Biden Presidency

[drayer54]

Basically every facist rise has painted the media as the bad guys and neutered the press. Generally paint them as part of the establishment or socialist sympathisers etc. In Germany the media was called the Lugenpresse or "lying press"

What we have now resembles Soviet-era Russia.

 

[drayer54]

Trump claimed a mandate in 2016, Biden tied Trump with EC votes and clowned him on the popular margin. Would you say Trump had a mandate?

No. He didn't even win the popular. It's a deeply divided country.

 

[longliveautrydenson]

This is insanity.

To pretend that our entire mainstream media isn't hawking for the Dems is to shove your face in the sand and plug your ears.

Chuck Todd is a liberal hack who literally used manipulated media to attack AG Barr. I know the left thinks racism is cool when it's against whites like blocking white nominees and training people that white people are oppressors, CNN and MSNBC are dedicating hours a day to convincing people the GOP is racist, and more but voting rights is not a conversation that only impacts black people and disqualifying things because people don't meet the identity politics threshold is ridiculous.

Politco is covering a story that the left-wing press buried in October 2020 when it came out because why? They were also busy covering up the laptop and foreign corruption story- BECAUSE IT HURT BIDEN. Are you arguing politico should continue to bury anything that hurts Biden?

Which insurrectionist that is currently trying to steal Iowa 2 did Chuck Todd have on his show?

Boebert and Greene get flooded with coverage because libs hate them. I don't see the problem with her raising awareness to protect liberty. We haven't had a gun-control law because we don't need more gun-control laws. Gun-control laws are ineffective and designed to deter gun ownership and eliminate the Second Amendment because the left wants to eliminate a voting bloc. It's about power, not safety. We knew that when they decided to no longer deport criminals a few months back.

The whole news cycle is slanted against Republicans because the journalism field is DOMINATED by democrats. The biggest threat to our Democracy right now is a unified Democratic-controlled press and that is what is pushing us closer to actual fascism.

Lol looks like that Biden press conference didn’t go how you thought it would...

 

[PerthDomer]

Trump passed tax cuts with 30 something percent approval across the electorate. What Biden's done so far has a popular mandate after he won with significantly more popular vote than Trump did.

 

[drayer54]

Lol looks like that Biden press conference didn’t go how you thought it would...

Of course it did. Old man rambled with low expectations and he met them. It wasn't surprising to me. He gets away with dodging questions and I was surprised they didn't press him harder on some things, particularly the filibuster and transparency at the border. The notes surprised me. I didn't expect him to call on Doocy.

Yamiche Alcindor surprised me with her questioning. It was completely shameless and embarrassing.

 

[longliveautrydenson]

Of course it did. Old man rambled with low expectations and he met them. It wasn't surprising to me. He gets away with dodging questions and I was surprised they didn't press him harder on some things, particularly the filibuster and transparency at the border. The notes surprised me. I didn't expect him to call on Doocy.

Yamiche Alcindor surprised me with her questioning. It was completely shameless and embarrassing.

Cry more lib

 

[ab2cmiller]

Trump passed tax cuts with 30 something percent approval across the electorate. What Biden's done so far has a popular mandate after he won with significantly more popular vote than Trump did.

Duly noted about Trumps tax cuts.

LOL, Nothing about that election was a vote for a popular mandate that Biden was proposing. You almost make it sound like he won in a landslide. Heck a ton of people weren't even voting for Biden or anything that he stood for, they were simply voting against Trump.

 

[drayer54]

Duly noted about Trumps tax cuts.

LOL, Nothing about that election was a vote for a popular mandate that Biden was proposing. You almost make it sound like he won in a landslide. Heck a ton of people weren't even voting for Biden or anything that he stood for, they were simply voting against Trump.

I don't recall HR1, Biden's gun control plan, ending the filibuster, or any of this in the debates. They both shamelessly dodged court-packing questions. They took minimal pressers and let the press/big tech/big money do the work. Nothing about it was a mandate and for Biden to run the most progressive administration in history of this is insane. If they pass HR1 and crush the filibuster while disenfranchising Iowa 2 voters- they deserve every bit of repercussion they get.

 

[PerthDomer]

Biden won by 4.5% the last election won by that margin or greater was 2008. Before that 1996. HR1 wasn't an issue because the republicans hadn't lost the election and decided their mistake was letting people vote yet. Gun control is now an issue because we've had 2 mass shootings in a week.

GOP issue is even weighted by age the Silent Generation is the whitest most repub generation. Millenials are the most liberal besides Gen Z (too young to really know how they'll vote in 10 years). Every 4 years the electorate moves 1% more liberal just based on old voters dying and young people reaching 18. The Republicans need to find actual issues to run on or they're in trouble.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Basically every facist rise has painted the media as the bad guys and neutered the press. Generally paint them as part of the establishment or socialist sympathisers etc. In Germany the media was called the Lugenpresse or "lying press"

Both Hitler and Mussolini knew the importance of controlling the media, whatever support that didn't come naturally, they legislated and coerced until they were able to control. The media is currently in the back pocket of the Dem's. They have simply cut out the middle man. The real risk to democracy is when one side can control the media sufficiently that any opposition voices are basically squelched. I don't know if we are quite there yet, but we are pretty close. I still maintain that I see far more risk of a Dem President obtaining that kind of control then a Republican President.

 

[TorontoGold]

Biden won by 4.5% the last election won by that margin or greater was 2008. Before that 1996. HR1 wasn't an issue because the republicans hadn't lost the election and decided their mistake was letting people vote yet. Gun control is now an issue because we've had 2 mass shootings in a week.

GOP issue is even weighted by age the Silent Generation is the whitest most repub generation. Millenials are the most liberal besides Gen Z (too young to really know how they'll vote in 10 years). Every 4 years the electorate moves 1% more liberal just based on old voters dying and young people reaching 18. The Republicans need to find actual issues to run on or they're in trouble.

Should run more guys that suggest ingesting bleach, expand that 4Chan voter block.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Biden won by 4.5% the last election won by that margin or greater was 2008. Before that 1996. HR1 wasn't an issue because the republicans hadn't lost the election and decided their mistake was letting people vote yet. Gun control is now an issue because we've had 2 mass shootings in a week.

GOP issue is even weighted by age the Silent Generation is the whitest most repub generation. Millenials are the most liberal besides Gen Z (too young to really know how they'll vote in 10 years). Every 4 years the electorate moves 1% more liberal just based on old voters dying and young people reaching 18. The Republicans need to find actual issues to run on or they're in trouble.

Yes

 

[ab2cmiller]

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[NorthDakota]

Biden won by 4.5% the last election won by that margin or greater was 2008. Before that 1996. HR1 wasn't an issue because the republicans hadn't lost the election and decided their mistake was letting people vote yet. Gun control is now an issue because we've had 2 mass shootings in a week.

GOP issue is even weighted by age the Silent Generation is the whitest most repub generation. Millenials are the most liberal besides Gen Z (too young to really know how they'll vote in 10 years). Every 4 years the electorate moves 1% more liberal just based on old voters dying and young people reaching 18. The Republicans need to find actual issues to run on or they're in trouble.

Biden didn't win by 4.5% He won by the cumulative margin of victory in a few states to get 270.

Ehhh millenials are the most liberal because they are the youngest I imagine. Anyway, this stuff all ebs and flows anyway. Half the game is just capitalizing on the other team's mistakes and Dems are no strangers to making big ones.

We see the narrative anytime the GOP loses a Presidential election. "Is the Republican Party on its Deathbed?" Parties adjust. Does the GOP have work to do? Yep.

 

[ND88]

This is insanity.

To pretend that our entire mainstream media isn't hawking for the Dems is to shove your face in the sand and plug your ears.

Chuck Todd is a liberal hack who literally used manipulated media to attack AG Barr. I know the left thinks racism is cool when it's against whites like blocking white nominees and training people that white people are oppressors, CNN and MSNBC are dedicating hours a day to convincing people the GOP is racist, and more but voting rights is not a conversation that only impacts black people and disqualifying things because people don't meet the identity politics threshold is ridiculous.

Politco is covering a story that the left-wing press buried in October 2020 when it came out because why? They were also busy covering up the laptop and foreign corruption story- BECAUSE IT HURT BIDEN. Are you arguing politico should continue to bury anything that hurts Biden?

Which insurrectionist that is currently trying to steal Iowa 2 did Chuck Todd have on his show?

Boebert and Greene get flooded with coverage because libs hate them. I don't see the problem with her raising awareness to protect liberty. We haven't had a gun-control law because we don't need more gun-control laws. Gun-control laws are ineffective and designed to deter gun ownership and eliminate the Second Amendment because the left wants to eliminate a voting bloc. It's about power, not safety. We knew that when they decided to no longer deport criminals a few months back.

The whole news cycle is slanted against Republicans because the journalism field is DOMINATED by democrats. The biggest threat to our Democracy right now is a unified Democratic-controlled press and that is what is pushing us closer to actual fascism.

Everyone goes to their own trough, but how is yours any better? Especially when you spout off about how everyone is being deluded by liberal hack journalism while you saturate this board with generalities like “the left thinks racism is cool when it’s used against whites”. I think I’d rather distrust your perspective when this is how you frame arguments.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

This week alone:

NPR interview Chad Wolf about what is going on at the border
Chuck Todd having insurectionists on his show (that's just about weekly now) in addtion to speaking to all white panels about voting rights.
Politico stirring up more Hunter Biden muck, and Ben Shapiro writing their newsletter.

We have not had a major gun safety law pass the House and the Senate since 1994, but I don't hear that being talked about. Lauren Boebert sent out an email two hours after the Boulder shooting with the following subject line: "I told Beto HELL NO to taking our guns. Now we need to tell Joe Biden." Saw nothing about that on CBS, ABC, NBC or FOX.

Liberal media bias? There's a unicorn in my front yard.

You're legit on a different planet if you contend that the majority of the US media doesn't lean left.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Lol looks like that Biden press conference didn’t go how you thought it would...

It went exactly as most of us thought it would: 20 media members with pre-screened questions to an early onset dimentia president using note cards to answer those questions.

 

[TorontoGold]

Everyone goes to their own trough, but how is yours any better? Especially when you spout off about how everyone is being deluded by liberal hack journalism while you saturate this board with generalities like “the left thinks racism is cool when it’s used against whites”. I think I’d rather distrust your perspective when this is how you frame arguments.

The same people that call anything Left of Ben Shapiro fake news love to post Politico or WP whenever it's critical of anyone on the Left. It's amazing to see the transformation of Politico being fake news up until November 2020, to being a reliable news site (sometimes).

 

[PerthDomer]

Biden didn't win by 4.5% He won by the cumulative margin of victory in a few states to get 270.

Ehhh millenials are the most liberal because they are the youngest I imagine. Anyway, this stuff all ebs and flows anyway. Half the game is just capitalizing on the other team's mistakes and Dems are no strangers to making big ones.

We see the narrative anytime the GOP loses a Presidential election. "Is the Republican Party on its Deathbed?" Parties adjust. Does the GOP have work to do? Yep.

Due to the vagaries of the electoral college the partisan advantage vis a vis the popular vote flips from time to time (Kerry almost won the EC despite losing the popular vote) because if this tracking the popular vote is more accurate in terms of where things are trending (like tracking yards for/against. 2012 ND was undefeated but advanced stats had them barely top 10).

Millenials may trend more conservative, but consider 25 and 35 year old vote identically. This is very odd. People tend to make a Pepsi vs coke delineation between the parties after their 1st 2 elections. People who came of age under eisenhower vote more republican than those in the age of Kennedey. Reagan is really the last president that had a positive partisan effect for Republicans. Those people are 50+. Clinton had a positive impact for dem branding, GWB was awful for repub branding, Obama loved by the young, Trump hated by young voters.

Additionally the country gets more college educated and less white over time. This crushes the republican base. Under 40 repubs additionally believe in climate change and are more open to government involvement in the economy.

I'm of 2 minds of where this can go. Throughout our history we tend to have one party dominate with either a flip to the other or a contentious period of polarization. It was Dem vs Federalist. The Federalists got on the wrong side of immigration, lost their leader to a duel and fell apart. Then it was the dems vs. The whigs. The Whigs were torn apart by divisions on Slavery. The repubs dominated from the civil war through Grant's presidency. Then the Gilded age was really a hyper partisan time with no consensus. Republicans came to dominate from 1900 till Hoover (Wilson won but due to a split repub vote) The Dems really dominated up till Reagan after the Depression.

Every repub president offered a slightly moderate version of the new deal/was ok with big government. Then with Reagan came a small government/Republican consensus. Even Clinton was a moderate caretaker of the Reagan consensus. Since 2000 we've been trending towards a Gilded era style polarization. The question is what is the new consensus and do we get another 20 year era of a New Deal or Reaganomic consensus. It seems there is a big government consensus coming and the question is whether the R's adapt or are happy being a dominant regional party

 

[longliveautrydenson]

It went exactly as most of us thought it would: 20 media members with pre-screened questions to an early onset dimentia president using note cards to answer those questions.

If you’re going to baselessly accuse someone of having dementia, at least learn how to spell it...

 

[NorthDakota]

If you’re going to baselessly accuse someone of having dementia, at least learn how to spell it...

Biden is too old to have early onset anyway. My grandpa had an early onset dimentia, i think it requires you to be in under 65 or something...which Biden hasn't been for many moons

 

[NorthDakota]

The same people that call anything Left of Ben Shapiro fake news love to post Politico or WP whenever it's critical of anyone on the Left. It's amazing to see the transformation of Politico being fake news up until November 2020, to being a reliable news site (sometimes).

Ehhh...I look at it like:

Lib Guy: "Fox hates liberals and minorities! They are right-wing propaganda."
Fox: (runs segment/article critical of Don)
Lib Guy: "Wow...its so indefensible even Fox can't defend it!"

Sub in a GOP guy/non-fox source and you get the same thing.

Me: "Mark May is an idiot and Notre Dame hater. How does this guy have a job?"
Mark May: "BK has brought ND back and they are a legit contender."
Me: "Wow...even the haters believe in this team. ND is gonna win!"

 

[drayer54]

If you’re going to baselessly accuse someone of having dementia, at least learn how to spell it...

Baseless? Really?

 

[longliveautrydenson]

Baseless? Really?

Yes. Speaking of bases, the former guy told people to inject bleach in their lungs to cure covid. Please explain why I should be more concerned about a President who peeks at some talking points during a press conference than a guy who ad libs deadly medical advice during the height of a global pandemic.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Yes. Speaking of bases, the former guy told people to inject bleach in their lungs to cure covid. Please explain why I should be more concerned about a President who peeks at some talking points during a press conference than a guy who ad libs deadly medical advice during the height of a global pandemic.

Oh come on, he was just brainstorming.

 

[NorthDakota]

Yes. Speaking of bases, the former guy told people to inject bleach in their lungs to cure covid. Please explain why I should be more concerned about a President who peeks at some talking points during a press conference than a guy who ad libs deadly medical advice during the height of a global pandemic.

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

Ad libs deadly medical advice?

Goofy thinking, yep. Dumb in general, yep. Told people to inject bleach? Not even remotely.

 

[Redbar]

Oh come on, he was just brainstorming.

Speaking of storms, didn’t Dennison have some irresponsible and completely wrong thoughts about what a particular storm track would be?

Are we really going to talk about mental faculties and the president??

 

[Trait Expectations]

The last guy sucked. This guy kind of sucks.

Hope the next guy sucks less.

 

[ab2cmiller]

The last guy sucked. This guy kind of sucks.

Hope the next guy sucks less.

Wiser words have never been spoken

 

[Bishop2b5]

Yes. Speaking of bases, the former guy told people to inject bleach in their lungs to cure covid. Please explain why I should be more concerned about a President who peeks at some talking points during a press conference than a guy who ad libs deadly medical advice during the height of a global pandemic.

No he didn't. Not even close.