US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[u crank]

Joe Biden is not particularly known for good strategic decisions. And he is not about to change.

Given their astonishing lack of relevant experience, it appears that Biden put the names of all the people he liked in a hat and then randomly drew them out. How else to explain his selection of Neera Tanden, who is not an economist, to run the Office of Management and Budget?

Or Pete Buttigieg, whose biggest job was mayor of the small city of South Bend, Ind., to be secretary of transportation? Or California Attorney General Xavier Beccera to run the Department of Health and Human Services?

Jennifer Granholm did serve two terms as Michigan’s governor, but it’s hard to see how that qualifies her to oversee America’s vast nuclear arsenal as the secretary of energy.

Maybe the biggest head-scratcher is his selection of Susan Rice, whose entire career has been devoted to foreign affairs, to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council. Perhaps her run as President Obama’s national security adviser was so disastrous that Biden figured she must be better at something else.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...et_144870.html

Biden’s picks suggest a new chapter in the rise of identity politics. In the olden days, one’s training and accomplishments were the measuring stick for employment. Future leaders toiled long and hard in their chosen fields in the hope that one day they might run the show.

Today, it’s not what you know but who you are that counts. The need to have a government that looks like America – or at least that tiny sliver that attended Ivy League schools – matters most.

And when you are running the identity politics game it is hard to please everyone. Joe is about to find that out.

Biden says he wants to unify the nation, but his Fedora Cabinet suggests that brass knuckles and party loyalty are the prime qualifications to serve in his administration. The only mystery is why he didn’t name his wife to run Health and Human Services. At least she’s a doctor.

[bstanko6]

U Crank...

Biden doesn’t make good strategic decisions. He was the one that found the ATF not liable for Waco. That was when they killed women and children. And calling black urban males super predators it’s not a strategic decision.

The man is absolute garbage.

[Mr Quatro]

Never give up ... Biden is going down the rabbit hole

[eddie]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

U Crank...

Biden doesn’t make good strategic decisions. He was the one that found the ATF not liable for Waco. That was when they killed women and children. And calling black urban males super predators it’s not a strategic decision.

The man is absolute garbage.

Not as bad as that POS Trump,lol And we put up with that brainless jackass for 4 years!

[mapuc]

Reading your comments give me the impression that USA has gone from plague to cholera or the other way around.

Markus

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

U Crank...

Biden doesn’t make good strategic decisions. He was the one that found the ATF not liable for Waco. That was when they killed women and children. And calling black urban males super predators it’s not a strategic decision.

The man is absolute garbage.

Arson investigation concluded the Davidians started three fires in the compound. Get over it.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Arson investigation concluded the Davidians started three fires in the compound. Get over it.

I mean, if it was a government arson investigation, there is room for doubt. And after the murders of George Floyd and others, I’d say that there’s an understandable mistrust of US law enforcement.

[Buddahaid]

This was in 1993 and that mistrust led to the Timothy McVeigh bombing.

[bstanko6]

@eddie...

It doesn’t matter what fires were started!

The government did not need to fill the compound with military smoke rounds or cause stress to kids! You get over it!

And Trump has done nothing but get our economy under control.

The regular politicians can’t wait to get Biden in so they can get their kickbacks going again!

It must be an excruciating 4 years for career politicians to be held accountable to the American people!

And as far as Biden going down a rabbit hole... he never left! His brain is fried along with Cornpops!

[Skybird]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...trategy-446408

Attempted mass murder, partially successful.


It was shown by mathematical modelling done in Oxford already in late spring that such a "strategy", if inhumane cynism can be called a strategy, renders casualties unacceptable by scale, and that it would take much longer, severla times as long as is claimed, to acchieve herd immunity this way. I stick to it. Its attempted mass murder, partially successful. Applause! BTW, currently its 9/11 every day in the US.

[bstanko6]

@Skybird...

I’ve seen that before in other countries. I think the idea is to naturally strengthen human immune system through exposure.

But with the death grip pharmaceutical companies have in the US... they would never allow it. They want their money!

Never hurts to have a strong think tank!

[Skybird]

Herd immunity in case of a lethal desease has a slightly higher cost than herd immunity in case of a non-lethal desease. There is a principal ethical problem, and there is a total number to be considered that marks the "cost": deaths, that is. How many people of the herd are to be slaughtered to let the others feel alive and well again?

I expect to learn that you are more forgiving on that costs than I would will to agree to. At least as long as the dying thing is not up to you.

Sweden did it. Their king yesterday called the strategy a failure, for good, dramatic reason. Britain originally tried to implement it, and broke off very early, for good reason. The death toll is too high.

The cost in case of Covid 19 is too high. You could as well go into private homes and shoot people with poistols, saves a lot of time, money and mumbo jambo with ambulance drives and hospital action.

Or you force people to draw lots.

Herd immunity strategy in case of a lethal pandemic is nothing you want to aim at. Its something you need to accept in case you cannot do anythign else - if all hope is lost, you need to let people suffer what they must, because you have no choice. Its no choice you intentionally want to make.

[August]

Yeah because dragged out lock downs driving up the suicide rate, the murder rate, the child abuse rate, the domestic violence rate and more are so much better.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

I’ve seen that before in other countries. I think the idea is to naturally strengthen human immune system through exposure.

You have to survive the potentially lethal disease to be strengthened by it.

Also, you were complaining about the US government killing people a few posts ago, but now you're okay with them saying that they want people to be infected with a potentially lethal disease?

American politics seem like they're less about policy and improving the country, and more about loyalty to a party or person

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah because dragged out lock downs driving up the suicide rate, the murder rate, the child abuse rate, the domestic violence rate and more are so much better.

Not better and certainly a poor reflection of human character. We are collectively dumb enough to self destruct from boredom?