Today In Biden Land

[Master]

Biden investing in the much needed infrastructure of the USA and taxing the very rich is good to see. Bernie Sanders would have been proud. The president is doing well so far and getting the virus under control.

[SlimTrae]

Great political discussion all around on his success, failures and WTF moments to date.

[Kirkland Laing]

Some odds and sods:

One of the nonpartisan people overseeing the Arizona audit:

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/...ts/4895531001/


THe Cyber Ninjas apparently anticipating being attacked by antifa while they audit the audit. If it does happen it means two groups of people wearing black pajamas attacking each other. One team should wear training bibs:

https://www.abc15.com/news/state/cyb...tack-by-antifa


They're still going with the burger thing:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1387626077753905152


Former federal prosecutor on the Rudy investigation:

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/s...86727847727105


Not only did the investigation start under the Trump DOJ but it looks like the warrant was issued back then too:

https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/st...66436619034626



More voter suppression:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/st...89577576013827


The government getting involved in providing daycare means that Biden is bringing communism to America. Trump would never have done anything like this:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...ly/4058278002/


Job killing tax increases and reality. Keep scrolling:

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/stat...33170678796292



The GOP's ideology, such as it is, doesn't seem to allow for things like the pandemic. Keep scrolling:

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/stat...80568421044225


Where the GOP are now. Basically a tissue of culture war bullshit and systematic lying:

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthew-...lie-to-voters/


and


https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1388253642688548868



Trump and the pandemic have had an effect on how Americans think:


https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/statu...98100334637056


And this is just sad. One minute you're the leader of the free world, the next you're doing this. I almost feel sorry for him:

https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/s...84669821313026

[SlimTrae]

Some odds and sods:


And this is just sad. One minute you're the leader of the free world, the next you're doing this. I almost feel sorry for him:

https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/s...84669821313026

How dare you....for coming close to feeling sorry for this professional loser.

[TitoFan]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...b05af50dc1a226

"Judge Slaps Down Election Recount Firm Hired By Arizona GOP Senate"


This is a couple of days old, so who's to say what's happening now in the Arizona Circus. It's heartening to know there are some sane people watching over the asylum. On the other hand, who's to know what damage may have already been done, what with bozos running around with black ink pens and cloaked in secrecy.

So let's recap. These "Stop the Steal" morons would demand that this recount be done:

1. In secret
2. With ZERO oversight
3. With black ink pens in hand

Sounds fair to me.

Personally, I think the Supreme Court should step in and put an end to this wasteful nonsense.

[Kirkland Laing]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...b05af50dc1a226

"Judge Slaps Down Election Recount Firm Hired By Arizona GOP Senate"


This is a couple of days old, so who's to say what's happening now in the Arizona Circus. It's heartening to know there are some sane people watching over the asylum. On the other hand, who's to know what damage may have already been done, what with bozos running around with black ink pens and cloaked in secrecy.

So let's recap. These "Stop the Steal" morons would demand that this recount be done:

1. In secret
2. With ZERO oversight
3. With black ink pens in hand

Sounds fair to me.

Personally, I think the Supreme Court should step in and put an end to this wasteful nonsense.

https://twitter.com/normative/status...89423164641281


Related:



https://twitter.com/normative/status...75495319236609



and



https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/stat...65753403777024

[Kirkland Laing]

Fox News’ Chris Wallace pressed Senator Bill Cassidy on whether the Trump administration’s tax cuts have done more to help the wealthy than anyone else.
Wallace brought up Tax Policy Center data showing the average first year tax cut was just $60 for a household making less than $25,000, while households making $3.4 million saw average cuts of $193,000. On top of this, Wallace added, the data suggests that these tax cuts will add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
“Senator, of the 2 million tax filers in Louisiana, only 14,000 of them were paying more, filing gross income of more than $500,000,” Wallace said. “What’s wrong with raising the top tax rate to where it was during the Bush 43 and Obama administrations in order to help the working and middle-class?”


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wa...e-paying-more/


It turns out that Biden is going for a top rate increase from 37% to a gigantic 39.6% on people earning over $452 000. So in the example above of somebody earning half a million they'd be paying an extra two point six percent on their earnings above 452, or around sixty dollars a week extra tax on their ten thousand dollar a week income. I don't think this is asking too much, do you?

Worth remembering in the fifties and sixties, back when America was great, the top rate of tax was 91%. Unemployment was three percent and economic growth was double that of the supply side era. These things are not coincidental. And the Rockerfellers and the Gettys still managed to scrape a living.

[Kirkland Laing]

Some more random stuff:

Ted Cruz:

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/stat...71511845314562


Voting stuff:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/u...lwatchers.html


https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status...21067391225858


https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/st...20339952111622


https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status...30751552897031


One for Spicoli:


https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/s...07640356741123

[Kirkland Laing]

Some odds and sods:


And this is just sad. One minute you're the leader of the free world, the next you're doing this. I almost feel sorry for him:

https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/s...84669821313026

How dare you....for coming close to feeling sorry for this professional loser.

It's like the scene at the end of Raging Bull where fat De Niro is doing bad jokes in the nightclub.



Conventional wisdom says he's finished and won't run again because it's hard to knock off an incumbent and the economy should be doing well so he'll lose again. None of that will bother him. He just loves to be the centre of attention, loves the rallies more than anything and knows he can walk the nomination. Even if he does lose he can say it was stolen again. I just can't see him watching somebody else run for prez if he's fit and well enough to do it himself.