The Biden Presidency

[Grand Potentate]

and here's our new secretary of state

How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich - The American Prospect

Strategic consultants will define Biden’s relationship to the world.

prospect.org

 

[doghouse]

sure, keep humming that tune

Democrats brush off calls for Biden to play hardball on Cabinet picks

Senate Democrats are distancing themselves from calls by progressives for President-elect Joe Biden to play hardball with Republicans over his Cabinet picks.Facing the prospect of a GOP-controlled …

thehill.com

That doesn't in anyway refute what I just said? It's not even remotely on the same topic.

 

[Grand Potentate]

That doesn't in anyway refute what I just said? It's not even remotely on the same topic.

you said the press was keeping a lid on things and the implication was they would all be solid picks. i said they'd all be the same nat sec, corporate, ngo ghouls that they always choose.

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden cabinet: John Kerry named climate envoy as inner circle get key posts

Joe Biden is nominating one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement as his climate envoy.

www.bbc.com

You mean these guys?

 

[doghouse]

you said the press was keeping a lid on things and the implication was they would all be solid picks. i said they'd all be the same nat sec, corporate, ngo ghouls that they always choose.

No, I was just talking about the press leaks.

Sullivan is a legit genius though, and everyone should be happy about that. Tony Bilken is probably the most capable SoS we have had, well ever. And gets a thumbs up from Bernie's guys of all people, so there's really not even much for looney left folks to complain about there. You can debate policy once there is an actual functioning foreign policy apparatus. Until then everything is a step up.

 

[Grand Potentate]

No, I was just talking about the press leaks.

fair enough

Sullivan is a legit genius though, and everyone should be happy about that. Tony Bilken is probably the most capable SoS we have had, well ever. And gets a thumbs up from Bernie's guys of all people, so there's really not even much for looney left folks to complain about there. You can debate policy once there is an actual functioning foreign policy apparatus. Until then everything is a step up.

ah yes, the competent terrible person theory.

 

[doghouse]

ah yes, the competent terrible person theory.

Neither one of the people I listed are terrible. You may disagree with them but that doesn't equate to terrible.

Ian Welsh, now that is an objectively terrible person.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Neither one of the people I listed are terrible. You may disagree with them but that doesn't equate to terrible.

Ian Welsh, now that is an objectively terrible person.

Now that is interesting. Why do you hate welsh so much?

 

[doghouse]

Now that is interesting. Why do you hate welsh so much?

Other than being a piece of crap like every other human that runs on pure emotion? No particular reason. I don't hate him fwiw, he is just dumb as a box of rocks.

Meanwhile, the GSA is starting the transition, so it's all over but the crying at this point.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Other than being a piece of crap like every other human that runs on pure emotion? No particular reason. I don't hate him fwiw, he is just dumb as a box of rocks.

Meanwhile, the GSA is starting the transition, so it's all over but the crying at this point.

Yellen in at the fed. God speed

 

[doghouse]

Yellen in at the fed. God speed

Treasury Secretary. Powell is the chair of the Fed

 

[Fwiffo]

I thought Janet Yellen was retirement age but then I can see Biden is going for youth by appointing John Kerry.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Treasury Secretary. Powell is the chair of the Fed

Youre right that was my bad. Still just rehashing the obama presidency.

 

[fxh]

Does USA have a Fat Lady who can sing?

 

[doghouse]

Youre right that was my bad. Still just rehashing the obama presidency.

Yeah.

I mean I'm not super jazzed by that pick but it's sort of whatever. I don't think she will drive anything for good or bad to be honest.

Warren is a fan for whatever that is worth.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Yeah.

I mean I'm not super jazzed by that pick but it's sort of whatever. I don't think she will drive anything for good or bad to be honest.

Warren is a fan for whatever that is worth.

Warren wanted the job

 

[doghouse]

Warren wanted the job

Oh yeah, 100%. Unfortunately with Massachusetts having a Republican governor there is no way to pull her out of the Senate.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Oh yeah, 100%. Unfortunately with Massachusetts having a Republican governor there is no way to pull her out of the Senate.

great we get to have her hang around and continue to be completely useless.

 

[The Shooman]

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[Grand Potentate]

The mainstream media are bought and paid for

The mainstream media are not our friends.

if you get rid of the rest of the sentiment, this is the main point you need to remember.

 

[The Shooman]

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[Dropbear]

Are the globalists all Jews? Asking for a friend.

Also, this might be a great topic to bring up on Paler.

 

[doghouse]

Shooeys brain has officially rotted i see.

 

[Grand Potentate]

All l want is a man who will serve the people and shut down the globalists. We want sovereign and democratic nations where manufacturing is nurtured

come on shooey. you're just about all the way to becoming a commie. just drag that foot the last bit over the line.

 

[The Shooman]

Look who's in Rambo's avator, it is THAT man.

I prefer Rambo's old avator at Style Forum much better. Remember your old one Rambo, about 15 years ago?

Look, here it is, see below!

Rambo: was that domestic canine a member of your family? In other words, did the domestic canine in this picture once reside at your property? He sure looks like a beauty.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Look who's in Rambo's avator, it is THAT man.
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I prefer Rambo's old avator at Style Forum much better. Remember your old one Rambo, about 15 years ago?

Look, here it is, see below!

Rambo: was that domestic canine a member of your family? In other words, did the domestic canine in this picture once reside at your property? He sure looks like a beauty.
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yes it was my cousin fred. he's moved to a farm upstate. we're a family of smiling dogs so i wanted to take a picture of my uncle joe and put him as my avatar. hopefully at the next family gathering i'll be able to get some new pictures of us smiling together.

 

[doghouse]

Lol

 

[güero]

 

[The Shooman]

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[Dropbear]

I’ll agree that conservatives aren’t much interested in identity politics, but Trump and the far right are ALL about the white grievance.

 

[Grand Potentate]

There are very few far right people/groups

come on shooey this is silly.

but there are many people branching much further to the left due to the school system and media indoctrination

I wish that were the case!

 

[Fwiffo]

Joe Biden: President-elect fractures foot while playing with dog

The president-elect will probably have to wear a medical boot for several weeks, his doctor says.

www.bbc.com

At least he didn’t get coronavirus.

 

[Fwiffo]

Biden and Harris announce all-female communications team

Biden said the team will "bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building this country back better."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[doghouse]

come on shooey this is silly.

Forget it, he's rolling

 

[doghouse]

So in news that should make Grand Potentate happy, Biden is filled his economic team with mostly people that get high marks from the progressive left with 3 full employment hawks, Cecilia Rouse, Heather Boushey and Jared Bernstein.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

 

[güero]

- Far right are into identity politics
- Far left are into identity politics.

I don't think that is true. Identity politics is most prevalent in the center-left/mainstream left, in what Robert Pfaller has termed "the neoliberal cultural left". If it were a fringe movement, nobody would care about it.

For the US, I think only Elizabeth Warren really campained on identity politics, so putting her at center-left/left in the picture seems quite accurate to me. For Europe, identity politics being center-left is precisely one of the major reasons why all the center-left mainstream parties of Europe (except for Portugal, I think) have lost the support of the working people over the past decade (+x). They are economically right (neoliberal capitalism) and only culturally left (pronous for everyone).

In any case, from you perspective China seems to be far-left, but where is identity politics in China?

 

[formby002]

I don't think that is true. Identity politics is most prevalent in the center-left/mainstream left, in what Robert Pfaller has termed "the neoliberal cultural left". If it were a fringe movement, nobody would care about it.

For the US, I think only Elizabeth Warren really campained on identity politics, so putting her at center-left/left in the picture seems quite accurate to me. For Europe, identity politics being center-left is precisely one of the major reasons why all the center-left mainstream parties of Europe (except for Portugal, I think) have lost the support of the working people over the past decade (+x). They are economically right (neoliberal capitalism) and only culturally left (pronous for everyone).

In any case, from you perspective China seems to be far-left, but where is identity politics in China?

Well, to be fair to Shooey he is only saying that the Far Right/Left are into identity politics, which is true. However, you are correct that it has 'leaked' into the mainstream.

 

[doghouse]

For the US, I think only Elizabeth Warren really campained on identity politics,

Did she? I only really think of economic populism with her.

 

[güero]

only saying that the Far Right/Left are into identity politics, which is true

I think that is a least up to debate, a matter of definitions and far to generalized for it to be a useful statement.

Did she? I only really think of economic populism with her.

Maybe she didn't. But she apparently did it enough to become the candidate of choice for the "identity voters", at least that was my impression.