Biden Presidency

[irishff1014]

Whats the problem with the post??

Nothing. I didn’t realize I was in this thread until after I posted. I just want my post deleted.

 

[RDU Irish]

Hunter is 150% fair game - anyone who doesn't think Biden has funneled money to family for years is either lying or dumb.

 

[Irish#1]

Didn’t take long for Biden to go military on Iran.

 

[notredomer23]

Didn’t take long for Biden to go military on Iran.

 

[Irish#1]

When the shoes on the other foot.



Joe Biden

@JoeBiden
·
Oct 16, 2019

United States government official
This afternoon, I'll be discussing Donald Trump's recent actions in Syria and how his erratic, impulsive decisions endanger our troops and make us all less safe.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

When the shoes on the other foot.



Joe Biden

@JoeBiden
·
Oct 16, 2019

United States government official
This afternoon, I'll be discussing Donald Trump's recent actions in Syria and how his erratic, impulsive decisions endanger our troops and make us all less safe.

Sooo Americans aren't getting that $2000 check that Biden promised, but it took the guy 36 days to launch missiles into Syria.

 

[drayer54]

It took our new Raytheon General all of a month to find a new war. We knew they would take us back, but this is ahead of schedule. The Psaki/Harris/Biden hypocritical tweets are great, but what do you guys think of the results of the Libs push on the military?

 

[NorthDakota]

Seeing libs lose their minds on Twitter this week has been very fun. Obviously that's a bubble and wayyy further left than the moderates who won them control of government, but its not just DSA twitter that is furious right now lmaoooo

 

[IrishLax]

It took our new Raytheon General all of a month to find a new war. We knew they would take us back, but this is ahead of schedule. The Psaki/Harris/Biden hypocritical tweets are great, but what do you guys think of the results of the Libs push on the military?

Laughed out loud at that photo. One of my friends calls those signs "the flag of self-loathing white millionaires."

 

[Blazers46]

US officials ask China not to subject staff to Covid-19 anal swab tests

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/asia/us-china-covid-swab-tests-intl/index.html

Maybe they took Biden literally when Biden said China will eat our lunch...

 

[NorthDakota]

Laughed out loud at that photo. One of my friends calls those signs "the flag of self-loathing white millionaires."

I would love to send this pic to 90% of my class. There would be a petition to expel me by the end of the evening

 

[Bluto]

It has been interesting seeing the current administration begin to push back on the Saudi’s. The withdrawal of support for the genocide in Yemen is a good start. Hopefully Bin Salman ends up in the Hague.

 

[NorthDakota]

It has been interesting seeing the current administration begin to push back on the Saudi’s. The withdrawal of support for the genocide in Yemen is a good start. Hopefully Bin Salman ends up in the Hague.

"Push back" is using that term very loosely.

I forgot if it was WaPo or NYT or CNN... but one of them described Donald's relationship with the Saudis as transactional.... in a negative light... few years later the same paper describes Biden being "unwilling to pay the cost" or something like that.

Sounds pretty transactional....even outside the convenient language.

Time for libs to face it. Biden will do the same thing as the old boss in the areas they didnt want him to.. hes a fragile old man.

 

[drayer54]

Biden is really struggling with these kids in cages.

White House on returning migrant kids to Homestead: ‘It’s not a detention center; it’s a shelter’

Without providing any specific evidence, Sen. Marco Rubio said now it’s the Democrats who are putting kids in cages. On Fox News on Friday, Sent. Rick Scott also criticized Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“What a bunch of hypocrites these Democrats are,” Scott said.

Biden’s administration will be reopening a facility for minors in Homestead that former President Donald Trump’s administration closed in October 2019.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, the former mayor of Miami-Dade County, visited the facility next to the Homestead Air Reserve Base when HHS had entrusted a subsidiary of Caliburn International to manage it.

As Democrats at the time had complained about the secrecy at the facility, attorneys with the National Center for Youth Law reported children there were traumatized and the Florida Immigrant Coalition complained about the “for-profit child detention center.”

https://www.local10.com/news/local/...ead-its-not-a-detention-center-its-a-shelter/

 

[GoldenToTheGrave]

Biden is really struggling with these kids in cages.

White House on returning migrant kids to Homestead: ‘It’s not a detention center; it’s a shelter’


https://www.local10.com/news/local/...ead-its-not-a-detention-center-its-a-shelter/

The difference is those locations are for children that came over the border by themselves and have to be held somewhere (typically a matter of weeks), as opposed to children who were separated from the parents they came with whom were later deported. Of course Biden should have probably realized that the right wing and far left wing media outlets would take the opportunity to do the "both sides are the same" shtick but it is what it is.

 

[Irish#1]

Every candidate loves to pound sand about how bad the decisions are that the president makes, Then when elected they go about doing the same thing. Only they like to use different terms and insist it's different. The strike in Syria, the use of Executive Orders and now this, "When the shoes on the other foot".

 

[drayer54]

Every candidate loves to pound sand about how bad the decisions are that the president makes, Then when elected they go about doing the same thing. Only they like to use different terms and insist it's different. The strike in Syria, the use of Executive Orders and now this, "When the shoes on the other foot".

I'm not shocked by how they have handled it. What's different now is the change in the outrage and the media coverage. We went from screaming and profile photo frames to excuses and "not okay"

 

[drayer54]

Duplicate entry

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

I really need GoIrish41 to come out of the woodwork again and explain how Trump built internment camps but Biden has opened new "shelters" for migrant children.

 

[Chicago Domer]

The HR1 bill is very troubling. It basically negates any state laws requiring voter ID to vote in a federal election. Dems trying to pull a fast one which would basically legalize voter cheating. Republicans will just need to learn how to cheat better.

There’s a lot more to it, but it’s meant to keep the Dems in power long into the future.

The House passed it barely with no Republican votes. I sincerely hope the Senate has more sense.

 

[Irish#1]

The HR1 bill is very troubling. It basically negates any state laws requiring voter ID to vote in a federal election. Dems trying to pull a fast one which would basically legalize voter cheating. Republicans will just need to learn how to cheat better.

There’s a lot more to it, but it’s meant to keep the Dems in power long into the future.

The House passed it barely with no Republican votes. I sincerely hope the Senate has more sense.

Harris will end up casting the deciding vote.

 

[IrishLax]

The HR1 bill is very troubling. It basically negates any state laws requiring voter ID to vote in a federal election. Dems trying to pull a fast one which would basically legalize voter cheating. Republicans will just need to learn how to cheat better.

There’s a lot more to it, but it’s meant to keep the Dems in power long into the future.

The House passed it barely with no Republican votes. I sincerely hope the Senate has more sense.

On the flip side you have Republicans in states across the country trying to restrict voting rights. For example, they're ironically trying to undo the 100% Republican supported bill that opened up absentee voting in Pennsylvania. Banning early voting on Sundays in Georgia because a lot of black people go vote after church in GOTV drives. A litany of voter restrictions in Arizona mainly targeted at making it harder for Native Americans and Latinos to vote. Etc. Etc.

There is a case up in the SCOTUS right now on voting rights and Amy Coney Barrett asked then RNC lawyer yesterday why they were involved in the case and he said on record that it was because restrictions help Republicans and politics is a "zero sum game" ... i.e. none of this is about being fair or doing the right thing, it is transparently doing whatever you can to help your side win.

HR1 is the Democrats' equivalent. This is one of those issues where both sides are literally doing the same thing. Voter ID? It is a joke that anyone thinks that requiring an ID to vote is unfair. Virtually every country requires an ID to vote. And if it were a barrier, the answer is to make it easier for poor people in urban environments to get government IDs. Democrats are trying to eliminate every barrier and every safeguard because it'll help them win... Republicans are trying to make it as hard as possible to vote because it will help them win... none of it has anything to do with "election integrity" or fair voting practices for Americans citizens.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Ive got zero problems homogenizing voter rights and standardizing the process so EVERY PERSON who is legally able to vote can vote. Why cant voting just be standardized? Why do states need their own rules for a federally mandated right? What is the harm in doing something as easy as that? Standardize early voting. Standardize absentee voting. Minimize wait times or line lengths. It harms no one and helps everyone. In person voter fraud is rare. Absentee voter fraud seems to be even more rare. Vote suppression and restricting voter rights is out of control. Targeting minorities and groups that tend to vote Dem is out of control.

 

[Rogue219]

Ive got zero problems homogenizing voter rights and standardizing the process so EVERY PERSON who is legally able to vote can vote. Why cant voting just be standardized? Why do states need their own rules for a federally mandated right? What is the harm in doing something as easy as that? Standardize early voting. Standardize absentee voting. Minimize wait times or line lengths. It harms no one and helps everyone. In person voter fraud is rare. Absentee voter fraud seems to be even more rare. Vote suppression and restricting voter rights is out of control. Targeting minorities and groups that tend to vote Dem is out of control.

"tradition" and "heiritage." If you know what I mean.

If there is a second coup today as I am hearing, good luck to all the insurectionalists, especially those who are currently serving in Congress. Thoughts and prayers.

Special thanks to our military, who have been actually running things these last couple of months while we wait for his Excellency to assume the thrown again.

 

[NorthDakota]

Ive got zero problems homogenizing voter rights and standardizing the process so EVERY PERSON who is legally able to vote can vote. Why cant voting just be standardized? Why do states need their own rules for a federally mandated right? What is the harm in doing something as easy as that? Standardize early voting. Standardize absentee voting. Minimize wait times or line lengths. It harms no one and helps everyone. In person voter fraud is rare. Absentee voter fraud seems to be even more rare. Vote suppression and restricting voter rights is out of control. Targeting minorities and groups that tend to vote Dem is out of control.

Lol I'm not sure anyone really wants voting to be standardized. States are labs anyway, they do a better job at this sort of thing than the Feds will do. Could you imagine the wild conspiracy theories people would every time a new administration comes in and changes things? Say in 2017, the Feds passed legislation curbing or outright banning mail voting.... would you be fine with that? After all...its now standardized. What about legislation limiting early voting to occurring no earlier than a week before election day?

Besides, this post is particularly silly in light of 2020. This is all "VoTeR sUpPrEsSiOn" when the latest election had a huge turnout. Makes about as much sense as Stacey Abrams whining about how her voters were suppressed but also that she got this amazing turnout.

If people have a problem with the ways specific states handle things, then sue them. Constitution has some pretty big protections in there

 

[drayer54]

Ive got zero problems homogenizing voter rights and standardizing the process so EVERY PERSON who is legally able to vote can vote. Why can't voting just be standardized? Why do states need their own rules for a federally mandated right? What is the harm in doing something as easy as that? Standardize early voting. Standardize absentee voting. Minimize wait times or line lengths. It harms no one and helps everyone. In person voter fraud is rare. Absentee voter fraud seems to be even more rare. Vote suppression and restricting voter rights is out of control. Targeting minorities and groups that tend to vote Dem is out of control.

Because people need confidence in their elections above all else and we do not currently have that. The party in power can't tweak the rules to their favor across the country and our elections must be protected. Voter ID is a must and this bill is a pure power grab like everything else the left is pushing. States should control their elections. HR 1 is awful and should never clear the Manchin barrier.

Also- anyone noticing our recent border failure?
Biden’s Unnecessary Border Crisis

His rhetoric during the campaign suggesting an open-handed approach to migrants coming to the U.S., and his early moves to undo Donald Trump’s border policies are creating a migrant surge that risks running out of control.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the situation isn’t a crisis, but “a challenge”—an “acute” and “stressful” challenge with some “urgency,” but merely a challenge all the same.

Consider the contours of this challenge. Twice as many people, about 80,000, tried to cross the border illegally in January of this year as compared with January a year ago.

Even though it isn’t peak traveling season yet (that traditionally comes in May and June), U.S. Border Patrol has already begun releasing migrants into U.S. towns on the border, and the number of minors arriving per day is four times higher than in October.

Axios reported on a briefing prepared for Biden that warned that the number of migrants kids is on pace to set a record, and there aren’t nearly enough beds to accommodate them. Per Axios, the briefing projects that an astonishing 117,000 unaccompanied children will show up at the border this year, and it says we’ll need another 20,000 beds.

Health and Human Services, which takes custody of minors, has begun expediting their release to adults in the U.S., and paying their transportation costs.

Meanwhile, the Biden team is reopening detention facilities at the border that drew the ire of Democrats during Trump’s presidency.

If Joe Biden decides to do a press conference this year, we can ask him about it. But it looks like Joe isn't the one making the calls....

 

[TorontoGold]

Lol I'm not sure anyone really wants voting to be standardized. States are labs anyway, they do a better job at this sort of thing than the Feds will do. Could you imagine the wild conspiracy theories people would every time a new administration comes in and changes things? Say in 2017, the Feds passed legislation curbing or outright banning mail voting.... would you be fine with that? After all...its now standardized. What about legislation limiting early voting to occurring no earlier than a week before election day?

Besides, this post is particularly silly in light of 2020. This is all "VoTeR sUpPrEsSiOn" when the latest election had a huge turnout. Makes about as much sense as Stacey Abrams whining about how her voters were suppressed but also that she got this amazing turnout.

If people have a problem with the ways specific states handle things, then sue them. Constitution has some pretty big protections in there

We have a non-partisan agency that runs the Federal elections (Elections Canada), it answers to the parliament so I guess by extension it can be subject to some partisanship but less so than a typical crown corp.

Would it be possible for the US to have a similar setup?

 

[Rogue219]

Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud now when it comes to voting. That's what rather shocking about all of this. Don't say the quiet part out loud that turnout is bad for you politically. The masters of dog whistles and coded languages are flat out telling Supreme Court justices "This is really bad for us because politics is a zero sum game."

FFS. Stick with the Big Lie, but keep the quiet part the quiet part. Damn.

The mass closings of polling places and facilities to obtain an ID when ID is made required since 2010 is pretty staggering. It isn't rocket science.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Lol I'm not sure anyone really wants voting to be standardized. States are labs anyway, they do a better job at this sort of thing than the Feds will do. Could you imagine the wild conspiracy theories people would every time a new administration comes in and changes things? Say in 2017, the Feds passed legislation curbing or outright banning mail voting.... would you be fine with that? After all...its now standardized. What about legislation limiting early voting to occurring no earlier than a week before election day?

Besides, this post is particularly silly in light of 2020. This is all "VoTeR sUpPrEsSiOn" when the latest election had a huge turnout. Makes about as much sense as Stacey Abrams whining about how her voters were suppressed but also that she got this amazing turnout.

If people have a problem with the ways specific states handle things, then sue them. Constitution has some pretty big protections in there

You mean like all the arbitrary laws being passed in Georgia to take away normal voting methods used by AA's? ok eyerooooooollllll

The point of my "silly" post is that currently voting is a hodgepodge across 50 states. As Lax says the politics will play games to ge t an edge every election year. The GOP is currently changing the rules now since the y lost GA (LMAO) to Biden. The rule changes primarily affect AA's traditional voting methods. Why? Becasue their vote difference came from primarily AA turnout and their ease with which they LEGALLY voted.

Standarzing this across 50 states is a no brainer. Setting rules as to what methods are valid. What time frames they are available and accepted, sig matching, ID checks.. whatever... This is easily doable and makes 100% total sense. Then its simply a matter of facilitating the turnout. It harms NO one and helps everyone.

 

[NorthDakota]

We have a non-partisan agency that runs the Federal elections (Elections Canada), it answers to the parliament so I guess by extension it can be subject to some partisanship but less so than a typical crown corp.

Would it be possible for the US to have a similar setup?

Our elections are covered in part by Art. 1, Section 4 of the Constitution. Then you got the other amendments regarding voting.

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations . . .

Congress can do some things there, it doesn't appear to be particularly limited. I'm not sure what the outer bounds of what can be done is, whether that is a large standardization effort or delegating broad authority to some agency.