Best President ever

[BPPLEE]

It's not an inconvenient fact. They put together a bipartisan team to create the bill, they were appealing to both sides. Unbeknownst to them the Republicans on the bipartisan team were acting in bad faith. They were never going to approve any bipartisan bill. They were just wasting everyone's time. Had no intent to improve the border situation, not under a Democrat administration.
This approach the Republicans have taken creates a dysfunctional government with one side wanting to do thing to make the country better and the other side just trying to make sure nothing gets done regardless if the proposals better the country or not.
One of Biden's biggest downfalls was that he went into his term wanting to reach across the aisle and get things done in a bipartisan manner.

You would have thought he would have learnt better given how the Republicans approached the Obama terms.

Trump on the other hand is ruling by Executive Order and in instances where Congress are required to sign off on things, the Republicans in congress have decided to abdicate their responsibilities by making the rest of the year count as only one calendar day.

I think 3 people worked on the bill. What makes you say the lone Republican did so in bad faith?

Three senators – Oklahoma Republican James Lankford, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy and Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema – spent months crafting a bill that would overhaul immigration policy at the request of Senate Republicans who insisted border security provisions should be included in the foreign aid package.

 

[probinson]

It's not an inconvenient fact.

Yes, it is. The propaganda said that Republicans "blocked" the bill, but it didn't matter one whit what Republicans did if the Democrats would have been able to get the votes in their own party.

They put together a bipartisan team to create the bill, they were appealing to both sides. Unbeknownst to them the Republicans on the bipartisan team were acting in bad faith. They were never going to approve any bipartisan bill. They were just wasting everyone's time. Had no intent to improve the border situation, not under a Democrat administration.

The bottom line is that the Republicans were COMPLETELY POWERLESS to stop the bill from being passed if the Democrats would have stayed united.

This approach the Republicans have taken creates a dysfunctional government with one side wanting to do thing to make the country better and the other side just trying to make sure nothing gets done regardless if the proposals better the country or not.

Unfortunately, you just described what happens when the majorities in the house and senate are a different party than the President.

 

[probinson]

I think 3 people worked on the bill. What makes you say the lone Republican did so in bad faith?

Three senators – Oklahoma Republican James Lankford, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy and Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema – spent months crafting a bill that would overhaul immigration policy at the request of Senate Republicans who insisted border security provisions should be included in the foreign aid package.

And Krysten Sinema, an independent, didn't even vote for the bill.

Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who was one of the lead negotiators on the bipartisan border bill, delivered a scathing speech ahead of the vote on the Senate floor where she criticized both sides of the aisle for “political theater.”​

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Sinema, who voted against the bill this time around, argued that border communities in Arizona are in dire need of real policy solutions and that playing politics with the issue erodes trust in Congress and forces “both parties further to the fringes.”​

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Let's also not forget the Democrats that wouldn't vote for the bill.

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There were also new Democratic defections in this vote on the border bill.​

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“I will not vote for the bill coming to the Senate floor this week because it includes several provisions that will violate Americans’ shared values. These provisions would not make us safe,” Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, said in a statement Tuesday.​

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/politics/senate-border-bill-vote/index.html

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[Pommer]

I never found the primaries all that compelling. As this past year's elections demonstrated, the primaries are mostly for show. The powers-that-be in the party pretty much decide who their candidate will be. I suppose the primaries give voters the illusion of choice, but the Democrats laid bare just how meaningless those elections are.

Well then, we should then go about the business of deciding in which direction our Republic will go.
Seeings as how the House is ready to capitulate the power-of-the-purse to the Executive Branch and the President‘s administration is failing to comply with a judge‘s orders, maybe we ought to consider just letting Trump take all the reins and have at it?

An absolute monarch is clearly out of the question but a Chief Executive with no checks seems a difference without distinction.

 

[BPPLEE]

You are setting an impossible standard. If it hasn't gone through the court system "may" or "could have" is all you are going to get.

It was investigated and may or could have is the most that came of it

 

[stevil]

It was investigated and may or could have is the most that came of it

Well,

The USA voters, and the rest of the world learnt that:
1) The sitting president of USA won't ever be investigated or indicted for crimes
2) The Russians had an expansive and illegal campaign supported by the Russian government to interfere in the USA presidential election and to support Donald Trump in acquiring the presidency
3) there was some coordination and communication between members of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russians.
4) as documented in the Report there were several actions Donald Trump took to obstruct the investigation

 

[FireDragon76]

As has been pointed out, the alternative to Trump would have been the continuation of Biden's policies which would have literally destroyed our economy.

???

Our economy, in terms of GDP, was growing at a modest pace under Biden. On the other hand, our GDP, if things continue under Trump, is set to contract.

Kamala's policies would have led to a form of communism.

Seriously? Do you even understand what Communism is? Markets require some kind of government regulation to function, otherwise you have Somali pirates determining how much of your livelihood you get to keep.

But yeah, in the name of fighting "communism" lets hand government over to billionaire oligarchs who want to sell it all off and burn it down, just so they can enrich their stock portfolios (leaving you and me in the hands of aformentioned Somali pirates). Can you say "Leopards are eating my face"?

 

[XianGoth1334]

???

Our economy, in terms of GDP, was growing at a modest pace under Biden. On the other hand, our GDP, if things continue under Trump, is set to contract.




Seriously? Do you even understand what Communism is? Markets require some kind of government regulation to function, otherwise you have Somali pirates determining how much of your livelihood you get to keep.

But yeah, in the name of fighting "communism" lets hand government over to billionaire oligarchs who want to sell it all off and burn it down, just so they can enrich their stock portfolios (leaving you and me in the hands of aformentioned Somali pirates). Can you say "Leopards are eating my face"?

Food became unaffordable under Biden. My life is ruined because of Biden's economy (which, btw, is directly related to making sure they got as many dangerous illegals to invade America as possible). The ultimate goal of a Harris presidency would have been to make everyone equally poor so that there was no choice but to have the government establish some sort of commie-socialist rule. We are only doing a U-turn on everything now because of the wonderful leadership of President Trump. We will put America First. We will make American great again. We will make America Christian again.

 

[FireDragon76]

My life is ruined because of Biden's economy (which, btw, is directly related to making sure they got as many dangerous illegals to invade America as possible).

I'm older and probably poorer than you, and I could whine even more about how things have gone badly for me in my life. But at least I know a sleazy used car salesman when I see one. Trump is a grifter who couldn't even make money running a casino. He's a two-bit Mussolini who has contempt for ordinary people and only cares about national greatness if it enriches himself and inflates his already massive ego.

The ultimate goal of a Harris presidency would have been to make everyone equally poor so that there was no choice but to have the government establish some sort of commie-socialist rule.

Utter balderdash.

We will make America Christian again.

Now this is the most contestable thing you have written. There is nothing Christian about Trump's agenda. Declaring himself a veritable absolute monarch and surrounding himself with people (like Musk) that are against any kind of real Christian virtue has nothing to do with anything in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.