President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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luthervol said:
I took the quotation marks away.
It's like the "scientific" debate 60 years ago on whether or not cigarettes were bad for you.
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The appropriate one for today would be that delusions of fantasy are bad for you. You are what you are.
 
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LouderVol said:
One can come off as polite and still not be civil or cause division.

Most of the racial rioting started under Obama. And it didnt help that he always took one side, made comments, all before the facts came out. Even when he was directly commenting he had comments like "If I had a son". He was pretty much LG in making predictions, seems like everytime he publically sided with the "victim" they turned out to be the problem. And yet he never offered consilatory comments after it came out he was wrong.

His "i have a pen and a phone" comment was divisive. Nothing like telling Congress you are going to work around their whole branch to bring the nation together.

He signed a secret law into effect with ACA. No way to argue that a bill the nation didnt even know the contents of was unifying.

Bombed Americans without warrant. How he didnt get impeached for that I will never understand.

He weaponized the IRS against his political foes. Obviously divisive. Gave money to Iran, going to tick people off. Opened up communication with Cuba. I think it was a good thing but clearly going to piss off some people with good reason.

IIRC something happened while he was down in Cuba at a baseball game, and he refused to address it or take any action until he was done. A natural disaster or another riot. That's not going to be considered unifying if you are putting a 50/60 year enemy over the people.
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Obama's lasting legend is that he gave dems lasting amnesia, a boatload of unfulfilled "successes", and created bunches of the "disaffected". All hallmarks of a good community organizer - otherwise known as a divider who plays one group against another - spawning illusions of being kept down by somebody else.
 
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luthervol said:
It says a few things.
1. Some people intentionally picked the bottom of the barrel.
2. Some people aren't able to discern what is the bottom of the barrel.
3. Some people have different criteria on what constitutes the bottom of the barrel.
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And some people can't even find the barrel.
 
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luthervol said:
The Romney type, but he's actually to old.
I don't have a list prepared.
My criteria would be:
A. they have to be able, willing, and eager to move away from Trumpism.
B. they have to be able, willing, but note necessarily eager to work across the aisle.
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I agree wholeheartedly on the age. We have to get younger - over 70 is too old.

I was going to ask who from the GOP is best positioned to move the country in your preferred direction.
 
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luthervol said:
Go walk the belt line in Atlanta. Or go to any major city. Look at the number of interracial couples that are completely accepted as the norm. You didn't see that 20 years ago, let alone 40 years ago. Maybe your view depends on where you live.
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It's the Klan world view again by the Democrat party. No doubt on the streets of Atlanta in the year 2000, black people were openly lynched if seen with a white woman. The fantasy land you live in gets loonier by the day
 
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LouderVol said:
Open primary. The two getting the most votes go on to the general.
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Still won't work. An honest person can't match a politician in telling people what they want to hear or believe. Now, if you can figure out a way to hold politicians accountable for lies and false promises, we could be on to something. Also no honest person is generally willing to have or can survive having his past dragged through the mud and slime by other politicians and the media - obviously for most people a simple teenage transgression (by todays standards) although perfectly acceptable at the time defines that person today.
 
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Majors said:
Lost "Hope" in him as a leader by his failure to unite but rather use that event as a lightning rod to create a new acceptance for hate, destruction and division.
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But that is and always has been the mark of a "community organizer". They have played one side against everyone else since the beginning of time on big scales or little scales. Obama organized communities; Hitler and communist organizers did it on national scales. Virtually every minority advocate is a divider rather than a unifier. The entire biden administration is based just as obama's administration was on divisive policies.
 
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allvol123 said:
I feel like restaurants and hospitality are going to see a lot of job losses from closings.

But you’re right, things are still super tight and competitive. Finding labor right now is a Herculean task.
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Sounds a lot like the job market has run out of boomers and is finding they weren't so bad after all. All things must pass apparently.
 
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Majors said:
At least here in our area at the movies, no more ticket booths to buy tickets. Everything has gone to buy online (with a fee) or at a kiosk at the location.
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Automation was supposed to replace all those menial tasks and "elevate people into more meaningful jobs". Somebody forgot that kiosks and robots don't buy goods and if you pay the capital cost of automation and still somehow elevate people into positions to run, program, and maintain what replaced them, that somehow you've lost overall economically. Or else you have to recognize that automation just pushed people from jobs to welfare.
 
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luthervol said:
It didn't generate many takers.

I had an idea last night.
Let the repub. congress pick 9 dem congressmen of their choice.
Let the dem congress pick 9 rep congressmen of their choice.
Then the 9 dem congressmen pick 2 repubs they would like to see on the rep. ticket.
The 9 repub congressmen pick 2 dems they would like to see on the dem ticket.
We would then get choices that would be acceptable to both parties and we would see just how much the public actually desires that outcome.
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Right (Bill Cosby style). Let politicians decide politics for politicians. That's one of your worst ideas ever ... and, trust me, that's saying a lot. I'd propose that the president would have to be selected from a slate of people who have never been elected to anything - or appointed to anything by an elected official ... or maybe that should be appointed to anything by elected offal.
 
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Biden Announces Press Conference To Mark One Year Since Gaining Office

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President Joe Biden will hold a formal press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 19 — his first such event since March of 2021 — the White House announced Friday.

Biden has held less than half as many press conferences in his first year in office as any five of his most recent predecessors. His first press conference came March 25 of 2021, and he held a subsequent five solo press conferences throughout the year and three more alongside other heads of state, bringing the total to nine. The White House says the conference will mark Biden’s one-year anniversary of gaining office, though reporters are likely to focus on the numerous roadblocks his administration hit this week.

Biden Announces Press Conference To Mark One Year Since Gaining Office
 
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AM64 said:
Right (Bill Cosby style). Let politicians decide politics for politicians. That's one of your worst ideas ever ... and, trust me, that's saying a lot. I'd propose that the president would have to be selected from a slate of people who have never been elected to anything - or appointed to anything by an elected official ... or maybe that should be appointed to anything by elected offal.
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Talk about your stupid ideas.
That's like saying UT's next football coach needs to be someone who has never played or coached and sport before.
 
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