J_Stewart Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 My guy Bernie just being an absolute swag daddy shagga yet againWhat might have been. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve55 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 On 05/11/2020 at 10:24, Granny Danger said: Oh he’s far, far better than Trump. Tell that to the people of Libya. The Establishment and deep state hated Trump, that should tell you all you need to know. Trump was 1st president in decades that didnt start a new war, how long will it take for Biden to start new war? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) Don't give up, there's still time for Trumpy to launch an attack on Iran. In the meantime he's launched more drone strikes than he's had bogies on the the golf course, declared full economic warfare on a few countries and tried and failed in more than one military coup attempt in Venezuela. Edited January 2, 2021 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 3 hours ago, MixuFruit said: Did Trump not massively ramp up drone strikes? And launched a load of shadowy deployments that we'll probably find out about in a few years time. Portraying him as a dove or uniquely bad for the world are both dumb positions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 11 minutes ago, NotThePars said: And launched a load of shadowy deployments that we'll probably find out about in a few years time. Portraying him as a dove or uniquely bad for the world are both dumb positions. Nothing screams peace loving hippie like hiring John 'can I push the big red button' Bolton. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 16 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Nothing screams peace loving hippie like hiring John 'can I push the big red button' Bolton. Aye. I think he's personally much more of a coward who didn't have the committal to launch a war (which is good!) but it did just mean taking the apparatus set up or pioneered under Obama and going hog wild with them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 4 hours ago, steve55 said: Tell that to the people of Libya. The Establishment and deep state hated Trump, that should tell you all you need to know. Trump was 1st president in decades that didnt start a new war, how long will it take for Biden to start new war? Trump is as Establishment as they come. He makes profits from military expansion, he pays $750 in tax a year, and he literally trades off the back of the presidency. “The deep state” is short hand for people who do jobs most people don’t understand. It’s utterly meaningless. You might as well just say “they”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) 27 minutes ago, NotThePars said: Aye. I think he's personally much more of a coward who didn't have the committal to launch a war (which is good!) but it did just mean taking the apparatus set up or pioneered under Obama and going hog wild with them. Think he's more squeamish than anything, didn't do anything major in Syria till he got shown a youtube video of children supposedly suffering the effects of chemical warfare. Obama was the first to have drones widely available, bit like Hillary was the first to get in trouble for using a personal email account. Trump was itching to have a Bush senior style in and and out victory like Panama or Reagan's in Grenada, in Venezuela, but I think everyone told him it would end up in the jungles like Vietnam. He's delegated the use of drones to underlings so he doesn't have to take personal responsibility like Obama did. Edited January 2, 2021 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Yes, and you have to give him credit for not starting a full scale war. Can't be many Presidents who didn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 16 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: Loooooool Was a link tot his from that tweet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 14 hours ago, MixuFruit said: So perfectly American. Here they lie about a window being broken or someone getting punched, they really do things better over there. Imagine being on the team that had to source the pigs head.. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 On 02/01/2021 at 11:52, J_Stewart said: My guy Bernie just being an absolute swag daddy shagga yet again What might have been. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Biden looking like he needs another hit of Botox- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 50 minutes ago, MixuFruit said: This is an extraordinary statistic. Is there any breakdown by sector or region? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Biden will have a huge amount on his plate but will only have two guaranteed years of control of the Presidency, House and Senate. Granting statehood to DC and PR should be a priority. Looking at the Electoral College and the distribution of popular votes for the Senate should also be up there. Possibly the composition of the SCOTUS. Failure to act before 2023 could come back to bite the Dems hard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Doesn't help that the GOP did well down ballot so the State Legislators and Governors will be gerrymandering like f**k. Firming up and expanding Obamacare and DACA should be a priority too, but it will be razor edge in the Senate with some votes requiring 60% and some Dems more like moderate Republicans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 19 hours ago, Granny Danger said: Biden will have a huge amount on his plate but will only have two guaranteed years of control of the Presidency, House and Senate. Granting statehood to DC and PR should be a priority. Looking at the Electoral College and the distribution of popular votes for the Senate should also be up there. Possibly the composition of the SCOTUS. Failure to act before 2023 could come back to bite the Dems hard. Poor bloody Puerto Rico. Apparently they've had six referendums on becoming the 51st state.and still nobody cares. The Democrats are going to do absolutely none of those things you mentioned, aren't they? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 They'll do nothing major before 2022. Their majority is so small, it's barely a majority when anything particularly progressive comes up seen as the Independent from Maine is basically a Republican on most issues. If 2022 goes well for the Dems, you'd like to think they'd make a move on Puerto Rico. While some of them like the status quo seen as it gets most of them out of paying income tax, it's hard to argue against the democratic necessity of admitting them to the Union. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Got to remember that the Dems won because they got the vote out. Young voters, people of colour, women voted Democrat rather than stay at home. If Biden does nothing for these voters on healthcare, college fees, structural inequality and women's right then they'll stay at home in 2022, the Senate will flip back, and Biden will be a lame duck. Best hope for Biden is that the fault lines in the right open up and a Trumpist third party splits the vote 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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