The Biden Presidency

[Grand Potentate]

Of course not, but if Trump had said referenced the Negroes in the forest brightly feathered, there would be media outrage and calls for his impeachment.

No matter what trump said those things were going to happen

 

[belinmad]

No matter what trump said those things were going to happen

Yeah. I think he did get impeached. Twice. On more serious offenses.

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden chooses Mitch Landrieu to coordinate infrastructure plan implementation

Landrieu served as mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018, taking office when the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

www.nbcnews.com

The hero of Katrina to the rescue.

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden-Xi talks: China warns US about 'playing with fire' on Taiwan

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden hold substantial talks but exchange sharp words on Taiwan.

www.bbc.com

"Such moves are extremely dangerous, just like playing with fire. Whoever plays with fire will get burnt,"

Bit sensationalist. He said it to a paper not to the President over the video.

"Mr Xi has not left China in nearly two years, since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic."

Dodgy vaccine record.

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden says he is 'considering' diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics

Advocates have been urging countries to boycott the games over China's record on human rights.

www.nbcnews.com

Making his mark.

 

[ter1413]

Biden temporarily transferring power to Harris while undergoing colonoscopy

The procedure was not on Joe Biden’s original schedule, but was announced by White House press secretary Jen Psaki through her morning statement.

nypost.com

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Biden targets the USA oil industry whilst begging for more oil from OPEC and elsewhere:

The Face of Inflation: An Energy…Mistake

us11.campaign-archive.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Biden targets the USA oil industry whilst begging for more oil from OPEC and elsewhere:

The Face of Inflation: An Energy…Mistake

us11.campaign-archive.com

they're just such a bunch of cocksuckers.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

they're just such a bunch of cocksuckers.

Well, they're certainly not best in class, or on top of their brief.

Thought the comment on Obama's failure kicked-in when he became ideological was interesting. As up to a certain point, he was this uniting figure, now he's just another freaky race baiter calling out his mate's Bruce Springsteen's fans as white, working class racist deplorable scum. With Springsteen nodding in approval failing to remember he use to kiss Clarence Clemons on the lips during his epic shows to overwhelming applause. Not much racism back then.

 

[belinmad]

Well, they're certainly not best in class, or on top of their brief.

Thought the comment on Obama's failure kicked-in when he became ideological was interesting. As up to a certain point, he was this uniting figure, now he's just another freaky race baiter calling out his mate's Bruce Springsteen's fans as white, working class racist deplorable scum. With Springsteen nodding in approval failing to remember he use to kiss Clarence Clemons on the lips during his epic shows to overwhelming applause. Not much racism back then.

No one cares about good old Bruce. Nothing Obama did or didn’t do will be affected, remembered or forgotten based on his interactions with Springsteen. Your ability to hyper focus on the inane is mesmerizing.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

No one cares about good old Bruce. Nothing Obama did or didn’t do will be affected, remembered or forgotten based on his interactions with Springsteen. Your ability to hyper focus on the inane is mesmerizing.

Glad you care.

Attention to detail is everything. That recent interview, in the last weeks, with Obama and Springsteen is essential for understanding why everything in Woke America is so fucking wrong.

 

[QuandoDio]

From my viewpoint, 'wokeness' is one of those things that makes the rounds on twitter and the equivalent but in real life, it is not really a thing. And I have a very diverse social and professional circle - more than most here. Rabid right-wingers keep going on about it keeping it in the public sphere and a lot of Loopy lefties harping on about it. The average Jane/John doesn't really care either way tbh



For all the grief millennials get - most of it, justified- let's not forget, you boomers created the millennials. They are products of their environment.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Attention to detail is everything. That recent interview, in the last weeks, with Obama and Springsteen is essential for understanding why everything in Woke America is so fucking wrong.

attention to detail is important but you're constantly focusing on the wrong fucking things. no one in public talks about this shit. they talk about how they can't afford food or a place to live and their lives are miserable.

 

[Dropbear]

From my viewpoint, 'wokeness' is one of those things that makes the rounds on twitter and the equivalent but in real life, it is not really a thing. And I have a very diverse social and professional circle - more than most here. Rabid right-wingers keep going on about it keeping it in the public sphere and a lot of Loopy lefties harping on about it. The average Jane/John doesn't really care either way tbh



For all the grief millennials get - most of it, justified- let's not forget, you boomers created the millennials. They are products of their environment.

Much like the Tide Pod Challenge, ‘woke’ started as an ironic joke amongst lefty kids and boomers fell for it hook, line and sinker.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

From my viewpoint, 'wokeness' is one of those things that makes the rounds on twitter and the equivalent but in real life, it is not really a thing. And I have a very diverse social and professional circle - more than most here. Rabid right-wingers keep going on about it keeping it in the public sphere and a lot of Loopy lefties harping on about it. The average Jane/John doesn't really care either way tbh



For all the grief millennials get - most of it, justified- let's not forget, you boomers created the millennials. They are products of their environment.

Whether it's called Wokeness, or something else, Obama has called it the ''Great Awakening'' there is an attempt by certain Western elites to impose a new language and paradigm on the masses whilst protecting themselves in the name of the post-democratic technocratic order.

Wokeness or whatever you call it was the culture and language to be used to keep us all in line and good order.

Mixing elements of Maoism, feudalism, fake environmentalism and voodoo post-modernism it's a top-down imposition and hence it's doomed to failure. The question is whether that's now, or 70 or 150 years down the line.

attention to detail is important but you're constantly focusing on the wrong fucking things. no one in public talks about this shit. they talk about how they can't afford food or a place to live and their lives are miserable.

Thought they were going to own nothing and be happy?

 

[Grand Potentate]

Whether it's called Wokeness, or something else, Obama has called it the ''Great Awakening'' there is an attempt by certain Western elites to impose a new language and paradigm on the masses whilst protecting themselves in the name of the post-democratic technocratic order.

Wokeness or whatever you call it was the culture and language to be used to keep us all in line and good order.

Mixing elements of Maoism, feudalism, fake environmentalism and voodoo post-modernism it's a top-down imposition and hence it's doomed to failure. The question is whether that's now, or 70 or 150 years down the line.


Thought they were going to own nothing and be happy?

What?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

What?

You either get it or you don't, the word virus universe we are living in:

 

[Journeyman]

Obama has called it the ''Great Awakening''

News Wrap: Obama endorses Biden, urges ‘great awakening’ in politics

In our news wrap Tuesday, former President Barack Obama ended months of neutrality and endorsed his vice president, Joe Biden, for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama said Biden has the character and experience to guide the nation through one of its darkest times. Also, the U.S. Senate...

www.pbs.org

Former President Barack Obama:
We need Americans of good will to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance, and just plain meanness. [Emphasis added]


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Sounds very reasoned and reasonable to me. I think that you're putting your own interpretation - or should I say, spin - on Obama's words.

 

[Dropbear]

I love these kooky conspiracies

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

I love these kooky conspiracies

Like this one, LOL:

 

[Grand Potentate]

Like this one, LOL:

What’s your problem with this?

 

[ter1413]

What’s your problem with this?

Look at the spread on his collar. Duh!

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

What’s your problem with this?

The language is authoritarian and he's a tyrant on the make, like this highly caffeinated dictator:

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden renominates Powell as Fed chair, cites 'steady and decisive leadership'

Powell, whose first term ends in February, had drawn criticism from progressives and Republicans, who said he should be doing more to keep inflation in check.

www.nbcnews.com

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't Democrats up in arms when Jerome Powell was nominated by the previous guy and displaced Janet Yellen?

 

[Dropbear]

Worth repeating the NT Minister’s reply to Ted Cruz’s dumbfuckery comments:

 

[Fwiffo]

U.S. expected to announce diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics

The Biden administration has been under pressure from lawmakers to take a stand against China's human rights abuses.

www.nbcnews.com

Oh the athletes can still go....

 

[Fwiffo]

Senate passes resolution to repeal Biden vaccine mandate, with help of two Democrats

The measure faces long odds in the Democratic-controlled House.

www.nbcnews.com

What pray tell will happen when the Democrats lose either the Senate or House during mid terms?

 

[Fwiffo]

Opinion | Biden just moved into a new phase of his presidency

Without the progressive bill to boast about and evidence that the pandemic is far from over, the president will be evaluated heavily on the virus.

www.nbcnews.com

”It is now clear that Covid will be with us for quite a while longer and that deaths related to the virus will keep accumulating. For much of the last few months, more than 1,000 Americans have died of Covid every day. There is little reason to think that number will improve in the coming days. More Americans have died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020.”

“Instead, like many presidents following the initial rush of lawmaking, Biden’s presidency will now be largely reactive and focused on managing crises. And the major problem facing the country is still Covid-19. He ran for president and may have even won the office based on the promise that he could manage the pandemic better than his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. However, despite Biden’s initial success in getting vaccines out and the administration’s much stronger grounding in scientific reality than the Trump administration, the news on Covid is not good.”

 

[Grand Potentate]

Opinion | Biden just moved into a new phase of his presidency

Without the progressive bill to boast about and evidence that the pandemic is far from over, the president will be evaluated heavily on the virus.

www.nbcnews.com

”It is now clear that Covid will be with us for quite a while longer and that deaths related to the virus will keep accumulating. For much of the last few months, more than 1,000 Americans have died of Covid every day. There is little reason to think that number will improve in the coming days. More Americans have died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020.”

“Instead, like many presidents following the initial rush of lawmaking, Biden’s presidency will now be largely reactive and focused on managing crises. And the major problem facing the country is still Covid-19. He ran for president and may have even won the office based on the promise that he could manage the pandemic better than his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. However, despite Biden’s initial success in getting vaccines out and the administration’s much stronger grounding in scientific reality than the Trump administration, the news on Covid is not good.”

is this like the queen moving into the next phase?

 

[Fwiffo]

is this like the queen moving into the next phase?

No. It's when Sam Shepard says "We just lost the initiative" after the first helicopter goes down in Black Hawk Down.

Now he's reacting to events and not able to dictate the legacy of his presidency. He started on the back foot already when there were these rumours he was a one term President before Kamala Harris takes over.

 

[Grand Potentate]

No. It's when Sam Shepard says "We just lost the initiative" after the first helicopter goes down in Black Hawk Down.

Now he's reacting to events and not able to dictate the legacy of his presidency. He started on the back foot already when there were these rumours he was a one term President before Kamala Harris takes over.

i know fwiffers i was making a joke about him being old and senile.

 

[Fwiffo]

i know fwiffers i was making a joke about him being old and senile.

He does dither off script a lot more than HM the Queen.

 

[Fwiffo]

Joe Biden’s Year of Hoping Dangerously

It was a brutal start for the new President.

www.newyorker.com

"But the national mood is sour, and understandably so. Sanity, competence, and civility have not exactly returned to Washington; normalcy is not just around the corner. Biden, it is now clear, promised what he couldn’t deliver in a nation divided against itself. He trafficked in hope that was arguably as misleading in its own way as Trump’s lies. More than four hundred thousand Americans have died of covid since Trump left office—many of them because they refused to get a free, lifesaving vaccine."

 

[ter1413]

Joe Biden’s Year of Hoping Dangerously

It was a brutal start for the new President.

www.newyorker.com

"But the national mood is sour, and understandably so. Sanity, competence, and civility have not exactly returned to Washington; normalcy is not just around the corner. Biden, it is now clear, promised what he couldn’t deliver in a nation divided against itself. He trafficked in hope that was arguably as misleading in its own way as Trump’s lies. More than four hundred thousand Americans have died of covid since Trump left office—many of them because they refused to get a free, lifesaving vaccine."

The WORST president and getting ready to strengthen his hold on that claim!

 

[Grand Potentate]

The WORST president and getting ready to strengthen his hold on that claim!

No one will ever be worse than Obama and Reagan but he’s sure on the way to their level!

Where are those tests at joE?

 

[ter1413]

 

[Fwiffo]

No one will ever be worse than Obama and Reagan but he’s sure on the way to their level!

Where are those tests at joE?

Reagan was bad? Didn't he win the Cold War? I don't quite remember much about him but it was a bad idea to put a movie actor into the White House?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

The Truths We Dare Not Speak in 2021

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the long year of 2021 finally came to a close, there were a number of truths Americans on the Left found themselves privately acknowledging but unable to say in public for fear of doing damage to their political cause, their own reputations, or their...

victorhanson.com

 

[Journeyman]

The Truths We Dare Not Speak in 2021

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the long year of 2021 finally came to a close, there were a number of truths Americans on the Left found themselves privately acknowledging but unable to say in public for fear of doing damage to their political cause, their own reputations, or their...

victorhanson.com

I didn't even finish reading to the final section of that piece, but lost count of the number of strawmen that VDH erected.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

I didn't even finish reading to the final section of that piece, but lost count of the number of strawmen that VDH erected.

You don't need to keep tally, take from it what you will. I do.

I dig VDH as he's perceptive and very astute on the US situation - at least from my outsider perspective.