An actual political thread

[Ming]

And Trump lied through his teeth every day to you and STILL DOES... but you support him.
As expected from a Trump Sheep who doesn't care about facts. Just keep posting whatever they instruct you to.
And just remember, maybe in the future, you should check it out before you do

[Kidlicious]

It's amazing that when Biden throws people under the bus some people try to scapegoat.

[Ming]

It's amazing that when somebody disagrees about anything with Trump, he throws them under the bus, calls them names, claims they aren't real Republicans and rants about them like a little child.
And his sheep still follow him.

[Dinner]

But, hey, let's try to be a real man like Ron Swanson. I do miss Parks and Rec. Anyone who can eat 52 eggs in one sitting is worthy of admiration.

[Dinner]

https://youtu.be/DemeythwnzU

[Dinner]

https://youtu.be/eey-wOyTOJs

[Kidlicious]

Even Obama came out and said the open borders is unsustainable. They asked Psaki if Biden agreed. She said that we don't have open borders so he agrees. The is absolute insanity and if you ask anyone in the Biden administration a question they just talk stupid to you.

[Egbert]

Sounds like the Australian government and the New South Wales state government.
Ask anyone a question and they talk stupid.

[Kidlicious]

Yeah. I think this is the way it is getting all over the world except in directly authoritarian regimes where you can't even ask questions.

[Ming]

Gee... that's almost an improvement over asking something of anybody in the Trump Admin anything and all they did was lie.

[WigIaf]

the US Postal Service will be defunded and disbanded

[Berzerker]

So Biden lied to the American people, telling us that no military advisors told him to leave troops in Afghanistan.

I saw Fox talking about that, but I think there was a miscommunication - Biden was saying no general told him to keep 2500 troops in country after the evacuation... I think. IE we were leaving and not keeping Bagram and other bases with a small force left behind to drone Afghans. The generals may be saying they recommended 2500 for the duration of our presence. Both are saying the same thing, the 2500 were leaving last. Somebody screwed that up by telling the Taliban to take Kabul.

[Kidlicious]

I saw Fox talking about that, but I think there was a miscommunication - Biden was saying no general told him to keep 2500 troops in country after the evacuation... I think. IE we were leaving and not keeping Bagram and other bases with a small force left behind to drone Afghans. The generals may be saying they recommended 2500 for the duration of our presence. Both are saying the same thing, the 2500 were leaving last. Somebody screwed that up by telling the Taliban to take Kabul.

It's not just Fox. Can you specify your reason for believing that Biden didn't lie to the American people?

Key takeaways from US military leaders on Afghanistan withdrawal

LUIS MARTINEZ and MATT SEYLER
Tue, September 28, 2021, 6:12 PM·7 min read

In their first appearance before Congress since the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the nation's top military leaders candidly admitted to lawmakers that they had recommended to President Joe Biden that the U.S. should keep a troop presence there, appearing to contradict his assertions.

The testimony by Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, was at odds with Biden's comments earlier this year to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that his military commanders did not recommend keeping a residual force.
PHOTO: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan on Capitol Hill, Sept. 28, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
MORE: Afghanistan updates: Generals say they opposed Biden decision to withdraw all troops

The revelations came during a six-hour hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee where Milley also characterized that the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan had been "a strategic failure" and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged that it was time to acknowledged some "uncomfortable truths" about the two decade U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.

Here are some key takeaways:

Military commanders wanted to keep at least 2,500 troops in Afghanistan

While Milley and McKenzie said they would not disclose the content of private conversations with Biden, both generals offered their personal opinions that they said matched their recommendations.

"My assessment was back in the fall of '20 and remained consistent throughout that we should keep a steady state of 2,500, could bounce up to 3,500," Milley told Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.

"I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and I also recommended early in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time, those were my personal views," McKenzie said.
PHOTO: General Kenneth McKenzie listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, on Capitol Hill, Sept. 28, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via Reuters)More
The generals' statements were at odds with what Biden had told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview on Aug. 18.

"No one told -- your military advisers did not tell you, "No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that?," Stephanopoulos asked Biden.

"No," said Biden. "No one said that to me, that I can recall."

Biden also said his military advisers were "split" on the matter.
PHOTO: President Joe Biden speaks with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Aug. 18, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (ABC News)
McKenzie said he had also warned that the withdrawal of U.S. troops "would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Afghan military."

"I also had a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government," he said.

[Kidlicious]

Even CNN is reporting that Durham is building a broader criminal case, because he issued more subpoenas.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/politics/durham-subpoenas-probe-russia-fbi-sussman/index.html

[Kidlicious]

And of course CNN is still biased and brainwashes stupid cult members, so to head it off at the pass don't start complaining because I used CNN as a source. Anyone that has the capability to think critically knows why I used CNN. Sadly I have to say that to avoid a bunch of nonsense.

[Kidlicious]

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Calls For The U.S. To Counter China's Economic Power


Updated September 28, 20214:09 PM ET
Heard on Morning Edition



Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, pictured in June, is outlining her economic agenda. One goal is to increase U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the Chinese government is blocking its airlines from purchasing tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S.-made airplanes in the latest U.S. complaint about China's economic policies.

"The Chinese government is holding that up," Raimondo told NPR. "They are not respecting intellectual property and stealing IP of American companies. They're putting up all kinds of different barriers for American companies to do business in China."

The comments came in an interview ahead of a speech on Tuesday outlining her economic agenda, which includes countering China's economic influence and addressing longstanding U.S. issues with the Chinese government's treatment of U.S. companies.

The U.S. also needs to counter China for human rights reasons, the commerce secretary said. The Chinese government is holding 1.5 million people from the ethnic minority Uyghur group in internment camps and has effectively created a high-tech surveillance state in areas where many Uyghurs live.


Though she said last week that she would work to improve U.S. business ties with China and would lead delegations of U.S. executives there, Raimondo told NPR the Biden administration would attempt to work more with European allies to come up with regulations and technology standards with countries that "support our democratic values."
A focus on semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.


Raimondo is also pushing for more investment in U.S. manufacturing, which has fallen as companies moved jobs abroad starting decades ago. She wants more attention on shoring up supply chains that were shown to be vulnerable during the pandemic.

Her spotlight is on semiconductors specifically, which are today mostly made in Taiwan, South Korea, China and Japan. The U.S. makes 12%. Semiconductor chips are needed for smartphones and many other electronic devices to work.

"Once upon a time, America led the world in semiconductor manufacturing," Raimondo said. "In search of cheap labor, we have lost that lead. So we need to invest in America, incentivize companies to manufacture chips in America, have a trained workforce, shoring up domestic supply chains, domestic manufacturing here. That is what is critical. That is how we're going to compete globally."



Raimondo is urging the House to pass the Chips for America Act, which would direct $52 billion to help boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. The measure has already passed the Senate.
More generous family leave policies


In a wide-ranging interview with Morning Edition, Raimondo said more liberal child and dependent caregiver policies would make the U.S. more competitive economically.

"You cannot be competitive if women can't productively engage in the workforce because they don't have access to child care or care for their elderly loved ones," she said. "We can't compete globally if we're the only industrialized nation without paid family leave, which severely underpins our workers' productivity."



While it might be expected that business leaders would oppose any hint of raising corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, Raimondo said she's heard from some who say they would be willing to pay higher taxes personally but want corporate taxes to be "competitive."

"I think there's broad recognition that some tax increases are necessary in order to pay for these investments," she said, in areas including child care infrastructure, job training, slowing climate change and increasing broadband access.
Increasing broadband access in cities and in rural areas


An issue such as broadband access has different solutions depending on where someone lives. While a higher percentage of rural residents lack broadband access — 19% of rural households compared to 14% of urban households — the majority of people without broadband live in urban areas.



In rural areas, companies haven't built the infrastructure because it's not economically viable, while in urban areas, some people can't afford to pay for internet access. "So we have to fix that," Raimondo says.

She also said the Biden administration would work to help areas that were previously supported by coal mining jobs. Coal jobs have collapsed in recent years mainly because of market forces, but the Biden administration is also pushing renewable energy.



Raimondo said the administration wants coal-mining areas to "move away from coal as fast as possible," but added: "You can't say, 'Coal's going away, you're going to lose all your jobs, good luck.' You have to be there to help people in those communities find jobs, bring new industries there."

Lilly Quiroz, Scott Saloway and Milton Guevara produced and edited the audio interview.

Credit to her for taking this stance but she is against the Democrats on this and her voice will probably be ignored. Pelosi has stated that they will let Communist China do whatever they do, if they will make some promises to fight climate change. She literally said that they will let the communists commit genocide in order to get them to do something for climate change. Listen to Pelosi, not the commerce secretary if you want to know where the Democrats as a group stand.

[Kidlicious]

"'I’d love to support [congressional candidate] fran [person] but unfortunately as the evp of cnbc I’m not allowed to donate to political campaigns. In years past I would get around that by having my wife donate but after cnbc hosted a controversial/aggressive republican primary debate earlier this year, breitbart and ruch limbaughouted me as the husband of a 'max' hillary donor so I can't even have eileen donate any more.'"

= an email on Hunter Biden's laptop to Hunter Biden