Bidens Handlungen/Resultate als POTUS

Zitat von Wemir

Biden und Xi treffen sich. Nachdem wie gut das bisher gelaufen ist, erwarte ich den Ausbruch des dritten großen Ende des Westen-Krieges sobald Xi zurück in China ist.

https://twitter.com/LastCallCNBC/status/1724968468888404039

Naja, ich vermute die Chinesen nehmen das auch nicht mehr ernst.

https://www.reuters.com/articl…gn-ministry-idUSP8N3C1001

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BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s rhetoric calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a "dictator" was extremely wrong and an irresponsible political manipulation, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.

"There are always ill-intentioned people who try to drive a wedge between China-U.S. relations, which will not succeed," ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a press briefing, without elaborating. [...]

Ich glaube sie meint die Reporterin, die die Frage gestellt hat.

Die Berichterstattung zu dem Gipfel scheint mir sonst die Ergebnisse etwas zu übertreiben. Da sollen die eingeschränkten Beziehungen von China und USA (infolge der chinesischen Reaktion auf Pelosis Besuch in Taiwan) im militärischen Bereich wieder ein bisschen verstetigt werden, bei allem anderen haben sie ja auf dieses Treffen hinarbeitend bereits Kontakte gehabt. Man kann nochmal auf die Veröffentlichungen der Außenministerien dazu warten, aber das klingt nicht nach einer großen Normalisierung.

Zitat von Wemir

Naja, ich vermute die Chinesen nehmen das auch nicht mehr ernst.

Der Chinese hat eben noch Respekt vor dem Alter und gönnt dem greisen Imperator ein bisschen Narrenfreiheit.

https://twitter.com/tvzuke/status/1724874542894755935

Chinesen prügeln sich darum, wem San Francisco gehört. (Geschlussfolgert aus der jingoistischen Reaktion auf Xis Besuch. "San Francisco with not one American Flag in site yesterday as President Xi rolls into town...".)

Die beiden Leute, die Bidens mentale Fähigkeiten wohl am besten einschätzen können, vereint in Desillusion.

Aber Theveßen, seines Zeichens ÖR-Apparatschik mit Apparatschik-Preisen ausgezeichnet, kann schon recht haben, der kann das mental noch 4 Jahre machen, in brenzligen Zeiten.

Zitat von WUtan Clan

The Squad Is About to Fight for Its Political Life

The war in Gaza has set the stage for a huge primary battle in 2024.

https://twitter.com/RepThomasM…tatus/1725330510560325760

Zitat von Wemir

https://twitter.com/RepThomasM…tatus/1725330510560325760

Zitat von WUtan Clan

Entweder Du bist für Israel oder gegen Deutschland Amerika!

Der Opa wird heute 150 jahre alt

Biden IGNORED Aides On Beheaded Babies Story, ADMITS He Wrongly Doubted Gaza Death Toll: Report

https://www.semafor.com/articl…y-wants-us-treasury-bonds

Zitat

Nobody wants U.S. Treasury bonds

Once a symbol of America’s economic might and accepted as a global coin of the realm, they have fallen badly out of favor, with serious consequences for taxpayers, investors, and financial markets.

Zitat

The result: Investors are demanding the steepest yields since 2007. Auctions of fresh bonds that were once routine are now going terribly. And bond portfolios are getting absolutely hammered. The longest-dated Treasury bonds are in a bear market worse than the dot-com bust and almost as bad as 2008.

The government is borrowing more than expected, increasing the supply of Treasurys and dinging their value. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is selling down its own holdings, dumping yet more bonds into a market that doesn’t really want them.

Zitat

Already 2.5% of the U.S.’s economic output is going to service its existing debts, a number that some analysts expect to hit 4% by 2030. Already running huge deficits, the only way for Treasury to pay the interest — along with ambitious spending programs like the CHIPS Act and student-loan forgiveness — is to keep borrowing.

But from whom?

China and Japan, once reliable buyers of Treasury bonds, have been selling them to prop up their weakening currencies. A decade ago they held more than 22% of U.S. government bonds; today it’s 7%.

https://www.politico.com/news/…deo-former-aides-00130713

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GOP lawmaker: Ousted aides targeted my daughter for OnlyFans account

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Rep. Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.) told POLITICO that his former chief of staff and former legislative director attempted to retaliate against him using his 27-year old daughter’s account on OnlyFans, a popular forum for people to charge for access to sexually explicit content.

Die Erklärung, kommt weil Aufnahmen von Williams aufgetaucht sind, wie er einen seiner Ex-Gehilfen angegangen ist:

Zitat

The confrontation with Gordon, which Sweeney filmed, began causing political trouble for Williams soon after its release last week. [...]

Williams is seen confronting Gordon outside the party, pointing his finger at Gordon and vowing that if “you f–k with my family, I’ll end every relationship you have.” In response to that on-camera threat, Gordon denied any knowledge of the unspecified allegations at issue.

Zitat

Williams said in the interview that, a few days prior to that altercation, other aides of his told him that Gordon had shared details of the OnlyFans account widely with other congressional staffers. Gordon was also “saying really rude things about [Williams’] wife,” the lawmaker recalled.

Und der andere:

Zitat

After Sweeney recorded the lawmaker during their argument outside the holiday party, Williams said the former aide delivered a personal jab at the lawmaker: “Hey, f–k you! Guess what, bitch? All I have to do is pay $7 to watch your daughter shove her phone up her p—y!

One eyewitness of the skirmish, however, could not confirm that version of events and recalled seeing Williams leave the area right after knocking Sweeney’s phone out of his hands. This eyewitness, granted anonymity to share recollections of the tense moment, added that the scene was loud and crowded so a comment might have been missed.

Let's go Brandon?

Vielleicht prügeln sie sich demnächst im Kongress live auf C-Span, wie in jeder anderen ordentlichen Bananenrepublik.

McCarthy soll ja schon die Ellbogen ausgefahren haben, davon gibt es aber nur eine Tonaufnahme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGVEwzNKDs

Hammer-Artikel:

America’s undoing

Triumphant at the end of the Cold War, the United States pledged to lead humanity in a new world order. Two conflicts—in Gaza and in Ukraine—have exposed that it has never been weaker

Zitat von Samuel Moyn - Prospect, 06.12.23

[...] The president’s “response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in the New York Review of Books. In both, Biden asserted, evil struck first and with no provocation. In both, he said, authoritarians hoped to “completely annihilate” democracy. In both, America was, through its allies and its own action, called upon to either defend freedom or it would die. It was not the petty interests of states but the legitimate expectations of all humanity that were on the line: “There are innocent people all over the world who hope because of us,” Biden sermonised, “who believe in a better life because of us, who are desperate not to be forgotten by us, and who are waiting for us.”

Biden’s analogy—which he repeated verbatim weeks into the imbroglio—is flawed. But the truth is that, separately and together, the two crises demonstrate the limits of America’s power. Both appear to accelerate the decline of its leadership, while putting its own democracy at risk. The world is desperate, but its victims should not wait on the US, which is so burdened by its mistakes past and present that it may not succeed in saving its own democracy from them.[...]

Clearly, Putin’s act—which appeared to seek the atavistic goal of territorial conquest, to which the US and other western powers had not stooped since before the Second World War—was so outrageous as to require a response. And Russia’s brutality in the field provided a legitimate occasion for disgust and rage.

But restorationist wishes were also coming true. The sunlit uplands of a just cause afforded new scenery after a dark period. Atlanticist elites could seek to turn the page, denouncing Russian aggression while memory-holing the west’s own with palpable relief. Old playbooks were dusted off. Diplomats were back in business organising resolutions and sanctions; big cheques were written for a good friend in the concert of democracies; military hardware was dispatched for battlefield use; experts in uniform travelled to advise; intelligence networks hummed. Overnight, the war restored the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to some purpose. Indeed, despite claims that Nato expansion precipitated the conflict, it led Finland to join and Sweden is on its own path too. Internationally, familiar rhetoric about democracy and freedom was recycled. America moved backwards from the ethical complications of its war on terror to a new Cold War and a familiar moral high ground.[...]

The most striking thing about the parallel American response 18 months later to Hamas’s incursion across the Gaza fence is that the credibility of America’s nostrums about democracy and its defence collapsed almost from the start, and much more visibly. This time, America could not rouse the world around its beleaguered policy and rhetoric.[...]

Now America’s Israel policy has eroded support for Ukraine further, along with the last residues of belief in the geopolitical virtue of US leadership. Not all the reasons for the global south’s scepticism about America’s Manichean stances in eastern Europe and the Middle East are convincing, but the global south is on firm ground in treating the west’s sanctimonious talk, past and present, as so many rationales for the violence of the powerful against the weak, and a smokescreen for continuing global hierarchy. If Biden’s newly minted mantra of a “rules-based international order” means America’s Gaza policy, the global south “won’t ever listen to us again”, as one official mordantly put it.[...]

“Our ability to function effectively as a great power abroad depends on how we conduct ourselves at home,” remarked George HW Bush in proclaiming a new world order in 1990. History since not only proved his point, but also the reverse: that a series of misbegotten wars could undermine what passed for US democracy and leave it prey to a charlatan not once but twice. [...]

The American dream of advancing democracy through force of arms is obsolete. It has failed abroad in practice even when morally defensible in theory, and it is not easily transposed to the messy situation in Israel and Palestine. And it is domestically unsustainable when the US’s own democracy is on the brink. Biden “has not learned from America’s mistakes, rushing headlong into the latest war,” commented Stephen Wertheim in the New York Times. After Ukraine, Gaza provides a final confirmation of a generation of failed militarism, beckoning us not to old promises of security but to the new realities of US decline amid endless war—and to the need to imagine an elusive new politics that could replace a passing world order for the better, since things can always get worse.

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Bei aller Kritik an den USA muss man den Amerikanern lassen, dass - im Gegensatz zu dem was in Deutschland als Qualitätsmedien firmiert - wenigstens ein paar von denen noch die Eier haben, sowas ohne paywall zu veröffentlichen.

Chomsky got it wrong...

4 moooore years!

Diese undankbaren Proleten. Dafür hat sich der "most union-friendly President" ja wohl nicht so ins Zeug gelegt!

Anne And Joe Argue About The Child-Killing Murder Robot

“I’m not so sure about the Child-Killing Murder Robot,” Joe said after a sip of coffee while reading the morning paper.

“What??” his wife Anne exclaimed, visibly shocked.

“It’s killed thousands of kids in its latest murder rampage,” Joe said. “I’m starting to think maybe the Child-Killing Murder Robot isn’t such a great thing after all.”

“Well of course it’s on a murder rampage!” said Anne. “Some people tried to turn it off!”

“Yeah the Child-Killing Murder Robot does that whenever anyone tries to turn it off,” replied Joe. “And you know what? I’m starting to think that maybe they’re trying to turn off the Child-Killing Murder Robot because they’re sick of the way it keeps killing children and murdering people!”

“It’s acting in self-defense!” Anne protested. “The Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to defend itself!”

“It’s been killing people constantly ever since that team of mad scientists invented it back in the forties, Anne! After a certain amount of child-killing and murder, eventually you’ve got to figure that maybe the blame is on the Child-Killing Murder Robot. At the very least I think our government should stop sending it batteries and ammunition.”

“Look, Joe, I feel terrible about all the child-killing and murder, and I wish it wasn’t happening. But this is a very complicated situation; it’s been going on for many years, and I just don’t see what you could possibly expect the Child-Killing Murder Robot to do at this point besides continue to kill large numbers of children and commit murder at mass scale.”

“Well, maybe they could reprogram the Child-Killing Murder Robot so it doesn’t have to kill children and murder people all the time?”

“But then it wouldn’t be a Child-Killing Murder Robot!”

“Yeah I know, it would be a different sort of thing with a different sort of system. But at least then all the murdering would stop and we’d have peace.”

“The Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to exist!”

“Why, Anne? Why does there absolutely need to be a homicidal android that’s always in the news because it’s constantly murdering human beings? I’ve seen people talking about one possible solution where the robot is programmed to regard everyone else as its equal so it doesn’t view them as needing to be murdered. Why couldn’t we try that?”

“There is one Child-Killing Murder Robot in the world, Joe. One. And you’re saying there should be zero. You just want to commit genocide.”

“What?? That’s the exact opposite of what I want! How can you say that??”

“If you don’t believe the Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to exist in its natural child-killing murderous state, then you’re an evil, genocidal racist. You’re no better than those kids chanting ‘Nobody should be murdered’ on university campuses!”

“Anne those students are demonstrating to defend the rights of a population who’s constantly getting murdered by a mindless automaton with machine guns for arms!”

“They’re genocidal fascists, Joe. I’m not saying I support 100 percent of the actions of the Child-Killing Murder Robot, but at least it’s not going around college campuses saying things that make people feel uncomfortable.”

“Well call me crazy but I just don’t accept that making people feel uncomfortable is equal to or worse than murdering children by the thousands.”

“You are crazy, Joe. You’re a crazy, hateful man. I’m going to go spend the night at my sister’s. God, I can’t believe I married a Nazi.”

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1743011992380506328

Kämpft! Kämpft! Kämpft!

Es entbehrt jedenfalls nicht einer gwissen Komik, wenn ein schwarzer Bürgermeister 17 Busgesellschaften dafür verklagt, dass sie auf Rechnung einer Bande von durchgeknallten Reaktionären, deren politisches Programm hauptsächlich darin besteht, öffentlich über den großen Austausch der weißen Herrenrasse gegen braune Ausländer zu halluzinieren, einen Haufen nicht-weiße Migranten in seine Stadt gekarrt haben.