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Wow.  No one has started such a thread yet?

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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One need to remember that President Trump cut aid to Latin America countries, driving many to the U.S.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID), started by President Kennedy,  leads international development and humanitarian efforts to save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance and help people progress beyond assistance.

NPR  9/2019  Assessing The Impact Of Trump's $450 Million Freeze On Aid

Trump Froze Aid To Guatemala. Now Programs Are Shutting Down

Reuters 7/2019

As promised, Trump slashes aid to Central America over migrants

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...Lawmakers who opposed the plan said it was cruel to cut off aid to countries grappling with hunger and crime and that the move would be counterproductive because it would more likely increase the number of migrants than decrease it...

 

Congressional Research Service:

U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: FY2021Appropriation

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... For FY2021, the Trump Administration requested $1.4 billion for Latin America and the Caribbean through foreign assistance accounts managed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). That amount would have been$314million, or 18%, less than the estimated $1.7 billion of U.S. assistance allocated to the region in FY2020. The proposal would have cut funding for every type of assistance and for most Latin American and Caribbean countries. For a fourth consecutive year, the Trump Administration also proposed eliminating the Inter-American Foundation—a small, independent U.S. foreign assistance agency that promotes grassroots development in the region—and consolidating its programs into USAID....

 

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Well I did try to talk about the current situation and what Biden was doing as it's the Biden thread, but y'all want to talk about Trump and the past.  

But I get it, the past brought us to today and we can learn what to do and what not to do.

Carry on.  

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20 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Well I did try to talk about the current situation and what Biden was doing as it's the Biden thread, but y'all want to talk about Trump and the past.  

But I get it, the past brought us to today and we can learn what to do and what not to do.

Carry on.  

I talked about Biden.  I spoke about immigration. It's not possible or realistic to expect to fix a problem without talking about what's broken and how it got that way.  Biden didn't break the system, he inherited a system that was intentionally sabotaged. Biden didn't even get to spent months transitioning into that inheritance.  Nor did a large swath of his nominees get processed through the Senate before 1/20/21. Biden was handcuffed as much as was possible by the loser of the election. 

I just talked about Biden and immigration again. 

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Get Katie Porter on the job. She'll sort everything out! 

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8 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I talked about Biden.  I spoke about immigration. It's not possible or realistic to expect to fix a problem without talking about what's broken and how it got that way.  Biden didn't break the system, he inherited a system that was intentionally sabotaged. Biden didn't even get to spent months transitioning into that inheritance.  Nor did a large swath of his nominees get processed through the Senate before 1/20/21. Biden was handcuffed as much as was possible by the loser of the election. 

I just talked about Biden and immigration again. 

Yep, but you're still talking about the past and not what Biden is currently doing to deal with the issue, other than to say at least he's not doing what Trump is doing and that it's hard on him because of Trump.  But as I said, I get it.

Some people would say rather than "intentionally sabotaged" the Trump administration got a handle on the problem.  It wasn't until Biden was elected and with the promise of undoing what Trump accomplished that this "overwhelming" issue came up, so it was Biden's doing, not Trump.

 

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-call-norway-prime-minister

I'm not getting Fox News.  The click bait on the home page says "VP Harris Continues to take Solo Call With World Leaders as President Suffers Memory Lapses" but when you click to read the article it headline is "VP Take Another Call from a World Leader" and lists the calls that she and Biden have had with world leaders.  They compare her to Pence who did very little with world leaders.  They say Biden interacted a lot with world leaders as a VP as well.  

No mention of their claim of memory lapses nor anything to support this idea.  

This was a theme in the campaign from the right as they had to paint the candidate as demented, and this was pretty successful as many people are convinced of this.

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3 minutes ago, Tweety said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-call-norway-prime-minister

I'm not getting Fox News.  The click bait on the home page says "VP Harris Continues to take Solo Call With World Leaders as President Suffers Memory Lapses" but when you click to read the article it headline is "VP Take Another Call from a World Leader" and lists the calls that she and Biden have had with world leaders.  They compare her to Pence who did very little with world leaders.  They say Biden interacted a lot with world leaders as a VP as well.  

No mention of their claim of memory lapses nor anything to support this idea.  

This was a theme in the campaign from the right as they had to paint the candidate as demented, and this was pretty successful as many people are convinced of this.

Based on his live statements, unless he's reading everything from a prompter, he's with it. 

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40 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

Based on his live statements, unless he's reading everything from a prompter, he's with it. 

It's nice not to have combative word salad everytime the POTUS takes a question. Is also nice that the president works, doesn't play golf every weekend, and isn't looking for attention all the time. 

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's nice not to have combative word salad everytime the POTUS takes a question. Is also nice that the president works, doesn't play golf every weekend, and isn't looking for attention all the time. 

Well, since we did switch back to Trump (joke) I do agree.  During the campaign Biden did poll better in the categories of mental and physical abilities with the public.   Although it neither scored very high.  

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article245043195.html

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3 hours ago, Tweety said:

Yep, but you're still talking about the past and not what Biden is currently doing to deal with the issue, other than to say at least he's not doing what Trump is doing and that it's hard on him because of Trump.  But as I said, I get it.

Some people would say rather than "intentionally sabotaged" the Trump administration got a handle on the problem.  It wasn't until Biden was elected and with the promise of undoing what Trump accomplished that this "overwhelming" issue came up, so it was Biden's doing, not Trump.

 

Sure some people will say that but you and I both know differently.  Those same people also blamed Obama in 2020 for Trump's dismantling of the planning and preparation for pandemics.  They blamed Obama in 2020 because Trump's team didn't maintain or stock the national stockpile. Now they blame Biden for the mess they intentionally made of the immigration system.

If your hospital had thrown out the policy and procedure manuals and fired the people that normally did all of the detail work of admission, discharge and transferring patients from unit to unit or facility to facility do you think it would be easy for new management to come in and start fresh?

It sounds like people are skeptical of how intentionally disruptive Trump would be to these systems after losing the election.  

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27 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It sounds like people are skeptical of how intentionally disruptive Trump would be to these systems after losing the election.  

I would like more information one what he did specifically after losing the election.

There is the argument that both Obama and Trump left Biden in a bad spot.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-bidens-fixing-the-border-mess-obama-and-trump-left-him

Meanwhile Trump is ramping up the rhetoric about the border crises saying that Biden is destroying America.  This feeds of course in some the major talking points of conservatives that our country is in danger and that liberals hate America.

I knew he wasn't going away and in Fox News and other conservative press he has a voice.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-biden-border-crisis-immigration-surge

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On 2/15/2021 at 7:21 PM, NRSKarenRN said:

This photo made my heart ache as first Valentine Day without my husband--we had this type relationship for 44 years.  Chef son did make Valentines Day breakfast and dinner to help heal the ache.

 

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