Biden's first day in office

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AM64 said:
Not much, but because politics isn't 24/7 it doesn't mean a reduction in dislike when it does come down to politics. Despite luther's thoughts this just mean people go from offense to defense or the reverse depending on how you define offense and defense. To be honest I make it a point not to initiate politics in any discussion except here, but that doesn't mean capitulation by any stretch of the imagination or that I chose friends on the basis of political viewpoint. Politics is just one thing I don't consider fit for polite conversation.
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A stat Ben Sasse recently pointed out is that roughly 15% of Americans pay day-to-day attention to the stuff we argue about here. Which means 85% don't. That's something to keep in mind when discussing how divided the country really is.
 
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luthervol said:
Which puts him so far ahead of Trump.
A return to the days of indifference is part of the healing process.
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You all chose to lose your minds over Trump. The MSM and Dems gave him the platform because they literally couldn’t help themselves. You could’ve ignored him but Dems and MSM are every bit as divisive as they claim Trump to be.
 
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Velo Vol said:
A stat Ben Sasse recently pointed out is that roughly 15% of Americans pay day-to-day attention to the stuff we argue about here. Which means 85% don't. That's something to keep in mind when discussing how divided the country really is.
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Very few students play football but when two teams play the fan bases are pretty united and divided. There a lot of things we may not do daily, but it doesn't mean we aren't passionate about them. In our society it generally all has to do with what have you done for me lately or how is it going to affect me. We don't typically dwell on elections until silly season opens up, for instance. We don't hate commercials or manufacturers until they interrupt a program. Length of time involved is no true measure of intensity of feeling - if it were, we'd be a country of raving lunatics.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
You all chose to lose your minds over Trump. The MSM and Dems gave him the platform because they literally couldn’t help themselves. You could’ve ignored him but Dems and MSM are every bit as divisive as they claim Trump to be.
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Trump was a divider from the first day of his campaign. It was his strategy and his ticket to victory....that's what sux.
 
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AM64 said:
I agree, but the traditional GOP died and the current party simply rolls over for the dims if they can even get elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility. It seems like now the only semblance of fiscal responsibility and reduction in government growth is deadlock.
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The extremes are pulling on the middle in too many ways. The far left wants too much attention paid the ultra poor, the establishment right too much to the wealthiest.
 
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luthervol said:
Which puts him so far ahead of Trump.
A return to the days of indifference is part of the healing process.
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A few of the things aimed at me by D politicians and media thru the years:
"Racist"
"Bigot"
"Homophobe"
"Deplorable"
"Heartless"
"Greedy"
"Anti Muslim" (bham advised)
"Anti immigrant"
"Uncompassionate"
"Science denier"
"Bitter-clinger"
"Privileged"
"Nazi"

Biden inaugurated:
"We need healing and unity"! Signed, democrats.

Forgive me if I don't fall all over myself in a rush to accept the olive branch.
 
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lawgator1 said:
The extremes are pulling on the middle in too many ways. The far left wants too much attention paid the ultra poor, the establishment right too much to the wealthiest.
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You have the right pegged wrong. I want the government out of my pocket and not dictating social values. I don't want government to play sides in labor/corporate relations - like one sided antitrust rules or favor globalism. I certainly don't want giveaways in the tax code whether to corporations or to individuals. I'm of the opinion that there is no corporate tax paid by corporations - we pay the tax in product costs, so corporate taxes are a very sound and stupid way to kill our industry.
 
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tim said:
What you call a divide I call an awakening.
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This is the awakening. This lessens the divide........
Vice President Kamala Harris formally swore in three new, barrier-breaking Democratic senators on Wednesday afternoon following her own inauguration.
The swearing-in of the three new senators was groundbreaking. Warnock and Ossoff are respectively the first Black and first Jewish senators representing Georgia, while Padilla is California's first Latino senator.
 
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volinbham said:
The Keystone Pipeline EA will hurt working Americans and do nothing to impact climate change.
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I looked at it this morning after someone linked Biden's 17 things.
It's been in the works since 2008. Obama vetoed Congress giving the permit so the executive office could.

Biden wants to reduce carbon emissions. By halting the pipeline all the Alberta sand crude will be trucked and shipped to refineries. Seems to me those who want less emissions would be pro pipeline.
 
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McDad said:
A few of the things aimed at me by D politicians and media thru the years:
"Racist"
"Bigot"
"Homophobe"
"Deplorable"
"Heartless"
"Greedy"
"Uncompassionate"
"Science denier"
"Bitter-clinger"
"Privileged"
"Nazi"

Biden inaugurated:
"We need healing and unity"! Signed, democrats.

Forgive me if I don't fall all over myself in a rush to accept the olive branch.
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Not surprisingly in her first press conference the new press secretary called the Travel Ban "the Muslim Ban". Not only is that inaccurate both in name and reality, it is using the language that was used to demonize the policy and those who supported it.

There is no interest in unity from this administration. It's been demonstrated both in the speech today, the EAs and the first official press conference.
 
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luthervol said:
This is the awakening. This lessens the divide........
Vice President Kamala Harris formally swore in three new, barrier-breaking Democratic senators on Wednesday afternoon following her own inauguration.
The swearing-in of the three new senators was groundbreaking. Warnock and Ossoff are respectively the first Black and first Jewish senators representing Georgia, while Padilla is California's first Latino senator.
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How many “barrier breaking” repubs are on that list? Sooooo inclusive except conservatives
 
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volinbham said:
Not surprisingly in her first press conference the new press secretary called the Travel Ban "the Muslim Ban". Not only is that inaccurate both in name and reality, it is using the language that was used to demonize the policy and those who supported it.

There is no interest in unity from this administration. It's been demonstrated both in the speech today, the EAs and the first official press conference.
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Does "bigot" cover "anti Muslim" or should I add that to the epithets list specifically?
 
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McDad said:
I looked at it this morning after someone linked Biden's 17 things.
It's been in the works since 2008. Obama vetoed Congress giving the permit so the executive office could.

Biden wants to reduce carbon emissions. By halting the pipeline all the Alberta sand crude will be trucked and shipped to refineries. Seems to me those who want less emissions would be pro pipeline.
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Not only that, it went through mulitple EPA reviews and passed but the response was to postpone by ordering more reviews and then finally punting.
 
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