Bajden - jedno staro i očekivano presidency?

[Gandalf]

On 19.5.2021. at 13:57, Ivo Petović said:

A danas imamo ovu vest, što je do skoro bilo nezamislivo (ni Berni nikad nije predlagao nešto slično, koliko znam). Trend je jasan.

As Israel’s Dependence on U.S. Shrinks, So Does U.S. Leverage

Israel, a small country surrounded by adversaries and locked in conflict with the Palestinians, depends absolutely on American diplomatic and military support. By giving it, the United States safeguards Israel and wields significant leverage over its actions.

That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway. For decades, it was true: Israeli leaders and voters alike treated Washington as essential to their country’s survival.

But that dependence may be ending. While Israel still benefits greatly from American assistance, security experts and political analysts say that the country has quietly cultivated, and may have achieved, effective autonomy from the United States.

[levi]

 

[ObiW]

Politics in Washington is full of playacting, but few recent charades have been as absurd as the extended negotiation between Democrats and Republicans over whether they can agree on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

 

Here’s where we get to the important part. This is how President Biden would rank those three outcomes in order of his own needs and desires:

 

Bipartisan passage of the bill

Democrats-only passage of the bill

Failure of the bill

 

And here’s how Republicans would rank those outcomes in order of their needs and desires:

 

Failure of the bill

Democrats-only passage of the bill

Bipartisan passage of the bill

 

As you can see, they’re precisely reversed. Which is a big problem if you’re hoping for an agreement.

 

In sum, bipartisanship is in Biden’s interest, but it is most assuredly not in Republicans’ interest. They must surely be tickled pink about the fact that reporters constantly grill the White House about whether the president is being sufficiently bipartisan, but seldom ask Republicans what they’re doing to compromise and seek cooperation.

 

Hold on, you might say: Why am I not giving Republicans more credit for sincerely wanting infrastructure to happen? Don’t their constituents need better roads and sewer systems and broadband? Wouldn’t they like to see those people’s lives improved?

 

Sure they would. But if their sincere desire for infrastructure held any real power for them — if it was more than just “I guess we could do that, but I’m not going to put much effort into it” — then they would have done it when Donald Trump was president .

 

That’s what this comes down to: There is no outcome, substantive or political, that Republicans would rather have than to see the infrastructure bill go down in flames. Democrats could let them write every word of it, and that would still be true.

 

Which is why there will be no bipartisanship on this subject. And on every other important piece of legislation during the Biden presidency, the calculation will be just the same.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/25/hidden-truth-that-explains-why-republicans-dont-want-an-infrastructure-deal/

Edited May 26, 2021 by ObiW

[mustang]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMev46bFX/

 

[dragance]

4 hours ago, mustang said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMev46bFX/

 

Zar to nije ismevao Tramparu koji je to rekao? Osim što se zajebao pa rekao stable Jesus, umesto stable genius.

[Indy]

On 26.5.2021. at 0:42, Gandalf said:

But that dependence may be ending

[mustang]

https://www.rt.com/usa/524973-biden-budget-six-trillion/

 

Sloba da pozavidi

 

https://www.rebelnews.com/russell_brand_blasts_big_tech_democratic_party_for_working_to_censor_hunter_biden_story

 

I tako... Prica je nebitna. Kakav hunter, kakvi bakraci

 

https://www.rt.com/business/524934-us-stimulus-china-max-keiser/

 

Pre neki dan kazem coveku, kolegi, da smo mi United States of China i da sve pare idu tamo anyway. 

 

 

[ObiW]

Opa "povredili nam suverenitet"

malo prc prc prc malo kme kme kme

 

US destroyer backs up Biden's tough words in South China Sea

 

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Hong Kong(CNN)A United States Navy warship sailed near disputed Beijing-controlled islands in the South China Sea on Thursday -- just hours after US President Joe Biden said the US must protect open access to the waterway.

 

The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur performed what the US Navy calls a "freedom of navigation" operation near the Paracel Islands, asserting "navigational rights and freedoms... consistent with international law," Lt. j.g. Nicholas Lingo, spokesperson for the US 7th Fleet, said in a statement.

 

China calls the Paracels, in the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, the Xisha Islands. They have been under Beijing's control for more than four decades -- despite competing claims from Vietnam and Taiwan -- and China has fortified them with military installations.

 

Beijing, which claims almost all of the South China Sea as its territory, said the movement of the US warship violated its sovereignty.

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by ObiW

[mustang]

 

Napokin ozbiljno pitanje od novinara 

[ObiW]

 

[ObiW]

Trump wanted a quick tax break. His appointees are now stuck with big bills.

 

It’s a little-noticed addendum to Trump’s much-criticized plan last summer to prime the economy.

 

In August, he issued an executive order allowing employers to put off paying their workers’ share of the 12.4 percent Social Security tax for the rest of the year. The idea was to boost consumer spending by putting more money in the pockets of millions.

 

But the initiative was widely rejected by private sector employers, in part because they feared workers would be unprepared to pay the money back.

 

It was mandatory, though, for federal employees making less than $4,000 per biweekly paycheck, and the government began implementing it in September.

 

Trump said many times he expected Congress to eventually forgive the debts. Lawmakers didn’t do that, though they did agree to give people more time to pay the money back.

 

“If the indebtedness is not paid in full within 30 calendar days, we intend to forward this debt to the Department of Treasury, Treasury offset program, for further collection,” reads one letter to a former White House official, demanding she pay $1,500.

 

That has left some shocked and angry.

One former official called her $1,300 bill “unacceptable,” saying she and her colleagues “gave our time and effort to this agency and this is how we’re getting paid back.”

 

A White House spokesperson noted Biden did not support the payroll tax plan.

 

“President Biden campaigned vigorously last year against the former Administration’s payroll tax plan because it would’ve jeopardized the retirement benefits of hard-working Americans, and the country agreed — sending him to the White House,” said Mike Gwin.

 

“Now in office, the President has been focused on getting economic relief to the Americans who actually need it the most, and on successfully getting our economy back on track.”

[mustang]

https://www.rt.com/usa/525109-hunter-biden-laptop/

 

 

Najbolji sin na svetu, da ga svaka majka i snajka pozeli.... 

[mustang]

https://news.yahoo.com/u-drivers-hit-soaring-pump-100253218.html

 

Ukrali ste, sad trpite 

 

Eee za tramparino vreme nikad nizi benzin.... Srecom te je meni sve walking distance anyway. 

[mustang]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/28/costco-is-seeing-inflation-abound-impacting-a-slew-of-consumer-products.html

 

Kao sto rekoh....a tek je pocetak... 

[NevenMan]

5 hours ago, mustang said:

https://news.yahoo.com/u-drivers-hit-soaring-pump-100253218.html

 

Ukrali ste, sad trpite 

 

Eee za tramparino vreme nikad nizi benzin.... Srecom te je meni sve walking distance anyway. 

kme kme kme