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Some other notes:
- Systemic racism
- The problem at the border is Trump's fault
- White supremacy
- Systemic racism
- Wear a mask even when not needed
- Systemic racism
- Did I mention systemic racism?
But was it a success? Somehow Joe just seems like a 51% sort of President!
In spite of an overwhelming Democratic tilt to
the viewership, the reaction was underwhelming
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
Vaccines Slowing Spread of Covid-19 Infections
“Vaccines appear to be starting to curb new Covid-19 infections in the U.S., a breakthrough that could help people return to more normal activities as infection worries fade,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“By Tuesday, 37.3% of U.S. adults were fully vaccinated against Covid-19, with about 2.7 million shots each day. Data from Johns Hopkins University shows the seven-day average for new U.S. cases has fallen below the 14-day average for more than a week, which epidemiologists said is a strong signal that cases are starting to slide again after a recent upswing.”
Dr. Amash Adalja to Science News: “These vaccines will change your life. These vaccines were made to defang or tame the virus, and they’re doing an excellent job at that.”
First-quarter GDP for 2021 increased at a 6.4% rate, just below the Dow Jones estimate.
That marked the second-fastest pace for growth since the second quarter of 2003 and was exceeded only by the reopening-fueled burst of Q3 in 2020
Initial jobless claims fell to a fresh pandemic-era low.
Systemic racism is a terrorist threat of epic proportions.
We must act like we did with Osama bin Laden and save lives.
U.S. Economy Appears to Be Lifting Off
“The U.S. economy appears to have expanded rapidly in the first quarter, extending what economists project will be a robust, consumer-led recovery from the pandemic this year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Fueled by a flood of federal cash to households and rising vaccinations, the nation’s gross domestic product likely grew at a 6.5% seasonally adjusted.”
Axios: Here comes the reopening boom.
What Made Biden’s Speech So Effective
John Harris:
“Though rarely described as gifted orator, Biden’s speech was a remarkable performance in part because it didn’t soar and largely didn’t even try to. In plain-spoken language, he depicted a breathtakingly large agenda as PLAIN COMMON SENSE. Instead of imploring partisans to take sides, he projected bewilderment that any practical-minded person of any persuasion could be opposed.”
...he depicted a breathtakingly large agenda as PLAIN COMMON SENSE.
BIDEN: “Our Constitution opens with the words, as trite as it sounds, ‘We the People’. It’s time we remembered that 'We the People' are the government...”
common sense my ass. Declaring "We the people" = "MOAR government" is pure idiocy with a side order of fucking treason.
81 million votes my ass.
He described last year’s killing of George Floyd by a police officer at a now infamous Minneapolis location as evidence of “systemic racism that plagues American life.” For the most part, though, he shied away from divisive issues of racial justice, making the kind of class-based appeals that have been a feature of his long career as a U.S. senator. “It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out,” he said.
The new $1.8 trillion proposal, called the American Families Plan, comes close on the heels of the far-from-realized American Jobs Plan, which carries a $2.3 trillion price tag. The Biden administration has deemed both to be necessary components of an infrastructure package, even if many aspects of those proposals — billions of dollars allotted for child care, home health aides and paid sick leave. People would be able to work while their children are being educated, integral to a long term recovery.
IN A NUTSHELL,
Biden Seeks to Recast the Role of Government
NYT:
“President Biden called for a broad reshaping of American society, using his first formal address to Congress to urge a vast expansion of safety net and educational programs while promising to harness the government to create jobs and opportunity for those often left behind.
Wall Street Journal:
“The president’s proposals represent an ambitious effort to expand the government’s role in shaping the economy.”
CNN:
“If there was one argument animating Biden’s speech — and his entire presidency to date — is that more government, when working right, can improve Americans’ lives. It’s a simple proposition that bucks a decades-long trend in both parties toward a smaller, less interventionist Washington.”
Politico:
“The speech marks an early victory lap for a White House fashioning itself as having one of the most consequential starts to a presidency in American history. It is also an opportunity to build momentum for two proposals — the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan — that, if enacted, would alter the course of the country for decades to come.”
Jim Geraghty
https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1387584539502030849
Wait, doesn’t the president who is currently calling a massive increase in the IRS budget for enforcement also have a son who is being investigated by the IRS Criminal Investigation agency, as well as the FBI?
probably takes a lot of money to pay everyone off
and to hire thugs to intimidate the opposition
plus ten percent for the "big guy". whoever that is
IT AIN'T GONNA KEEP BEING GOVERNMENT OF THE BIG RICH, BY THE BIG RICH, AND FOR THE BIG RICH ANY MORE.
IT'S GONNA BE GOVERNMENT SO STRONGLY FROM FROM THE PEOPLE THAT IT WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO STAND UP TO THE BIG RICH AND AGAINST THE BIG RICH IN ORDER TO BE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
Tommy Pigott
https://twitter.com/TCPigott/status/1387583513063481360
Biden’s proposal would double the capital gains tax from 20% rate to 43.4%, “the highest” rate “in modern times.”
The Tax Foundation projects that not only would hiking capital gains shrink the economy, it would actually decrease federal revenues by $124B over 10 years.
and his pals like Bezos and Buffet don't really pay taxes anyway.
and still won't
IN REPLY TO CH/SCOTTIE'S THREAD ARTICLE----
NEAR UNIVERSAL APPROVAL from Biden Speech Watchers
A CBS News/YouGov instant poll found that
85% of Americans who watched approved of President Joe Biden’s prime time address, with
78% of all watchers saying the speech made them feel more optimistic about America.
Sorry, Ch.
Buck Sexton
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1387589941023186947
The only life lost in the “insurrection” was an unarmed woman shot in the neck through a locked door by a Capitol police officer
Biden is a disgusting fraud.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Powered by consumers, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk 6.4% annual rate last quarter — a show of strength fueled by government aid and declining viral cases that could drive further gains as the nation rebounds with unusual speed from the pandemic recession.
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — accelerated in the January-March quarter from a 4.3% annual gain in the final quarter of 2020.
Growth in the current April-June period is expected to be faster still, potentially reaching a 10% annual pace or more, led by an increase in people willing and able to travel, shop, dine out and otherwise resume their spending habits.
Economists say that widespread vaccinations, the reopening of more businesses, a huge infusion of federal spending and healthy job gains should help sustain steady growth. For 2021 as a whole, they expect the economy to expand close to 7%, which would mark the fastest calendar-year growth since 1984.
Equaling Ronald Reagan's final term.
The only reason it might endure is systematic hatred of Democracy exhibited by the former President Trump will clue Republicans to damage the economy in order to reachiev power by suppressing voters rights. They don't believe in the power of the people.
A CBS News/YouGov instant poll found that 85% of Americans who watched approved of President Joe Biden’s prime time address, with 78% of all watchers saying the speech made them feel more optimistic about America.
HOWLING, had to make up for the CNN poll some intern let slip out.
I guess only Hugo Chavez and Xi have ever polled better
and the "pastor" laps it up from hi GODdard at politcal_lire
"news" for the mindless
ROFLMFAO !!!
Terrific speech by Tim Scott. It's worth watching. 14:30 long.
* his
Myballs said...
Terrific speech by Tim Scott. It's worth watching. 14:30 long.
I'll watch the whole thing later, saw some great snippets.
Under a pose of guilelessness, Biden’s speech was in fact infused with political guile. The agenda he promoted to expand both free pre-school and community college, to subsidize the shift to a low-carbon economy, to fund a massive way of new public works construction by taxing the very wealthy, represented years of pent-up demand by progressives. But much of the money would be spent in ways designed to break up the Trump coalition, which was powered heavily by middle- and lower-middle class whites who do not have college degrees with contempt for many parts of the progressive agenda.
Referring to his infrastructure proposal, Biden argued: “Nearly 90 percent of the infrastructure jobs created in the American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree. Seventy-five percent don't require an associate’s degree. The American Jobs Plan is a blue-collar blueprint to build America.”
The bet is that material gains—i.e. a recovery that produces lots of working class jobs and allows families to more easily educate their children—can trump the cultural grievances that sent many of these people into the conservative movement over the past two generations, beginning with George Wallace’s hardhat supporters and later becoming a flood of “Reagan Democrats.”
In fact there was a nod—was it subconscious, or were Biden and his speechwriters thinking of it explicitly?—to one of Reagan’s great arguments, made in 1981 when a 38-year-old Biden had already been in the Senate for eight years. At his first inaugural address, Reagan declared, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
Jarome Bell
https://twitter.com/JaromeBellVA/status/1387390898837889024
Racism is learned behavior, and the US government is teaching it.
Think about that.
That would be the democrats
3rd qtr last year economy grew 33%. Beat that.
RE 8:50
A vast majority of Americans are seeing that this man Biden is the real deal.
Not full of guile like Trump.
Ryan Saavedra
CNN and MSNBC:
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1387600952845209600
The fake news terrorists who spent 4 years calling Trump a racist are showing their true colors tonight after a black Republican outshined Biden's speech
and the democrat racists on twitter have "Uncle Tim" trending
We've been having class warfare in the country for a long, long time, and the super rich have been winning it.
Warren Buffet admitted that,
and said it shouldn't be that way.
Mollie
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1387609380070338562
Twitter is choosing to trend a racist attack from the left on Sen. Tim Scott, the black Republican senator from South Carolina.
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Twitter is still out here going out of its way to make racist attacks against GOP Sen. Tim Scott go viral. Apparently they want him to suffer for the crime of upstaging Biden via a highly effective speech. Disgusting.
democrats always use racist attacks against black republicans
They revert to their roots
and people are noticing
Warren Buffet admitted that,
and said it shouldn't be that way.
Warren Buffet is bypassing paying taxes by leaving all his money to Bill Gates's foundation while paying his children high 6 figure salaries to run his "charities". Learned the last part from the Clintons.
Great role model for not paying taxes and he even brags about it
But he's a democrat
Gives Bill lot's of money to play with without having to pay taxes.
And he can pretty much do whatever he wants with it
But Biden won't even think about reforming that
Thief again projecting that rich who have left their money to foundations that do great things for the world are stupid!!!!! And lets look at trumps spawn......high paying no show jobs for daddy's company.....and to thief that is perfectly acceptable!!!!! WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT THIEF CAN BE!!!!!!!! Funny that the trump foundation gave all its money to TRUMP!!!!!!!
Buffet giving money to charities is far better than keeping it for himself the way most Republican millionaires and billionaires do.
And he would gladly pay more in taxes, and has repeatedly said he should.
He has also said that laws which require his secretary to pay a larger percentage of income in taxes than he is required to pay should be changed.
You sound hoarse VERY lo iq
Of course that goes well with your "intellect"
ROFLMFAO !!!
And he would gladly pay more in taxes, and has repeatedly said he should.
He has also said that laws which require his secretary to pay a larger percentage of income in taxes than he is required to pay should be changed.
He could easily actually pay his taxes first and contribute taxed dollars to his "charities"
He doesn't.
You can tell what a person really believe by his actions
His secretary doesn't have the wealth to be able to do this
but keep believing righteous Buffet.
He's a democrat and that absolves all his sins at the altar of GODdard, right "pastor"
* believes
Abigail Marone
FAKE NEWS VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1387601216335749121
CNN just falsely claimed "everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Joe Biden."
President Trump engineered Operation Warp Speed.
CNN tries to rewrite history
1984
Ministry of Truth
FAKE NEWS
Thief again projects his own stupidity for all to see!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
President Joe Biden is making a direct appeal to blue-collar workers as he pitches his massive spending package during his joint address to Congress on Wednesday night.
Biden is telling Americans that his infrastructure proposal will help “millions of people get back to their jobs and their careers.” Biden is emphasizing blue-collar roles as he outlines the plan, saying it will create jobs in everything from modernizing America’s roads, bridges and highways to replacing the nation’s lead pipes.
Biden says his plan will provide opportunities for engineers, construction workers, electrical workers and farmers. He promises the plan will create “jobs Americans can raise their families on.”
That appeal to blue-collar workers has shaped Biden’s entire political career. Biden made a pitch to moderate, rural white voters as a centerpiece of his 2020 campaign.
If he recovers the working class workers from the Reagan era, even in a couple conservative majority states, it will be an epic change.
She just misspoke. She meant to say, Everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Trump, but getting the vaccine into arms happened under Joe Biden.
Senator Scott appealed to the Republican base. He didn't mention negotiated agreements on the major issues of the speech by the President.
‘SO PATHETIC’: GOP’s Tim Scott ignites backlash after denying systemic racism during his Biden rebuttal
Matthew Chapman
April 29, 2021
On Wednesday evening, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only Black Republican senator, delivered the official Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress. His speech credited former President Donald Trump with solving the pandemic, and above all attacked Democrats for using race as "a political weapon," saying that America "is not a racist country."
Commenters on social media were not impressed with Scott's assertion. Many of them responded with pictures of the pro-Trump Capitol rioters carrying explicitly racist symbols, and others even noted that Scott has contradicted himself, previously saying he has been repeatedly pulled over for being Black.
By saying saying that America "is not a racist country." he appealed to the Republican base, but not the middle class, that the President addressed last night.
Biden says his plan will provide opportunities for engineers,union construction workers, electrical workers and farmers who built this country. He promises the plan will create “jobs Americans can raise their families on.”
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-scott-rebuttal/?utm_source=push_notifications
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1019422/1
Nice job alky.
You fucking scumbags went right to RACIST attacks on Tim Scott just like we knew you WOULD.
Die in a fire you piece of shit.
Criticized Senator Scott is not racist.
He followed the party line, to make people like you happy.
If there was one argument animating Biden's speech -- and his entire presidency to date -- is that more government, when working right, can improve Americans' lives. It's a simple proposition that bucks a decades-long trend in both parties toward a smaller, less interventionist Washington.
"We have to prove democracy still works. That our government still works -- and can deliver for the people. In our first 100 days together, we have acted to restore the people's faith in our democracy to deliver," Biden said in his speech. "We're vaccinating the nation. We're creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. We're delivering real results people can see and feel in their own lives."
It's a distant cry from President Bill Clinton's declaration in his 1996 State of the Union that "the era of big government is over." Speaking from the same podium 25 years later, Biden seemed to argue the exact opposite: that now is the time for big government to return -- and with it the chance to prove that it's still working.
"Scientific breakthroughs took us to the Moon and now to Mars, discovered vaccines, and gave us the Internet and so much more," he said. "These are the investments we make together, as one country, and that only government's in a position to make."
The theme isn't new for Biden. But never before has it been more clearly distilled than when he laid out his legislative accomplishments so far, and the plans he still hopes to pass.
This is an epic change in American politics.
This might be an epic change.
With a one vote margin the Senate, unless the Republicans will negotiate with the President, they will they to use reconciliation again. But the Senator from West Virginia has more power than anyone else right now.
But I actually watched it and the Senator looked like he was impressed by the President.
I did not call Tim Scott an Uncle Tom.
I called him a politician who has an ambition to run for Presiden. In order to get the nomination he has to appeal to the base.
I hoped he would not be a politically motivated person.
If you didn't watch it it's here
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/04/politics/biden-address-annotated/
Sen Scott appealed to the moderates by pointing out the truth about where the dems are now. And he succeeded.
Senator Tim Scott had the most powerful rebuttal to a presidential speech heard in years.
So powerful it revealed the left's latent racisim.
If he runs for president he'll be a shoe in.
Young Daddy
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1387611547284000769
Tim Scott complained about being called an Uncle Tom and then 60 seconds later said America is not a racist country.
Benny
What political party is calling Scott an 'Uncle Tom?'
the racist party
halfbaked said...
I did not call Tim Scott an Uncle Tom.
PROGRESS, "halfbaked" breaks from the democrat party.
Why are democrats pushing the removal of caps on SALTs in the federal tax code?
It greatly benefits billionaires and millionaires.
While if you pass down your wealth to a foundation you bypass taxes.
and they're not touching that
Why not let them do that AFTER paying their taxes?
Looks like Buffet's secretary is going to need to pay a lot more to make up for this.
This is the best analysis of the President's speech last night.
Glynn Wilson –
President Joe Biden delivered a sweeping address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday making a case to the world that the American government is back on the job after four years of disastrous craziness. His speech calling on Congress to act on climate change, a major infrastructure bill and tax reform set out a coherent plan for bringing the country back from the coronavirus pandemic and is actually a transcript worth publishing, as opposed to the incoherent nonsense spouted for four years by the former president.
Because of the pandemic, Biden spoke to a socially distanced audience of less than 200 members of Congress and other officials picked by lottery to attend, a small fraction of the packed audience that typically attends such addresses. He laid out an ambitious agenda to rescue the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest one percent of Americans and the largest corporations.
Invoking the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Biden unveiled a $1.8 trillion social spending plan to accompany previous proposals to build roads and bridges, expand other social programs and combat climate change, representing a fundamental reorientation of the role of government not seen since the days of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and Roosevelt’s New Deal.
“We have to prove democracy still works, that our government still works and we can deliver for our people,” Biden said in his first nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress.
After presenting himself during last year’s campaign as a “transition candidate” to follow the volatile tenure of Donald J. Trump, Biden has since his inauguration positioned himself as a transformational president.
Unfortunately for the country, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sat on his hands during the speech, along with other Republicans, an indication that the party of Trump intends to block everything he tries to accomplish just like they did to President Barack Obama for eight years, leaving the country vulnerable to being taken over by the fake nationalistic propaganda of Trump.
The President has a very ambitious agenda.
If he succeeds, he will be the first President since Reagan era, he will get the people to believe that the government is their friend, in a complete reversal of the last 40 years and a path forward.
It’s — but it’s time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans to just begin to pay their fair share. (Applause.) Just their fair share.
Sometimes I have arguments with my friends in the Democratic Party. I think you should be able to become a billionaire and a millionaire, but pay your fair share.
A recent study shows that 55 of the nation’s biggest corporations paid zero federal tax last year. Those 55 corporations made in excess of $40 billion in profit. A lot of companies also evade taxes through tax havens in Switzerland and Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. And they benefit from tax loopholes and deductions for offshoring jobs and shifting profits overseas. It’s not right.
We’re going to reform corporate taxes so they pay their fair share and help pay for the public investments their businesses will benefit from as well. (Applause.)
We’re going to reward work, not just wealth. We take the top tax bracket for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans — those making over $400,000 or more — back up to where it was when George W. Bush was President when he started: 39.6 percent. That’s where it was when George W. was President.
So why not make Buffet and Bezos and Gates and Soros pay more taxes ???
Why not make the "big guy" pay his unreported taxes.
Why not make it so that billionaires can't "donate" their wealth to each other ?
Why all the shell game tactics ?
Government stronger, people weaker.
People aren't the government Joe.
People are the citizens.
Peter J. Hasson
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1387413254465593344
Dem Rep. Ron Kind's property used for seedy massage parlor that touted 'young' masseuse
Wisconsin Dem's property used for seedy massage parlor that touted 'young' masseuse
One reviewer of the massage parlor claims he was told, 'No money no honey'
and a great tax dodge to boot
Matt Fuller
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1387585302483677184
Lauren Boebert has unfurled a space blanket.
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Alright, so Lauren Boebert just sort of loudly opened a space blanket—like shook it free so that everyone could hear it in the chamber—and then just draped it on her lap.
I honestly don't know what it means.
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She's just sort of casually sitting there with the blanket—one of those shiny silvery things. A thermal blanket, I believe is another name for it.
If it's some form of protest, it hasn't really had any effect in the chamber.
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Still haven’t seen Lauren Boebert say anything about the space blanket.
Starting to feel like one of those stunts that someone half-heartedly attempts and realizes almost immediately that it was not the play.
Tomorrow she’ll probably just be like, ‘Uhhhh, I was...cold??’
The political reporter for the Daily Beast is TOTALLY CLUELESS
No idea about the sleeping conditions of children at the border.
probably used to just get his talking points from the DNC and attend cocktail parties with them and the elites...
Explosive Video Reveals Biden Plot to Use His Power to Improve Living Conditions
The Republicans response was angry because they don't have an agenda for the future.
They want to go back to the Jim Crow era!
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