no one said that, it's just another strawman you threw out. I said both parties' interests were more closely aligned with the wealthy elite than the 99%.
the situation at the border existed when Biden took office. Biden has made it worse, is on pace to DOUBLE the number of expulsions without hearings that Trump did at his peak. "But they started it" is intellectually indefenisible when you campaigned for a year on fixing it - or at the very least, not making it twice as worse in the first 6 months.
Against what standard is Pres Biden's influence peddling vis a vi his crackhead oil-consultant son's "art career" not an egregious example? How many examples do you need? Sure, you can play the #NeverTrump, but all of that mojo applied to Tulsi Gabbard and she wouldn't be bombing the poorest people in the world.
Finally, there are a lot of differences between the individuals in the political class. Just not any meaningful differences in how they administer gov't from the perspective of those not in The Big Club.
Yeah no shit they are. There's no possible reality where it would be otherwise.
So what? Does that mean that both sides are identical, or essentially identical? For all intents and purposes, there's no difference between President Trump and President Sanders, President AOC or President MTG? Everything turns out more or less the same regardless of which of those four spends 8 years in the Oval Office, and which party controls the House and Senate in that time?
Effectively no difference between Ted Cruz's Supreme Court picks, and AOC's?
Is that your stance? Really?
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yes. you're talking about different flavors of tyranny.
but tyranny over the masses to the benefit of those with access to power.
Come on, man. You don’t need to call someone a simpleton because they don’t agree with you about a government in a country you don’t even live in.
You constantly say that you try to have civil conversations on here. Calling someone a simpleton because they have a different perspective than you just shows… You’re that annoying person who argues just for the sake of arguing.
No they’re all different
Only all republicans are the same
- probably what Don Lemon told him
burn the building down, collect the insurance money then move on and learn to never step on government provided housing again
This isn't just about Section 8 stuff though, is it?
I honestly haven't followed it that closely.
He hurt my feelings a little bit.
Don’t worry, babe. I’m here to back you up.
You should see the shit he says if you put him on ignore.
Well that's...horrible.
So Biden's BLM nominee has been involved in domestic terrorism. How we all feeling about that? Pretty good?
Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden
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The bill is now heading to the House, where it faces an uncertain future and skepticism from progressives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed she won’t take it up until the Senate passes the second part of its infrastructure two step, a sweeping $3.5 trillion spending package that includes Democrats’ top priorities.
Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden
The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority.
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how will he collect now?
He'll be 'collecting' more than the rent in prison if you catch my drift.
The situation is a shitshow, and Biden is certainly nowhere close to exempt from criticism for it. Are you expecting him and his administration to be totally immune from any and all criticism? No, that's how a cult works.
Biden certainly hasn't produced dramatic action on the border. He's deporting people left and right. Isn't that what the right wingers want? Wasn't that a big part of Trump's appeal? There is a highly contagious virus causing an international health crisis, and Biden is kicking undocumented immigrants out of the country as they show up. Shouldn't he be applauded for that by the Trump fans?
Personally, the border wouldn't crack. my top 10 issues to vote over. But Trump voters should praise the current situation at the border, right? Deportations are up, and people are being caged in inhumane conditions. That's what the right wingers voted for, isn't it?
Against objective reality, for fucks sakes.
Does Hunter Biden have an office in the West Wing?
Is he conducting US diplomacy visa WhatsApp chats, and cutting the actual Secretary of State out of the loop?
What would your reaction be if he WAS doing these things? Be honest now.
No meaningful difference between a Sanders or Warren administration, vs a Cruz or Cotton administration. Righto. Sure sure.
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my argument is that there is no real difference between the two. Thanks for going to such great lengths to fully articulate my point.
That's what I thought, you claim "objective reality" but the only standard you provide is Trump. Again, Trump and Biden are the same - and thanks for articulating that point again. My reaction would be the same as when Trump was doing it, and that's because my standard is actually "objective" and not "subjective" - like Trump's corruption. That's a 'subjective' standard.
Yes - in exactly the same way as there's no real difference between a Trump and a Biden administration, against the objective standard of representing the interests of the voters.
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut”
www.propublica.org
The Trump administration championed the pass-through provision as tax relief for “small businesses.”
Confidential tax records, however, reveal that Johnson’s last-minute maneuver benefited two families more than almost any others in the country — both worth billions and both among the senator’s biggest donors.
Dick and Liz Uihlein of packaging giant Uline, along with roofing magnate Diane Hendricks, together had contributed around $20 million to groups backing Johnson’s 2016 reelection campaign.
The expanded tax break Johnson muscled through netted them $215 million in deductions in 2018 alone, drastically reducing the income they owed taxes on. At that rate, the cut could deliver more than half a billion in tax savings for Hendricks and the Uihleins over its eight-year life.
But the tax break did more than just give a lucrative, and legal, perk to Johnson’s donors. In the first year after Trump signed the legislation, just 82 ultrawealthy households collectively walked away with more than $1 billion in total savings, an analysis of confidential tax records shows. Republican and Democratic tycoons alike saw their tax bills chopped by tens of millions, among them: media magnate and former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg; the Bechtel family, owners of the engineering firm that bears their name; and the heirs of the late Houston pipeline billionaire Dan Duncan.
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut”
Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed.
The Trump administration championed the pass-through provision as tax relief for “small businesses.”
Confidential tax records, however, reveal that Johnson’s last-minute maneuver benefited two families more than almost any others in the country — both worth billions and both among the senator’s biggest donors.
Dick and Liz Uihlein of packaging giant Uline, along with roofing magnate Diane Hendricks, together had contributed around $20 million to groups backing Johnson’s 2016 reelection campaign.
The expanded tax break Johnson muscled through netted them $215 million in deductions in 2018 alone, drastically reducing the income they owed taxes on. At that rate, the cut could deliver more than half a billion in tax savings for Hendricks and the Uihleins over its eight-year life.
But the tax break did more than just give a lucrative, and legal, perk to Johnson’s donors. In the first year after Trump signed the legislation, just 82 ultrawealthy households collectively walked away with more than $1 billion in total savings, an analysis of confidential tax records shows. Republican and Democratic tycoons alike saw their tax bills chopped by tens of millions, among them: media magnate and former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg; the Bechtel family, owners of the engineering firm that bears their name; and the heirs of the late Houston pipeline billionaire Dan Duncan.
Your argument is simpleminded and objectively incorrect, which is why you can't expand on it beyond the broadest of platitudes.
Chanting it over and over again does not make it true. Trump and Biden are nowhere close to the same. Trump did many things that Biden would never dream of doing. That is just reality.
You're more consistent and less hypocritical than most of the "both sides" guys, that is true.
Well no, it was egregious enough that it passed into objective fact. Trump was - far and away - the most personally corrupt President in our lifetimes. That is not reasonably up for debate. It's just a fact, plain and simple. If Hunter Biden failed his West Wing security vettings due to foreign business entanglements, but Biden overrode that, gave him an office in the West Wing anyway, and then put him in charge of the American corona response AND the Middle East peace process - then that would be the start of a direct equivalent. Trying to claim that Biden is as corrupt as Trump is the equivalent of trying to claim that Hillary is taller than Trump or that Bernie is younger than Trump. It's just plain not reality. You have to wilfully reject objective reality to claim it.
There is no such thing as "the interests of the voters". My interests have minimal overlap with Jeff Bezos' interests or the My Pillow guy's interests, or the interests of the seditionist cunts who stormed the Capitol trying to destroy American democracy and install an autocrat dictator.
Your complaint seems to be "the people who spend their entire lives positioning themselves to lead the world's preeminent superpower, seem to mostly be concerned with expanding and maintaining their own personal power."
Yeah no shit. What reality could it be any other way? That doesn't mean that every one of them are the same, and that there's no difference regardless of who's in office.
Thought experiment - clones of both MLK Jr and Adolf Hitler enter modern American politics. Is there absolutely no difference at all - nothing - and no different outcome for America between President MLK Jr and President Hitler? Between President Bernie Sanders, and President Rand Paul? Everything remains identical, and everything plays out exactly the same under all 4 of these men? C'mon man - that's a ridiculous position to take and cling on to.
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