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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

July 14, 2022 07:07 AM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61569559

7th line down.
"Last month, inflation in the US hit 8.6%, one of the highest rates in the world."
"Many of the forces driving inflation last year - such as supply disruptions from Covid and higher food prices after severe storms and drought hurt harvests - were not unique to the US."
"The reason the US fared worse? In two words - high demand."

Now, in addition to the stated reason, in two words, for why the US has fared worse, I'd like the cons on the forum to recall, after turning off their selective amnesia switch, that Donald Trump sent pandemic relief checks to Americans, replete with his name on it, and the cons didn't have a problem with that but they suddenly do when they think they can blame Biden for doing the same.
So, not only is their stated reason incorrect that inflation is the worst here because of Biden's aforementioned action, they conveniently forget that Trump did the same thing. The effects are not mutually exclusive but they do have a cumulative effect that is ignored by the cons, as usual... 

July 14, 2022 07:21 AM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki
I'm not current? You have not mentioned the amount of training, supplies and arms Iran has, is, and will supply Russia with including drones and missiles. Ukraine thanks you. and when you encounter differing opinions it is because people can't get things through their thick heads? I guess you would have no way of knowing it could be your inability to see things.
Biden stated today he will use force to prevent Iran from having a nuclear bomb. 
I think we can all understand and agree that's the appropriate action to take and certainly constitutes being "tough" on Iran.
However, I doubt most will expect the US to use force to stop training in conventional weapons in Iran, including the potential exports of drones and the like. 
However, what we do see here and elsewhere among the cons is a steady stream of resistance to Biden providing aid to Ukraine, most of which is military in nature, and a number of Republicans in congress, particularly the extremist ones, vote no for said aid to Ukraine...

July 14, 2022 08:22 AM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki
What kind of force do you imagine Biden would use to stop Iran?

In the economy the AMOUNT is what matters.
Conventional bunker busters and other penetrating types of massive amounts of ordinance.
He's not going to nuke 'em if that's what you're implying, nor is it necessary to do so.

"Would Trump's give a way been enough to cause this problem?"
As I said it's cumulative and again, demand has been cited as the main reason why inflation here is greater than elsewhere...

July 14, 2022 09:20 AM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki
But as the demand was created by the gov cash, the amount is everything.
It was created by multiple factors including and primarily by supply chain issues and not government cash.

July 14, 2022 10:00 PM Forum: Politics

Will Joe Biden be the Democrat Nominee in 2024?

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki
The BBC I linked earlier, "Why Is Inflation In the US So High" said, "These programmes...were a considerable infusion of liquidity into consumer's pockets at a time when perhaps industry wasn't quite ready to respond to an increase in demand."

So I blame gov cash because they made the decision to put this much cash into the system! They thought and said, "Let's do this!" And everybody knew what a rare and massive move by the gov it was. With Larry Summers predicting this would happen.
It's certainly not that simple. What follows is a good summary from Dimon, the Chase Manhattan CEO, said today:
“In our global economy, we are dealing with two conflicting factors, operating on different timetables," CEO Jamie Dimon said. "The U.S. economy continues to grow and both the job market and consumer spending, and their ability to spend, remain healthy."
"But geopolitical tension, high inflation, waning consumer confidence, the uncertainty about how high rates have to go and the never-before-seen quantitative tightening and their effects on global liquidity, combined with the war in Ukraine and its harmful effect on global energy and food prices are very likely to have negative consequences on the global economy sometime down the road,"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-july-14-2022-115058342.html
So, again, we live and function in a GLOBAL economy and not one primarily or even remotely influenced by Trump's or Biden's pandemic relief checks...

July 14, 2022 09:27 AM Forum: Politics

Sarah Palin Redux...

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1BJPQ34xY

July 15, 2022 01:56 AM Forum: Politics

Conservatives Issue Report: The 2020 Presidential Election Was Not Stolen

Posted By Rod Kaufman
"A group of conservatives, including prominent lawyers and retired federal judges, issued a 72-page report on Thursday categorically rebutting each of the claims made in court by former President Donald Trump and his supporters over the 2020 election results."
"The report, "LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election," looked at more than 60 court cases Trump and his supporters filed and lost in six key battleground states. It reached the "unequivocal" conclusion that the former Republican president's claims were unsupportable -- which Trump's own Department of Homeland Security as well as election officials nationwide debunked days after the 2020 election."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/conservatives-report-trump-2020-election-claims/index.html
Think right wing media will report it?...

July 16, 2022 04:40 AM Forum: Politics

I stopped at a local fast food restaurant today for some Breakfast Tacos..

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Richard Davis
They were pretty delicious.  I like Mexican cuisine.........


OH, I guess I should mention that I stopped for the food, not the people as Jill Biden refers to them.

I hope I didn't confuse anyone on the left....

ON with your day!  
Yeah, what's that compared to Trump's comments anyway: . “They are not our friend, believe me,” he said, before disparaging Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
https://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/

July 16, 2022 07:59 AM Forum: Politics

I stopped at a local fast food restaurant today for some Breakfast Tacos..

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Sure looks like he was right considering the Illegal Alien Rapist who raped a 10 year old.  

You know, the story you were upset about and the one where you completely ignored the fact that he was an Illegal Immigrant, a person whom Biden is freely letting in at the Southern Border.
Biden is not, of course, freely letting in illegal immigrants, and, again, you don't know when this guy entered the country illegally. Not to mention the fact that this is not the only case of a ten year old that has been reported before and the others were not stated to be caused by an illegal immigrant. Oh, and the head of the anti abortion group that is helping Republicans draft anti-abortion legislation told a reporter today that the 10 year old should have been required to carry the pregnancy to term...

July 16, 2022 10:15 PM Forum: Politics

I stopped at a local fast food restaurant today for some Breakfast Tacos..

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by James Lacey


I'm not sure what you think these hypotheticals prove. What does making up a situation that didn't happen, and then assuming how I would react, prove anything?

On the other hand, we know that you didn't mind when Trump called Mexicans criminals, drug addicts, and rapists. You also didn't care when Trump said there were good people on both sides when one side was actual Nazis. Probably no one else in the history of Trump ass-kissing made more excuses and covered for Trump's racist and misogynist behavior besides yourself. So, on the one hand, we have your hypothetical, and on the other, we have your actual conduct. I'm sorry, where were you going with this hypothetical again, and what does it prove?
It's a deflection and he's parroting what he's heard on right wing media. We now know the illegal in question was here prior to Biden becoming president. Even if he was, it has nothing  do with who the president happens to be. It's obviously not the president's fault, partly or otherwise. This is yet another case of right wingers shown to be wrong in initially doubting the veracity of the case and then attempting to focus the attention on the perp's illegal status.

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