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After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

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10 minutes ago, Cclm said:

Please provide a case where a republican ever did that. It's in my opinion that even if a republican has an issue with gays, they would keep that very quiet. Lest the left find out  and ruin their life. 

Perhaps I was being dramatic when I said "right to exist".    But I'm 62 and in my lifetime I remember gay people being arrested for being in a gay bar, being fired from teaching jobs or any job, or being sent to mental institutions because it was considered a mental illness.  I myself was fired from a job in the 80's because I wasn't "manly enough".  

But here are a few examples of what one of the Senators of my state taken a stance on in the here and now, and he doesn't seem to fear that the left will find out and ruin his life.  He was trying to get elected.  He's not alone.  I could go on and on.

https://www.hrc.org/resources/2016republicanfacts-marco-rubio

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-equality-act-transgender-b1807048.html

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Again...none of what you describe is alarming, particularly when contrasted with the fellow who would be president had your judgement about competence and intellectual capacity prevailed in the 2020 presidential election or on January 6. The fellow you support is not only predictably corrupt and incompetent, he is terrible orator with a real habit of verbal rants, with delusion and lies mixed in the word salad.  

Why don't you provide evidence to the contrary? Insulting Trump doesn't prove Biden is not in decline. He's not? Say why. 

40 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I don't think so either but to be honest, as I've admitted before I haven't studied it much.   I just don't think Republican's hearts are in the right place when all of a saddened when they lost the presidency, they decided voting laws needed change.  Our Governor here in Florida said we were the role model for the country, but still felt the need to change them.  

I've lived here 30 years and we've always had to show ID to vote since I've been here.  


https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-black-voters/index.html

So fair enough. Thank you for respectfully stating your opinion. 

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13 minutes ago, Cclm said:

Why don't you provide evidence to the contrary? Insulting Trump doesn't prove Biden is not in decline. He's not? Say why. 

He's not in some accelerated state of decline as evidenced by the videos readily available on a daily basis demonstrating that President Biden is alert, oriented, speaks in full sentences, is capable of complex thought and follow through, that he's not emotionally labile or prone to outbursts of anger or paranoia.  There's more evidence that you are consuming partisan propaganda than there is that Biden is suffering  from dementia.  

You would be much better assessing and commenting on presidential mental decline had you practiced on the obvious signs of decline demonstrated by Trump for several years.  The fact that you can't see or comment on those obvious indicators calls your assessment skills into question. 

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

He's not in some accelerated state of decline as evidenced by the videos readily available on a daily basis demonstrating that President Biden is alert, oriented, speaks in full sentences, is capable of complex thought and follow through, that he's not emotionally labile or prone to outbursts of anger or paranoia.  There's more evidence that you are consuming partisan propaganda than there is that Biden is suffering  from dementia.  

You would be much better assessing and commenting on presidential mental decline had you practiced on the obvious signs of decline demonstrated by Trump for several years.  The fact that you can't see or comment on those obvious indicators calls your assessment skills into question. 

What makes you believe Trump was in decline? What makes you think Biden isn't? 

Biden has said sentences that were incoherent several times. He forgets where he is, peoples names and their titles. His gait is unsteady and reads everything on a teleprompter.  He has made several comments on what he is allowed to say. 

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1 hour ago, Cclm said:

What makes you believe Trump was in decline? What makes you think Biden isn't? 

Biden has said sentences that were incoherent several times. He forgets where he is, peoples names and their titles. His gait is unsteady and reads everything on a teleprompter.  He has made several comments on what he is allowed to say. 

I'm retired. I watch and listen to our presidents and political leadership when they make public remarks. I read transcripts of their comments.  I'm trained in psychiatric nursing and behavioral health.  

Let's start by comparing incoherent verbal communication...you provide one for Biden and I'll give you 2 from Trump that will make your example appear contrived in comparison. If word salad and confused communication are your tests then it's clear that Trump has the larger problem.  

Everyone uses teleprompters when appropriate.  Is it a sign of dementia when Trump uses one? Speaking of which, you don't really think that Trump is good at reading and speaking from a teleprompter, do you?

Yes. President Biden sometimes expresses humor in sarcastic ways rather than by trying to humiliate or belittle others, as Trump did.  I mean, when Trump called people names I didn't think it was funny but Trump occasionally suggested that his demeaning language was just a joke or similar. 

Are you aware that Trump's own cabinet included people who were concerned about his mental health after he totally botched covid and then lost the election? He certainly is delusional about fraud in the 2020 election. It's difficult to imagine how you are completely unaware of Trump's instability but are suddenly very focused and concerned about "evidence" of Biden's mental health.  

Well not really difficult to imagine how.  That wasn't true. 

 

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6 hours ago, Tweety said:

I did and changed it but probably too late.  

Gay Republicans are in unique position in that they have to ignore all the discriminatory rhetoric from their party, they are excluded and not invited to events.  Evangelical Republicans think they are an abomination.  Their idea is to change the party from within, but the Log Cabin Republicans (the major gay republican organization) has been trying this since the 70's and if anything Republicans have become more hostile over time so it's a big fail.  It makes sense to them that lower taxes, strong military and less government is more important than their right to exist.

 

Why do you think that Dems don't want a strong military, lower taxes or a smaller more optimal, efficient Govt? 

We also want equality for all, fairness, taxation of the extremely wealthy to the same level as everyone else and working social systems that we pay for etc! 

I want personally, that most of the current republican politicians to take a cruise, with most of the lobbyists and CEO's and drown when the boat sinks for the good of America and the world! 

I would also like to see Katie Porter elected President, with Stacy Adams as vice and Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren etc get prominent Cabinet positions. 

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5 hours ago, Cclm said:

Why don't you provide evidence to the contrary? Insulting Trump doesn't prove Biden is not in decline. He's not? Say why. 

So fair enough. Thank you for respectfully stating your opinion. 

Cofeve!!! 

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8 hours ago, Beerman said:

You don't need clips with commentary from Fox News.  You could watch his first news conference, for example.  Flipping through a binder. seeming confused at times.  Saying on one issue "I don't know how much detail you want. Maybe I should stop."

How about when he tells reports, "I'm not supposed to be answering questions"?

"I don't know how much detail you want. Maybe I should stop."

If that's what he said, the problem isn't him.  It's your lack of understanding of the meaning of his words.

The way I understand that is he has the detail, but reporters don't always want all the details at a press conference, because it's time consuming and they'd rather get a printed handout or something.

Now you also apparently believe some unnamed staffers are controlling Biden, instructing him not to answer questions, without a care whether he announces the scheme to the world or not.  A little critical thinking applied to this stuff will only make it all seem very improbable. 

I'm not saying his mannerisms don't provide fodder for any of this but confirmation bias is a powerful thing that the person engaging in it can't see their own lack of perspective. I remember how Ronald Reagan was characterized the same way.

The genesis of the dementia issue was a group of below-average Trump campaign operatives who publicly announced their intention to paint Joe Biden as a feeble bumbler right around the same time Trump tried to use the powers of the presidency to take Biden out of the running using a newly-elected foreign president as his weapon.

It's astonishing to me that so many Republicans seem to be in awe of the genius of a man who never bothered to learn how to do the job he was elected to do, and who showed not the slightest curiosity or interest in doing so even after he began to suffer the consequences of his own ignorance.

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1 hour ago, Curious1997 said:

Why do you think that Dems don't want a strong military, lower taxes or a smaller more optimal, efficient Govt? 

I don't necessarily think that Democrats don't want those things, but these are the talking points I've heard from gay republicans.  

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56 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I don't necessarily think that Democrats don't want those things, but these are the talking points I've heard from gay republicans.  

They need to stop drinking when talking about politics. I always get gay when I'm drinking ????

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Biden gave a pretty good speech to the UN.  

I found what Fox News is now calling Biden:  "Sloppy Joe".  They found it newsworthy that Biden said "Good luck" as a joke when Boris Johnson from Great Britain asked if he could take questions from the reporters.  The reporters were babbling incoherently, so yeah good luck getting a word in with them.  Although I suppose he could have told them all to shut up and ask one question at a time, but they would have found something to criticize anyway.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-refuses-questions-from-us-reporters-while-uks-johnson-calls-on-brits

 

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15 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Cofeve! 

"Garblbulelum under pressure".I'm "Joe Biden, and I'm running for us senator...". LOL

Did you see his UN speech 

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