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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yeah, I feel people underestimate how much meaning has to be "Obama's Vice-President". If Clinton promised to continue the Obama days, Biden promises a return to them after the Trump Era and that's a lot.
YMMV. My personal favorite American duo would be Biden and Warren, no matter the order.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Aug 20th 2019 at 6:32:13 AM
Watch me destroying my countryReuters: Trump at odds with corn farmers over relaxing ethanol laws
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Note that I think Trump is absolutely in the right here (accidentally), and if anything isn't going far enough to serve the oil companies, because corn ethanol as a biofuel needs to die right fucking now - it costs more petroleum to produce than it saves, and it's essentially a subsidy for corn farmers. Unfortunately, the agricultural lobby is strong, particularly among Republicans.
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Looks like I was a bit Right for the Wrong Reasons then.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/08/20/day-943/
2/ Kellyanne Conway insisted that "the fundamentals of our economy are very strong," despite a majority of economists expecting a downturn to hit by 2021 at the latest. The White House, meanwhile, is discussing ways to stimulate an economy that Trump claimed was "very strong." (Associated Press / New York Times)
https://apnews.com/4ad2fadb147145b49eb7e343ceb4aa2b
U.S. Steel plans to lay off 200 workers at its facility in Michigan due to "current market conditions." Since Trump announced the tariffs in March 2018, U.S. Steel has lost about 70 percent of its market value, or $5.7 billion. (Crain's Detroit / CNBC / Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u-s-steel-layoffs-idUSKCN1V91XQ
3/ Trump appeared to withdraw his support for additional background checks and gun legislation after speaking with NRA CEO Wayne La Pierre. La Pierre reportedly told Trump that expanded background checks wouldn't sit well with his supporters. In the wake of the recent back-to-back mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, Trump said "I think background checks are important. I don't want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hate." Now, Trump says he is "very concerned" about the Second Amendment and claims "people don't realize we have very strong background checks right now." (New York Times / Washington Post)
4/ The U.S. won't vaccinate migrant families and has no plans to do so ahead of this year's flu season. At least three children held in detention centers at the Mexican border have died from the flu. The U.S. had previously gone almost a decade without any children dying while under U.S. immigration custody. (CNBC)
5/ New York, Connecticut and Vermont sued to block Trump's public charge rule, which would limit pathways to citizenship for some legal immigrants. Under the new rule, immigrants enrolled in publicly funded programs, like food stamps and public health insurance, and seeking to change their legal immigration status can be deemed "public charge." Once labeled a "public charge," immigrants would be denied green cards, visas and other forms of legal immigration status. (NBC News)
6/ Trump is expected to name John Sullivan to be the next ambassador to Russia, replacing Jon Huntsman Jr. Sullivan is currently the deputy secretary of state and has limited diplomatic experience dealing with Moscow. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/john-sullivan-trump-russia-ambassador.html
7/ The White House is attempting to block additional states from joining a pact with California and four automakers to oppose Trump's rollback of auto emissions standards. Toyota, Fiat, Chrysler, and General Motors were summoned to the White House last month and pressed by an adviser to stand by Trump's rollbacks. Meanwhile, Mercedez-Benz is preparing to join the agreement, which has reportedly "enraged" Trump. The five automakers account for more than 40% of all cars sold in the United States. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/climate/trump-auto-emissions-rollback-disarray.html
8/ Trump tweeted a doctored photo showing a Trump Tower in Greenland, apparently making light of his idea to buy the world's largest island. The photo shows a golden-clad Trump Tower looming over a small village in Greenland with the caption, "I promise not to do this to Greenland!" (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
9/ Trump inflated the value and profitability of his Scotland golf courses by $165 million. Trump claimed in his 2018 U.S. filing that his Turnberry and Aberdeen resorts were each worth more than $50 million. The balance sheets filed with the United Kingdom, however, show that two golf courses combined debt exceeded their assets by 47.9 million British pounds ― the equivalent of $64.8 million. Trump's 2018 "public financial disclosure" filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics also claimed the two resorts earned "income" of $23.8 million. The filings with the U.K. Companies House office in Edinburgh, however, showed the resorts had lost 4.6 million pounds ― equal to $6.3 million. Knowingly providing false or incomplete information on that form is a violation of the Ethics in Government Act punishable by up to a year in jail. (Huff Post)
Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 20th 2019 at 8:26:20 AM
What's amusing is this is actually the second time someone has tried to buy Greenland in the US government.
https://time.com/5653894/trump-greenland-history/
Trump really is a petulant man child.
When I suggested Beto, I was being serious about playing on white supremacy. Call it a disgusting belief but I believe Biden has been using code when talking about working with Republicans rather than meaning it sincerely. I believe his strategy is to run the most Trump-base friendly campaign he can while not actually aliennating the whole of his voters.
Because, here's the thing....black voters aren't going to vote for Trump no matter what.
So he doesn't have to appeal to them.
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Trump is trying to appeal to black voters. It's just that it's so transparently bullshit that it's not having that much of an impact.
And it "helps" (ugh) that Trump's mostly focused on hurting people from south of the border (and people who look like them) and Muslim people and trans people.
The funny thing is that picking Beto would still be kind of minority friendly. Beto has consistently demonstrated some understanding and sympathy for the issues faced by women and POC.
Edited by M84 on Aug 20th 2019 at 10:53:24 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI am 90% sure he just wants to end the longest spell the US has gone without adding a new state, and to go down in history as the president who brought a 51st state into the union, since its quite posibly the only not-negitive thing he could be remembered for.
At the same time though, he is racist as shit so he doesn't want to add any of the US territories because well...

I am doubtful that a two white old men ticket is in the cards, especially as it would totally go against history. VP candidates are recently picked to complement flaws of the presidential candidate (experienced white man Biden to inexperienced black man Obama and religious Republican office holder Pence to ... none of these three things Trump), so a young and minority person is more likely.
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