Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

This is Jim Jordan's opinion written as if it were a news story. Jordan says that because Biden said MAAGAA extremists are a danger to democracy, therefore the FBI interviewing a priest is the same as accusing Catholics of being terrorists and that Biden must have directly ordered this. The article give no info on the interview or reasons for it.

I am not sure we are able to put all those huge price increases on Biden. When inflation went up above 9% we all accepted the higher prices because of that. The prices at Kroger seemed to go up every week. But when inflation went back down, you would think grocery prices would too, but they never did. Every week I go into Kroger or HEB and everything has increased while inflation has been much improved. The food companies and grocery stores got a taste of that increased profit and keep hammering the public.

this is basically true - food prices did spike up. That spike is over, and food prices are now back on the normal 2-3% inflationary path they are usually on. That's how this works...prices for food rarely actually fall. But wages are rising faster than food prices I suspect, so their after-inflation level is probably falling.

fred.stlouisfed.org

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food and Beverages in U.S. City Average

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food and Beverages in U.S. City Average

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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

If your starting point is always "defend Biden" you will never be able to have an honest understanding of anything.

The major culprit in food was Biden’s food stamp expansion that increased demand. That never went away. Thus, prices have remained elevated. Similar dynamics are in play with hotel prices. With municipalities with right to shelter laws buying up hotel rooms for drug addicts and illegal aliens, it drives up prices and actually discourages tourism.

thefga.org

Feeding Inflation: How President Biden’s Unlawful Food Stamp Expansion is Costing Taxpayers and Consumers Billions

Biden's unlawful food stamp expansion will cost taxpayers $250 billion over the next decade and has heavily contributed to soaring prices.

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gothamist.com

NYC’s daily per-person cost to house migrants climbs to nearly $400

https://gothamist.com/staff/arya-sundaram

Officials attribute the increase to rising rents for hotels and dwindling shelter space.

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Nope. Wages have not kept up with inflation. People are paying more and getting less.

What more are you waiting for GOP? Get going....

#FJB

wsj.com

Activist Nuns, With Stake in Smith & Wesson, Sue Gun Maker Over AR-15 Rifles

Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

Groups argue the company’s leaders put shareholders at risk by making a popular gun often used in mass shootings.

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Can I sue a car company if a car crashes? Democrats hate the constitution and freedom

What *may* be holding back the House GOP is their memory of how WJClinton came out after *his* impeachment: with vastly improved favorability ratings. IMO there were better grounds (obstruction, in particular) for ousting Clinton than for ousting Biden, but many Americans saw that impeachment as frivolous and deeply partisan, and rewarded Clinton with their approval as a result.

The paucity of the evidence that the GOPers have *at present* would be more obvious with an actual impeachment debate/vote/trial/vote, as opposed to the hints about it that they're conveying now, and I'd think some of them fear giving Biden a bounce in approval--and maybe being voted out next November for having engaged in another impeachment effort that many Americans might see as a baseless attempt at t!t-for-tat, trying to equate Biden with Trump's offenses.

And the GOP may want to reserve a Biden impeachment as a prize for voting in more Republicans next November: "Put more of us in Congress so we can impeach Biden and win!" Again, this would finesse the current problem of (*so far*) not being able to show that he has broken any actual laws, and allow the GOP candidates to make dark references to "corruption" without having to face an actual put-up-or-shut-up scenario.

You can sue a company (on certain grounds) if you're a shareholder. That's how investment capitalism works, actually. Are you against capitalism?

classic! citing the RNC as a data source.

and it's just anecdote.

JFC

Clinton's impeachment was nothing more than revenge for Nixon's ousting.

What Biden has spent his entire career doing makes Watergate look like nothing at all.

You have the legal right to sue anyone. That doesn't mean some lawsuits aren't completely idiotic.

The Democratic party supports unions and workers and that the Republican party supports business leaders against unions. The unions are voting and putting their money where their best interest lies. The same hold true for large corporations who are backing Republican candidates with their donations. That is how democracy works.

That’s because Dems stand behind structural racism:

ssir.org

Union Construction’s Racial Equity and Inclusion Charade (SSIR)

White men have taken extraordinary measures to keep construction unions white and have designed their unions to frustrate and intimidate prospective Black members.

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The vast majority of gun homicides occur in Democrat cities with handguns. It's insane how much Democrats freak out about 'scary long grey/black' guns when they make up a minuscule percentage of gun deaths.

Democrats have always been the party of racism. Currently, their discriminatory policies cause straight Asian and white men to be discriminated against in every facet of life, while in the past their discrimination was against blacks.