heybruce

You can't refute my post so you come up with a temporary fluke in economics. Inflation started shooting up at the end of Trump's term. Wage increases always lag inflation because wages are negotiated for the future while inflation measurements always come from the past. You'll be happy to know that wage increases are now exceeding inflation. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/

Source?

Infrastructure bill, unified NATO supporting Ukraine against Russian invasion, agreements constraining China across Pacific...

From the full article: ""It reflects the leading role that Vietnam will play in our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific as we look to the future," Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said at a briefing before Mr Biden's visit." "That "network of partnerships" across Asia has certainly grown in the last few months. Washington has negotiated the use of four new military bases in the Philippines and remarkably, it managed to broker a trilateral agreement with rival east Asian allies, Japan and South Korea." This is the sort of agreement that responsible Presidents who know what they are doing get done. President Biden might not be a polished entertainer, but he gets the job done.

Check out the topic; it's one of many agreements (US access to bases in the Philippines, getting allied countries to deny China dual-use technology, convincing South Korea it doesn't need nuclear weapons) that have made the world safer and constrained China. All Trump did was unleash Iran to develop nuclear weapons and give Saudi Arabia access to advanced military technology for the appearance of progress in the Middle East. Funny thing, the Middle East doesn't appear any safer. Pointing out that Biden is an improvement over his predecessor is much more on-topic than complaining that Biden isn't a polished entertainer on-camera.

Two more who judge by appearances instead of accomplishments. It's funny, because I believe they also thought Trump's rambling, all-about-me rants were, um, I don't know....entertaining?

What did Putin say he was going to do? Provide sources. What justified Putin's invasion of a neighboring country? Do you think that anything other than defeat in Ukraine will prevent Putin from invading other neighbors?

Right, ignore the topic and go straight to the "Biden is a bad public speaker" diversion.

I judge a President by his accomplishments. Biden looks pretty good by that measure, much better than his predecessor.

"Laptop is Russian disinformation" cuts both ways in identifying people posting lies. No credible source ever stated that the laptop was Russian disinformation, only that: ""We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case," the letter said." https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-laptop-jim-jordan-facebook-disinformation-twitter-1767369

Vietnam is using the US to help it resist China's pressure, the US is using Vietnam to contain China's use of brute force to expand its influence, and both sides know this and accept it. This is an example of how diplomacy works when responsible adults are in the White House. It's also an example of the kind of diplomacy that Trump couldn't pull off even if he understood it.

You really need to start judging Presidents by what they accomplish than by edited videos and soundbites. Biden has passed far more legislation and done more for our international alliances than Trump.

True, but the left never elected an incompetent conman like Trump.

From the link in the OP: "“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in December 2022." https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4168261-trump-called-for-termination-of-parts-of-constitution-in-december/ Looks like a call to suspend parts of the Constitution to me.

"Can they not make up their mind without ads?" Many (Most?) can but don't. They go with name recognition and the most appealing and simple-minded sound bites--MAGA, Drain the Swamp, Lock her up---regardless of how meaningless and detached from reality they are.

Assembly with components made in China. The Chinese-made components will be made with subcomponents made elsewhere. Those subcomponents will also have parts made elsewhere, etc. Like it or not, the supply chain is too thoroughly globalized to unravel it.

It's like the old Marx Brothers joke: "Who you gonna believe, your eyes or me!" Anyone who reads the Presidential Records Act can see that what he did was illegal. Trump clearly expects his base to believe him, not their eyes. "(g)(1) Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President." https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.html

Says the poster proudly living in an echo chamber.

Inflation at 3.2% at the end of July, unemployment below 4%, economy growing at above 2%, annual wage growth of 4.2% https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-job-growth-picks-up-august-wages-gains-slow-2023-09-01/ A lot of countries would love to have those kind of "problems".

No you haven't. You haven't addressed the Constitutionality issues, the risks of a centralized electoral system, the risks of implementation, or the fact that it doesn't do anything to alleviate fraud concerns. Let's assume your system had been in effect in the 2020 election. Let's say it showed Biden getting 51% and Trump getting 47%, with 2% going to others, as happened in the election. Let's assume we have you wonderful database of numbers representing voters, but the id of most of those voters remain anonymous. How would this system have made the election results any more trustworthy? How would it keep Trump and company from claiming millions of the numbers represented dead voters or illegal aliens or non-existent people? How would it keep people from claiming that the deep state or Italian spies or dead Venezuelan leaders hadn't changed anonymous votes? How would it change anything?

Each person can see a register saying a bunch of ID numbers voted? So what? How does that prevent fraud? Some people claim that certain ID number represent their vote. Maybe they proudly announce who they voted for, maybe they claim the vote for their ID number wasn't who they voted for. Either they have to show proof that the ID number really is theirs (what kind of proof do you suggest they be given?) or the government has to maintain a database of ID numbers and associated voters. Government databases can and have been hacked. Some people keep their vote secret and others don't. Perhaps the Democrats prefer secret voting and the Republicans favor announcing their votes to the world. Before the election everyone following these matters state the obvious; more public votes will be for Republicans and more anonymous votes will be for Democrats. After the votes are counted the Republicans point to the large proportion of anonymous votes for Democrats and claim that proves fraud, just as it happened with mail-in vs in-person voting in the 2020 election. How has anything improved? I could keep pecking at the holes in the overall logic of your "open vote" system, but instead let's look at feasibility. Currently the states decide how to conduct elections. That's required by the US Constitution. So you either change the constitution or implement your system in each state. However most states (all?) let local government decide on the nuts and bolt of voting--precinct boundaries, where to vote, and, most important of all, what kind of equipment to use. Assuming the number of local governments making these decisions equals the number of counties in the US, that means over 3000 voting districts that have to be corrupted in some manner to hi-jack a national election. This widely dispersed decentralized system is the main safeguard against hacking of the entire national system; it would have to be thousands of hacks tailored to thousands of different voting systems. You want to abandon that in favor of a centralized system which I assume would have a centralized database presenting a single high-value target for hacking. You want to do this to implement a new, unproven system (new systems always create new problems) that doesn't present any improvements, safeguards against vote interference, or safeguards against false charges of vote interference. Your system would be far more centralized and so far more vulnerable to interference (hackers would only have to find one chink in the armor of one system instead of thousands of chinks in thousands of systems) and doesn't do anything to prevent fraud or the kind of speculation of fraud we are currently dealing with. Why? What's the point?

Failed bidenomics and foreign policy? You're really out of touch. The economy is doing fine and America has regained some of the international respect it lost under Trump. Regarding crime, the President isn't responsible for policing.

A database that shows a lot of people voted, but you can't tell who these people are or who they voted for unless they choose to tell you. How is that different from what we have now?

Can you explain how this "open voting" works? How can it provide evidence every vote was correctly registered and counted better than the current system of audits by independent parties without compromising the sanctity of the secret ballot?

None of that changes the fact that when reminded of his promises on healthcare Trump had nothing. He never had anything, just talk.