The Beginning of the End: The Lame Duck Period of Joe Biden’s Presidency

[RatkoVarda]

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

How is Last's argument much different from Mitch McConnell's vow to make Obama a one term President. The GOP has been stonewalling everything Democrats have proposed for years, without offering any viable alternatives. 

I think it is the reverse.

Mitch did not want the black guy's ideas to become law because it would be a disaster

Last is suggesting Dems let Trump's ideas become law - because it will be a disaster

[LaceyLou]

One thing that I've noticed is how many people -good decent people- have decided that it's not worth it to get too involved in politics because of the horrible climate. This has always been true, but I feel as if MAGA has fanned the flames. And I don't blame them, you have to have either a will of stone or a death wish to run for anything these days.

It sucks because we could really use more of them. It is what it is.

[CMRivdogs]

Just another shot in the war against the working class. Just let them know they voted for this.

 

[1776]

A little more detail.

https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Court-Strikes-Down-Biden-Overtime-Rule.aspx

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, 1776 said:

A little more detail.

https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Court-Strikes-Down-Biden-Overtime-Rule.aspx

so many euphemisms for "we really need to continue to abuse non-tenured educators...."

[Screwball]

3 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

so many euphemisms for "we really need to continue to abuse non-tenured educators...."

I really don't understand the point of that article, but it doesn't matter. Coming from someone who has spent the last 5 1/2 years teaching for a state college, and being whored out to a vocational setting (STEM class) which I eventually refused to enter, I can tell you this; our educational system, at least where I am, and I don't really think that matters, is a massive cluster **** of ineptitude.

[romad1]

18 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Just another shot in the war against the working class. Just let them know they voted for this.

 

You can't tax what doesn't exist.

[CMRivdogs]

The latest from JVL. Interesting prediction. BTW, just remember who didn't get payment from Mexico for the half built wall, And who got an agreement from Canada to pay for the Gordie Howe International Bridge

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Here is my concern about Trump’s announcement that he will impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada starting on January 20:

I’m concerned that he won’t actually do it.

Is it possible that Trump will actually slap that 25 percent number on all goods entering the country from Mexico and Canada until they stop all undocumented migrants from crossing the U.S. border and the amount of fentanyl coming into the United States drops to zero?1

Uh, sure. That is one possible outcome.

And if that happens, then prices of consumer goods in the United States will jump and we’ll slingshot into a recession.

Let me tell you a story about a more likely outcome:

On January 20, Trump will issue an EO with his 25 percent tariffs. The trigger date for implementation will be some point in the medium-future. Fox will talk about this great achievement nonstop. The mainstream media will talk about how potentially destabilizing the tariffs are.

And then at some point—maybe before the tariffs kick in, or maybe shortly afterwards—Trump will declare victory. Magically, the supply of fentanyl coming from Mexico and/or Canada will dry up and illegal border crossings will no longer concern Americans.

We’ve seen this story before, over and over.

Remember Trump’s “Muslim ban”? He signed a couple of executive orders, the courts halted them. Lawyers did a lot of pro bono work. After a few weeks everything was business as usual.

Remember when Trump tore up NAFTA? Except that he never did. He simply negotiated a “successor” agreement that was little more than new paint on the same vehicle.2

Remember when Trump built the wall that Mexico paid for? Trump replaced about 400 miles of existing barriers and built 52 miles of new fencing—52 miles! The U.S. government paid for all of this.

This is Trump’s modus operandi.

He promises his base crazy ****. He then announces that he’s about to do the crazy ****. The media freaks out at the prospect of said crazy ****. Trump then wriggles out of doing the crazy **** and—this is the key part—his voters give him credit for the crazy **** anyway.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-new-approach-to-covering-trump?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[CMRivdogs]

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

The latest from JVL. Interesting prediction. BTW, just remember who didn't get payment from Mexico for the half built wall, And who got an agreement from Canada to pay for the Gordie Howe International Bridge

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-new-approach-to-covering-trump?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I also like his bottom line....my one caveat is that I fear the people who have his ear,

Musk, RFK jr, Jr Trump and the folks wrote the 2025 Declaration of Insurrection ma actually go thru with their plan because Trump's only goal was to get out of jail and gain more graft.

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Caveat: There is one area in which Trump actually means all of the crazy **** he says: The pursuit of power.

Trump was never going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. But he was deadly serious about blackmailing the president of Ukraine in order to beat Joe Biden. He fired the director of the FBI to keep investigations away from his administration. He sent his attorney general out to discredit the Mueller report. He actually did attempt a coup.

The principle here is obvious: The only person Trump is willing to spend political capital on is himself.

Which is why the one area in which I absolutely take Trump both seriously and literally is in his approach to amalgamating personal power in an authoritarian manner. So I intend to take his statements on such subjects—and here I include everything from Schedule F to the Twenty-second Amendment—at face value.

But your mileage may vary. Maybe you think this approach is wrongheaded, or counterproductive. Of maybe you have a better heuristic for the coming age.

 

[ewsieg]

I hope JVL is right and there is a part of me that thinks that is the most likely scenario on those issues, but, Trump had legitimate people expressing their concerns continually on why what he wanted originally wouldn't work.  Did Trump change his tune because of them or because it was always part of the plan.  With nothing but cheerleading yes men around him now, I guess we'll soon find out.

[CMRivdogs]

5 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

I hope JVL is right and there is a part of me that thinks that is the most likely scenario on those issues, but, Trump had legitimate people expressing their concerns continually on why what he wanted originally wouldn't work.  Did Trump change his tune because of them or because it was always part of the plan.  With nothing but cheerleading yes men around him now, I guess we'll soon find out.

Unfortunately a lot of the incompetent people around him won't be tempered by a cadre of folks who actually know how government works. And those who do have nefarious intentions.

[Tigermojo]

Biden pardons his son. This should be interesting...

[Tiger337]

Of course Biden pardoned his son.  He knows that a much worse criminal was planning to put him in prison.  

[oblong]

The reactions to the pardon show the continuing dissonance.  People seriously acting like this is now what Trump needs to do his pardons?  Do they write that with a straight face?   Democrats get no credit or bonus votes for doing the right thing.  Making the elite class happy and not pissing them off gets you nowhere.

Nate Silver's like "don't vote for a democrat who doesn't denounce this in 48 hours".

An acceptance of a pardon are an admission of guilt.

[Netnerd]

8 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Of course Biden pardoned his son.  He knows that a much worse criminal was planning to put him in prison.  

I doubt Biden pardons his son if a different president had been elected. This puts Hunter farther out of Trump’s reach. I’d want to do the same for my kids.

[Tigeraholic1]

The most both siding excuses I have ever seen coming out today, wild.

[chasfh]

The only both sidings is the idea that this rises to the level of Trump inevitably and preemptively pardoning himself and his entire family and criminal inner circle for all crimes past, present, and future. ****, he'd already pardoned his daughter's FIL and just now handed him a plum ambassador role.

[CMRivdogs]

15 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

The most both siding excuses I have ever seen coming out today, wild.

This from Mister But WhatAbout, that's all you did the past year.

Hypocrite 

[Tigeraholic1]

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

This from Mister But WhatAbout, that's all you did the past year.

Hypocrite 

LOL what's good for the goose is now good for the gander. Wait I thought the left passed all the purity contests? Only when it is convenient, got it.

[Archie]

I don’t blame Biden for pardoning his son.  I blame Biden for lying and saying he wouldn’t.  I just hope all of the corruption the Biden family is involved in is revealed.  Even though Biden has severely hurt this country and should face charges for the open border, It’s too late to prosecute him because of his age and health.  However, the American people should know exactly what happened and how Biden and his party used their position to attack their political opposition. 

[CMRivdogs]

10 minutes ago, Archie said:

I don’t blame Biden for pardoning his son.  I blame Biden for lying and saying he wouldn’t.  I just hope all of the corruption the Biden family is involved in is revealed.  Even though Biden has severely hurt this country and should face charges for the open border, It’s too late to prosecute him because of his age and health.  However, the American people should know exactly what happened and how Biden and his party used their position to attack their political opposition. 

Now do Trump, and his pardoning of guys like Stone, Bannon, Paul Manifort, Michael Flynn, Charles Kushner (who he's just nominated for a cushy Ambassadorship.) etc While we're at let's talk about the $2 billion dollar bribe from the Saudi's his son in law walked away with four years ago. 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Wow, just seeing Biden gave him the full sweeping Nixon pardon all the way back to 2014. Hmmmm were was Hunter working in 2014? Oh yeah Burisma Holdings, I am sure one has nothing to do with the other..... 

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[oblong]

Sounds like they are perfect for the Republican party then.

I don't give a **** that he did it.  The standard was set 8 years ago that nothing mattered anymore, that there's no standards that have to be met.  No such thing as a right or a wrong, Presidents and their people can do anything they want without consequences.  

Any right leaners who get upset over it are exposing themselves and raging hypocrites... but hey, we knew that already.  Biden is finally playing the game as it's called.

[CMRivdogs]

14 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Is it a lie Harris did not flip one county? Please show me where this is not a fact?

Why are you so hung up on that?