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from what I’ve seen this won’t alienate minorities: at least not to the extent you seem to think.
we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.
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either way
from what I’ve seen this won’t alienate minorities: at least not to the extent you seem to think.
we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.
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Concur re: agree to disagree.
Rook
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nah just look at the clowns who won the primaries. he wouldn't stand a chance.
Big Joey Pissboiler and I'm here for it
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Biden warns Trump and his closest followers are trying to undermine American democracy in combative speech
President Joe Biden delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans and their fealty to his predecessor in an evening speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, alleging they "thrive on chaos" and warning their attempts to undermine democracy could devolve into violence.
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Hassan's not thanking him for it, and Manchin will be swearing up a storm in his office if he sounds like this in 2024, but it needed to be said.
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Analysis: Maybe Biden means it on Taiwan
The first time a president repudiates a critical foreign policy principle, it might seem like an accident. If it happens four times, it seems like he means it.
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Biden’s promise to defend Taiwan says a lot about America’s view of China
How Washington came to see China as an existential threat, explained.
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Very, very big deal if the assessment is accurate. Makes sense, though. China appears to be on a downswing, they're not there yet, and they're obviously an enemy. It's a sizable shift for Biden, who has historically been on Team Engagement.
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Biden goes after House GOP's 'thin' midterm agenda | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden on Friday criticized Republicans and House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's proposed midterm agenda, describing the plan as a "thin series of policy goals" in his latest campaign speech.
Certainly spot-on that McCarthy's agenda is no Contract with America. Of course, that one wasn't really meant to be a policy platform. It was more a quality bit of political messaging that was easy to follow through on. Still hard to believe that they fell short of getting a balanced budget amendment (not a good idea at the federal level) in front of the states by a single vote. (Dole voted against so he could bring it back up if they flipped a vote later.)
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Despite being senile he's still sharper in the mind than truss
He’s been kinda known for this sort of stuff for a while (Chuck was in a wheelchair)
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Right, he's been a word salad mess since he ran in '88. How he got a reputation as a quality orator, I will never understand. The only explanation I can come up with is that most of the Democrats in the Senate at the time were worse, which dovetails with what I recall of them.
Doing passably on Meet the Press in a prepped environment is not the same skillset as doing well in the campaign stump environment. There's a lot more that can go wrong when you take the guardrails away.
I don’t think he ever got a reputation as a quality orator did he? More of a “can connect to your average Joe on the stump” and his verbal gaffes kinda linked with that - not polished.
He did get a lot of (deserved) props for overcoming a stutter.
Martin Alvito
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Look up how the media portrayed him in the run-up to the primaries during 1987 sometime. It's nuts.
Swear I'm not making this up. Watched some old videos from the time period to confirm my recollection the last time the subject came up.
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For me the gaffs aren't the great worry, neither is the greatest worry over about dementia that has set in, it's the closest advisors are all cut from the same cloth - and that's scary, when the sanest most rational/balanced voice in there is Burns it's time to be worried.
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In comparison to what? It's a bunch of largely leftist careerists, which shouldn't be much of a surprise. About the only job where the aisle is regularly crossed is Defense, and that's by Democrats alone.
If you want to talk scary advisers, Reagan and Bush 43 had the kind of foreign policy teams that gave us Iran-Contra and the second go-round in Iraq. Clinton's wasn't all that strong, which in conjunction with his political instincts was how we ended up with the policy of a weathervane for eight years. Trump spent most of his administration on the Nixon plan of firing the good people and replacing them with yes-men, though at least Nixon kept Kissinger around because he knew he needed Kissinger.
Is this lot superb other than Yellen? No, but the last time somebody assembled a really first-rate team was Bush 41, with a very different Cheney over at Defense and the remainder largely cherry-picked from the quality below the top jobs under Reagan. It's very much the exception rather than the rule.
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