@contenchess saidWhen you know what someone is going to think before you've clicked on the thread. ð
Biden sucks. ð
The overwhelming majority of the speech was about a relatively bipartisan agenda. I heard almost nothing a Republican could reasonably object to. I mean Eisenhower Republicans, before Trump ruined the party. Now we have hyper-partisan Republicans who spew misinformation regularly and lie continually. The only ones who could object to most of this speech are Trumpists, who would complain that he was a Biden, and not Trump.
The Republicans' rebuttal seemed to focus mainly on cost. Cost should not be the first consideration when these proposals Biden gave are so good for America. Much of the cost to the average American can be alleviated by what Biden mentioned next: he mentioned getting billionaires to pay their fair share in taxes. So this is the priority of the Trumpists, to enable billionaires to keep their billions without paying their fair share. In fact, this was one of the few times he was booed.
Overall, the speech was very bipartisan in its approach, something I fully expected from a moderate like Biden.
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@suzianne saidYou mean all those years the Democrats controlled the Presidency and Congress, they couldn’t get billionaires to pay their fair share? Did they even try?
The overwhelming majority of the speech was about a relatively bipartisan agenda. I heard almost nothing a Republican could reasonably object to. I mean Eisenhower Republicans, before Trump ruined the party. Now we have hyper-partisan Republicans who spew misinformation regularly and lie continually. The only ones who could object to most of this speech are Trumpists, wh ...[text shortened]... e speech was very bipartisan in its approach, something I fully expected from a moderate like Biden.
When did Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama et al ever propose getting billionaires to pay their fair share?
@pb1022 saidThis topic is one of Elizabeth Warren's favorites. I'm sure Bernie Sanders would have something to say about it, as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
You mean all those years the Democrats controlled the Presidency and Congress, they couldn’t get billionaires to pay their fair share? Did they even try?
When did Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama et al ever propose getting billionaires to pay their fair share?
It is a progressive concept. None of those people you mention are progressives.
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@suzianne saidAre you really that uninformed?
The Big Book of Republican Fairy Tales has no place in this discussion.
See my edit.
“The Secret of Bernie’s Millions
How did he amass three houses and a net worth approaching at least $2 million? The surprisingly conventional middle-class climbing of a radical-sounding socialist.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/24/bernie-sanders-millionaires-226982/
“She fantasizes being raped by 3 men”: Bernie Sanders’s bizarre 1972 essay on gender
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy
@zzzzz9200 saidI think this is a topic for "Debates". No need to put a regional bipartisan struggle into "General".
Will anyone want to comment on the US State of the Union Address?
Or
Take it to "debates", Spanky
@divegeester saidAnd what about the Pentagon being given USD 6,000,000,000,000 during the Obama years and then they told Trump, in 2017, that they hadn't bought enough ammunition with it?
…. and then there’s Hillary’s emails ðĪŠ
@zzzzz9200 saidHis strongest statement yet on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I'd like to see more action coming from all of NATO.
Will anyone want to comment on the US State of the Union Address?
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@very-rusty saidWhat action do you think NATO should take ?
His strongest statement yet on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I'd like to see more action coming from all of NATO.
-VR