Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon

[Pig Bellmont 8715]

Treasury Secretary feeling good/has jokes

 

[Bama Chick 28596]

Dark Brandon subtly mocking republicans in a Mitch McConnell accent is A+ trolling.

[wildcat09 29353]

 

LiBEraL mEdIA!

[shakahorn 1645]

7 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Dark Brandon subtly mocking republicans in a Mitch McConnell accent is A+ trolling.
 

That's a pretty good impression.

['stache 21810]

13 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Dark Brandon subtly mocking republicans in a Mitch McConnell accent is A+ trolling.
 

Reminds me of Dave Chapelles white person voice from Chappelles Show, lol.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

38 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Dark Brandon subtly mocking republicans in a Mitch McConnell accent is A+ trolling.
 

Yeah, he seems real senile to me.  Speaking of, where has that attack from our resident Rs (and all Rs) been lately?  What happened?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33869]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yeah, he seems real senile to me.  Speaking of, where has that attack from our resident Rs (and all Rs) been lately?  What happened?

they're blinded by all the winning. they can't see their way back

[jimmyjazz 45910]

1 hour ago, shakahorn said:

That's a pretty good impression.

Yeah, it's a tiny bit light on the accent but he gets the tone and enunciation dead to rights.

[Longhornfan1024 1707]

17 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, it's a tiny bit light on the accent but he gets the tone and enunciation dead to rights.

I'm pretty sure you have to be at least 20% turtle to have the physical capacity to get the accent perfectly.  

[Brisketexan 105114]

A non-stop stream of insults, bravado, hate, and lies just effortlessly roll off his tongue.  A 70-something year-old grandfather who mocks the physically disabled, writes checks to porn stars, worships money, and constantly advocates for violence against brown people.  
... but then pauses for a photo shoot while sycophants jockey for position so they can all be photographed sucking up to him as though he is an example of righteousness.
The hypocrisy is just mind-blowing.  
The unwavering support by self-proclaimed evangelical Christians for such a cartoonishly immoral person who is the antithesis of everything they claim to believe -- For me, that will always be the most stunning disappointment of this era.  
We've been watching it for six or seven years now, and I still just cannot get over it.
 

Because evangelical Christians are only the first word. “Christianity” is just a code word/shield for “we get to me as cruel and awful as we want, and claim “religious freedom!” as we do it.”

The worst humans.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

1 hour ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

I'm pretty sure you have to be at least 20% turtle to have the physical capacity to get the accent perfectly.  

My dogs have a toy turtle that we named Mitch.  True story.

['stache 21810]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yeah, he seems real senile to me.  Speaking of, where has that attack from our resident Rs (and all Rs) been lately?  What happened?

They're busy taking down those dumbass stickers from the gas pumps.

Edited September 9, 2022 by 'stache

[Longhorn_Fan68 33869]

8 minutes ago, 'stache said:

They're busy taking down those dumbass stickers from the gas pumps.

yup, $2.99 by my house in S Austin. lol, rubes

[aggie08 21498]

3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yeah, he seems real senile to me.  Speaking of, where has that attack from our resident Rs (and all Rs) been lately?  What happened?

The smart ones realize what's coming down the pike in the next 6 months or so for the dude that they, at best, passively defended for 6 years.* And they realize that it completely undoes the mileage that they got out of their "Russia! Russia! Russia!" and "Mean tweets!" taunts. It's not fun anymore. They don't actually care about politics and policies when it doesn't involve owning the libs. Don't worry, they'll be back when they can finally settle on one unified talking point.

*why this did it and not 1/6 (and, perhaps moreso, the two months leading up to it irrevocably damaging our democracy) shows how truly shitty they are

Edited September 9, 2022 by aggie08

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yup, $2.99 by my house in S Austin. lol, rubes

$3.51 for real man gas by my place. $2.96 for peasant gas.

All sorts of winning right now.

[Js1 85320]

3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yup, $2.99 by my house in S Austin. lol, rubes

 

9 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

$3.51 for real man gas by my place. $2.96 for peasant gas.

All sorts of winning right now.

[jimmyjazz 45910]

Joe Biden is the greatest President in the history of the United States.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Joe Biden is the greatest President in the history of the United States.

Better than Jesus?

[elfenix 34237]

The gas price drop looked like it was slowing, but I guess that was just a pre-labor day thing. Down 4+ cents in the last 3 days.

[jimmyjazz 45910]

14 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Better than Jesus?

Well, yeah.  I mean, if Jesus were white, maybe we could talk, but . . .

[Captainant 27660]

Shit, I filled up for $2.97/gal in Boerne on my way back from the ranch. Gas in Alpine dropped 25 cents from last Saturday to today

[Voldemort86 2259]

I know it’s a small sample size, but restaurants in my area were slammed nearly all day tonight. McDonald’s drive thru had a line around the corner.

Tell me repubs, if we’re in a recession why are restaurants so damn busy? 

[CooterBrown 18007]

I know it’s a small sample size, but restaurants in my area were slammed nearly all day tonight. McDonald’s drive thru had a line around the corner.
Tell me repubs, if we’re in a recession why are restaurants so damn busy? 

No one can afford groceries, libtard.

[Underdog 28621]

12 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Better than Jesus?

You nailed it.

[aggie08 21498]

14 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Joe Biden is the greatest President in the history of the United States.

Definitely the best president of my lifetime.

 

 

Am I doing this right?

[Okie State 3818]

I know it’s a small sample size, but restaurants in my area were slammed nearly all day tonight. McDonald’s drive thru had a line around the corner.
Tell me repubs, if we’re in a recession why are restaurants so damn busy? 

My Dad doesn't believe me that young people are quitting in droves where I work. Most of them getting better pay and more flexible work schedules. Nope, not possible.

He said something the other day about the hiring process is really drawn out and difficult right now. What? Must have been a talking point on Fox News.

[StassneyHorn 6575]

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/us/politics/ukraine-military-intelligence.html

Spoiler

WASHINGTON — Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan the counteroffensive that allowed them to make dramatic gains in the northeast in recent days, a shift that allowed the United States to provide better and more relevant information about Russian weaknesses, according to American officials.

Throughout the war, the United States has provided Ukraine with information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines. Such real-time intelligence has allowed the Ukrainians — who U.S. officials acknowledge have played the decisive role in planning and execution — to target Russian forces, kill senior generals and force ammunition supplies to be moved farther from the Russian front lines.

But earlier on, American intelligence officials said they often had a better understanding of Russia’s military plans than of Ukraine’s. Concerned that sharing their operational plans could highlight weaknesses and discourage continued American support, the Ukrainians were closely guarding their operational plans even as American intelligence was gathering precise details on what the Kremlin was ordering and Russian commanders were planning.

 

But as Ukraine laid its plans to strike back against the Russians, senior leaders in Kyiv decided that sharing more information with the United States would help secure more assistance, American officials said.

Senior U.S. officials declined to say how much details from the counteroffensive plan Ukraine had shared and how much advice the United States had offered. But one official said Americans had “constantly” discussed with Kyiv ways that Ukraine could blunt the Russian advance in the country’s east.

The gains in the northeast, including the recapture of Izium, a key railway hub, were the most important advances Ukraine has made so far, senior American officials said.

It is not yet clear how much broad strategic importance those gains will have, but there are signs that the current offensive could be the early stages of a drive that could push back the Russian front line significantly, military experts and former intelligence officials said.

“I have thought for several months that Ukraine was going to push Russia back to the 23 February lines by the end of the year,” said retired Lt. Gen. Frederick B. Hodges, a former top U.S. Army commander in Europe, referring to the eve of the Russian invasion. “I watch the Russian logistics, and it just looked to me that they cannot sustain this. Their morale and discipline and all their manpower issues — it’s just not sustainable for them to do what they were trying to do.”

General Hodges said the recent success indicated that Ukraine’s efforts to retake land in the south and east could unfold more quickly than he had previously assessed, even setting the stage for an attempt to retake Crimea next year. Other experts agreed that the tide might be turning for Ukraine.

 

“The Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive is moving faster and taking terrain even faster than expected,” said Mick Mulroy, a former Pentagon official and C.I.A. officer. “Now is the time for the Ukrainian army to exploit every opportunity they have to degrade and destroy the Russian capacity to fight.”

Current and former U.S. officials praised the sophistication of the Ukrainian preparations for the counteroffensive. The decision by Ukraine to tout its counteroffensive in the south before striking in the northeast is a standard technique for misdirection used by the American Special Operations troops, who have been training the Ukrainians since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

“These guys have been trained for eight years by Special Ops,” said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Ukraine and Russia in the Obama administration. “They’ve been taught about irregular warfare. They’ve been taught by our intelligence operators about deception and psychological operations.”

Even though messaging around the push in the south may have been something of a feint, officials say that strike also has importance. Even small gains in the south will make it far more difficult for Russian forces to capture the port city of Odesa, a wartime goal of President Vladimir V. Putin.

Nevertheless, current U.S. officials were reserved on Saturday, saying it was too early to determine whether the Ukrainian military could keep up its drive.

The offensive will strain the Ukrainians, who have suffered from shortages in supply, particularly artillery rounds. Their army, too, has taken tough casualties. Going on the offensive is harder and more difficult to maintain than a defense. Some American officials believe the more successful Ukraine is in the next few days, the more Russia will look for ways to strike back.

But the new offensive has demonstrated how the Russian forces have not been able to overcome the fundamental problems laid bare in the opening days of the conflict, American officials said.

The Russian military continues to struggle to get its secure communications to work and to solve its logistics problems. It has also not been able to ramp up its industrial base to meet the demands of the war, multiple officials said. Ukrainian air defenses still threaten Russian aircraft, hampering Moscow from using the full potential of its military.

Russia could revisit its decision not to conduct a large-scale draft to build forces for a renewed push into Ukraine. Mr. Putin could also look to use different tactics in a new phase of the war, especially if he thinks Ukraine’s morale receives a serious boost from the successful counteroffensive. Some senior Ukrainian officials believe the Russians could resort to cyberattacks targeting a broad swath of the country.

Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, predicted on Friday that in the coming months, as the weather cools, Russia would try again to attack the Ukrainian energy grid, damaging electrical transmission or shutting down pipelines.

“The next phase is, they will try to defeat our energy and financial sectors,” Mr. Dubynskyi said. “We have seen this scenario before.”

Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy grid in 2015. But this time, Ukraine expects Russia to use more targeted phishing attacks to take down parts of the energy grid or combine cyberattacks with a kinetic bombing campaign.

 

[Captainant 27660]

6 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/us/politics/ukraine-military-intelligence.html

  Reveal hidden contents

WASHINGTON — Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan the counteroffensive that allowed them to make dramatic gains in the northeast in recent days, a shift that allowed the United States to provide better and more relevant information about Russian weaknesses, according to American officials.

Throughout the war, the United States has provided Ukraine with information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines. Such real-time intelligence has allowed the Ukrainians — who U.S. officials acknowledge have played the decisive role in planning and execution — to target Russian forces, kill senior generals and force ammunition supplies to be moved farther from the Russian front lines.

But earlier on, American intelligence officials said they often had a better understanding of Russia’s military plans than of Ukraine’s. Concerned that sharing their operational plans could highlight weaknesses and discourage continued American support, the Ukrainians were closely guarding their operational plans even as American intelligence was gathering precise details on what the Kremlin was ordering and Russian commanders were planning.

 

But as Ukraine laid its plans to strike back against the Russians, senior leaders in Kyiv decided that sharing more information with the United States would help secure more assistance, American officials said.

Senior U.S. officials declined to say how much details from the counteroffensive plan Ukraine had shared and how much advice the United States had offered. But one official said Americans had “constantly” discussed with Kyiv ways that Ukraine could blunt the Russian advance in the country’s east.

The gains in the northeast, including the recapture of Izium, a key railway hub, were the most important advances Ukraine has made so far, senior American officials said.

It is not yet clear how much broad strategic importance those gains will have, but there are signs that the current offensive could be the early stages of a drive that could push back the Russian front line significantly, military experts and former intelligence officials said.

“I have thought for several months that Ukraine was going to push Russia back to the 23 February lines by the end of the year,” said retired Lt. Gen. Frederick B. Hodges, a former top U.S. Army commander in Europe, referring to the eve of the Russian invasion. “I watch the Russian logistics, and it just looked to me that they cannot sustain this. Their morale and discipline and all their manpower issues — it’s just not sustainable for them to do what they were trying to do.”

General Hodges said the recent success indicated that Ukraine’s efforts to retake land in the south and east could unfold more quickly than he had previously assessed, even setting the stage for an attempt to retake Crimea next year. Other experts agreed that the tide might be turning for Ukraine.

 

“The Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive is moving faster and taking terrain even faster than expected,” said Mick Mulroy, a former Pentagon official and C.I.A. officer. “Now is the time for the Ukrainian army to exploit every opportunity they have to degrade and destroy the Russian capacity to fight.”

Current and former U.S. officials praised the sophistication of the Ukrainian preparations for the counteroffensive. The decision by Ukraine to tout its counteroffensive in the south before striking in the northeast is a standard technique for misdirection used by the American Special Operations troops, who have been training the Ukrainians since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

“These guys have been trained for eight years by Special Ops,” said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Ukraine and Russia in the Obama administration. “They’ve been taught about irregular warfare. They’ve been taught by our intelligence operators about deception and psychological operations.”

Even though messaging around the push in the south may have been something of a feint, officials say that strike also has importance. Even small gains in the south will make it far more difficult for Russian forces to capture the port city of Odesa, a wartime goal of President Vladimir V. Putin.

Nevertheless, current U.S. officials were reserved on Saturday, saying it was too early to determine whether the Ukrainian military could keep up its drive.

The offensive will strain the Ukrainians, who have suffered from shortages in supply, particularly artillery rounds. Their army, too, has taken tough casualties. Going on the offensive is harder and more difficult to maintain than a defense. Some American officials believe the more successful Ukraine is in the next few days, the more Russia will look for ways to strike back.

But the new offensive has demonstrated how the Russian forces have not been able to overcome the fundamental problems laid bare in the opening days of the conflict, American officials said.

The Russian military continues to struggle to get its secure communications to work and to solve its logistics problems. It has also not been able to ramp up its industrial base to meet the demands of the war, multiple officials said. Ukrainian air defenses still threaten Russian aircraft, hampering Moscow from using the full potential of its military.

Russia could revisit its decision not to conduct a large-scale draft to build forces for a renewed push into Ukraine. Mr. Putin could also look to use different tactics in a new phase of the war, especially if he thinks Ukraine’s morale receives a serious boost from the successful counteroffensive. Some senior Ukrainian officials believe the Russians could resort to cyberattacks targeting a broad swath of the country.

Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, predicted on Friday that in the coming months, as the weather cools, Russia would try again to attack the Ukrainian energy grid, damaging electrical transmission or shutting down pipelines.

“The next phase is, they will try to defeat our energy and financial sectors,” Mr. Dubynskyi said. “We have seen this scenario before.”

Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy grid in 2015. But this time, Ukraine expects Russia to use more targeted phishing attacks to take down parts of the energy grid or combine cyberattacks with a kinetic bombing campaign.

 

It's pretty crazy how much Zelensky did by standing up to trump. He sowed the seeds of his impeachment, empirically demonstrated his commitment to stopping corruption and lies, and defended democracy in his nation and ours. 

We are lucky to have a man like that to work with against an old enemy

[henrygandorf 29190]

edit to add - per the article, among dems he now has a 76/17 approval.  so that's a pretty noticeable chunk of dems that don't approve of biden, but it's not like they're gonna turn around and vote for a bunch of extreme maga candidates in the midterms.

if younger americans are paying attention at all and start actually voting, that will doom the current gop.

Edited September 13, 2022 by henrygandorf

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

 

Impossible. I'm told he's the most divisive President since the last Democrat. 

[Voldemort86 2259]

Biden up against it this week. Needs to prevent a rail strike or the supply chains will get fucked up.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/12/biden-rail-dispute-strike-00056241

[Gil Bang 25949]

On 9/8/2022 at 7:47 AM, Foosters said:

I spent all weekend at a beach in California. Not a single Biden flag, Tshirt, or bumper sticker.

How'd the Texas beaches look this weekend? Probably no Trump stuff visible, right?

I was in AL and the FL panhandle, and I saw plenty of "Trump Won" signs and similar bullshit

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

On 9/8/2022 at 7:47 AM, Foosters said:

I spent all weekend at a beach in California. Not a single Biden flag, Tshirt, or bumper sticker.

How'd the Texas beaches look this weekend? Probably no Trump stuff visible, right?

In Texas’ defense, I spent a week at S Padre in early August and saw nary a MAGA flag. Quite possibly an aberration but I’ll take it.

[Voldemort86 2259]

8 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

I was in AL and the FL panhandle, and I saw plenty of "Trump Won" signs and similar bullshit

Anyone who really believes Trump won is demented.

[Bozo_Casanova 26450]

1 hour ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

In Texas’ defense, I spent a week at S Padre in early August and saw nary a MAGA flag. Quite possibly an aberration but I’ll take it.

Bolivar is the real test

[maninblack 7974]

[Js1 85320]

Want to charity smack talk? That’s so cute 

[tx 3 putt 76928]

2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I was in AL and the FL panhandle, and I saw plenty of "Trump Won" signs and similar bullshit

 

trump heartland 

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Bolivar is the real test

 

it's not a test, easy fail 

[Dutchrudder 11139]

55 minutes ago, maninblack said:

Yeah, nobody should ever take the Daily mail at its word, it's a tabloid. Here's the full explanation if you care:

https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20201116_1/

[Biff Tannen 45678]

36 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Yeah, nobody should ever take the Daily mail at its word, it's a tabloid. Here's the full explanation if you care:

https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20201116_1/

Narrator: he doesn’t care 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33869]

13 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

Yeah, nobody should ever take the Daily mail at its word, it's a tabloid. Here's the full explanation if you care:

https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20201116_1/

are you new here?

[Voldemort86 2259]

Inflation report sucked. I guess it was too much to hope for Biden to go on a hot streak until November.

[David Dennison 18856]

1 minute ago, Voldemort86 said:

Inflation report sucked. I guess it was too much to hope for Biden to go on a hot streak until November.

Falling gas prices take a bit of the sting out.

[Pato del Muerto 52491]

So what happened with diesel a couple weeks ago?  It was running about a dollar above regular and dropping at a similar rate, then at about 4.15 it jumped up to about 4.50 in a week before starting to creep downward again. 

[elfenix 34237]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So what happened with diesel a couple weeks ago?  It was running about a dollar above regular and dropping at a similar rate, then at about 4.15 it jumped up to about 4.50 in a week before starting to creep downward again. 

stores moved all their summer shit out to start stocking christmas shit

[Voldemort86 2259]

Gas was 2.99 where I live then jumped to 3.29 overnight it seems. I live in Fort Worth.

[Js1 85320]

I just filled up for 2.99 yesterday.

Also the GOP gonna be like SHIT SPIN THOSE INFLATION ADS BACK UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[chainsaw 9867]

Places with gas over $3 are rare now. I think it will be a good October if he can say we've beaten omicron (bivalent vaccines and low rates), Russian aggression (retreating and talks of them losing Crimea), and also monkeypox (cases are declining). Inflation is a global problem and we're feeling it much less than just about everyone else AND Biden's party is the one trying to fix it meanwhile the republicans opposed the Inflation Reduction Act.

Does anyone realistically think inflation wouldn't be in the double digits if Trump had won? People would probably still be dying in the streets with ERs backed up beyond capacity.

[Incredulity 11669]

26 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Inflation Reduction Act.

lol

[Js1 85320]

4 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

lol

Fuck off troll