“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
What was yours? I was commenting on a news story about Biden.
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I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not 'concerned' about Biden. I'm posting a news story about him and another one of his gaffes. If this story annoys you for some reason then that's not really my fault.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
I haven't been called out about anything, because there's nothing to be called out for. I posted a report about things Biden said and you became unreasonably defensive about it. That's a you problem, I'm afraid. I get that he might be 'your guy' or whatever, but even so, that's not a reason to be mad when the international press reports on what he says and does.
In other news, he has tested positive for covid. Pretty sure he'll be fine, the Paxlovid seems to be quite effective. The new variant doing the rounds isn't quite as 'mild' as people might think though. Two close relatives recently had it and it's quite nasty.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
Yeah Buttigieg is getting flack for that too.
Like, he's not saying "go out and buy an electric car now!" but he's saying it's something we should start looking into and it's something the DoT is looking into.
The right threw a fit because Biden went somewhere the other day by motorcade. "OMG HE TRAVELED IN A CONVOY OF GAS GUZZLING SUVS!" like every other President has always done for the President's protection?
I mean sure, maybe we can replace the SUV's with something electric, but it's not something that's going to happen immediately FFS.
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Putin khuliyo
Brandon has COVID.
The irony here is the FAT, unhealthy denying COVID denier, lived through COVID. We will see about Biden.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
if they put Biden on the same steroids they did Trump he is going to be old man raging for days. he might actually conjure up force lighting to zap an ungrateful press core member.
He's vaxxed, boosted, and we have effective antivirals now. He's in otherwise fine health and isn't obese, so he'll probably end up being fine.
And he probably won't even irresponsibly force his secret service detail to get into a plague-car with him to drive around the building for his fans, either.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnel.
You know all those judges that are getting through the Senate and onto courts, preventing them from being packed by more activist conservatives? Those would all be gone.
Fuck Manchin, and I hate his selfish, amoral, dishonest, piece of shit ass as much as the next person and desperately want him gone. But without him (or any current Senate Democrat) Democrats have no "majority" (quotes because it's 50:50 so not actually a majority as we've seen) and Majority Leader Mitch McConnel could hamstring anything and everything that Democrats have gotten through the Senate. Even if they don't have many legislative wins because of bullshit from Manchin and Sinema, it's still infinitely preferable to the alternative.
Mind boggling how Biden tries to blame inflation on Russia which is so easily discredited when there are a ton of other factors to it that he can state which don't make him look bad in the slightest. He's really just letting the other side roll all over him with the blame train pretending the President has all this control over the economy or that the same exact things wouldn't be happening under Trump. Same with the high gas prices.
Actually, it makes sense. People are blaming Biden for causing inflation for causing high gas prices. Biden's telling the Trump supporters something they actually need to hear, and actually related to the problem they're talking about.
True, it doesn't make sense to reasonable people, but reasonable people aren't blaming Biden for inflation.
I watched Oliver's bit on this last night and it annoyed me. He quoted Biden with this, doing a whole big bit on the causes of inflation, and saying that everyone had a bit of a point.
So he broke it down into these basic arguments;
1> Supply shortages causing prices to rise as demand remains unchanged.
2> Demand increases resulting from COVID relief support payments
3> Russia's fucking about with oil delivery causing chaos with oil prices
4> Corporate greed
At least, pretty sure those are the 4. If I missed something, just correct me, it won't affect my point.
Now, those all look fine, and I don't actually have a problem with most of it on this surface level. But my issue is the inclusion of #4 as if it's a separate argument. Supply shortages are the only one of these factors that doesn't boil down to #4, and that's only presuming it's an actual shortage, not a manufactured artificial one.
Demand increases only lead to price increases as companies realize they can charge more for products and still sell out. That's corporate greed.
Putin's dicking around is based on Russia's financial interests. It's greed as well.
This transforms Oliver's seemingly nuanced take into a much-less nuanced and much-more-damning argument; the current inflation is caused largely by corporate greed, and to a lesser extent some supply chain hiccups which can't readily be addressed. Corporate greed, however, absolutely could be.