Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

When a government functions well, people get bored and unappreciative, apparently. In terms of policies and governance, Biden was the best president this century.

Biden's economy fixed most of what had gone wrong under Trump and surpassed the metrics that you care about, namely the stock market, inflation, gas prices, and unemployment rate.

The stock market has some import, but is always a rollercoaster;

under Biden inflation and gas prices soared and unemployment (except for government workers) ticked up...

An interesting factoid: The Harris/Walz campaign raised over a billion dollars (in 107 days), and ended $20 M in debt...  That's the Democratic Party way!

(he is not smart enough to be able to understand who the enemies are and declare war on the enemies, if he so badly wants to declare war)

I don't believe Biden proceeded to bomb Ukraine or had a history of bombing Ukraine.

[Trump] has a history of doing more to harm Spain than just talk

In August 2023, at the 15th BRICS Summit, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that 6 emerging market group countries (Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) had been invited to join the bloc. Full membership was scheduled to take effect on 1 January 2024.

However^[2], the Argentine general election in November 2023 led to a change in president to Javier Milei, who had committed to withdraw the country's membership application. On 30 November 2023, incoming Foreign Minister of Argentina Diana Mondino confirmed that Argentina would not join the BRICS. On 29 December 2023 the Government of Argentina sent a letter to all BRICS leaders to officially announce its withdrawal from the application process.

By January 2024, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates joined the bloc making BRICS membership grow from five to nine countries, while Saudi Arabia delayed its membership. Saudi Arabia did not join BRICS at the start of 2024 as had been planned, and they announced in mid-January that they were still considering the matter. As of April 2024, the matter is still under consideration. The organizers touted the expansion as part of a plan to build a competing multipolar world order that uses Global South countries to challenge and compete against the western-dominated world order. China Daily used the expansion to claim that more developing countries were interested in joining BRICS.

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¹  China is Spain's largest trading partner outside of the EU.↵

² I've included this primarily for ersi's sake, since he's likely to think I'd meant "Trump's influence"! ↵

Example of TDS: You had nothing to say when President Biden introduced Zalinski as "the president of Ukraine, President Putin!"

Have you any thoughts about the Panama Canal?

(But Spain is not "officially" a BRICS country — journalists take their time updating their style books... )

Note, please, that Argentina has withdrawn its application to BRICS. Wonder why?

On Tuesday, Daniel Ball’s case tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was formally dismissed after he received a full pardon from President Trump. But by Wednesday, Ball was arrested once more on a pending federal gun charge.

[...] Ball was charged in May 2023 with 12 counts tied to the Capitol attack, including assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon and using explosives to commit a felony.

China is Spain's largest trading partner outside of the EU.

It might be worth remembering that for example all Apple products are Chinese imports.

The ruling was made in a case brought by four states — Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon. The case is among at least five lawsuits filed this week challenging Trump's birthright-citizenship order on the grounds that it violates the 14th Amendment.

The lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon says the president "has no authority to amend the Constitution or supersede the Citizenship Clause's grant of citizenship to individuals born in the United States." It adds: "Nor is he empowered by any other constitutional provision or law to determine who shall or shall not be granted United States citizenship at birth."

White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields told BI in a statement on Wednesday that the Trump administration is prepared to fight back against the lawsuits targeting his executive orders.

"Radical Leftists can either choose to swim against the tide and reject the overwhelming will of the people, or they can get on board and work with President Trump to advance his wildly popular agenda," Fields said. "These lawsuits are nothing more than an extension of the Left's resistance — and the Trump Administration is ready to face them in court."

As everybody (including those who are in denial) knows, Trump is an idiot, a liar and a criminal all at the same time. And he is also the president, so he is enacting and enforcing his ignorance, lies, and crimes at the highest level.

Any person born to at least one Estonian parent receives Estonian citizenship at birth. Noncitizens may naturalise as Estonian citizens after living in the country for at least eight years as a permanent resident or on a valid long-term residence permit and showing proficiency in the Estonian language. (source

Prior unconstitutionalities by Trump, such as his collusion with Russia,