Biden Presidency

[NorthDakota]

Who cares though? lol

Lol I didn't care. It was amusing to me. Really did enjoy the class.

The married with kids white lady, teaching a class to 95% young white women, many of whom came to college to major in MRS, are in a class to complain about what is the dream for most of them, or will be the dream within a few years.

[IrishLax]

You completely wiffed on the point. I thought the obvious assumption was there would be social justice topics discussed in a social work lecture. I would think even those on the liberal side would agree the Christian dad beating the gay out of his son was probably overplayed. It was like a broken record... "lets go back to gay son scenario".

What is even more disturbing is I did my internship with a company that has a Christian foundation. When doing assignments related to my internship they learned it was a Christian organization, my professor and guidance office tried to discredit and fail me saying if they would have known the program had a Christian foundation they would have not approved this internship. We sort of had a "hearing" of sorts and I brought in the CEO of the company and another professor to have my back. They said they took issue with "the church" having guiding principles that go against the goals of social work. Luckily the CEO and professor laid out a good case and they "reluctantly" accepted the internship. I ended with a C for those 6 internship credits. That was in 2006/2007, its probably safe to assume ish has gotten worse since then.

This is absolutely wild.

On this topic, I'd recommend that everyone reads the book The Coddling of the American Mind. The scariest part is that things get worse in academia every single year.

[dublinirish]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> as Transportation Secretary, making him the first-ever openly LGBTQ person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet-level position. <br><br>Another barrier broken for our community. <a href="https://t.co/LYEtziSnBZ">pic.twitter.com/LYEtziSnBZ</a></p>&mdash; Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/HRC/status/1356654155889324032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[NorthDakota]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> as Transportation Secretary, making him the first-ever openly LGBTQ person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet-level position. <br><br>Another barrier broken for our community. <a href="https://t.co/LYEtziSnBZ">pic.twitter.com/LYEtziSnBZ</a></p>&mdash; Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/HRC/status/1356654155889324032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Klobuchar's Midwest bitchy mom treatment of him is the content America needs.

[Cackalacky2.0]

Bout to have the infrastructure week we never got under Trump. Lol

[Cackalacky2.0]

Reminds me of my History professor that blamed the jews for everything. He had half the class convinced Jews invented pornography to control people....

Reminds me of every 4-12 teacher telling me the civil war was the called The War of Northern Aggression and instilled the Lost Cause myth in me.

[Blazers46]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> as Transportation Secretary, making him the first-ever openly LGBTQ person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet-level position. <br><br>Another barrier broken for our community. <a href="https://t.co/LYEtziSnBZ">pic.twitter.com/LYEtziSnBZ</a></p>&mdash; Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/HRC/status/1356654155889324032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Hate to be that guy but I will be, does he get this job if he were straight?

I know a lot of you will reply with "well but Trump" or "What about that other person hired that was not qualified" but thats not my question.

[ab2cmiller]

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

[dublinirish]

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

ah but i thought conservatives were all for Unity

[NorthDakota]

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

I suspect he wouldn't have been a "legitimate" contender to run for president without being gay, but yeah. Those people didn't all just drop out without extracting some political capital first.

[TorontoGold]

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

But what if, I make this about his sexuality? Think we need to ask the question, are gay people capable of holding office?

[dublinirish]

But what if, I make this about his sexuality? Think we need to ask the question, are gay people capable of holding office?

what bathroom should he be using?

[ab2cmiller]

ah but i thought conservatives were all for Unity

Conservatives and Liberals are unified in yielding political power to payback their friends for their loyalty or for special favors.

[drayer54]

I took a Couples, Families, and Marriages class as a super-senior get some "wellness" credit requirement done. It was amazing. About 95% freshmen/sophomore women, 4% fr/so gay guys, and yours truly.

Every day was a bashing session on the straight white nuclear family. I loved it. One of the few large lecture classes I took where I made an effort to attend. Goofy classes like that can be really fun, like Ron Swanson going to a Whole Foods.

The only other "progressive" class experience I recall was an entire unit on women in late Western Civilization. I didn't understand why we had to learn about them as a unit instead of peppering them in with their appropriate time units in the class. I got wrecked on that exam. Whoops.

Business school classes were not remotely political at all. Then again I'm not sure how you make a class about pricing fixed income securities political.

Libs have been working tirelessly to take us from this bad version of America to this new and improved version of America. Even the mostly peaceful BLM folks raged against the nuclear family.

[Blazers46]

ah but i thought conservatives were all for Unity

I guess unity would be hiring a conservative that does not fit in one of the straight/white/male demographics to show unity and check off your social justice box of choice.

[drayer54]

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

Duh. It was obvious then and obvious now. I'm willing to bet Clyburn made the deal too. This gives the guy whose record of potholes and SB mediocre management that didn't transfer well to the national office have a better resume. The left didn't want the Bern and they screwed him again.

ah but i thought conservatives were all for Unity

I'm for unity. I don't believe it will happen, especially under Dictator Biden and his wet pen, but I am for it.

[Cackalacky2.0]

Klobuchar's Midwest bitchy mom treatment of him is the content America needs.

Can you fix the size of your sig pic please?

[ab2cmiller]

Can you fix the size of your sig pic please?

I can unite behind that statement.

[NorthDakota]

Can you fix the size of your sig pic please?

Lmao holy shit its enormous. Lol yeah I'll get that tightened up this evening. Mullet kid should enhance my posts, not make things janky.

[Legacy]

Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?
G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century.

A president has only limited control over the economy. And yet there has been a stark pattern in the United States for nearly a century. The economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones.

It’s true about almost any major indicator: gross domestic product, employment, incomes, productivity, even stock prices. It’s true if you examine only the precise period when a president is in office, or instead assume that a president’s policies affect the economy only after a lag and don’t start his economic clock until months after he takes office. The gap “holds almost regardless of how you define success,” two economics professors at Princeton, Alan Blinder and Mark Watson, write. They describe it as “startlingly large.” (cont)

[Irish#1]

Originally Posted by Legacy
I appreciate the responses from ND, I#1, arahop and drayer. Certainly the EOs are have become regular actions for Prezs "on Day 1". I was just referring to the those actions as comprised of the Unitary Executive theory and its perceived limits. Correct me if I am wrong that it goes back to Korematsu. We move forward as drayer says "I've found that building relationships and being nice goes a lot further than screaming and demanding."

Cheers, guys!

Was thinking about this yesterday. I think there's two reasons why he may not use EO's as often. 1. He has the House and Senate with him so getting things done should be a lot easier for him than it was for Trump. 2. Biden is an old D.C. politician. He won't have the same mindset or perspective as Trump when trying to get things done. Trump loathed the political BS that makes it impossible to get something passed and implemented fairly quickly so he used EO's to get around the "highway construction zone barriers".

Well it appears Joe is not going to let off the gas pedal. He's setting records for Executive Orders.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/96338...a-record-start

With 28 Executive Orders Signed, President Biden Is Off To A Record Start

In his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed nearly as many executive orders as Franklin Roosevelt signed in his entire first month. And President Roosevelt holds the record.

Adding his signature to three executive orders on immigration Tuesday, Biden has now signed 28 executive orders since taking office. FDR signed 30 in his first month.

"By sheer volume, Biden is going to be the most active president on this front since the 1930s," said Andy Rudalevige, a professor of Government at Bowdoin College.

[Irish#1]

Hate to be that guy but I will be, does he get this job if he were straight?

I know a lot of you will reply with "well but Trump" or "What about that other person hired that was not qualified" but thats not my question.

Oh come on! We know he didn't get the job because he's gay.

He got the job due to political paybacks. Buttgieg dropped out of the race 2 days before Super Tuesday. You can't tell me that there was no backroom bargaining with promises of future appointments.

I suspect there's some truth in both of those. Don't forget Biden appointed Levine a Trans to be the Health Secretary. Along with those and his all female communications team, he's definitely making an effort to show how woke he is and placate the extreme lefties like AOC.

[drayer54]

I suspect there's some truth in both of those. Don't forget Biden appointed Levine a Trans to be the Health Secretary. Along with those and his all female communications team, he's definitely making an effort to show how woke he is and placate the extreme lefties like AOC.

Don't forget he picked his Veep because she won the narrow race against Susan Harris and Karen Bass. It wasn't because she was most qualified (certainly not), delivered a swing state (not even mentioned), or offered executive experience.

The party of identity politics hires based on identity over merit. It's spilled out into libs in the c suite too.

[Wild Bill]

Reminds me of my History professor that blamed the jews for everything. He had half the class convinced Jews invented pornography to control people....

A man has as many masters as he has vices.

[dublinirish]

Duh. It was obvious then and obvious now. I'm willing to bet Clyburn made the deal too. This gives the guy whose record of potholes and SB mediocre management that didn't transfer well to the national office have a better resume. The left didn't want the Bern and they screwed him again.



I'm for unity. I don't believe it will happen, especially under Dictator Biden and his wet pen, but I am for it.

lol what does that even mean? he won the election, how is he a dictator?

[Rogue219]

lol what does that even mean? he won the election, how is he a dictator?

How many dictators have to check with Joe Manchin to make sure he's cool with whatever they're about to do?

[TorontoGold]

I suspect there's some truth in both of those. Don't forget Biden appointed Levine a Trans to be the Health Secretary. Along with those and his all female communications team, he's definitely making an effort to show how woke he is and placate the extreme lefties like AOC.

Who with better qualifications would you have hired? If it's just about placating those darn radicals, surely there's better options.

[drayer54]

lol what does that even mean? he won the election, how is he a dictator?

The title stands until he does anything outside of executive or administrative action.

How many dictators have to check with Joe Manchin to make sure he's cool with whatever they're about to do?

Thank god for Joe Manchin. I'll be cheering for his spine and morals for the next four years. However, I doubt Joe has been called before any of the wet pen stuff coming from the WH.

[drayer54]

Who with better qualifications would you have hired? If it's just about placating those darn radicals, surely there's better options.

This goes back to the binders full of women thing that Romney got roasted for by the left. The reality is that he told the truth and that Biden probably called upon his binders full of women, minorities and trannies.

[Cackalacky2.0]

Who with better qualifications would you have hired? If it's just about placating those darn radicals, surely there's better options.

Any straight white male is automatically more qualified than anyone not a white male or is a gay or transgendered. Didn’t you get the white male memo?

This is why white people are so damn angry and why Trump was elected and was allowed to run amok. It’s why Kneeling during the national anthem is terrible but insurrection is cool. White people have feelings too especially white males and they aren’t being heard.

I mean Biden put an immigrant...... a immigrant to head up DHS. A gay Transportation Secretary. The only traffic that guy knows about is what travels up his ass. Amirite?



Fucking hell lolololl

[drayer54]

Any straight white male is automatically more qualified than anyone not a white male or is a gay or transgendered. Didn’t you get the white male memo?

This is why white people are so damn angry and why Trump was elected and was allowed to run amok. It’s why Kneeling during the national anthem is terrible but insurrection is cool. White people have feelings too especially white males and they aren’t being heard.

I mean Biden put an immigrant...... a immigrant to head up DHS. A gay Transportation Secretary. The only traffic that guy knows about is what travels up his ass. Amirite?

Fucking hell lolololl

As usual, no.

[TorontoGold]

This goes back to the binders full of women thing that Romney got roasted for by the left. The reality is that he told the truth and that Biden probably called upon his binders full of women, minorities and trannies.

Not sure what this is trying to say. Which person, in your opinion, should have been put forward instead of Pete and Levine? I'm all about criticizing someone for bad credentials but, if the argument is that he only picked them because of their orientations then you must have something to say about why they aren't qualified.

[TorontoGold]

Any straight white male is automatically more qualified than anyone not a white male or is a gay or transgendered. Didn’t you get the white male memo?

This is why white people are so damn angry and why Trump was elected and was allowed to run amok. It’s why Kneeling during the national anthem is terrible but insurrection is cool. White people have feelings too especially white males and they aren’t being heard.

I mean Biden put an immigrant...... a immigrant to head up DHS. A gay Transportation Secretary. The only traffic that guy knows about is what travels up his ass. Amirite?



Fucking hell lolololl

I had a sad, because I think the easy argument that could made is that he ran a relatively small town which has pretty basic infrastructure (I don't have an engineering background so I'm speaking straight from my backside). I know it was wildly speculated this was coming because he bent the knee to ratfuck Bernie, but still it's jokes af to see the "HE ONLY DID IT CUZ HE WANTED THAT DAMN FAIRY TO APPEAZE THOSE RADICALS!!1!"

Like, seriously? You think any progressive supports an ex-McKinsey consultant who supported invading the middle east?

[drayer54]

Not sure what this is trying to say. Which person, in your opinion, should have been put forward instead of Pete and Levine? I'm all about criticizing someone for bad credentials but, if the argument is that he only picked them because of their orientations then you must have something to say about why they aren't qualified.

My thought is that Levine was a pure identity play and the Biden WH had the resources to do much better. Pete is in no way qualified and was put there likely from a deal made by Clyburn to get him to drop out and secure Joe the nomination. Not likely, but almost certainly. The transportation system in South Bend isn't remarkable enough to justify elevating a mayor to the cabinet.

IF you want names to playback and forth then it's a waste of time for all involved.

[IrishLax]

Compare Pete Buttigieg to every other Secretary of Transportation this century and you'll see he's less qualified -- in terms of resume -- than the majority of appointees in that role.

But he didn't get the job "because he's gay" ... he got the job because of when he dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, and then the comms work he did for Biden after dropping out. This is basic politics.

[ab2cmiller]

Agreed. Pete is a smart guy but his credentials certainly are lacking for such a position. But he did NOT get this position because he's gay. Pete helped consolidate support for Biden by dropping out before Super Tuesday there's a pretty decent chance that Biden owes him the Democrat nomination win.

[NorthDakota]

Any straight white male is automatically more qualified than anyone not a white male or is a gay or transgendered. Didn’t you get the white male memo?

This is why white people are so damn angry and why Trump was elected and was allowed to run amok. It’s why Kneeling during the national anthem is terrible but insurrection is cool. White people have feelings too especially white males and they aren’t being heard.

I mean Biden put an immigrant...... a immigrant to head up DHS. A gay Transportation Secretary. The only traffic that guy knows about is what travels up his ass. Amirite?



Fucking hell lolololl

I dont expect people to pick "straight white guys" because they are inherently more qualified. Besides, Trump already had his guy Grenell break the gay glass ceiling for Pete anyway.

Buttigieg is a smart guy. No one will dispute that. He may even end up being good at the job. But his work experience, from looking at his Wikipedia page looks like intermittent consulting work after college, being a democratic footsoldier, and being a mayor of a dumpy town. It is what it is.

Nothing about his resume screams "cabinet member."

[Cackalacky2.0]

Compare Pete Buttigieg to every other Secretary of Transportation this century and you'll see he's less qualified -- in terms of resume -- than the majority of appointees in that role.

But he didn't get the job "because he's gay" ... he got the job because of when he dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, and then the comms work he did for Biden after dropping out. This is basic politics.

I absolutely agree with his lack of qualifications other than Mayor of South Bend but his time on the presidential trail people saw him as a great personal speaker and effective at laying out ideas and concepts. Would you say the Secretary position of any cabinet level office is primarily a administrative one?

I mean how much urban housing did Ben Carson know about. Was he smart sure? No one complained about putting a neurosurgeon in place of the Urban housing nor a house wife in charge of education. It’s laughable people are bitching about Pete. Dude is smart and sharp and I have little doubt he isn’t capable of doing the admin side of the job.

[dublinirish]

I dont expect people to pick "straight white guys" because they are inherently more qualified. Besides, Trump already had his guy Grenell break the gay glass ceiling for Pete anyway.

Buttigieg is a smart guy. No one will dispute that. He may even end up being good at the job. But his work experience, from looking at his Wikipedia page looks like intermittent consulting work after college, being a democratic footsoldier, and being a mayor of a dumpy town. It is what it is.

Nothing about his resume screams "cabinet member."

lol Betsy Devos was Secretary of Education...the bar was set so low by the Trump admin so i don't even know how you can say anyone Biden appoints is underqualified

[TorontoGold]

My thought is that Levine was a pure identity play and the Biden WH had the resources to do much better. Pete is in no way qualified and was put there likely from a deal made by Clyburn to get him to drop out and secure Joe the nomination. Not likely, but almost certainly. The transportation system in South Bend isn't remarkable enough to justify elevating a mayor to the cabinet.

IF you want names to playback and forth then it's a waste of time for all involved.

See how easy it was to criticize his qualifications without making a pass at his sexuality? Growth!

In regards to Levine, what about her qualifications don't you like?

[drayer54]

Looks like while we were typing the Biden admin decided to strike another blow at qualified Asians applying to Yale.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...t-yale-n125659

[Blazers46]

I think we are all forgetting he was only on the podium with other "potential" presidential nominees because he was gay. South Bend is the same shit hole its always been. What was he running on besides being known as the gay mayor?

[Cackalacky2.0]

Oh boy.....

[drayer54]

See how easy it was to criticize his qualifications without making a pass at his sexuality? Growth!

In regards to Levine, what about her qualifications don't you like?

When did I ever imply anything about Pete's sexuality? I don't like him but not for who he kisses, but because he sounds like a wish.com Obama, and his views are nowhere near as moderate as people try to pretend they are.

He got the job in a deal last year to drop off. That was my position then, and it is now. Also- not qualified. I could care less about the gay thing. Didn't bother me with Grenell either.

[NorthDakota]

lol Betsy Devos was Secretary of Education...the bar was set so low by the Trump admin so i don't even know how you can say anyone Biden appoints is underqualified

Weird, I dont recall claiming Betsy DeVos was qualified, not that I really would've cared. Don't even care about Pete getting a job he isn't qualified for.

I do care that people think criticizing his appointment is homophobic or something.

His crowning achievement in life is being the mayor of a dumpy town that no one in America would have ever heard of if not for having Notre Dame. It is what it is.

[NorthDakota]

Ooooooh boys we got a homophobic press secretary...or would this be transphobic? Perhaps she can circle back and let us know.

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/...151653379?s=19

[TorontoGold]

When did I ever imply anything about Pete's sexuality? I don't like him but not for who he kisses, but because he sounds like a wish.com Obama, and his views are nowhere near as moderate as people try to pretend they are.

He got the job in a deal last year to drop off. That was my position then, and it is now. Also- not qualified. I could care less about the gay thing. Didn't bother me with Grenell either.

So the binder of women, minorities, and trannies comment?

This goes back to the binders full of women thing that Romney got roasted for by the left. The reality is that he told the truth and that Biden probably called upon his binders full of women, minorities and trannies.

You're dodging the question about Levine - what don't you like about her qualifications that makes her unqualified?

[Blazers46]

Ooooooh boys we got a homophobic press secretary...or would this be transphobic? Perhaps she can circle back and let us know.

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/...151653379?s=19

Don't liberals have some sort of liberal immunity? Since they own the rights to the words "homophobic" and "transphobic"?

[TorontoGold]

I think we are all forgetting he was only on the podium with other "potential" presidential nominees because he was gay. South Bend is the same shit hole its always been. What was he running on besides being known as the gay mayor?

[drayer54]

So the binder of women, minorities, and trannies comment?

You're dodging the question about Levine - what don't you like about her qualifications that makes her unqualified?

Wasn't Biden's goal to pick the most diverse administration ever? That doesn't mean binders full of white guys.
Generically, yes, people have been appointed to check boxes based on appearance. However, I have never implied nor stated anything about Pete's bedroom preferences. I even said why Pete was picked, which again, was not because he is gay.

I'm not dodging the question on Levine. Pennsylvania's handling of COVID under Levine's/Wolfs reign lands them around 40th in deaths/capita with a decision to shove covid positive seniors back in nursing homes where even Levine withdrew her mother. This was a pick for the T community.