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Author Topic: Biden's Cascade of Failure!  (Read 82309 times)

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #375 on: July 04, 2022, 05:27:50 PM »
Ogg, you only made one point I feel like wasting time explaing the fallacy of.

You decried 'gubmint regyoolayshuns' but seem to ignore the fact that refulqtions placed on banks and wall street after the market crash of 1929 prevented another major market crisis for over 50 years. The ronny raygun cqme in with his 'gubmint isn't tge solution, gubmint is tge problem 'and begsn a republiscum jyhad against regulations.



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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #376 on: July 04, 2022, 09:41:05 PM »
Hope everyone's having a good 4th of July and celebrating our nation's independence.

I think it unfortunate that an unexpected tragedy is now being used by the president as the next piece of ammunition in a bid to curtail our second amendment rights. Biden saying there is "more work to do" on the policy front, presumably from past statements particularly as regards gun control and assaulting our liberties.

Despite actual mass shooting statistics showing that such shootings of 4 or more people represent less than 1% of total gun homicides, in less than a third of which a rifle, nevermind an assault rifle, is used. And despite how many crimes are prevented annually just by victims and good samaritans having guns. A sum arguably eclipsing the number of unjustified killings by gun, and coming well within range of the number stopped directly even by police.

May be a somewhat controversial stance more broadly to call his agenda on "gun control" (restricting second ammendment rights) a failing, but I'm going there.

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #377 on: July 05, 2022, 03:20:13 AM »
Everybody's flipping out about the "liberal world order" quote, but that's literally what they've been describing it as since at least the end of WW2. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's not a secret, it's just the set of institutions and policies designed to ensure peace and spread liberal principles of democracy and free trade, including the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, and the GATT now WTO.

Normies don't keep track, or pay attention to, any of that UN, IMF, GATT, WTO crap. They relied too much on their "elected" leaders to act in their best interests.

And it is becoming increasingly obvious to the normies that they never have.

Until relatively recently people who did try to warn others about the negative effects of the 'liberal world order'/'new world order' (Both phrases that have now been openly used by MSM pundits who approve of these things) were being dismissed as conspiracy theory crackpots.

It is only because Elites feel they have a sufficient hold on power that they are now starting to directly use those phrases openly via their MSM mouthpieces.

So yeah, normies gonna flip out when the truth of what is happening is finally getting shoved in front of their faces.


Of course the negative effects are also becoming apparent. By linking the world economies, they've become more vulnerable to failures anywhere, and economic downturns and shortages sweep the world with little impedance. By giving more power to the supernational institutions, there's been a centralization of power in vast unelected entities with murky accountability. ...

Because the alleged 'positive effects' have proven to be a big fat bag of lies.

The U.S. has been functionally 'at war' with someone every decade for the past 70 years. So much for ensuring "peace".

We have so much debt that it will never be paid down. The economic fall is inevitable. It is only a matter of when, not if. And virtually every 'Liberal' western nation is in the same boat. So much for economic stability.

We have all been cursed to live in interesting times.

I mean seriously, how do they know what human meat tastes like?
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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #378 on: July 08, 2022, 09:29:57 AM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #379 on: July 08, 2022, 02:25:10 PM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.

The hell was he even thinking? Yeah, in theory it boosts global supply of gas, which drops prices, and China pays for it/pays our nation, but I feel like that's naive reasoning. For one thing that gas specifically isn't gonna inherently lead to more winding up here without a seriously higher willingness to pay, and while we have that over China because they still take Russian gas, it's not like American citizens wouldn't still have to pay for transport and profit, so we could have gotten more direct aid by selling it to corporations here. Moreover, China is pretty evil and basically a snake. If their state run companies want it enough to pay, screw cooperation, especially since diplomacy doesn't really work with them on a feel-good empty-gesture basis. Trying to trick informed global leaders into thinking America can lower their gas prices with minimal dipping into the strategic reserve is not nearly as easy as tricking Democrats, I would presume, and there's a point where what little alleviation global markets get from that would be better concentrated directly at home. Not really gonna call it treason, (though Biden is pretty darn corrupt or at least corrupt enough to cover for his son) cuz politicians have and execute terrible ideas that have real world negative consequences all the time, but would definitely agree on it being proof of idiocy/senility and a failure well worth including on this thread.

 

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #380 on: July 08, 2022, 05:44:53 PM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.
Oh, it gets BETTER. Guess who sits on the board of that China-owned gas giant and collects a fat paycheck from China for doing so?

If your first (and correct) guess wasn't Hunter Biden then I officially wonder how your brain has enough functioning neurons to keep you breathing.

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #381 on: July 08, 2022, 06:34:51 PM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.
Oh, it gets BETTER. Guess who sits on the board of that China-owned gas giant and collects a fat paycheck from China for doing so?

If your first (and correct) guess wasn't Hunter Biden then I officially wonder how your brain has enough functioning neurons to keep you breathing.

Holy shit. I feel like this may be an impeachable offense, then. This seems pretty darn corrupt.

I feel like there have got to be laws against this. Being US president may make him immune to prosecution, but this seems like maybe a solid justification for impeachment come the red wave.
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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #382 on: July 08, 2022, 06:43:53 PM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.
Oh, it gets BETTER. Guess who sits on the board of that China-owned gas giant and collects a fat paycheck from China for doing so?

If your first (and correct) guess wasn't Hunter Biden then I officially wonder how your brain has enough functioning neurons to keep you breathing.

Cant he just get a book publishing deal like everyone else?
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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #383 on: July 08, 2022, 10:43:36 PM »
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.
Oh, it gets BETTER. Guess who sits on the board of that China-owned gas giant and collects a fat paycheck from China for doing so?

If your first (and correct) guess wasn't Hunter Biden then I officially wonder how your brain has enough functioning neurons to keep you breathing.

Holy shit. I feel like this may be an impeachable offense, then. This seems pretty darn corrupt.

I feel like there have got to be laws against this. Being US president may make him immune to prosecution, but this seems like maybe a solid justification for impeachment come the red wave.
What astonishes me is the bald-faced brazenness of it. And it worries the fuck out of me, because it could mean:

(a) they are literally so secure they don't give a shit who sees.
(b) they are literally so stupid they don't give a shit who sees.
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #384 on: July 09, 2022, 12:57:14 AM »
Apparently, according to The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/08/biden-sold-oil-from-emergency-reserves-to-chinese-gas-giant-tied-to-his-scandal-plagued-son/), Hunter Biden’s lawyer claimed he divested from BHR, which had the big investment in Sinopec, back in November before this deal went through. But Sinopec never updated their website regarding who was on the board as recently as March, when all the oil got sent. There should be an inquiry, possibly tied to an impeachment trial if confirmation can be obtained, because the American public deserves to know, I feel.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant/

Don't fucking lecture me on how 'treasonous' Trump was, ever again, apologist cocksuckers. Just shut up and pray the worm never turns hard.
Oh, it gets BETTER. Guess who sits on the board of that China-owned gas giant and collects a fat paycheck from China for doing so?

If your first (and correct) guess wasn't Hunter Biden then I officially wonder how your brain has enough functioning neurons to keep you breathing.

Holy shit. I feel like this may be an impeachable offense, then. This seems pretty darn corrupt.

I feel like there have got to be laws against this. Being US president may make him immune to prosecution, but this seems like maybe a solid justification for impeachment come the red wave.
What astonishes me is the bald-faced brazenness of it. And it worries the fuck out of me, because it could mean:

(a) they are literally so secure they don't give a shit who sees.
(b) they are literally so stupid they don't give a shit who sees.
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

All three of these potential options scare me, though c would be the worst by far. That said I do think it’s probably a or b, or a combination thereof. America wouldn’t go down easy, and I think we’ll stay in play for a while yet, though things may not be looking too hot for us at the moment. (I’m pretty darn sure that on top of inflation, a recession is coming. Possibly really hitting at the end of Biden’s term should the fed drop rates to temporarily stave it off. I don’t have the economic expertise to really back said view, but I do believe in it.)

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #385 on: July 09, 2022, 01:42:14 AM »
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

Now there's a thought to give you sleepless nights......
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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #386 on: July 09, 2022, 09:08:48 AM »
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

Now there's a thought to give you sleepless nights......

"Looting the treasury" started under the Clinton Administration. Option C is "willing to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs".

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #387 on: July 09, 2022, 09:41:21 AM »
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

Now there's a thought to give you sleepless nights......
Oh, it’s definitely C. The bill always comes due and sooner or later the State always runs out of other people’s money to spend.

I hope you’re not still living in a big city, and particularly not in the Southwest (the Lake Mead situation is about to fuck everyone out there hard thanks to California’s criminal water mismanagement).

Real support networks of real people (ex. a church community, not a weekly gaming club of half a dozen people) will be the key to survival. Lone post apocalyptic survival memes aren’t a viable long term survival strategy. You need numbers sufficient for specialization of labor if you don’t want to live in a scavenger society.

Get ready for the mother of all fantasy LARPs; one with no rules and no scheduled end date.
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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #388 on: July 09, 2022, 11:13:42 AM »
(c) we're in the 'looting the treasury' part of a collapse and shit is about to come unglued

Now there's a thought to give you sleepless nights......
Oh, it’s definitely C. The bill always comes due and sooner or later the State always runs out of other people’s money to spend.

I hope you’re not still living in a big city, and particularly not in the Southwest (the Lake Mead situation is about to fuck everyone out there hard thanks to California’s criminal water mismanagement).

Real support networks of real people (ex. a church community, not a weekly gaming club of half a dozen people) will be the key to survival. Lone post apocalyptic survival memes aren’t a viable long term survival strategy. You need numbers sufficient for specialization of labor if you don’t want to live in a scavenger society.

Get ready for the mother of all fantasy LARPs; one with no rules and no scheduled end date.
I've got a little list, they'll never be missed.

But yeah. Rough history coming.

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Re: Biden's Cascade of Failure!
« Reply #389 on: July 12, 2022, 08:08:51 PM »
  End of quote.  Repeat the line.  Fucking A.  When you fuck up reading a teleprompter on that sort of level......