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Old 05.11.2021, 17:10
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At least Joe Biden kept one (the only one) of his promises. He unified the U.S.
How is that promise of No Mandates holding up?

Metlife Stadium will tell you, with this really loud message of unity.
Let's Go Brandon!
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Old 05.11.2021, 23:24
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At least Joe Biden kept one (the only one) of his promises. He unified the U.S.
How is that promise of No Mandates holding up?

Metlife Stadium will tell you, with this really loud message of unity.


What sore losers do. I wonder how many of them are still in denial that Biden won the election.

That video is a perfect example of how f'ed up the US is. How could you or anyone expect Biden to be able to unify a country in which the previous President had thrived on dividing the country and instilling hatred in his followers because it empowered him? Those people don't want unity.
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Old 05.11.2021, 23:28
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Let's Go Brandon!
It's funny when people think they're being clever but they're actually just regurgitating something that reveals they have the maturity level of an eight-year old.

Curiously, though, did you buy a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt? Trump is selling them for 45 bucks via his "Save America" company, because apparently, giving Trump money is how one goes about saving America.

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Old 06.11.2021, 10:14
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At last; like watching paint dry.
Congress has passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering on a major pillar of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda after months of internal deliberations and painstaking divisions among Democrats.

The final vote was 228-206.
Thirteen Republicans voted with the majority of Democrats in support of the bill, though six Democrats voted against it.

The legislation passed the Senate in August, so the bill now heads to the President's desk to be signed into law.
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Old 06.11.2021, 12:26
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What sore losers do. I wonder how many of them are still in denial that Biden won the election.

That video is a perfect example of how f'ed up the US is. How could you or anyone expect Biden to be able to unify a country in which the previous President had thrived on dividing the country and instilling hatred in his followers because it empowered him? Those people don't want unity.
Situational awareness. One would expect this in a red state such as Texas or Kansas, but this was in NY/NJ. Those are New Yorkers chanting FJB.
Why can't you accept that Joe Biden is not a good president? Doing so does not make you a Trumper. So the Dems are saying "lets go Brandon" is akin to a terrorist chant and are trying to ban (free speech) it. But saying FDT is promoted. Thats logical.

RE: Infrastructue Bill. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi's husband has already taken a deep look into it and already bought stocks from all the companies that will recieve the most pork. Including $200 mil for a park in San Fransico that's already funded by the states gas and oil tax. I'm sure that money will go into pre-selected pockets much like Feinstein's high speed railway that starts at the tax payers expense and ends into her husbands pocket. Fastest rail ever.
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Old 06.11.2021, 14:19
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Biden is great, and the president that the US truly deserves!

He is clearly doing his best to see Trumps re-election succeed!

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Old 06.11.2021, 14:31
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Biden is great, and the president that the US truly deserves!

He is clearly doing his best to see Trumps re-election succeed!

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Sure, really helping Trump by delivering the infrastructure he promised but never got close to delivering.
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Old 06.11.2021, 14:37
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Situational awareness. One would expect this in a red state such as Texas or Kansas, but this was in NY/NJ. Those are New Yorkers chanting FJB.
Why can't you accept that Joe Biden is not a good president? Doing so does not make you a Trumper. So the Dems are saying "lets go Brandon" is akin to a terrorist chant and are trying to ban (free speech) it. But saying FDT is promoted. Thats logical.

RE: Infrastructue Bill. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi's husband has already taken a deep look into it and already bought stocks from all the companies that will recieve the most pork. Including $200 mil for a park in San Fransico that's already funded by the states gas and oil tax. I'm sure that money will go into pre-selected pockets much like Feinstein's high speed railway that starts at the tax payers expense and ends into her husbands pocket. Fastest rail ever.
There is a good list here of the funding for the important stuff.
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Old 06.11.2021, 14:40
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Biden is great, and the president that the US truly deserves!

He is clearly doing his best to see Trumps re-election succeed!

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Yes! He's making America great and first again. And Trump will take the credit. But if Trump gets reelected then I've lost all and any hope for this country.
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Biden is great, and the president that the US truly deserves!

He is clearly doing his best to see Trumps re-election succeed!

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I may actually vote for a republican for the first time in my life thanks to the radical woke cult of the left. Also tired of voting for independents who have no chance of winning thanks to this "less evil" voter mentality. I still have hope that moderate people start organising a third party. Republicans and Democrats are two cheeks of the same ass. That ass being the military industrial corporate complex.
We can thank Bill Clinton and his telecommunications act that removed the barriers for corporate media monopoly, and here we are. No one believes this propaganda anymore (excluding E.F), which is why people like Joe Rogan, Jimmy Dore and Russel Brand have more views than any other mainstream media outlet.
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Old 07.11.2021, 18:33
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...I'm sure Nancy Pelosi's husband has already taken a deep look into it and already bought stocks from all the companies that will recieve the most pork. Including $200 mil for a park in San Fransico that's already funded by the states gas and oil tax. I'm sure that money will go into pre-selected pockets much like Feinstein's high speed railway that starts at the tax payers expense and ends into her husbands pocket. Fastest rail ever.
Don't forget to look into the pockets of Rs as well, because as you say:

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Old 07.11.2021, 18:48
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I still have hope that moderate people start organising a third party.
How would that actually work in terms of electoral college? So far I understood winner takes all on state level. So if an independent party would split the Dem vote, would the GOP take all electors of a state with 40% (or vice versa)?

In Congress, a third party would be great.
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Old 07.11.2021, 19:55
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How would that actually work in terms of electoral college? So far I understood winner takes all on state level. So if an independent party would split the Dem vote, would the GOP take all electors of a state with 40% (or vice versa)?

In Congress, a third party would be great.
Maine and Nebraska split Electoral College votes by Congressional District. The other states are winner takes all. Depending on the state, a third party candidate could theoretically split one major party, thereby leaving the other party the winner.

In 2000, Ralph Nader was accused of "stealing" Democrat votes from Al Gore, giving George W. Bush the win - particularly in Florida.

In 1992, Ross Perot was accused of "stealing" Republican votes from George H.W. Bush, thereby giving Clinton the win.
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Old 07.11.2021, 20:04
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Maine and Nebraska split Electoral College votes by Congressional District. The other states are winner takes all. Depending on the state, a third party candidate could theoretically split one major party, thereby leaving the other party the winner.

In 2000, Ralph Nader was accused of "stealing" Democrat votes from Al Gore, giving George W. Bush the win - particularly in Florida.

In 1992, Ross Perot was accused of "stealing" Republican votes from George H.W. Bush, thereby giving Clinton the win.
Strategically difficult then. If we have a 2020 situation where many independents are so annoyed with the GOP candidate and ready to vote Dem, an independent party splits the Dem vote and presumably gets Trump reelected.
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Old 07.11.2021, 20:33
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Situational awareness. One would expect this in a red state such as Texas or Kansas, but this was in NY/NJ. Those are New Yorkers chanting FJB.
Why can't you accept that Joe Biden is not a good president? Doing so does not make you a Trumper. So the Dems are saying "lets go Brandon" is akin to a terrorist chant and are trying to ban (free speech) it. But saying FDT is promoted. Thats logical.

RE: Infrastructue Bill. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi's husband has already taken a deep look into it and already bought stocks from all the companies that will recieve the most pork. Including $200 mil for a park in San Fransico that's already funded by the states gas and oil tax. I'm sure that money will go into pre-selected pockets much like Feinstein's high speed railway that starts at the tax payers expense and ends into her husbands pocket. Fastest rail ever.
Well, there are plenty of Republicans and Trump-supporters in New York and New Jersey. Trump took roughly 40% of the votes in each of those states in 2020. But those aren't New Yorkers in general who were chanting "Let's Go Brandon" at that game. It also wasn't the majority of the stadium that was chanting it.

Personally, I don't care if someone chants or says "Let's Go Brandon," because that says more about themselves than it says about Biden himself. It's no secret that there are a lot of people on the right who are still pissed off that Biden won.

Regarding whether or not I perceive Biden as being a good president... He isn't even one full year into his term yet. But so far, he's managed to finally get US troops out of Afghanistan and helped get a huge infrastructure bill passed (one that is desperately needed). I also appreciate the fact that Biden doesn't really give much of a s**t about who does and doesn't like him. He's focusing on the job instead. He's not spending eight hours a day whining on Twitter and playing finger-pointing games all day. He's focused on the job rather than the attention that the job brings him.
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Old 07.11.2021, 21:29
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Well, there are plenty of Republicans and Trump-supporters in New York and New Jersey. Trump took roughly 40% of the votes in each of those states in 2020. But those aren't New Yorkers in general who were chanting "Let's Go Brandon" at that game. It also wasn't the majority of the stadium that was chanting it.

Personally, I don't care if someone chants or says "Let's Go Brandon," because that says more about themselves than it says about Biden himself. It's no secret that there are a lot of people on the right who are still pissed off that Biden won.

Regarding whether or not I perceive Biden as being a good president... He isn't even one full year into his term yet. But so far, he's managed to finally get US troops out of Afghanistan and helped get a huge infrastructure bill passed (one that is desperately needed). I also appreciate the fact that Biden doesn't really give much of a s**t about who does and doesn't like him. He's focusing on the job instead. He's not spending eight hours a day whining on Twitter and playing finger-pointing games all day. He's focused on the job rather than the attention that the job brings him.
He is also not playing golf too excess, in fact, not at all.
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Old 07.11.2021, 21:36
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Strategically difficult then. If we have a 2020 situation where many independents are so annoyed with the GOP candidate and ready to vote Dem, an independent party splits the Dem vote and presumably gets Trump reelected.
That is entirely possible, yes. If Trump decides to run in 2024, I don't see any R at the moment who could possibly beat him in primaries. But we'll see what the mid-terms bring in terms of party control, new faces, etc.

The more interesting question to me is whether voters will start to turn towards a younger generation at some point.

Trump will be 78 by the 2024 election and Biden will be a few weeks shy of 82.
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That is entirely possible, yes. If Trump decides to run in 2024, I don't see any R at the moment who could possibly beat him in primaries. But we'll see what the mid-terms bring in terms of party control, new faces, etc.

The more interesting question to me is whether voters will start to turn towards a younger generation at some point.

Trump will be 78 by the 2024 election and Biden will be a few weeks shy of 82.
Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley. All youngish and "promising".

You guys should clone Abe Lincoln.
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Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley. All youngish and "promising".

You guys should clone Abe Lincoln.
I think all of those guys could motivate Rs to turn out and vote. But- at least in the past, the key to winning a presidential election was to motivate folks from the middle as well.

Who knows, Biden has plenty more time to mess up and make moderates mad as well as conservatives. Even the progressives only plugged their nose and voted for him because they had hopes he'd take on some of their agenda.
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He is also not playing golf too excess, in fact, not at all.

I haven't seen the rumors dispelled that he takes long naps instead.


That said, Donald Trump wasn't a workhorse like Jimmy Carter was apparently, either...



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