Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Is a shooting in Baltimore really newsworthy?

"what rural violence?" Yes, urban centers have higher rates of violence than rural. But plenty of problems all around. 25% rise sounds like a big rise, don'tit?

WSJ:

Homicide rates in rural America rose 25% in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the largest rural increase since the agency began tracking such data in 1999. The CDC considers counties rural if they are located outside metropolitan areas defined by the federal government.

Though I have made similar statements in the past ("Trump had Senate and House majorities for two years and did nothing!"), the fact is that not much can be done--except in a bipartisan way--unless a party has sixty or more seats in the Senate. (There are a few exceptions.) The last time either party had that was 40+ years ago.

Blinken: "No ad libbing Mr President, stick to the script, take no questions and exit the stage."

Sleepy Joe: "ummmm, ok"

Doh!

Speaking of urban violence:

GOP Crime Blotter

A jury on Thursday convicted David DePape of federal crimes for breaking into the San Francisco home of Representative Nancy Pelosi and beating her husband with a hammer in an attack that raised fears of political violence ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Mr. DePape, a solitary figure who once lived under a tree in a Berkeley, Calif., park, became obsessed with right-wing conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon, and seemingly embraced the dehumanizing language about Ms. Pelosi that conservative pundits and politicians had used for years.

You can’t seriously believe a SF hemp nudist was Republican. Complete false flag

Yep. Any data that contradict what IHF wants to be true must be incorrect.

No adult who's been to a grocery store in the last 24 months believes the propaganda coming out of the Biden administration.

Inflation is still very high.

If you go to the grocery store you cannot believe the upbeat stuff the Dems here are selling. My salary hasn't gone up and my cost have skyrocketed. Biden's America is my nightmare. I am downtrodden at work, no retirement in sight and I am out of shape and forced to pretend to believe in all the woke sh!t the HR demons at work are shoving down my throat. I really wish I could go back in a time machine to the good old days when good old boys could get a great paying job and a pension without a college degree. Seeing all of the politically correct casting my Disney and other MSM makes my blood boil.

They could have passed whatever budget, including tax increases, they wanted, so regarding the topic at hand, Joe is correct. This article specifically whines about the Trump tax cuts which were passed with 51 senators and which Democrats chose not to roll back.

Under Biden, the Democrats first had the House, but not Senate. Now they have Senate, but not the House. They managed to get a bipartisan $1.2T infrastructure bill passed. It covers moving semiconductor and EV auto manufacturing on shore.

Trump had both House and Senate for 2 years. He passed a tax cut for the rich and corporations.

Big day on the blotter! More evidence of russia-trump collusion. To go with all the rest of it - trump officials meeting with russian spies, handing them secret campaign data, meeting with spies in trump tower, etc.

GOP Crime Blotter

Three of Rudy Giuliani's top allies in Ukraine were implicated in a treason probe. Ukrainian authorities say their work with Giuliani — to spread disinformation about the Bidens during the 2020 campaign — was done at the direction of Russian intelligence.

somewhere else on this page a trumper said he doesn't believe trump will put tariffs into place, despite that being one of spanky's top campaign promises and that he already did that, during his first admin.

It's fun believing whatever you want to believe. Makes you free. No wonder conservatives are happier than liberals. They are free to live in their imaginations.

They've controlled the senate Biden took office.

No infrastructure has been built and most of it will get squandered because they haven't done the permitting reform necessary to build things at a reasonable cost and timeframe like we used to.

Semiconductor investment is also full of ridiculous red tape (prohibiting necessary immigrants from TSMC, handouts to interest groups) that may prevent it from having any success.

I'm hoping Biden will be forced to step aside and they can run Newsome. That's what they want to do, they just dont have the b@lls to do it.

Majority by year below. Democrats still don't really control Senate yet have passed historic bipartisan legislation.

Semiconductor plants and EV / battery plants are already being built. Highly skilled and highly paid workers needed.

statista.com

U.S. Senate composition by political party affiliation 2023 | Statista

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the country's legislative body.

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economist.com

America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers

The country’s chipmaking goals will test its manufacturing potential

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techcrunch.com

Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America | TechCrunch

Rebecca Bellan

Battery factories are popping up across North America. Here's where they are and how the Inflation Reduction Act influenced the boom.

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*Newsom

They've held the majority since Jan 2021. That's how they passed two massive spending bills along party lines via budget reconciliation.

Your article points out the same problem I did. The TSMC factory in AZ isn't being built because TSMC engineers can't move to the US thanks to Biden's union-influenced policies.

So it's Biden's fault you're out of shape?