Politics

[spike.t]

The Donald seems to flip flop on his views and thoughts from day to day.....not too much consistency......

Trump's frantic peacebrokering week hints at what he really wants

After seven breathless days of diplomatic hurly burly, we have a clearer idea of the US president's global ideology - and the limits of his 'art of a deal'.

www.bbc.com

 

[Brent in Az]

Kabuki theater. He can raise funds off of it.

It's disturbing to think that there are people that would actually give that guy money

 

[Tundra Tiger]

The Donald seems to flip flop on his views and thoughts from day to day.....not too much consistency......

Trump's frantic peacebrokering week hints at what he really wants

After seven breathless days of diplomatic hurly burly, we have a clearer idea of the US president's global ideology - and the limits of his 'art of a deal'.

www.bbc.com

It's tough to keep up with what course of action is going to best stoke the ego day to day.

 

[rookhawk]

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It's a pyrrhic victory that makes no difference whatsoever. Here's how the white house has worked for the past 30+ years: You find a partisan stooge of your political leaning that is in the press corp, you state they can ask you the following scripted questions. If they play the reporter game, they are granted exclusive interviews. Inversely, if you have dirt on a sitting presidency you threaten to do your job and publish it....OR you can trade it for more exclusivity that drives network ratings.

The press is part of the machine. It still will be whether certain members of the press or certain networks aren't allowed on planes or in buildings.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

 

[Brent in Az]

Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive form' of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone.

 

[skydiver386]

Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive form' of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone.

I feel truly sad for him.

No matter how much I differ from someone politically, I dislike hearing that they are suffering and in pain. Both my father and sister died very slowly from very aggressive forms of cancer.

We have all known Biden was not in good health for many years, and no matter how we feel about his politics, we should keep the former President and his family in our prayers.

 

[Brent in Az]

I don't feel sad for him. He was a corrupt grifter, and nothing but a puppet for the left, yet, allowed the atrocities of the deep state on his watch.
I hope he finds his peace with God. He's going to need that grace.

It's not hard to imagine what would be said around here if it was Trump in Bidens state of health.

 

[Brent in Az]

If Biden has something along the lines close to stage 4 cancer, it just didn't happen overnight.
Just another instance of a Washington D.C cover-up

 

[skydiver386]

I don't feel sad for him. He was a corrupt grifter, and nothing but a puppet for the left, yet, allowed the atrocities of the deep state on his watch.
I hope he finds his peace with God. He's going to need that grace.

It's not hard to imagine what would be said around here if it was Trump in Bidens state of health.

That may be so, but unlike the left, I don't let politics destroy my humanity.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I feel bad for Joe Biden that he couldn’t get proper medical care and get prostate PSA screening annually like the rest of us.

Or he has had this for years and It’s just another lie. I’m guessing the latter.

A side benefit is, he will get a lot of sympathy that will improve his legacy. Who knows he may even get a library now. But unfortunately, having cancer doesn’t make you a good person or a good president.

 

[mdwest]

I don’t wish cancer or suffering on anyone..

But legacy improving sympathy is something he won’t get from me. I believe there is more than enough evidence that he was a horrible human being (the 50+ legacy of outright lies caught on film and tape, the quality of people he associated with, the quality of the children he raised, the way he lived his life in general, etc)… and plenty of evidence he was a horrible president as well (atrocious foreign policy, atrocious domestic policy, absenteeism, hard push toward DEI, etc etc)..

The American people will sympathize for a few months through his medical care and death..

But I don’t think historians will record much about his cancer other than thankfulness that he didn’t get a second term (that he very clearly wanted) because a president with cancer turning over the reigns to Harris somewhere during the term, would have been a death sentence to the country.. and one he was more than willing to stroke the gavel on had his party given him the opportunity…

 

[Brent in Az]

Joe Biden is a P.O.S, and so are the majority of the democrat party, and deep state thugs.
I have no sympathy or humanity for evil people. Regardless of political party affiliation.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I actually believe the only reason they made it public is to “brush back” the scrutiny of the fraud of mental status

 

[Brent in Az]

The fraud of mental status, and the auto-pen scandal that was gaining traction.
Now they throw up the smoke and mirrors distraction.
"Hey everybody, lets feel sorry for Joe"

Joe Biden has no sympathy for the families who lost loved ones to the heinous crimes committed by the illegal aliens that they so willingly let pour across the border for political reasons

 

[wesheltonj]

I feel bad for Joe Biden that he couldn’t get proper medical care and get prostate PSA screening annually like the rest of us.

Or he has had this for years and It’s just another lie. I’m guessing the latter.

A side benefit is, he will get a lot of sympathy that will improve his legacy. Who knows he may even get a library now. But unfortunately, having cancer doesn’t make you a good person or a good president.

Joe has been a POS his entire career. And I don’t believe for one minute the physicians at Walter Reed are just now finding his stage 4 cancer. It’s just now coming out because of the book by another POS that said his staff was preparing for use of a wheel chair in the second term. The USA dodged a bomb with Trumps election.

 

[Brent in Az]

Just as I said.....

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gop-house-senate/2025/05/19/id/1211460/

 

[mdwest]

Just as I said.....

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gop-house-senate/2025/05/19/id/1211460/

As bad as I hate it in this instance.. Thune was probably right..

The problem with 1 big beautiful anything is... you have to get 1 document put together where everyone (in the majority) absolutely agree on everything it contains... which is never going to happen..

It probably would have been a better approach to do a 3 big beautiful bills thing.. and segregate it a bit so you could at least get a big win under the belt quickly and early by compiling the parts that you know everyone is going to agree on.. then catch another big win a few months later by attacking all the parts where they largely agree but a little negotiating and tweaking is necessary.. and then spend the rest of the term fighting over the parts (like medicaide) that you know you're never going to get consensus on..

I'd rather get 66% of what I want, and get it pretty quickly.. than none of what I want because I cant get a handful of people to budge on a couple of items no matter what is done (other than completely abandoning the item)..

 

[Red Leg]

As bad as I hate it in this instance.. Thune was probably right..

The problem with 1 big beautiful anything is... you have to get 1 document put together where everyone (in the majority) absolutely agree on everything it contains... which is never going to happen..

It probably would have been a better approach to do a 3 big beautiful bills thing.. and segregate it a bit so you could at least get a big win under the belt quickly and early by compiling the parts that you know everyone is going to agree on.. then catch another big win a few months later by attacking all the parts where they largely agree but a little negotiating and tweaking is necessary.. and then spend the rest of the term fighting over the parts (like medicaide) that you know you're never going to get consensus on..

I'd rather get 66% of what I want, and get it pretty quickly.. than none of what I want because I cant get a handful of people to budge on a couple of items no matter what is done (other than completely abandoning the item)..

Apparently the choice was one or two. They would not be able to do three. And I certainly agree two would have been better than one. It, let's say the tax extension, would have been a quick win and given the malcontents far less time and basis for meaningful republican resistance.

 

[Brent in Az]

As bad as I hate it in this instance.. Thune was probably right..

The problem with 1 big beautiful anything is... you have to get 1 document put together where everyone (in the majority) absolutely agree on everything it contains... which is never going to happen..

It probably would have been a better approach to do a 3 big beautiful bills thing.. and segregate it a bit so you could at least get a big win under the belt quickly and early by compiling the parts that you know everyone is going to agree on.. then catch another big win a few months later by attacking all the parts where they largely agree but a little negotiating and tweaking is necessary.. and then spend the rest of the term fighting over the parts (like medicaide) that you know you're never going to get consensus on..

I'd rather get 66% of what I want, and get it pretty quickly.. than none of what I want because I cant get a handful of people to budge on a couple of items no matter what is done (other than completely abandoning the item)..

Would it be prudent to leave the Medicaid cuts alone until after the mid-terms, or gut the budget now, and take a chance on the repercussions and fall out?
The MSM will run with the narrative that the GOP just gave a death sentence to those on Medicaid.