Political Roundtable Part XXXI

[Pointgod]

Paging TGW….paging Bonscott. Anyone of you Biden bashers care to speak on this?

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[Pointgod]

This is why people who say that voting doesn’t matter or parrot the dumb “vote harder” meme need to stfu forever. This doesn’t happen if a Republican is President. The state could have done the same investigation, but the AG is a Mitch McConnell, hand picked spineless weasel. Both parties aren’t the same and people need to get that through their thick skulls. The Republican Party needs to be made a permanent minority party until they purge the party its love for extremism and Facists. I repeat Bill Barr never would have prosecuted these guys.

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This doesn’t bring back Breonna Taylor but it is a bit of Justice for her family. This is why you vote Democratic Party and don’t sit at home or waste your vote on third parties.

[Zonkerbl]

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[pancakes3]

all it took was for Manchin and Sinema to get with the f'ing program.

[dobrojim]

This is why people who say that voting doesn’t matter or parrot the dumb “vote harder” meme need to stfu forever. This doesn’t happen if a Republican is President. The state could have done the same investigation, but the AG is a Mitch McConnell, hand picked spineless weasel. Both parties aren’t the same and people need to get that through their thick skulls. The Republican Party needs to be made a permanent minority party until they purge the party its love for WHITE SUPREMACISTS, extremism and Facists. I repeat Bill Barr never would have prosecuted these guys.

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[Pointgod]

TGW? Bonscott? Care to comment? How about our Republican friends? Not that a President should get 100% of the credit for job growth or unemployment, but considering that Biden started in a huge hole he should get some credit, especially for the speed of the recovery.

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[dckingsfan]

TGW? Bonscott? Care to comment? How about our Republican friends? Not that a President should get 100% of the credit for job growth or unemployment, but considering that Biden started in a huge hole he should get some credit, especially for the speed of the recovery.

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Yeah, you won't see a comment. Biden should never have been blamed for worldwide inflation and shouldn't get credit.

It is eating them up that we aren't going into a prolonged recession... most Rs are actively rooting for failure.

And the nerve that the Ds are on the verge of passing the Inflation Reduction Bill, a fiscally prudent bill that is paid in contrast to the spend and not tax Bush and Trump Administrations.

[dckingsfan]

And just in case you thought the Rs weren't going to do anything on climate change - they are actively blocking changes... their is no equivalence between the two parties any longer.

Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels, fighting regulations that would make clear the economic risks posed by a warming world, lobbying against climate-minded nominees to key federal posts and using the tax dollars they control to punish companies that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the past year, treasurers in nearly half the United States have been coordinating tactics and talking points, meeting in private and cheering each other in public as part of a well-funded campaign to protect the fossil fuel companies that bolster their local economies.

Last week, Riley Moore, the treasurer of West Virginia, announced that several major banks — including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo — would be barred from government contracts with his state because they are reducing their investments in coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.

Mr. Moore and the treasurers of Louisiana and Arkansas have pulled more than $700 million out of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, over objections that the firm is too focused on environmental issues. At the same time, the treasurers of Utah and Idaho are pressuring the private sector to drop climate action and other causes they label as “woke.”

And treasurers from Pennsylvania, Arizona and Oklahoma joined a larger campaign to thwart the nominations of federal regulators who wanted to require that banks, funds and companies disclose the financial risks posed by a warming planet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/climate/republican-treasurers-climate-change.html

[pancakes3]

blackrock has like $10 trillion in managed funds. private wealth requires $10M minimum. i don't think they're losing any sleep.

[Pointgod]

TGW? Bonscott? Care to comment? How about our Republican friends? Not that a President should get 100% of the credit for job growth or unemployment, but considering that Biden started in a huge hole he should get some credit, especially for the speed of the recovery.

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Yeah, you won't see a comment. Biden should never have been blamed for worldwide inflation and shouldn't get credit.

It is eating them up that we aren't going into a prolonged recession... most Rs are actively rooting for failure.

And the nerve that the Ds are on the verge of passing the Inflation Reduction Bill, a fiscally prudent bill that is paid in contrast to the spend and not tax Bush and Trump Administrations.

Oh it’s absolutely killing guys like TGW and Bonscott (I assume he’s not on the left) that the economic indicators for Biden are looking up, gas prices have been steadily dropping, the Democrats are taking tangible steps to address inflation and they’re losing their talking points heading into the midterm. They’re like Republicans in that way that they want to see the economy suffer as long as it makes Democrats look bad. I’ve even been looking at some of the “Progressive” Twitter accounts and they’re either completely silent on this possible deal, jobs numbers or complaining about removing the carried interest loophole (which sucks but isn’t a reason to hate the deal). Sometimes the leftists as they call themselves are their own worst enemy due to their petty, zero sum politics.

Republicans are showing the same disdain for doing something positive for the American people. This is just being petty ****.

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And this is hilarious how the right wing is trying to spin the jobs report. Again these sociopaths want to see people suffer and the economy crash rather than say anything positive about Biden and Democrats.

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[Wizardspride]

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[Zonkerbl]

Sinema took out the carried interest tweak anyway

[Pointgod]

The party of white supremacy. Genuinely curious what the our Republican posters think of this.

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[dobrojim]

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And DeathSantis is reportedly in need of several thousand teachers in FL public schools this
year. Meanwhile he's busy doing what fascists do being an authoritarian always trying to
prove he's a strong leader by which he means harming his political enemies.

The case of the Hillsborough DA is one of the latest examples. Elected twice,
DeathSantis seems to think it's his duty to fire the guy, not for an action official
act but for something he said.

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I was interested and a bit taken back to see some of the comments which were
predominantly against the DA. Perhaps I need to learn more but it seemed to me
that these commenters had an emotional response not to what the DA said but
rather to what the Gov said. I suspect that many of them do not have a clear
understanding of what happened and take what the Gov said as being entirely
truthful and appropriate.

[dckingsfan]

Under the heading of, for many that can't move, the healthcare system is broken. We don't have nurses, doctors or clinics for maternal care... oh, well.

Why Are American Women Finally Hitting a Breaking Point? Texas leads the US in maternity ward closures, and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.

But for more than a year, Big Bend’s labor and delivery unit has closed routinely, sometimes with little notice. Some months it’s been open only three days a week.

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Big Bend is the only hospital in a 12,000-square-mile area that delivers babies. If Billings’s patient goes into labor when the maternity ward is closed, she’ll have to make a difficult choice. She can drive to the next nearest hospital, in Fort Stockton, yet another hour away. Or, if her labor is too far along and she’s unlikely to make it, she can deliver in Big Bend’s emergency room. But the ER doesn’t have a fetal heart monitor or nurses who know how to use one. It also doesn’t keep patients overnight. When a woman gives birth there, she’s either transferred to Fort Stockton—enduring the long drive after having just had a baby—or discharged and sent home.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-04/texas-pregnancy-care-worsens-as-maternity-wards-close

[Zonkerbl]

The IRA passed the Senate...

[Wizardspride]

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[dobrojim]

The IRA passed the Senate...

so next we can expect lots of nits to be picked with what each person's
idea of a more perfect bill would have been. Nothing wrong with that
up to the point of saying it shouldn't have passed at all since it wasn't perfect.

Like everyone in the media has been saying (lately), compared to where
we were a week ago...

[Pointgod]

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[Zonkerbl]

The IRA passed the Senate...

so next we can expect lots of nits to be picked with what each person's
idea of a more perfect bill would have been. Nothing wrong with that
up to the point of saying it shouldn't have passed at all since it wasn't perfect.

Like everyone in the media has been saying (lately), compared to where
we were a week ago...

Well, I'm worried that the petroleum lobby loves this bill. That's not a good sign.