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Biden's Cascade of Failure!

Started by SHARK, October 15, 2021, 06:42:00 PM

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HappyDaze

Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 10:05:32 AM
Quote from: Pat on February 10, 2022, 10:03:04 AM
Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 09:58:34 AM
Quote from: Pat on February 10, 2022, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 09:22:01 AM
Hey I want people to be able to smoke their crack or shoot their heroin safely. But putting this as a "racial equity" thing though....coming from the guy who was rabid about locking people up for crack....who pushed mandatory sentencing for crack.....well, it seems like it could be taken a bit negatively.
We live in a post-hypocrisy world.

I do not know if that is even the right word.  He was labeled racist for that stuff in the 90's, and I have a feeling a word might be used when he spends a bunch of money in a grant that is essentially "I want black people to smoke crack safely", it does seem that word could apply again.
But it won't. They won't even notice the incongruity.

We live in a post-hypocrisy world.

  I dunno, I watched some dude's video where he was going through twitter, and it sure seemed like a whole lot of black people were pretty pissed.
Was it a comedian? They're held to much stricter standards by the public than politicians.

oggsmash

  Strangely, this time it seemed like people were mad at the actual politicians this time. 

Pat

Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 10:05:32 AM
Quote from: Pat on February 10, 2022, 10:03:04 AM
Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 09:58:34 AM
Quote from: Pat on February 10, 2022, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: oggsmash on February 10, 2022, 09:22:01 AM
Hey I want people to be able to smoke their crack or shoot their heroin safely. But putting this as a "racial equity" thing though....coming from the guy who was rabid about locking people up for crack....who pushed mandatory sentencing for crack.....well, it seems like it could be taken a bit negatively.
We live in a post-hypocrisy world.

I do not know if that is even the right word.  He was labeled racist for that stuff in the 90's, and I have a feeling a word might be used when he spends a bunch of money in a grant that is essentially "I want black people to smoke crack safely", it does seem that word could apply again.
But it won't. They won't even notice the incongruity.

We live in a post-hypocrisy world.

  I dunno, I watched some dude's video where he was going through twitter, and it sure seemed like a whole lot of black people were pretty pissed.
Be nice if that became more widespread, and started to crack open the mainstream news sources. Right now, it feels like we live in a doublethink bubble where consistency and principles only matter when you're attacking the other side.

Ghostmaker

I dunno. Considering the damage crack wreaked in black neighborhoods, if some tidy-whitey liberal decided the best way to help would be to pass out free pipes, I might be more than a little hacked off.

The reaction is right down there with that shitty Showtime feature about how much whites in comedy suck. The YT comments were almost enough to make me an optimist.

Ghostmaker

I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.

3catcircus

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Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.

The fact that his asshole cabinet members respond that people should buy electric vehicles is all the info anyone needs that every single one of them should be drug into the streets and given the Moammar Gadhaffi treatment (or the Musollini treatment, if you prefer).

It won't get any better with Republicans.  They are *all* pieces of shit.

oggsmash

That is just a little bit like the old "let them eat cake" line.  I am pretty sure no one will ever pay for their screw ups though.  Just not the Murican way.  I guess we could hope that should these midwits push the whacko in Russia too far, he at least nukes DC and catches all of them unawares with their lobbyists/hookers/filming themselves talking tough/etc.    Chances are even that won't work as they will duck like rats into their holes to come out later and explain how patriot getting nuked is.

Ghostmaker

It seems the Saudis are not interested in talking to Biden. Much to my non-surprise.


Mistwell

There are so many, MANY things we can do to try and help Ukraine which isn't "The US directly killing Russian troops". I see a lot of "We shouldn't touch this" which appears to mean "We shouldn't kill Russian troops" when that doesn't appear to even be on the table at the moment. But, aiding Ukraine in their fight, that's on the table. And there are many ways to aid Ukraine which doesn't involve our own troops setting one foot on Ukrainian soil.

And yes, we have in fact had success aiding one side against another without sending out own troops there.

Russia and China have also had success aiding one side against another without sending their own troops.

There is a long history of doing this, and being successful at it.

HappyDaze

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.
You want people hanged because gasoline prices are up?

Shasarak

Quote from: HappyDaze on March 08, 2022, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.
You want people hanged because gasoline prices are up?

Gasoline prices are up?
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

Eirikrautha

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.

This happens every 20 years or so.  Young people, who believe in unicorns and are easily fooled, actually fall foe leftist fantasies about economics and vote in a Jimmy Carter/Joe Biden.  Then it takes the next fifteen years for the country to recover.  By that point, a new generation of morons and democrat voters (but I repeat myself) have reached voting age...

Eirikrautha

Quote from: HappyDaze on March 08, 2022, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.
You want people hanged because gasoline prices are up?

Yep.  Energy costs do more to destroy standards of living than any other single economic factor, and standard of living has cost more human lives than anything less than a world war or communist genocide.  High energy prices are far more dangerous than another "pandemic" like COVID, because they destroy the health of everyone, not just the old and infirm...

Chris24601

Quote from: HappyDaze on March 08, 2022, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 08, 2022, 06:36:47 PM
I hope everyone likes their super pricey gasoline.

Those of you who simped hard for Biden and cried about Trump's mean tweets?

I hope you're happy.

I also hope you end up dangling from a lamppost.

Fuck you.
You want people hanged because gasoline prices are up?
Its all the follow-on effects of increased cost of food, shelter and medical care and disrupted supply lines making those even worse such that lower income friends of mine are back to "do we put gas in the car to go to work or put food on the table for our kids?"

And all of it was entirely predictable and preventable and the elite's answer to people living on the edge is "they should just go by a $60,000 electric vehicle." Never mind that the cost of electricity will also be going through the roof since there aren't remotely enough 'renewables' online to handle all the electric vehicles needed so we'll need... wait for it... OIL to produce the electricity to charge the $60,000 vehicles most people on the edge can't possibly afford (but which the elite's portfolios just happen to be strongly invested in so they get money every time a starving family has to go into debt to be able to keep their job and have food on the table for their kids.

They may as well have said "Let them eat cake."

So, yes... Hang every one of the traitorous motherfuckers who knew this would be the outcome of taking this country from a net energy exporter to an importer from all sorts of totalitarian regimes knowing this would be the outcome, but doing it anyway because it added even more money to their already bloated bank accounts. Hang them and leave them to rot so that everyone can know what happens when you push people who just want to be left alone too far.

Head up for the Biden voters; when the food runs out, we're eating you first.

oggsmash

Quote from: Mistwell on March 08, 2022, 11:37:06 PM
There are so many, MANY things we can do to try and help Ukraine which isn't "The US directly killing Russian troops". I see a lot of "We shouldn't touch this" which appears to mean "We shouldn't kill Russian troops" when that doesn't appear to even be on the table at the moment. But, aiding Ukraine in their fight, that's on the table. And there are many ways to aid Ukraine which doesn't involve our own troops setting one foot on Ukrainian soil.

And yes, we have in fact had success aiding one side against another without sending out own troops there.

Russia and China have also had success aiding one side against another without sending their own troops.

There is a long history of doing this, and being successful at it.

  There is.  There is also a history of sanctioning or supplying the enemy of a strong enough nation and you get attacked.   I do not know that Russia would draw a line on super stiff sanctions (the way Japan did) or attack a supply run to said nation's enemy (like WW1 Germany did).   I know it is moving on out onto thin ice.  Supplying or aiding in proxy wars involving tiny weak nations is one thing.  But you start passing out the gear to attack the big bad guy, you need to expect retaliation of some sort.  That is just a historical reality.