Past as prologue.
1.I am a believer in the words of the great Yogi, who presciently said “'It's tough to make
predictions, especially about the future'”….but sometimes
there are hints in what has been.
But lets begin with the present. It has been established that
Biden voters, whatever number there were, and it is surely below 74.2 million, were clueless about the policies that they were voting for. I know this because I have, on numerous occasions, asked them to provide both the Trump policies that they voted against, and Biden policies that they voted for and anticipated.
Of course, they couldn't. Still can't.
A deeply worrisome position for an electorate.
2. For the context of the thread title, recall that whole
‘energy independence’ mantra that impelled elections since the 1960s, 1970s, Trump achieved energy independence, one of the many achievements for which the Democrats felt he needed to be punished.
Joe Biden wiped it out with the stroke of a pen.
“Several unions that eagerly endorsed President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election are now learning the hard way what it means to support Democrat policies. During his first day in office, the newly-inaugurated president revoked the construction permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, thus destroying thousands of jobs.A total of 42,000 jobs were expected to be filled once the pipeline was completed. But not anymore.”
‘Insulting and disappointing’: Unions show signs of voter remorse after Biden reality sinks in
Great news for the oil tyrants in the Middle East, and Iran…and especially Russia, you know, the folks the liars said Trump was in bed with.
3. Now, what else might
Biden and the Democrats do for Putin and Russia. Well, remember that Reagan, the greatest President in modern times, was the first President to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, with the START treaty, while another Republican, Nixon, was the first to stabilize the numbers of the increase in nuclear weapons, that was the SALT treaty.
Of course, Democrats, very different: Here is Hussein offering Putin a quid pro quo.
He cut the defensive weapons we were going to put in Poland. What else was he promising Putin?
What do you suppose Biden’s model will be???
Did any of you consider this history and future when you voted for the Wehrmacht…er, Democrats?
Yes, surely Biden's vote was below 74.2 million (which just so happened to be approximately the number of votes that Trump received in case anyone missed the inference).
How can there be so MANY woefully ignorant (and, I have to say it, STUPID) people in this country? HOW?
Carl Sagan introduced the general population to the theory of Occam's Razor in the book (later, a movie) by the title of "Contact." Simply put, the 'rule' states that the simplest of competing explanations should be preferred to explain a phenomenon over more complex explanations. Some people might just call that common sense.
Let's see? How could a president who never had an approval rating above 50% for all four years in office and who spent hours every day insulting people and denigrating any number of groups either on twitter or on camera possibly lose an election? How could that happen? Any person with a modicum of common sense would have to say that if a man truly wants affirmation of his leadership, it's probably not a good idea to alienate large swaths of the electorate and that doing so may very well galvanize opposition to you being given another four years to continue to engage in more of the same behavior. But no. Conservatives have concluded that an unpopular president couldn't lose unless he was somehow cheated. It's utter nonsense. I can only state at this point that I hope these people make better decisions in real life.
As for me, it reminds me of something from my past. I joined the Army when I was 20 years old, and I was a good soldier. I even attained "Soldier of the Quarter" when I got to my permanent station. Then something happened. Certain NCOs and officers (but mostly NCOs) started messing with me over little things that were inconsequential. To put it plainly, they were on a power trip, and just enjoyed making soldiers like me jump through hope just for their own amusement. This continued for about two years. Now, I had already decided to only serve one hitch. I had plans to go to school to advance my education (I got a 2 year degree going to school at night while I was on active duty). Here comes the kicker. Right before my ETS, I was approached and was asked to reenlist. Like I said, I'd already decided to leave the service, but let's say I was on the fence instead. The miserable treatment I had to endure would have made the decision a no brainer. My reaction what something like this:
"You screw with me for 2 years plus, and now you want me to reup?"
Well, Trump's reelection hopes were much like the Army's hope that I (and others treated similarly) that we would reenlist.
All across this nation, people were sitting at kitchen tables, in living rooms, and wherever, and asking themselves why it was that Trump would expect them to vote for him again (or for the first time) after almost 4 years of abusive behavior. Not only did these millions of people not want to vote for him, they did not want to endure 4 more years of the same behavior day after day. They'd simply had enough of him.
But for some reason, conservatives can't understand that. It's Occam's Razor. Instead, conservatives want to believe that there was a massive conspiracy that involved probably thousands of people, and it was done without any verifiable evidence, and nobody came forth to spill the beans about it. How likely is that, really? It's probably more likely that you'll win the powerball, and get struck by lightning on the same day.
"Let's see? How could a president who never had an approval rating above 50% for all four years in office and who spent hours every day insulting people and denigrating any number of groups either on twitter or on camera possibly lose an election?"
I never understand how you government school grads can have been trained to be this willfully blind.
Let's review:
Trump achievements.
“Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy,” the
statement begins, noting the administration achieved an “unprecedented economic boom.”
In addition to 7 million new jobs — “more than three times government experts’ projections” — the administration said that annual income for middle-class families grew by nearly $6,000, or “more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.”
Weeks before state and local governments began shutting down their economies, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, “the lowest in a half-century,” the administration said.
In fact, in March 2019, CBS News
reported that there were a million more jobs available in the U.S. than unemployed workers — a fact noted by the administration, which said it “achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job hirings.”
Nearly 160 million Americans were employed pre-pandemic, another record, as “jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low,” the White House said.
As incomes gained “in every single metro area” in the country for the first time in almost 30 years, the number of people “claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record,” the administration said.
The list of accomplishments also noted an oft-repeated point — that during Trump’s term, blacks and Hispanics, as well as Asian-Americans and Native Americans all achieved record low unemployment rates. So, too, did Americans with disabilities and workers without a high school diploma, the administration said.
“The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth,” said the administration, adding: “Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.”
Meanwhile, “African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent,” the White House noted.
More than 1.2 million factory and construction jobs were created, as the president enacted “policies to bring back supply chains from overseas,” the list notes.
The administration also touted the meteoric growth in the various U.S. stock indices, which have been good for businesses as well as average Americans’ retirement accounts tied to the markets.
One of President Trump’s 2016 campaign pledges that went unfulfilled was the passage of a massive infrastructure rebuilding project to repair and replace aging, crumbling bridges, roads, sewers, and water systems. But the administration did manage to invest “over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America,” the list notes.
The administration also touted the president’s COVID-19 policies that included a rejection of “blanket lockdowns” as vital to the economic rebound seen in recent months.
“During the third quarter of 2020,” the White House said, “the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent — the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.”
“Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost,” says the White House. “Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.”
The White House said that under President Barack Obama, “it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent” following the Great Recession” to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration” following the mass joblessness created by mandated business closures and the pandemic.
At the same time, “80 percent of small businesses are now up, up from just 53 percent in April.”
Additional accomplishments noted by the administration include:
— The creation of more than 9,000 “Opportunity Zones” to attract business investment and create jobs;
— Tax relief for corporations, businesses, and the vast majority of American workers;
— The elimination of reams of regulations, which has added to the country’s economic growth;
— Pursued “fair and reciprocal trade” agreements that put the United States first, including withdrawal “from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership” and replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA);
— “Historic support for American farmers”;
— Making the U.S. “a net energy exporter” for the first time in seven decades;
— Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines;
— Increased access to the country’s “abundant natural resource in order to achieve energy independence”;
— Built more than 450 miles of new border wall and secured agreements with countries to house migrants there instead of in the U.S.;
— “Fully enforced the immigration laws” of the country;
— Got NATO countries to significantly increase their contributions to the alliance, as per their initial agreement;
— Strengthened and rebuilt the U.S. military;
— Reduced U.S. troop presence in war zones overseas;
— Brokered several historic peace deals between long-time enemies in eastern Europe and the Middle East;
— Moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to the capital of Jerusalem, though the three previous presidents pledged to do so;
— Defeated ISIS
— Sped development of two new vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic in record time.
'Unprecedented': White House releases exhaustive list of achievements for Trump presidency
The Trump Administration has released an exhaustive list of accomplishments achieved over the past four years, many of which have largely gone unreported
www.bizpacreview.com
Now, let's see what Democrats voted for.