Money, money, who got the money?

[Jolly]

The Biden Bunch and China Bucks...

https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/speculation-mounts-on-who-the-new-biden-family-member-is-that-got-a-cut-of-3-million-wire-transfer-in-2017/

[Axtremus]

@Jolly, consider raising the bar beyond mere "speculation" to "supported by evidence" or "verified by third parties" before getting too excited.

[Jolly]

Let me 'splain, Lucy...

1. There's a new sheriff in town. The economy gets bad enough and in two years, might be a new sheriff, a new mayor and a new city marshal. Gonna be some changes, even with just a new Congress.
2. The Hunter issue is going to get bigger.
3. It's obvious the Dems are throwing The Resident under the bus. When they do, and he's out, it's katy-bar-the-door. Too much money, too much graft.

[taiwan_girl]

Let me 'splain, Lucy...

1. There's a new sheriff in town. The economy gets bad enough and in two years, might be a new sheriff, a new mayor and a new city marshal. Gonna be some changes, even with just a new Congress.
2. The Hunter issue is going to get bigger.
3. It's obvious the Dems are throwing The Resident under the bus. When they do, and he's out, it's katy-bar-the-door. Too much money, too much graft.

What is the saying? "The more things change, the more they are the same.

Hypothetic post from 2018:

1. There's a new sheriff in town. The economy gets bad enough and in two years, might be a new sheriff, a new mayor and a new city marshal. Gonna be some changes, even with just a new Congress.
2. The Trump money issue with porn actresses and his company finance issues is going to get bigger.
3. It's obvious the Rebs are throwing The Resident under the bus. When they do, and he's out, it's katy-bar-the-door. Too much money, too much graft.

[Jolly]

Wrong.

China. Influence buying.

Different.

[Doctor Phibes]

It's just politics as usual. The next president will probably be Republican, the one after that will most likely be a Democrat.

Remember Larry (RIP) posting after Trump got elected, how everything was changed now, the Democrats would soon be extinct, and the GOP would reform into a new party, and things would never be the same ever again?

People believe what they want to believe, meanwhile it all trundles along.

[Jolly]

It's politics, but I think these tentacles run a bit deeper and I think Biden's influence within his party is rapidly shrinking.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Money, money, who got the money?:

It's politics, but I think these tentacles run a bit deeper and I think Biden's influence within his party is rapidly shrinking.

He was only ever really a stop-gap because they needed somebody familiar and comforting who wasn't Hillary to beat Trump, and it worked. He's really freaking old, which is his main disadvantage.

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in Money, money, who got the money?:

… I think Biden's influence within his party is rapidly shrinking.

Biden’s influence within his party vs. Trump’s influence in the GOP, which one is sinking faster?

[Jolly]

Biden.

[Axtremus]

Does that mean you will blame Biden less when the Democratic Party does something stupid and blame Trump more when the GOP does something stupid?

[Doctor Phibes]

Biden's influence was never really central to the Democrats, as far as a I can tell. He certainly didn't have the impact that Obama did, or Trump on the GOP. In fact, there's an argument that the main reason they picked Biden was that because he reminded people of Obama's presidency, and let's be honest, Obama would have beaten Trump handily in 2016 if he'd been eligible.

People largely weren't voting for Biden at the last election, they were voting against Trump.

This still doesn't seem to have sunk in.

[taiwan_girl]

When historian two hundred years from now talks about past US presidents, President Biden will be one of those president who was just "there". No real impact, good or bad.