robosmith Posted October 19, 2023 Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 An Unserious Party in a Deadly Serious Time Quote The Republicans’ 2024 strategy against Joe Biden has been crystal clear since the first day of his presidency — make the world seem as chaotic and dangerous as possible and then argue that the 80-year-old President is too old and infirm to protect Americans from that chaos and danger…To date, that strategy has been working. Most people think the country is going in the wrong direction. More Americans are expressing concern about Biden’s age, and Trump has a slight edge in hypothetical general election polls.The events of this past week, however, demonstrate a fatal flaw in that strategy. The more consequential the moment, the less likely voters are to hand over the wheel of the ship to a completely unserious party led by an erratic criminal without the slightest interest in or capacity to govern. Republicans refuse to fund the government and TRY to blame Biden for the shutdown. Everyone knows what THEY'RE DOING and that's the reason they will pay the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robosmith Posted October 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 House Republicans’ Chaos Is Making Biden’s Split-Screen Strategy a Lot Easier Quote Joe Biden’s reelection strategy relies on painting Republicans as chaotic, disorganized, and unserious.And the recent bedlam in the Republican-controlled House is making that job a lot easier.Biden’s campaign has seized on the Republican infighting around the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Oct. 3 and the Republican conference’s inability to agree upon a successor. The fractious debate plays directly into Biden’s split-screen strategy, one that the president’s top aides and advisers believe will allow persuadable voters to see the Democratic leader in a position of power as the Republicans in the House and those vying for his job fight among themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robosmith Posted October 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 The Source of America’s Political Chaos Quote As I continue to watch the GOP flail about—House Republicans have now chosen the execrable Representative Jim Jordan for speaker, replacing Steve Scalise, whose nomination lasted 48 hours—I have been thinking about an alternate history of a United States where Donald Trump lost the 2016 election. I am convinced that the chaos now overtaking much of the American political system was not inevitable: The source of our ongoing political disorder is because of a razor-thin victory in an election in 2016 decided by a relatively tiny number of voters.Trump’s win set up a series of cascading failures. Winning in 2016 turbocharged Trump’s claims of leading a movement. His victory encouraged other Republicans to go into survival mode and adopt the protective coloration of Trumpism just to win their primaries, a process that led directly to the crapstorm deluging the House at this very moment. Most Republicans in Congress, as Mitt Romney has told us, hate Trump, and many of them probably wish that someone could jump into the Time Tunnel, go back to 2016, and persuade a few thousand voters in three or four states to come to their senses.At the least, a Trump loss would have let other Republicans avoid sinking in the populist swamp. Elise Stefanik might be a relentless political opportunist, but without Trump, she and other GOP leaders could have pronounced Trumpian extremism a failure and stayed in something like a center-right lane. On the Earth Where Trump Lost, Fox-addicted voters might still have sent irresponsible performance artists such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz to Congress, but the institutional Republicans would have had every incentive to marginalize them. (Remember, Jordan’s been in the House since 2007, but attaching himself to Trump has helped to put the speaker’s gavel within his reach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Posted October 19, 2023 Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 You talking about the lunatics who launched impeachment hoaxes instead of getting inflation under control? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robosmith Posted October 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 11 minutes ago, West said: You talking about the lunatics who launched impeachment hoaxes instead of getting inflation under control? The ONLY impeachment hoax was the inquiry launched by Republicans against Biden in which all the 3 witnesses said there was NO EVIDENCE. Inflation has been lower here than any other Western nation aside from Canada and Switzerland. https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/core-inflation-rate Country Last Previous Reference Unit Argentina 142 125 Sep/23 % Turkey 68.93 64.85 Sep/23 % United Kingdom 6.1 6.2 Sep/23 % Brazil 5.95 6.14 Sep/23 % Australia 5.9 6.6 Jun/23 % Spain 5.8 6.1 Sep/23 % Mexico 5.76 6.08 Sep/23 % Germany 4.64 5.53 Sep/23 % Netherlands 4.61 5.68 Sep/23 % France 4.6 4.6 Sep/23 % Russia 4.59 3.95 Sep/23 % Italy 4.58 4.78 Sep/23 % Euro Area 4.5 5.3 Sep/23 % South Africa 4.5 4.8 Sep/23 % United States 4.1 4.3 Sep/23 % Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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