operation Warp Speed
the left lives on ACTUAL lies
and media cover
TRUMP SENDS RIOTERS TO CAPITOL BUILDING
BIDEN ORDERS AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA
CNN:
“The US military struck a site in Syria on Thursday used by two Iranian-backed militia groups following rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks.
“The strikes mark the military’s first known action under President Joe Biden. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks, but were believed to be used by Iranian-backed Shia militias operating in the region.”
Yay more forever wars
Stupid pedophile
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1365023042586484755
I keep seeing all these corporate media reporters talking about “the Big Lie” but it’s pretty late in the day for them to admit they were wrong about hydroxychloroquine.
Between dem governors and the media it's easy to see why we led the world in Covid deaths.
Oh, and Fauci
Great job Cankles and Obunghole creating the vacuum in Libya, how much longer do we pour blood and treasure into a shithole?
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/25/biden-orders-air-strikes-in-syria/
This attack was designed to protect our allies, mainly the Kurds, that the former let them get murdered by the Iraqis. The Kurdish people have been trying to form their own country in a relatively small part of western Iraq and eastern Syria.
The President is telling the Iraqi government that he's serious about the nuclear deal.
Jen Psaki
https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/850173258540474368
Also what is the legal authority for strikes? Assad is a brutal dictator. But Syria is a sovereign country.
7:27 PM · Apr 6, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
guess she circled back
I bet the cost to the US taxpayer for today’s strike in Libya exceeds the cost of the “insurrection”.
LMAO
Dumbass
Which Kurds Roger?
You’ve been schooled on this almost as many times as “section 320”.
Stupid old fool
Democrats attack fake news, and Republicans cry foul
John Hendel
February 24, 2021, 11:50 am
Democrats are morphing their scrutiny of online falsehoods into a broader campaign against misinformation on right-leaning television outlets — a development that Republicans and some media organizations are calling a government attack on the First Amendment.
The Democratic efforts include a House hearing Wednesday where lawmakers lambasted conservative-leaning broadcasters and cable channels as sources of dangerous conspiracy theories about the pandemic and the November election. Two House Democrats also sent letters to cable, satellite and streaming providers on Monday asking why they carry Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network, all of which had spent months echoing President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud.
Outside D.C., New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang has called for the Federal Communications Commission to revive its long-discarded Fairness Doctrine, which he inaccurately suggested required balanced coverage on cable news.
This might surprise you, I don't want the fairness Doctrine reimposed.
The Democratic congressional people can ask the media companies to quit broadcasting fake news. But, if they ever try to introduce laws to stop hulu and etc. to quit broadcasting them, because it is again the first amendment.
Cali is drunk.
Kurds
Ethnic group
Description
Kurds or Kurdish people are an Iranic ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
If I could post a map of that region you will insult me because I proved your stupidity
Roger Amick said...
Democrats attack fake news, and Republicans cry foul
hey alky, have you come to grips with your FIVE YEAR FAKE NEWS Russia/Trump collusion hoax yet ?
that would be a start.
and drop those "news" outlets and politicians who promoted it.
then dems could talk
KKP
Roger is a simplistic imbecile that never knows about that of which he speaks
THWAP! THWAP!
Alky the Iraqi Kurds hate the Iranian Kurds and they the Turkish Kurds and all hate the rest of the Kurds you stupid fuck
I have a far deeper understanding of this division than a geriatric in his room with a tv
THWAP!
Watch the Slow Joe State of the Union Live on NJ PBS:
https://www.njtvonline.org/programs/pbs-newshour/watch-live-2021-state-of-the-union-special-zrzv6g/
Alky the Iraqi Kurds hate the Iranian Kurds and they the Turkish Kurds and all hate the rest of the Kurds you stupid fuck
you would think that the alky would learn the lesson after being thoroughly schooled on a particular issue, but no. the dumb fuck can't seem to grasp the concept.
this, like Sec. 320 continues to elude him.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Sad that virtually EVERYTHING eludes the massive cranial vacuum of rat's head!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Roger Posted this.
"The President is telling the Iraqi government that he's serious about the nuclear deal."
We have a Nuke Deal with "Iraqi government "?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7yUtVhV6w
So now Mr and Mrs potato head are gender neutral. Good grief, this is getting absurd. Maybe we'll have Pat and Chris potato heads? What the hell is wrong with acknowledging that there are male and female genders??
Nothing ballz.....thanx to the bigotry of the GOP and the recent vote for gay rights where only 2 R's supported it....I think the answer is self evident even to idiots like you!!!!!!!!!
I owe my Trump-supporting friends and family an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience.
But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy, tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church, tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, got impeached, got impeached again, had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history, pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden, fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia, bragged about firing the FBI director on TV, took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community, diverted military funding to build his wall, caused the longest government shutdown in US history, called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,” lied nearly 30,000 times, banned transgender people from serving in the military, ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions, vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, refused to release his tax returns, increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion, had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history, called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers, coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist, refused to concede the 2020 election, hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House, walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl, called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID, abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey, pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans, incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances, insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter, pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op, failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies, called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries, called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,” claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere, forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader, believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe, suggested the US should buy Greenland, colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges, repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,” claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases, violated the emoluments clause, thought that Nambia was a country, told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public, called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution, nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet, nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS, nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, nominated a corrupt head of the USDA,
praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies, refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death, spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president, falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,” falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year, considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions, mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID, locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones, used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,” hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security
his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump, claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake, claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him, claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President, created a commission to whitewash American history, retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain, claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others, bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties, apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House, stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about, tried to rescind protection from DREAMers, gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax, said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states, deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented, claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln, touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all, retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile,
forced through security clearances for his family, suggested that police officers should rough up suspects, suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs, tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher, nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy, retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event, hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address, claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia, mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, obsessed over low-flow toilets, ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release, called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek), hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech, took advice from the MyPillow guy, claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure, never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign, falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest, insulted the leader of Canada, insulted the leader of France, insulted the leader of Britain, insulted the leader of Germany, insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!), falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues, blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually, continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders, said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked, left a NATO summit early in a huff, stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that, called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
But other than that. . . . .
Could you have imagined another 4 years of this insanity?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10224903551675444&id=1214708509
Every one happened in just four years.
Can you imagine another four years of this bullshit?,
show your plagiarism alky:
https://www.facebook.com/Theoldtimer3/
a TDS afflicted asshat from Margaretville NY.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Politicalwire.com
Schumer Wants to Freeze Relief Bill Changes
Axios:
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is privately saying he can pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus package but wants to avoid any last-minute changes jeopardizing its trajectory.
“While the president hoped to enlist Republican support for the measure, Schumer has worked to ensure he has a solid 50 votes to muscle it through if necessary. A parliamentary ruling Thursday improved his chances.”
Trump Ends His Exile This Weekend
NBC News:
“Donald Trump will begin to reassert control over the Republican Party this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida — his first major public address since he left the White House.
“Banned from Twitter and golfing in Florida, rump has kept unusually quiet since President Joe Biden was inaugurated a month ago — but that won’t last.
“It’s a tradition that former presidents lie low in deference to their successors, but Trump has many bones to pick, some of them with Republicans whom he views as disloyal, and he is eager to make himself the party’s chief kingmaker ahead of a possible comeback presidential run in 2024.”
Local GOP Leaders Fire Up Base with Conspiracies
AP:
“A faction of local, county and state Republican officials is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories that echo those that helped inspire the violent U.S. Capitol siege, online messaging that is spreading quickly through GOP ranks fueled by algorithms that boost extreme content."
Liberals Want to Overrule Parliamentarian
WaPo:
“The Democratic Party’s liberal wing is mounting a pressure campaign to overrule a decision from the Senate parliamentarian after their hopes to include a $15-an-hour minimum-wage increase in the coronavirus relief bill were dealt a major blow,” the Washington Post reports.
“Liberals are furious with the late-breaking — but not entirely unexpected — ruling from the nonpartisan Senate umpire last night that the provision cannot remain in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package as written.
“The White House has publicly ruled out overruling the parliamentarian — and it’s unlikely that all 50 Senate Democrats would stand united on this even if it got on board… But that’s not stopping the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus from reaching out to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain seeking support to overturn the decision.”
Democrats Crushing GOP on Social Media
Axios:
“In a swift reversal from 90 days ago, Democrats are now the ones with overpowering social media muscle and the ability to drive news.
“Former President Donald Trump’s digital exile and the reversal of national power has turned the tables on which party can keep a stranglehold on online conversation.”
Truck with Militia Sticker Belongs to Lawmaker’s Husband
The Daily Beast:
“A pickup truck parked at the United States Capitol and bearing a Three Percenter militia sticker on the day of the Jan. 6 riot belongs to the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approvingly quoted Adolf Hitler a day earlier.
“The presence of a vehicle with a militia decal so close to the Capitol, inaccessible to normal vehicle traffic, raised questions about how it got there—and whether it belonged to any of the hundreds of suspects involved in the deadly riot.”
Trump to Launch Super PAC
Politico:
President Donald Trump told political advisers Thursday that he’s chosen longtime ally Corey Lewandowski to run a yet-to-be-formed super PAC as part of his expanding post-presidential political apparatus.
“People familiar with the meeting — which touched on a wide array of topics related to Trump’s political activities and the organizations supporting them — noted that the full plans for Trump’s operation are not finalized and they were uncertain about some details.
“Trump has already established a leadership PAC, Save America, that has raised tens of millions of dollars. But unlike leadership PACs, which are limited in terms of how much money they can raise from individual donors, super PACs are able to raise and spend unlimited amounts.”
Boehner Goes Off Script in His Book, "On the House"
Axios:
“John Boehner has been going off script while recording the audio version of his new memoir, using expletives and asides not in the book — such as the former Republican House speaker saying, ‘Oh, and Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself.' .
The audio version — which costs more than the book itself — “will be sprinkled with Boehner’s unfiltered, baritone, inner monologue.”
Georgia Democrats Play Hardball on Voting Bills
Associated Press:
“Angered by a blitz of Republican-backed legislation that would roll back voting access, Georgia Democrats are taking hostages — withholding their support on pieces of legislation that need bipartisan backing to pass.
“The first potential casualty appears to be a House bill that would legalize online sports betting. The bill was set to receive a vote on the House floor Thursday but was pulled at the last minute.
“Conversations with House Democrats revealed the reason why the bill didn’t get a vote: They withdrew support because of GOP efforts to enact restrictive voting laws.”
The failed Biden economic recovery
Bouncing back from months of retrenchment, America's consumers stepped up their spending by a solid 2.4% in January in a sign that the economy may be making a tentative recovery from the pandemic recession.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department also showed that personal incomes, which provide the fuel for spending, jumped 10% last month, boosted by cash payments most Americans received from the government.
The January spending increase followed two straight monthly spending drops that had raised concerns that consumers, who power most of the economy, were hunkered down, too anxious to travel, shop and spend. Last month's sharp gain suggests that many people are growing more confident about spending, especially after receiving $600 checks that went to most adults last month in a federal economic aid package.
The government also reported Friday that inflation by a measure preferred by the Federal Reserve rose a moderate 0.3% in December. That left prices up 1.5% over the past 12 months, well below the Fed’s 2% target.
Besides receiving cash payments, many Americans who have managed to keep their jobs have also been saving money for several months. That could bode well for the economy later this year, once consumers feel more willing to spend, vaccinations are more widely distributed and some version of President Joe Biden’s new economic aid proposal is enacted.
Anonymous Myballs said...
So now Mr and Mrs potato head are gender neutral. Good grief, this is getting absurd. Maybe we'll have Pat and Chris potato heads? What the hell is wrong with acknowledging that there are male and female genders??
just another example that affirms my belief that liberalism is a mental illness.
and on a related note, with the passage of a single piece of legislation yesterday, the left have destroyed women's athletics at every level.
brilliant.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2021-02-26/us-consumers-rebound-to-boost-spending-24-as-income-jumps#:~:text=Bouncing%20back%20from%20months%20of,recovery%20from%20the%20pandemic%20recession.&text=That%20left%20prices%20up%201.5,below%20the%20Fed's%202%25%20target.
plagiarism
THWAP!!!
hey alky,
gapping the points on your hoveround today?
LOL.
THWAP!!!
RNC Calls Biden’s First 100 Days a Failure, After Just 36 Days
The American Independent:
“The Republican National Committee complained on Thursday that President Joe Biden has not kept his promise to reopen most schools in the first 100 days of his presidency. He has only been on the job for 36 days."
From the NOW-DELETED tweet:
“On the campaign trial [sic], Biden promised to reopen schools within his first 100 days in office. But that is just another promise that President Biden hasn’t kept.”
Ted Cruz Mocked by His Colleagues
NBC News:
“Sen. Ted Cruz’s colleagues had a little fun at the Texas Republican’s expense when he returned to Washington this week following his infamous trip to Cancun.
“When senators arrived at the Senate gym on Wednesday morning, they found that one of them had taped memes on the lockers welcoming Cruz home and showing him in the short-sleeve polo shirt, jeans and Texas-flag mask that he had at the airport… ‘Bienvenido de Nuevo, Ted!’ was the ‘welcome back’ message typed at the top of the color printouts.”
Personal income leaps 10% in January thanks to stimulus, but inflation stays low
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/26/personal-income-rises-10percent-in-january-vs-9point5percent-estimate-pce-inflation-1point5percent-vs-1point5percent-estimate.html?__source=androidappshare
Personal income leaps 10% in January thanks to stimulus, but inflation stays low. We are not going back to 1979.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/26/personal-income-rises-10percent-in-january-vs-9point5percent-estimate-pce-inflation-1point5percent-vs-1point5percent-estimate.html?__source=androidappshare
whee!!!
California’s bullet train has become a nearly forgotten source of trouble, eclipsed in the public eye by Covid-19, a gubernatorial recall, and out-migration from the Golden State. But it’s still out there, sucking up time and money, and as empty as it ever was.
The California High Speed Rail, its formal name, was a hobby-ego project for former governor Jerry Brown that was supposed to move passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 220 mph by 2020. Instead, the project is moving at the speed of the museum piece it sometimes appears destined to be. Not a single train has run, with train testing still six to seven years away, amid seemingly never-ending delays.
The news regarding the project is, as usual, dismal.
[...]
If there’s been a more poorly run public works project in California history, nobody can remember it. Two years ago, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think tank, called California’s high-speed rail an outright “failure” that has “suffered from at least seven identifiable ‘worst practices,’” causing it “to be indefinitely delayed.”
https://www.city-journal.org/high-costs-construction-delays-plague-ca-high-speed-rail
Mexifornia. a flaming dumpster fire of dog shit from every conceivable perspective.
you would think that the alky would learn the lesson after being thoroughly schooled on a particular issue, but no. the dumb fuck can't seem to grasp the concept.
this, like Sec. 320 continues to elude him.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Can't teach the left anything. I see the POS "pastor" still lives by Goddard and still can't figure out how to include links
Dementia or a different mental disease ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-personal-income-january-2021-11614293378?reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Personal income was up a remarkable 10 percent in January, the Commerce Department reported on Friday, but the increase was almost entirely attributable to the $600 government relief checks and unemployment insurance payments. Aka welfare "*****" queen rrb says
Spending last month also increased by a healthy 2.4 percent, largely because of purchases of goods, while purchases of services lagged as the pandemic continued to weigh on the leisure and hospitality industries.
It was the biggest jump in personal income since April, when the figure was lifted by nearly $3 trillion in government transfer payments. That was mostly in the form of $1,200 checks that millions of households received from the federal government.
The combination of government aid and reduced spending because of the pandemic led to a big buildup in savings last year, said Jay Bryson, chief economist for Wells Fargo. He estimates that U.S. households were sitting on $1.5 trillion in extra savings even before the latest round of stimulus payments.
“People were getting all this money and they had no place to spend it because the economy was shut down,” he said. “So what did they do? They literally put it in the bank.”
That cash stockpile will grow even larger if Congress passes another round of aid, as now seems likely. But as the pandemic ebbs, Americans are likely to start spending again — turning the built-up savings into fuel for the economy.
“We just think there’s going to be this huge pent-up demand for services that’s going to be funded by that excess savings,” Mr. Bryson said.
But not all the government aid is being saved. Retail sales surged in January, a sign that some Americans were spending the money. Some of that spending might have been on essentials, as unemployed workers refilled pantries after weeks with little help. But some of it might also reflect the gradual reopening of the American economy, even as the pandemic continues to rage.
“We’ve learned to deal with this thing in the last year,” Mr. Bryson said.
— Sydney Ember and Ben Casselman
stop" still lives by Goddard and still can't figure out how to include links
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And you can't think for yourself.....THWAAAP!!!!!!
THWAP!!!
Biden’s Relief Bill Just Got Easier to Pass
First Read:
“Democrats didn’t have 50 Senate votes to pass a $15 minimum wage increase, and the entire debate was complicating the rest of the Covid-19 relief package.
“So if the goal was having the least amount of drama before passing the bill, then the Senate parliamentarian did Biden and the Dems a big favor (and it’s maybe the reason why Biden had already been signaling that the minimum wage hike wasn’t going to survive).
“Now there’s a legitimate debate for Biden and the Dems on what they do next on the minimum wage. Do they try to pass a stand-alone hike to $15? Somewhere lower but tied to inflation? Or do they take tax deductions away from corporations that don’t pay a $15 per-hour minimum wage, as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called for after the parliamentarian ruling?”
Alky, I really enjoy your economic posts.
Thank you
Biden Failed on 15
Republicans back a $10,,, phase in over 6 years and tied to inflation .
CNBC
Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock bounced off their lows in volatile trading on Friday after a key inflation gauge showed tame price pressures, easing fears of rapidly rising interest rates.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures implied an opening drop of 60 points. S&P 500 futures inched 0.3% higher and Nasdaq 100 futures fell gained 0.7%. Big Tech stocks, which sold off sharply in the previous session, rebounded in premarket trading. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all gained about 1%, while Facebook and Alphabet also traded in the green.
Even with a massive deficit, there is almost zero inflation.
So the President and the Democratic party will get credit for saving the economy and thousands of lives in the near future.
republicans back a $10,,
SO FUCKING WHAT!!!!!! How does that affect an unemployed asshole like you?????????? Trump failed on the wall, healthcare, the deficit and immigration!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
So the President and the Democratic party will get credit for saving the economy and thousands of lives in the near future.
only from the chronically stupid, the woefully ignorant, and the classic democrat base - the low information voter.
name a policy that Biden* or his Fed has enacted since he was installed that has had ANY actual affect on the economy, alky.
just one.
THWAP!!!
LOL.
Denny, have a nice day.
A federal $15 min wage is a bad idea. Mobile AL doesn't need the same min wage as San Francisco. Here in NY, NYC is already at $15. But upstate it is still $12.50. Cost of living is different. So is cost of labor. Raise the Fed min. But one size does not fit all.
"name a policy that Biden* or his Fed has enacted since he was installed that has had ANY actual affect on the economy, alky.
just one."
Crickets
But one size does not fit all.
it does when all you're really trying to do is purchase the votes of the low information voter.
min wage has always been designed to compensate the most menial and entry-level work. if you're a single parent trying to raise 3 kids on min wage you're a fucking moron and a member of the permanent underclass that the democrats rely upon to acquire and maintain power.
a $15/hr min wage will be a catastrophic failure and democrats know this. and i guaran-fucking-tee you they already have their talking points typed up and ready to go for WHEN it fails, blaming greedy corporations and the GOP.
What a fucking joke. 17 positive flu tests this year. Well you get what you pay for and we pay for Covid not the flu
CDC flu view. https://cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm…
Five-year average: 12,066 cases; 25.38% positive
Last year: 18,193; 31.96%
This year: 17; 0.04%
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/26/bidens-relief-bill-just-got-easier-to-pass/
Something the plagiarizing POS "pastor" hasn't figured out how to post.
What a fucking poor excuse for a "man of the cloth"
dumber than shit with his head stuck up Goddard's asshole
Maybe trying to "give back"
ROFLMFAO !!!
What a fucking joke. 17 positive flu tests this year. Well you get what you pay for and we pay for Covid not the flu
until now, I have always considered the election of 0linsky to be the greatest fucking con ever pulled on America.
the Kung Flu beats that by a fucking mile.
@amuse
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1365141744262742021
3/ They called us crazy suggesting Biden would bomb the Middle East.
"Imagine being dumb enough to believe Joe Biden is literally going to "bomb" the Middle East, you all Trumpers are lunatics."
any update ????
Costco is one of biggest retailer in history, is very profitable, and they are going to pay even entry level employees, $16.00 /HOUR.
They have paid better wages than Walmart and Target. Target pays more than Walmart.
And they can absorb it economically ignorant fool. The mom and pops can’t and you just drive them out and make Costco Walmart bigger
It’s not that difficult for anyone with a semblance of intellect which precludes you, Alky
https://twitter.com/amuse/status
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! What a dumb fucking post!!!!!! By an the dumbest fuck here!!!!!!
US District Judge John Barker, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump to the court in the Eastern District of Texas, stopped short of issuing a preliminary injunction, but said he expected the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to respect his ruling and withdraw the moratorium.
"The federal government cannot say that it has ever before invoked its power over interstate commerce to impose a residential eviction moratorium. It did not do so during the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic. Nor did it invoke such a power during the exigencies of the Great Depression. The federal government has not claimed such a power at any point during our Nation's history until last year," Barker wrote.
Although the Covid-19 pandemic persists, he said, "so does the Constitution."
The Republicans believe the Democrats view the ideology of Marxism as essentially scientific in its analysis of human progress, and science was always a vital part of their conception of the Soviet Union, which they trumpeted as the first state ever founded on “scientific” principles. Its rulers, particularly Lenin and Stalin, regarded themselves as manifestations of the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” which gave them the authority to adjudicate on everything in society, including the arts and sciences. Lenin was an intellectual, at home as much in the British Museum Library as in the Kremlin. Stalin was a published romantic poet and enthusiastic autodidact with a library of thousands of books, not only read but annotated. They had the confidence to interfere in every genre of art and every discipline of science. Stalin would soon be hailed as the all-knowing coryphaeus (leader of the chorus in Greek drama) of science.
The other Scott Johnson from Minnesota. With my editing skills.
Roger, Got Answer?
""name a policy that Biden* or his Fed has enacted since he was installed that has had ANY actual affect on the economy, alky.
just one." RRB
the Covid-19 pandemic persists, he said, "so does the Constitution."
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! The mouth agrees that anyone who cannot pay rent should b tossesd on the streeet!!!!! IOW's fuck those poor R voting texans!!!!!! ASSHOLE!!!!
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
And they can absorb it economically ignorant fool. The mom and pops can’t and you just drive them out and make Costco Walmart bigger
It’s not that difficult for anyone with a semblance of intellect which precludes you, Alky
I always knew his 137 IQ was a fucking lie.
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