US Politics : Withdrawal symptoms

[Hamish McPanji]

Biden approval remains at lowest level of presidency

Chris Kahn

REUTERS POLLING EDITOR

SEPT. 24, 2021

Public approval of U.S. President Joe Biden remains at the lowest level of his presidency, with Americans appearing to be increasingly critical of his response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.

The national poll, conducted Sept. 22-23, found that 44% of U.S. adults approved of Biden’s performance in office, while 51% disapproved and the rest were not sure. Biden’s popularity has been declining since mid-August as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed and as COVID-19-related deaths surged across the country.

What does the country think of Biden?

Keeping tabs on U.S. President Biden’s approval ratings and American’s top issues

graphics.reuters.com

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Continuation of this thread:

US Politics : Biden 100 days edition

So President Biden has completed 100 days as president , administered more than 200 million of Trump's vaccines, has the 3rd lowest approval rating since Truman, has pissed off the conservatives with rich tax proposals, has pissed off progressives for not giving away enough free stuff.....and...

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Despite the odds, Biden shockingly still alive, and the August revolution only happening in Afghanistan...Biden is suffering from gaffes , memory issues and low polls.

When will Harris finally make her move? How many more times will Trump lose the election? Will Bidens ploy to spend gazillions to essentially buy votes pay off?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Can the US avoid another government shutdown?


KENT NISHIMURA

US politicians are once again battling over the funding of the federal government.

At the heart of this is a bitter row over lifting the debt ceiling - a limit on the amount the US government can borrow. If Republicans and Democrats don't agree by Thursday night, the US could face a government shutdown.

There are also dire warnings of a catastrophic default on the national debt that could reverberate through the US and the global economy.

If this sounds familiar, it is - we've been here many times before. But the timing of this latest dispute is unique, with the US still recovering from the damaging impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. So what does it all mean and should we be worried?

Can the US avoid another government shutdown?

Politicians have until midnight on Thursday to avoid a potentially disastrous government shutdown.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[konfab]

Can the US avoid another government shutdown?

Politicians have until midnight on Thursday to avoid a potentially disastrous government shutdown.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nothing good. If an agreement is not reached then the government will shut down indefinitely on 1 October.
Then for the first time ever, at some point between 15 October and 4 November, the US will default on its debts - currently standing at around $28 trillion.

Imagine how terrible it would be if an organisation like OSHA wasn't able to do its job. Imagine people being able to go to work without the federal government knowing their vaccination status. The absolute horror.

https://ogletree.com/insights/government-shutdown-what-it-means-for-osha/

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Imagine how terrible it would be if an organisation like OSHA wasn't able to do its job. Imagine people being able to go to work without the federal government knowing their vaccination status. The absolute horror.

https://ogletree.com/insights/government-shutdown-what-it-means-for-osha/

What happens to the border patrol? Is that deemed an essential service?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

This is nuts.

Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Remove Teacher Who Criticized Israel

An Israeli consul general baselessly accused a graduate student of antisemitism and said she shouldn’t teach a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

theintercept.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

South Dakota GOP Governor Kristi Noem is corrupt as hell. I'm shook.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1442841628335542277

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Afghanistan: US-Taliban deal hastened Afghan collapse, defence officials say

The February 2020 deal set a date for the US to pull out and strengthened the Taliban, generals say.

www.bbc.com

Top US defence officials have said the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan can be traced back to a deal between the group and the Trump administration.

The so-called Doha agreement was signed in February 2020 and set a date for the US to withdraw its troops.
Gen Frank McKenzie said the deal had a "really pernicious effect" on the Afghan government and military.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin agreed, saying the agreement had helped the Taliban get "stronger".

The Trumpers were quite happy to tout the generals' words just a day ago, let's see if they're still happy to do that...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

lmao.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem dismisses conservative website’s claims of extramarital affair with former Trump adviser

South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem dismissed a conservative media outlet's claim that she is having an extramarital affair with Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump adviser who is also advising Noem.

www.seattletimes.com

A conservative website, American Greatness, published a piece Tuesday claiming that, according to “multiple” sources, Noem has been having an affair with Lewandowski that has continued “for months.” The website did not identify any of the sources.

Lewandowski was Trump’s first presidential campaign manager. He was fired by the campaign in 2016 but remains part of the former president’s inner circle and runs the pro-Trump Make America Great Again Action super PAC.

Separately, a Trump donor is accusing Lewandowski of repeatedly groping her and making unwanted sexual comments toward her at a charity event in Las Vegas last week.

 

[cerebus]

Afghanistan: US-Taliban deal hastened Afghan collapse, defence officials say

The February 2020 deal set a date for the US to pull out and strengthened the Taliban, generals say.

www.bbc.com

The Trumpers were quite happy to tout the generals' words just a day ago, let's see if they're still happy to do that...

Well, partially tout their words…

We Now Know Why Biden Was in a Hurry to Exit Afghanistan

He made several missteps, but on the big picture, he was right.

slate.com

If U.S. troops had stayed beyond August, Milley said, the Taliban would have resumed the fighting, and, in order to stave off the attacks, “we would have needed 30,000 troops” and would have suffered “many casualties.”

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Manchin describes his own colleagues spending plans as "fiscal insanity". Hard to disagree with many people already worrying about the spectre of "stagflation", despite Orbital breezily dismissing inflation worries as temporary only a few months ago.

Manchin offers alternative plans to Democrats' 'fiscal insanity'

The moderate Democrat laid out how he wants to work on President Joe Biden’s family plan, starting with tax reform.

www.politico.com

 

[Temujin]

 

[rietrot]

Wanted to share this in the old thead as it ended with the fake kkk meeting.

 

[konfab]

Manchin describes his own colleagues spending plans as "fiscal insanity". Hard to disagree with many people already worrying about the spectre of "stagflation", despite Orbital breezily dismissing inflation worries as temporary only a few months ago.

Manchin offers alternative plans to Democrats' 'fiscal insanity'

The moderate Democrat laid out how he wants to work on President Joe Biden’s family plan, starting with tax reform.

www.politico.com

Biden's administration is pretty much insane at this point.

The idea is that for billionaires only, annual gains in wealth would be treated as income. So under current law, someone whose net worth rose to $22 billion from $20 billion and sold nothing would have no income. Under Mr. Wyden’s proposal, that person would have $2 billion of taxable income.

One challenge for the proposal is that it would need to deal with losses, and the prospect of the government sending large checks to billionaires is politically unappealing. Lawmakers could allow deductions for annual losses while also imposing limits on those deductions or allowing them to carry forward to offset gains in future years.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-...-on-billionaires-unrealized-gains-11632498487

How to kill all US investment with one simple stroke of a pen.

 

[cerebus]

Biden's administration is pretty much insane at this point.

What's insane is billionaires paying a tax rate of 0.98% of their real income

Richest Americans—Including Bezos, Musk And Buffett—Paid Federal Income Taxes Equaling Just 3.4% Of $401 Billion In New Wealth, Bombshell Report Shows

Warren Buffett, a vocal advocate of higher income taxes on the rich, paid just 0.1%--a reflection of how little income he realized compared to his wealth.

www.forbes.com

 

[rietrot]

What's insane is billionaires paying a tax rate of 0.98% of their real income

Richest Americans—Including Bezos, Musk And Buffett—Paid Federal Income Taxes Equaling Just 3.4% Of $401 Billion In New Wealth, Bombshell Report Shows

Warren Buffett, a vocal advocate of higher income taxes on the rich, paid just 0.1%--a reflection of how little income he realized compared to his wealth.

www.forbes.com

Already do. Capital gains and dividend withholding tax also the same normal income tax everyone else pay if they are working and gets a salary, plus sales tax and whatever other nonsense America have.

 

[konfab]

What's insane is billionaires paying a tax rate of 0.98% of their real income

Richest Americans—Including Bezos, Musk And Buffett—Paid Federal Income Taxes Equaling Just 3.4% Of $401 Billion In New Wealth, Bombshell Report Shows

Warren Buffett, a vocal advocate of higher income taxes on the rich, paid just 0.1%--a reflection of how little income he realized compared to his wealth.

www.forbes.com

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% as his wealth grew by a staggering $99 billion between 2014 and 2018; he reported just $4.22 billion in reported income during the same period.

No. The value of his shares grew by $99billion. That is not income. If your house increases in value by 10% over a year for example, do you have 10% more money in your bank account every month because of it?

You only realise the value of said investment when you sell it, and that is when the tax gets applied. The same thing will happen with Bezo's shares when he sells them. You progressives just need to be a bit more patient when stealing other people's money.


If you actually wanted to get everyone to pay their "fair share", then you need a completely different way of taxing people. As I have posted before, the best way to do this would be to get rid of all taxes and replace them with low, flat, bank transaction tax. This would cover the scenario where it is apparently evil that a billionaire can use their shares as an asset to borrow money, as the moment that money gets moved, it gets taxed.

 

[rietrot]

No. The value of his shares grew by $99billion. That is not income. If your house increases in value by 10% over a year for example, do you have 10% more money in your bank account every month because of it?

You only realise the value of said investment when you sell it, and that is when the tax gets applied. The same thing will happen with Bezo's shares when he sells them. You progressives just need to be a bit more patient when stealing other people's money.

It is actually considered income and taxed when it materialize. (He sell shares, capital gain tax)

Somehow lefties are just ideologically blind to the idea that net worth and money in the bank is not the same thing.

 

[rietrot]

Fair share would just be pay as you use for each government service. Need water = pay your water bill.

Need the police. Subscribe at a flat rate.

Non of this unfair scaled nonsense where some people pay more than others.

 

[konfab]

Fair share would just be pay as you use for each government service. Need water = pay your water bill.

Need the police. Subscribe at a flat rate.

Non of this unfair scaled nonsense where some people pay more than others.

Not going to work. That effectively turns society back into feudalism, where you only have your individual rights when you are able to pay for them.

If police are not obligated to protect individual rights of everyone, then they won't be obligated to stop someone who can't afford the police tax from being sold into slavery.


The APT is fair in that everyone pays exactly the same rate in tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Payment_Transaction_tax