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© 2022 AFPRepublicans promises to deliver 'wake-up call' for Biden at midterms
By Michael Mathes, Andrea Bambino and Jesus Olarte WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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painkiller
This current administration has failed miserably domestically and internationally.
This is not the time for socialism in the US.
The American voters will send a strong message by getting these crazies out of there.
Yrral
Their only 7 seats in play in the house
Nemo
Biden accomplished more in 2 years than Dump would have in 8. That a bunch of ignorant know nothings don’t like his accomplishments is immaterial.
painkiller
NemoToday 07:10 am JST
Interesting hypothetical you pose, and maybe someday scientists will discover unicorns, but when we look at the reality, WOW, Trump was outstanding. Like we saw the poverty rate fall to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment:
A Fact-Checked List of Trump Accomplishments
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/fact-check-trump.html
dagon
The appeal to "common sense'" is a sure sign of an empty agenda.
More corporate welfare, tax cuts for the 1% and militarized police incoming!
Those in Red states can enjoy declining living standards and McJobs that do not pay a living wage, secure in the knowledge that they sure did own those libs, the woke brigade,immigrants, BLM and the cultural Marxist agenda.
Bob Fosse
“He also mocked potential rival, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, calling him “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
fox news headline on 45: “what an idiot!”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/some-conservatives-turn-trump-attacking-ron-desantis-ahead-of-midterms-what-idiot.amp
Haaa Nemui
This fact checked list has been fact checked and some items on the list were absolutely false, some misleading, and some absolutely true.
bass4funk
Yup, sure did!
Bungled Afghanistan, created rising inflation, gas is over $6-7, allowed a woke agenda and gender agenda to completely uproot it as we know it, allowed millions of illegals in, supported defunding the police, sowed the divisions of racism, uprooting education, declared war on our energy sector, allowed crime to flourish, involved himself and the nation to a war that was never brought in front of Americans nor asked. So yeah, the guy did a lot in 2 years, and as a result, he’s going to be awarded the day after tomorrow with changing congress, that’s how happy the people are.
We don’t know, he served 4, but he didn’t get us involved in any wars and definitely didn’t hate the police or the border patrol or allowed illegals to flood the nation
Hmmm…so millions of Americans that will kick the Dems out of power in two days are ignorant? Well, I’m sure those comments are….immaterial to the voters.
Sh1mon M4sada
I doubt it, the Dems are completely tone deaf, if they are capable of hearing a wake up call they would have woken up when Trump won. It's interesting how former US National Security Council official (Fiona Hill) laid it out. The Dems think they're so perfect, they're blaming everyone but themselves. The entire Trump impeachment is a complete waster of congress time AND people's money, not to mention making US politics ever more vulnerable to threats from outside the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mryIwES8Ugw
This whole inflation caused by supply chain and war, as we have witnessed with our wallet, is almost completely avoidable if 'negotiation' was entertained. Now they're trying to convince Zelenskyy to negotiate, AFTER all the damage has been done.
painkiller
Haaa NemuiToday 07:46 am JST
Around 108 of 123 items are true.
dagon
Biden is a committed neo liberal capitalist who voted consistently against worker interests.
Recen he was heckled at a rally by shouts is 'socialist' which he vehemently denied.
And that is why the Dems fail.
His response should have been' We are going to get better pay and benefits、better lifestyles for the majority of people, not just the .01% corporate oligarchs. If you want to call that socialism that's on you'.
But of course that is not Biden and not the Dems
Maybe only Bernie Sanders could snap back like that.
nishikat
None of this has anything to do with me except healthcare. I can afford healthcare in Japan. But if I go back to the USA I can't afford healthcare under the TrumpCare plan. I miss ObamaCare with Medicaid expension. I could care less about gas prices. Just get yourself a smaller car. Or an electric car. The US has the lowest gas prices in the developed world anyway, so cheers on Biden. I have a house near the Texas Mexico border and I never see "millions of illegals". Is this even true? A woke agenda will not bankrupt me, but TrumpCare will.
TokyoLiving
The red brigade of whiners don't stop to whine, lol !!..
Bob Fosse
Some prominent republicans, including 45 are already claiming the midterms are rigged. If Fetterman wins PA they won’t accept it.
bass4funk
He definitely doesn’t rally against it and all of their other radical progressive policies in the strongest terms.
And that is more accurately why the Dems fail.
Even the Dems wouldn’t push or nominate Sanders, he knows it and they know it.
Don’t worry, it’ll be replaced with cheers by this weekend.
dagon
Radical, progressive, leftist, socialist.
I see no accuracy as usual, only rightist pejoratives.
Biden has consistently stated he is a confirmed capitalist, has voted as such, without deviation.
Like with the Republican agenda, there are no specific policies you can accurately nàme.
nishikat
That's fine. But it won't help my tears when I have my American hospital bill. What will the Repubicans do about that? healthcare has always been a mess and made worse under the Trump plan.
At least he won't make you go bankrupt from medical bills.
What are these specifically?
lincolnman
"Bull" - an apt adjective for the MAGA-maniacs...and as typical, getting a little ahead of themselves....
Then when they get routed this week, they will just scream "it was rigged" even louder....
Actually, letting the crazies back in power in 2022 just ensures a Dem winning slate in 2024....
McCarthy knows he can't contain the kooks, grifters, and nuts in the "Q" caucus - they'll be investigating Jewish-funded space lasers, Chinese-made thermostats, and why the Kraken failed in appear in 2020....
It will make for better comedy than Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon combined...
MTG, Louie Gohmert, and Gym Jordan - the new Three Stooges...ROFL...
wallace
The last socialist president was George Bush during the economic meltdowns.
lincolnman
Indeed. Trump called DeSantis "fat, lazy, and a phony" too...
And this all the while Ron is running for re-election...
I guess Trump wants to see Florida turn Blue too....ROFL...
So which team are the "conservatives" here on - "Team Desanctimonious" or "Team Traitor Trump"?
wallace
The are no democrat socialists they all support the capitalist system but also want to see fairness of the system should be for all and not just the rich like the GOP support.
Workers who pay more income tax than billionaires are wrong. They should be paying a fair share.
40 million can't afford healthcare.
During Biden's first two years, 10 million jobs were created. Never achieved by any other president.
When Donald Trump left office, the unemployment rate among Hispanics was 8.6 percent: last month, it hit an all-time low of 3.8 percent. During the same period, the Black jobless rate has fallen from 9.2 percent to 5.8 percent. (The white unemployment rate is now 3.1 percent.)
Biden introduced a $1 trillion bipartisan Bill.
The Afghanistan War belongs to George Bush who started it and it continued for 20 years. Biden ended it.
The government does not set the price of gas. That would be Big Oil. Today, the average gas price is $3.80.
https://gasprices.aaa.com/
The democrats will not be "kicked out" by millions of voters. There are always changes in midterms. The democrats will lose the House. Congress will remain the same. The majority of governors will be democrats. Biden will be in the WH.
Blacklabel
They sent Biden to Maryland where they have zero chance of losing.
Most ineffective president ever in getting people to come listen to him speak.
Blacklabel
This much lying to and misleading the American people just becomes a liability:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/05/politics/fact-check-biden-midterms-2022/index.html
Cards fan
Biden also went to Pennsylvania.
Is that so? When do you reckon it's going to catch up with the GOP?
Yrral
Where will all these White Republicans emerge from the grave,when White young people cancel them out, and minorities cast the deciding vote Google GOP COVID Death
theFu
We won't be voting for any liars, so 90% of the GOP is out. The GOP has done nothing the last 2 yrs, but lie and block legislation. Where are their "great ideas"? All that I've seen is a bunch of whining and lying and taking away more and more rights of Americans - like the right to vote easily and the right to an on-demand abortion. Those few things have changed our house from always voting conservative to pretty much anyone else who isn't a liar.
We'll see what happens in 2 days. Need to drop off our ballots tomorrow.
Blacklabel
With Obama. Where “several hundred people” showed up.
Haaa Nemui
About a quarter of them were mostly congress with Tromp merely picking up a pen and signing them. Hard to call those “Trump accomplishments” so they’re considered misleading. More than 10% were false. So in all, about 65% of that list could actually be considered accomplishments of Trump.
Bob Fosse
And republicans will claim this is evidence of election fraud.
Our most prominent conservative in this board calls for paper ballots, in person, on voting day only. No exceptions. Despite living in Japan.
Haaa Nemui
Trump* not Tromp. Apologies about that typo.
Also, as Kurumazaka2.1 said just above. People don’t necessarily like Biden. In all honesty, I’m still surprised he beat Trump in the election. But he did.
painkiller
BlacklabelToday 09:41 am JST
That was a spectacle.
I actually felt for Obama because he had to make sure one guy didn't trip over his tongue, and the other guy trip over his feet.
plasticmonkey
Fetterman is recovering from a stroke. Show some respect. And his cognitive abilities are a helluva lot sharper than the quack doctor he’s running against.
bass4funk
That’s ok, we see the accuracy even if the left refuses to.
He hasn’t acted as much.
And his radical socialist minions have been overriding him, so who’s in charge?
Take your pick
stormcrow
No morals. No principles. It’s today’s Republican Party.
You lose the election and you deny it. You lose and what do say or show for evidence? You show nothing and just dumbly say: “Well, I lost so it must have been rigged! I was never supposed to lose!”
Bob Fosse
Kurumazaka, that is one of the best posts I’ve read in a while.
Excellent examples of the revenge fantasy GoP scam.
I don’t hear anything in their policies other than “they’re going to get what’s coming to ‘em” in ads that run like a bad Seagal movie.
nishikat
What does this mean? Government healthcare? Everyone in Japan uses it including Trump people. Also, non Americans always make fun of Americans complaining about US gas prices since it's the cheapest in the developed world.
In that case Sanjay Gupta MD from CNN should be in office since he is less quacky and doesn't sell supplement garbage on TV like Oz. Would Oz be better at running Apple because he's a heart surgeon and Steve jobs was a dropout? That's what being means? They can do anything because of their medical degree?
That's fine and business as usual. Anyone can say all the garbage they want regarding "saving democracy" but Trump is different. The problem is Trump keeps saying he was cheated out of 2020. And Trump won't allow Desantis to run because it can only be Trump.
plasticmonkey
This is a cartoonishly simplistic way of engaging in discourse.
Blacklabel
yes the truth is quite simple.
neither statement is untrue.
bass4funk
Hmmm…
You don’t, the voters do. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people smarter than both of us combined that realize for the Democrat socialist party hasn’t worked out well for the nation.
Funny coming from the left. ROFL!
Bob Fosse
The Democrats are not socialists, it’s another trick to rile folks up.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2021/11/22/democrats-arent-socialists-its-just-what-gopers-want-hear-opinion/6393741001/
bass4funk
Well, they can preach that all day, the voters think differently, if you can convince them before Tuesday….
This administration and their radical so list policies have already riled up the folks.
Blacklabel
Because there is money and fame and media appearances to be gained in being a contrarian “Republican”. Also people can be misinformed or plain wrong.
if all this is just revenge and pettiness and not policy based and everyone is really happy with Dems then they will win tomorrow, right?
see ya tomorrow, bring your excuses for losing.
nishikat
How come Trump people can't define "socialist"? Especially when they live in Japan with more public transportation (Trump hates this), government healthcare (same), net neutrality (Trump reversed this), and better women's healthcare (against the Maga christian cult)
Bob Fosse
Throwing around words and phrases without understanding their actual meaning is not the best way forward.
Maybe it makes some people feel better to call Biden a ‘socialist lame duck president’ but it also makes them look ill informed.
Nemo
And, by the by, it's not going to save Cheeto Jesus from the legal storm coming his way. He is in serious criminal jepardy and that is not going to change with a change in Congressional leadership.
bass4funk
We do, and the simple fact that the left thinks that they’re the only ones with an education in a not only insulting, but further shows why people are bailing on the elite snobbish Democrats.
Calling him what he is has nothing to do with making anyone feel all cozy and warm on the inside. A pig is a pig no matter how much lipstick you put on it.
Blacklabel
Well then wow if all that is true then Dems will surely win on Tuesday. I mean MAGA is only 15% of America right? Cant possibly win.
wallace
The US spends two years and billions on every election. After tomorrow the 2024 election starts. There have to be restrictions on the campaigning period like in Japan and restrictions on spending.
nishikat
Trump keeps saying the election was stolen from him and will not stop. What media bubble is this. And all his Trump people believe him. He even sent the TrumpKeepers after Pence and Nancy:
(Trump during the debate)
If Maga wins then they win. How will they lower healthcare prices and gas prices in the USA?