Politics The Biden thread

[Ivan le Fou]

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[Flagg]

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Looney Tunes ....

Road building and ongoing maintenance of them is hugely expensive.

There will need to be a transition from liquid energy (consumption) based taxes to differentiated electrical energy(consumption) based taxes and/or distance travelled(user pays) taxation to pay for it all.

At the moment it isn’t a critical issue, but it will very quickly become one as new vehicle sales shift proportionally away from ICE and towards plug-in hybrid and pure electric.

When plug-in hybrid and pure electric fleets are proportionally low % of total wear and tear on roads they can enjoy the subsidy.

But there will be a tipping point.

I suspect government will continue to raise liquid energy taxes both to increase short term government cash flow as well as a disincentive to their use(think government addiction to increasing tobacco taxes).

While also concurrently adding in differentiated electricity pricing(akin to untaxed ag petrol and taxed road use petrol) and/or road user taxes per mile/kilometre.

Road user taxes are already in use in some places. Here in NZ we have it for diesel vehicles where you purchase them in advance with diesel tax per litre at the pump much, much lower.

I‘m perpetually always slightly behind a few K’s(but I always pay) because I’m a pirate ?‍ and fcuk them, it also keeps me from speeding and getting an extra ticket for coming up short when pulled over.

Everyone should just ride motorcycles

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Everyone should just ride motorcycles

Bikes.

Or just walk. Trains, buses and planes should only be used by important people doing important things.

 

[JimHPTN]

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Couple this with defunded police, sanctuary cities, and a massive illegal immigrant surge and California will soon experience a crime wave previously unknown in the USA. However, the press and politicians will blame everything on "white privilege" and gun ownership.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

US Special Operations Command ‘Not Aware’ of New Hire’s Anti-Trump Posts

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[colin traveller]

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[Ivan le Fou]

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[colin traveller]

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[colin traveller]

Chris Wallace Grills Jen Psaki: ‘You Are Being Less Transparent Than The Trump Administration’

Fox News host Chris Wallace grilled White House Jen Psaki on Sunday about the Biden administration’s crisis on the southern border, saying that they were being “less transparent” than the Trump administration was about what is happening on the border. “The president and you have both been in...

www.dailywire.com

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How in the she;; can she say with a straight face kids are fleeing hurricanes as one of the reasons for them coming to the Border ..

Down right fabricated lie ... .

 

[morris]

 

[Ivan le Fou]

How in the she;; can she say with a straight face kids are fleeing hurricanes as one of the reasons for them coming to the Border ..

Down right fabricated lie ... .

Way to shove in the "climate change" thing.

 

[colin traveller]

Way to shove in the "climate change" thing.

Nope because she is unwilling to admit the fact that it's always been the scumbag policy of the Admin to have OPEN BORDERs AND CATCH N RELEASE AGAIN ...

 

[nemipuka_]

For the most part what I was observing in American politics in recent years is this:
There are 2 camps. The conservative-patriots represented by Trump/MAGA movement, and the liberal left represented by Dems, Harrises and Baidons.

Camp #1 does foreign policy by attacking China, and accusing it of interference, crimes, etc.
Camp #2 does foreign policy by attacking Russia, and accusing it of interference, crimes, etc.

The general growing premise, at least from the MAGA side of the camp, is that "Russia actually isn't that bad. But China... China is the devil in the flesh."

But given how Biden's admin screwed up recently, both with regard to Russia and China diplomacy, my assumption is of the following:
Neither Russia nor China are the devils. None of them are interfering. None of them frankly care about the US at this point.
The US is simply stuck in a deep internal crisis of nation-wide dementia (wokeism, outdated elite, outdated ideology, no vision of the future, no way to adapt to the new emerging world etc. including), and each of the 2 opposing camps just look at every opportunity to attack a "favorite foreign adversary" as a means of deflection and diverting attention.
This in turn produces this impression among leftists that USA is full of Russian spies, and produces and impression among rightists that USA is full of Chinese spies. That the main problem on the world agenda is Russia's mistreatment of Crimeans or Ukrainians, or that the main problem on the world agenda is China's mistreatment of the Uighurs. And if one or other admin doesn't mention something about said terrible tragedies, he is "in cahoots" with the enemy.

Whereas realistically, the US is simply neckdeep in its own ocean of BS, to the point that will never be able to find way to the shore.

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[colin traveller]

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[nicememe]

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[Ivan le Fou]

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[Newtonk]

Interesting that there are only 1.89million subscribers out of a population of how many hundred million?

 

[BCNTM]

Interesting that there are only 1.89million subscribers out of a population of how many hundred million?

Managed to vote a lot of times though

 

[BCNTM]

Joe Biden slaps US high earners and businesses with huge tax hikes

JOE BIDEN is set to blast US high earners with $3trillion (£2.19trillion) in new tax hikes this Wednesday.

www.express.co.uk