Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?

[mdmost 43848]

Maybe read the article and you'll get clued in why the DOJ wants jail time for her now instead of home confinement. 

[Boss Hogg 808]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Maybe read the article and you'll get clued in why the DOJ wants jail time for her now instead of home confinement. 

I read it. 
 

Haven’t seen the contents disputed. I guess Dark Brandon did strike back when he had a habit of showering inappropriately with his daughter.  

[mdmost 43848]

4 minutes ago, Boss Hogg said:

I read it. 
 

Haven’t seen the contents disputed. I guess Dark Brandon did strike back when he had a habit of showering inappropriately with his daughter.  

Are you more obsessed with this or Hunter's dong? I'm sure it's a tough choice. 

[StassneyHorn 6755]

Someone please help Boss Hogg. “Haven’t seen the content disputed” when every outlet says it hasn’t been authenticated and fucking Project Veritas wouldn’t even run it.

Happy Jobsgiving eve

 

[Boss Hogg 808]

48 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Someone please help Boss Hogg. “Haven’t seen the content disputed” when every outlet says it hasn’t been authenticated and fucking Project Veritas wouldn’t even run it.

Happy Jobsgiving eve

 

How would it be authenticated? Asking Ashley if it were authentic? She’s not going to answer that. 
 

As for O’Keefe as it says in the NYT, “Less than a month before Election Day, in an Oct. 12, 2020, email that Project Veritas included in a court filing, Mr. O’Keefe told his team that he had made the decision not to publish a story about the diary, adding: “We have no doubt the document is real” but that reactions to its publication would be “characterized as a cheap shot.””

 

His house ended up being raided by the FBI. A lot of pressure for a diary theft. 
 

 

[SubliminalHorn 6995]

Yeah Project Veritas decided to take the high road here, that’s more believable 

[Smax 3800]

4 hours ago, Boss Hogg said:

So does this mean the content of the diary is real? I haven’t seen that challenged anywhere.

 

Fake news

 

 

(thats how we do it right?)

[StassneyHorn 6755]

13 minutes ago, Boss Hogg said:

How would it be authenticated? Asking Ashley if it were authentic? She’s not going to answer that. 
 

As for O’Keefe as it says in the NYT, “Less than a month before Election Day, in an Oct. 12, 2020, email that Project Veritas included in a court filing, Mr. O’Keefe told his team that he had made the decision not to publish a story about the diary, adding: “We have no doubt the document is real” but that reactions to its publication would be “characterized as a cheap shot.””

 

His house ended up being raided by the FBI. A lot of pressure for a diary theft. 
 

 

Just because you can’t comprehend how a stolen book with handwritten entries can’t be authenticated, doesn’t mean I will do that homework for you.

Keefe does not get the benefit of the doubt due to his history. I’ll leave you with a link to their Wikipedia so you can add in “PROVE IT!!!!” under all their examples of being shitgibbons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

 

[4th&Five 41903]

 

[StassneyHorn 6755]

"Three years ago, I inherited an economy on the brink. With today’s report of 303,000 new jobs in March, we have passed the milestone of 15 million jobs created since I took office. That’s 15 million more people who have the dignity and respect that comes with a paycheck."

 

 

 

[Macanudo 13254]

I call bullshit.

[Biff Tannen 46061]

3 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I call bullshit.

Fake numbers!  Only real numbers if orange god man says it!

Edited April 5 by Biff Tannen
not directed at Macanudo. The Royal We.

[HenryJames 67115]

All 303,000 jobs went to illegal aliens.

[atomheartbevo 90545]

5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

All 303,000 jobs went to illegal aliens.

Who are too lazy to work and are here just collecting welfare.

[StassneyHorn 6755]

We’re not doing this anymore

[Boss Hogg 808]

1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

I call bullshit.

 

[David Dennison 19441]

The horror.

[SydneyCarton 49325]

31 minutes ago, Boss Hogg said:

 

Lets see. The Great Recession was caused by a specific event, the financial crisis of 2008. Covid was a trangible event, an outside force that fucked with jobs. 

So uh, what's the suggested outside force in this instance? What's she suggesting? What're you suggesting? 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10762]

7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Lets see. The Great Recession was caused by a specific event, the financial crisis of 2008. Covid was a trangible event, an outside force that fucked with jobs. 

So uh, what's the suggested outside force in this instance? What's she suggesting? What're you suggesting? 

according to Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey source numbers  we are down 1.78 M Full time jobs from Nov til present.

suggestion is - yes jobs are being created, but they aren't full time jobs

[South Austin 53153]

1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

suggestion is - yes jobs are being created, but they aren't full time jobs

So we've added 151,500 jobs in March instead of 303,000 jobs. Still, pretty good.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10762]

29 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So we've added 151,500 jobs in March instead of 303,000 jobs. Still, pretty good.

Not sure where you get that from the numbers?

['stache 22115]

It's the exact same metrics the rights uses when praising their own presidents, and when others add nuance, are called libtards. So fuck the right playing the same game and thinking they're scoring points. Just showing your ass, as usual.

[South Austin 53153]

2 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Not sure where you get that from the numbers?

 

4 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

 

[Boss Hogg 808]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Lets see. The Great Recession was caused by a specific event, the financial crisis of 2008. Covid was a trangible event, an outside force that fucked with jobs. 

So uh, what's the suggested outside force in this instance? What's she suggesting? What're you suggesting? 

It’s pretty simple really. I’m suggesting the economy isn’t as strong as the surface numbers suggest because we’re losing full time jobs. 
 

1.8 million people have experienced the opposite of Jobsgiving the last 4 months. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34079]

Just now, Boss Hogg said:

It’s pretty simple really. I’m suggesting the economy isn’t as strong as the surface numbers suggest because we’re losing full time jobs. 
 

1.8 million people have experienced the opposite of Jobsgiving the last 4 months. 

ok, so 13.2M jobs created. damn, what a slacker

[SubliminalHorn 6995]

10 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

ok, so 13.2M jobs created. damn, what a slacker

And he’s not a fascist! I’ll take it!

[Js1 86932]

17 minutes ago, 'stache said:

It's the exact same metrics the rights uses when praising their own presidents, and when others add nuance, are called libtards. So fuck the right playing the same game and thinking they're scoring points. Just showing your ass, as usual.

Reminds me of the Texas Miracle, which was mostly minimum wage or less.  But damn did the GOP crow about how Republican policies worked in Texas! 

https://www.smu.edu/news/archives/2012/cal-jillson-express-news-22june2012

[SydneyCarton 49325]

1 hour ago, Boss Hogg said:

It’s pretty simple really. I’m suggesting the economy isn’t as strong as the surface numbers suggest because we’re losing full time jobs. 
 

1.8 million people have experienced the opposite of Jobsgiving the last 4 months. 

Actually, what I and many others believe you were suggesting, was that the job growth actually indicated that a massive recession was forthcoming. I would assume that is why you and the original tweet highlighted the last two major RECESSIONS. Rosy as one may think aside, are you suggesting we're headed towards a massive recession like the one that was created by the financial crisis? Yes or no will do. 

[Boss Hogg 808]

43 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Actually, what I and many others believe you were suggesting, was that the job growth actually indicated that a massive recession was forthcoming. I would assume that is why you and the original tweet highlighted the last two major RECESSIONS. Rosy as one may think aside, are you suggesting we're headed towards a massive recession like the one that was created by the financial crisis? Yes or no will do. 

 

No. I wouldn’t speculate on the size any recession. But shedding full time jobs over several is not great for an economy. Looks like we’re due for a slowdown. Bad timing for Biden. 

[Ghost of LL 15664]

I think he's suggesting that we're on track to get four rate cuts before November, which would be fan-fucking-tastic.

[jimmyjazz 46970]

3 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Not sure where you get that from the numbers?

Jesus, dude.  303/2 ~ 151.  It was very coarse, simple math.  Think harder.

[Boss Hogg 808]

26 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I think he's suggesting that we're on track to get four rate cuts before November, which would be fan-fucking-tastic.

Not happening. Inflation is sticky. But the underlying weakness explains why any cuts are on table 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34079]

more of this shit please

 

Edited April 10 by Longhorn_Fan68

[StassneyHorn 6755]

So the 3rd place finisher in the Anchorage Mayoral election, Bill Popp has thrown his support to the leader, Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance. “Nonpartisan” race but not. Having large city blue mayors in Alaska helps speed up Alaska’s transition.

Also, this is happening… in Alabama. Continued resurgence of blue collar unions. I don’t care if it’s actually true or not I’m just gonna say it.

And the Pokémon cards are making room next to the Beanie Babies for things Boomers killed. Trump has said he won’t support a national ban on abortion today. Would be funny if this triggered a jump in RFK support that I will speak into existence.

[StassneyHorn 6755]

My President, the big guy, is ALL-IN on buying votes. 277,000 additional Americans are literally getting a raise, a pay bump, a bonus, but most of all a sigh of relief. He can't be stopped. 9.5% of federal student loan debt wiped.

Biden cancels $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-forgives-74-bln-student-debt-2024-04-12/

The latest round of debt relief affects 277,000 Americans enrolled in the SAVE Plan, other borrowers enrolled in Income-Driven Repayment plans, and borrowers receiving Public Service Loan Forgiveness, the White House said in a statement.

It follows an announcement in March that $6 billion in student loans would be canceled for 78,000 borrowers.

The administration said on Friday it has approved $153 billion in student debt relief for 4.3 million Americans.

206,000 borrowers erase their debt through the new Saving on a Valuable Education plan, which ties monthly student loan payments to earnings and family size. Over 65,000 borrowers will see relief through a fix to income-driven repayment plans and more than 4,600 public servants, such as teachers and nurses, will also see their loans wiped.

[Dnaguy 12572]

4 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

My President, the big guy, is ALL-IN on buying votes. 277,000 additional Americans are literally getting a raise, a pay bump, a bonus, but most of all a sigh of relief. He can't be stopped. 9.5% of federal student loan debt wiped.

Biden cancels $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-forgives-74-bln-student-debt-2024-04-12/

The latest round of debt relief affects 277,000 Americans enrolled in the SAVE Plan, other borrowers enrolled in Income-Driven Repayment plans, and borrowers receiving Public Service Loan Forgiveness, the White House said in a statement.

It follows an announcement in March that $6 billion in student loans would be canceled for 78,000 borrowers.

The administration said on Friday it has approved $153 billion in student debt relief for 4.3 million Americans.

206,000 borrowers erase their debt through the new Saving on a Valuable Education plan, which ties monthly student loan payments to earnings and family size. Over 65,000 borrowers will see relief through a fix to income-driven repayment plans and more than 4,600 public servants, such as teachers and nurses, will also see their loans wiped.

[Biff Tannen 46061]

What gets lost among all the right wing crying over student loan forgiveness is that, at least in previous rounds (not sure on this one), these were loans that SHOULD HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN ALREADY. By the terms of the loans when they originated.  The government just wasn’t following through on those terms. Biden made it happen. That’s why conservatives can't stop him. 
 

Also, the fact that people don’t see why this is a good thing overall is stunning. Well not that stunning. But it’s sad. People against this are just petty. 

[safe sex 11913]

I want to know if he's going to screen Civil War or not.

[troph 25089]

NSIAP

this alone is enough to vote for one and not the other.

watch Trump making fun of Biden first in the clip just below, then watch Biden.

 

 

Edited April 14 by troph

[Biff Tannen 46061]

35 minutes ago, troph said:

NSIAP

this alone is enough to vote for one and not the other.

watch Trump making fun of Biden first in the clip just below, then watch Biden.

 

 

Have you forgotten that his supporters are objectively horrible people?  This is what they like.

[bolverk 30228]

It really is something and says a lot about their character. Biden's first impulse is to help a kid out, while Trump's instinct tells him to act like a bully.

Is Joe a saint? I highly fucking doubt it, but at least the man isn't a fucking monster.

 

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It really is something and says a lot about their character. Biden's first impulse is to help a kid out, while Trump's instinct tells him to act like a bully.

Is Joe a saint? I highly fucking doubt it, but at least the man isn't a fucking monster.

 

 

[pacman 7487]

[Biff Tannen 46061]

But it’s all so scary in the cities!  And the immigrants!  My god the immigrants!

[StassneyHorn 6755]

‘Envy of the World’—U.S. Economy Expected to Keep Powering Higher

Economists lift their growth forecasts in latest Wall Street Journal survey

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/economy-forecast-lower-recession-chances-1f24174b

Spoiler

It has been two years since forecasters felt this good about the economic outlook.

In the latest quarterly survey by The Wall Street Journal, business and academic economists lowered the chances of a recession within the next year to 29% from 39% in the January survey. That was the lowest probability since April 2022, when the chances of a recession were set at 28%.

Economists, in fact, don’t think the economy will get even close to a recession. In January, they on average forecast sub-1% growth in each of the first three quarters of this year. Now, they expect growth to bottom out this year at an inflation-adjusted 1.4% in the third quarter. 

Just 10% of survey respondents think the economy will experience at least one quarter of negative growth over the next 12 months, down from 33% in January.

Probability the U.S. is in a recession in next 12 months including today

The Wall Street Journal survey was conducted from April 5 to 9, just before the release of March consumer-price index data showing inflation running hotter than economists had anticipated.

The U.S. economy has far outperformed expectations over the past year and a half. Instead of stumbling under the weight of the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive interest-rate-raising campaign in four decades, it has continued expanding at a robust clip. 

Few think that the economy can do quite as well as last year’s 3.1% growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted fourth-quarter change from a year earlier. That figure might have been boosted by one-time factors such as federal infrastructure and semiconductor legislation and an uptick in immigration, which also might not last.

 

Still, economists have had to rethink forecasts for a major slowdown as more time has passed and one still doesn’t seem imminent. Economists on average think the economy grew at a 2.2% rate in the first three months of the year, up from a 0.9% forecast in January.

“The U.S. economy is performing very well,” EconForecaster economist James Smith said in the survey. “We’re truly the envy of the world.”

Much has changed since economists were last this optimistic. Two years ago, the Fed’s benchmark federal-funds rate was set between 0.25% and 0.5%. Inflation was high but economists still generally thought that it could come down without too much help from the Fed. They forecast steady growth and the midpoint of the range for the fed-funds rate topping out at just above 2.5%. 

Now, the fed-funds rate is sitting between 5.25% and 5.5%, and economists don’t see a bunch of cuts coming soon. Many analysts trimmed their rate-cut forecasts after last week’s hot inflation report. But even before the report, survey respondents predicted that rates would end the year at 4.67%, implying three cuts. In January, their responses suggested that they thought four or five cuts were likely. 

Economists now think the economy can withstand higher rates than they did not long ago.

 

They expect the 10-year Treasury yield—a key borrowing benchmark that was around 4.4% at the time of the survey—to end 2024 at 3.97%. Looking further into the future, they expect the yield to end 2026 at 3.78%. That is slightly above even their forecast last October, when the yield was higher than it is now.

Many economists have long thought that the economy can handle higher interest rates when it is capable of growing faster, and particularly when worker productivity has increased.

To that end, economists expect the Labor Department’s measure of productivity to rise at an annual rate of 1.9% over the next decade. That matches the annual increase in productivity over the last 40 years. But it is above the 1.2% pace of the 2010s, when the 10-year Treasury yield was typically stuck between 1.5% and 2.5%.

Some economists are now enthusiastic about the economy’s longer-term potential.

“We think that the American economy has entered a virtuous cycle where strong productivity results in growth above the long-term trend, inflation between 2% and 2.5% and an unemployment rate between 3.5% and 4%,” RSM US chief economist Joe Brusuelas said in the survey.

Many aren’t quite as optimistic. One downside of a better growth outlook is that a stronger economy could make it harder for inflation to fall all the way back to the Fed’s 2% target. 

 

An inflation gauge that is closely watched by the Fed, the core personal-consumption expenditures price index, was 2.8% in February, its most recent reading. Economists now expect it to end the year at 2.5%, after having forecast 2.3% in January.

Economists, on average, believe that core PCE inflation will fall to 2.1% by the end of next year without a recession. However, their projections might already have ticked higher after last week’s price data, and some continue to worry that the Fed’s efforts to control inflation still present a major threat to the economy.

“The risks are clearly skewed toward more hawkish Fed outcomes, which could drag on our growth forecasts,” 

Deutsche Bank

 economists Brett Ryan and Matthew Luzzetti said in the survey.

 

[StassneyHorn 6755]

Should see Michigan regain/keep their blue trifecta tonight, and have a good sense of the numbers for AL-2 which is the new majority minority district in Alabama

[Js1 86932]

30 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Should see Michigan regain/keep their blue trifecta tonight, and have a good sense of the numbers for AL-2 which is the new majority minority district in Alabama

2.3 over performance in one district (D hold), TBD on the other 

[Zonahorn 8079]

https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/i-know-joe-biden-rabbi-michael-beals-29efe01d81e1

Quote

The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special — in fact, I’m fairly certain I’m the only living person left who actually witnessed it firsthand.

It was about 16 years ago, and I was a young rabbi, brand-new to Delaware, on my way to lead a shiva minyan — a worship service following a death of a Jewish person. I was from California. Back then, I didn’t know Claymont, Delaware from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

A quick bit of background: When someone passes away in the Jewish faith, we observe seven days of mourning, called shiva. We gather a group of ten Jewish adults together — a minyan — to say the Mourners’ Kaddish. It usually happens in a person’s home — somewhere intimate.

In this case, the deceased individual — her name was Mrs. Greenhouse, of blessed memory — had not been a person of means. She had lived in rent-controlled senior housing in a tall high-rise building off of Namaans Road. Her apartment had been too small to fit everyone into, so we conducted our worship service in the building’s communal laundry room, in the basement of the high-rise.

We assembled the ten elders together, and it was in this most humble of places that I began to lead the kaddish. Toward the end of the service, a door at the back of the laundry room opened, and who walks in but Senator Joe Biden, his head lowered, all by himself.

I nearly dropped my prayer book in shock.

Senator Biden stood quietly in the back of the room for the duration of the service.

At the close of the kaddish, I walked over to him and asked the same question that must have been on everyone else’s mind: “Senator Biden — what are you doing here?”

And he said to me: “Listen, back in 1972, when I first ran for Senate, Mrs. Greenhouse gave $18 to my first campaign. Because that’s what she could afford. And every six years, when I’d run for reelection, she’d give another $18. She did it her whole life. I’m here to show my respect and gratitude.”

Now, the number 18 is significant in the Jewish faith — its numbers spell out the Hebrew word chai, as in “to life, to life, l’chayim!” But it’s also a humble amount. Joe Biden knew that. And he respected that.

There were no news outlets at our service that day — no Jewish reporters or important dignitaries. Just a few elderly mourners in a basement laundry room.

Joe Biden didn’t come to that service for political gain. He came to that service because he has character. He came to that service because he’s a mensch.

And if we need anything right now when it comes to the leadership of our country — we need a mensch.

I know this is such a simple, small story. But I tell it to as many people as will listen to me.

Because I think that, in their heart of hearts, when people are trying to think about the decision they’ll make next year — this is the kind of story that matters.

Joe Biden is a mensch. We need a mensch.

Thanks for reading.

-Rabbi Michael Beals of Delaware

 

[elfenix 34658]

11 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special — in fact, I’m fairly certain I’m the only living person left who actually witnessed it firsthand.

clinton crime family working overtime

[Js1 86932]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

2.3 over performance in one district (D hold), TBD on the other 

Both over performed Biden by ~2.5 points. RED WAVE