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As GR has pointed out a number of times in the past, we’re headed for class warfare, particularly given the recent, current and near-term future bouts of inflation. The staggering incompetence of the Biden administration ensures it. It will, of course, drive the working class further from the Democrats this year and into early November.
But there will be pain enough for both sides. Consider the recent Amazon union vote. Unionization is back, baby. Neither liberal oligarchs or conservatives want to debate true issues, the answers are too painful. They’d rather concentrate on climate, race and gender. No one wants to talk about runaway rents or the other problems of a deeply pessimistic working and middle class.
Nearly 70% of Americans think they’ll be worse off next year. Did you know that 1/3rd of working class men aren’t in the labor force? There’s a persistent lack of participation in the service class as well.
Most working class voters don’t care about climate, race or gender. They want to feed and house their families.
BTW, Biden is nominating Steve Dettelbach as Director of the ATF, which hasn’t had a permanent director since 2015. Dettelbach is an official at the gun control group Giffords. His name was floated once before but centrist Dems and Republicans made sure it wouldn’t happen.
And here’s a pretty good Atlantic article on why we cannot communicate:
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid – The Atlantic
my personal view is that I’d rather have someone incompetent than an anti Democratic President like Trump running the country.
That statement explains a lot about the Left.
I’m not saying I want Trump, I want someone competent. I want someone who, when asked what the greatest geopolitical threat facing the country is and responds “Russia” because he knows what he’s talking about. I don’t want some moron with a moronic laugh track response who doesn’t know a thing, literally not one thing about foreign policy and mocks the person who does.
And here’s Obama, desperately trying to redefine himself as someone who was tough on Putin. Funny, I remember Obama thinking the microphone was off and telling the Russians that he’d have more flexibility after the election, presumably when he could abandon promises of being tough on Russia:
Barack Obama Rewrites His Russia History – WSJ
That’s my lasting memory of Obama. “The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back.” Good Lord. Yes, it takes Biden to really fxxx things up, but if you want a clueless pretty boy, look to 44.
BTW, there is a wave of misery sweeping this country. You can thank the hair-sniffer in chief, doddering ancient fool in the White House for all of it. November can’t get here fast enough.
Many of you think he made the trains run on time, so to speak, but he was otherwise a cancer on our democracy. You want to minimize the attack on the Capitol as some small number of nut-cases. But who do you think was encouraging them? Trump and his cronies were feeding that entire narrative and inspiring these guys.
I don’t think you’re aiming that comment at me, since I’m not a Trump supporter. And I think Trump & cronies were just as deluded. I just don’t think a small number — a very small number — of nitwits, most of whom were unarmed, the vast majority of whom went uncharged, and the majority who were charged were put on probation — constitutes an insurrection.
I do concede, however, that it is critically important to the Demented Left to frame it as such. That’s wildly clear. There was way too much overall success from 2016-2020 to overcome to allow January 6 to be anything other than the equivalent, nay subordinate to 9/11. It’s mission critical for the Dems to pretend that it was an end to end violent uprising.
Not minimizing at all. A few thousand deluded idiots tried to overturn a national election. Very, very few of them were armed, as such. You persist on calling it an insurrection, when 0.001% of the people who (presumably) voted for Trump participated.
Every single American knew that it was doomed, couldn’t work, wouldn’t work, and that it was limited to mainly nut jobs, about 15% of whom were invested in actually trying to topple a government. That’s why so few people have been arrested, charged and convicted.
BTW, the winner of the 2020 election is merrily running this country into the ground. As President Obama said, “Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to Fxxx things up.”
- University of Michigan survey has American consumer confidence at an 11 year low.
- Inflation the highest since Jimmy Carter. BTW, the Biden administration said inflation would be transient. That aged well.
- Incidentally, Americans hate high inflation more than they love a low unemployment rate.
- Supply chain failures.
- Americans drove 13% fewer during the pandemic, but traffic deaths are up 7%.
- Murders are up across the country.
- Drug overdoses shot up during the pandemic.
- Hate crimes have skyrocketed.
- # of households making a charitable donation have dropped by 1/3rd over the past 20 years.
A sour and angry America poised to punish Dems this fall – POLITICO
Wow, it turns out you were right. Among the 1 million people who took part in the attack on the Capitol, 100,000 were charged, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for taking part in the insurrection.
Actually…10,000 attended a rally and did nothing. And after a full year and the collaborative work of all 56 FBI field offices, 140 federal prosecutors and 94 U. S. Attorneys around the country, here’s the grand totals:
- 800 +/-were arrested
- 165 pled guilty and 145 of those to misdemeanors
- 70 were sentenced, only 30 got prison time
Some insurrection.
And the decision is in, about 10 days earlier than expected. The Academy has suspended Will Smith from participating in any event including the Oscars for 10 years. Smith accepted and respected the decision.
On a broader scale, China has been learning all along from Western reaction to Putin’s thuggery (overseas assassinations, troops in Kazakhstan, Russian money into Western politics and Russian-sponsored cybertheft), Crimean takeover and incursions into Syria ad infinitum.
In most cases, the West hasn’t reacted strongly. When coupled with the weak and embarrassing retreat from Afghanistan, Putin thought we’d likely not be opposed to a Ukrainian invasion…as I’m sure many Westerners thought.
Then, he miscalculated. Big-time. Different tribes/cultures look at the same set of events and draw very different cultures, in particular Western cultures vs. Russian culture. We may not understand Russia well, but they don’t understand us at all, particularly at the higher levels.
So. What are China’s conclusions?
First and foremost, when the West wants to, it can really bring it. When we make the decision to resist, it’s with all the horses. The Russian economy will be crushed, throughout our lifetime. The rapid cohesion of American and European foreign policy, emerging power of Eastern European countries will have an impact on China’s “belt and road” initiative in Europe and its “16×1” partnership with eastern European countries. China is making their major impact on the emerging world, more so than other countries. That will factor into their decisions.
And speaking of the emerging countries; a number of Asian countries (Bangladesh, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka) abstained from the UN Resolution vote, as did half of Africa — including South Africa. India, which has a tight relationship with Russia. I think the idea of a “managed democracy” takes hold in a lot of countries.
China’s read on the U.S. is more complex. We’ve had a decades-long relationship with Taiwan, they’re aligned with us, they expressly rejected China’s authority. What I wonder is whether China realizes that its international stance on the Ukrainian invasion is moving it from “strategic competitor” to “outright adversary.” If there’s a breakdown in Sino-US relations, it will profoundly damage the international economy and institutions.
The China relationship with Russia is interesting. Their militaries have cooperated in large scale exercises, and the Chinese military is organized similar to the Russian military. I imagine China must be rethinking that relationship, particularly given that they have effectively no battle experience. They have to be wondering if they have the right training partner. Separately, the ability of the West in general and the US in particular to detail Russia’s moves before they happened should concern China. And lastly, the social media war (which retains a Western bias — are you aware of any Chinese media or social outlets that have a significant impact outside of China in terms of creating trusted content?). In other words, China will struggle to tell its story.
China will continue to threaten Taiwan, and they’ve already violated their airspace, and consumed Hong Kong. But i don’t think they’re likely to invade any time soon.
Hunter Biden.
BTW, the Hunter Biden laptop whistleblower Jack Maxey says there’s 450 GB of deleted files (80k images) that he has. He’s fled from the UK to Switzerland, saying he’s afraid of the White House and doesn’t want to get extradited.
As a lefty, I blame the guy posting left wing political stuff. The rules are clear. He was warned. Multiple people suggested he stay on topic. He just couldn’t help himself. I personally wouldn’t mind political things on the Cardboard, but they have made it clear they don’t want it on their platform — left or right wing stuff. I don’t see how you blame the Cardboard for taking some action — though I think they should have just kicked him off the site instead of shutting down the thread.
Yeah, it was OF. But that guy can come unhinged. Reminds me of the old joke: A fanatic does what God would do if God knew the whole story. OF knows the whole story, and all must listen.
Mick, there’s no reason to put ‘insurrection’ in quotes. It was plain as day what was going on. The day before the insurrection I started a thread called “Trump still attempting his coup“. There was a multi-pronged attempt to overturn the election. January 6th wasn’t just some big coincidence.
In a nation of 330 million people, we’re talking about 2,000 – 2,500 people, absolute tops, who didn’t know what the F they were doing, who were largely unarmed, dramatically outnumbered by an armed police and had literally zero hope of changing anything?
Here’s the definition of an insurrection by the Collins English Dictionary:
Definition of ’insurrection’
insurrection(ɪnsərɛkʃən)Word forms: insurrections
VARIABLE NOUN
“An insurrection is violent action that is taken by a large group of people against the rulers of their country, usually in order to remove them from office.”I don’t think the number of people/idiots involved in the January 6 Capitol attack rises to the level of an insurrection. Hence, my use of quotes.Why was Will Smith not escorted from the ceremony and arrested? Imagine if he were Mel Gibson.
Apparently they attempted to escort him from the building. They asked him to leave and he refused.
In response, the Academy is preparing a disciplinary action. Should be interesting. The only individuals who have been expelled from the Academy were some pretty bad actors; Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski and Carmine Caridi (kicked out for sharing screeners).
IIRC, in 2014 Putin said he had no interest in taking back Alaska. Recently, however, a Russian politician, Oleg Matveychev, stated he wants to sue for economic harm that the U.S. sanctions are causing Russia, and he would accept receipt of Alaska in payment. And not just Alaska, but Fort Ross, CA because Russians discovered it.
The $11.4 billion California unemployment benefits fraud during the pandemic, presided over by Julie Su (Dept of Labor Secretary nominee) involved foreign cybercriminals. That was fairly impressive.
“Ukraine is finished as a viable country” I hope you’re wrong there. The people are fighting for their country and their freedom and independence. I think they just might come out of this a much better country than they were. First they have to survive.
Let me rephrase. I’m not saying there won’t be a Ukraine. But the Ukraine that the Ukrainians would have recognized is gone, and likely not to return. They’ve already lost Crimea. They will probably lose their two Eastern provinces bordering Russia, and they almost lost three. Their infrastructure is in the process of being ruined. They have lost 2-3 million refugees.
I would be very surprised if they engineered a rapid turnaround.
