Mike Judge becomes a prophet on the same level of Nostradamus.
President Camacho knew his own limitations and actively sought out people smarter than him to fix the most important issues he faced. We should be so lucky to get a leader like that
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Most of the main western democracies have people in positions of power that simply can't govern, but are awesome at politics. Michelle Obama would probably win, but there is nothing to indicate that she knows how to govern.
Trump can't, surprisingly Biden can't, Obama v.1.0 was a surprise contestant, and slipped though the cracks and had some ability. He ran into 'The Establishment', a wall of politicians who only play politics, and was only a fraction effective. To become powerful it really is a pageant, and not anything to do with making a country better.
Pelosi and McConnell, the two most powerful people in the States, are nightmare creatures, but they keep getting elected.
You do realize there is a substantive difference people like the Bushes, Biden, and Obama who fail to enact meaningful domestic policy because the a country is ungovernable in the wake of eroding norms and institutions captured by those who don't respect those norms. Verse someone like Trump who lack respect for government institutions and actively seeks to undermine the functioning of those institutions, flaunting what was generally understood to be criminality in everyones face because he has realized that the rule of law in un unenforceable at certain levels of the Us government. That people like Pelosi are powerless, due to the 4 layers of authority any decision she makes has to pass through, and the only reason McConnel exhibits and power at all is because his platform is to stop everyone else from doing anything, the second he tries to make anything happen of his own volition you would see he too can't actually make anything happen.
You know that Trump is qualitatively different from all of the other examples right?
Trying to project an election that is 2 years away is foolish.
These presidents all go completely dismantled in the mid-terms after their election win:
Obama - lost 63 house seats and 6 senate seats
Clinton - lost 54 house seats and 8 senate seats
Regan - lost 26 house seats and 1 senate seat
Trying to project an election that is 2 years away is foolish.
These presidents all go completely dismantled in the mid-terms after their election win:
Obama - lost 63 house seats and 6 senate seats
Clinton - lost 54 house seats and 8 senate seats
Regan - lost 26 house seats and 1 senate seat
They all won re-election.
I would look at their approval ratings at the time of those midterms in comparison to where Biden's is and is likely to be at that time. He's just not doing all that well. He has time to turn it around, but do we think Biden has the abilities to do that? I have serious doubts.
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Trump's current favorability ratings are worse than Biden's approval ratings.
There are minefields in every direction for Biden. I'm not sure what I'd even want him to do at this point that would help.
He's getting blamed for inflation, but also taking heat for not getting BBB passed, which would have made inflation an even bigger problem.
Trump's tax cuts and other moves that poured gas on an already over-heated economy started the ball rolling on inflation and put us in a spot where the other world factors piled on to make inflation a large problem.
I don't really know what the right moves are here. There is going to be pain, and hopefully Biden can limit the damage without causing more problems. But he'll get blamed for the pain regardless of whether there was anything he could do about it.
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Still sharp as a tack. He completely destroyed Graham in this debate on Fox.
Yup, I watched a large chunk of that debate and Bernie absolutely wipes the floor with him. He's still such a quick, intelligent and charismatic guy. I know he's getting up there in age, but I'd love to see him challenge Biden for the nomination in 2024 if he's healthy and up to it.
At the very least, Biden needs to do the right thing, step aside, and let someone else run who is smarter, tougher, and more likeable. At this point it's pretty much guaranteed that if Joe runs again, he's gonna get demolished.
I agree with everything he says, except for more than doubling the minimum wage. It's just too broad of a brush and would just see prices rise in proportion to the extra money in the economy. Keeping in mind that people doing work more valuable than minimum wage will want raises to reflect their labour when they are suddenly closer to the minimum. When they raised it in Ontario, it destroyed many small businesses. Large businesses seemed to fill the niche, but getting closer to peak capitalism by putting more economic power in fewer shouldn't be a goal.
I would propose instead of raising minimum wage, a better option would be to have more cost control and assistance for essentials like rent, food, energy, and education to make the current minimum wage more than adequate to meet needs.
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Yeah AOC would be an epic disaster, Tim Ryan of Ohio might be a possibility, sharp, likeable and he even has a little Trumpism in him regarding China for the on the fence voters.
Nominating someone who "has a little Trumpism in him" is NOT going to fly with the people who got Biden in office. We really need to stop courting the fictitious 'on the fence' voters and play to an actual base. The base being the minority, female, educated, etc people who beat Trump the last time. No the Dems cannot run an AOC and I get that, but we absolutely do not need a conservative Democrat either. I live 50 miles from the Ohio border and I have no damn clue who Tim Ryan is, I can't see too many left-leaning Dems getting on board with him, and make no mistake, those are the people we need to bring into the fold. Those are the voters you need to mobilize. Those are the voters that saved Democrats in 2020.
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I agree with everything he says, except for more than doubling the minimum wage. It's just too broad of a brush and would just see prices rise in proportion to the extra money in the economy. Keeping in mind that people doing work more valuable than minimum wage will want raises to reflect their labour when they are suddenly closer to the minimum. When they raised it in Ontario, it destroyed many small businesses. Large businesses seemed to fill the niche, but getting closer to peak capitalism by putting more economic power in fewer shouldn't be a goal.
I would propose instead of raising minimum wage, a better option would be to have more cost control and assistance for essentials like rent, food, energy, and education to make the current minimum wage more than adequate to meet needs.
You need to do both. Minimum wage is still $7.25. Gas in my county is currently running around $5.09/gal. Wages need to go up. Wages needed to go up 10 years ago, but we didn't do that, so now we need wages to be lifteddramatically.
Make the minimum wage $15 (at least) and tie it to inflation going forward. Create tax breaks and other assistance for small businesses to cover this increased cost. And then you can also work on controlling the costs of rent/food/energy/education, but you absolutely need to dramatically raise the minimum wage.
It is genuinely getting to a point where the average lower-middle class worker is having a hard time surviving.
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Trump's current favorability ratings are worse than Biden's approval ratings.
There are minefields in every direction for Biden. I'm not sure what I'd even want him to do at this point that would help.
He's getting blamed for inflation, but also taking heat for not getting BBB passed, which would have made inflation an even bigger problem.
Trump's tax cuts and other moves that poured gas on an already over-heated economy started the ball rolling on inflation and put us in a spot where the other world factors piled on to make inflation a large problem.
I don't really know what the right moves are here. There is going to be pain, and hopefully Biden can limit the damage without causing more problems. But he'll get blamed for the pain regardless of whether there was anything he could do about it.
Wait until the Fed pushes the economy into recession. Things are seriously going to get chaotic.
Currently unsubstantiated claims. And the photo of her with two shirtless men has been labelled as “Miscaptioned” by Snopes.
On a different note, Loudermilk’s involvement with the “recon” tours needs to be heavily scrutinized. If he was involved in any capacity, he needs to be impeached from office ASAP.
