- So he reversed nearly every thing in terms of border policy and immigration. We now have one of the worst border crisis situations in recent memory. 22,000 underaged children are currently in custody (and Joe was going to get rid of kids in cages).
- He reversed Trump Middle East policy, starting with reengaging the Obama strategy of sucking up to Iran. Biden has even suggested that he would reenter the Iranian nuclear agreement that Trump pulled out of. Now Iranian funded terror groups are back attacking Israel and reintroducing war into the region after four years of relative peace and an unprecedented amount of peace agreements bartered by Trump.
- He decided to revamp our energy policies, reversing policies on energy independence, shutting down the construction of the Alaskan pipeline, among many other things. Now we have seen about a $1.00 uptick in our gas prices. Factor in specific changes to our Russian policy leading to Russian hackers shutting down a pipeline, leading to gas shortages, our energy situation is in chaos.
- He's decided to go back to the Obama style Keynesian economic policies and continues to move us further and further from Trumpanomics. Just a few months later we have seen disappointing economic numbers on everything from jobs to inflation to consumer confidence.
To review, directly because of Biden reversals of Trump policies we now have the southern border, the Middle East, our energy situation in shambles. While the economy is not in shambles, we are seeing inflation, we are on the edge of stagflation which would be horribly damaging to what had been a nice recovery. Meanwhile, the only thing that has seemingly gone well has been the Covid vaccination program, which of course was championed and put in place by the Trump Administration. Literally the only thing Biden just sort of rode along with is the only thing going well. Go figure.
But hey... at least slow Joe doesn't tweet mean things, huh?
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Biden flirting with disaster – here's where division at home, weakness abroad will lead
What happens when an arrogant present dismisses the wisdom of the past?
Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic and social behavior that all countries understood.
The supply of money governs inflation. Print it without either greater productivity or more goods and services, and the currency cheapens. Yet America apparently rejects that primordial truism.
The United States is more than $28 trillion in debt – about 130% of the country’s annual gross domestic product. The government will run up a $2.3 trillion budget deficit for 2021 after a record $3.1 trillion deficit the year before.
The Biden administration still wants to borrow more – another $2 trillion in new social programs and "infrastructure."
In the crazy last 100 days, the price of everything from lumber, food and gas to cars and houses has soared. Yet many interest rates are still stuck at or below 3%.
Jobs are plentiful; workers are not. Is it a surprise when government handouts discourage the unemployed from taking a pay cut to go back to work?
After being freed from 13 months of quarantine, Americans are splurging. But this huge pent-up demand is causing shortages. Producers fear the Biden administration’s loose talk of higher taxes, greater regulation and cutbacks in energy development.
Are the old principles really obsolete? Should we be printing money while expanding government debt? Is it wise to keep interest rates close to zero and to discourage employment, production and thrift? This dangerous behavior used to ensure inflation, followed by ruinous stagflation.
After George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, some U.S. cities slashed police spending. Police response times have slowed in many places, perhaps because officers are worried about being fired for using force.
The result? In major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, homicide and violent crime rates have increased by double digits.
State and local governments believed they were exempt from primeval laws of deterrence that warned when criminals assumed they would not be caught and punished, then they committed more crimes.
The same dangers of ignoring unchanging human nature apply to foreign policy.
Aggressive opponents such as Iran, North Korea, China and Russia expect that the Biden administration will ignore their brinkmanship. They assume the administration will cut American defenses. And Biden sounds to them more critical of Trump foreign policy than of America’s enemies. Why not take previously unwarranted risks?
So, Russian troops predictably mass on the Ukrainian border. China steps up its harassment of Taiwan. North Korea launches more missiles, Iran hazes U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf. And now, rockets from Gaza pour into Israel.
Apparently, the Biden administration did not believe that dictatorships and theocracies would interpret its virtue signaling as weakness to be exploited rather than as magnanimity to be returned in kind.
The old dictum of the Roman writer Vegetius – if you want peace, prepare for war – was just too much of a downer to take seriously.
In the old days, the greater the impediments to crossing a nation’s border – walls and the enforcement of laws – the less likely was illegal immigration. Here too, the Biden administration apparently rejected the ancient warnings.
Stopping construction of the border wall, promising amnesties in advance and damning the tough enforcement of the previous administration has only led to more illegal immigration.
Refusing to call the chaos at the southern border a "crisis" did not mean it was not a disaster.
Wisdom of the ages also warned that humans’ first allegiance was to their own tribe, as defined by race, ethnicity or religion. That existential danger is why multiracial nations always wisely sought to tamp down tribal differences, and to emphasize common ties of citizenship and transcendent common interests. Otherwise, a diverse country ended up like Lebanon, Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia, where tribal feuding turned bloody and barbaric.
Yet for three months, the Biden administration has emphasized racial differences rather than our melting-pot commonalities. It has stereotyped America’s White population – hardly uniform in terms of class and ethnicity – as somehow uniformly enjoying unearned privileged and acting systemically racist.
Amid such talk, the danger is that racial tensions will increase, hate crimes will spike, racial demagogues will dominate, meritocracy will vanish and tribal solidarity will replace it. And the ancient idea of America will unwind.
When an arrogant present dismisses the wisdom of the past, then an all too predictable future becomes terrifying.
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West Bank
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
MAY 15, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
President Biden spoke today with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to convey the U.S. commitment to strengthening the U.S.-Palestinian partnership. They discussed the current tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank and expressed their shared desire for Jerusalem to be a place of peaceful coexistence for people of all faiths and backgrounds. President Biden updated President Abbas on U.S. diplomatic engagement on the ongoing conflict and stressed the need for Hamas to cease firing rockets into Israel. They expressed their shared concern that innocent civilians, including children, have tragically lost their lives amidst the ongoing violence. The President expressed his support for steps to enable the Palestinian people to enjoy the dignity, security, freedom, and economic opportunity that they deserve. In that regard, he highlighted the recent U.S. decision to resume assistance to the Palestinian people, including economic and humanitarian assistance to benefit Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza. The President also underscored his strong commitment to a negotiated two-state solution as the best path to reach a just and lasting resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
MAY 15, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
The President spoke today with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The President reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks from Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza. He condemned these indiscriminate attacks against towns and cities across Israel. The President updated the Prime Minister on high-level U.S. engagement with regional partners on this issue and discussed ongoing diplomatic efforts. The President noted that this current period of conflict has tragically claimed the lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, including children. He raised concerns about the safety and security of journalists and reinforced the need to ensure their protection.
The President shared his grave concern about the intercommunal violence across Israel. He welcomed the statements by the Prime Minister and other leaders opposing such hateful acts and encouraged continued steps to hold violent extremists accountable and to establish calm. They discussed the current tensions in Jerusalem and expressed their shared desire for Jerusalem to be a place of peaceful coexistence for people of all faiths and backgrounds. The President voiced his concern about violent confrontations in the West Bank. He expressed his support for steps to enable the Palestinian people to enjoy the dignity, security, freedom, and economic opportunity that they deserve and affirmed his support for a two-state solution. The leaders agreed to continue the close consultation between their teams and to remain in touch in the days ahead.
Maybe next week they have a meeting at Camp David.
Bill Clinton almost got the peace deal.
You claim to have a bachelor's degree in economics" Always Spectacularly wrong Roger
I never , never ever claimed to hold a "Bachelor's Degree in Economics".
Never, got that Roger you stupid, stupid tool
THE Neo-Socialist Biden Economic team didn't know, they admitted they didn't.
"Rising prices are putting increasing pressure on President Biden and the Federal Reserve to prevent inflation from derailing the recovery"
The Federal Reserve should move rates up 50 basis points at their next meeting and keep raising them like they did against Trump.
����Bill Clinton almost got the peace deal��
Idiot Roger
Neo-Socialist Biden, Winning.
"President Joe Biden has taken $2 billion from Americans’ healthcare programs to help deliver migrant youths and children to their illegal-migrant parents throughout the United States, press reports say.
“The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children,” Politico
Plagiarism
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-flirting-disaster-division-weakness-victor-davis-hanson.amp
It looked like Victor David Hanson
Another right wing nutcase.
Arafat didn't negotiate - he just kept saying no
Benny Morris
Ever since the start of the second Palestinian intifada, a row has raged over who was responsible for the breakdown of the peace process. Now, for the first time, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has weighed in, accusing Yasser Arafat of being a liar who talked peace while secretly plotting the destruction of Israel. Interview by Benny Morris
Wed 22 May 2002 21.25 EDT
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The call from Bill Clinton came hours after the publication in the New York Times of a "revisionist" article on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Arafat turned down a great deal that would have created a two state solution.
CNN "Biden Returns Carter Economics"
"But these gas lines it is a psychological problem. Maybe it is temporary, but for the American public, there is something psychological about hearing about inflation and seeing gas lines and literally going to the pump in certain Southern states and not being able to get it."
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Plagiarism
It looked like Victor David Hanson
Another right wing nutcase.
Hey stupid
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-flirting-disaster-division-weakness-victor-davis-hanson.amp
Your link
THWAP! THWAP!
It’s 5:00:there sundowner’s syndrome is here
Roger you no accomplishment simp.
I earned a Masters degree in Economics from KU.
Tell us what College degree(s) you have earned?
bernie Sanders said, “The Israeli government has evolved over the years into a pretty strong right-wing government. And their coalition now includes people who are overt racists"
Nobody believes you because you can't comprehend anything but what you see on the internet whack job websites
Newsmax.
President Joe Biden spent part of Saturday on the phone with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressing his concern about the escalating violence and death in the region, according to read outs of the calls from the White House.
The calls were similar to a previous conversation Biden and the leaders had on tensions in the region that have bubbled over in the last week, and are continuing to escalate, according to published reports.
Some 2,000 rockets were launched by Hamas into Israel since Monday, killing eight Israelis, and the Israeli military has conducted several air strikes in Gaza, killing more than 135 Palestinians including women and children, The Hill reported.
In both calls, Biden expressed his “strong” desire for both sides to come to an agreement on a two-state solution to allow “the Palestinian people to enjoy the dignity, security, freedom, and economic opportunity that they deserve.
The Israelis are unwilling to a two state solution. But we sufficient power get them to the table, especially if Biden gets Egyptians involved.
Sanders said a lot more than kputz said.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: The Israeli government has evolved over the years into a pretty strong right-wing government, and their coalition now includes people who are overt racists.
And when you have the United States of America, Ali, putting almost $4 billion a year into Israel, we have the right to demand that they respect the human rights of all people, including the Palestinians.
What we need now is an even-handed policy that protects the security of Israel. They have a right to live in peace and security without terrorist attacks. But the people in the Palestinian territories also have a right to live in peace and dignity.
Anyone who takes a look at what's going on in Gaza right now, where youth unemployment is 70%, and I'm talking about before this current war and the terrible things that have happened in the war. Where youth unemployment is sky-high. Where people can't get electricity and clean water on a regular basis. This is a territory controlled by Israel. So we've got to deal with the corruption of the Palestinian authority. We've got to deal with that. But we have also got to create a situation where the people in the Palestinian territories are respected as well.
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He's correct, but he didn't mention the Palestinian people don't like Jews.
The best thing to get a cease fire agreement and go forward.
Roger, has no wife, no car, no paid for home with a clear deed, no college degree and begs for spare change on the internet.
Just a reminder
Roger AmickDecember 22, 2020 at 10:55 AM
I usually don't talk about it online anymore .
Scott, I'm not going into embarrassing matters, but I made several serious bad decisions during my recovery from the liver transplant. I was on steroids and others that fogged my mind, and I hurt my wife Lydia and she was hurt by me and she just didn't want to be hurt again.
She's the love of my life.
I deal with it every day.
She's smart and occasionally difficult but love means you love her good and bad things.
No matter what happens next, she's the love of my life."
Her and her Lawyer clowned you.
I'm very glad that voted him out of office, because he's an isolationist idiot.
Axios' "Off the rails" series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.
One important piece is only now beginning to emerge, Jonathan Swan and Zach Basu report in this new episode: Former President Donald Trump's last-minute bid to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan and swaths of the Middle East, Africa and even Europe ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration — and why he blinked.
John McEntee, one of Donald Trump's most-favored aides, handed retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor a piece of paper with a few notes scribbled on it. He explained: "This is what the president wants you to do."
1. Get us out of Afghanistan.
2. Get us out of Iraq and Syria.
3. Complete the withdrawal from Germany.
4. Get us out of Africa.
It was Nov. 9, 2020 — days after Trump lost his re-election bid, 10 weeks before the end of his presidency and just moments after Macgregor was offered a post as senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
Macgregor was astonished. He told McEntee, head of the powerful Presidential Personnel Office, that he doubted they could do all of these things before Jan. 20.
"Then do as much as you can," McEntee replied. ...
A one-page memo signed by Trump was delivered by courier to Miller's office two days later, seemingly out of nowhere: All U.S. military forces were to be withdrawn from Somalia by Dec. 31, 2020. All U.S. forces were to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by Jan. 15, 2021.
What the fuck is this? Miller wondered. ...
Top military brass, including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, were appalled. This was not the way to conduct policy.
A call was quickly placed to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. In turn, Cipollone notified the national security adviser, Robert O'Brien. Neither Cipollone nor O'Brien had any idea what the order was or where it had come from. Yet the paper bore Trump's distinctive Sharpie signature.
The U.S. government's top national security leaders soon realized they were dealing with an off-the-books operation by the commander-in-chief himself. ...
In a remarkable and previously unreported incident in early December, top Trump administration officials reviewed classified intercepts from the National Security Agency that led them to believe Milley was undercutting the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, according to three sources with firsthand knowledge.
The intercepts included a conversation between an American who had spoken to Milley and a senior Afghan official. The American told the Afghan official that Milley had no confidence in the civilian Pentagon leadership that Trump had installed.
Another intercept indicated that senior Afghan officials had been convinced that Trump's generals were going to defy the president's desire for a speedy draw-down and would slow-roll his orders. ...
On April 14, President Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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Nobody believes you because you can't comprehend anything but what you see on the internet whack job websites
Liberalism never having to admit you didn’t know WTF you were talking about.
Now we bring you Sunday evening as Alky descends into madness, alone, in his room with WiFi, which inexplicably he never leaves.
On immigration reform.
Proclamation on Revoking Proclamation 9945
MAY 14, 2021 • PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
The suspension of entry imposed in Proclamation 9945 of October 4, 2019 (Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System, in Order To Protect the Availability of Healthcare Benefits for Americans), does not advance the interests of the United States. My Administration is committed to expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare. We can achieve that objective, however, without barring the entry of noncitizens who seek to immigrate lawfully to this country but who lack significant financial means or have not purchased health insurance coverage from a restrictive list of qualifying plans. The suspension of entry imposed in Proclamation 9945 is also in tension with the policy set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 14012 of February 2, 2021 (Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans).
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), hereby find that the unrestricted entry into the United States of noncitizen immigrants based solely on the reasons articulated in Proclamation 9945 is not detrimental to the interests of the United States. I therefore hereby proclaim the following:
Section 1. Revocation. Proclamation 9945 is revoked.
Sec. 2. Review of Agency Actions. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall review any regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions developed pursuant to Proclamation 9945 and, as appropriate, issue revised guidance consistent with the policy set forth in this proclamation.
Sec. 3. General Provisions.
(a) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
Politico
"Tax the rich? Executives predict Biden’s big plans will flop
Corporate executives and lobbyists say they are confident they can kill almost all of these tax hikes by pressuring moderate Democrats in the House and Senate"
The Socialist can't hold their party together.
No Go Joe.
Yes, the poor can be trusted with money
The Welfare Queen also is no longer a potent symbol because Biden has taken advantage of a shift in thinking about how to help the poor.
There is a growing consensus in academic circles that one of the best ways to help the poor is to give them money with no strings attached. Much of traditional government aid to the poor is built on the assumption that poor people are morally irresponsible. Recipients of aid often must submit to drug tests, interviews and proof of employment -- restrictions that imply poor people can't be trusted to make their own decisions.
The city of Stockton, California, recently launched a program that shattered those assumptions. The city sent $500 monthly payments to 125 randomly selected people who were living in neighborhoods with average incomes lower than the city median of $46,000 a year and told them they could spend the money as they saw fit -- no strings attached.
Researchers said that the people who received the free money were able to land full-time jobs at more than twice the rate of people in another group that did not receive cash. The extra money also gave recipients more stability to learn new job skills, start businesses and improve their mental outlook. Other similar experiments around the globe have reached similar conclusions.
Annie Lowrey, a writer at The Atlantic magazine, summed up the key finding of the Stockton experiment when she said:
"The best way to get people out of poverty is just to get them out of poverty; the best way to offer families more resources is just to offer them more resources."
Biden's economic plans reflect this thinking. His American Rescue plan sent direct payments of $1,400 per person to many American households. (Former President Trump sent similar payments during the pandemic to many Americans.)
Biden's $1.9 trillion plan, signed into law in March, offers some parents the option of receiving a $300 monthly payment from the IRS from July through December, as part of the enhanced child tax credit.
The sheer scale of Biden's multitrillion-dollar effort to end the pandemic and make life better for millions of struggling Americans has inspired some commentators to say that Biden has closed the door on the Reagan era.
"This moment is like 1981, the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, except in reverse," wrote David Brooks of the New York Times. "It's not just that government is heading in a new direction, it's the whole paradigm of the role of government in American life is shifting. Biden is not causing these tectonic plates to shift, but he is riding them."
The Welfare Queen myth was a racist fable that reinforced some of the ugliest stereotypes about Black and poor people. Countless Americans suffered because they couldn't get the help they needed.
Perhaps some of Biden's plans will never become law in a closely divided Senate. Maybe the Welfare Queen story will mutate and come roaring back in another racist, viral narrative.
But commentators like Brooks should add another paradigm shift to Biden's list of accomplishments. Biden has done what neither Clinton nor Obama could do:
He's dethroned the Welfare Queen.
He's dethroned the Welfare Queen.
LOL.
He didn't dethrone her. He made her a fucking ROLE MODEL.
The Welfare Queen myth was a racist fable that reinforced some of the ugliest
HUD built some beutiful stereotypes about Black and poor people. Countless Americans suffered because they couldn't get the help they needed.
It wasn't a myth. It was spot-on fucking true. As a kid growing up I knew more than a few. They were WHITE, btw.
Couldn't get the help they needed? The help available to everyone else just wasn't good enough? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. You guys keep treating these people like infant children and then you blame US for mocking their constant need of a rhetorical diaper change.
Look alky, in 1973 HUD built some beautiful high rise apartments on the banks of the Hudson River in my county seat of Hudson NY. As modern and luxurious as you could get at the time. By 1980 the occupants - yeah, almost exclusively black - had turned the place into another Cabrini Green. Air conditioners were pushed out of windows, graffiti covered the place, most elevators didn't work, and the ones that did would often arrive at the ground floor when called with a large piece of upholstered furniture fully engulfed in flames. Drug sales were common, shootings rampant, and the Hudson PD had at least one unit stationed there 24/7.
These folks were handed high-rise luxury on a silver platter and they STILL fucked it up.
So no, Biden* didn't cancel the welfare queen. He gave her a raise on the taxpayer dime.
And the welfare queen had a name, Linda’s Taylor.
Look it up
MISTAKES WERE MADE SUCH AT THAT ONE, BUT YOU ARE STILL FULL OF BULLSHIT, RAT.
SEE MY COMMENTS ON BIDENOMICS IN MY BEST POST IN THE THREAD ABOVE.
To your profoundest fears, David Brooks (a Republican) is right:
"This moment is like 1981, the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, except in reverse. It's not just that government is heading in a new direction, it's the whole paradigm of the role of government in American life is shifting. Biden is not causing these tectonic plates to shift, but he is riding them."'
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GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH BY THE RICH AND FOR THE RICH IS THE PROBLEM (REAGAN WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT).
WE DEMAND GOVERMENT OF, BY, AND FOR, FOR, FOR, FOR THE PEOPLE.
THAT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
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