Noooo….you still don’t like Biden. You still think self serving narcissistic Trump was a leader, but a lifelong frugal public servant isn’t. Nooooo! (I know there’s no breaking through your fantasy, bob. You are a lost cause, totally divorced from reality and totally uninterested in honesty).

No bob, I mean the Union…as in the United States of America. As in the Union vs the Confederacy. Trump nearly dissolved the Union, so much that Republican platforms now include secession as their goal. Derp. Another “L” for your column. Another dunce cap for your collection.
Republicans want to erase America out of infantile spite, but have no idea what to do afterwards. Better learn Chinese or Russian, red states can’t afford to defend themselves, you are all welfare queen states with the highest murder and crime rates.

Side note: But, this means you are anti union, so 100% anti worker? Really? What favors has Biden handed unions? Most unions (all you oppose) lobby for workers, blue collar employees. You would limit lobbiests to to those lobbying for billionaires and huge corporations (including religious corporations) that actively lobby against workers rights, pay, safety, ecological responsibility, hours, etc. Think about that.

You fucking moron, it went from 3.08% (higher than Trump ever reached) in 2015 under Obama to -3.5% in 2020 (the lowest ever in history). Who the fuck told you .2%? Who told you Trump left it at 2.5%? Overall Obama’s growth rate was actually 50% higher than Trump’s, and Obama inherited a deep recession, Trump inherited a boom. They outright lied to you, and you just lapped it up without ever looking. They’re feeding you poo pie bob, not chocolate. I really wish I didn’t have to spend so much time correcting your obviously fabricated statistics, especially since you only spout them to force a correction, getting you attention, not because you believe or even understand them. So you understand, printing 50% more money while your economy is in the worst contraction ever causes inflation, and that’s what Trump did in 2020 while focusing on the election he lost in a landslide and ignoring the pandemic and economy.

Jobs?!? Obama job growth was near 8% adding 12.5 million jobs, Trump was the only president ever to lose jobs, losing 3.2 million. Another 100% break from reality, buddy. I’m telling you, you need professional help.

Yes, Trump did turn us around, from a massive recovery and booming economy to massive economic losses, job losses, absolutely insane deficits and trying to double the debt, huge money printing in 2020 (magic wand waiving) that creates massive inflation (that he now blames Biden for), undreamed of losses of life, and teetering on the brink of depression and pandemic. He made us madder. For libs that means angry, for cons that means totally bat shit crazy with no ties to reality at all.

Far from it, lots of positive, but so much negative left from the previous one we are still in the red.

They have made policies that help the American pocketbook, Trump robbed it blind to hand to billionaires (and fake billionaires).

Who told you that lie. The Democrats have done everything they legally can to force oil companies to increase production and stop price gouging, Republicans all voted against doing anything, then claim “Biden’s fault”. No fossil fuel production has been cut. You’ve been lied to, and you aren’t intellectually honest enough to investigate for yourself…you don’t want to hear the truth.

Republicans are to blame for high fuel prices, Democrats are responsible for the recent lowering. Democrats are making efforts to lower them further, Republicans are 100% opposed to any actions.

Trump benefited on fuel costs thanks to the economic collapse he caused by denying and ignoring Covid for months, dropping the demand for fuel to nothing…not a good policy overall, or do you suggest killing another million and shutting down another year to lower gas prices?


Lol. You are claiming reports say the average American spends $500 more on fuel and goods per month than under Trump? What reports? Glen Beck, AON, or Rush Limbaugh’s ghost? Only if you are a trucker using hundreds of gallons of gas a month. Even in California, fuel cost has gone up less than 1/5 of what you say.

Trump cost you SO much more than $6k per year, over $60k per taxpayer on the official debt alone…and these extra expenses (probably $100-$200 per month tops) are thanks to Trump printing 1/3 of every dollar in circulation (inflation) and fuel supply and demand being out of hand intentionally because oil companies make more money by producing less, and aren’t nationalized so the government can’t force them to stop gouging.

Such nonsense bob. Your facts are all wrong, and since you won’t investigate you are just going to continue to believe the lies you were fed. The people you listen to are making money off your beliefs, bob, and they see you as a huge sucker they can convince of anything and get your money or support for their America destroying “get me richer quick” schemes.

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Summary, since I don’t think you can read that much.
Union = United States Union, not unions
Gdp- Obama 1.59% rising consistently during his presidency Trump 1% falling precipitously to the worst ever in history. Also never beat Obama’s high.
Jobs- Obama added 12.5 million, Trump lost 3.2 million
Debt- Obama added $9 trillion, ending a recession and creating a boom over 8 years. Trump added $8 trillion on the books (and trillions more off the books) in 4 years ending a boom and creating a recession
Deficit- 2020 was the biggest budget deficit ever by >200% at $3.13 trillion and added well over $4.2 trillion to the debt that year, way more than 2021 at a still horrific $2.7 budget deficit but ending adding only $1.5 to the debt.

https://www.thebalance.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306

Oil/gas price - all cost cutting measures opposed by Cons.

while he is right (i know some mandarin having lived there a while back), it does seem a little unnecessary for the example he wanted to give to use that word (unless its a mandarin class obviously). a dude on a basketball forum i go to said he went to his class years ago and that he used the same example (apparently looking for the shock value) and people complained, here in the video it seems more "natural" but at the same time, if its not a mandarin class someone unfamiliar with the word could easily struggle to follow what he is talking about..

learning chinese, and basically all chinese who go to the US, everyone knows that even though nei ge doesnt even sound that similar its close enough to make people react. I recently saw a Yao ming interview where he's asked about it and he acknowledges the problem but refuses to actually say it and says I dont want the trouble, I find it hard to believe this teacher doesnt know that it sounds bad to non chinese speakers..

Well as I hear it, that's a problem that almost everybody occasionally faces with Chinese.

There was an article on the BBC news site about another group doing similar work:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130315-a-better-way-to-learn-chinese/1

There was a similar idea in an article on the BBC news web site recently:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130315-a-better-way-to-learn-chinese/1

FTFY
>> ^criticalthud:

and...because of drones, it is utterly irrelevant.


Actually, and while I'm on this soapbox, @EMPIRE is right. By the title of this video, I though I was going to see something impressive, like landing on a vertical surface. Sure there are aspects of the F35 that are impressive, but VTOL is not one of them.

It's kinda like showing off a smart phone and going "it's a smartphone THAT MAKES PHONECALLS!!"

That said, while I am philosophically and pragmatically opposed to spending billions on flying killing machines that don't even have an enemy to fight, fighter jets are generally some of the most impressive bits of engineering around.

>> ^lantern53:

War is hell, but learning chinese would be worse.


Don't worry, the Chinese will never invade. They will simply foreclose.

War is hell, but learning chinese would be worse.

>> ^detheter:
Okay, you win Fox News. See you later America, once you're bankrupt and in the waning days of your superpower status. Better start learning chinese! seriously, listen to these guys, and one day we all will be communist (chinese).


I have already learned Chinese. Married to one.

But on the topic, they can probably run this through through the regulation of commerce clause, like they do with everything these days (because everything ultimately relates to commerce... somehow).

>>GeeSussFreak:
"The only reason they existed was because of the Great Depression, it was one of the spending programs enacted by the government to try and enable Keynesian full employment (if the private sector can't employ everyone, then it is up to the government to do so)."

100 years ago Keynes (and Keynesians) claimed that in 100 years economic depressions will have been solved. Isn't that reassuring?

Okay, you win Fox News. See you later America, once you're bankrupt and in the waning days of your superpower status. Better start learning chinese! seriously, listen to these guys, and one day we all will be communist (chinese).

Its not really "logical or practical". If it was then we would also adopt "round-abouts" that also are proven better for roads than stoplight. Along with many other systems used.

So many things seem practical logical now-a-days, but the cost of them makes the illogical and impractical.

Its really bad in business when it comes to technology. The cost up upgrading negates the "need" for something.

The same argument vs metric/imperial could go for language barriers. Yah Chinese is better to learn than Spanish for business but who the frack wants to learn Chinese when its so far away when spanish is across the border.

I only speak english and a little american sign language. I would really like to learn Chinese in order to appease our eventual overlords. I guess I also speak a little spanish but it's incedental coming from west coast.

Weehoo thanks! Yeah there was definitely a lot of interesting info in the vid. I found a similar vid here on the sift with the same info but a more serious tone. From what I can tell it's more accurate/up to date.
http://www.videosift.com/video/What-if-the-Worlds-Population-Were-Reduced-to-100-People

Nice list of new things. Funny how it makes me notice some stuff I didn't before. ( I love the strange habits of the human mind )

Girls rock all the way!

_{ETA: Can you tell I'm addicted to the sift by how quickly I respond?}

In reply to this comment by laura:
upvote for the first minute alone!
what I learned from this:
#1 ~ there are a lot of Asians. I am learning Chinese and Japanese, now.
#2 ~ Girls do, in fact, rule.
#3 ~ "Whiteys"...we are now the minority. Get used to it.
#4 ~ @ 3:35 there is a good Jim Carrey impersonator out there!
#5 ~ Rich people need to share.
#6 ~ @ 4:22 how this guy subconsciously feels about Americans.
#7 ~ starting @ 4:52 is the one of the only REAL issues needing attention.
#8 ~ you don't have to go to college to get wealthy. (already knew this, but it surprised this guy)
#9 ~ 7..84
#10 ~ People can still be inspired by reality. Which is why Woody Allen will keep being mentioned.

upvote for the first minute alone!
what I learned from this:
#1 ~ there are a lot of Asians. I am learning Chinese and Japanese, now.
#2 ~ Girls do, in fact, rule.
#3 ~ "Whiteys"...we are now the minority. Get used to it.
#4 ~ @ 3:35 there is a good Jim Carrey impersonator out there!
#5 ~ Rich people need to share.
#6 ~ @ 4:22 how this guy subconsciously feels about Americans.
#7 ~ starting @ 4:52 is the one of the only REAL issues needing attention.
#8 ~ you don't have to go to college to get wealthy. (already knew this, but it surprised this guy)
#9 ~ 7..84
#10 ~ People can still be inspired by reality. Which is why Woody Allen will keep being mentioned.

The Party Is Always Right. The Opposition Is Always Wrong. The Opposition Is a Haven Of Terrorists Lovers. Defend The Party Line. Obey The Party.
And you are not behaving like a communist. Not at all.

You fail. Start learning Chinese.

"Troll: someone who intentionally posts controversial or contrary messages in an on-line community such as an on-line discussion forum or group with the intention of baiting users into an argumentative response."

btw that advice to learn chinese is very sound. Not much longer before the Dragon awakens.

The dollar is dissed because of a lack of consumer confidence. We deserve it because America is not acting as crazy as it should be. We're the tall dog and need to start acting like it: tehran needs to be leveled, chavez needs to join saddam and Ivan and the Dragon need to relearn who is #1.

Only the strong survive. That's the natural law that "replaced God", remember? If you want to complain about America's military and root for bearded weirdos like I'm-a-Dinna-Jacket then skip a step and learn Chinese.