24th December 2020, 9:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th December 2020, 9:51 PM by A Black Falcon.)
On the one hand, Trump is "supporting" the $2000 amount because he's mad at McConnell and other top Republicans for saying that Biden won the election and that they will not support his coup. He's not doing this for any positive reason,but because he's an angry would-be fascist who doesn't care about the American people or his party, but only himself.
On the other hand, like a stopped clock Trump has managed to support a good policy, so ultimately the fact that his reaosns are horrible isn't as important as that it is a good policy and also helps tear Trump and the Republicans apart, because the yare very much not in support of this.
So yeah, Trump, keep going at the Republicans, heh... :)
As for that video, that's exactly the kind of reason why nobody other than Bernie diehards like Bernie diehards, they can be incredibly annoying. I watched part of that video but had to drop it before the end, his bitter dead-ender support for Bernie and constant (if typical for the left) focus on hating Democrats more than Republicans is awful and wrong. He makes some good points, sure, but also some bad ones, and the tone is way off from where it should be.
Like, are there issues with a few of Biden's Cabinet appointees? Sure. But he wildly exaggerates all of the issues, and it is far, far more important that we do exactly what Biden is doing: appoint knowledgeable people who know everything about the departments they are about to lead, so that we can start rebuilding our shredded civil service immediately and get right on repairing Trump's damage and overturning all of their horrible regulation changes.
Because of we did what Bernie dead-enders want and appointed a bunch of far-left extremists who have a lot of ideas (some good, sure) buit little knowledge of the departments they were about to lead, it would be a disaster! Nothing would get done, you need to know how the bueaucracy works in order to work in it. You and I don't know how it works, btu Biden's appointees do.
As for a few of the specific issues with nominees. That thing Neera Tanden said about Libya is definitely wrong, but the department she's going to lead, the Office of Management and Budget, has little to do with foreign policy so it's not really related. As for Tom Vilsack though, the fact that minorities are apparently deeply unhappy with the pick because of some things he did during the Obama administration is an issue and maybe Biden should reconsider his appointment. For climate Kerry is not my first thought, but it's apparently an issue hehas done work on so it's not some random choice. Cody's "Kerry is old so that's a bad nomination" "attack" is absolutely insanely dumb, that is not how anything works.
The ACTUAL criticisms of the nominees are mostly quite minor. Cody is justal, as usual, doing the typical leftist thing of histrionically exaggerting how bad the left is in order to yell and scream at how bad Democrats are, while mostly not really caring all that much about how much worse the right is. You see that in this video, he only VERY grudingly says anything at all about Trump; you can tell he just wanted to scream at the Democrats for the whole video but someone convinced him otherwise, soe he put in some perfunctory "yeah Trump is worse" bits before going right back to repeating variants on his usual lies about how tBiden is basically a Repubilcan and such.
Yes, Joe Biden is not a leftiist. But he is a Democrabelieves in making the world better. Also -- if you wanted leftist policy, well, your popportunity was to get it by electing a more liberal congress in the recent election. If we'd won some big victory in November, we'd be sure to pass some of the kinds of policies leftists want, and Biden would probably have some bolder nominees for some departments as well. But we didn't get it; instead, the Republicans gained in the House and didn't lose nearly as much in the Senate than they expected. We could still manage a knife's-edge 50-50 Senate if we win both Georgia seats, but that is hardly the kind of Senate that pasts leftist policy. And you can only do so much with only the executive branch.
Anyway, my opinion of Biden's cabinet choices is that he is doing exactly what America, and the world, needs, and is appointing what should be mostly a fantastic team! For the most part Biden is picking exactly the right people for what America needs desperately at exactly this moment. Doing the typical Joe Biden thing of supporting the establishment and experienced professionals is the best possible response for Trump's effort to destroy our government and its departments. Ignoring that in favor of "but I want mooooorerre" griping, while not talking enough about the utter destruction of our government Trump led over is foolish.
Like, yes, I agree that Biden's attempts to appease Republicans will probably fail as badly as Obama's appeals to Republicans did. Still, we need to try. Our system has critical problems and moderate change isn't enough, particularly on climate, but with this electoral result it'll have to do, sadly. And again we very badly need to rebuild the government and immediately get to repealing Trump's many awful policies, and radicals can't do that nearly as quickly. We need this to start now, not in several years.
Oh, and this idea that "the Democarats are right wing by international standards" is not true. Yes, the Dems are not far left, but they are definitely a liberal party by any standard. Biden is dramtatically different from Trump and we will see that in the policies they pass.
Also Nancy Pelosi is an amazing Speaker of the House and definitely should stay.
In conclusion, any video about the current state of our polititics which ignores the fact that TRUMP JUST TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT WITH A COUP should be ignored. And that is what Cody just did here. (Because Democrats and Republicans are the same, and every bad thing is always the Democrats' fault!) Thank goodness that our judges and state legislatures, both Republican and Democratic, rejected Trump's attempt to overthrow the government, and he will indeed be leaving on January 20th, because otherwise we would have very dramatically worse things to talk about than mostly-minor gripes about a mostly fantastic slate of cabinet secretary nominees.
On the other hand, like a stopped clock Trump has managed to support a good policy, so ultimately the fact that his reaosns are horrible isn't as important as that it is a good policy and also helps tear Trump and the Republicans apart, because the yare very much not in support of this.
So yeah, Trump, keep going at the Republicans, heh... :)
As for that video, that's exactly the kind of reason why nobody other than Bernie diehards like Bernie diehards, they can be incredibly annoying. I watched part of that video but had to drop it before the end, his bitter dead-ender support for Bernie and constant (if typical for the left) focus on hating Democrats more than Republicans is awful and wrong. He makes some good points, sure, but also some bad ones, and the tone is way off from where it should be.
Like, are there issues with a few of Biden's Cabinet appointees? Sure. But he wildly exaggerates all of the issues, and it is far, far more important that we do exactly what Biden is doing: appoint knowledgeable people who know everything about the departments they are about to lead, so that we can start rebuilding our shredded civil service immediately and get right on repairing Trump's damage and overturning all of their horrible regulation changes.
Because of we did what Bernie dead-enders want and appointed a bunch of far-left extremists who have a lot of ideas (some good, sure) buit little knowledge of the departments they were about to lead, it would be a disaster! Nothing would get done, you need to know how the bueaucracy works in order to work in it. You and I don't know how it works, btu Biden's appointees do.
As for a few of the specific issues with nominees. That thing Neera Tanden said about Libya is definitely wrong, but the department she's going to lead, the Office of Management and Budget, has little to do with foreign policy so it's not really related. As for Tom Vilsack though, the fact that minorities are apparently deeply unhappy with the pick because of some things he did during the Obama administration is an issue and maybe Biden should reconsider his appointment. For climate Kerry is not my first thought, but it's apparently an issue hehas done work on so it's not some random choice. Cody's "Kerry is old so that's a bad nomination" "attack" is absolutely insanely dumb, that is not how anything works.
The ACTUAL criticisms of the nominees are mostly quite minor. Cody is justal, as usual, doing the typical leftist thing of histrionically exaggerting how bad the left is in order to yell and scream at how bad Democrats are, while mostly not really caring all that much about how much worse the right is. You see that in this video, he only VERY grudingly says anything at all about Trump; you can tell he just wanted to scream at the Democrats for the whole video but someone convinced him otherwise, soe he put in some perfunctory "yeah Trump is worse" bits before going right back to repeating variants on his usual lies about how tBiden is basically a Repubilcan and such.
Yes, Joe Biden is not a leftiist. But he is a Democrabelieves in making the world better. Also -- if you wanted leftist policy, well, your popportunity was to get it by electing a more liberal congress in the recent election. If we'd won some big victory in November, we'd be sure to pass some of the kinds of policies leftists want, and Biden would probably have some bolder nominees for some departments as well. But we didn't get it; instead, the Republicans gained in the House and didn't lose nearly as much in the Senate than they expected. We could still manage a knife's-edge 50-50 Senate if we win both Georgia seats, but that is hardly the kind of Senate that pasts leftist policy. And you can only do so much with only the executive branch.
Anyway, my opinion of Biden's cabinet choices is that he is doing exactly what America, and the world, needs, and is appointing what should be mostly a fantastic team! For the most part Biden is picking exactly the right people for what America needs desperately at exactly this moment. Doing the typical Joe Biden thing of supporting the establishment and experienced professionals is the best possible response for Trump's effort to destroy our government and its departments. Ignoring that in favor of "but I want mooooorerre" griping, while not talking enough about the utter destruction of our government Trump led over is foolish.
Like, yes, I agree that Biden's attempts to appease Republicans will probably fail as badly as Obama's appeals to Republicans did. Still, we need to try. Our system has critical problems and moderate change isn't enough, particularly on climate, but with this electoral result it'll have to do, sadly. And again we very badly need to rebuild the government and immediately get to repealing Trump's many awful policies, and radicals can't do that nearly as quickly. We need this to start now, not in several years.
Oh, and this idea that "the Democarats are right wing by international standards" is not true. Yes, the Dems are not far left, but they are definitely a liberal party by any standard. Biden is dramtatically different from Trump and we will see that in the policies they pass.
Also Nancy Pelosi is an amazing Speaker of the House and definitely should stay.
In conclusion, any video about the current state of our polititics which ignores the fact that TRUMP JUST TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT WITH A COUP should be ignored. And that is what Cody just did here. (Because Democrats and Republicans are the same, and every bad thing is always the Democrats' fault!) Thank goodness that our judges and state legislatures, both Republican and Democratic, rejected Trump's attempt to overthrow the government, and he will indeed be leaving on January 20th, because otherwise we would have very dramatically worse things to talk about than mostly-minor gripes about a mostly fantastic slate of cabinet secretary nominees.
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