imagine if the US government kowtowed to Communist China out of fear by holding and sponsoring a lecture at the Pentagon about giving in and how the U.S. and other Western countries should in effect bow to China and adopt socialism in response to the growing challenge from the expansionist Communists in Beijing.
controversial? No way in hell, you say? Not in a midterm year where he’s losing ground with independents and suburbanites already?! Well, it’s happening, and Xiden’s administration is content on burning their constituents’ faith to the ground before the midterms.
The Defense Department’s National Defense University (NDU) — the premier educational institution in the country for military and civilian leaders on all things defense, has a lecture planned for Feb 22.
Mumbling and confused Joe Biden might not know where the hell he is, half the time — let alone who’s there with him — but this treasonous BS is for real.
so much for officials who swore an oath to protecting America.
oh, and I may not have mentioned but this is being paid for by the American tax payer. (And maybe China too)
And see, what you really don't understand is that with higher education and think tanks, you purposely bring in opposing and controversial view points. It's how you bullet proof and adjust your global responses and therefore readiness. It's why so many of us aren't threatened by that evil CRT and other post graduate concepts. Feel free to stay in your bubble though. It's safe and snowflakey there.
imagine if the US government kowtowed to Communist China out of fear by holding and sponsoring a lecture at the Pentagon about giving in and how the U.S. and other Western countries should in effect bow to China and adopt socialism in response to the growing challenge from the expansionist Communists in Beijing.
controversial? No way in hell, you say? Not in a midterm year where he’s losing ground with independents and suburbanites already?! Well, it’s happening, and Xiden’s administration is content on burning their constituents’ faith to the ground before the midterms.
The Defense Department’s National Defense University (NDU) — the premier educational institution in the country for military and civilian leaders on all things defense, has a lecture planned for Feb 22.
Mumbling and confused Joe Biden might not know where the hell he is, half the time — let alone who’s there with him — but this treasonous BS is for real.
so much for officials who swore an oath to protecting America.
oh, and I may not have mentioned but this is being paid for by the American tax payer. (And maybe China too)
So treason is having a leader in the field of economics give a lecture about adapting the current western economic model to help with greater global stability and help combat the rise of communist China?
Damn! And here I was thinking Bull Durham had finally issued those indictments that bore fruit from the poisonous tree and landed Hillary, Obama and Hunter in court. Damn.
Even if it did/does contain clean drug needles/pipes, I don't see the issue. You have to start somewhere. Most people are ok ignoring these castaways of our society unless they make their way in to their neighborhood, which they usually don't so when they see that the government is funding clean kits (for drugs, sex or whatever the at risk activity) they get on their soap box to yell about something they know nothing about and definitely care nothing about. It's not meant to stop the drug problem, it's meant to help prevent/mitigate the risk of disease spread among this population. And maybe, just maybe, getting them in contact with the individuals providing these kits may eventually lead to them getting the help they need and changing their current path to death by drugs, alcohol or disease. We have to do something.
Of course people are going to get upset when they make their way into their neighborhoods. Who wouldn’t be bothered more when needles are left on their sidewalks, larger groups are congregating in their local parks, people are peeing where I take my kids to ride a bike?
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Biden has long-term inflation plan, but voter patience short
By JOSH BOAK
10 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came into office with a plan to fix inflation — just not the particular inflationary problem that the country now faces.
His belief is that a cluster of companies control too many industries, which reduces competition for both customers and workers. That leads to higher prices and lower wages in what the White House says is an average cost of $5,000 annually for U.S. families. Biden is now trying to remedy the situation with 72 distinct initiatives — everything from new rules for cell phone repairs to regulations on meatpacking to more merger reviews.
“The dynamics of the modern American economy — the increased consolidation and lack of competition — has distorted market incentives in important ways,” said Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council. “The president gave us the direction that he wanted us to come back and say what could we do to address this issue of consolidation across industries in a way that would be durable."
But even administration officials acknowledge that the initiatives outlined by the president's seven-month-old competition council aren't designed to quickly stop the 7.5% inflation that’s frustrating Americans and damaging Biden's popularity. Furthermore, business groups dispute the fundamental premise that competition has faded within the U.S. economy and they are prepared to challenge the administration's new initiatives in court.
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Gerrymandering is a huge issue in this country but if Republicans refuse to go along with election reform, the Democrats are right to gerrymander the hell out of their states. They really have no choice. But if they can somehow hold onto the house as a result, perhaps it will finally force change? Maybe? Nah, probably not.
New York’s Gerrymander Might Change Which Party Picks Up Seats In The Midterms
Senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich breaks down how New York state was able to pass its Democratically gerrymandered congressional map and what it could mean for the 2022 midterm race.
New Yorkers like to think they’re really important; I mean, come on, their state nickname is “the Empire State.” But, I will admit, there is one area where New York has had an outsized national impact recently: redistricting!
Every 10 years, each state draws new congressional maps to reflect the results of the U.S. census. But Democrats in New York have drawn a map that does a really lousy job reflecting the state’s Democratic-Republican split.
To be sure, New York is a solidly blue state: Joe Biden got 61 percent of the vote there in 2020. But its new congressional map would likely hand Democrats between 77 and 85 percent of New York’s congressional seats. That’s like if your friend said he’d eat only five slices of your pizza but then actually ate almost the entire pie.
The new map creates 20 congressional districts that lean toward Democrats and only four that lean toward Republicans. (There are also two toss-up districts.) Because there are currently eight Republicans in New York’s congressional delegation, that means this map alone could subtract four Republicans from the U.S. House in 2022!
That’s a big enough swing that it actually changed which party would pick up seats from redistricting in 2022. Before New York’s map passed, it looked like Republicans would gain around 2 House seats nationally based on redistricting, while Democrats would roughly stand pat. But because of New York, Democrats are now up a few seats nationally!
The ironic thing is that redistricting was supposed to be fairer in New York this year. A few years back, voters passed a ballot measure creating a bipartisan commission to draw New York’s congressional map this cycle. But it didn’t exactly work as intended: Democrats and Republicans on the commission couldn’t come to an agreement on a map, so the Democratic-controlled legislature passed this gerrymander instead.
However, that ballot measure also added some potentially important language to the state constitution. Like Article III, Section 4C, Subsection 4: “Each district shall be as compact in form as practicable.” Well, to draw the maps to their maximum advantage, Democrats drew some pretty un-compact districts — like the 10th, which winds all the way from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Or how about Article III, Section 4C, Subsection 5, which says districts can’t be drawn to favor a particular political party. Except that’s exactly what this map does!
As a result, the map may violate the state constitution — or at least that’s what Republicans are arguing in a new lawsuit. But they may not find a receptive audience in the New York judiciary: All seven judges on the state’s highest court were appointed by Democratic governors. So in all likelihood, this lawsuit is like a car on the George Washington Bridge at rush hour — going nowhere.
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Biden is a puppet. I wonder who the acting president is.
I thought Biden was an international criminal, looting Ukraine. Get your fantasies straight.
Haha. I only meant that he has always been more moderate but seems to be going along with far more liberal agendas than I would think he would. I am not in the meetings so I have no clue, but I suspect he is for the most part a pushover for those people of influence around him.
Biden is a puppet. I wonder who the acting president is.
I thought Biden was an international criminal, looting Ukraine. Get your fantasies straight.
Haha. I only meant that he has always been more moderate but seems to be going along with far more liberal agendas than I would think he would. I am not in the meetings so I have no clue, but I suspect he is for the most part a pushover for those people of influence around him.
Can you provide an example of a liberal agenda he is pushing? The far left doesn't seem happy with him.
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Biden is a puppet. I wonder who the acting president is.
I thought Biden was an international criminal, looting Ukraine. Get your fantasies straight.
Haha. I only meant that he has always been more moderate but seems to be going along with far more liberal agendas than I would think he would. I am not in the meetings so I have no clue, but I suspect he is for the most part a pushover for those people of influence around him.
I think he's doing a pretty good job of holding the center-left line. I mean he has to be open to more liberal/progressive issues. That's his base. But he hasn't tried to raise capital gains, end the Trump tax cuts or a host of other left wing measures that the base would love.
Why does this mushbrain President care more about the Ukrainian border then ours??
I love this simpleton argument. Shows you spend your time in right wing media. Last I checked, the US can do more than one thing if it chooses.
Ah yes, Insults and Trump memes. Nerve struck obviously. Talk about simpleton….
well the meme is a direct quote.....
The truth, no matter how provable and verifiable, is anathema to the QtRUmplicans.
In her defense, that meme was calling Linda poorly educated. She called it out as an insult. You can see how referring to someone as poorly educated can be insulting, right? Calling her poorly educated has nothing to do with Trumps speech, but objecting to it now leads to more ridicule of denying provable truth. I don’t agree with the original statement, but can see why she objects to the meme in reference to her and is a poor reply to her statement.
Why does this mushbrain President care more about the Ukrainian border then ours??
I love this simpleton argument. Shows you spend your time in right wing media. Last I checked, the US can do more than one thing if it chooses.
Ah yes, Insults and Trump memes. Nerve struck obviously. Talk about simpleton….
well the meme is a direct quote.....
The truth, no matter how provable and verifiable, is anathema to the QtRUmplicans.
In her defense, that meme was calling Linda poorly educated. She called it out as an insult. You can see how referring to someone as poorly educated can be insulting, right? Calling her poorly educated has nothing to do with Trumps speech, but objecting to it now leads to more ridicule of denying provable truth. I don’t agree with the original statement, but can see why she objects to the meme in reference to her and is a poor reply to her statement.
Obviously an insult. Done through a meme.
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idk. think theres a fundamental difference in uneducated and poorly imo uneducated is on par with ignorant. meaning lacking knowledge. poorly suggests stupidity to me.
fuckstick and minions are doing their damnedest to keep them illinformed and uneducated by playing fear and garnering emotional reactions over bullshit culture shit.
but it began with "mushbrain".......
needed to edit my first part. was mistsken in fucksticks statement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden came into office with a plan to fix inflation — just not the particular inflationary problem that the country now faces.
His belief is that a cluster of companies control too many industries, which reduces competition for both customers and workers. That leads to higher prices and lower wages in what the White House says is an average cost of $5,000 annually for U.S. families. Biden is now trying to remedy the situation with 72 distinct initiatives — everything from new rules for cell phone repairs to regulations on meatpacking to more merger reviews.
“The dynamics of the modern American economy — the increased consolidation and lack of competition — has distorted market incentives in important ways,” said Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council. “The president gave us the direction that he wanted us to come back and say what could we do to address this issue of consolidation across industries in a way that would be durable."
But even administration officials acknowledge that the initiatives outlined by the president's seven-month-old competition council aren't designed to quickly stop the 7.5% inflation that’s frustrating Americans and damaging Biden's popularity. Furthermore, business groups dispute the fundamental premise that competition has faded within the U.S. economy and they are prepared to challenge the administration's new initiatives in court.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/new-yorks-gerrymander-might-change-which-party-picks-up-seats-in-the-midterms/?cid=rrfeaturedvideo
New York’s Gerrymander Might Change Which Party Picks Up Seats In The Midterms
Senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich breaks down how New York state was able to pass its Democratically gerrymandered congressional map and what it could mean for the 2022 midterm race.
New Yorkers like to think they’re really important; I mean, come on, their state nickname is “the Empire State.” But, I will admit, there is one area where New York has had an outsized national impact recently: redistricting!
Every 10 years, each state draws new congressional maps to reflect the results of the U.S. census. But Democrats in New York have drawn a map that does a really lousy job reflecting the state’s Democratic-Republican split.
To be sure, New York is a solidly blue state: Joe Biden got 61 percent of the vote there in 2020. But its new congressional map would likely hand Democrats between 77 and 85 percent of New York’s congressional seats. That’s like if your friend said he’d eat only five slices of your pizza but then actually ate almost the entire pie.
The new map creates 20 congressional districts that lean toward Democrats and only four that lean toward Republicans. (There are also two toss-up districts.) Because there are currently eight Republicans in New York’s congressional delegation, that means this map alone could subtract four Republicans from the U.S. House in 2022!
That’s a big enough swing that it actually changed which party would pick up seats from redistricting in 2022. Before New York’s map passed, it looked like Republicans would gain around 2 House seats nationally based on redistricting, while Democrats would roughly stand pat. But because of New York, Democrats are now up a few seats nationally!
The ironic thing is that redistricting was supposed to be fairer in New York this year. A few years back, voters passed a ballot measure creating a bipartisan commission to draw New York’s congressional map this cycle. But it didn’t exactly work as intended: Democrats and Republicans on the commission couldn’t come to an agreement on a map, so the Democratic-controlled legislature passed this gerrymander instead.
However, that ballot measure also added some potentially important language to the state constitution. Like Article III, Section 4C, Subsection 4: “Each district shall be as compact in form as practicable.” Well, to draw the maps to their maximum advantage, Democrats drew some pretty un-compact districts — like the 10th, which winds all the way from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Or how about Article III, Section 4C, Subsection 5, which says districts can’t be drawn to favor a particular political party. Except that’s exactly what this map does!
As a result, the map may violate the state constitution — or at least that’s what Republicans are arguing in a new lawsuit. But they may not find a receptive audience in the New York judiciary: All seven judges on the state’s highest court were appointed by Democratic governors. So in all likelihood, this lawsuit is like a car on the George Washington Bridge at rush hour — going nowhere.
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well the meme is a direct quote.....
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I can't imagine anyone wonders why.
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