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Re: American Politics

Postby Royal Gooner » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:36 pm

Phil71 wrote:My money is on Trump being back in the White House after the next Presidential Elections.

Biden is overseeing a complete disaster. Crime is spiralling out of control, illegal immigrants are flooding across the border with Mexico. Over 1.7 MILLION people have been apprehended trying to cross the border illegally. And the Dems blocked him from building that wall.


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Re: American Politics

Postby jayramfootball » Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:59 pm

Royal Gooner wrote:
Phil71 wrote:My money is on Trump being back in the White House after the next Presidential Elections.

Biden is overseeing a complete disaster. Crime is spiralling out of control, illegal immigrants are flooding across the border with Mexico. Over 1.7 MILLION people have been apprehended trying to cross the border illegally. And the Dems blocked him from building that wall.


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No chance.
For that to happen Trump will have to overcome a slew of legal cases just to stay out of jail and/or not go bankrupt (note: no actual crime required) and even if he does he has no chance against 'vote' my mail.
It's pretty obvious he won the last election comfortably.
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Re: American Politics

Postby Phil71 » Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:04 am

Crime wise New York is apparently going back to the days before Giuliani cleaned it up. Muggers everywhere.

Terrible in San Francisco too.
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Re: American Politics

Postby Clarkey T » Sun Nov 28, 2021 6:09 am

Jesus I hope not, Trump was outspoken and spoke his mind - which was fun to watch, though it got boring eventually because at first - he did speak some truths and make some good points but then he went into literally telling a lie every day, when proved to be a liar he didn't have a care in the world and just spouted another lie.

If he did something good he'd follow it up with a speech which would lead to "the Democrats didn't want this or that" a tedious old man with a chip on his shoulder.

Biden is a bid soft and also deluded, the way he handled getting out of Afghanistan was not good, very insensitive and showed lack of respect for the work / help a lot of Afghans did for the Americans.

America can do better, a young president whose views are aligned with the 40/50 year old generation rather than draconian views, just look at the impeachment of Trump trial, most of the people their used it as a photo op to bang on about "the founding fathers" and "my nanna wanted me to go into politics because x" they were there to discuss Donald Trump's wrong doings in 2019 - not talk about themselves and events from 50+ years ago.
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Re: American Politics

Postby jayramfootball » Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:31 am

Clarkey T wrote:Jesus I hope not, Trump was outspoken and spoke his mind - which was fun to watch, though it got boring eventually because at first - he did speak some truths and make some good points but then he went into literally telling a lie every day, when proved to be a liar he didn't have a care in the world and just spouted another lie.

This is propaganda.
I am quite sure he lied at times, like all politicians, but the left wing media obsession with listing everything he said as a lie when it was not has left an impression on people who simply read headlines.

If he did something good he'd follow it up with a speech which would lead to "the Democrats didn't want this or that" a tedious old man with a chip on his shoulder.

That is the nature of the US political system - a President can not make new law. If he pushes a bill, the Democrats could always stop it and they did - purely because they wanted to stop Trump regardless of what was good for the country.

Biden is a bid soft and also deluded, the way he handled getting out of Afghanistan was not good, very insensitive and showed lack of respect for the work / help a lot of Afghans did for the Americans.

Don't think Trump was soft at all - the opposite in fact. Biden simply does as he is told.

America can do better, a young president whose views are aligned with the 40/50 year old generation rather than draconian views, just look at the impeachment of Trump trial, most of the people their used it as a photo op to bang on about "the founding fathers" and "my nanna wanted me to go into politics because x" they were there to discuss Donald Trump's wrong doings in 2019 - not talk about themselves and events from 50+ years ago.


America should never deviate from the Constitution and Bill of Rights except via amendment, for which there is an established process.
What you call 'banging on about the founding fathers' is actually doing the job that govt representatives swore an oath to do.
I do however think Amercia could do better than either trump or Biden, but aligning to what the 40/50 year old generation want is a really bad idea.
A President must align to what the founding fathers wanted - until such a time that there is a general consensus amongst the States to make the constitutional changes I mentioned above.
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Re: American Politics

Postby LMAO » Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:48 am

Biden's America. Business is booming :cool: Also, our bad for exacerbating inflation and shortages worldwide, but the American market demands its consumerism.
FRANKFURT—A booming U.S. economy is rippling around the world, leaving global supply chains struggling to keep up and pushing up prices.

The force of the American expansion is also inducing overseas companies to invest in the U.S., betting that the growth is still accelerating and will outpace other major economies.

U.S. consumers, flush with trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus, are snapping up manufactured goods and scarce materials.

U.S. economic output is set to expand by more than 7% annualized in the final three months of the year, up from about 2% in the previous quarter, according to early output estimates published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. That compares with expected annualized growth of about 2% in the eurozone and 4% in China for the fourth quarter, according to JPMorgan Chase.

Major U.S. ports are processing almost one-fifth more container volume this year than they did in 2019, even as volumes at major European ports like Hamburg and Rotterdam are roughly flat or lag behind 2019 levels. The busiest U.S. container ports are leaping ahead of their counterparts in Asia and Europe in global rankings as volumes surge, according to shipping data provider Alphaliner.

In Europe, “durable goods consumption is showing nothing like the boom that is ongoing in the United States,” said Fabio Panetta, who sits on the European Central Bank’s six-member executive board, in a speech last month. Consumption of durable goods has surged about 45% above 2018 levels in the U.S., but is up only about 2% in the eurozone, according to ECB data.

Factory gate prices in China are far outpacing consumer prices, signaling a gulf between weak domestic demand and strong overseas demand that is powered in particular by U.S. hunger for China’s manufactured goods.

While tangled global supply chains also play a role in driving global inflation, economists and central bankers are increasingly pointing to ultrastrong U.S. demand as a root cause.

“Are we crowding out consumers in other countries? Probably,” said Aneta Markowska, chief financial economist at Jefferies in New York. “The U.S. consumer has a lot more purchasing power as a result of fiscal policy than consumers elsewhere. Europe could be in a stagflationary scenario next year as a consequence.”

The U.S. accounts for almost nine-tenths of the roughly 22-percentage-point surge in demand for durable goods among major advanced economies since the end of 2019, according to data from the Bank of England.

“Very strong U.S. demand is certainly where [global supply bottlenecks] started,” said Lars Mikael Jensen, head of network at container ship giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S.

“It’s like a queue on a highway. The increase in volume in the U.S…takes ships away from other markets,” said Mr. Jensen. “Problems in one place will trigger problems somewhere else, we live in a global world.”

The U.S. economy will likely grow by around 6% in 2021 and 4% or more in 2022, the highest rates for decades, analysts say. Strong U.S. growth momentum is expected to push the unemployment rate to the lowest level in almost seven decades by 2023, according to Deutsche Bank analysts.

U.S. economic output is likely to surpass its pre-pandemic path early next year, while output in China and emerging markets will remain about 2% below that path through 2023, according to JPMorgan Chase.

U.S. wages are growing by about 4% a year, above the precrisis trend rate, compared with less than 1% growth in the eurozone, according to data from the Bank for International Settlements, a Switzerland-based bank for central banks.

“We threw a lot of support at [the economy] and what’s coming out now is really strong growth, really strong demand, high incomes and all that kind of thing,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s recent meeting. “People will judge in 25 years whether we overdid it or not.”

The Fed said it would more quickly scale back its Covid-19 bond purchases and set the stage for a series of interest-rate increases beginning next spring.

In Europe, the ECB pledged to continue buying bonds at least through October 2022, and said it was unlikely to raise interest rates next year. Underlying U.S. inflation, annualized over two years, has risen above 3%, roughly double the level in the eurozone, according to data that adjust for the impact of the pandemic and changes in volatile food and energy prices.

“The strong post-pandemic recovery that was originally expected for 2022 still hasn’t materialized,” said Timo Wollmershäuser, head of forecasts at Germany’s Ifo think tank. The institute recently lowered its growth forecast for Germany in 2022 by 1.4 percentage points, to 3.7%, citing ongoing supply bottlenecks and a new wave of Covid-19.

The Fed’s assertiveness is pushing up the value of the U.S. dollar and putting pressure on emerging-market central banks to increase interest rates even before their own economic recoveries are assured or risk depreciating currencies and runaway inflation.

Mexico’s central bank on Dec. 16 said it would increase its benchmark interest rate by 0.5 percentage point to 5.50% after inflation rose to a 20-year high of 7.4%.

Russia’s central bank said Friday it would increase its key interest rate by 1 percentage point to 8.5%, and might raise rates again soon, after inflation hit a near six-year high of 8.4%.

Businesses are pouring money into the U.S., looking to take advantage of what some expect to be a sustainable increase in demand. In some cases, they are bringing production closer to American consumers, looking to avoid supply shocks related to the pandemic and global trade wars.

Recent U.S. fiscal stimulus “gives us more confidence in the U.S. market. It makes it easier to go into this, and easier for customers to go in,” said Marc Becker, CEO for offshore at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA, a Spain-based wind-turbine manufacturer.

The company plans to invest more than $200 million to build offshore turbine blades in Virginia, which it says will be the first commitment by a global manufacturer in a U.S.-based supply chain.

Equipment investment in the U.S. is expected to rise by 13% this year, according to JPMorgan Chase. Capital investment in the eurozone will likely increase by 3.6% this year, while in Japan business investment will rise by 0.1%, the bank predicts.

Two new U.S. fiscal spending packages worth a combined $3 trillion could boost the American economy by between 0.5 and 1 percentage point in each of the next two years, according to Oxford Economics, although the future of the larger of those bills was thrown into doubt last weekend. Meanwhile consumers continue to spend money from earlier stimulus packages.

Meyer Burger Technology AG , a Swiss manufacturer of solar modules, plans to build its first U.S. factory by the end of next year, adding to existing production facilities in Germany. That signals a change for the solar industry, where about 80% of production is currently located in China.

The decision was driven by surging transportation costs and rapidly growing U.S. demand, said CEO Gunter Erfurt. Logistics costs are up to four times higher than before the pandemic, he said.

“U.S. customers see and feel that supply chains are shaky and they can’t trust them anymore. Solar modules don’t arrive or arrive late,” Dr. Erfurt said.

Foreign direct investment into the U.S. has rebounded above precrisis levels and roughly matched foreign investment into China in the second quarter of 2021, according to Oxford Economics. The U.S. became the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2019 and consolidated that position in 2020, mainly driven by higher direct investments from Japan, Germany and the Netherlands, according to the International Monetary Fund.

“Everybody in every industry is currently checking if it’s smart to manufacture only in China,” said Mr. Becker of Siemens Gamesa. Congested ports in China and rising transport costs show the vulnerability of long supply chains, he said.

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Re: American Politics

Postby jayramfootball » Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:29 am

Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:
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Re: American Politics

Postby Royal Gooner » Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:07 am

jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:


He only says that because he knows hes going to get hammered and be a lame duck president for the last 2 years of his term.
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Re: American Politics

Postby Phil71 » Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:46 am

jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:


Sounds like he's been getting a few tips from Putin while he's had him on the phone.
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Re: American Politics

Postby jayramfootball » Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:11 pm

Phil71 wrote:
jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:


Sounds like he's been getting a few tips from Putin while he's had him on the phone.


Dems lost in their push for total control of Congress by removing the 60 vote requirement to pass law.
If it had have passed they could have made all their crazy laws to rig elections and implement Marxism unchallenged.

Fortunately for the world, 2 Democrats said no which was enough to stop the madness.
Scary to think that Communism was 2 votes away yesterday from taking over the world.
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Re: American Politics

Postby Jedi » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:51 pm

jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:

It's not a "threat" like Trump's comments because It's a matter of scale. It's one passing comment in a news briefing vs Trump making "stolen election" his parties entire platform.

Still not a good look though, and if Democrats jumped on this and started claiming all elections were stolen, it would obviously be terrible. But we both know that's not going to happen.

And also, here's CNN calling out Biden for this comment. So much for MSM hypocrisy and bias:
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Re: American Politics

Postby jayramfootball » Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:55 pm

Jedi wrote:
jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:

It's not a "threat" like Trump's comments because It's a matter of scale. It's one passing comment in a news briefing vs Trump making "stolen election" his parties entire platform.

Still not a good look though, and if Democrats jumped on this and started claiming all elections were stolen, it would obviously be terrible. But we both know that's not going to happen.

And also, here's CNN calling out Biden for this comment. So much for MSM hypocrisy and bias:


Democrats spent 4 years claiming Russia stole the election in 2016.
They threatened the President and his entire executive branch on an almost daily basis.
They encouraged riots.
They praised a mob that tried to storm the Whitehouse and mocked the President for having to be secured in the Presidential bunker.

Let’s be clear. It is they who have done the most damage to confidence in the election process, not some minor disturbance in Washington.
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Re: American Politics

Postby LMAO » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:07 am

jayramfootball wrote:
Phil71 wrote:
jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:


Sounds like he's been getting a few tips from Putin while he's had him on the phone.


Dems lost in their push for total control of Congress by removing the 60 vote requirement to pass law.
If it had have passed they could have made all their crazy laws to rig elections and implement Marxism unchallenged.

Fortunately for the world, 2 Democrats said no which was enough to stop the madness.
Scary to think that Communism was 2 votes away yesterday from taking over the world.


lol touch grass ffs. Joseph McCarthy called and said he wanted his paranoia back. Not one congressperson is a communist.
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Re: American Politics

Postby Phil71 » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:30 am

jayramfootball wrote:
Jedi wrote:
jayramfootball wrote:Joe Biden claims that the 2022 mid term elections might not be legitimate - nearly a year before they even take place.
Apparently it’s not a threat to democracy to claim such a thing now. :dontknow:

It's not a "threat" like Trump's comments because It's a matter of scale. It's one passing comment in a news briefing vs Trump making "stolen election" his parties entire platform.

Still not a good look though, and if Democrats jumped on this and started claiming all elections were stolen, it would obviously be terrible. But we both know that's not going to happen.

And also, here's CNN calling out Biden for this comment. So much for MSM hypocrisy and bias:


Democrats spent 4 years claiming Russia stole the election in 2016.
They threatened the President and his entire executive branch on an almost daily basis.
They encouraged riots.
They praised a mob that tried to storm the Whitehouse and mocked the President for having to be secured in the Presidential bunker.

Let’s be clear. It is they who have done the most damage to confidence in the election process, not some minor disturbance in Washington.


Yep.

Biden meeting with that criminal junky Floyd's criminal junky family was a joke.
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Re: American Politics

Postby LMAO » Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:30 pm

Breyer did what RBG refused to do.

Congratulations to the presumed newest Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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