President Biden thread

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The state reported a new single-day high of 67,090 cases on Wednesday, a 64.5% increase in just the last day, Hochul said. The unprecedented total came amid a recent high in the number of daily tests -- 362,594 -- for a positivity rate of 18.5%.

The governor described those high testing numbers as a "very positive outcome" in that it shows the state is able to deploy sufficient resources to meet testing demand, which has skyrocketed amid this wave of omicron variant infections.

New York seems very stressed but testing is going on and right now doesn't seem to be an issue other than demand and I'm sure long waits.   I think this is an example of what Biden means that state should handle things on a state level, with his administrations support.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-obliterates-single-day-covid-case-record-with-nearly-70000-new-positives/3471191/

10 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I disagree.   To some here, the past administration seems to be to difficult for the current one to overcome.   I'm just wondering when, or if, the buck will ever stop with the current president?

It won't because every negative bit of information about Biden will be countered with a "but Trump".

We endured "But Obama..." "oh the liberal hypocrisy"... all through the Trump years so I wouldn't expect much.  It's just what we do here.

The past administration was really a shitshow ending with a bang of a protest on Jan. 6th.  So that reputation is going to linger on.  

Still it doesn't mean people shouldn't hold Biden accountable for his administration in the hear and now.  Even if some of the problems like the border were ongoing problems.  

I was gifted this article so you probably can't read it if you don't subscribe or used up free views.  

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10. He launched the first test of a new system to defend Earth from a killer asteroid. On his orders, NASA launched a rocket into space testing “whether a spacecraft can nudge a celestial body in a way that will alter its orbit.”

9. He twice launched airstrikes against Iranian proxy forces in Iraq and Syria. He continued the Trump policy of taking military action against Iranian-backed forces who threaten or attempt to kill U.S. personnel.

8. He became the first president to resist Turkish pressure and officially acknowledge its 1915 genocideagainst Armenians. His statement sent a clear message that the United States would hold even allies to account for abuses of human rights.

7. He recovered the majority of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to a Russian hacking collective. After the company paid ransomware attackers who shut down its computer systems and caused fuel shortages up and down the East Coast, the Biden Justice Department followed the money and seized 63.7 bitcoin, valued at about $2.3 million.

6. He sidelined the court-packing movement on the left. Biden created a commission that included sensible liberals and conservatives which steered clear of taking a position on the most controversial ideas for changing the court.

5. He elevated Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the “Quad”) among the United States, Australia, India and Japan. After eight dormant years under President Barack Obama, the Quad was reinvigorated by the Trump 

4. He stepped up U.S. support for Taiwan. He invited Taiwan to participate in his 110-nation Summit for Democracy, invited Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to his inauguration, invited Taiwan to share its expertise at the Global COVID-19 Summit and continued to provide Taiwan with the defense capabilities it needs to defend itself against Chinese aggression. And his administration worked hard to beat back efforts by the People’s Republic of China to squeeze countries to de-recognize Taiwan.

3. He announced a historic trilateral security agreement with Australia and Britain to counter Chinese hegemony. The new AUKUS pact will help Australia develop nuclear submarine capabilities that will allow it to project power in the Pacific, and increases cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

2. He accelerated covid vaccine delivery at home and abroad. In the United States, more than 70 percent of American adults are fully vaccinated. And his administration provided more than 300 million doses — more than the rest of the world combined — to 110 countries free of charge. He also launched the Global Covid Corps, a coalition of companies that will support vaccination efforts in developing countries.

1. He signed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. Biden campaigned on a promise to usher in a new era of bipartisan cooperation. Sadly, this was the only major piece of legislation to deliver on that promise. It will provide non-inflationary, long-term investments in roads, bridges, ports and waterways. It's passage also saved the filibuster, by delivering for Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Joe Manchin III (W.VA.) — the two lonely Democrats standing in the way of filibuster elimination — and vindicating their effort to reach across the aisle.

Other achievements did not make the top 10. Among the honorable mentions: Biden issued an executive order prohibitingAmericans from investing in 59 Chinese firms that allegedly are linked to the Chinese military; he signed bipartisan legislation to ban the import of products produced with Uyghur slave labor; he announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, a pointed snub to protest the Chinese regime’s human rights abuses without hurting U.S. athletes; and he launched an initiative to find deported U.S. veterans and bring them and their families back to America.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/best-things-biden-did-2021/

None of these accomplishments are earth shattering to the average voter that is worried about the border, covid and inflation, but you might notice he continued some of Trump's accomplishments.  And he isn't going to pack the court, an idea that conservatives loathe.

23 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Yes, I pointed out liberal hypocrisy.  What is going on here is different.  Some are blaming all the problems of the current administration on the last one.  

 

Baloney. Some are pointing out the important details, context and history when hyper critical assessments of the current administration are offered up on various issues.  The reality is that the major problems of the Biden administration existed during the previous administration except one; the threat posed by ongoing lies about our elections and efforts to undermine them by the conservative political leadership. 

7 hours ago, Beerman said:

Yes, I pointed out liberal hypocrisy.  What is going on here is different.  Some are blaming all the problems of the current administration on the last one.  

"all the problems of the current administration" is a bit of an exaggeration and it's interesting that you think it's different.  But I can't tell you how to view the word. 

 Several of the problems such as the border crisis, covid, even the Afghanistan withdrawal started in the previous years so I think that's what people are doing.  But Biden has new challenges such as the supply chain and inflation.  A good economy, and stimulus (from Trump and Biden) both causes some of those problems, but it's Biden's to own.

It's also hard to stomach people's concerns about covid when they minimized it in the past, lead by Trump,  and put us here.  It's hard to hear concerns about the deficit when the deficit increased so much under Trump and people didn't say a word about it.  

It's hard to hear criticism about Biden saying states should handle it, when Trump gave some guidelines that the states ignored because they wanted to do their own thing and he said "Free Michigan" when they weren't meeting his own guidelines anyway.  It's hard to hear criticism about testing when Trump said testing made our numbers look bad.

I think this is what people are doing as well.  It's hard not to.

However, like I said during the Trump administration there does come a time when you do have to stop blaming Obama (or giving Obama credit for the good economy and give Trump props) and start to look at Trump both in terms of accomplishments and failures in handling things.  We should do the same with Biden.

14 hours ago, Tweety said:

New York seems very stressed but testing is going on and right now doesn't seem to be an issue other than demand and I'm sure long waits.   I think this is an example of what Biden means that state should handle things on a state level, with his administrations support.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-obliterates-single-day-covid-case-record-with-nearly-70000-new-positives/3471191/

The problem with the testing in NYC is the long waiting period for results: 5 to 7 days.

5 hours ago, Beerman said:

"I give you my word as a Biden."

 

Yeah...people saw that in 2020 and still believed that Biden was a better choice than Trump.  

15 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Yeah...people saw that in 2020 and still believed that Biden was a better choice than Trump.  

The guy at the end said "if you think he's the safe candidate against Trump, you're lying to yourself".  Really?  Biden with all his lies still looks like Mother Teresa compared to Trump.  The video was made before the 2020 convention and I would have to agree that there were better candidates than him.  But at the end of the day, like I said even Goofy would have been a better choice than Trump.

I had to look up the Intercept that made the video.   Seems like an interesting website.  They list Biden and Trump (and you and me) as the worst Americans of 2021.   Simply saying about Trump " There’s no need to enumerate the downsides of Trump. Everyone is capable of doing that themselves."

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/24/10-worst-americans-2021/

13 hours ago, Tweety said:

The guy at the end said "if you think he's the safe candidate against Trump, you're lying to yourself".  Really?  Biden with all his lies still looks like Mother Teresa compared to Trump.  The video was made before the 2020 convention and I would have to agree that there were better candidates than him.  But at the end of the day, like I said even Goofy would have been a better choice than Trump.

I had to look up the Intercept that made the video.   Seems like an interesting website.  They list Biden and Trump (and you and me) as the worst Americans of 2021.   Simply saying about Trump " There’s no need to enumerate the downsides of Trump. Everyone is capable of doing that themselves."

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/24/10-worst-americans-2021/

I don't know how the Intercept could put Trump and Biden in the same dirtbag.  Really?  Is Biden one of the worst Americans?  Have any of his cabinet advisors participated in the griftiness of their office like Perdue, Ross and a host of some physicians with their free vacations, etc?  I know theintercept is very liberal .  Do they hate Biden because he wasn't liberal enough for them?  Just curious.

2 hours ago, subee said:

 Do they hate Biden because he wasn't liberal enough for them?  Just curious.

I think so because in another article they criticize him for not wiping out student debt, legalizing marijuana, stopping the filibuster, raising minimum wage to $15, all items on the extreme left's agenda.