46th President of the United States, Joe Biden

46th President of the United States, Joe Biden

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kowalski655

14,656 posts

144 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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Just dont close all the polling stations in Dem areas,allow early voting,automatic registration, and postal voting, and independent districting to stop the gerrymandering

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has topped 500,000.

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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PRTVR said:
rscott said:
PRTVR said:
HM-2 said:
PRTVR said:
Byker28i said:
Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers just try to make up new rules in voting obstruction. 106 new bills in 28 states threaten to limit mail-in voting access, add voter ID requirements, and make voter rolls more elusive, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice. Compared to only 35 such bills in 15 states a year ago, this fervor is “grounded in a rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities.”

Well they think they lost because of mail in voting, so its only to be expected after years of voting restrictions imposed on anyone that doesn't vote GOP.
How is it racist to only have eligible people vote ?
Cases of electoral fraud in the US are so vanishingly rare (an estimated 70 fraudulent votes during the 2020 election from a total of over 155,000,000 ballots) that legislation simply isn't needed to address a nonexistent problem.

It's well known that ID laws discriminate against legal minorities as well as several other categories of voter including those from low income backgrounds, the elderly and disabled. In the 7 states that currently have stringent photo ID laws, every single form of accepted ID requires both payment and the navigation of significant bureaucracy just to apply. Thus poses obvious access challenges for non-native English speakers, those from low income socioeconomic groups, and anyone who may require assistance to complete requisite paperwork- especially in a time such as now.

The reason for the Republican push for more stringent voting regulations is specifically to try and depress votes amongst groups that vote predominantly Democrat. Proposed tightening of mail-in ballots, fyir instance, are designed predominantly to make it harder for students, who may be resident in one state but living in another to study, to vote. And measures which have seen huge numbers of polling stations closed in many rural counties are aimed at disenfranchising those too poor to avoid the cars required to travel to cast votes.

Edited by HM-2 on Sunday 21st February 09:52
Driving is not considered a luxury in the USA its considered a necessity, an old pickup can be purchased for very little money , if you live outside the main metropolitan areas.
Since taken office gas prices have increased in America and look to keep rising, who will that effect the most, the poor,
You cannot pretend to be looking after the poor whilst at the same time as you make them poorer.

The UK is introducing a similar requirement for voting, personally I think its a good idea.

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2021/02/19/uk-govern...
My colleagues in Atlanta regularly queue for 2-3 hours to vote - simply because there aren't many polling stations. Their boss is understanding of the situation and allows them as much time as they need, but not everyone is that lucky.
He's concerned about the changes there which aim to remove postal votes from many - he's voted by post for 20 years as he spends much of his time travelling, so never knows if he'd be in town to vote..(well apart from last year..).

One in Texas took 5 hours to vote last year - simply because of the lack of polling stations. Last time he voted, it took 20 minutes, but he since moved to a mainly black area and suddenly it's more difficult.
I can see that problem, and for some a postal vote is a necessity, but it the requirements for verification to postal vote are met prior the vote why would he not be able to continue with postal voting ?
I see in the UK the proposal is for the council to provide free a card that permits one to vote if you do not have a photographic means of identification.
Actually many of the poor black people don't have a vehicle, which is why they introduced a photo id requirement in some areas to vote - a driving licence is one form of id, a passport is another - which many of the poorer and Dem voters don't have.

Strange that... along with withdrawing voting sites from similar areas, gerrymandering, etc. Can't have anyone voting who isn't GOP, thinks the GOP

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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Don Jnr can't let Lauren Boebert have all the fun posing woth guns

He seems to be troubled...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1363331087804624899

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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Remember just a few months ago Texans for trump were running Bidens bus off the road, colliding with it...

President Joe Biden has declared that Texas is experiencing a major disaster, as residents continue to grapple with the aftermath of a catastrophic winter storm that hit the central and southern U.S. earlier this week.

As of Saturday morning, the storm had been linked to at least 27 deaths in the state, and food and safe drinking water was in sort supply for millions of Texans.

With the major disaster declaration, people in 77 of Texas' 254 counties will be eligible for federal funding to help with recovery efforts. The assistance includes grants for temporary housing and home repairs, as well as "low-cost loans" to cover uninsured property losses, the White House said Saturday in a statement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-texas-storm-maj...

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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There's something really screwed with the us system if you get a huge power bill? Shutdown plants means consumers pay significantly more?


Electric customers across North Texas have been reaching out for help after looking at unbelievable electricity bills.

The power cost for some went up astronomically for when the power was on and even some for when it was off during the extreme winter weather.

Unless you're in a variable rate plan, you should not see a change in your energy rate.
When it comes time for a new contract, we may see higher prices.

Dozens have reached out to say there's one company you will not be signing up with.
Ty Williams and his family in Alrington were among the lucky ones during this week's storm and never lost power. However, he did pay the price in the form of a $17,000 electric bill for three meters over five days of use. He is a customer of a company called Griddy.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/griddy-customer-unab...


Of course it helps to try to deflect away from years of Republican Party governance, by trying to blame wind power.
Under various Republican administrations over the last several decades, Texas declared independence from federal energy regulations, and except for border towns like El Paso, broke away from the national power grid. This allowed them to maximise profit


Crafty_

13,297 posts

201 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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If Cruz wants to redeem himself a little he'll get those bills wiped.

I bet he doesn't.

silentbrown

8,858 posts

117 months

Sunday 21st February 2021
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Byker28i said:
Remember just a few months ago Texans for trump were running Bidens bus off the road, colliding with it...
IIRC It was a Biden campaign bus rather than specifically "Biden's bus". (Harris was in Texas but not on the bus, Biden wasn't in the state.)


rscott

14,774 posts

192 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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PRTVR said:
rscott said:
PRTVR said:
HM-2 said:
PRTVR said:
Byker28i said:
Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers just try to make up new rules in voting obstruction. 106 new bills in 28 states threaten to limit mail-in voting access, add voter ID requirements, and make voter rolls more elusive, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice. Compared to only 35 such bills in 15 states a year ago, this fervor is “grounded in a rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities.”

Well they think they lost because of mail in voting, so its only to be expected after years of voting restrictions imposed on anyone that doesn't vote GOP.
How is it racist to only have eligible people vote ?
Cases of electoral fraud in the US are so vanishingly rare (an estimated 70 fraudulent votes during the 2020 election from a total of over 155,000,000 ballots) that legislation simply isn't needed to address a nonexistent problem.

It's well known that ID laws discriminate against legal minorities as well as several other categories of voter including those from low income backgrounds, the elderly and disabled. In the 7 states that currently have stringent photo ID laws, every single form of accepted ID requires both payment and the navigation of significant bureaucracy just to apply. Thus poses obvious access challenges for non-native English speakers, those from low income socioeconomic groups, and anyone who may require assistance to complete requisite paperwork- especially in a time such as now.

The reason for the Republican push for more stringent voting regulations is specifically to try and depress votes amongst groups that vote predominantly Democrat. Proposed tightening of mail-in ballots, fyir instance, are designed predominantly to make it harder for students, who may be resident in one state but living in another to study, to vote. And measures which have seen huge numbers of polling stations closed in many rural counties are aimed at disenfranchising those too poor to avoid the cars required to travel to cast votes.

Edited by HM-2 on Sunday 21st February 09:52
Driving is not considered a luxury in the USA its considered a necessity, an old pickup can be purchased for very little money , if you live outside the main metropolitan areas.
Since taken office gas prices have increased in America and look to keep rising, who will that effect the most, the poor,
You cannot pretend to be looking after the poor whilst at the same time as you make them poorer.

The UK is introducing a similar requirement for voting, personally I think its a good idea.

https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2021/02/19/uk-govern...
My colleagues in Atlanta regularly queue for 2-3 hours to vote - simply because there aren't many polling stations. Their boss is understanding of the situation and allows them as much time as they need, but not everyone is that lucky.
He's concerned about the changes there which aim to remove postal votes from many - he's voted by post for 20 years as he spends much of his time travelling, so never knows if he'd be in town to vote..(well apart from last year..).

One in Texas took 5 hours to vote last year - simply because of the lack of polling stations. Last time he voted, it took 20 minutes, but he since moved to a mainly black area and suddenly it's more difficult.
I can see that problem, and for some a postal vote is a necessity, but it the requirements for verification to postal vote are met prior the vote why would he not be able to continue with postal voting ?
I see in the UK the proposal is for the council to provide free a card that permits one to vote if you do not have a photographic means of identification.
Because Georgia is looking to restrict access to postal votes - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/19/ge...
"A separate bill under consideration in the state senate would eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, something Republicans wrote into law in 2005, allowing people to vote by mail only if they are 75 or older or have an excuse."

They're also looking to block early voting on Sundays, which just so happens to be the day many black Christian voters normally do it - often after they've attended church.

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Byker28i said:
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has topped 500,000.
Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to open up about his experiences working under the Trump administration, revealing the moment he began to lose influence with former President Donald Trump.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Telegraph, the infectious disease specialist recalled a marked shift in his professional relationship with Trump in April or May of last year, once the president began to publicly side with anti-lockdown protesters and back states’ efforts to lift stay-at-home orders.

“My influence with [Trump] diminished when he decided to essentially act like there was no outbreak and focus on re-election and opening the economy,” Fauci, who is now serving as chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, recalled Friday. “That’s when he said, “It’s going to go away, it’s magical, don’t worry about it.”’

Immediately thereafter, he added, “my direct influence on him was negligible. It became more conflictual than productive.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-fauci-donal...


The GOP stood back and stood by and must take part of the blame in these deaths. Many promoted trumps attacks on mask wearing etc


Edit: Today's 7-day average of cases is the lowest since October 23, towards the beginning of the winter wave.


https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1363642...

Edited by Byker28i on Monday 22 February 06:25

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Sen. Ted Cruz is being mocked for posting pictures of himself loading water bottles into a vehicle as he seeks to repair the political damage from jetting off to Cancun for a family vacation during the winter storms that devastated Texas.

Cruz posted the pictures Saturday night showing him loading packs of water into a car in an empty parking lot under the hashtag #TexasStrong.

In the post, Cruz did not say where the pictures were taken.

Scientist Peter Gleick pointed out that Cruz is apparently violating CDC rules advising travelers returning from Mexico to self-quarantine for 7 days and get a COVID-19 test.
https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-ted-cruz-m...


He's in sunshine in shirtsleeves, so the weather is better then


he's also tweeting about the bills


if only he hadn't tweeted things like this before


Edited by Byker28i on Monday 22 February 06:32

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Cruz took his friend with him on holiday

In explaining his disastrous Cancún trip, Sen. Ted Cruz failed to mention his college roommate also was along for the visit.
Axios has learned Cruz (R-Texas) invited David Panton, his longtime friend and former roommate at Princeton and Harvard Law, to join the family getaway.
https://www.axios.com/ted-cruz-cancun-college-room...

Edited by Byker28i on Monday 22 February 07:17

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Seen the latest nutter conspiracy. Biden controls the weather and deliberately punished Texas...


According to Scott L. Biddle in a post from this Saturday, “weather manipulation and controlling the Jetstream has been going on for years.” He then cited a comment from Biden during the final presidential debate where he said that a “dark winter” was coming due to what he said was the former Trump administration’s lack of plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But according to Biddle’s post, Biden was actually referring to something more sinister.

“Joe Biden’s ‘Dark Winter’ statement was not a random thought, it was a foreshadow of what was to come,” Biddle wrote. “Texas is the only state to have its own, entirely independent electric grid separate from the rest of the United States. This is warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the Jetstream, seeding the clouds, and ultimately causing the storm that blacked out over 4 million people. Sound crazy? Too hard to believe? Believe it.”

“If Texas is on an independent power grid system, how did it fail?” the post continued. “Every system has a flaw, A lot of Texas runs on wind turbines and solar power. All the wind turbines are frozen to a stop, all the solar panels are covered with ice and snow, Texas’s flaw is cold weather – their biggest weakness is being used against them.”
https://deadstate.org/fact-checkers-no-biden-did-n...

Politifact had to point out this was false...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/16/...

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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This is just desperate...

Former White House adviser Larry Kudlow suggested over the weekend that massive power outages in Texas are "the consequences" of electing President Joe Biden, who has only been in office a month.

During an interview on Sunday, Kudlow spoke to Fox News host Howard Kurtz about his new Fox Business program.

"I think they've moved very rapidly toward the progressive left position on a lot of these issues," Kudlow said of the Biden administration. "He tried to temper it with talk about unity. There was some talk about moving to the center, that there would be more balance, there wouldn't be a far-left progressive agenda."

"Unfortunately in the early weeks -- what, we've got a month here -- it has been a left, progressive agenda," he continued. "He's gone after the energy sector. You saw some of the consequences in Texas. That's just the tip of the iceberg."
Kudlow did not immediately explain what Biden had done to cause the power outages.

https://youtu.be/FUCodMiaCf4

The Rotrex Kid

30,353 posts

161 months

Monday 22nd February 2021
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Byker28i said:
Seen the latest nutter conspiracy. Biden controls the weather and deliberately punished Texas...


According to Scott L. Biddle in a post from this Saturday, “weather manipulation and controlling the Jetstream has been going on for years.” He then cited a comment from Biden during the final presidential debate where he said that a “dark winter” was coming due to what he said was the former Trump administration’s lack of plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But according to Biddle’s post, Biden was actually referring to something more sinister.

“Joe Biden’s ‘Dark Winter’ statement was not a random thought, it was a foreshadow of what was to come,” Biddle wrote. “Texas is the only state to have its own, entirely independent electric grid separate from the rest of the United States. This is warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the Jetstream, seeding the clouds, and ultimately causing the storm that blacked out over 4 million people. Sound crazy? Too hard to believe? Believe it.”

“If Texas is on an independent power grid system, how did it fail?” the post continued. “Every system has a flaw, A lot of Texas runs on wind turbines and solar power. All the wind turbines are frozen to a stop, all the solar panels are covered with ice and snow, Texas’s flaw is cold weather – their biggest weakness is being used against them.”
https://deadstate.org/fact-checkers-no-biden-did-n...

Politifact had to point out this was false...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/16/...
Brilliant rofl

Noodle1982

2,103 posts

107 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Biden casually dropping in the N word mid speech at his virtual Munich security conference

https://mobile.twitter.com/Malcolm_fleX48/status/1...


The Rotrex Kid

30,353 posts

161 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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That’s a straw grasp if I’ve ever seen one.

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Remember all of trumps nominations - Kavanaughs drunken behaviour, the strange payoff of his gambling debts that were never explained..
Remember whent rump nominated Ric Grenell for a diplomatic post, despite all his obnoxious twitter posts. Manchin and Collins had no problem voting for him...




Nearly all of President Joe Biden's nominees pending on Capitol Hill are likely to be confirmed, with one notable exception.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Friday he will oppose Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget, imperiling the prospects of a high-profile nominee of President Joe Biden.

The conservative Democrat explained in a written statement that he'd "carefully reviewed" Neera Tanden's tweets, and he's not comfortable with her "overtly partisan statements," which he added would have "a toxic and detrimental impact" on her work with Congress.

This morning, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also announced her opposition to Tanden's nomination, denouncing her "temperament."

It's a difficult political dynamic to defend.

Jeff Sessions had a lengthy record of, among other things, making overtly partisan statements and having a suspect temperament. Manchin and Collins voted for his attorney general nomination anyway. Bill Barr had a similar record, and the "centrist" senators voted to confirm him, too.

There was no shortage of questions about Mike Pompeo's partisanship and political temperament, but he also picked up "yes" votes from Manchin and Collins. When Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was pending, he was unusually aggressive in his partisan posture -- only to be confirmed with support from Manchin and Collins, anyway.

The senators' allies might suggest those other nominees were different, because they didn't publish intemperate tweets the way Tanden did. Putting aside the fact that this is a strange standard, it raises a related question: what about Richard Grenell?

As Robert Mackey explained a few years ago, Grenell "was forced to delete hundreds of sexist, rude comments from his Twitter feed in 2012."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/biden-s-p...

Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Noodle1982 said:
Biden casually dropping in the N word mid speech at his virtual Munich security conference

https://mobile.twitter.com/Malcolm_fleX48/status/1...
The Rotrex Kid said:
That’s a straw grasp if I’ve ever seen one.
They could have said he stumbled through his speech, as that was also claimed in /pol on 4chan.

It's tried to be a deflection from the story yesterday that Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn gave an interview on TV, about the trump supporters coup attempt on the capitol.

"I got called a [N-word] a couple dozen times," Dunn recalls telling a colleague. "Is this America? They beat police officers with Blue Lives Matter flags. They fought us, they had Confederate flags in the U.S. Capitol."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-police-off...


Byker28i

60,198 posts

218 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Meanwhile Biden has ordered flags to be lowered to half mast for 5 days in remembrance of the 500,000 killed by CV-19, or trumps indifference, backed by the GOP.

President Biden on 500,000 U.S. COVID deaths: "As we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in America, remember each person and the life they lived. They're people we knew. They're people we feel like we knew. Read the obituaries and remembrances."

"We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There's no such thing. There's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary. They span generations. Born in America, emigrated to America."

"We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or on the news. We must do so to honor the dead. But, equally important, to care for the living."

"To heal, we must remember. I know it's hard. I promise you, I know it's hard. I remember. But that's how you heal. You have to remember. And it's also important to do that as a nation. For those who have lost loved ones, this is what I know: They're never truly gone."

"It's not Democrats and Republicans who are dying from the virus. It's our fellow Americans. It's our neighbors, our friends, our mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters. Husbands, wives. We have to fight this together, as one people. As the United States."

"We will get through this, I promise you. But my heart aches for those of you who are going through it right now. May God bless you all, particularly those who have lost someone. God bless you."


Biden calls for unity as the GOP continue to play games, blocking nominations, delaying them, fighting against the relief bill, and of course continuing with voter obstruction...