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libertate's avatar

This is hands-down the most pathetic and ridiculous administration in my lifetime.

All of them are clowns, every single one.

SimulationCommander's avatar

The latest press secretary is laughable.

libertate's avatar

Just dumb as a bag of rocks.

Blinken, Buttigieg, Kamala, Mayorkas, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Having started and run multiple businesses over the years, I can say without hesitation that I would never hire any of them for anything.

Just completely useless. Perfect for government "work".

Ryan Gardner's avatar

ME,ME,ME,ME! All about herself. Check the boxes. Great! Now tell me where we can find baby formula?

Literally a shortage of baby food in the United States of America!

One could draw the conclusion that they're "trying" to do this.

SimulationCommander's avatar

They are.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/now-that-were-done-pretending-hunters

The laptop is real. Everybody knows it. It proves that Joe Biden is bought and paid for. Now it’s time to ask the hard questions: What would a bought president be doing? Cutting our energy independence? Hurting Americans by cutting off trade via sanctions? Pushing us into a war we can’t possibly win that would likely lead to the rise of China as the world’s superpower? Devaluing the dollar and gutting the middle class?

Maybe the better question is: If Biden’s goal was to wreck the economy and enable the rise of China, would he be doing anything at all differently?

Datagal's avatar

Biden doesn’t have any goals or thoughts. He’s a demented puppet of China, via Obama.

M. Dowrick's avatar

It isn’t Brandon….he really is too dumb to orchestrate any of this. What I am surprised about is big business staying so quiet? Surely when people stop shopping at target and Walmart, they have to be just a little concerned.

SimulationCommander's avatar

Target and Walmart had their competition forcefully shut down for over a year. My guess is they are doing just fine, even if some of their 'new' customers are no longer going.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup, one of the pivotal moments was when the boards figured out you could substitute masking for distance. Biggest transfer of wealth, in recorded history, in a mere few months.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Here's the only chart you'll ever need to look at to understand what's going on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt#/media/File:US_Federal_Debt_Held_By_Public_as_of_Sep._2020.png

How else are we going to pay for the interest on this? It's called inflation...and what we are experiencing is by design.

Look at the hockey stick after the pandemic demarcation. The pain and suffering will be of long duration for We the People.

For those who are math challenged; that is a tripling of our national debt, in less than 30 years, compared to pre-pandemic levels.

We will have learned nothing other than to don and doff our mAskS!

Humpty-Dumpty in a million pieces on the ground...

We are all in it tOgeThEr!

SnowInTheWind's avatar

What if the people have little money, and what shops there are are monopolies, or entrenched without competition? In that case, doesn't the game of getting ahead shift from trying to make and sell things, to trying to own things?

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup, there's a reason China is buying up our farm land unfettered.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Good stuff! First look.

It would be clearer to me if they brought back Mueller

Helen's avatar

I can't get my head around the fact that the most powerful country in the world has a shortage of baby milk formula. What the hell is going on. People should be outraged. What's next.

M. Dowrick's avatar

People are living in their own little world. They simply cannot contemplate what is going on. Sound familiar. Know a few friends and family who completely ignore inflation, food shortages, rising fuel costs, and even baby formula shortages? I know a lot of them.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

I think a more pressing issue is that people don't recognize that men can have babies. I personally think the biggest issue we face is a lack of tampons in the boys bathrooms.

They don't care Helen. It's just baby "stuff" to them.

YM's avatar

Inflation is out of control, supply chain issues are getting worse, we're on the verge of WW3 and now there's a shortage of baby formula, but they're happy because the new press secretary is black and gay.

Helen's avatar

I am so tired of "woke" people.

Scott's avatar

Cow are bad, therefor milk is bad also. Let them drink soy.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Next they'll blame too much methane released from cows for the formula shortage. Methane Formula Shortage. Putin Price Hike! Yikes.

OUTRAGEOUS!

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DashRiprock's avatar

There is no other conclusion to draw. It would be helpful if folks would stop with the “Biden this Biden that…” routine. Biden has no human agency except to ask when he can fly back to his beach house and count his Hunterbucks.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Hunterbucks and Zuckerfucks!

M. Dowrick's avatar

All part of the plan. Working like a charm.

God Bless America's avatar

Bingo… 🤦🏽‍♀️

Johnny Dollar's avatar

it's the oddest thing I've seen in my lifetime - I'm old enough to remember as far back as Reagan and Trudeau sr. Easily hands down the TWO worst administrations in Canada and the USA I've witnessed. Less than mediocre intelligence, talentless AND arrogant about it. They don't say the typical nonsense we're accustomed to when it comes to politics. They literally say the stupidest shit.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Carter was awful but he cared. This whole lot is garbage and they don't care. Worst of my lifetime.

John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Biden is a shill and his entire family is corrupt. We also know that he is not the one in charge. Whoever was pulling Obama's strings is pulling Joe's.

What still disgusts me is how deep thinkers who I used to respect like Andrew Bacevich could herald the arrival of the Biden presidency as a return to competent government. Now these clowns are running around begging for forgiveness and make statements like "how could we have known?" Were you all comatose during the Summer of 2020?

Nothing that has taken place since January 2021 comes as a shock; the inmates are truly running the asylum. What frightens me is the prospect that what appears to be unrivaled incompetence is actually all by design.

Comparing Biden to Jimmy Carter is a grave injustice to this country's greatest former President. Rick Perlstein's great book, Reaganland, prompted me to re-think the Carter presidency.

I have always believed Jimmy Carter to be highly intelligent (Annapolis, Navy Nuke) and deeply principled. He is a man of faith and a patriot. Perlstein's book reinforced that perception.

Perlstein's book places Carter in proper context by pointing out how his idealism came in the wake of the failure in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, Watergate, and the economic and foreign policy challenges that plagued the U.S. throughout the '70s. Objectively speaking (and as Jeff pointed out the other day), the U.S. arguably was worse off then than it is now.

Carter was never going to be a two-term president, particularly with a sputtering economy and after the fall of the Shah and Somoza, the hostage crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Think of how many "dominoes" fell during the 70s: South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, just to name a few. Cubans were all over Africa defeating pro-western governments. America was a shell of the America that existed even at the beginning of Nixon's second term. Carter inherited a sh*tshow.

Like all American presidents since FDR, Jimmy Carter found out that the reality of being an American president is much different than the ideal. Unlike the Biden Cabal, I believe that any mistakes Jimmy Carter made came from sincere intentions (with the exception of appointing warmonger Zbigniew Brzezinski as National Security Adviser).

I'd like to read Kai Bird's book, The Outlier, when I get around to it.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

You forgot the Iranian hostage crisis was caused by the administrations ineptitude. They simply didnt have the ability to look around corners. There's a reason the prisoners were released on the day Reagan was inaugurated. The difference between the Carter and Biden administration is that Biden is senile. And they do not seek solutions. They blame wet sidewalks for the rain. As misguided as Carter's "solutions" (wear a sweater, etc.) were, at least he sought solutions and tried to communicate that to We the People. Biden pits people against another and has deliberately created second class citizens based on a vaccine that useless...in fact harmful. Simply put, as I said before; he doesn't care for you, and thereby extension, our country. I think there's ample evidence of that

John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Great points, Ryan. The whole 'fall of the Shah' was a foreign policy debacle, undoubtedly, just like Somoza in Nicaragua. On the topic of Iran, there's a great documentary called Coup 53 (https://coup53.com/) that talks about the overthrow of Mossaddegh and which lays the foundation for all that ensued, including the rise and fall of the Shah. I highly recommend it.

Biden is both a charlatan and evil which is of the worst variety. His sneering and hateful "pandemic of the unvaccinated" speech last year was a very low point in this country's history. I hold George Wallace in higher esteem than Joe Biden. At least George Wallace in his dying days saw the error of his ways and sought to make amends.

SnowInTheWind's avatar

I see you, and raise you to Eisenhower.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” - Schumer

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Let me raise you a Syrian tear gas caper!

SF Bay Area's avatar

You racist white supremacist. How dare you question her intelligence or public speaking skills?

SimulationCommander's avatar

I'll report to Room 101 right away.

The real ER DOC's avatar

"What a mediocrity. Why didn’t this moron stay in Martinique or go to France. Martinique is a French Department and she had citizenship. I’ll tell you why - there is no Affirmative Action and France is totally racist. A common term I heard frequently was, “Bosse comme un nègre” (work like a … "Negro" except it didn’t mean “Negro”). As an American living there I would never use such language because….well, we are not racists.

There is near zero opportunity for blacks in France even though they are French speaking. Want to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer? You complete in pyramid like huge classes and take competitive exams that eliminate most candidates.

So please don’t tell me about “structural racism”. It’s quite the opposite. You took the place of a far more qualified non-black in your Ivy League free ride.

All that education and you can’t explain why Demented Joe thinks higher Corporate Taxes will reduce inflation (here’s a hint from Milton Friedman - Corporations don’t pay taxes, people do - higher Corporate Tax is just a pass through to consumers).

What morons you both are. Maybe Thomas Sowell whom you call Uncle Tom but is one of the greatest of our economists can explain it to you.

Psaki was a lying, evil POS but she wasn’t stupid. Karine and Kamala show why race based selection is a destructive joke. Affirmative Action needs the same reversal of precedent as Roe v. Wade."

Ryan Gardner's avatar

I don't want to get in the middle of this. Perhaps we should step back. Here's the big picture I posted elsewhere on this thread:

Here's the only chart you'll ever need to look at to understand what's going on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt#/media/File:US_Federal_Debt_Held_By_Public_as_of_Sep._2020.png

How else are we going to pay for the interest on this? It's called inflation...and what we are experiencing is by design.

Look at the hockey stick after the pandemic demarcation. The pain and suffering will be of long duration for We the People.

For those who are math challenged; that is a tripling of our national debt, in less than 30 years, compared to pre-pandemic levels.

We will have learned nothing other than to don and doff our mAskS!

Humpty-Dumpty in a million pieces on the ground...

We are all in it tOgeThEr!

SF Bay Area's avatar

It’s simple to fix. Stop spending

Ryan Gardner's avatar

We could also use a healthy dose of reduction of redundancy. Decentralization would help. Our national budget is triple of what it needs to be. No amount of additional "revenue" can keep up with the "eight wonder of the world": compound interests

SF Bay Area's avatar

French people are not as racist as Parisians. Parisians are some of the most racist POS people anywhere in the world.

YM's avatar

But at least she's "diverse"!

Dooglio's avatar

And I thought Trump was bad. I saw a clip of him the other day and I couldn’t believe I actually missed that buffoon. At least he was alive!

libertate's avatar

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw during the Bush II years:

"I never thought I'd miss Nixon".

SF Bay Area's avatar

He is a narcissistic Clown, but I, too, miss that dipshit.

YM's avatar

I sure do miss cheap gas, a booming economy, plentiful food on the shelves and not being on the verge of nuclear war. But at least there's no more mean tweets!

Ryan Gardner's avatar

They have to been trying to do this, Right? You REALLY have to go out of your way to fuck up this bad. I can't find another plausible explanation

libertate's avatar

I know.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

~ Mark Twain

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Maybe they're all on shrooms. I don't think I'm having a flash-back.

libertate's avatar

Pretty much the definition of a bad trip.

M. Dowrick's avatar

Going as panned and not one politician, well maybe one, is raising the warning signal.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

You don't believe "change we can believe in "? How about "Yes We Can"? Maybe the solution is FREE cell phones:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2012/09/28/crazy-for-obama-phones-but-are-they-for-real/?sh=89e9c1ff9cf6

Dr. Hubris's avatar

The pessimist: "This is hands-down the most pathetic and ridiculous administration in my lifetime."...

The optimist: "... thus far; wait until you see the next one!"

:)...

libertate's avatar

Oh, given the trajectory of the last couple decades, I have little doubt that our formerly free country has not even begun to defile itself.

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SnowInTheWind's avatar

I think about that too, but I believe we're a bit earlier in the trajectory. Try around 120 BC, facing the last century of the Roman Republic.

The empire may have a long way to go, but politically and socially the next century is going to be rough on its inhabitants.

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SnowInTheWind's avatar

The USA we were used to is already gone, in two years. I don't know what it will be in 10 years, but short a nuclear/climatic holocaust or divine rapture, human life will go on, a hundred years, a thousand years, and longer. Political, social, cultural, racial, and economic circumstances will change to make the landscape unrecognizable to those of us rooted in earlier times, and the USA may well dissolve as a country any time now.

When I say 120 BC, I'm speaking as a partial Spenglerian, seeing systematically parallel historical trajectories between the Graeco-Roman Classical world and our own "Western" one. It's a common trope to compare our situation with the fall of the Roman Empire to the barbarians in about the fifth century AD. But I believe that what is falling is not the Empire, which may last for many centuries to come, but rather the Republic, in which the government is a constitutional union of citizens, who have rights, rather than an imperial hierarchy of plutocratic patrons and their administrative clients who buy control of the public institutions and use them as they will to suit their own ambitions. I foresee a century of vicious factional politics and outrageous usurpations, punctuated by periods of urban civil war between the dependents of one billionaire and those of another, before things stabilize under a permanent dictator/emperor. Read up on Roman history from the late 2nd century to the late first century BC to get a taste of what (I think) is coming.

Joedirt's avatar

To many freaks....not enough circuses.....this group cant find their backside w both hands. I think the president though senile knows exactly what hes doing…. He is merely finishing off the monumental change that Obama couldn't do as Obama ended up being far too much of a coward to do so. Biden is just old and stupid and really doesn't give a shit. As long as he keeps that loser son of his out of jail I really believe that's all he really cares about....

rjt's avatar

I have seen one opinion that Obama is driving the programme from behind the curtain. We know who has his strings, otherwise there is no real visible puppeteer.

Joedirt's avatar

Soros may just be a middleman. Rothschilds and the BBC (billionaires boys club) have the real power. Jmo....

Dr. Hubris's avatar

Obama... the gift that keeps on giving... the little train who could but wouldn't.

Dr. Hubris's avatar

" As long as he keeps that loser son of his out of jail I really believe that's all he really cares about...."

... and ice-cream! Do you hear me? ICE-CREAM! :P

Who has the ice-cream, controls Joe!

John Dee's avatar

If it's any consolation (however unlikely) we're stuck with a similar set of duds here in the UK. The only difference is they've a smaller budget to waste.

Dr. Hubris's avatar

I am not sure I understand what you are talking about; if you can't trust BoJo the clown, whom can you trust :P?

Evil Harry's avatar

I learned a new word today. Kakistocracy : government by the worst people.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Cacastocracy. The shit themselves every day.

Helen's avatar

Don't worry. You are not alone. Many of us in Canada feel the same way about our own elected administrative bodies. I have come to the conclusion that most so called first world countries like ours have no idea whatsoever of how to run a country. They are all failing at so many levels. It sometimes feels like we are actually slipping back into the dark ages but on a technological scale. Nothing really has changed historically. We have just become more proficient at achieving these catastrophic results with our current knowledge and application of of our current technologies.

God Bless America's avatar

Ours here in the USA were NOT elected… they just know how to CHEAT their way in… 💥💥💥

Dr. Hubris's avatar

The whole BS with "Build Back Better"... those clowns are NOT builders; they are "destroyers of worlds". They are "No Face" from "Spirited Away" and they bribe moronic politicians with fake fortunes too... The analogy is too perfect!

Dr. Hubris's avatar

What do these systems have in common? WEF corruption induced incompetence... But no worries, it will get much better, because WEF has the solution!

I wonder how would the world have reacted if President Putin would have said "what I am most proud of is that we have penetrated ze cabinet"? Cool and normal?

Cheryl Palen's avatar

Do you guys have baby formula? Canada should be helping us out as well as other countries. We would be doing that for them. thx and spread the word.

Dana Jumper's avatar

If we all think they are going to give up their ministry of truth so easily, we're foolish. you ain't seen nuthin' yet, b-b-baby.

Dr. Hubris's avatar

Now that the "great hero" Musk pressed the break on the canary-thingy, I believe they don't need it anymore? For anything else, there is the built-in "fact-checking".

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Irresponsible actually

Scott's avatar

In a few years, you'll be able to find them in the encyclopedia under "kakistocracy."

Dr. Hubris's avatar

I am sorry, but just like in the joke with the sheepherders in the airplane:

"Do you think we have the time"?

... and for the exact same reason too :P.

SimulationCommander's avatar

Don't worry, she's 'back to her work in the public sector', which I assume is the liaison between Twitter and the USG.

Some rando on the internet's avatar

Yes, I commented elsewhere that they'll just move this back into the shadows like it was before, but bigger, deeper, and with a better idea who is on the opposition and what their tactics and arguments are, all the better to suppress them during upcoming news and election cycles.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

You nailed it. It's going to be ugly

libertate's avatar

I don't even want to know how much of our money she gets for her "work".

Rikard's avatar

Read that as "back to her work in the pubic sector".

Well, no morning coffee for me, can't keep anything down right now.

SimulationCommander's avatar

The hardest of hard passes.

Jim Marlowe's avatar

Lol, "[f]or those who can’t stand uptalk, here’s what she said . . ." Guilty as charged.

Con Sider's avatar

Yikes!

"Censorship is far more than just woke employees at Big Tech companies deciding whom to ban and which topics become “trending.” Quietly but also constantly, censorship and narrative control are flowing from the state, taking the form of cutout civil society groups, NGOs, and “networks” that control domestic information under the pretext of preserving national security and fighting “disinformation.” An entire industry– the Disinformation Industry — has emerged to facilitate this process."

Andrea's avatar

The American government (that they keep calling a democracy,) hates democracy (the word they can’t keep repeating.)

It also seems NATO hates democracy and since America is funding its colonies, imagine my shock when they interfere in muh democracy.

SCA's avatar

Sorry. "Springtime for Hitler" on an endless loop of really bad-quality scratching tape that skips every few seconds, randomly.

LJ's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣 great!

I read your comment three times. Laughed every time!!!!!

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Hilarious!

I thought that was just the baby in the microwave?

SCA's avatar

That spot's reserved for election canvassers should any be so foolish as to knock on my door.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Ooh a bad case of the "macbres"...

SCA's avatar

Wanna see my bookcases?

Ryan Gardner's avatar

No, I don't want to see what's behind them

SCA's avatar

What's on 'em will be enough...

libertate's avatar

I do.

I love a good collection of canvasser carcasses.

You should see the well in my basement.

libertate's avatar

I think that might be a tad too sophisticated for this lot.

Maybe Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey would be more apropos.

SCA's avatar

Don't deny me my small enjoyments.

libertate's avatar

Oh I wouldn't think of it.

You are right, German is a far better vehicle for your purpose than Burmese.

SCA's avatar

(I snuck over to Wikipedia and they told me it was Cambodian...and I think "Springtime..." was pure Brooklynese...)

SCA's avatar

I think we're all gettin' loopy. Something in the water...

AM Schimberg's avatar

Damn you and your malignant creativity! 🤣

I am not your Other's avatar

I’m meltinggggggggggg …

libertate's avatar

I'm sure her pointy little head with the pointy big black hat will pop up again somewhere, like a poisonous mushroom after a good rain.

Mrswu's avatar

If she only had a brain!

Canny Granny's avatar

Or a heart or courage. Lol

Annette Huenke's avatar

What a rapscallion you are, el gato malo. I don't know about miss lady nina numbnuts, but your offering sure cheered ME up! Thank you for that!!

libertate's avatar

"[R]apscallion".

Bravo.

Alluminator's avatar

Now I need to buy it and watch it again. I read every Oz book by Frank L Baum as a kid. The world would be a better place had everyone done so.

Keahi's avatar

I want to watch the house fall on her, please, can I, pretty-please??

ChrisCoonsToupee's avatar

She can go back to being a fat yoga instructor.

Ryan Gardner's avatar

You unchecked all her boxes. Well done

Mrhounddog's avatar

I'm pretty sure she would be thinking, "Hmmm, now that witch is dead, maybe I can get her job."

Ryan Gardner's avatar

yes, that's what they do; they stab the beast with their steely knives

Mrhounddog's avatar

But they just can't kill the beast...and just like that Ryan and I went of down the endlessly enjoyable pastime of speaking song lyrics back and forth in conversation. This is why I come here...👍🤓👍

Ryan Gardner's avatar

Love it! Try playing it backwards while watching The Wizard of Oz at precisely 4.20

Ivor Chesticoff's avatar

I just saw the sorry for your loss part of the title, missed the kitten corner part.

Thought the post would be about the life insurance statistics...

<i>The life insurance data show an increase in excess mortality since the second quarter of 2020, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, including a particularly sharp increase in the third quarter of 2021—39 percent above what would have been expected based on 2017–2019 data. That quarter was exceptionally devastating for age groups 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, and 55–64, in which mortality soared 81 percent, 117 percent, 108 percent, and 70 percent, respectively, above the baseline.</i>

original article

https://www.theepochtimes.com/non-covid-19-excess-deaths-higher-among-white-collar-workers-life-insurance-data_4469409.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

*shocked and sad face*

Ivor Chesticoff's avatar

Meanwhile, I just realised that html formatting tags don't work here...

*sighs over theatrically*