So the two issues that appeared to vault Biden to the Presidency (Covid and Race) are dropping in terms of what people see as important problems. Now it is possible that some will argue that somehow Biden himself has managed to solve the Covid and the race problems in his four months in office, but something more logical says that is not the case.
Covid was always a limited event and there was always going to be time where people would feel we were on the right track. While just as many people are dying today as were dying back in July of 2020 (when the first poll was taken) the fact that a vaccine is available and that the country has mostly reopened is why people are bullish on the issue. The bigger issue here is that neither Republicans or Democrats really want Covid to be an issue. Now that Trump is no longer around to "blame" for the virus, the media seems less interested in how many cases and deaths are counted daily.
On the flip side there are still many on the left who are loath to let go of Covid and the restrictions in place. There are still liberals out there who "love" the concept of mask wearing and "love" the concept of following the rules set forth by the mighty gods of government. The ability for them to "look down" on people for not following the mandates and restrictions will be sorely missed.
Race relations is a funny one. Nothing much has changed (other than the Chauvin verdict). Race is still in the forefront of the news. Democrats are pushing hard for Critical Race Theory to become somehow codified into legal existence. Democrats in many areas are still pushing police reform, if not police defunding. Democrats are pushing laws that tie aid and assistances to minorities and pretty much everyone not a white male. Democrats still need race to be a big issue in order to push their agenda and probably to win election. They talk about it everyday with increased vigor.
But yet, the issue has started to fade. It's probably a little bit higher (in terms of visibility) than it was prior to the George Floyd fiasco, but it's not where it has been and it will probably not see that sort of concern again. In fact, I might expect that it will continue to fade as the public's viewpoint for CRT and other race motivated government imposed concepts start to meet up with resistance.
In many ways, the increase in people worried about "violent crime" is a reverse correlation to the number of people who view race relations as a problem. When race relations was the big thing, it seemed Americans were willing to accept a little bit of violent crime as a justified reaction to the horrors of being part of the 40% in this country who are not white. Now that the feelings about race are no longer as strong, the idea of "violent crime" is no longer palatable.
Meanwhile as violent crime surges in minority communities and non-white invoked interracial attacks keep piling up, people become concerned by the crime for the crime's sake. When they no longer see it as a temporary situation induced by short term events, it just becomes crime.
And let's be honest here. When the Biden Administration all the up to the Attorney General tell us that the worst crime we have to fear right now is from "White supremacy" - how can we possibly believe that our Administration is taking the real crime seriously. There is only so much you can hide and obscure from the public eye.
Either way, if the 2022 elections are about crime and the economy rather than Covid and race, then the Democrats will certainly be playing defense. With a fairly tough map to navigate (especially in the House) it's going to be extremely difficult for Democrats to hold on to both chambers.
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Democrat Defund the Police is working out very well.
Covid was never a "very big problem."
Covid was always a contrived problem to get rid of bad orange man, and to institute election rules to accomplish that.
And violent crime? WAY UP. Especially in democrat-run areas. Inflation will exacerbate this as folks will resort to theft to get what they want/need.
Step 1. Admit you are powerless to resist Trumpism.
Step 2. Recognize that you can't solve this problem alone. The goodness of the majority is needed to restore sanity.
Step 3. Accept that the goodness of the majority is not bound by geographic borders. It's bigger than any individual, even you.
Step 4. Conduct a searching and fearless moral inventory. Identify the real costs of Trumpism for yourself and your life.
Step 5. Come clean. Admit to yourself and at least one other human being the exact nature of your problem.
Step 6. Keep a list of elected officials and candidates who also suffer from Trumpism. You are responsible for helping them.
Step 7. Create a project to address your most dangerous symptoms, e.g., lying, sarcasm, cheating, bullying, bigotry.
Step 8. Make a list of everyone your behavior has harmed. The list will include millions.
Step 9. Make direct amends to those you've harmed wherever possible. Otherwise, make amends in the voting booth.
Step 10. Continue to evaluate your choices. When you backslide, admit your mistake, correct it, and forgive yourself.
Step 11. Recognize that the goodness of the majority isn't perfect. It is simply a platform on which to build a better world.
Step 12. Carry this message and practice these principles in your daily affairs.
Refunding the police. Despite the lies of..
Following calls last summer from groups such as Black Lives Matter to “defund the police,” a number of city officials are now walking back statements to go through with cutting funding to law enforcement due to surges in crime levels.
The Minneapolis City Council several months ago voted to approve $6.4 million more in funding to the police department, coming after a number of councilmembers last year pledged to completely abolish the department.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, announced in May that he’s pushing to increase funding to the city’s police department—coming about a year after George Floyd’s death in police custody, which sparked the Black Lives Matter protests, riots, and arson attacks across Minneapolis.
“The violence needs to stop; it’s unacceptable,” he said earlier in May during a news conference, which came amid a massive spike in violence in the city.
“People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That’s unacceptable. We should be holding these perpetrators accountable.”
Frey blamed activists’ calls to defund the police.
“When you make big, overarching statements that we’re going to defund or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers, there’s an impact to that,” he said.
A police officer stands amid smoke and debris as buildings continue to burn in the aftermath of a night of protests and violence following the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 29, 2020. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Last year, during a protest in Minneapolis, Frey was admonished by Black Lives Matter supporters because he refused to abolish the city’s police force—in a scene that some compared to “struggle sessions” during the Chinese Communist Party-led Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. The mayor, however, said he wanted a “structural revamp” of the city’s police force.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, announced this month that his city is building a police precinct in Queens to deal with a spate in rising crime—coming months after he pledged to cut $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget. The city has cut far less from the police department than the pledged $1 billion.
In late April, the mayor said stimulus funding from the federal government will allow for the construction of a new NYPD precinct in southeastern Queens.
“This is something that for decades the community asked for,” de Blasio said at a press briefing last month. “The 116th precinct building was something that could not happen in that environment, because of … trade-offs,” he said. “It was one or the other, which was the choice in 2020. We leaned into the investments in young people. Now, thankfully, we have the resources to address both these issues.”
This comes in the midst of a historic increase in shootings, murders, and other violent crimes. According to NYPD data, there was a 76 percent increase in shootings in March 2021, as compared to March 2020.
In Baltimore, a city that has historically had a high crime rate, the city’s spending board in mid-May approved a budget with a $28 million increase to the police department. In 2020, the city cut about $22 million from the police department’s budget.
The “defund the police” movement has also seen its support plummet since last summer, according to various polls. A recent survey in March showed that just 18 percent of Americans support the cause.
So I'm reading that Cum-Allah is lobbying American businesses to expand to...
...Central America.
She says this shit as she tweets out a picture of herself, telling people to "enjoy the long weekend."
Stupid fucking twat.
But the bottom line is the way the virus has been treated in the media, the way it's been reported on the pictures of boarded up cities and towns. The everything that's happened, the economic downturns, as a result, the the blue states cities and the blue states, states that have been kept shut down because of the virus artificially on purpose to affect the economy of this
country and to make it sluggish to prevent
its full fledged return for political
reasons.
I am curious as to why this Trumpist anonymous person who obviously suffers from TDS is demanding that Trump supporters need to apologize to him for his own emotional imbalance and irrational suffering?
I have tasked Harris with leading U.S. efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, to deal with an increase in migration into the United States. Since then, Harris has taken a series of steps to improve conditions and lower migration from the region.
Improving the economy reduces immigration from the southern border.
once we are the poorest nation we will no longer have an immigration problem
People with TLS continue to post pictures of their addictive former President months after he was certified by the former vice President Pence, ignore the hang Mike Pence Insurrection, require intervention from friends and families.
strength through weakness
the word for the day for 13 year old girls is legs
spread the word
Sad how Lil Schitty is now conflating opinions about violence and covid......I guess he missed the fact that many americans now see covid as a receding problem and violence especially with guns ongoing with no end in sight because of GOP embracing guns and ignoring lives......I wonder how that will play out in the mid terms!!!!!!!!
After four years of an administration that flooded the American people with white nationalism, White grievance and their attendant lies, speaking truth is exactly what this nation needs from the White House right now. And I’m all for Harris being unafraid to speak it.
The Orange Monster is not going away from Trump addicts.
Eric Matheny 🎙
https://twitter.com/EricMMatheny/status/1399008387061387268
Hunter Biden is a creepy, pedophilic loser who has coasted through life despite having no recognizable skills. Just like his father.
thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile
I'm old enough to remember having a president and vice president who honored America's fallen heroes.
Even Hillary Clinton pretends to love America.
Kamala doesn't even try.
Ron DeSantis
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1398680253573312516
No better way to start Memorial Day Weekend than a Salute to America’s Heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice.
A true leader
I'm old enough to remember having a president and vice president who honored America's fallen heroes.
It was just just last year.
Richard Grenell
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1399029705416736769
Chinese officials wanted Joe Biden to be President.
Biden told the media (and they dutifully followed) that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation. Shameful lie.
The laptop is full of information showing close ties between Biden and China.
Jason Miller
@JasonMillerinDC
@MariaBartiromo Great job covering the origins of the CCP Virus this morning!
“Why does this Administration seem to protect China at all costs?”
“Why is Joe Biden protecting the China Communist Party?”
Good questions
Not what flavor ice cream he is eating today
And they are not good guys, guys
They are practicing genocide, interfering in elections, and using slave labor to compete on the world stage.
and shared a DC office with Hunter and Joe...
Posted by a flat-footed draft dodger who tells everyone he was being recruited for the next Manhattan Project.
LOL @ the alky and his incessant need to live vicariously through relatives that actually DID serve."RRB
The Family didn't want Roger at Ron's funeral. They didn't want the stank of alky there.
The laptop is full of information showing close ties between Biden and China.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! In your delusional world only!!!!!!!
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
I am curious as to why this Trumpist anonymous person who obviously suffers from TDS is demanding that Trump supporters need to apologize to him for his own emotional imbalance and irrational suffering?
But it does answer the question as to why he's locked down in a nursing home unable to go out in public without an orderly.
https://www.randomservices.org/random/data/Draft.html
My draft number in 1970 was 238.
The draft top number was about 125
I volunteered, kputz asshole
Roger tell us more about what you believe about all things e economic .
REV, mocking Alky's failing health is too funny.
I am free to come and go alone asshole.
Roger Amick said...
I am free to come and go alone asshole.
So it's not an assisted bathroom
but that must be just around the corner
While the physical health is one thing
the mental decline is obvious
sad
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has compiled a page of "Mask Facts" showing that the consensus prior to the coronavirus pandemic was that the effectiveness of mask-wearing by the general public in slowing the spread of a virus is unproven, and there's evidence it does more harm than good.
It was a National Socialist holocaust program.
The Democrats are the fascist regime.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I am free to come and go alone asshole.
Yet you're here 24/7. Supposedly while residing only a few blocks from the beach.
Alky, you are without a doubt this blogs most prolific liar. And I think you've taken to believing your own lies. You post under dozens of aliases that indicate a chronic mental illness, when all the while we know it's you.
Your obsessions range from Trump and his penis to things you give Biden* credit for that he had nothing to do with.
Your knowledge of economics is non-existent, your knowledge of the law always tracks back to Marbury v. Madison, and every fucking topic we discuss around here magically has something to do with you and you alone.
You're fucked alky.
If CH ever shut down this blog you'd be dead in 30 days.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1398762961229975556
Reality is back thanks to Sleepy Joe Biden
Indianapolis 500 to return with biggest sporting event crowd since pandemic.
The crowd is huge numbers
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1398803081115045889?s=09
When Lynn Bernard Amick was born on October 17, 1910, in Springview, Nebraska, his father, Charles, was 29 and his mother, Jennie, was 23. He married Blanche Evelyn Petersen on January 21, 1939, in Spencer, Iowa. They had one child during their marriage. He died as a young father on November 16, 1944, in Vosges, France, at the age of 34, and was buried in Épinal, Vosges, France.
Negotiations with U.S. President Joe Biden over a potentially massive infrastructure investment package are inching forward even though disagreements remain over the size and scope of such legislation, Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito said on Sunday.
"I think we can get to real compromise, absolutely, because we're both still in the game," Capito said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday."
Capito leads a group of six Senate Republicans who have been in regular contact with Biden and White House aides over a bill the administration wants to move through Congress promptly. read more
The Republican senators have proposed $928 billion to improve roads, bridges and other traditional infrastructure projects. Much of the funding would come from money already enacted into law for other purposes that they argue is unused.
The Biden administration's latest offer in negotiations is for $1.7 trillion and would include federal spending on projects that go beyond traditional infrastructure, such as home care for the elderly. read more
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaking on ABC's "This Week," said of the latest Republican counteroffer: "There's movement in the right direction, but a lot of concern."
Buttigieg added, "We need to make investments over and above what would have happened anyway." He also highlighted the need for using the infrastructure bill to address climate change and signaled opposition to shifting COVID-19 relief money to infrastructure accounts.
Sleepy Joe is working across the line to help others lives because he cares for others!
Handsome man, looking like he's 60!
If you get to that point in your alzheimers disease life, you won't look as great as I do!
Yet you're here 24/7. Supposedly while residing only a few blocks from the beach.
Alky, you are without a doubt this blogs most prolific liar. And I think you've taken to believing your own lies. You post under dozens of aliases that indicate a chronic mental illness, when all the while we know it's you."
He admitted he can't come and go as he wants, his health is in decline.
Poor broke, womanless and broken Roger.
The infrastructure bill is the right thing to do @ $2.5 Trillion.
Neo-socialist Biden goes wobbly.
Sounds like the truthseeker is suffering from TDS.
Might need to remind him that Trump is no longer President and that Joe Biden is our problem today.
Who got us on the right track first REGARDING COVID? Trump who said it would soon be down to zero cases or Biden who said it would be serious?
MEANWHILE, PLEASE DO NOT INTERPRET THE FOLOLOWING TO MEAN WE NEED ANY KIND OF STRICTER GUN LAWS
Two dead and over 20 injured in Miami mass shooting
NBC Universal
May 30, 2021, 11:42 AM
Two people were killed and over 20 injured in a mass shooting in Miami early Sunday, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement.
Three people got out of an SUV and “began shooting indiscriminately into the crowd” that was standing outside a "scheduled event" at an establishment on 186th Street, in the Hialeah area to the west of Miami Gardens, the statement said.
NBC's Miami area station reported that the venue was a banquet hall, which was rented out for a concert.
Investigators were hunting for the suspects who returned to their vehicle and fled the scene after the incident, the statement added.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue found two people dead when they got to the scene and transported eight people to various local hospitals, the statement said, adding that 12 other victims went to hospitals on their own.
At least one victim was transported in critical condition, the statement said.
A mother of one victim said her son called her in the middle of the night and told her he was on his way to the hospital.
“He called us frantic, telling us he had been shot, that it hurts, it hurts and that he loves us and wants us to know," Angelica Green told NBC Miami. "My husband is like 'no stay with us, stay with us.' We hop in the car and we're talking to him to keep him alert."
Miami Dade Police Director Alfredo "Freddy" Ramirez III called the incident "another targeted and cowardly act of gun violence" on Twitter.
It was the second major shooting in the Miami area in as many days. One person died after 7 people were shot on Friday night, the station said.
Calling it a "despicable, cold-blooded act," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava tweeted that her heart was breaking for the families of the victims.
"We will do everything we can to bring the shooters to justice and turn the tide on this violence," she said.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called for "swift and severe" action to be taken against the shooters in a tweet Sunday.
"We mourn the loss of the two victims and are praying for the recovery of the more than 20 people injured at El Mula Banquet Hall near Hialeah," he said. "We are working with local authorities to bring justice to the perpetrators."
YEAH, BUT DOESN'T THERE COME A TIME WHEN CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS ARE NOT ENOUGH?
There were at least 200 mass shootings in the country in the first 132 days of this year, a report by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group, said.
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OH BUT LET'S NOT DO ANYTHING RASH TO UPSET THE NRA AND THE GUN LOBBY INDUSTRY.
Well Reverend...
All attempts to create legislation that would really stick it to people who use guns while committing crimes (such as an mandatory prison sentences for any crime committed with a gun) - are shot down as being...
racist, of course, because such laws would have an larger effect on minorities.
So the left will once again attempt to punish the law abiding hunters and collectors who own guns and never use them for anything illegal.
Doesn't that about sum it up, Reverend?
If you were worried about gun violence, why not address "gun violence" rather than gun "ownership".
When someone gets a DUI, they go to jail. We don't ban cars.
The fact that the Trump administration implemented tariffs on products including lumber and steel, is causing inflation.
Actually Rog...
I think we should be blaming economic policies of Abe Lincoln for modern day inflation (which usually follows large amounts of deficit spending that increases money supply as well as artificial wage growth).
Pretty sure you can come up with a way to blame that stuff on Abe?
Lord forbid we should blame the deficit spending
Trump @ Gingrich 2024!
The two biggest con artists in political history.
“With an eye toward winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, former President Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda outlining a MAGA doctrine for the party. His template is the 1994 ‘Contract with America,’ a legislative agenda released ahead of the midterm elections in the middle of President Bill Clinton’s first term. And, as a cherry on top, he’s teaming up with its main architect — Gingrich — to do it.”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The fact that the Trump administration implemented tariffs on products including lumber and steel, is causing inflation.
FACT CHECK: Flatly FALSE.
Alky, Trump imposed the softwood lumber tariffs on Canada in April of 2017. This is public record.
So what you're saying is that trump is SUCH an evil genius, he delayed the inflationary effects of those tariffs until NOW.
Never in my life have I encountered an individual as immersed in economic ignorance alky. NEVER.
Roger...
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
The next step would be to stop.
Let's see how many days in a row you could possibly go without obsessing about an ex-President who is spending his days playing golf and laughing about all the attention he still gets.
I am betting...
zero days.
You know that alcoholics are predisposed to such obsessions and addictions. So I guess we shouldn't be too hard on you!
Hélio Castroneves, is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He won the Indianapolis 500 three times: in 2001, 2002, and 2009, the 2021.. he just won the Indianapolis 500!
Hélio Castroneves, é um piloto brasileiro de automobilismo. Ele venceu as 500 milhas de Indianápolis três vezes: em 2001, 2002 e 2009, em 2021 .. ele acabou de ganhar as 500 milhas de Indianápolis!
Your Sunday morning always have proof of your addiction with.
Do you miss me! Even though Joe Biden is the President of the United States.
But you are acting exactly like I was, before I admitted that I'm an alcoholic.
One of things is that I have moved on.
You have not yet.
You are addicted to Donald Trump.
piloto is driver in Portuguese.
He's a bit older than most pilotos.
F4 Roger - Unfit in every capacity to Serve.
Bidenomics build it back Better.
In South American countries.
Safe bet.
CHT
Let's see how many days in a row you could possibly go without obsessing about an ex-President who is spending his days playing golf and laughing about all the attention he still gets.
I am betting...
zero days."
Moscow Mitch told them that the investigation because it might hurt their election results in 2022.
What has been uncovered about the attack has only raised more questions:
Why did it take hours for the D.C. National Guard to receive approval to deploy to the Capitol to fight off the mob? Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the D.C. National Guard commander at the time, has said he did not receive approval to mobilize troops until more than three hours after he had requested it. Defense Department and Capitol security officials have given conflicting statements about what happened.
What was Mr. Trump doing during the attack? He reportedly watched television as a mob stormed the Capitol, but later claimed that he had called in the National Guard, despite his defense secretary testifying that he never spoke to Mr. Trump that day. A Republican member of Congress said she was told that when Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, phoned Mr. Trump to ask him to call off the mob, he refused, siding with the rioters whom he said were evidently more upset about the election than Mr. McCarthy was.
What accounts for the lax precautions taken as right-wing extremists and militias openly planned to converge and wreak havoc on the Capitol that dark day? Leaders with the Capitol Police instructed officers to not to use their most forceful crowd control techniques and missed concerning intelligence reports. Security officials reportedly feared the “optics” of sending the National Guard to face off against supporters of Mr. Trump.
How much coordination was there among extremist groups, and to what extent were members of Congress involved in the planning of the rally that preceded the violence? An organizer of the “Stop the Steal” rally said three members of Congress “schemed up” the event with him, though two of the three have denied that claim.
Some on the right who support creating a commission have put forward their own questions, such as demanding more information about the shooting death of a protester, Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to force her way into a lobby just off the House floor where lawmakers were taking cover.
And perhaps most importantly, how can the country prevent another similar scenario from happening again?
For the United States, which holds itself out as a beacon of democracy, the rule of law and transparency, the death of the commission has also raised a more fundamental question: What happens when one political party effectively squelches any effort to look inward to assess government failings that have shaken the public’s faith in the nation’s institutions?
Seig Heil...
The draft system, said that anyone 18 or older, was subject to the draft depending upon his birthday.
I had a 1-A deferred when I was in college.
In 1970, my draft number was 238. I passed the qualification exam almost perfect. Although I was not going to be drafted I volunteered for the Naval Nuclear Program.
Unfortunately I failed the physical exam.
Because I failed the physical exam my I was not physically qualified.
If I had studied hard enough I would have served for six years. I'm very sure that I would have studied and it is hard to guess what would have happened.
I didn't dodge the draft. I still have my 4F draft card.
Trump got his family doctor diagnose bone spurs five fucking times.
He is a coward.
Because he had bone spurs? The military don't want people with bone Spurs because they can't keep up with other solders on require hikes.
If if you're implying that a doctor kept false medical records without a shred of evidence. Well that would be a serious and false accusation the would lead to a defamation suit against you. Fortunately you have two things going for you.
1. The doctor has long since passed away.
2. Nobody cares what you say.
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