Why Norway is Becoming the World's Richest Country

[Gadianton]

Pick a category. Otherwise I tend not to rate anything on 1-10 scales. It’s like asking me what my favorite color is.

I'll rate it: 7.5 - 8.1

His biggest failing was that he knew what he was doing but much like a telecom engineer with 40 years experience keeping AT&T going, he did all his work in the back room without congruent messaging, and without really having public buy-in and support for it. Let's look at just one thing, the CHIPS act.

It appears the Grifter in Chief (Don not Elon this time) wants to lead the world in A.I. (because it sounds cool). Whatever. A.I. takes chips. If Trump plans to be an isolationist and not care if China takes Taiwan (or hedge against the possibility), then there needs to be a major knowledge transfer and retooling. Only 17 Republican RINOs voted in favor of the act.

Just as the Hebrews couldn't make bricks without straw, MAGA morons will not be able to create A.I. without the best of the best microchips; Taiwan has it all right now. Maybe South Korea could help a little but MAGA will be too busy rooting for Kim Jong and Putin to invade them next.

[Markk]

Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:49 pm

3rd request....

"But anyway Biden did have his chance, it was 4 years of ___________, you can fill in the blank." Just wondering.

On a scale of 1-10, overall, how good a job did he do?

Pick a category. Otherwise I tend not to rate anything on 1-10 scales. It’s like asking me what my favorite color is.

Then think about my questions to you. ; )

LOL..so you can't offer an opinion on how President Biden did? But you can offer opinions of Trump and the GoP? The category is how Biden did.

[Markk]

History will tell the depth of the Biden Clan corruption.

History is done with those baseless accusations. Now that he's out of office, there's no reason for anyone to pursue it (e.g. invent more nonsense) except Don himself out of revenge, and so it's good that Biden protected his family.

but I did pray for him and his wife almost daily. in my opinion, Jill Bidden is not a very nice person for letting here failing husband hang out their for 4 years. I told my wife If I get like him as I age, to take to to the local lake/park and let me feed the ducks.

c'mon mark. Aren't those your typical Christian hypocrisy prayers? "I pray that you find the truth!" Same thing, right? If Trump falls to poor health, you're going to be on your knees begging for him to persevere and have strength and recover. But if it's Biden, lol, you're praying his wife will stop letting him be president. hilarious, really.

I don't know much about crypto currency

Now that's a shock, I guess we can add that lack of knowledge to your lack of knowledge of basic econ, immigration law, climate science, and most of the subjects that get kicked around in this forum. (oddly, back when gender/sex got debated you seemed to have read some papers and have a decent grasp, weird that's what you had the motivation to actually learn something about but whatev).

Your posts more and more offer a perception that you are imploding. The word bitter comes to mind.

But anyways, I believe, right or wrong Jill Biden, letting her clearly failing husband, embarrass himself and legacy is shameful. He had no business running for president in regard to a clear mental decline. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did before the his party bailed out on him, and then only when they knew he couldn't beat Trump, which obviously shows that those making the decisions panicked, and picked Harris, another puppet for those actually making the decisions.

This is just one of countless examples of Biden's evident decline. I find it hard to believe that only the right noticed his decline, in fact I refuse to believe that.

It's sad in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87aPi_qwL1k

One common perception of leadership, by their opposition, is that weak leaders often come across as being puppets, as Biden and Harris came across, while strong leaders often come across as pulling the strings, as is the current narrative about Trump.

Folks will write books, and things will leak out, and we will find out how dysfunctional his presidency was. History will decide his legacy, no doubt, as it does with all presidents, and as it will with Trump.

[canpakes]

Pick a category. Otherwise I tend not to rate anything on 1-10 scales. It’s like asking me what my favorite color is.

Then think about my questions to you. ; )

LOL..so you can't offer an opinion on how President Biden did? But you can offer opinions of Trump and the GoP? The category is how Biden did.

How he did with what? Watercolors?

What on earth are you afraid of asking about?

Here, I’ll pick something for you: ‘inflation’. Turns out that the US weathered post-pandemic worldwide inflation better than just about any other industrialized nation. Should we thank Biden for that?

[Markk]

LOL..so you can't offer an opinion on how President Biden did? But you can offer opinions of Trump and the GoP? The category is how Biden did.

How he did with what? Watercolors?

What on earth are you afraid of asking about?

Here, I’ll pick something for you: ‘inflation’. Turns out that the US weathered post-pandemic worldwide inflation better than just about any other industrialized nation. Should we thank Biden for that?

LOL, answer the question, who did he do as President

[Chap]

How he did with what? Watercolors?

What on earth are you afraid of asking about?

Here, I’ll pick something for you: ‘inflation’. Turns out that the US weathered post-pandemic worldwide inflation better than just about any other industrialized nation. Should we thank Biden for that?

LOL, answer the question, who did he do as President

Er ... isn't canpakes suggesting that while he was President Biden handled inflation rather well? Wouldn't that count as an answer to "who what did he do as President"?

[canpakes]

LOL, answer the question, who did he do as President

Only Jill, unlike his predecessor, who seems to have developed a habit of rapey behavior and pornstar rawdogging. : D

[Gadianton]

Your posts more and more offer a perception that you are imploding. The word bitter comes to mind.

You're free to your perception. I'd say the guy still feigning worry over Joe's cognitive decline is the one who is bitter, which is strange since his guy won. What do you think about the CHIPS act? Do you think advancing A.I. will require a secure supply of the world's best microchips?

One common perception of leadership, by their opposition, is that weak leaders often come across as being puppets, as Biden and Harris came across, while strong leaders often come across as pulling the strings, as is the current narrative about Trump.

Well, you do have Fox News spoon-feeding you and your friends exactly what to believe so there's that. Trump doesn't come across as strong to his opposition, he comes across as unhinged. There is some value to that. I've heard it said that if you go to prison, you should so something crazy like, just attack some random dude the first day for no reason -- show that you're unpredictable and that trifling with you may have consequences. But let's not confuse unpredictability with a perception of strength.

Folks will write books, and things will leak out, and we will find out how dysfunctional his presidency was. History will decide his legacy, no doubt, as it does with all presidents, and as it will with Trump.

Well that's already in the works:

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2024 ... survey.php

About President Joe Biden:
President Biden’s inaugural inclusion in the Presidential Greatness Project rankings finds him in the top third of presidents, ranked #14 with a rating of 62.7/100 which is higher than Obama’s first rating in 2015 (58.2) and dramatically higher than Trump’s first rating in 2018 (13.0).

“Scholars often emphasize stability of norms in assessing presidential greatness, so Joe Biden, serving after a tumultuous Trump administration, entered the survey on a high note,” Rottinghaus said.

Trump was again the lowest-ranked president (10.9) with James Buchanan (16.7), Andrew Johnson (21.6), Franklin Pierce (24.6) and William Henry Harrison (26.1) rounding out the bottom five.

Or maybe you meant right-wing Senators who write self-published books -- something like that?

[I Have Questions]

How he did with what? Watercolors?

What on earth are you afraid of asking about?

Here, I’ll pick something for you: ‘inflation’. Turns out that the US weathered post-pandemic worldwide inflation better than just about any other industrialized nation. Should we thank Biden for that?

LOL, answer the question, who did he do as President

I suspect he gained consent before doing anyone. Unlike the current President.

[Markk]

LOL, answer the question, who did he do as President

Er ... isn't canpakes suggesting that while he was President Biden handled inflation rather well? Wouldn't that count as an answer to "who what did he do as President"?

I'm trying to get these folks to open up a bit, and actually have a conversation and figure out what their views actually are. I am not having much luck other than they just hate Trump.

If he said that about inflation great, it's a start, even though I disagree. I believe we can objectively show that both Trump and Biden had their foots on the throttle of the money printing machine, largely because of covid. So maybe a better way to judge this will be in a few years after we see if Trump can deliver on bringing it down.

There are other things that we can discuss that divided the conversation. The Border is huge, as is crime, homelessness, foreign affairs, DEI, tariffs and trade....among others. I think these need to be included in any "rating" of either Trump, Biden and to a extent, Harris.