President Biden thread

My theory about republicans is that they generally have arrested developmental problems, sort of like, aged 7 or so, mixed in with a 14 year old teen.

I know kids in those age groups that behave exactly the same way. Believe the same sort of fantasies, dinosaurs, lizards, lasers etc and the acting out and petulant attitude of grasping the world with the little information they possess and shaping it in their limited way to create the most absurd narratives. They learn something from school or a friend, but having little previous knowledge for context, arrive at outlandish conclusions. Then they defend those vigorously, physically and emotionally. 

Think about it. They skim the headlines because they are too lazy, or too uninterested to delve deeper, because knowledge or context is not important to them and of course they end up being ridiculed, and being shallow, they are of course proud (notice how they double down), so they associate only with echo chambers, because they lack the character to have a sense of humor, complexity or curiosity to explore alternative solutions. 

That is a really significant defining aspect of their character, their sense of humor. They find it very difficult to laugh at themselves!! They are actually all ego. I actually don't even think that they are racists or misogynists, they just lack the imagination for complex interactions so they try to control the situation through tropes.

Humans have to stereotype for safety sake. Unimaginative people stereotype even more. I'm stereotyping here but for safety reasons. I stay far away from people who take themselves seriously or can't take a joke. Not only are they no fun, but they are also untrustworthy. There's little gray in their world. 

Why do you think so many law enforcement people or soldiers or blue collar workers, religious people etc are republicans or right leaning? Simplicity! (I'm generalizing for the less imaginative.) so no retorts because I will hurt your feelings.) Anyway, simple people arrive at simple life arrangements. Now lots of wealthy people are right leaning and they appear to be intelligent. But are they really? Anyone who is able to buckle down and graft at an already established formula for a business (insurance company, store, construction etc) can accrue money. They are the people in the tens of millions range. It's not intelligence but hard work. Our system doesn't provide all Ivy league liberal education Yale, Columbia, Princeton etc , but allows us to focus so we can graduate, make a good living and our isolation from the rest of the world geographically, means we can further isolate into communities and don't bother with anything else, but our own business. 

Anyone with autocratic tendencies are right leaning. Why? Simplicity! We have a two party system. Why? Easier to corrupt and manage. But worst of all, we have a corrupt Supreme Court and that is the most dangerous thing in this country! Any country without an equal rights justice system will descend into chaos! 

Biden has the opportunity to correct this country's course within his grasp and I hope he takes it. I also hope a democratic group investigates Joe Manchin and uncover his skeletons and bring him into line, because he could ruin this country for years and I actually think he sees himself as the Joker in a Batman caper. He should be kicked out of the Democratic party no matter what happens by the next election because he is not a team player and will always allow his ego into the equation! 

On 5/1/2021 at 9:10 AM, Daisy4RN said:

I am well aware of the train wreck (pun intended) the train project has become. This is not anywhere near the reason for the recall. The recall of Newsom is bc of all the (liberal) policies that have made the state a hot mess and bc he is inept/corrupt. Including the new bill to doxx all the people who have signed the petition (ie voter intimidation made legal).

https://recallgavin2020.com/

https://www.city-journal.org/high-costs-construction-delays-plague-ca-high-speed-rail

 

Do you believe that PG and E should be an investor owned corporation?  Something as important as a public utility should be a for-profit corporation? Newsom had nothing to do with that and yet one of the most apocolyptic horror stories of California didn't turn out to be an earthquake - it was a series of fires started by electrical lines owned by private investors who preferred to line their own pockets rather than invest in keeping up with the 21st century.  Private ownership of public interest entities (power lines, prisons, charter schools) is a distinctively conservative practice of no proven benefit to the taxpayer.  Stories like this along with the consequences of Proposition 13 (you guys elected Governor Moonbeam, not me:),  are more catastrophic than anything Newsom (I agree, the guy married Kelly Guilfoyle so there's a symptom right there) ever did.  Half (?) of the state isn't paying property taxes in any proportion to the value of the property so you are just slowly going broke until everyone under Prop 13 is 6 feet under.  If you get rid of him, who will sprout up in his place?  Looks like a collection of real losers is stepping up to run except for the mayor of San Diego.

3 hours ago, subee said:

Do you believe that PG and E should be an investor owned corporation?  Something as important as a public utility should be a for-profit corporation? Newsom had nothing to do with that and yet one of the most apocolyptic horror stories of California didn't turn out to be an earthquake - it was a series of fires started by electrical lines owned by private investors who preferred to line their own pockets rather than invest in keeping up with the 21st century.  Private ownership of public interest entities (power lines, prisons, charter schools) is a distinctively conservative practice of no proven benefit to the taxpayer.  Stories like this along with the consequences of Proposition 13 (you guys elected Governor Moonbeam, not me:),  are more catastrophic than anything Newsom (I agree, the guy married Kelly Guilfoyle so there's a symptom right there) ever did.  Half (?) of the state isn't paying property taxes in any proportion to the value of the property so you are just slowly going broke until everyone under Prop 13 is 6 feet under.  If you get rid of him, who will sprout up in his place?  Looks like a collection of real losers is stepping up to run except for the mayor of San Diego.

The problem with the California fires is much more complex than the fact that PG&E was corrupt, mismanaged or whatever their problem was. Too easy to simply place all the blame on them either way. The company is governed and regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission so if any party is to blame it would be the Democrats bc they have full control of the state, and thus the regulations some of which require PG&E to use funds for things like electric car stations etc (which could/should have been used to replace transformers and other old equipment, or clear the tree lines etc. The CPUC also is responsible for the prices, budgets, profit margins etc of PG&E, so the company is not just free to do whatever they want. Also, add in the state regulations that have put an end (or severely slowed) deforestation to protect the spotted owl (even after studies proved that the owls were still losing numbers despite the efforts) or other endeavors. There are many moving parts that have all failed but nobody from government (Newsom included) is doing much to solve the problem, it is a big bureaucratic mess that they are either unwilling or unable (ie incompetent) to solve. Meanwhile people are losing their lives, livelihoods, houses etc. And apparently the answer is that they will just shut off the electricity, sometimes with little or no warning even to homes with people who need healthcare devices. 

As far as prop 13 goes, not to worry, Calif has many more inventive ways to suck money from taxpayers, and they do! Plus, they are working very hard to repeal prop 13 so I am sure it is only a matter of time.

Way off topic.  Imagine someone within the Democratic Party criticizing Biden when it needs to be done and not being called a traitor like Romney.

https://news.Yahoo.com/mitt-romney-loudly-booed-utah-121650252.html

6 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

The problem with the California fires is much more complex than the fact that PG&E was corrupt, mismanaged or whatever their problem was. Too easy to simply place all the blame on them either way. The company is governed and regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission so if any party is to blame it would be the Democrats  more inventive ways to suck money from taxpayers, and they do! Plus, they are working very hard to repeal prop 13 so I am sure it is only a matter of time.

A Vietnam War vet died in his car trying to keep warm in Texas due to the power outage and some kids in low income neighborhoods died in their sleep! They, unlike Fled Cruz, were unable to afford to leave the state during the crisis.  That tragedy was caused by Republican policies in Trump country, not Democrats!  However, I do not recall one post from you or other Trump supporting posters about that except to defend Fled Cruz and spread fear about Democrats, which is of no surprise to me. 

Also, I get the confusion of many Trump supporters.  At this time, right-wing media is trying to pull a Putin and make it seem like California is actually Trump country, but it is not (I am referring to Putin's "annexing" parts of the Ukraine and spreading propaganda that he was invited to do so by the Russians who lived there).  California is not Trump country and it never will be no matter how many recalls are attempted.  The majority of the State of California voters want nothing to do with Trump! 

Literally 30% of CA voted for Trump.  60-70% voted against Trump and his Nazi candidates.  And so, a Republican authoritarian governor is not getting control of California!  And yes, we know that is on the Trumpian GOP wish list.  However, it would be a nightmare for a glorious state like California and Californians are aware! 

Californians are not confused that Trump's agenda = that of white supremacy/Nazi authoritarian policies, which is anti-American.    So, voting down whomever the GOP puts up for a recall attempt is another nail in the coffins of the agenda of white supremacist/Trump supporters and the twice impeached Trump!

Further, I understand how taxes seem evil to a Trump supporter if Trump is not in charge.  Especially since Trump supporters were OK with Trump transferring wealth from middle and working class Americans to Trump's very wealthy friends as any oligarch would choose to do.   However, taxation with representation is the American way since 1776! 

Thus, how Californians choose to vote (for or against propositions Trump's GOP does not like) and what Californians choose to pay in taxes is their American right to do.   There are no Trumpian supporting posters or white supremacist leaning media outlets or Trumpian GOP politicians that are also apologist for white supremacy who will change that. All politics are local, which is also the American way.

19 hours ago, Beerman said:

"To say that we have everything under control – you know, I’m supportive of President Biden, I’m a supporter of his – but we’re not paying attention to the border communities and this is not under control,” Cuellar said. “I can tell you that.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-a-border-crisis-texas-democrat-slams-biden-for-failing-to-talk-about-the-border-during-his-congressional-address?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

"The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment."  This is on The Daily Wire website.  It is not journalistic but a forum for like-minded people.  Totally inadequate source.  It fosters the myth that Democrats do not want immigration reform.  There are all kinds of people in the Democratic Party who are Dems mostly  in name only but have no ideological home of their own.  Plenty of us anti-Trumpers do want immigration reform and it's disingenuous of any conservative rag to foster the belief that the Dems want porous borders.  The Biden administration is not going to "solve the problem."  This problem is too big for any one administration or for any one party, for that matter.  Trump refused to listen to the Border Patrol officers and went ahead with his plan which resulted in: (Per Market Realist)

Trump promised to build his border wall “very inexpensively” and “have Mexico pay for it.” But as of January 2020, the price tag for the border wall was more than $11 billion dollars, or nearly $20 million per mile, according to NPR. 

And one of his White House communication directors acknowledged to CNN in 2019, that U.S. taxpayers—not Mexico—are footing the bill.

So, you continue to rant that Biden is making it worst but haven't produced a single idea of how to re-write the playbook for change.  What about Mexico's role in all of this? It's complicated because of the bro-mance Trump had with Obrador despite calling Mexicans epithets.  Two pathetically weak leaders shoulder to shoulder ...what could go wrong?

10 hours ago, Beerman said:

Your feelings on the source do not change what the Democrat congressman had to say.

It's more obvious then ever that they do.

Whether I have any ideas or not does not matter.   I was not elected, and as a citizen I can criticize the administration whenever I please.

Criticize away but no one can can believe anything in your posts since you continue to speak in stereotypical, non-seriously thinking terms.  I never argued with what the congressman said.  In fact I can agree with him, so it's OBVIOUS that ALL Democrats do not agree with everything Biden does.  At least he is not letting people in to work at his golf courses and hotels while demeaning them as rapists at the same time.  Meanwhile we have jobs for these folks where I live and they would be welcome to keep our year- round tourist industry running.  We have to import contruction workers which keeps the housing costs high and unaffordable for young people.  We need a PLAN which requires a sustained think-tank of ideas and administrative maturity.  Trump and his minions were mostly too disinterested and stupid to tackle the really big ideas because no one could figure out how to monitize the problem for themselves.

18 minutes ago, subee said:

Criticize away but no one can can believe anything in your posts since you continue to speak in stereotypical, non-seriously thinking terms.  I never argued with what the congressman said.  In fact I can agree with him, so it's OBVIOUS that ALL Democrats do not agree with everything Biden does.  At least he is not letting people in to work at his golf courses and hotels while demeaning them as rapists at the same time.  Meanwhile we have jobs for these folks where I live and they would be welcome to keep our year- round tourist industry running.  We have to import contruction workers which keeps the housing costs high and unaffordable for young people.  We need a PLAN which requires a sustained think-tank of ideas and administrative maturity.  Trump and his minions were mostly too disinterested and stupid to tackle the really big ideas because no one could figure out how to monitize the problem for themselves.

And that's the problem in a nutshell with republicans. It's all about the money for them. And having gullible supporters makes it so much easier for them. 

It's really like a lot of third world countries I've visited, who have limited access to news and the internet and what little they do have, they use for entertainment like Youtube etc. 

They always believe that their food or fruits are the best in the world. IMO that's exactly what I see and hear in republican areas. It's almost like a limited capacity so anything that needs thinking about, is discarded. Only the simplest of messages gets in. 

I really think that republicans should secede, because I am tired of paying for their grifting and I don't see them coming back. Let them grift on each other. I honestly don't see how they contribute to society and as long as we are tolerant of their behaviors, they need us for victims.

Us liberals hold our own to consequences and I don't see us forgetting or accepting them for a long time. I just don't trust them, because they lie to themselves, so why won't they lie to me? 

So did you hear the latest about the Arizona recount? They have flown in a panda to sniff the ballots for signs of bamboo because China apparently stuffed the boxes with faked Chinese ballots. ????