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Irony being, Trump’s policies don’t address them either.

Did Mexico pay for the wall? How’s that wall working?

Opioids?

People have jobs, making more, higher stock market and yet housing is further out of reach for most, groceries cost more (feels like mine have doubled) the list goes on and on, so I agree people in spite of higher wages and more jobs, have lost. Yet, we have record corporate profits.
This is a chart of corporate profits and as you can see, every President since WW2 has had record corporate profits.

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How could we be so dumb? Some of us were screaming this four years ago but now everyone is calling for a fainting couch?...PULEEEZE

‘Dave’ Predicted the Biden Debacle


In the Nineties film, the president ends up comatose, and his chief of staff secretly hires a body double. These days, the plot feels eerily familiar.

Ever since the Great Debate Debacle—and its successor event, the Stephanopoulos Sit-Down That Could Have Gone Better—Joe Biden’s most fervent supporters have chosen one of two tacks. The first is full-on denial: the president is doing fine, they say! Amazing, even! Any blips in his performance were merely the result of poor preparation, or a cold, or some secret saboteur inside CNN who installed a “ghastly pallor and verbal incoherence” filter on the camera in front of him.

But in the second camp, the one not completely disconnected from reality, an arguably more disturbing idea has emerged: that Biden's fitness for office actually doesn’t matter and never has, because he has good people around him.

Is the president sane? Competent? Entirely alive? You need not ask yourself these questions, because the president is not the president; he’s just a figurehead, more of a mascot, really—like the Geico Gecko of the executive branch. The actual presidency consists of somewhere between five and 50 people, whose identities may or may not be public knowledge, who stand behind or around or sometimes on top of the president and execute the duties of the office according to their collective wisdom. Did you think, when you pulled the lever for Joe Biden in 2020, that you were actually voting for Joe Biden the singular human being? You fool. You absolute imbecile.

But if you’ve ever wondered if those folks are right—if Americans are in fact totally cool with a group of unelected officials pulling strings behind the scenes, while the man known as POTUS watches Dick Van Dyke reruns and drools contentedly into a bowl of creamed corn—may I direct your attention to one of my favorite movies, the 1993 Kevin Kline comedy Dave, in which some devious Washington insiders attempt to do exactly this?

The premise of Dave is simple. When the president has a stroke and ends up comatose, his chief of staff Bob Alexander secretly hires a body double—that’s Dave—to impersonate the president full time. Obviously, hijinks ensue (the scenes between Kline and Ving Rhames as his Secret Service agent are particularly fun) but for our purposes, what matters is Bob, a power-hungry schemer who takes advantage of the president’s incapacitation to veto bills and set agendas and generally keep his corrupt, conniving hands firmly on the levers of power.

But that’s fine, right? After all, Bob is part of the team, handpicked by the president to do exactly this; surely it would trouble nobody to learn that he’d taken over the president’s duties. Except, of course, it’s not fine—as illustrated perfectly in the moment when Dave threatens to reveal their charade to the public.

“The whole press corps is right out there,” he says. “Should I go tell them, or do you want to?”

Bob doesn’t answer. He’s trapped, he knows it—and so do we. It is impossible to watch this movie, this scene, and not understand intuitively that he can’t tell the press what he’s done. That what he’s done is a bad thing. That the American people would absolutely not be comforted by the notion of a shadowy cabal secretly running the country, while the man they voted into office lies comatose in a basement room under the White House.

That’s not what they voted for. That’s not what we vote for.


https://www.thefp.com/p/dave-predicted-biden-debacle


 
I love these guys…😂😂😂😂👍🏽🇺🇸
Janet Yellen Reassures Nation That Biden’s Dementia Is Transitory
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stepped forward on Tuesday to assure the American people that President Joe Biden's dementia is only a transitory issue that will likely resolve itself as election-related bottlenecks begin to clear.

While she did not specify a timeline for when Biden's mental capacity would recover to a normal human functioning level, Yellen was confident in her testimony that the president's ongoing struggles with memory, speech, continence, and basic everyday tasks were merely a short-term issue.

"To be quite honest, any difficulties the president is facing right now — and I'm not sure I'm quite prepared to use the term 'dementia' yet — will almost certainly prove to be transitory and fleeting," Yellen said. "As we go forward into this election season, I have every confidence that President Biden's mental abilities will show a dramatic turnaround in the very near future. Maybe. At some point. Probably."

 
More wasted American taxpayer money that accomplishes nothing but placating Brandon’s left flank and enriching terrorists… Great move….🤦🏽‍♂️😡😡😡😡

Pentagon Says None of Food Aid Moved Through Gaza Pier Has Made It to Palestinians​

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters Tuesday that more than 569 metric tons of aid had been delivered to Gaza via the pier, called a Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore operation, or JLOTS, but that it did not appear that any of it had actually been delivered to the starving residents of Gaza.

Wasn’t foreign policy supposed to be Brandon’s wheel house? As predicted a total disaster and waste of our money….🤦🏽‍♂️😡😡😡👎🏽

Troubled US military pier near Gaza to be permanently removed as soon as next week, US officials say


The US military pier off the coast of Gaza is set to be permanently removed as soon as next week, according to four US officials, after it is reconnected one more time to deliver any remaining humanitarian aid in Cyprus and on the floating dock several miles offshore.

The $230 million temporary pier operation, which has been plagued with problems since its inception, has been at the Israeli port of Ashdod for nearly two weeks because the Pentagon decided sea conditions were too rough for it to operate. Last month marked the third time that the pier has been disconnected from Gaza because of inclement weather.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/poli...be-removed?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_google
 
I’m in awe of Evan Vucci‘s ability to quickly identify and position himself to take photos while bullets are flying.
 
Regardless of who the target is, it's sad that this could happen in the US or any modernized civilization.

Not to mention the bystanders who were killed or injured.

Insurrection, wars, assassination attempts... where is mankind headed? :(
 
Just another trip around the sun…riots, political violence, wars…nothing new…it’s in our nature…the world moves on.🤷🏽‍♂️👍🏽🇺🇸
 
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