US Politics : Biden 100 days edition

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What does this even mean? I am genuinely curious as what do you think will happen ?
He's going to order Putin to stop cyber warfare against the USA, and spell out the consequences (crippling sanctions) if Russia persists with what they've been doing. He will not be Putin's lapdog like Trump was.
 

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He's going to order Putin to stop cyber warfare against the USA, and spell out the consequences (crippling sanctions) if Russia persists with what they've been doing. He will not be Putin's lapdog like Trump was.

That will never happen.
 

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On Wednesday we will witness America standing up to Russia for the first time in years.
Other than sending a cruise missile to blow up the Nordstream 2, there is bugger-all that the US can do atm.


Neither Trump nor Biden were unable to stop it.
The natural gas pipeline is being built under the Baltic Sea by Russian energy company Gazprom, allowing Russia to bypass running the lines through Ukraine.

Opponents of the pipeline argue that it will give Putin too much influence in Germany and throughout Europe because the Kremlin will control such a substantial energy supply.

Former President Donald Trump railed against the deal and even warned NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting in July 2018 that it would allow Germany to be “totally controlled” by Moscow.


https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/biden-waiving-sanctions-on-russian-pipeline-because-its-finished/

This wouldn't have been an issue if Germany didn't demolish all its nuclear reactors because of environmentalist scaremongering.
 

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He's going to order Putin to stop cyber warfare against the USA, and spell out the consequences (crippling sanctions) if Russia persists with what they've been doing. He will not be Putin's lapdog like Trump was.
Order Putin? :) . At most, I can see Biden threatening sanctions in the post-meeting solo conference. Russia will keep meddling in cyber warfare and I doubt if USA can cripple USA unless entire G7 and other countries are along with him. Even then, cripple is a strong word.
 

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America can launch cyber counterstrikes against Russia. Shut down some of their already crumbling Soviet era infrastructure.
 

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America can launch cyber counterstrikes against Russia. Shut down some of their already crumbling Soviet era infrastructure.
Remember when you said you were supporting Trump and then changed your opinion because "reasons" ? I don't think much changed in those "reasons" except figurehead change.
 

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Remember when you said you were supporting Trump and then changed your opinion because "reasons" ? I don't think much changed in those "reasons" except figurehead change.
Do you have a soft spot for the USSR because they supported the ANC? Putin is a dangerous man.
 
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For once you are right Chris, orange man policies were just sand castles.
...and yet he achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment for all race groups! We wait in anticipation to see if Biden will achieve such levels. Not off to a good start when employers are already complaining about a lack of employees, however.
 

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...and yet he achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment for all race groups! We wait in anticipation to see if Biden will achieve such levels. Not off to a good start when employers are already complaining about a lack of employees, however.

...and yet that still meant nothing to the average man on the street. If it did he would still be president.
 

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...and yet he achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment for all race groups! We wait in anticipation to see if Biden will achieve such levels. Not off to a good start when employers are already complaining about a lack of employees, however.

'He achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment'. Come on Chris. Both that claim and your anticipation of Biden's achievements are predictably dishonest.
Here's how its dishonest: "When trump became president, unemployment levels were at 4.9%. When he left office they were at 8.1%"


See how I did that?
If you were honest, you would say trump took office and inherited an unemployment rate that was already steadily and rapidly declining for 6 years before he took office. His administration continued that decline until Covid put a spanner in the works.
 

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'He achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment'. Come on Chris. Both that claim and your anticipation of Biden's achievements are predictably dishonest.
Here's how its dishonest: "When trump became president, unemployment levels were at 4.9%. When he left office they were at 8.1%"


See how I did that?
If you were honest, you would say trump took office and inherited an unemployment rate that was already steadily and rapidly declining for 6 years before he took office. His administration continued that decline until Covid put a spanner in the works.

Let's draw some lines in that graph.

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'He achieved almost unfathomable low levels of unemployment'. Come on Chris. Both that claim and your anticipation of Biden's achievements are predictably dishonest.
Here's how its dishonest: "When trump became president, unemployment levels were at 4.9%. When he left office they were at 8.1%"


See how I did that?
If you were honest, you would say trump took office and inherited an unemployment rate that was already steadily and rapidly declining for 6 years before he took office. His administration continued that decline until Covid put a spanner in the works.

Yeah, let's think about why unemployment levels were so high at the end of his term of office....a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic ring any bells? My claim is not dishonest, it is a fact. Are you essentially saying Obama was the main person responsible...even in 2018/2019? Really? That's very much dishonest. There is no guarantee that a trend will continue once in office, especially when presidents are replaced with a president from a different party. You basically saying Trump could nothing and it would have ended up like that...give the man some credit!
 
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That's definitely not what is happening now.

It's exactly what's happening. Too many unfulfilled jobs is not an unemployment problem. People are choosing not to go back to work because they aren't happy with labor conditions. The economy could provide full employment tomorrow if workers were happy with the salaries they were being offered.
 
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