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    Does he have the information about his son paying homeless people to pose with caps and flags?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark12345 View Post
    What I don't want to happen is that we wake up one morning and there are platoons of Russian and Chinese soldiers doing joint maneuvers in northern Greenland. It will be too late to get them out of there at that point. Trump obviously has information that you and I don't.
    You know people in Russia support the invasion of Ukraine on the basis of not wanting something to happen that isn't going to happen, and on assuming Putin has information they don't?

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    Only four more days to see the back of Joe Biden ~ Biden will not be remembered of having been up to much of, importance / quality, in American history.

    Biden is basically the American version of a crooked FFG gombeen ~ Who milked everything that he could out of being an American politician for 50 years !

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    I'm sure anyone who's had a student loan forgiven, or can now afford insulin, will agree.
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    I'm sure what America needs to kick on right now is the re-election of the guy routinely regarded in various scholarly reports as one of the worst Presidents ever.

    I can see that definitely helping things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    You know people in Russia support the invasion of Ukraine on the basis of not wanting something to happen that isn't going to happen, and on assuming Putin has information they don't?
    I guess that's your way of saying you're sure there's no Russian/Chinese activity going on in Northern Greenland. We shall see

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    Only four more days to see the back of Joe Biden ~ Biden will not be remembered of having been up to much of, importance / quality, in American history.

    Biden is basically the American version of a crooked FFG gombeen ~ Who milked everything that he could out of being an American politician for 50 years !
    You make a lot of sense Sean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    I'm sure anyone who's had a student loan forgiven, or can now afford insulin, will agree.
    The problem with forgiving student loans, is it creates an awful lot of resentment with the millions who attended college through the years and didn't have their loans forgiven. Should they also get a rebate? And then there is the regular Joe plumber or construction worker or truck driver who goes out and works his behind off every day to support his family. His taxes go to pay for many many things already, and now he's told he has to pay extra for someone else's kids who took the loan and agreed to pay it themselves. Why should they be allowed not to pay at his expense? It creates an awful lot of division among the communities. I rather like the Irish model where education is relatively free and relatively easily accessible to all citizens. At least that's how I understand it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark12345 View Post
    You make a lot of sense Sean.
    Any serious examination of Joe Biden's political career would reveal a pretty sorry story ~ ~ Joe Biden is basically the American equivalent of an FFG gombeen politician ~ ~ Except on an American scale !

    It's interesting as to why that has not been done ~ ~ Maybe it will be done now, after Joe Biden and family are out ? !

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    I'm sure what America needs to kick on right now is the re-election of the guy routinely regarded in various scholarly reports as one of the worst Presidents ever.

    I can see that definitely helping things.
    Donald Trump is the most hated, and yet the most loved president in American history. In terms of popularity among the voters - he received more votes than any US president ever. Polls for this past election (November 2024) ranged from wrong to way wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark12345 View Post
    The problem with forgiving student loans, is it creates an awful lot of resentment with the millions who attended college through the years and didn't have their loans forgiven. Should they also get a rebate? And then there is the regular Joe plumber or construction worker or truck driver who goes out and works his behind off every day to support his family. His taxes go to pay for many many things already, and now he's told he has to pay extra for someone else's kids who took the loan and agreed to pay it themselves. Why should they be allowed not to pay at his expense? It creates an awful lot of division among the communities. I rather like the Irish model where education is relatively free and relatively easily accessible to all citizens. At least that's how I understand it.
    People who got a lower minimum wage in 1995 should also be reimbursed their wages to current standards, if you subscribe to this logic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post

    Biden is basically the American version of a crooked FFG gombeen ~ Who milked everything that he could out of being an American politician for 50 years !
    In terms of his wealth compared to other elected US politicians in the senate/house of representatives:

    "Biden ranked near the bottom in the center’s data in the years before he became vice president: Biden ranked 570th of 585 officials in 2005; 614th of 636 officials in 2006; and 626th of 639 officials in 2007. "

    "We looked for the latest rankings by the Center for Responsive Politics to get a sense of where his wealth ranked when he left the White House.

    In the latest data that include Biden, Biden again ranked near the bottom: 577 of 581 officials in 2014."

    Only since he left the white house as Vice president did he really start making money from book deals and speeches.

    https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ong-poorest-g/

    For a guy that you claim milked America for everything he could for 50 years, he didn't do it very well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mark12345 View Post
    Donald Trump is the most hated, and yet the most loved president in American history. In terms of popularity among the voters - he received more votes than any US president ever. Polls for this past election (November 2024) ranged from wrong to way wrong.
    Trump got 77 million votes. Biden got 81 million in 2020
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    And my post was about Trump being one of the worst-rated Presidents in history. Ability and popularity are quite different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by osarusan View Post
    In terms of his wealth compared to other elected US politicians in the senate/house of representatives:

    "Biden ranked near the bottom in the center’s data in the years before he became vice president: Biden ranked 570th of 585 officials in 2005; 614th of 636 officials in 2006; and 626th of 639 officials in 2007. "

    "We looked for the latest rankings by the Center for Responsive Politics to get a sense of where his wealth ranked when he left the White House.

    In the latest data that include Biden, Biden again ranked near the bottom: 577 of 581 officials in 2014."

    Only since he left the white house as Vice president did he really start making money from book deals and speeches.

    https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ong-poorest-g/

    For a guy that you claim milked America for everything he could for 50 years, he didn't do it very well.
    I suggest that you look in to Joe Biden's family, and how and why they made their money ? !

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    I suggest that you look in to Joe Biden's family, and how and why they made their money ? !
    Did any of them serve in government?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    Did any of them serve in government?
    That is hardly relevant or a good thing, if they are making large amounts of money, just by their connections to the politician Joe Biden !

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    Quote Originally Posted by seanfhear View Post
    That is hardly relevant or a good thing, if they are making large amounts of money, just by their connections to the politician Joe Biden !
    Well it's a good thing nobody else with a connection to a US politician, especially a president, have made large amounts of money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    Well it's a good thing nobody else with a connection to a US politician, especially a president, have made large amounts of money.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68296877
    Joe Biden and his family are the talking point here ~ Now as it goes pretty much every American politician ( or family ) has unexplained wealth ~ The reality is American politics is totally corrupt and probably pretty much always has been ~ For decades and more anyway.

    In my opinion, pretty much all American Politicians are highly corrupt ~ Be they Republicans or Democrats ! !

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