46th President of the United States, Joe Biden

[PRTVR]

gregs656 said:

PRTVR said:

Do you think its a good idea to allow ballot papers without recognisable signatures ?
As I said earlier everything in America is polarised.

I don’t recall ever signing a ballot, or presenting ID to vote.

All this stuff is the Republicans complaining their voter obstruction was somewhat undermined thanks to COVID.

They need to get their st together over the minimum wage though.

Edited by gregs656 on Wednesday 3rd March 02:45

The signature part was reference to postal voting, its a requirement in the UK.
I agree on the minimum wage but sadly I think it will fail, big business has to much control and some do not see it in their best interest.

[HM-2]

PRTVR said:

HM-2 said:

PRTVR said:

The details about ballot discrepancies was from here.

https://youtu.be/gDb7uQ76oJU

So your source is a Steven Crowder YouTube video?

Yes and unlike some YouTube sites links are provided to his sources.


https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/show-notes-new-m...

Rather hard to take the citations as valid when they include deleted tweets and when the video obviously misrepresents the sources it claims to quote.

[anonymous-user]

Trump was (quite rightly) criticised for his dismissal of covid and false information (bleach, anyone?). However some also blamed him for the actions, or lack of them, on the ground.

Months on, and despite Biden's rhetoric, States are opening up at an accelerating pace. Meanwhile, democrat States that were used as poster boys are now coming under fire for behaviour that may have caused many unnecessary deaths.

Will those who criticised Trump offer the same criticism of Biden? Or will they accept the POTUS does not have the power to control individual States' response to Covid?

[Byker28i]

None so blinkered as you.

trump did nothing, downplayed the threat, encouraged non mask wearing and then when it all went wrong claimed it was the states fault.
We have testimony that was his approach, as recommended by Kusher.

Biden has put a series of policies and actions into place, there's no surprise that with an adult in charge that the rates are dropping rapidly.

President Biden announces there will be enough vaccine supply for 300 million Americans by the end of May.
This is an acceleration of 2 months overthe previous projection.



It doesn't help the GOP based states are doing their best to continue trumps work

Texas ends mask mandate after 8 months, becoming largest state to lift order intended to prevent spread of COVID-19.
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%.
EVERYTHING.
I also ended the statewide mask mandate.

Edit:
trumps legacy

Edited by Byker28i on Wednesday 3rd March 08:39

[Byker28i]

The Office of Congressional Ethics has concluded that there's "substantial" evidence Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo misused campaign and official funds and used his office to help his brother — in violation of House rules.

[Byker28i]

The White House plans to withdraw the nomination of Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget as early as Tuesday evening, according to people familiar with the matter.

Pres. Biden: "I have accepted Neera Tanden's request to withdraw her name ... I have the utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience and her counsel, and I look forward to having her serve in a role in my Administration. She will bring valuable perspective."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/02...

WH released her letter

Edited by Byker28i on Wednesday 3rd March 07:56

[anonymous-user]

Byker28i said:

The Office of Congressional Ethics has concluded that there's "substantial" evidence Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo misused campaign and official funds and used his office to help his brother — in violation of House rules.

What does this have to do with Biden?

[Byker28i]

RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:

Byker28i said:

The Office of Congressional Ethics has concluded that there's "substantial" evidence Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo misused campaign and official funds and used his office to help his brother — in violation of House rules.

What does this have to do with Biden?

What a short memory you have.
As stated last week, I use this thread to discuss current US politics. Showing a continuing trend of corruption with the GOP is easily linked to the struggles that Biden will have as they oppose his policies for their own personal gains.

[anonymous-user]

Byker28i said:

What a short memory you have.
As stated last week, I use this thread to discuss current US politics. Showing a continuing trend of corruption with the GOP is easily linked to the struggles that Biden will have as they oppose his policies for their own personal gains.

What you mean is that you use the thread for irrelevant, partisan mudslinging.

By all means link your posts to the performance or otherwise of the subject of the thread. Otherwise you're just trolling, something that others often stand accused of despite posting more relevant information than you.

[Byker28i]

I think Cuomo hasn't long left, probably out in the election next year? I can't see him being impeached unless daming evidence emerges, but he's becoming an embarrassment.


Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spent Tuesday fending off calls for his resignation, with few voluble defenders in a moment of unparalleled weakness in his decade-long tenure in Albany.

Signs of the governor’s diminished sway were everywhere.

A small, but expanding, coterie of Democratic lawmakers called on Mr. Cuomo to step down, as did the state Working Families Party, which has frequently clashed with the governor. among some donors, there was an increasing sense of discomfort with reports of Mr. Cuomo’s behavior and uncertainty around his future, with one active Democratic donor describing a growing instinct to “hedge their bets.”

Representative Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican, announced on Tuesday that he was “actively exploring” a run for governor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/nyregion/cuomo-...

[Byker28i]

RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:

Byker28i said:

What a short memory you have.
As stated last week, I use this thread to discuss current US politics. Showing a continuing trend of corruption with the GOP is easily linked to the struggles that Biden will have as they oppose his policies for their own personal gains.

What you mean is that you use the thread for irrelevant, partisan mudslinging.

By all means link your posts to the performance or otherwise of the subject of the thread. Otherwise you're just trolling, something that others often stand accused of despite posting more relevant information than you.

That's your opinion which you are entitled to even if you are wrong - which you are. However you aren't a mod and to be honest I have little regard your views and opinions after several of the things you have posted, but I'm not surprised you've decided to attack me again. I'll say no more.

[Byker28i]

Byker28i said:

I think Cuomo hasn't long left, probably out in the election next year? I can't see him being impeached unless daming evidence emerges, but he's becoming an embarrassment.


Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spent Tuesday fending off calls for his resignation, with few voluble defenders in a moment of unparalleled weakness in his decade-long tenure in Albany.

Signs of the governor’s diminished sway were everywhere.

A small, but expanding, coterie of Democratic lawmakers called on Mr. Cuomo to step down, as did the state Working Families Party, which has frequently clashed with the governor. among some donors, there was an increasing sense of discomfort with reports of Mr. Cuomo’s behavior and uncertainty around his future, with one active Democratic donor describing a growing instinct to “hedge their bets.”

Representative Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican, announced on Tuesday that he was “actively exploring” a run for governor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/nyregion/cuomo-...

More on this. NY lawmakers have reached an informal agreement to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of emergency powers granted him at the start of the pandemic, the latest blow to his tenure amid growing calls to resign over dual scandals.

New York legislative leaders announced an agreement Tuesday to curb pandemic-related emergency powers granted to Governor Andrew Cuomo last year, in the latest blow to his tenure amid growing calls for him to resign over dual scandals.

The legislature will likely act on the bill as soon as Friday, Democratic Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner said Tuesday in a Twitter post. The measure would repeal the extraordinary powers they gave Cuomo at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, limiting his directives to those “necessary to reduce the spread or increase vaccinations.” On a broader level, it would require the governor to provide online reporting on all executive orders, increasing transparency, Woerner wrote.

Cuomo, 63, a third-term Democrat, is facing investigations over accusations from three women of inappropriate behavior, and questions over whether his administration purposely concealed data on Covid-19 deaths of nursing-home residents. Several Democratic lawmakers have called on the governor to step down, while others have suggested impeachment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02...

[HM-2]

RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:

Trump was (quite rightly) criticised for his dismissal of covid and false information (bleach, anyone?). However some also blamed him for the actions, or lack of them, on the ground.

Months on, and despite Biden's rhetoric, States are opening up at an accelerating pace. Meanwhile, democrat States that were used as poster boys are now coming under fire for behaviour that may have caused many unnecessary deaths.

Will those who criticised Trump offer the same criticism of Biden? Or will they accept the POTUS does not have the power to control individual States' response to Covid?

Why do you insist on posting this entirely transparent drivel, which always ends with the same inferred appeal to hypocrisy? Your approach is so absurdly repetitive that it only takes one or two exchanges to make a pretty accurate stab at what your response is going to be composed of even before reading it.

> Point out a thing that Trump was criticised for.
> Cherry-pick some examples of Democrat behaviour that are generally in no way analogous, frequently factually inaccurate, and often bear no relevance to the example they're being compared to.
> Claim that responsibility for these falls directly with the Biden admin, even when it quite obviously doesn't.
> Suggest anyone who doesn't criticise Biden for the aforementioned occurrences is a hypocrite.

You pretend to want to have an honest discourse but your approach suggests anything but. The ability of Biden to influence state policy isn't particularly significant thanks to the way the US political system is architected at its very core. Making oblique references to the state response in New York six to nine months ago when the topic at hand is federal management right now is self-evidently completely irrelevant.

Edited by HM-2 on Wednesday 3rd March 08:13

[anonymous-user]

Byker28i said:

RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:

Byker28i said:

What a short memory you have.
As stated last week, I use this thread to discuss current US politics. Showing a continuing trend of corruption with the GOP is easily linked to the struggles that Biden will have as they oppose his policies for their own personal gains.

What you mean is that you use the thread for irrelevant, partisan mudslinging.

By all means link your posts to the performance or otherwise of the subject of the thread. Otherwise you're just trolling, something that others often stand accused of despite posting more relevant information than you.

That's your opinion which you are entitled to even if you are wrong - which you are. However you aren't a mod and to be honest I have little regard your views and opinions after several of the things you have posted, but I'm not surprised you've decided to attack me again. I'll say no more.

He’s not completely wrong though and there is also some partisan moderating on this thread.

It’s quite obvious that you are pro-democrat whilst using this thread to discuss current US politics.

There is nothing wrong with this but it’s disingenuous to claim that you are neutral in your posts.

It’s not an attack on you personally, it’s a statement of fact.

[Byker28i]

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sanders, I-Vt., and others unveiled their proposed wealth tax, saying it would raise trillions in much-needed revenue and help reduce a wealth divide that has only grown wider during the pandemic. The tax would be a 2% annual levy on wealth over $50 million and 3% on wealth over $1 billion.

Warren said the tax would only affect the wealthiest 100,000 American families — or the top 0.05% — and would raise about $3 trillion over 10 years. She said the added revenue would go to help pay for child care, education infrastructure and clean energy. It is essentially the same tax that Warren championed during her presidential campaign, when the slogan “Two cents” became a popular rallying cry among those who supported the tax. Warren often argues that since the proposed wealth tax rate would be 2%, “It’s only two cents on every dollar after $50 million.”


To combat evasion, the Ultra-Millionaire tax would provide $100 billion to the Internal Revenue Service for stronger enforcement. It would also include a 30% minimum audit rate for households with $50 million or more in assets, as well as new technology tools to help the IRS value hard-to-appraise assets such as art or real estate. For those who would seek to move to another country and renounce their citizenship to avoid the tax, the proposal also includes a 40% “exit tax” on those who try to leave.

“The implementation part is really a lot easier than it looks,” Warren said. “We learned from some of the mistakes they made in Europe. This version of the wealth tax covers all of your property. It doesn’t matter if it’s held in stock or in real estate or in racehorses. Everything is covered, so there’s no point in moving property around. Also wherever you hold, it is covered, whether you hold it here in the U.S., whether you hold it in the Cayman Islands.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/02/jeff-bezos-would-p...


According to Newsweek, University of California Berkeley professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that approximately 100,000 families will be subject to this tax, which is projected to produce $3 trillion in taxpayer dollars over ten years. Both Republicans and Democrats surveyed are in favor of Warren’s bill.

Newsweek reported that the heaviest support for this bill are Republicans in Maine, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa. More will likely support this act once they realize that growth for the wealthy has far outpaced growth for everyone else. The Institute of Policy Studies shows that billionaire incomes have grown by $1.3 trillion since the start of the pandemic, a 44% increase in approximately 11 months. Indeed, the authors of this study found that in pandemic wealth gain alone, the wealthy could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package.


Thoughts? Bezos of course is held up as an example.

According to calculations from the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, would owe $5.7 billion in 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire tax. He still would have been left with a net worth of more than $185 billion after the tax, according to the analysis.

Elon Musk would owe $4.6 billion in 2020 and would still have a fortune of over $148 billion at the end of the year. Bill Gates would have to pay $3.6 billion for 2020, and Mark Zuckerberg would have to pay $3 billion.

[HM-2]

purplepenguin said:

It’s quite obvious that you are pro-democrat.

Assuming this were true, it would only matter if you were intending to hold yourself up as impartial or unbiased, which would be utterly laughable. Frankly, nobody really gives a st if someone as obviously and unequivocally biased as yourself questions the impartiality of another poster.

[anonymous-user]

Byker28i said:

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sanders, I-Vt., and others unveiled their proposed wealth tax, saying it would raise trillions in much-needed revenue and help reduce a wealth divide that has only grown wider during the pandemic. The tax would be a 2% annual levy on wealth over $50 million and 3% on wealth over $1 billion.

Warren said the tax would only affect the wealthiest 100,000 American families — or the top 0.05% — and would raise about $3 trillion over 10 years. She said the added revenue would go to help pay for child care, education infrastructure and clean energy. It is essentially the same tax that Warren championed during her presidential campaign, when the slogan “Two cents” became a popular rallying cry among those who supported the tax. Warren often argues that since the proposed wealth tax rate would be 2%, “It’s only two cents on every dollar after $50 million.”


To combat evasion, the Ultra-Millionaire tax would provide $100 billion to the Internal Revenue Service for stronger enforcement. It would also include a 30% minimum audit rate for households with $50 million or more in assets, as well as new technology tools to help the IRS value hard-to-appraise assets such as art or real estate. For those who would seek to move to another country and renounce their citizenship to avoid the tax, the proposal also includes a 40% “exit tax” on those who try to leave.

“The implementation part is really a lot easier than it looks,” Warren said. “We learned from some of the mistakes they made in Europe. This version of the wealth tax covers all of your property. It doesn’t matter if it’s held in stock or in real estate or in racehorses. Everything is covered, so there’s no point in moving property around. Also wherever you hold, it is covered, whether you hold it here in the U.S., whether you hold it in the Cayman Islands.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/02/jeff-bezos-would-p...


According to Newsweek, University of California Berkeley professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that approximately 100,000 families will be subject to this tax, which is projected to produce $3 trillion in taxpayer dollars over ten years. Both Republicans and Democrats surveyed are in favor of Warren’s bill.

Newsweek reported that the heaviest support for this bill are Republicans in Maine, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa. More will likely support this act once they realize that growth for the wealthy has far outpaced growth for everyone else. The Institute of Policy Studies shows that billionaire incomes have grown by $1.3 trillion since the start of the pandemic, a 44% increase in approximately 11 months. Indeed, the authors of this study found that in pandemic wealth gain alone, the wealthy could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package.


Thoughts? Bezos of course is held up as an example.

According to calculations from the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, would owe $5.7 billion in 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire tax. He still would have been left with a net worth of more than $185 billion after the tax, according to the analysis.

Elon Musk would owe $4.6 billion in 2020 and would still have a fortune of over $148 billion at the end of the year. Bill Gates would have to pay $3.6 billion for 2020, and Mark Zuckerberg would have to pay $3 billion.

What is the POTUS' position on this?

[Byker28i]

Democrats are ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden after he ordered airstrikes in Syria without consulting Congress, saying they aren’t satisfied with the White House’s rationale for the strikes and its lack of engagement with lawmakers.

The Biden administration briefed Senate aides earlier Tuesday on the rationale and legal justification for the president’s decision to launch retaliatory strikes on Iranian-backed military installations in the war-torn country. But administration officials have yet to brief senators directly, so Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) sat in on the staff-level session so that he could hear from the Biden team himself.

He wasn’t happy with what he heard.

“I still need to be convinced that any president has the authorization required to take a retaliatory strike, especially outside of Iraq,” said Murphy, noting that previous authorizations — although outdated — still permit the use of force in Iraq.

“I didn’t hear anything today that convinced me that there was justification that I’d apply to any administration,” Murphy added.


Senators from both parties have expressed frustration that they were not given sufficient notification about the strikes and that Biden ordered them without first seeking congressional approval.

“I learned about it on the news. I’m on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. I don’t think I should be learning about it that way,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who has long pushed to rein in presidential war powers.

Kaine added that because Biden served as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, “he should understand more than most — more than just virtually anybody — that the Article One branch has got to have a role here.”

Biden has told congressional leaders that he ordered the Syria strikes in “self defense” after Iran-backed militia groups attacked American forces in recent weeks. Republican hawks like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said they supported Biden’s decision, underscoring the blurring of partisan lines on the issue of presidential war powers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/02/syria-str...

[anonymous-user]

HM-2 said:

purplepenguin said:

It’s quite obvious that you are pro-democrat.

Assuming this were true, it would only matter if you were intending to hold yourself up as impartial or unbiased, which would be utterly laughable. Frankly, nobody really gives a st if someone as obviously and unequivocally biased as yourself questions the impartiality of another poster.

No, it is just a statement of fact and that fact is not altered by whatever you have decided what I am.

I don’t need to prove my impartiality either way to comment - after all you are commenting on what I have said from a non-impartial viewpoint.

Frankly, you are obviously defending bykers position from an obvious and unequivocal biased position yourself.

By attempting to personally shame me does not change the facts and is your usual poor retort.

[pquinn]

Byker - ever though of posting a single list of links to your favourite stories of the day, instead of flooding the place with massive blocks of copied text usually without acknowledgement?

Links are interesting, copyright infringement much less so.