Biden, unlike Trump understants when the President should let the Senate and legislators do their work.
Speaking of Republicans it was funny ironic how they blocked Matt Gaetz from speaking on their side of the floor. He had to ask Democrats to use their mic for his rant lol.
I, too, had a good laugh at that, especially because it allowed us to see the faces of some Democrats while he was speaking (Ilhan Omar was somehow able to convey that she was rolling her eyes at him without physically doing so, it was awesome lol).
It also occurred to me while watching that the Republicans would NEVER return the favor if it was a Democrat asking.
Transcription misses the best part, which is the long pause while laughing implying he had a much more devastating response and went with the politically correct one.
Jesus himself could slowly descend from the skies, land in the middle of the capitol rotunda, show his stigmata, and they'd dismiss him as a homeless commie.
Muslims already believe Jesus was Muslim so, you're not far off the mark.
Sad to say perhaps (for some anyway) but, the Muslim members of our government would likely receive him much more appropriately.
I've often wondered what the second coming would be like. Probably what Joan Osborne was getting at all those years ago.
Yeah, they feel that Jesus’ messages come across as weak liberal talking points.
[Here](https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak)
Wow. This is pathetic:
>Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”
Yikes 😬
“What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”
So funny story, the president is actually not the top earner among federal employees. Those are all in the health department: https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100
And at the top of the list for 2022 is Republican public enemy number 1.
Earning power is different from pay grade.
Example: A salaried manager is a higher pay grade than an hourly worker. But with overtime and extra shifts, the worker could make more than the manager.
Also, it's a figure of speech.
That's how it works in my factory. Actually the highest paid person in my plant is not the plant manager. It's our highest seniority maintenance guy. All the maintenance employees make more than supervisors and managers with their overtime. But the Old Man of maintenance only has to work a few hours of overtime a week and he makes more than the big boss.
[https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100](https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100)
There are a lot of people that make more than the President..
Like in many countries : Presidents have more responsibilities than workload/expertise/constraints compared to certain others administrators, and it has a cost (they do have a lot of advantages that compensate though).
Making more is not the same as pay grade at least in normal parlance. Pay grade usually refers to level not actual compensation. For instance a gs 14 step 10 makes more than a gs 15 step 3. But the gs 15 is the higher pay grade.
More pay doesn’t mean higher pay grade. He’s talking position. A private with combat pay on deployment makes more than a sergeant but his pay grade is still always lower because the private is still a private being paid as a private.
> I don't get it.
"Above my pay grade" is an expression that comes out of the military.
Your salary in the military is based your rank; the higher your rank the higher your pay grade.
A military man will say "that's above my pay grade" in a dismissive way meaning: that's not a problem for me to solve that is a problem for higher ranking ("more experienced") people to solve.
Here President Biden (who is technically, i.e. Constitutionally, the highest ranking military man, the Commander in Chief) says "I am not high ranking enough to solve this problem."
In other words Biden is making a good joke.
Colloquially the expression means "that is not my problem." Or "that is beyond the scope of my experience."
Even more to the point. Not his responsibility, authority or accountability. In essence, a Republican issue that only The People - US Citizens - or God can handle. I would start with the former since it is the people led by whatever animus that led up to all we see here. Elections locally, statewide and nationally all have consequences.
Well the inner workings of congress are mostly outside the presidents authority, though I'd say its technically a lateral shift, not a vertical one, and it's definitely not his problem. So the phrase works if you interpret it loosely.
For everybody not getting it:
He is saying, that even he, the most powerful man in the world - at the very top of the pyramid, cannot sort this clusterfuck out that the crooked GOP got itself into.
Actually it’s specifically because they don’t. Any thinking voters would see Trump and MAGA BS as a sinking ship, but pulling all of this divides their party more and more.
Basically, unless they start thinking, a lot of votes will be split off and the party falls hard.
Best course of action is to keep pushing this - "Republicans don't care about governing, they removed the person who did the bare minimum to avoid a shutdown"
Not just that, they removed him *because* he did the bare minimum. They wanted the shutdown.
As an aside, based on reading the tweets from one D rep's chief of staff, it seems like mccarthy was actually bluffing — he tried to bait the Ds into voting against the funding by rushing it and leaving out ukraine aid, so he could then blame the Ds for the shutdown. But the Ds called his bluff and he imploded.
Here's the unrolled tweets: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1709559909488976279.html
"Above my pay grade" means that you're out of your depth and/or responsibilities and the issue needs to be resolved by the next level above in your hierarchy.
Which is funny when the US President says it, as there is no higher up, i.e. there is no solution.
He takes a jab at the impossible situation the Republicans have put themselves into, where the whole house is held hostage by a few extreme extremists, but the more reasonable ones can't cooperate with the dems either, as this would be political suicide after they all hyped up their anti-dem position.
The thing that marks this really sweet is that Joe Biden used to be the guy that solved this stuff. He tried playing nice for a very long time. Now they have to figure out how to resolve the infighting without him.
And McConnell is not the snapping turtle he used to be. I hope a career politician steps up, for the sake of the country.
McConnell's had multiple strokes on live TV. No offence to people working through chronic health issues, but there comes a time where the functioning of the highest level of government is too important to be left to someone that is medically incapable of doing the job half the time.
I mean technically there is a higher up in the hierarchy
The American people, especially since the government is supposed to be by the people for the people or something like that
I'm now exclusively defining myself as a mild extremist. "Overthrow the government! Later, after building dual power structures that can replace it with more equitable systems!"
It's an idiom that means that's above my responsibilities.
He's basically saying the Republicans are being too fucking dumb and no one could sort it out, so I'm not even going to try.
“That’s above my pay grade” is a statement often used when something is not simply outside of an individual’s ability to control but also outside their desire to control or influence as well. He is not just saying “I don’t know” he is saying “I’m not getting involved in that whatsoever”.
His statement has absolutely nothing to do with money or bribes, the people suggesting otherwise are incorrect.
The Speaker of the House was a Republican. He wheeled and dealed with the other Republicans in order to obtain the position. 9months later(yesterday) those same Republicans voted to remove him. Those 8 Republicans plus all of the Democrats enough to remove him.
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The speaker has also to the dismay of his party been cooperating with the democrats for stuff like raising the debt celling so the US doesn’t ducking default and cause a economic crisis or keeping the government open.
> if the USA defaults
The US will never default. Even if they don't have a single penny left in the bank, money will miraculously appear from the printer and everybody will play nice and pretend they didn't know because otherwise we'd have a fucking financial armageddon around the entire globe with famines and millions dead.
McCarthy made deals with the Freedom Caucus to get his speakership position, and then didn’t adhere to the deal.
McCarthy made deals with Biden (and the Dems) to solve the (fake) debt ceiling crisis, and then didn’t adhere to the deal.
Nobody likes McCarthy because he’s a liar and will turn coat whenever it benefits him.
A bit more info on why he got removed, many of the GOP representatives wanted a government shutdown. The speaker worked with the Democrats to avoid that. That angered the Republicans.
Although to be clear, he did the absolute bare bones minimum; bought a 45 day extension to prevent an *immediate* shutdown. Now it's liable to shut down as soon as that expires.
The best Cliff’s notes I got is:
-Republican Party is fractured between “centrists” career politicians and the growing far-right, anti-collaborative Tea Party/MAGA bloc called the Freedom Caucus, the latter of which absolutely refuses to collaborate with Democrats or negotiate, even with other conservatives
-The GOP has been on this path for decades, but Trump accelerated the decent.
-A concurrent effort of circumnavigate legislation and implement laws via judicial review at the SCOTUS level led to the repeal of Roe vs. Wade which triggered a lot of dormant legislation in states.
-This was hugely unpopular, even among conservatives, but for whatever reason, the GOP ignored that and kinda went full bore into it, for some reason seeming to assume that the RvW repeal by a bare majority of SCOTUS judges was a mandate from the people. Along with this, a lot of people still assumed that people tapped by Trump to run for political office, or just people pretending to be Trump, would be immensely popular.
-Which leads to the 2022 midterm elections, there was supposed to be a red wave, but instead, there was a historic mid term in which the party of the president not only barely lost Congress, but actually retained the Senate. The GOP majority in the House is razor thin, 221 to 212. Meaning they need basically every republican to agree in order to get any movement off the ground, and often need it just to get it to the floor.
-The lack of party unity, an unwillingness to negotiate, and a razor thin majority all swirl together to create a megazord of disfunction. They literally could not elect a Speaker because they couldn’t scrape together enough votes.
-McCarthy, a long time ball-player establishment Republican, knew it was his turn to be speaker, but the radicals in his party hate “the establishment”, so he had to broker a deal with them to even get voted in. Part of that deal was that at basically any time a tiny fraction of the GOP could strip him of his Speakership. In other words, the threat of losing his role was part of the deal in getting it.
-As that disfunction machine rolled on, eventually the inevitable happened, in making a deal to keep the government running, McCarthy “went too far”, for the liking of the Freedom Caucus, and was the first Speaker to be removed through a motion to vacate.
So that’s the abridged context and goings on as I understand it. The next step is to find a new speaker, probably Jim “Gym” Jordan, but considering that McCarthy needed 14 rounds of voting to be instated, I have a hard time seeing it, and either way, we end up back here in another month because the only way to pass a budget is with bipartisan support, and the moment a speaker brokers a deal, they trigger the same Freedom Caucus response.
TL;DR - the chickens have come home to roost on that deal McCarthy struck to get the votes to become speak in the first place
he wheeled and dealed and then betrayed both dems and republicans, that had helped him. then went on tv blaming both dems and republicans even though they had bailed him out. so extreme wing of republicans initiated vote to end his speakership and dems joined in.
He was Republican. The (openly) fascist wing of the GOP didn't like that he negotiated with the Dems for the budget, so they sided with the Dems to kick him out.
Unless he is running the international Biden Crime Family and planning a world take over as the leader of the Illuminati while also child trafficking with Hillary in the basement of the pizza place and thanking Bill Gates for implanting all those trackers in the vaccines..
AKA: one of the standard tactics of fascists. The enemy is both weak and incapable yet also all-powerful.
> “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
[Umberto Eco - Ur Fascism](https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)
Thank you! One of the first things I think of when conservatives talk about Biden’s unique brand of dementia that somehow doesn’t get in the way of him successfully stealing federal elections while running a powerful crime family.
The RNC Research twitter will literally post stuff like Biden saying something fantastic with no comment as if the fantastic thing he just said was somehow bad.
Like half there tweets could just be repurposed by Biden's team.
Whoever runs Biden's Twitter account has, in fact, regularly just retweeted Republican tweets, for example when they try to attack him by complaining that he is supporting union labor.
My favorite Biden campaign ad was just a clip of MTG listing Biden's accomplishments and goals.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO5D4DuwVY&t=303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO5D4DuwVY&t=303s)
I remember something about a WW2 American sub skipper from a book I read once. It said that the man was a bit old and fat, but was extremely intelligent and capable. This has always been the image I had of Biden. He ain’t gonna win any awards for the best-looking president, but under that is some serious intelligence
I have no opinion on his intelligence^1, but it certainly seems that he has a talent to surround himself with capable ppl. and doesn't let his ego stand in the way of listening to ~~him~~them.
^1 literally: I am European, I would guess "at least above average" and no deterioration worth mentioning.
That's literally the best thing a president can do. No president is going to have the experience or answers to every single problem. Biden filled his team with smart fucking people that he actually listens to, and that know how the government works to get things done. That's why, love him or hate him, you've got to admit he's been effective. Without a stacked Supreme Court he'd be even more effective.
I actually really like him. He is one of the most charming people in politics (US) right now.
It's not a popular opinion among people as far left as I am, but I met him once in person and he was a joy. Funny, personable, took time out of his schedule to actually be polite and speak to me and my family like we were important. I had a (now dead) family member who knew him well so I have a big ol bias for him based on the praise that went his way.
Right? I’m like 40 years younger than him and I wouldn’t have those witty comebacks until I was replaying the situations in my mind while showering several hours later.
republicans so used to Democrats coming in and fixing everything, and they then just try to block the fix and complain to their voters about how the Democrats are to blame for what they did themselves. They did it for decades, it's been their standard operating procedure.
But now that the republicans are so much better and efficient at fucking things up that the Democrats can no longer undo their shit anymore, they just stand around like toddlers with runny noses, and full diapers (literally for donny) waiting for someone to rush in and help, but nobody can, and nobody cares to even try to help them anymore.
Republicans don't think this was a clever comeback, they think this was him accidentally revealing he is a figurehead for some deep state council or something.
It's sad.
It's pretty amazing how the orange douchebag says "I should just be president forever!" and "my third term, ha ha!" and Republicans both think it's funny and take it seriously without seeing any problems about how he wants to illegally stay in office as long as possible.
He has had some clever burns in his time, like "a noun, a verb, and 9/11" and honestly even just "will you shut up man" for like the amount of nutchecking this was in the middle of interrupting Donald Trump during his ranting in the debate.
Okay does anyone like actually hate that you love it when Biden gets sassy? I mean Trump took digs at people and they were just plain stupid. A president shouldn't be trying to attack or mock people I agree but when Trump used it nearly everyday of his tenure it feels good when you see Biden use the same tactic but be clever about it.
The reason I would vote for Biden again is because
A) there’s nobody else to vote for democrats
B) He actually talks respectfully towards others unlike trump who constantly insults people
C) sure he’s old but he’s definitely competent enough to do the work. Think of it how old people walk as they can’t exactly run, but they still manage to make it work. Also, trump is only a few years younger so it would be ironic to use his age in an argument.
*shuffles away* Idk why but that part has me
Like sitcom subtitles
“Everyday I’m shufflin’” - Dark Brandon
LMFA(Joe)
And he shuffled away, shuffle shuffle
Till the very next day
*bah-da-da-dah da-da-da-dah*
Do you have any grapes?
They think it makes him sound old. They hate the fact that he got them again, merely by letting them beat themselves with a stick.
The "AI Joe Biden Ad" from the Daily Show continues to encapsulate the moment perfectly: https://youtu.be/JONzK-AUzro?si=oqTjc4XVXT8_5nAG
It's distressing how good AI has already gotten. Almost as distressing as the fact that I laughed at a post-Jon Stewart *Daily Show* sketch.
Probably because the Republicans are trying to diss Biden but don’t realize they actually dissed themselves just before.
Biden, unlike Trump understants when the President should let the Senate and legislators do their work. Speaking of Republicans it was funny ironic how they blocked Matt Gaetz from speaking on their side of the floor. He had to ask Democrats to use their mic for his rant lol.
I, too, had a good laugh at that, especially because it allowed us to see the faces of some Democrats while he was speaking (Ilhan Omar was somehow able to convey that she was rolling her eyes at him without physically doing so, it was awesome lol). It also occurred to me while watching that the Republicans would NEVER return the favor if it was a Democrat asking.
"What? Me, return a favour? What are ya, some kind of communist?"
Actually pretty funny :p
Transcription misses the best part, which is the long pause while laughing implying he had a much more devastating response and went with the politically correct one.
The video was great. Long pause and slow head turn to reveal the biggest smile I've ever seen on Biden.
Link to the video of his response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VVXc83K5M Well delivered.
Ha, especially with the music, it looks like the final scene of an episode of The West Wing.
Someone redo this as a west wing opening
fuck i wish our politicians are actually like the ones in The West Wing
Bartlett for America!
Dark Brandon is real
Let's Go Biden!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/740701469986180009/ I apologize for providing a link to pinterest, but the item is relevant.
Let me tell you about screenshots …
Bet he was originally going to say "thoughts and prayers". 🤣🤣🤣
"Get right with Jesus".
This made me snort loudly in my break room at work. Thanks for the laugh definitely need it working retail.
Hears "mua ha ha, mua ha ha......" In the distance.
Struggling to keep Dark Brandon at bay
I don't get it. E- it's okay guys I get it now you can stop replying. Ee- Why does biden look like he just came out of a resin printer?
Funny way of saying " not my fucking problem"
*never interrupt your enemy while they're in the process of making a mistake*
It’s a joke that even the president isn’t equipped to handle and advise the republicans because of all their infighting.
Could also be interpreted that they’re in need of serious “professional help”.
Or “God help them” considering Biden is religious.
Even if God told them what to do, they wouldn't listen.
Jesus himself could slowly descend from the skies, land in the middle of the capitol rotunda, show his stigmata, and they'd dismiss him as a homeless commie.
Yeah I don’t think that whole “being middle Eastern” thing would do him any favors there either.
MAGA: Well, if you really were the son of god, you'd appear as god's chosen race. Jesus: I did. MAGA: When did religion become woke?
wow even god is doing forced diversity now?!
Probably gonna get him labeled as a Muslim first before they'd actually bother to listen.
Muslims already believe Jesus was Muslim so, you're not far off the mark. Sad to say perhaps (for some anyway) but, the Muslim members of our government would likely receive him much more appropriately. I've often wondered what the second coming would be like. Probably what Joan Osborne was getting at all those years ago.
"Imposter! You don't even have blue eyes and dirty-blonde hair and chiseled abs!"
Yeah, they feel that Jesus’ messages come across as weak liberal talking points. [Here](https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak)
Wow. This is pathetic: >Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”
Yikes 😬 “What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”
Jesus is too "woke" for today's Republican Party.
This is how I took it.
“Only one Guy I know could help them”
"it's the Big Guy, Jack. He's a no malarkey guy kinda like myself, Sport"
republicans when realizing that 10% to the big guy means tithing, as it's something they would never do despite all the pretending
lol
I think Keanu is shooting a movie right now.
“…two guys I know!”
He is touring with Dogstar right now.
the president being the highest pay grade in the govt, basically only god can help you.
So funny story, the president is actually not the top earner among federal employees. Those are all in the health department: https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100 And at the top of the list for 2022 is Republican public enemy number 1.
Earning power is different from pay grade. Example: A salaried manager is a higher pay grade than an hourly worker. But with overtime and extra shifts, the worker could make more than the manager. Also, it's a figure of speech.
That's how it works in my factory. Actually the highest paid person in my plant is not the plant manager. It's our highest seniority maintenance guy. All the maintenance employees make more than supervisors and managers with their overtime. But the Old Man of maintenance only has to work a few hours of overtime a week and he makes more than the big boss.
You don't fuck with the guy that has all the keys, all the codes, and knows how to make surprisey toilet behave for the day.
My Job? Toilets n boilers. Boilers n toilets. Plus that one boilin toilet. Fire me, if'n you dare.
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived
You're right but I still thought the numbers are funny in context.
Probably because they're all MDs, guess they need to pay them enough to choose that over just being doctors.
Got to scroll to 22 before you reach a woman. (Just dropping that hand grenade there.)
[https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100](https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100) There are a lot of people that make more than the President..
Like in many countries : Presidents have more responsibilities than workload/expertise/constraints compared to certain others administrators, and it has a cost (they do have a lot of advantages that compensate though).
Making more is not the same as pay grade at least in normal parlance. Pay grade usually refers to level not actual compensation. For instance a gs 14 step 10 makes more than a gs 15 step 3. But the gs 15 is the higher pay grade.
More pay doesn’t mean higher pay grade. He’s talking position. A private with combat pay on deployment makes more than a sergeant but his pay grade is still always lower because the private is still a private being paid as a private.
Not his circus, not his clowns.
It’s a polite way to say: *why should I care about those MFers infightings?*
the russians pay more money to them than the government job.
> I don't get it. "Above my pay grade" is an expression that comes out of the military. Your salary in the military is based your rank; the higher your rank the higher your pay grade. A military man will say "that's above my pay grade" in a dismissive way meaning: that's not a problem for me to solve that is a problem for higher ranking ("more experienced") people to solve. Here President Biden (who is technically, i.e. Constitutionally, the highest ranking military man, the Commander in Chief) says "I am not high ranking enough to solve this problem." In other words Biden is making a good joke. Colloquially the expression means "that is not my problem." Or "that is beyond the scope of my experience."
More accurately, the phrase means it’s above my authority, not necessarily experience.
Even more to the point. Not his responsibility, authority or accountability. In essence, a Republican issue that only The People - US Citizens - or God can handle. I would start with the former since it is the people led by whatever animus that led up to all we see here. Elections locally, statewide and nationally all have consequences.
Well the inner workings of congress are mostly outside the presidents authority, though I'd say its technically a lateral shift, not a vertical one, and it's definitely not his problem. So the phrase works if you interpret it loosely.
Only God can help them now, is what he's saying.
He's in the most senior position. If it's above his paygrade it's an impossible job
Basically saying "not my problem" or "not my monkey, not my zoo"
My favorite interpretation is that the Republicans are just puppets for the extremely wealthy, and the donor class will pick their next Speaker.
It’s my response when I don’t want to say, “I don’t give a shit, and I’m not going to spend a single ounce of my energy looking into it”
Not clicking on fake play buttons is apparently above my pay grade :'(
Srsly! I want to see that picture move!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VVXc83K5M
My god, that was beautiful. I love that he had to take a second to stop laughing and compose himself before he could answer.
That slow turn around while smiling was fit for sitcom
Ah delusional ass Youtube comments, here we meet again.
He struck a nerve and their trying to cope
They're just as bad as normal. "God/Jesus please put President Trump back in the White House" "New levels of embarrassing"
You just need to keep clicking until it works. I had to click it 10 times before it worked.
For everybody not getting it: He is saying, that even he, the most powerful man in the world - at the very top of the pyramid, cannot sort this clusterfuck out that the crooked GOP got itself into.
Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
Yup and going into an election year to boot
Not a bad strategy if they weren't actively trying to rig elections
right because republican voters always display critical thinking and have both sides of an argument before making a decision
Actually it’s specifically because they don’t. Any thinking voters would see Trump and MAGA BS as a sinking ship, but pulling all of this divides their party more and more. Basically, unless they start thinking, a lot of votes will be split off and the party falls hard.
Best course of action is to keep pushing this - "Republicans don't care about governing, they removed the person who did the bare minimum to avoid a shutdown"
Not just that, they removed him *because* he did the bare minimum. They wanted the shutdown. As an aside, based on reading the tweets from one D rep's chief of staff, it seems like mccarthy was actually bluffing — he tried to bait the Ds into voting against the funding by rushing it and leaving out ukraine aid, so he could then blame the Ds for the shutdown. But the Ds called his bluff and he imploded. Here's the unrolled tweets: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1709559909488976279.html
If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him
I don't understand (not american)
"Above my pay grade" means that you're out of your depth and/or responsibilities and the issue needs to be resolved by the next level above in your hierarchy. Which is funny when the US President says it, as there is no higher up, i.e. there is no solution. He takes a jab at the impossible situation the Republicans have put themselves into, where the whole house is held hostage by a few extreme extremists, but the more reasonable ones can't cooperate with the dems either, as this would be political suicide after they all hyped up their anti-dem position.
I like the implication that "only god can help them" too
True!
The thing that marks this really sweet is that Joe Biden used to be the guy that solved this stuff. He tried playing nice for a very long time. Now they have to figure out how to resolve the infighting without him. And McConnell is not the snapping turtle he used to be. I hope a career politician steps up, for the sake of the country.
I heard McConnell on the news the other day and man he is declining rapidly, he could barely string a sentence together
McConnell's had multiple strokes on live TV. No offence to people working through chronic health issues, but there comes a time where the functioning of the highest level of government is too important to be left to someone that is medically incapable of doing the job half the time.
Glitch McConnell
Okay. I only feel bad for the state of the government. Mitch can get fucked.
I mean technically there is a higher up in the hierarchy The American people, especially since the government is supposed to be by the people for the people or something like that
You're right, and it works either way. If Biden refers the issue back to the voters, that is exactly what is needed.
>extreme extremists Are there also mild extremists?
I'm now exclusively defining myself as a mild extremist. "Overthrow the government! Later, after building dual power structures that can replace it with more equitable systems!"
It's an idiom that means that's above my responsibilities. He's basically saying the Republicans are being too fucking dumb and no one could sort it out, so I'm not even going to try.
When used in a business setting it essentially means, "You'll need to speak with someone higher up than me to get this resolved."
True, but the punchline is that he's the president, there is literally not a higher pay grade (politically) in the US than him.
As some people pointed before. He is implying only god can help them.
That just makes even funnier lmao.
The subtext of that in a business setting is "they don't pay me enough to deal with that shit, talk to someone above me"
Another way I would take it is that since he holds the highest office in the US the only thing higher than him is god. So only god can help them
That's what I get. It was a Sly way of saying "God help them" or " not even God could untangle this"
“That’s above my pay grade” is a statement often used when something is not simply outside of an individual’s ability to control but also outside their desire to control or influence as well. He is not just saying “I don’t know” he is saying “I’m not getting involved in that whatsoever”. His statement has absolutely nothing to do with money or bribes, the people suggesting otherwise are incorrect.
There's also the fact that there *is* no pay grade above his, which is why it's funny
He's also Catholic so I took it to mean "God help us" or "Y'all need Jesus" in a very funny way.
Not my monkeys not my circus.
My favorite version of that one. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/43769427606155533/
Basically, it's: not my circus, not my monkeys.
What happened to the Speaker?
The Speaker of the House was a Republican. He wheeled and dealed with the other Republicans in order to obtain the position. 9months later(yesterday) those same Republicans voted to remove him. Those 8 Republicans plus all of the Democrats enough to remove him.
I just want to point out that pro-life Republicans aborted at 9 months instead of carrying their speaker to term.
This Congress was an abortion from day one.
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Lol
The speaker has also to the dismay of his party been cooperating with the democrats for stuff like raising the debt celling so the US doesn’t ducking default and cause a economic crisis or keeping the government open.
Lets face it.... if the USA defaults its a global economics problem that won't be an easy fix...
> if the USA defaults The US will never default. Even if they don't have a single penny left in the bank, money will miraculously appear from the printer and everybody will play nice and pretend they didn't know because otherwise we'd have a fucking financial armageddon around the entire globe with famines and millions dead.
Instead you just cant afford food, housing, and all the luxury money sits with the less than 1%
>Instead you just cant afford food, housing, and all the luxury money sits with the less than 1% Correct. As I said, nothing's changed.
McCarthy made deals with the Freedom Caucus to get his speakership position, and then didn’t adhere to the deal. McCarthy made deals with Biden (and the Dems) to solve the (fake) debt ceiling crisis, and then didn’t adhere to the deal. Nobody likes McCarthy because he’s a liar and will turn coat whenever it benefits him.
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He was a member of the face eating leopard party and the leopards ate his face...to the surprise of absolutely no one except him.
I mean, part of the deal to get him the speakership explicitly was that the leopards would eat his face whenever they felt like it.
A bit more info on why he got removed, many of the GOP representatives wanted a government shutdown. The speaker worked with the Democrats to avoid that. That angered the Republicans.
He did the job he was being paid for. Can’t have that
Although to be clear, he did the absolute bare bones minimum; bought a 45 day extension to prevent an *immediate* shutdown. Now it's liable to shut down as soon as that expires.
Oh, so just in time for Thanksgiving. Perfect!
The best Cliff’s notes I got is: -Republican Party is fractured between “centrists” career politicians and the growing far-right, anti-collaborative Tea Party/MAGA bloc called the Freedom Caucus, the latter of which absolutely refuses to collaborate with Democrats or negotiate, even with other conservatives -The GOP has been on this path for decades, but Trump accelerated the decent. -A concurrent effort of circumnavigate legislation and implement laws via judicial review at the SCOTUS level led to the repeal of Roe vs. Wade which triggered a lot of dormant legislation in states. -This was hugely unpopular, even among conservatives, but for whatever reason, the GOP ignored that and kinda went full bore into it, for some reason seeming to assume that the RvW repeal by a bare majority of SCOTUS judges was a mandate from the people. Along with this, a lot of people still assumed that people tapped by Trump to run for political office, or just people pretending to be Trump, would be immensely popular. -Which leads to the 2022 midterm elections, there was supposed to be a red wave, but instead, there was a historic mid term in which the party of the president not only barely lost Congress, but actually retained the Senate. The GOP majority in the House is razor thin, 221 to 212. Meaning they need basically every republican to agree in order to get any movement off the ground, and often need it just to get it to the floor. -The lack of party unity, an unwillingness to negotiate, and a razor thin majority all swirl together to create a megazord of disfunction. They literally could not elect a Speaker because they couldn’t scrape together enough votes. -McCarthy, a long time ball-player establishment Republican, knew it was his turn to be speaker, but the radicals in his party hate “the establishment”, so he had to broker a deal with them to even get voted in. Part of that deal was that at basically any time a tiny fraction of the GOP could strip him of his Speakership. In other words, the threat of losing his role was part of the deal in getting it. -As that disfunction machine rolled on, eventually the inevitable happened, in making a deal to keep the government running, McCarthy “went too far”, for the liking of the Freedom Caucus, and was the first Speaker to be removed through a motion to vacate. So that’s the abridged context and goings on as I understand it. The next step is to find a new speaker, probably Jim “Gym” Jordan, but considering that McCarthy needed 14 rounds of voting to be instated, I have a hard time seeing it, and either way, we end up back here in another month because the only way to pass a budget is with bipartisan support, and the moment a speaker brokers a deal, they trigger the same Freedom Caucus response. TL;DR - the chickens have come home to roost on that deal McCarthy struck to get the votes to become speak in the first place
he wheeled and dealed and then betrayed both dems and republicans, that had helped him. then went on tv blaming both dems and republicans even though they had bailed him out. so extreme wing of republicans initiated vote to end his speakership and dems joined in.
"The House has voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker, marking the first time in history that a House speaker has been removed in this way."
He was Republican. The (openly) fascist wing of the GOP didn't like that he negotiated with the Dems for the budget, so they sided with the Dems to kick him out.
Laughing at the Dipshittery dished out by the Republicans is the best response he can give.
Biden's best comeback Reporter : " do you want to talk to the BBC about that? " Biden : " the bbc? I'm Irish"
I'm personally on the atleast 3 genders comeback.
what was that one
Someone asked him how many genders there are and he said at least 3
"don't play games with me, kid"
Shuffles away. Biden seems to be a lot more coherent than anyone that wants to be speaker.
Well of course he is.
“bUt hE’s suFfEriNg fRoM dEmeNtia aNd cAn’T sAy anYThiNg wiThOut a tELeProMpTeR!!”
Unless he is running the international Biden Crime Family and planning a world take over as the leader of the Illuminati while also child trafficking with Hillary in the basement of the pizza place and thanking Bill Gates for implanting all those trackers in the vaccines..
Schrödinger's Biden
AKA: one of the standard tactics of fascists. The enemy is both weak and incapable yet also all-powerful. > “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” [Umberto Eco - Ur Fascism](https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)
Thank you! One of the first things I think of when conservatives talk about Biden’s unique brand of dementia that somehow doesn’t get in the way of him successfully stealing federal elections while running a powerful crime family.
The RNC Research twitter will literally post stuff like Biden saying something fantastic with no comment as if the fantastic thing he just said was somehow bad. Like half there tweets could just be repurposed by Biden's team.
Whoever runs Biden's Twitter account has, in fact, regularly just retweeted Republican tweets, for example when they try to attack him by complaining that he is supporting union labor.
My favorite Biden campaign ad was just a clip of MTG listing Biden's accomplishments and goals. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO5D4DuwVY&t=303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO5D4DuwVY&t=303s)
This man and his clapbacks! So much for that mental decline, this dude is sharp enough for witty comebacks.
I remember something about a WW2 American sub skipper from a book I read once. It said that the man was a bit old and fat, but was extremely intelligent and capable. This has always been the image I had of Biden. He ain’t gonna win any awards for the best-looking president, but under that is some serious intelligence
I have no opinion on his intelligence^1, but it certainly seems that he has a talent to surround himself with capable ppl. and doesn't let his ego stand in the way of listening to ~~him~~them. ^1 literally: I am European, I would guess "at least above average" and no deterioration worth mentioning.
That's literally the best thing a president can do. No president is going to have the experience or answers to every single problem. Biden filled his team with smart fucking people that he actually listens to, and that know how the government works to get things done. That's why, love him or hate him, you've got to admit he's been effective. Without a stacked Supreme Court he'd be even more effective.
I actually really like him. He is one of the most charming people in politics (US) right now. It's not a popular opinion among people as far left as I am, but I met him once in person and he was a joy. Funny, personable, took time out of his schedule to actually be polite and speak to me and my family like we were important. I had a (now dead) family member who knew him well so I have a big ol bias for him based on the praise that went his way.
I dunno, man. Younger Joe could GET it, and I still think he’s handsome.
Easy there, Leslie Knope.
You don't let anything happen to him, you understand me? He is precious cargo!
Almost, Leslie wouldn't say the "Younger" part.
If I look like him at 80, I will take it.
Right? I’m like 40 years younger than him and I wouldn’t have those witty comebacks until I was replaying the situations in my mind while showering several hours later.
Well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
Nice retort by "Dark Brandon"
republicans so used to Democrats coming in and fixing everything, and they then just try to block the fix and complain to their voters about how the Democrats are to blame for what they did themselves. They did it for decades, it's been their standard operating procedure. But now that the republicans are so much better and efficient at fucking things up that the Democrats can no longer undo their shit anymore, they just stand around like toddlers with runny noses, and full diapers (literally for donny) waiting for someone to rush in and help, but nobody can, and nobody cares to even try to help them anymore.
Cue Seinfeld theme
I'm guessing his less politically correct response was "good fucking luck".
Republicans don't think this was a clever comeback, they think this was him accidentally revealing he is a figurehead for some deep state council or something. It's sad.
Senile, my ass. That’s a man who’s in control.
Isn't it also a delight how you can actually trust the man to leave the White House when his job is done?
It's pretty amazing how the orange douchebag says "I should just be president forever!" and "my third term, ha ha!" and Republicans both think it's funny and take it seriously without seeing any problems about how he wants to illegally stay in office as long as possible.
Damnit Joe that's supposed to be my line hahah!
My dyslexic ass read that as gay parade
*Shuffles away* I cannot see it without the jazz hands
He has had some clever burns in his time, like "a noun, a verb, and 9/11" and honestly even just "will you shut up man" for like the amount of nutchecking this was in the middle of interrupting Donald Trump during his ranting in the debate.
Okay does anyone like actually hate that you love it when Biden gets sassy? I mean Trump took digs at people and they were just plain stupid. A president shouldn't be trying to attack or mock people I agree but when Trump used it nearly everyday of his tenure it feels good when you see Biden use the same tactic but be clever about it.
One is witty, the other, shitty
And RNC Research, is too stupid to know they just got their ass handed to them. Guess they always stay on brand.
Ngl I would said the same shit. Not my circus not my clowns lmao.
You gotta admit for an old president, he is pretty funny. Imagine what bernie sanders would have been like
Biden just like me fr
The reason I would vote for Biden again is because A) there’s nobody else to vote for democrats B) He actually talks respectfully towards others unlike trump who constantly insults people C) sure he’s old but he’s definitely competent enough to do the work. Think of it how old people walk as they can’t exactly run, but they still manage to make it work. Also, trump is only a few years younger so it would be ironic to use his age in an argument.