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rusty nails
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 7:02am |
Why?
Cos our Government is a special kind of stoopid.
Scomo really is an incompetent fool.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 7:08am |
4 more months.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 7:12am |
I would be prepared to put up with Elbow, just to wipe the smirk off Scomo's face.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 7:15am |
Scomo says leave it to the market to get RATS to the people then the market does it's thing and rips the people off and Scomo doesn't like that either. The glorious unchained free market - hallelujah.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 7:21am |
Rules to live by: Never vote for anyone who has tried to kill you.
Also take note Mike Pence.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 9:01am |
Hard to take your Biden stuff seriously when main stream media tells me Biden is not popular and the country is floundering.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 10:12am |
I thought you were a wake-up to the mainstream media Sunny. Or is that only when they are holding Trump and his insurrectionists to account?
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 10:16am |
SCOTUS kicked Donald in the nuts again today ordering all the Jan6 stuff be handed over by Archives.
Only dissenting judge was Clarence Thomas whose wife signed a letter calling the insurrectionists heroes and called for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the party.
Thomas was who the person Bannon quoted often in their plans to undermine the 2020 election certification by taking over state legislatures.
America is in safe hands.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 10:43am |
Biden: 'I don't believe the polls . . .
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-i-dont-believe-the-polls/ar-AASWYKx?ocid=BingNews
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 10:49am |
What is wrong with that. He said he believes the 33% poll that you quoted, as much as he believed the one that had him at 49%. He said 44% was the average which it is according to Fivethirtyeight poll average.
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jujuno
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Posted: 20 Jan 2022 at 11:30am |
they can carry on about his (lack of) popularity all they like...
He's not going away until after 2024, when Kamala and Hilary take over...(watch now for the over-reaction to that prediction...)
He wouldn't be the first president with a 44% popularity number...
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 9:51am |
Op-Ed: One year into his presidency, Biden’s accomplishments have been short-changedFor four years, the phrase “infrastructure week” was a punchline. A metaphor for the abysmal failure that was supposed to be Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement. It took Joe Biden less than a year to make good on a transformational piece of legislation that will reshape America’s cities, towns and communities. If Biden achieved little else for the rest of his term, the enactment of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would be enough to cement his record for tangibly improving the lives of Americans. And yet, I can’t help but think that Biden has been short-changed in how his first year has been framed by the mainstream media, which has largely been guided by the playbook of politics-as-usual. In the 2016 campaign, the media gave Trump the equivalent of $2 billion in free media coverage. During his presidency, the White House press briefings, when they happened, were aired live on every cable news network, despite the fact that they were littered with outright lies and deceptions. The very few times that Trump managed to restrain himself, he was rewarded with embarrassing praise. For the better part of the summer and fall of 2021, the Beltway press bombarded audiences with inside-baseball process stories parsing every twist and turn of the infrastructure legislation, fanning the flames of the “Democrats in disarray” narrative. As the focus shifted to the Build Back Better plan and voting rights legislation, the media narrative largely gave the Republican Party’s unanimous obstruction a free pass. The Jan. 18 edition of Politico’s Playbook led with the phrase, “Senate Democrats resume their doomed push on voting rights and election reform…” Axios featured the headline “Biden’s epic failures.” Biden’s forceful speech on voting rights in Atlanta was overshadowed by the media’s fixation on the GOP’s faux indignation. What the media needs to remember is that the only reason why they are issues in the first place is because of the Republican Party — a party that has made the conscious decision to withdraw from democracy. I am not suggesting that the mainstream media adopt the propaganda-level machinations of the GOP-media sphere. But I do think media institutions have huge influence in shaping public perception and how that perception is weaponized by the anti-democratic forces in America. Consider this passage from an Associated Press story that was published recently: “Former President Donald Trump, who regularly pilloried the media, did 92 interviews in his first year in office, more than two dozen of those with friendly interlocutors at Fox News. But Trump also held lengthy sessions with ABC News, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters and other outlets whose coverage he impugned throughout his presidency.” Missing from this “analysis”? The fact that during his four years in office, Trump made more than 30,500 false or misleading claims, otherwise called lies. By this point in his presidency, Trump had made 2,140 false or misleading claims. Would Biden be better off with the media if he did 92 interviews, each and every one of them full of blatant lies? Is there a single person in this country who worries about how many interviews Biden has done or is it more likely that Americans care about the roads they drive on every day and the pipes carrying their drinking water? For decades, we’ve heard the familiar refrain, “it’s the economy, stupid.” So, let’s look at the economy under Biden: Jobless claims are at their lowest levels since the 1960s. The 2021 job increases were the largest on record. Unemployment dipped below 4%, a historic drop from the 6.2% rate Biden inherited just a year ago. The S&P 500, the metric the last guy used to measure success, hit new record highs 70 times, finishing up 29%. The Dow Jones and Nasdaq were up 19% and 21% respectively. Economists are predicting that the growth will continue at the fastest pace since 1984. Of course, inflation is concerning, but the way the media is framing things, you would think that our economy is mired in a Great Depression, when we’ve come through the biggest job creation in a year in the country’s history. There is no question that we live in challenging times. A growing economy doesn’t overshadow the assault on democratic processes or the continued and changing COVID pandemic. There are clearly times when Biden and his administration will fall short — either because he fails to read the desires of the broad electorate or because he can’t get enough support for popular policies through the bitterly partisan, narrowly divided Congress. His missteps and failures are fair targets of media criticism. But the media needs to understand that the Republican Party’s obstruction of Biden policies cannot be severed from its embrace of Trump’s Big Lie about the stolen election. The GOP isn’t engaged in policy debates about how to benefit American lives. Instead, its leaders, both at the state and federal level, are spending much of their time trying to weaken democratic processes. Every media story that fails to come to grips with this reality helps promote that anti-democracy agenda. Kurt Bardella is a contributing writer to Opinion. He is an advisor to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He is a former senior advisor to Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. @KurtBardella
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 10:22am |
Freudian slip. Way to turn out black voters Mitch.
Mitch McConnell: "African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as American voters."
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:23am |
jujuno wrote:
they can carry on about his (lack of) popularity all they like...
He's not going away until after 2024, when Kamala and Hilary take over...(watch now for the over-reaction to that prediction...)
He wouldn't be the first president with a 44% popularity number...
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 11:38am |
Hicklarious.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 12:38pm |
I liked the toilet roll being thrown at her...but it really wasn't all that funny.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 12:57pm |
Agree pretty lame but has its moments. The background cackle is spot on.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2022 at 2:48pm |
But it is Joey who has left the reservation, right?
Hannity (speaking metaphorically about Biden): “You keep banging your head against the wall why would you expect a different result?”
Trump: “So, we would have the wall completed in 3 weeks. It was largely completed. We did almost 500 miles of wall.”
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Posted: 22 Jan 2022 at 5:55am |
But it is Joey's fault people in Red States are dropping off the perch from COVID in bigger numbers, bleating out muh rights to their last breath.
The Florida Department of Health has placed a top official on administrative leave after he criticised staff over their vaccination rate. In an email on 4 January, Dr Raul Pino called unvaccinated staff members "irresponsible" and wrote "we are not even at 50% - pathetic". Legislation passed in Florida late last year prohibits employers, public and private, from mandating jabs. DOH confirmed on Wednesday the doctor's actions were being investigated. "As the decision to get vaccinated is a personal medical choice that should be made free from coercion and mandates from employers, the employee in question has been placed on administrative leave, and the Florida Department of Health is conducting an inquiry to determine if any laws were broken in this case," a spokesperson said in a statement to the BBC. "The Department is committed to upholding all laws, including the ban on vaccine mandates for government employees and will take appropriate action once additional information is known." more...
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Posted: 22 Jan 2022 at 9:28am |
maybe sound health advice is considered as progressive and encroaches on your freedom.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2022 at 9:40am |
Meatloaf took his freedoms to the grave.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 12:11am |
NBC's Chuck Todd: Biden 'no longer seen as competent and effective'Todd cited a new NBC poll in predicting Democrats were heading for a 'shellacking' in the midterm elections . . . "He's no longer seen as competent and effective, no longer seen as a good commander-in-chief, or perhaps most damaging, as easy-going and likable. In fact, just 5% of adults say Mr. Biden has performed better than expected as president, one of the many lowest firsts and fewest in our poll," he added. . .
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 4:18am |
at least he's not insane, like the previous president.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 5:44am |
43% is a 10 point improvement in a couple of weeks on the Quinnipiac poll you gave us recently Shammy...a rally or your biased selection of polls?
During the opening segment on "Meet the Press," Todd, citing the poll, declared Biden's 43% approval rating showed he'd "lost his identity," and was "no longer seen as competent and effective" in the eyes of voters, spelling a potential "shellacking" for Democrats
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 5:45am |
Hey Siri, can you find me the worst possible President Joey poll today please.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 8:37am |
What is the difference between insanity and dementia?
When it comes to talking war Biden becomes clear headed..... And lucid.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 9:13am |
War, or reality?
One deals in truth, reality and evidence based thinking, the predecessor not so much.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 9:24am |
Biden is shirt fronting Putin. Will Putin back down? How will Biden react? Past performances from his side of politics says there will be war. Insanity or dementia?
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 9:31am |
Biden is not shirtfronting anyone. It isn't Biden who has been sitting on his neighbors border with 100,000+ troops since March. Biden is reminding Putin of the cost of his actions should he be stupid enough to be aggressive and today raised that cost.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2022 at 10:19am |
A reminder, a shirt front....
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