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Sununu added: “The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one said:
I have to remember that line, it's a keeper.
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A new poll is out with an interesting type of question: instead of treating the classification of people as "likely voters" or not as fixed and immutable, it asked people what would make them more likely or less likely to vote.

45% said they'd be more likely to vote if $10000 of student debt were cancelled for everybody. So that's what Biden throws away, not just for himself but for his party, if he continues to not do so. I think he knows that, based on the fact that he's had something like four or five rounds of grabbing his "Biden Cancelled Student Debt" headlines for cancelling it for left-handed color-blind Capricorns and freckled dwarves whose names contain a letter "o" (while pretending not to think he can), but he might not have known before how big the number was. It's roughly like the numbers of people that would normally be expected to vote for either major party.

A second interesting detail in the poll is that going up to $50000 only picks up one more percentage point (to 46%). So even when potential Democrat voters are getting fed up enough with their party's politicians to just give up on voting if it delivers nothing at all, even a rather minimal token of finally doing any good at all is all it takes to bring them back. They know that doing more would be better, but they aren't demanding it; they're still willing to settle for a shadow of a crumb, but just not for nothing at all anymore.
 
Biden admin likely to extend student loan repayment pause to August 31.

Part of me kind of wants him to outright forgive $50,000 as many Dems want him to, if only to shake up the way the country does educational business. And remember he's tacitly approved at least $10,000.
 
This administration has done a number of groundbreaking things that no voter will remember by election day.
I don't fault Biden for being cynical and wait for a big, flashy student loan forgiveness until we are much closer to the midterms.
 
It would help if this administration made an effort to communicate their achievements a bit better. Be a little louder and prouder for goodness sake. The Radical Right is winning the propaganda war.
 
Venom said:
It would help if this administration made an effort to communicate their achievements a bit better. Be a little louder and prouder for goodness sake. The Radical Right is winning the propaganda war.
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The MSM would likely need to be much more cooperative, then. The Left doesn't have anything remotely comparable to the Radical Right, propaganda-wise, of course, and the MSM's profit motivations end up intrinsically favoring the Radical Right anyways. The Biden Administration fairly certainly could do a better job of communicating their achievements, sure, but it's probably worth pointing out that the Trump Administration made dramatically less effort, perhaps with the exception of Trump's constant tweeting.
 
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The Great Zaganza said:
This administration has done a number of groundbreaking things that no voter will remember by election day.
I don't fault Biden for being cynical and wait for a big, flashy student loan forgiveness until we are much closer to the midterms.
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Although I agree with you, we can expect there to be hysterical pearl clutching claims that "Biden's trying to buy votes" from the very people now condemning him for not cancelling some amount of student loans.
 
It's really frustrating how comically bad the Democrats are at politics.

Congressional Republicans Now Lead Generic Ballot Among Child Tax Credit Recipients
46% of voters who received the expired pandemic-era benefit say they’ll back a Republican in the midterms

Among parents or guardians with at least one child under 18 in the household who received the expanded child tax credit payments, 46% said they are most likely to vote for a Republican congressional candidate this year while 43% said they’re inclined to back the Democratic candidate.

The narrow GOP advantage among this group stands in contrast with Democrats’ lead of 12 percentage points in late December, before the benefit expired. It also continues a trend first captured in a survey conducted in February.
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https://morningconsult.com/2022/04/06/child-tax-credit-midterm-elections-polling/
 
Warp12 said:
Poor Joe Biden.

Obama tweets to save face after embarrassing Biden video surfaces
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-tweets-save-face-embarrassing-biden-video-surfaces

I do feel a little bad for the guy, though. He just isn't charismatic like Obama.
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This is just another example of how unhinged Fox is. How could it be a surprise that people who work with Biden every day would seize an opportunity to meet Obama, who hadn't been back to the White House in five years?
 
Let's not drag the larger trans/queer/etc discussion here. There are other threads for that general discussion. Restrict your comments to the Biden Admin's actions on this issue, not the broader issue or views about The Other Thread. Thanks.
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Bob001 said:
Note that the benefit has expired. If the Dems had been able to extend it over Repub opposition, the recipients might have felt differently. Now they see it as something they lost under the Democrats.
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Republican opposition and, more importantly, opposition from within the their own ranks. Namely Manchin, but likely others too, who are austerity hawks.
 
This reminds of an earlier debate where I pointed out that nearly everyone here was ignoring the deeds of Hunter Biden, while casting stones at Trump Jr.. Seems that the issues surrounding Biden and his family are becoming harder to ignore.

The Washington Post: If Clarence Thomas has to recuse himself, what about Joe Biden?
Here’s a question: If Justice Clarence Thomas has to recuse himself on cases relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot because of his wife, does that mean President Biden has to recuse himself on China and Ukraine because of his son and brother?

Of course, presidents never recuse themselves. But the fact that Democrats are crying foul over the Thomases while ignoring the Bidens shows that their concern about ethics is just cover for another attempted takedown of a respected conservative jurist.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...omas-has-recuse-himself-what-about-joe-biden/
 
I'm not going to quote it because it is too stupid to even consider.

Seriously, this is the level of GOP thinking?
 
I would not be surprised one iota that the video the right wing is passing around currently
supposedly showing Biden as being "lost" and "out of it" is deceptively edited. It's not like they haven't done exactly that before:

Biden Video Deceptively Edited to Make Him Appear ‘Lost’

ETA: Well, well, well....color me shocked. Not:

Fox News Doctored Clips of Obama’s Visit to the White House to Make It Seem Like Biden Was Lost

Conservative media couldn’t resist deceptively editing video of the former president to make it seem like the current president is unfit for office
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The Republican National Committee shared two clips of the visit that quickly went viral. The first shows an ostensibly confused Biden ambling around the stage as Obama holds court behind him. The second is similar, with Biden standing on the periphery as Obama greets well wishers.

The clips even made it onto the Fox News primetime slate. “Biden doesn’t know what on earth he’s doing or, at times, where he even is,” Lauran Ingraham said as she played the first clip. Tucker Carlson played the second, along with a “King Obama” graphic depicting the former president wearing a crown and a menacing scowl. “Make it stop,” Carlson said. “It’s awful.”

The only problem is that both clips were taken out of context. Biden does look a little confused in the first clip, but it’s only because he’s looking for someone, perhaps Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whom he brings up onstage to applause shortly after the conservative media cut ends. The second clip ends right before Biden gets Obama’s attention and introduces him to someone. Twitter user @acyn helpfully attached the full clips to the end of the Fox News segments lambasting the edited versions.
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Talk about Fake News.
 
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Warp12 said:
This reminds of an earlier debate where I pointed out that nearly everyone here was ignoring the deeds of Hunter Biden, while casting stones at Trump Jr.. Seems that the issues surrounding Biden and his family are becoming harder to ignore.

The Washington Post: If Clarence Thomas has to recuse himself, what about Joe Biden?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...omas-has-recuse-himself-what-about-joe-biden/
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What exactly is Hunter Biden accused of? He is a private attorney who was paid to represent clients. Yeah, his name no doubt opened doors. But there is no evidence that he ever influenced any action or decision by the President, or attempted to. Mrs. Thomas, on the other hand, attempted to overthrow the lawful government of the U.S., and urged some of the highest officials in the White House to help. Not much of a comparison.

And the columnist you quote is a notorious right-wing loon. Among other things, he was a speechwriter and apologist for Donald Rumsfeld. He has insisted that waterboarding is not torture. The Post keeps him for "balance."
 
Bob001 said:
And the columnist you quote is a notorious right-wing loon.
Among other things, he was a speechwriter and apologist for Donald Rumsfeld. He has insisted that waterboarding is not torture. The Post keeps him for "balance."
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Don't shoot the messenger, bro.

I'm sure he must have done something worse than write speeches for/support Rumsfeld and defend waterboarding, in order to earn the title of "loon". No matter, these Biden family dealings kind of reek, imo. Let's see what the GOP can do with it. :)
 
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