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You’d think that this would cause some introspection on his part. But it doesn’t. Sad
What is causing me introspection is that Donald Trump has never been charged with an actual ****ing crime. Matt Gaetz is supposedly a child sex offender yet he is still serving in congress and is not criminally charged as far as I can tell.

I'm ****ing done with the ********.

If there are no charges to be made against Gaetz and none to be made against Trump then I'm a damn fool and I'm out. **** all this noise.

Show me the charges or shut the **** up.

I'm at a crossroads right now. I don't know why charges aren't happening. I'm about to go "both sides" on this **** and if that's where I'm at, the biggest liars aren't the Republicans.

So show me the criminal charges against Gaetz. Show me the charges against Trump or get the **** out!

I want criminal charges for criminal offenses or I'm going to say it was all ******** the entire time.

I'm seriously conflicted right now.

I have no loyalty.

**** isn't sitting right with me.
 
What is causing me introspection is that Donald Trump has never been charged with an actual ****ing crime. Matt Gaetz is supposedly a child sex offender yet he is still serving in congress and is not criminally charged as far as I can tell.

I'm ****ing done with the ********.

If there are no charges to be made against Gaetz and none to be made against Trump then I'm a damn fool and I'm out. **** all this noise.

Show me the charges or shut the **** up.

I'm at a crossroads right now. I don't know why charges aren't happening. I'm about to go "both sides" on this **** and if that's where I'm at, the biggest liars aren't the Republicans.

So show me the criminal charges against Gaetz. Show me the charges against Trump or get the **** out!

I want criminal charges for criminal offenses or I'm going to say it was all ******** the entire time.

I'm seriously conflicted right now.

I have no loyalty.

**** isn't sitting right with me.
I have no clue what the DOJ is doing. The hearings have been dominated by Republicans testifying that they knew what **** that Eastman, Guiliani, and Trump were peddling was illegal. Soooooo why are they still free?

I don’t know what the status of the Gaetz thing is. That one seemed a little more out there. But the Trump stuff seems pretty damn obvious. You shouldn’t be able to call up state officials and ask them to throw out election results because you lost without consequence.

Not only is this hurting Democrats (I bet Biden’s approval would go up 10 pts overnight if we finally saw Trump and the gang face legal consequences) but it’s hurting our country. We need the rule of law. If there aren’t consequences for their attempted coup then it’s bound to happen again.
 
I know you think Trump is a special case, but he’s just a guy you’ll never meet and who has next to no impact on your life outside of being the subject of an awful lot of media you take in. It would be a shame to lose friends and family over but I know a lot of Americans disagree with me.
Simply not true. Trump, and the Trump era so far, has had a tremendous impact on my life. My inner life, my peace of mind, my psychic state, these are all quite important to me. I told you already, I recognized who Trump was, and what he surely represented, the very day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower, in 2015, and announced. If someone had told me, back in 72, when I was defending my thesis, which involved examining the intellectual roots of 20th century fascistic movements in Europe, that that education would be as illuminating as it has been, some 50 years later, well, I just could never have foreseen that. Instead, I have never been more grateful for having that very education. This focus on my part started that very day in 2015. I never expected any of this, but the effect of Trump has been overwhelming on my inner life. I truly wish none of this horror show was transpiring in, and to, my country, but it is, and I am constantly filtering events through my background, my education, etc. It’s actually more that, than the media you think I’m addicted to….

Look at it this way: I like to tell my friends “never sleepwalk through that portion of history that is your’s to live”. So many people do. I don’t. The past informs the present. I understand the present moment, to the degree I believe I do, because what I understand regarding the past casts a bright spotlight on the present. And while I would not trade my education for anything, esp. now, I also sometimes think of how blissful it must be to be ignorant of all this.

Look, you can interpret and have an opinion on what I am trying to say in this comment that dismisses me as dangerously obsessed, deluded, divorced from reality, any opinion you want, but it’s silly to tell me Trump has had no impact on my life. My inner life is essential. And there are people suffering depression over Trump and what he has done to this country. I absolutely feel myself in that very position at times, and know others who experience that as well. That qualifies as “an effect”, and it would be silly to suggest it does not. His greatest crime, the one that stands the chance to cause the greatest damage to our body politic, is the Big Lie. Creating a situation, where henceforth a significant percentage of the electorate will regard our elections as simply not trustworthy, lacking integrity, poisoned with cheating, is one of the very worse things a president can possibly do to his fellow citizens. And his nation. Solid proof that Donald Trump does not even care one iota about the nation that elected him president. The United States means absolutely nothing to Donald J. Trump. That’s effectual in my world….

So, trying to be clear here. I understand it’s nobody’s business, and of no internet to anyone but myself, so I am sorry for carrying on in a personal vein, as I likely overdo that as is, but telling me Trump has no effect on my life is silly. You remind me of my friend a bit. He too thinks small. Thinks it’s all about Democrats vs. Republicans. No it isn’t. It’s about democracy vs. autocracy.
 
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Simply not true. Trump, and the Trump era so far, has had a tremendous impact on my life. My inner life, my peace of mind, my psychic state, these are all quite important to me. I told you already, I recognized who Trump was, and what he surely represented, the very day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower, in 2015, and announced. If someone had told me, back in 72, when I was defending my thesis, which involved examining the intellectual roots of 20th century fascistic movements in Europe, that that education would be as illuminating as it has been, some 50 years later, well, I just could never have foreseen that. Instead, I have never been more grateful for having that very education. This focus on my part started that very day in 2015. I never expected any of this, but the effect of Trump has been overwhelming on my inner life. I truly wish none of this horror show was transpiring in, and to, my country, but it is, and I am constantly filtering events through my background, my education, etc. It’s actually more that, than the media you think I’m addicted to….

Look at it this way: I like to tell my friends “never sleepwalk through that portion of history that is your’s to live”. So many people do. I don’t. The past informs the present. I understand the present moment, to the degree I believe I do, because what I understand regarding the past casts a bright spotlight on the present. And while I would not trade my education for anything, esp. now, I also sometimes think of how blissful it must be to be ignorant of all this.

Look, you can interpret and have an opinion on what I am trying to say in this comment that dismisses me as dangerously obsessed, deluded, divorced from reality, any opinion you want, but it’s silly to tell me Trump has had no impact on my life. My inner life is essential. And there are people suffering depression over Trump and what he has done to this country. I absolutely feel myself in that very position at times, and know others who experience that as well. That qualifies as “an effect”, and it would be silly to suggest it does not. His greatest crime, the one that stands the chance to cause the greatest damage to our body politic, is the Big Lie. Creating a situation, where henceforth a significant percentage of the electorate will regard our elections as simply not trustworthy, lacking integrity, poisoned with cheating, is one of the very worse things a president can possibly do to his fellow citizens. And his nation. Solid proof that Donald Trump does not even care one iota about the nation that elected him president. The United States means absolutely nothing to Donald J. Trump. That’s effectual in my world….

So, trying to be clear here. I understand it’s nobody’s business, and of no internet to anyone but myself, so I am sorry for carrying on in a personal vein, as I likely overdue that as is, but telling me Trump has no effect on my life is silly. You remind me of my friend a bit. He too thinks small. Thinks it’s all about Democrats vs. Republicans. No it isn’t. It’s about democracy vs. autocracy.
Also, something shouldn’t have to directly effect you for you to have an opinion of it. See: kids in cages to discourage immigration, blackmailing Zelensky, proud boys standby, etc. One of the primary lessons learned from the 21st century is to not wait until things directly effect you. By then, it might be too late. There was even a poem written that warned against those who only cared about things when it directly effected them, “First they came for…”

So those who advocate for only caring about things that directly effect them are wrong. They’re blind to history and failing their responsibilities of living in a democracy and caring for things beyond their own small bubble. They’re irresponsible citizens. They lack integrity and character. A liberal democracy cannot function if citizens only care about their own bubble. Like it’s the most basic tenet of our form of government. Citizens must think beyond their own bubble or else our government just won’t work. That’s one of the main reasons why liberal democracy in Afghanistan can’t survive. People see themselves belonging More to their family or local tribe than belonging to a larger country known as Afghanistan.

TBH, those telling others to not care for others probably know they’re wrong but don’t want to admit it because it would mean coming to admit that Trump was a horrible leader. It would mean admitting that they’d been wrong. It would admit that their tribe was wrong and the tribe they hate was right. It would mean coming to grips that their media has lied to them and pastor or bishop has exploited them.

It means they’d actually have to invest in public parks, roads, education, and health care. It means they’d wear a mask out of consideration for others, treating fellow citizens at the store with patience, and learning history no matter how uncomfortable it might make them feel. It means they’d have to listen to others, empathize, and compromise. It means they’d have to think about something other than themselves. Unfortunately, many just cannot do this. This is no more true than those who still support their Orange god king. They don’t want to deal with being wrong, compromise, listening to others, maturity, or dealing with being wrong in a healthy manner. Overwhelmingly they no longer see politics as a way to move the country forward; but as a way to punish those they hate and cover up the guilt they so strongly feel but don’t want to deal with.

A democracy cannot thrive when a large enough segment of the population is like this.
 
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telling me Trump has no effect on my life is silly.
Your inner life, your peace of mind, and your psychic state are all things you do to yourself. I strongly doubt Trump showed up to your door to drag you off to prison camp where you are able to post on JF how disruptive it has been. The man in the mirror is the one guilty of harshing your calm.

It’s about democracy vs. autocracy.
I've lived in an autocracy with a king, and secret police, and everything down to what photographs you were taking being subject to oversight. It is the same one that when a reporter criticized the government, they lured him back to an embassy in Turkey where the cut him apart with a bone saw. The movies I watched were all edited by government censors and every piece of mail going in or out of the country was read by police. I don't mean to downplay the paper you wrote in college about the intellectual roots of fascist movements as you seem quite proud of it but I do chuckle at your implication of my ignorance being the basis for why I don't think America in 2016 through 2020 is what autocracy looks like although April 2020 was pretty close.
 
The man in the mirror is the one guilty of harshing your calm.
That’s no more than your opinion, likely just born of the fact that you completely disagree with my take on all that’s happened since 2016. Since you do not believe or agree with any of it, you attribute it to my imagination. That doesn’t work. I have reasons for believing what I believe, and experience what I experience. I’m not hermetically sealed, impervious to any influences beyond my own skin. I know what I’m talking about. It has a basis in reality. Beyond my imagination. Just not your reality.
don't mean to downplay the paper you wrote in college about the intellectual roots of fascist movements as you seem quite proud of it
Had nothing to do with pride. Just explaining how Trump’s announcement affected me at the time. It was the reason I recognized he was a populist demagogue from day one. Just mentioning where the foundations lay in forming my opinion of Trumpism. Has nothing to do with pride, I just thought it would help explain WHY I was raising red flags about the guy, and from the start. Being grateful that I had that specific education is not overweening pride, if that’s what you’re suggesting. I’m simply grateful it helped me avoid “sleepwalking through history”. And surprised, since there have been times in my life where that education seemed wasted for a time. I’m just glad it came in handy, long after the fact. That’s all.

And I did not say America from 2016 through 2020 is what autocracy looks like. I said no such thing.
 
I've lived in an autocracy with a king, and secret police, and everything down to what photographs you were taking being subject to oversight. It is the same one that when a reporter criticized the government, they lured him back to an embassy in Turkey where the cut him apart with a bone saw. The movies I watched were all edited by government censors and every piece of mail going in or out of the country was read by police. I don't mean to downplay the paper you wrote in college about the intellectual roots of fascist movements as you seem quite proud of it but I do chuckle at your implication of my ignorance being the basis for why I don't think America in 2016 through 2020 is what autocracy looks like although April 2020 was pretty close.
This guy lived under authoritarian regimes too. He has a different opinion than you. How about that. Different opinions. What will the world come up with next…

“I hadn’t planned on writing about the January 6 investigation today. But that was before I watched the testimony of Rusty Bowers, Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling, Shaye Moss, and Ruby Freeman.

Their stories of being targeted with threats, harassment, and vile accusationsare a reminder of how much Trump and his team of malignant election fabulists have taken from the civic life of the United States. I’ve spent most of my career studying authoritarian governments, and I’ve spent a lot of time in some repressive places, from Greece under a military junta as a boy to the Soviet Union as an adult. I always felt, on returning to the United States, that I had returned to a fortress of democratic stability and civic cooperation.

I no longer feel that way.”

 
True, but also there are degrees of each of them. Some people are ore misguided, less informed, and/or more deceived than others.


I also agree, and while I acknowledge people that I often agree with, I try to avoid having personal heroes.


Being POTUS/running for POTUS means having an impact. AFAICT, Trump is the most influential member of one of the two dominant political parties, which again means he has an impact.

Its kinda funny, I think if the rest of the world had a vote, Biden would win in a landslide, he is definitely the preferred candidate of the global community for no other reason than stability and common sense. From a distance, Biden's failure has been that he hasn't been able to galvanise a coalition in government and articulate a clarion vision for the future in government. Now this isn't a very easy thing to do but its made harder against the background of wreckers who care not for the country or the democracy but for their own narrow interests. It is the same behaviour of the communists parties of Europe and the Nazis in the 30's. The unfortunate thing about our press class and a large section of the community is that they can't recognise what it is or lack the courage to call it out for what it is. Until this happens democracy in the west will remain leveraged by people like Trump and Putin. Let me be clear they are both the same.

America I will say this, western democracy will survive without you but as an idea, as a vision for the world the "global west" will not thrive without you. Nobody serves the enemies of democracy more than Trump and Putin, I'm disgusted by the place he holds in your country but I'm not surprised, the political elite who only serve themselves have left the space for neo fascists like Trump to occupy. Its a sad world we live in.
 
Its kinda funny, I think if the rest of the world had a vote, Biden would win in a landslide, he is definitely the preferred candidate of the global community for no other reason than stability and common sense. From a distance, Biden's failure has been that he hasn't been able to galvanise a coalition in government and articulate a clarion vision for the future in government. Now this isn't a very easy thing to do but its made harder against the background of wreckers who care not for the country or the democracy but for their own narrow interests. It is the same behaviour of the communists parties of Europe and the Nazis in the 30's. The unfortunate thing about our press class and a large section of the community is that they can't recognise what it is or lack the courage to call it out for what it is. Until this happens democracy in the west will remain leveraged by people like Trump and Putin. Let me be clear they are both the same.

America I will say this, western democracy will survive without you but as an idea, as a vision for the world the "global west" will not thrive without you. Nobody serves the enemies of democracy more than Trump and Putin, I'm disgusted by the place he holds in your country but I'm not surprised, the political elite who only serve themselves have left the space for neo fascists like Trump to occupy. Its a sad world we live in.
Thank you for your much needed outsider perspective.
 
I’m confused. So are conservatives now against local control? Seems to me like New York should be able to make gun regulation laws according to their right as a state to be governed locally. Why shouldn’t California be able to raise the age for certain guns? Do we really want a big nanny state socialist tyrannical government to tell states what to do?

it’s hard to keep up with things. So for abortion states know best, right? But for gun regulation states don’t know best? What is the philosophy here other than provide Republicans with legislation via the judicial branch that they didn’t have the votes for in the legislative branch?



And now they’re doing this? What about your individual rights?

Again, this appears to merely reflect what the Federalist Society/Republican party wants and doesn’t reflect any real philosophy or worldview. This is weird.
 
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Seems to me like New York should be able to make gun regulation laws according to their right as a state to be governed locally.
Nope. We are a republic. In the United States, the demos do not have the kratia. The US Constitution with its amendments supersedes the will of the people, and the US Constitution with its amendments is clear that New York does not have the power to infringe on American’s rights. Local governments have the power to enact the things the US Constitution with its amendments is silent on, and the second amendment isn’t silent on gun rights.

In the concurrence to the majority opinion, it was fun to see Alito take Breyer to task for defective thinking. Breyer in his dissent pointed to the recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo being proof of this New York state law needing to stand. I’m going to paraphrase but essentially Alito said “Hey moron, Buffalo is in New York where this law was in effect. It clearly doesn’t stop people willing to break the law.”
 
Its kinda funny, I think if the rest of the world had a vote, Biden would win in a landslide, he is definitely the preferred candidate of the global community for no other reason than stability and common sense. From a distance, Biden's failure has been that he hasn't been able to galvanise a coalition in government and articulate a clarion vision for the future in government. Now this isn't a very easy thing to do but its made harder against the background of wreckers who care not for the country or the democracy but for their own narrow interests. It is the same behaviour of the communists parties of Europe and the Nazis in the 30's. The unfortunate thing about our press class and a large section of the community is that they can't recognise what it is or lack the courage to call it out for what it is. Until this happens democracy in the west will remain leveraged by people like Trump and Putin. Let me be clear they are both the same.

America I will say this, western democracy will survive without you but as an idea, as a vision for the world the "global west" will not thrive without you. Nobody serves the enemies of democracy more than Trump and Putin, I'm disgusted by the place he holds in your country but I'm not surprised, the political elite who only serve themselves have left the space for neo fascists like Trump to occupy. Its a sad world we live in.
Great post. I will never ever understand the infatuation and worship that trumps followers exude on such an obviously corrupt and scummy piece of crap. I mean its extremely obvious how deplorable he is. Trump university? Sleeping with porn stars while he is married? Cheating on 3 different wives (all of whom were pregnant at the time)? All of the many many horrible things he says and tweets? It is shocking that ANYONE would want him to be president.
Some will say "but i like his policies." You mean the same policies that hundreds of other republican politicians would also enact? If you like his policies then get behind one of the other republican candidates that is way less obviously corrupt and douchey.

Trumpers talk of dems cheating and stop the steal. All trump does is cheat and steal. Cheat on his wives, cheat on his taxes, steal from people paying for a fake education, stealing from charities. Even his "stop the steal" fund was literally him just stealing from his cult. Trump: Give me money so I can fight this election in court. His cult: Ok here is millions of dollars. Trump: Thanks for the money suckers, it aint going towards court fees related to the election.
 
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I thought that rusty bowers guy was the best so far. very compelling testimony.
 
The left… Don’t like a ruling, dissolve or expand the court and ignore or fight against the ruling. Harassment or murder attempts of justices are fine as well.
Keith Olbermann is not "the left". He holds no office and has no political power. Meanwhile, Mayor Adams was very clear that he would do everything he could within the law., and didn't talk about changing the court, nor ignoring/fighting the ruling, nor harassment of judges. It's like you didn't bother to listen to the video.
 
Alito said “Hey moron, Buffalo is in New York where this law was in effect. It clearly doesn’t stop people willing to break the law.”
As much as I disapprove of his jurisprudence, I truly doubt that Alito is so dumb that he doesn't know the difference between NY state and NYC.
 
... the US Constitution with its amendments is clear that New York does not have the power to infringe on American’s rights.
Except for the police, who are free to violate the rights to Miranda notification of a person they are questioning without consequence.
 
Shocking that the Supreme Court values the Second Amendment more than all others, and believes that police can do no wrong. Okay, I'm not shocked. Just sad.
 
Keith Olbermann is not "the left". He holds no office and has no political power. Meanwhile, Mayor Adams was very clear that he would do everything he could within the law., and didn't talk about changing the court, nor ignoring/fighting the ruling, nor harassment of judges. It's like you didn't bother to listen to the video.
So Hannity isn’t on the right, because he holds no office or political power. So if you hold media influence for the left or right, you’re not on the left or right. Gotcha. If that is your standard please inform thriller, red or fish every time they post with a media personality on the right.

Did I say Mayor Adams talked about harassment? Did I say Mayor Adams talked about changing the court? Nope didn’t. Why are you trying to argue about something I never said?

That video was him stating he would do everything he can to fight against this ruling., legally.

I’m was stating history of the left’s harassment and political murder attempts(baseball and kavanaugh). Maybe States should have laws about harassment, like DeSantis just signed, to stop this ridiculousness. That’s on Youngkin.
 
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