Biden is essentially the candidate that was chosen by black people. His opponents were relatively well matched until Super Tuesday which was just a landslide in Biden's favor because for some reason the blacks here just love old white religious democrat men.

None of Biden's opponents had any chance of winning the South, and Biden was postulated to have a decent shot at winning Pennsylvania which is an important swing state.

Winning the presidential election in the US is about appealing to key demographics in key regions, not winning the most votes. To win as a democrat, you have to be popular with black people both to win the primary and to have a shot at North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, etc. Also Florida to some extent. The (D) next to your name will carry the West coast and New England.

There are many things I detest about the Democratic party, but its reliance on racial minorities probably bothers me the most. I wish they'd find a way to appeal to middle class suburban whites.

At a superficial level that is also the one thing Trump's admin has done that I love.

But really he hasn't done much of substance to punish China for being liars, cheaters, and intellectual property thieves. Just a whole lot of rhetoric, threats, and some ineffectual tariffs. Better than nothing though

You want a President with charisma and strong personality who can unite the party and move legislation forward. Even though it's the responsibility of Congress to advance legislation, they have abdicated that (the useless gits!) and depend on the President to lead the charge, to unite the wings and to hammer out a compromise. This is why the President is always involved in forming the legislation instead of just enforcing it like he's supposed to according to the Constitution.

The Congresscritters depend on passing legislation they can crow about back home how effective they are so they get re-elected. They need a strong President to make that happen.

Also, the President usually serves as the Party leader so you need some strength there too.

I haven't yet talked to a single person face-to-face who regards Biden as a serious candidate. Pretty well everyone on both "sides" seems to agree the man's a front.

Danth

The only thing you can destroy is a box of hamburger helper and a night of heavy everquest

I'm not familiar enough with economics, but this seems well researched and thought out:

https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and...ed-enterprises

Essentially:
To summarize, the article goes on to explain that China might not reasonably be able to meet the trade agreement goal because the primary importers of our goods still have those tariffs in place, disincentivizing them from doing so. This would lead to China pushing their state-owned enterprises to pick up the slack, which makes their economy more state-owned which is potentially its own problem (apparently, again, genuinely ignorant of this sort of thing).

They suspect this may be a problem though because China's SOE's don't really import the goods we're exporting very much, the private sector does.

It's unclear to me though, what happens if China can't actually meet the agreement due to those conditions? Does anyone know if there's some language in the agreement that holds them accountable somehow if they can't?

Also, if someone could clarify, what are people's concerns about China's economy becoming more state driven than it already is?

Yang gang

Biden gives me the creeps

creepy joe