Stacyhs
Penultimate Amazing
It's not cynicism. There's another word for it but ISF rules and all...
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Cont: The Biden Presidency Part II
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It's not cynicism. There's another word for it but ISF rules and all...
No guts, no glory...I always say.
Aridas
Crazy Little Green Dragon
If there's one thing that he's amazing at, it's being a scumbag celebrity.
Let's say you have 100 million homes priced at $145 thousand for a total
of $14.5 trillion. Inflation knocks off $850 billion off of the home owners debt,
leaving lenders with only $13.65 trillion.
Now let us put in a stipulation that the borrowers must repay and borrow
the money every year. With house still at todays price of $145 thousand
and lenders only able to provide $13.65 trillion now only 94 million houses
can refinance. Rinse and repeat and a year later and only 89 million houses
can refinance.
Obviously, if new homeowners want a home they'll either raise the needed
funds by saving in an inflationary environment, or offer higher interest
payment in competing with other borrowers, or forgo buying a home altogether.
Clearly, older homeowners, say baby boomers, will enjoy the benefits of inflation,
but new homeowners, say the millennials, will pay the price. On the other hand,
new home construction will fall and make home repairs cheeper.
Ah the Republicans...
The economical calamity will explode on their watch.
It always does.
abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
That is called a CT and you would have to present evidence for it. But of course you won't.
abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
So howcome you appear to have no guts?
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Of course if Warp12 did not put it in such a gratuitously nasty way, what he said might be more or less true. It's likely that Biden did not really need to have the VP stand in for that short time, and quite possible that he decided to do so as a favor to Harris and her image, as well as for the significance of the event, since it does represent the first time a woman has held, even for a moment, the executive power. Of course almost anything can be made to sound evil or stupid or silly if said the right way.
As the recipient of a couple of colonscopies, I think it's reasonable to say that it was in that room that one was taken for the team, not in the oval office.
As the recipient of a couple of colonscopies, I think it's reasonable to say that it was in that room that one was taken for the team, not in the oval office.
It's become routine for presidential power to be transferred to the VP when the President is under anesthesia. Imagine what it would be like if an enemy launched a nuclear attack while the only person who could order a response was incapacitated. Dick Cheney did it twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_president_of_the_United_States
Well, the story I tell everyone is that Biden demanded to get his bunghole probed in the interests of good PR for Harris. It's open for debate, I suppose....but the timing was oddly perfect.
Why insist on telling a story for which there is no evidence? Trump apparently had one too, but he took it like a man so VP Pence wouldn't get the nod.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/scope-ego-trump-colonoscopy-515444
That is a lot better than demanding a butt-probing so you can improve the popularity of your VP, imo. I mean, you just gotta laugh at the desperation.
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Are you basing this on some actual knowledge?
Venom
Philosopher
You gotta laugh at the narrative you're desperately trying to create around this.
Well, just looking at the scenario surrounding Biden's VP:
1) She is facing horrible approval ratings
Yes, horrible. Dick Cheney literally shot someone in the face and had better approval ratings than her.
2) Her Communications Director is "resigning"
Obviously this person was forced out of her role because of the horrible approval ratings that Harris has. Those ratings are the talk of the town.
3) Convenient "coincidence" that Biden has to transfer presidential powers
Of course, this was big news...for a day. But, I don't think it is going to help her overall image one bit. I even read an article that claimed she was in power for "a few hours". Meanwhile, it was actually just 1 hour and 25 minutes. Anything to prop her up, I suppose.
If the media wasn't so cowardly and left-leaning, they would be calling this "Sphinctergate". Nobody is going to convince me that this was not orchestrated to boost the VP's image.
Tero
Philosopher
Not amused. Not even surprised by Dick Cheney as the republicans will give the VP the same rating as the president. But look what happened to Daddy Bush. Only the Reagan link got him elected. Plus Dukakis is one of the worst we had, worse than Harris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election
But yes, Harris is not a plus for any 2024 run and hopefully not the candidate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election
But yes, Harris is not a plus for any 2024 run and hopefully not the candidate.
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bruto
Penultimate Amazing
That's a very elaborate no.
Fast Eddie B
Philosopher
It’s bizarre that a simple return to historic norms can be built up to be something pernicious.
It's not that the transfer of power is suspect, in itself. It's just a matter of the timing for the procedure. Like, right in the middle of the poop storm that is her approval rating, and with that dominating headlines...we get this, which takes the spotlight.
I have no doubt that Biden would get this colonoscopy at some point. But I think that dismissing the idea that this was a good opportunity to take the spotlight off of her scary-poor approval rating is pretty naive.
That isn't a "conspiracy theory"; it's common sense.
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