US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3594

On April 22 2022 12:03 NewSunshine wrote:
It's also much easier to point at things and shout about how they're a problem, than it is to look at and understand what the problems are, and to find a good solution. That's not just politics, most people are great at identifying when they have a problem with a game, movie, or piece of art, but when you ask them how they'd improve the thing the answer is usually garbage. It takes deep working knowledge of something to be able to take a step forward in improving it, and most people don't have it.

Democrats, progressives, and etc. gain no favors by being on the side of things that actually is interested in proposing robust solutions to real problems. Much, much easier to make shit up about problems that don't exist, throw out some stupid discriminatory bill that looks like it does something about it, then point at the fact that the problem still doesn't exist and claim it worked. CRT in math textbooks, y'all?

But in all, I agree the Democrats should be doing more. They seem to be afraid of doing too much so that when midterms come around they'll be all out of stuff to do to make themselves look good right before. There's a lot of big, looming problems with pretty clear steps to take if Democrats were actually interested in accomplishing anything. There's no pulse to them.

On April 23 2022 00:15 JimmiC wrote:
This is a bill I could get behind and it actually had bi-partisan support. Drunk drivers who kill parents will be responsible for child support.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/someone-needs-responsible-tennessee-bill-222106222.html

Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.

While suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths.

More than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians.

According to the research - which was published this week in the New England Journal Medicine - the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide.

Homicides, the study noted, disproportionately impact young Americans.

Over the same time period, the rate of firearm suicides in the US rose by 1.1%.

The overall rate of gun deaths of all reasons - suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined - among children and teenagers rose by 29.5%, more than twice that of the wider population.

On April 22 2022 21:17 JimmiC wrote:
McCarthy, who kicked Cheeny out of the party for wanting Trump to resign, and has said countless times he did not and fully supported Trump, actually did the exact thing as Cheeny during a conference call that included Cheeny, and it was recorded.something he has explicitly said is untrue snd lies by Liz. What a snake this dude is!


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/mccarthy-tape-trump-jan6-00027122

Then the the post is reporting that Mconnel also wanted Trump out but thought congress sould do it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/21/mcconnell-mccarthy-miscalculation/

edit: another one including McCarthy's statement that it was a total lie, until hours later when the tape was released showing that in fact statement was another lie.

The Republican party is such a bad joke at this point. Publicly and provably lie over and over and over with zero consequences from their voters. They vote more for the people who lie more.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/too-stupid-speaker-critics-trash-081651508.html

On April 23 2022 05:33 Doc.Rivers wrote:


It's only kind of a scandal. It shows that people like McConnell and McCarthy privately dislike trump and want him gone, but I think everyone pretty much knew that already. The establishment Republicans are in a tough spot because they do have to heed Trump's base.

In any case January 6th does not have as much political potency as the dems and their allied media believe it to have. Bidens approval numbers and the upcoming midterm results will show that voters' attention is focused elsewhere. January 6th was a desperate attempt by a mob that had no chance of overturning democracy. American democracy is not at risk and voters are rightly recognizing that it is alarmist to say otherwise.

On April 22 2022 14:20 LegalLord wrote:

They're the controlled opposition that claims to oppose the decay, but by fighting only a lukewarm fight against it and very efficiently stamping out the more genuine left - legitimizes said decay.

On April 23 2022 07:13 brian wrote:


ah man twice in a row i find myself agreeing whole heartedly with LL.