US Politics : Biden 100 days edition

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Oh look, someone who doesn't know the difference between ability and opportunity.

Keep trying to play that uno reverse racism card though. You might land it someday.

Well Biden (who isn't the best speaker, even discounting his sometimes garbled thinking) is ambiguous here. He needs to speak with more clarity.

He could be suggesting two things:

1. There are no (or very few) black accountants/lawyers
2. Black entrepreneurs can't afford accountants/lawyers (which I think is what he means.

 

[Temujin]

Well Biden (who isn't the best speaker, even discounting his sometimes garbled thinking) is ambiguous here. He needs to speak with more clarity.

He could be suggesting two things:

1. There are no (or very few) black accountants/lawyers
2. Black entrepreneurs can't afford accountants/lawyers (which I think is what he means.

Nah, he(and all dems) have been very clear re their thoughts on minorities... that they're incapable of functioning in society... every time things like voter id comes up for example, they jump straight on the 'but mah black people don't know how to get ids, they don't know where to go, they don't know how to use internet'

 

[Unhappy438]

Nah, he(and all dems) have been very clear re their thoughts on minorities... that they're incapable of functioning in society... every time things like voter id comes up for example, they jump straight on the 'but mah black people don't know how to get ids, they don't know where to go, they don't know how to use internet'

You're right Temujin, Biden is very racist.

That must make you very confused, do you hate him because he's a dem or do you love him because he's so racist?

Well Biden (who isn't the best speaker, even discounting his sometimes garbled thinking) is ambiguous here. He needs to speak with more clarity.

He could be suggesting two things:

1. There are no (or very few) black accountants/lawyers
2. Black entrepreneurs can't afford accountants/lawyers (which I think is what he means.

Its quite obviously number two, a black person doesn't need to hire another black accountant/lawyer.

 

[Temujin]

You're right Temujin, Biden is very racist.

That must make you very confused, do you hate him because he's a dem or do you love him because he's so racist?



Its quite obviously number two, a black person doesn't need to hire another black accountant/lawyer.

The entire left is racist. We see it repeatedly with their hatred and treatment towards black people who call them out on their bullshit. All them self loathing virtue signalling belesswhite allwhitesareracist white folks can't help but jump at the chance to bash on a brown skin for saying something that doesn't fit in with their cult

 

[Unhappy438]

The entire left is racist. We see it repeatedly with their hatred and treatment towards black people who call them out on their bullshit. All them self loathing virtue signalling belesswhite allwhitesareracist white folks can't help but jump at the chance to bash on a brown skin for saying something that doesn't fit in with their cult

So you love the left now. Cute.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Companies responding to labour shortage by raising wages without government interference. Amazing paragraph tucked away in this article that wages are rising faster for blue-collar workers than college graduates.



Also for @cerebus - notice this paragraph. No doubt you'd consider $16/hour "slave wages" yet this chap is going to go on a vacation in Utah and save up some money for a house.




It's boom time in the US and everyone is lovin' it

 

[scudsucker]

So you love the left now. Cute.

I think he might be a little conflicted; his feelings about the left are... ...complicated.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Do you not ever get tired of simping for the bajillionaires?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Well there goes the meme of the 'facts don't care about your feelings', "ohmygod the left are snowflakes not us" conservatives.

lol, and not to mention that it's his argument, not yours.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I've actually read that book as it happens... just checking, you do know that many high-profile Dems are part of that elite, as are many of their supporters?

You sound like the people who thinks it's weird that not everyone here defend the Clintons to the death. Not everyone succumbed to a personality cult the way US conservatives have.

Also on that note: Currently reading the excellent book on the opioid crisis - "the Empire of Pain" - and it is noted that in one chapter, one of the offspring of Sackler clan (who started Purdue Pharma) is a very woke activist who supported BLM, donated money to the Dems and described herself as a "social justice activist" yet refuses to engage on the source of wealth.

Great book. You know who's shielding the Sacklers from accountability for their horrible behaviour? A Bush-appointed activist Republican judge.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

You sound like the people who thinks it's weird that not everyone here defend the Clintons to the death. Not everyone succumbed to a personality cult the way US conservatives have.


Great book. You know who's shielding the Sacklers from accountability for their horrible behaviour? A Bush-appointed activist Republican judge.

Yes, I was highly disappointed that there was political pressure to get an agreement signed before 2020 election, especially since the people who suffer the most from the opioid crisis are his supporters. Man, I just wanted to punch the book at that time. The Massachusetts AG came across very well in that book - it's weird red state AGs whose states were worst affected by the crisis weren't willing to go in for the kill.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Who was the party in control of the government judicial apparatus between 2008 and 2016 again?

Are you implying that Republicans care more about prosecuting white-collar crime than Democrats? Because LOL

Remember who defunded the tax police? Republicans. Immediately after they took over the House in 2010.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/law-and-order-party-calls-on-biden-to-defund-the-tax-police.html

Over the past decade, conservatives have waged a highly successful campaign to defund the tax police. After retaking Congress in 2010, Republicans slashed the IRS’s budget, which fell from $14 billion that year to $11.5 billion in 2020, even as the number of individual tax returns in the U.S. grew by more than 7 percent.

Meanwhile, the GOP pressured the agency to ramp up enforcement on the working poor, despite the fact that nailing low-income people for wrongly claiming EITC benefits doesn’t make much money for Uncle Sam. As a result of such austerity and regressive priorities, the IRS was forced to cut its enforcement staff by nearly a quarter, and the audit rate among America’s ultrawealthy fell by 78 percent. With few tax cops left on the beat, the rich took to looting the federal treasury: The top one percent of earners now hide more than one-fifth of their taxable income from the IRS each year.

Guess who currently also opposes funding them properly? Republicans!

New Republican Demand: Defund the (Tax) Police

President Biden wants to increase the budget of the agency that ensures the very wealthy pay their taxes. The party of "law and order" is outraged

www.yahoo.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405874241514442754

Make crime illegal, Ben?

That's... That's so crazy it just might work.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Is it really the case though that black suffer police brutality more on the basis of their race, even when you control for confounding factors like socioeconomic status? Is it not that poor communities have both more violent criminals and more black people in them? By way of example, I don't think that police specifically target men yet most people who are shot by police are men.

You know there's this thing called basic research.

What the Data Really Says About Police and Racial Bias

Eighteen academic studies, legal rulings, and media investigations shed light on the issue roiling America.

www.vanityfair.com

A study by a University of California, Davis professor found “evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being black, unarmed, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police on average.” Additionally, the analysis found that “there is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.”

An independent analysis of Washington Post data on police killings found that, “when factoring in threat level, black Americans who are fatally shot by police are, in fact, less likely to be posing an imminent lethal threat to the officers at the moment they are killed than white Americans fatally shot by police.” According to one of the report’s authors, “The only thing that was significant in predicting whether someone shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were black. . . . Crime variables did not matter in terms of predicting whether the person killed was unarmed.”

An analysis of the use of lethal force by police in 2015 found no correlation between the level of violent crime in an area and that area’s police killing rates. That finding, by the Black Lives Matter–affiliated group Mapping Police Violence, disputes the idea that police only kill people when operating under intense conditions in high-crime areas. Mapping Police Violence found that fewer than one in three black people killed by police in 2016 were suspected of a violent crime or armed.

In San Francisco, “although Black people accounted for less than 15 percent of all stops in 2015, they accounted for over 42 percent of all non-consent searches following stops.” This proved unwarranted: “Of all people searched without consent, Black and Hispanic people had the lowest ‘hit rates’ (i.e., the lowest rate of contraband recovered).” In 2015, whites searched without consent were found to be carrying contraband at nearly two times the rate as blacks who were searched without consent.

“African Americans are more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops even after controlling for non-race based variables such as the reason the vehicle stop was initiated, but are found in possession of contraband 26% less often than white drivers,

A 2014 analysis of Illinois Department of Transportation data by the American Civil Liberties Union found the following: “African American and Latino drivers are nearly twice as likely as white drivers to be asked during a routine traffic stop for ‘consent’ to have their car searched. Yet white motorists are 49% more likely than African American motorists to have contraband discovered during a consent search by law enforcement, and 56% more likely when compared to Latinos.”

etc. etc. etc.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1406303672489975810

Comical, proud ignorant buffoon gets salty when people dunk on him because of his stupidity. News at 11.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Oops. CC @The_Right_Honourable_Brit

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405945921179881478

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Oh look, that thing people warned was going to happen is happening.

How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections

In Georgia, Republicans are removing Democrats of color from local boards. In Arkansas, they have stripped election control from county authorities. And they are expanding their election power in many other states.

www.nytimes.com

Across Georgia, members of at least 10 county election boards have been removed, had their position eliminated or are likely to be kicked off through local ordinances or new laws passed by the state legislature. At least five are people of color and most are Democrats — though some are Republicans — and they will most likely all be replaced by Republicans.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Let's check in on James Lindsay's latest bit of research into the real CRT.

 

[tetrasect]

it's weird red state AGs whose states were worst affected by the crisis weren't willing to go in for the kill.

Is it though?

 

[Temujin]

Americans flee NY, California, Illinois to Arizona, Idaho and Sun Belt

People fled New York, Illinois and California for Texas, Idaho, Arizona and The Carolinas according to data from moving company North American Van Lines.

www.dailymail.co.uk