Biden was in Wisconsin today touting Microsoft building a new AI datacenter in the area where Trump's failed Foxconn facility was supposed to have been.
'Infrastructure Week' every week for four years and we didn't build a damn thing," he said.
"He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn... In fact, he came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the 'eighth wonder of the world.'"
Biden recalled to the crowd a promise he said Trump left completely unfulfilled.
"Are you kidding me? Look what happened!" he exclaimed. "They dug a hole with those golden shovels -- and then they fell into it!"
Biden noted that many homes in the area were bulldozed for the project, even though it never came to fruition.
"Foxconn turned out to be just that -- a con," Biden said. "Go figure!"
Well they're not going to know because Faux News isn't going to tell them; surely Sinclair's News Desk isn't going to tell them. And the NYT isn't going to tell them because Joe Biden is old. Bothsiderism rules the day, from mainstream to pundits to shit-stirrers like Jon Stewart.
This is the great benefit of the rightwing media human centipede. But it's not invincible. We've got our work to do this November.
I think your average maga asshole admits making mistakes as well as their mega maga asshole leader. So rather than saying " Jesus Christ, This $1,900 a month truck payment is breaking my balls! How my dumbass ever thought I could afford a $90,000 pickup truck I'll never know!" they're more inclined to say something like" This damn Joe Biden inflation is killing us! You can't tell by looking at me, the old lady and the kids, but we're wasting away to nothing! "
They are narcissists who project everything onto everyone else and blame them for their lot in life. It is NEVER their fault, if it was they would be Ds.
Bibi has always assumed the US will *always* help Israel otherwise the US will be called anti-semitic. I think that mindset is changing a bit here in the US.
He also probably was gambling on the Republicans using the issue to attack Biden; remember that time House Republicans invited Netanyahu to scold Obama?
Unfortunately, the current House GOP is too busy shooting themselves in the face to actually take advantage of the situation.
The Israelis had to respond to Hamas's attack, but Bibi is becoming a pariah because of his desire to level Gaza. I suspect mainly to keep himself in power, and out of jail.
There are 1 million people in Rafah, and the Israeli army can't root out Hamas fighters in that group? Maybe offer the Palestinians a cease fire AND a bounty if they turn over any member of Hamas.
I'm not sure there will be any type of cease fire unless the Israelis get rid of Bibi.
The best, perhaps only, way to destroy Hamas is to give the Palestinian people hope in something other than surviving to take revenge later. Unfortunately, both Netanyahu's political and personal instincts, plus his own political and perhaps physical survival, depend on him *not* understanding that.
That's why I said for a ceasefire, the Israelis need to get rid of Bibi, and I should add that the Palestinians need to get rid of Hamas. Neither side is blame free, and they've both got blood on their hands.
People in that part of the world seem to be very interested in holding on to grudges, instead of trying to make peace.
You seem to have forgotten WHY Gaza has been getting pounded for the past few months. Let me remind you:
1) They killed 1200 people, many of them young people at a music festival.
2) They raped women and killed children.
3) They took a few hundred hostages.
They've been offered a ceasefire if they return the hostages. They don't want it. They use Palestinians as human shields, they steal money from their own people. The leaders of Hamas live in other countries, on all of the money they stole from their own people.
PLEASE, tell us all how Biden can put an end to this constant fighting. I guess nobody has EVER tried to get these 2 groups to peacefully co-exist before now.
No, they've been offered a six-week timeout if they return the hostages, after which the bloodshed starts up again. You don't have to convince me Hamas sucks, but none of this, not even the events of October 7th justify what's been done since, and Biden has condoned and materially supported Israel every step of the way.
And they refused to return the hostages after the deal was agreed to changing from 33 living humans to a dozen corpses of people they had tortured and murdered.
This is a fucking op. There is no way Biden solves a conflict as old as the existence of Islam.
What can it do? Get Trump elected because of fucking hater idiots like you.
Have these people never heard of the joke of Middle East Peace. Remember Jarhead was supposed to fix that his first week working with his orange moron of a FIL. Instead he got a BILLION from Saudi.
Don't remember whether it was Mother Jones, Politico, or Vox, but a psychologist they talked to says that our inexplicable dissatisfaction with the way things are going is due to the unresolved trauma of the COVID pandemic.
We isolated, used protection, massively disrupted our daily lives, watched loved ones die and feared getting sick ourselves......and then nothing. No memorial for the dead, nothing to mark that it's over....just this nagging unease at the back of the mind.
At my training today, we were explained the bare rudiments of trauma informed care. It's my favorite part of the job, and I've been training at it for years (my second favorite is motivational interviewing). In class today I said what I've been saying for the past two years: Because of the pandemic, the entire world needs trauma informed care.
Yeah, the fucking NYT could have been pointing out all this stuff instead of 'Americans think Biden Too Old' bullshit...There's a fucking REASON the average American is so fucking pig ignorant and disengaged...The NYT can fuck itself in the neck with a sharp stick...JFC!
For MAGAts, it's not about any political considerations whatsoever. Those of us who are former or current deadheads should be able to recognize it - what they have done is form a new counterculture, and Trump is their Jerry Garcia. All the same attractions exist: unequivocal love and acceptance for insiders, the belief that you have knowledge over the outsiders, rituals, symbols, new slang, and above all - parties to go to, big, big shindigs with thousands all loving you for the misfit you are.
Yeah it's a cult, but remember: Garcia died two decades ago, and the cult survives. We got big problems folks.
Not really, Garcia never told anyone what to do, ever. People followed the music of the band and called Jerry "Captain Trips". Jerry made it clear in no uncertain terms he was not a cult leader. MAGA is a pure cult with a textbook deranged leader telling them what to do on a daily basis.
After reading the actual poll numbers I would say that the headlines don’t really match what’s in the poll.
For example the main headline is :
“Poll: Biden touts his four major infrastructure and clean energy laws. Voters doubt they’re working.”
Yet the first poll on the IRA shows 46 percent of RV saw it as being positive or a mix of positive and negative with only 21 percent saying it was negative.
Subheadline :
“Voters say they don’t see the benefits”
And yet right below it the results show
52 percent show a major or minor impact and only 30 percent saying no impact.
Finally the other subheadline
“Many voters credit Trump, not Biden, for doing more on infrastructure”
Also includes in the poll question the sentence :
“Percentage of voters who say Biden or Trump “has done more to promote infrastructure improvements AND job creation.”
And we know that people always think Republicans are the “job creators”
And still the results show Biden winning that poll 40-37.
So bottom line - Every poll showed an advantage for Biden but that don’t get the clicks do it?
Well and think of what that headline really says. It basically is meaningless really. Biden could have 1 million votes for and 5 against and the headline still works right? It’s bs clickbait for the most part.
Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number."
Here in Georgia, they scan the back of our driver's license and/or state ID card in real time, make sure the picture matches, make sure we're at the right polling place, and verify we didn't get hit in the last round of overzealous voter registration purges.
I don't know how anyone who hasn't jumped through 20 different hoops can vote in Georgia at this point.
Back about 2019 I saw the results of a poll that said a majority of Republicans would be totally OK with the election being postponed if Trump said it needed to be done to ensure that illegals wouldn't be voting.
If they're convinced this is happening, they should be totally OK with Biden postponing the election for the same reason, right?
We have a few folks like that here in town. Luckily they do not have any influence on anyone except their little cabal. I occasionally play with them and present them with non biased facts to see how they respond. One of them has decided to start taunting me like a bloody 4th grader. Nicknames that he thinks are hurtful. I did 'bless your heart' him and he didnt understand.
I note that Trump Farts One has been sitting on the tarmac at KPBI all day so far... Trump is not out doing important campaigning on his day off from court?
Wherever the hell he is he is pissing, whining, wailing, bitching, moaning, howling, shrieking, whimpering, simpering, and generally consuming ALL of the oxygen in the immediate chamber bemoaning his ENTIRELY undeserved suffering and persecution.
Suffice to say the stinking smoke of the long smoldering smudge of long-burning stinking self-pity and malodorous, mucky, moldering martyr complex hovers like a gagging, choking pall.
The Republican party itself is preying on mental illness. People of compromised mental health always gravitate toward fear and negativity
Ta, Evan.
Biden was in Wisconsin today touting Microsoft building a new AI datacenter in the area where Trump's failed Foxconn facility was supposed to have been.
'Infrastructure Week' every week for four years and we didn't build a damn thing," he said.
"He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn... In fact, he came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the 'eighth wonder of the world.'"
Biden recalled to the crowd a promise he said Trump left completely unfulfilled.
"Are you kidding me? Look what happened!" he exclaimed. "They dug a hole with those golden shovels -- and then they fell into it!"
Biden noted that many homes in the area were bulldozed for the project, even though it never came to fruition.
"Foxconn turned out to be just that -- a con," Biden said. "Go figure!"
Well they're not going to know because Faux News isn't going to tell them; surely Sinclair's News Desk isn't going to tell them. And the NYT isn't going to tell them because Joe Biden is old. Bothsiderism rules the day, from mainstream to pundits to shit-stirrers like Jon Stewart.
This is the great benefit of the rightwing media human centipede. But it's not invincible. We've got our work to do this November.
Mount up!
The liberal media doesn't exist. They all work for Mango Manson, whether they know it or not.
And oh by the way, Politico (a.k.a. "Tiger Beat on the Potomac" [thanks Charlie Pierce]) sure as shit ain't gonna tell them!
I think your average maga asshole admits making mistakes as well as their mega maga asshole leader. So rather than saying " Jesus Christ, This $1,900 a month truck payment is breaking my balls! How my dumbass ever thought I could afford a $90,000 pickup truck I'll never know!" they're more inclined to say something like" This damn Joe Biden inflation is killing us! You can't tell by looking at me, the old lady and the kids, but we're wasting away to nothing! "
They are narcissists who project everything onto everyone else and blame them for their lot in life. It is NEVER their fault, if it was they would be Ds.
Sorry if mentioned already, but US delayed munitions delivery to IDF.
It's a start.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68978322.amp
Great news!
Good.
Bibi has always assumed the US will *always* help Israel otherwise the US will be called anti-semitic. I think that mindset is changing a bit here in the US.
He also probably was gambling on the Republicans using the issue to attack Biden; remember that time House Republicans invited Netanyahu to scold Obama?
Unfortunately, the current House GOP is too busy shooting themselves in the face to actually take advantage of the situation.
The Israelis had to respond to Hamas's attack, but Bibi is becoming a pariah because of his desire to level Gaza. I suspect mainly to keep himself in power, and out of jail.
There are 1 million people in Rafah, and the Israeli army can't root out Hamas fighters in that group? Maybe offer the Palestinians a cease fire AND a bounty if they turn over any member of Hamas.
I'm not sure there will be any type of cease fire unless the Israelis get rid of Bibi.
The best, perhaps only, way to destroy Hamas is to give the Palestinian people hope in something other than surviving to take revenge later. Unfortunately, both Netanyahu's political and personal instincts, plus his own political and perhaps physical survival, depend on him *not* understanding that.
And get rid of UNRWA and stop teaching hate.
Demilitarize Gaza, accept the existence of Israel, and there could be peace.
An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.
That's why I said for a ceasefire, the Israelis need to get rid of Bibi, and I should add that the Palestinians need to get rid of Hamas. Neither side is blame free, and they've both got blood on their hands.
People in that part of the world seem to be very interested in holding on to grudges, instead of trying to make peace.
You seem to have forgotten WHY Gaza has been getting pounded for the past few months. Let me remind you:
1) They killed 1200 people, many of them young people at a music festival.
2) They raped women and killed children.
3) They took a few hundred hostages.
They've been offered a ceasefire if they return the hostages. They don't want it. They use Palestinians as human shields, they steal money from their own people. The leaders of Hamas live in other countries, on all of the money they stole from their own people.
PLEASE, tell us all how Biden can put an end to this constant fighting. I guess nobody has EVER tried to get these 2 groups to peacefully co-exist before now.
No, they've been offered a six-week timeout if they return the hostages, after which the bloodshed starts up again. You don't have to convince me Hamas sucks, but none of this, not even the events of October 7th justify what's been done since, and Biden has condoned and materially supported Israel every step of the way.
And they refused to return the hostages after the deal was agreed to changing from 33 living humans to a dozen corpses of people they had tortured and murdered.
This is a fucking op. There is no way Biden solves a conflict as old as the existence of Islam.
What can it do? Get Trump elected because of fucking hater idiots like you.
Have these people never heard of the joke of Middle East Peace. Remember Jarhead was supposed to fix that his first week working with his orange moron of a FIL. Instead he got a BILLION from Saudi.
Don't remember whether it was Mother Jones, Politico, or Vox, but a psychologist they talked to says that our inexplicable dissatisfaction with the way things are going is due to the unresolved trauma of the COVID pandemic.
We isolated, used protection, massively disrupted our daily lives, watched loved ones die and feared getting sick ourselves......and then nothing. No memorial for the dead, nothing to mark that it's over....just this nagging unease at the back of the mind.
At my training today, we were explained the bare rudiments of trauma informed care. It's my favorite part of the job, and I've been training at it for years (my second favorite is motivational interviewing). In class today I said what I've been saying for the past two years: Because of the pandemic, the entire world needs trauma informed care.
Closure.
That makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is some wanting to put the guy who bungled the Covid response back into the WH.
So he can kill another million
Yeah, the fucking NYT could have been pointing out all this stuff instead of 'Americans think Biden Too Old' bullshit...There's a fucking REASON the average American is so fucking pig ignorant and disengaged...The NYT can fuck itself in the neck with a sharp stick...JFC!
FUCK YEAH!
For MAGAts, it's not about any political considerations whatsoever. Those of us who are former or current deadheads should be able to recognize it - what they have done is form a new counterculture, and Trump is their Jerry Garcia. All the same attractions exist: unequivocal love and acceptance for insiders, the belief that you have knowledge over the outsiders, rituals, symbols, new slang, and above all - parties to go to, big, big shindigs with thousands all loving you for the misfit you are.
Yeah it's a cult, but remember: Garcia died two decades ago, and the cult survives. We got big problems folks.
Not really, Garcia never told anyone what to do, ever. People followed the music of the band and called Jerry "Captain Trips". Jerry made it clear in no uncertain terms he was not a cult leader. MAGA is a pure cult with a textbook deranged leader telling them what to do on a daily basis.
No comparison to Garcia whatsoever, I'm only talking about the followers.
good point. They currently exist WITHIN the republican party, but if asked to choose between the two, they would pick Trump...
Ooh oohoo hoo yay!
After reading the actual poll numbers I would say that the headlines don’t really match what’s in the poll.
For example the main headline is :
“Poll: Biden touts his four major infrastructure and clean energy laws. Voters doubt they’re working.”
Yet the first poll on the IRA shows 46 percent of RV saw it as being positive or a mix of positive and negative with only 21 percent saying it was negative.
Subheadline :
“Voters say they don’t see the benefits”
And yet right below it the results show
52 percent show a major or minor impact and only 30 percent saying no impact.
Finally the other subheadline
“Many voters credit Trump, not Biden, for doing more on infrastructure”
Also includes in the poll question the sentence :
“Percentage of voters who say Biden or Trump “has done more to promote infrastructure improvements AND job creation.”
And we know that people always think Republicans are the “job creators”
And still the results show Biden winning that poll 40-37.
So bottom line - Every poll showed an advantage for Biden but that don’t get the clicks do it?
“Many voters credit Trump, not Biden, for doing more on infrastructure”
As per usual, pollsters aren't interested in the actually important question: *WHY* do you think that?
Well and think of what that headline really says. It basically is meaningless really. Biden could have 1 million votes for and 5 against and the headline still works right? It’s bs clickbait for the most part.
"“Voters say they don’t see the benefits”
And yet right below it the results show
52 percent show a major or minor impact and only 30 percent saying no impact."
----
Basically:
'If it doesn't effect or help me directly or RIGHT IN FRONT of me then it doesn't exist'
low empathy reasoning
Federal funding to feed school children???!!!?! How does that help ME??!!! I'm 60 years old!!!
sometimes I fucking hate people
Probably some of them believe there's a lot of assistance and funding going towards *too many* people with skin darker than a paper bag.
WE NEVER BEGIN SHORTLY
[end of rant]
Rain delay?
"Shortly" is a relative term ... in geologic time, they *always* start shortly.
Biden vs. Gravel Pit 2024
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number."
Sounds legit.
this is an insult to me personally as an election supervisor for the state of Rhode Island, and every other poll worker in the nation
and it encourages violence against this group based on false fucking witness, you white-ass sepulchre
Is that because it's an imaginary number?
Here in Georgia, they scan the back of our driver's license and/or state ID card in real time, make sure the picture matches, make sure we're at the right polling place, and verify we didn't get hit in the last round of overzealous voter registration purges.
I don't know how anyone who hasn't jumped through 20 different hoops can vote in Georgia at this point.
I would fail that as my photo on my DL is 25 yrs old
Guilty beyond an intuitive doubt
Only the fool says there's no voter fraud, when The LORD has written it on everyone's hearts.
I mean, fer chrissakes, if you have a HUNCH about something, doesn't that mean it HAS to be true?
Of course it does. And I have a hunch that tfg is a very, very bad person; and Mike Johnson is not much better. Take that, Mike!
It's my sincerely held political belief that Trump should be imprisoned. Anyone who disagrees with me should be in prison. That's just science!
//I guess two can play at this game
Back about 2019 I saw the results of a poll that said a majority of Republicans would be totally OK with the election being postponed if Trump said it needed to be done to ensure that illegals wouldn't be voting.
If they're convinced this is happening, they should be totally OK with Biden postponing the election for the same reason, right?
You know, we have a word for things that you can't prove happen. Especially things that would be really easy to prove if they were actually happening.
That word is Fictional.
I went with " bullshit".
I was being polite.
Whar civility, and all that.
I don't think there's ever been a more succinct encapsulation of the GOP's preference for vibes over objective reality.
"Everyone knows" is a village gossip's level of evidence.
"People are saying..."
My grandmother used to say "they say that ________________________."
Well, then it MUST be true.
My MIL used to use that phrase and it was the clue we needed to know it was bullshit racist/bigoted lies
Like MTG accusing Eric Swalwell of sleeping with a Chinese spy "and everyone knows it."
"We all know, intuitively"
This from the guy who literally believes that some guy named Noah built a large boat and filled it with pairs of zebras, lions, etc.
Remarkable restraint by the lions, with the zebras right there.
"AM I ON CANDID CAMERA??!"
Faith-based non-data.
We have a few folks like that here in town. Luckily they do not have any influence on anyone except their little cabal. I occasionally play with them and present them with non biased facts to see how they respond. One of them has decided to start taunting me like a bloody 4th grader. Nicknames that he thinks are hurtful. I did 'bless your heart' him and he didnt understand.
I note that Trump Farts One has been sitting on the tarmac at KPBI all day so far... Trump is not out doing important campaigning on his day off from court?
Or is he campaigning at Mar-a-Lago?
Wherever the hell he is he is pissing, whining, wailing, bitching, moaning, howling, shrieking, whimpering, simpering, and generally consuming ALL of the oxygen in the immediate chamber bemoaning his ENTIRELY undeserved suffering and persecution.
Suffice to say the stinking smoke of the long smoldering smudge of long-burning stinking self-pity and malodorous, mucky, moldering martyr complex hovers like a gagging, choking pall.
Check Judge Cannon’s calendar for the day.
ouch
GQP hollers the loudest and the most, it is no wonder the electorate believes them!