President Biden thread

31 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Your point might be better made if you provided examples "flimsy statistics" and "false equivalence".

Anyway, the point I took from the column is that Biden, to his own detriment, is catering to and is afraid of upsetting the more radical supporters of the Democrat party.  And, that his administration is out of touch with what is important to most Americans.

Here are two more opinion pieces that seem to agree.

"There is plenty of evidence that the Democratic Party has moved left, that it is out of sync with Americans on many of these cultural issues, and that it needs to correct course. But it needs to do so clearly, forcefully and repeatedly. Republicans are clever at weaponizing the words of a few left-wing Democrats and branding them as the face of the party."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/republicans-exploits-culture-wars-democrats-performance-building-abortion/

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"Unlike a Rorschach test, however, this one has a right answer, and the progressives have it wrong. Moreover, the fact that they can’t see just how badly this exchange went for their side shows what a big mistake it was to let academia and media institutions turn into left-wing monocultures."

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"Yet outside those circles, Bridges’s answers don’t really sound so convincing. In most of America, “Does a late-term fetus have value?” is a softball. And when Hawley leaped in to ask whether women are the ones who give birth — a question few Americans today would struggle with — she resorted to extended question-begging. That might be fine for a Berkeley classroom. But it just won’t do for a political debate in which the majority of voters disagree with you."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/14/berkeley-law-professors-senate-testimony-didn't-go-how-left-thinks-it-did/

Sure. I'm not surprised that you agree with those opinions. I bet you agreed with Zakaria that Trump finally looked presidential when he staged that military strike on the empty airbase in 2017. 

Maybe you still buy into republican hysteria about late term abortions that Hawley was hawking in the hearing. I listen to these hearings when they occur. Or maybe you are just a fan of the writings of Jane Galt... I'm not, although she writes well. 

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Do you have anything to say about the opinion?  Agree or disagree with any parts of it?

Or, you and others just wish to stick to the usual bashing the source?

Even though this time the article is one of your approved, so-called nonbiased news sources.  So, now you have to go after the authors.

It's a pretty narrow and specific news and opinions some of you will consider, isn't it?

You are allowed to agree with their opinions as we are showed to disagree.  Are you expecting us to say something more specific about these opinions than you did when you presented them?

Did you just call those opinions "news"? That's interesting. For the record, reading the opinions you offered IS a portion of "considering" the opinion or ideas represented in the citation.  Or maybe you define "consider" differently in that context. 

11 minutes ago, Beerman said:

This, after earlier in his trip saying "we must honor the holocaust."  SMH.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-disgraceful-smear-of-israel-is-no-laughing-matter/

 

I’m waiting for some foreign leader to put a kick me sign on his back.  He obviously has dementia but as bad as he is, he still speaks better than Willie Brown’s chew toy.

9 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

I’m waiting for some foreign leader to put a kick me sign on his back.  He obviously has dementia but as bad as he is, he still speaks better than Willie Brown’s chew toy.

Oh boy...gotta love the social media vitriol  that keeps conservatives agitated. The thinly veiled racism and misogyny doesn't make you uncomfortable? Maybe your are just repeating right wing rhetoric without much thought to the meaning. That's seems likely. 

2 hours ago, Beerman said:

This, after earlier in his trip saying "we must honor the holocaust."  SMH.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-disgraceful-smear-of-israel-is-no-laughing-matter/

 

Don’t let it come as a shock to you, but it is possible to criticize Israel without denying, minimizing or dishonoring the holocaust.

Frankly, it reads like the “abuse excuse” … you know … claiming that being abused elsewhere (“Jews will not replace us”) or in the past (Auschwitz, real estate covenants, firebombes and mass shootings in synagogs) justifies indulging in the same behavior against the scapegoat du jour.

Besides, I thought Jared Kushner solved that whole Middle East problem by scoring a ginormous investment from an Arab sovereign fund (Saudi Arabia?).

Puh-leez!

2 hours ago, heron said:

Don’t let it come as a shock to you, but it is possible to criticize Israel without denying, minimizing or dishonoring the holocaust.

Frankly, it reads like the “abuse excuse” … you know … claiming that being abused elsewhere (“Jews will not replace us”) or in the past (Auschwitz, real estate covenants, firebombes and mass shootings in synagogs) justifies indulging in the same behavior against the scapegoat du jour.

Besides, I thought Jared Kushner solved that whole Middle East problem by scoring a ginormous investment from an Arab sovereign fund (Saudi Arabia?).

Puh-leez!

Some people just get their panties in a wad over the most insignificant things.  The Jews aren't making a major deal of it; it seems that National Review had some time on their hands.  It was not the brightest thing to say but the reaction to it by the Biden-haters is even more stupid.

15 minutes ago, Beerman said:

The Israel comment and Halocaust comment were two separate things.

You totally missed the point of the article.

But not the point of your post, which is why I quoted it.

1 hour ago, subee said:

Some people just get their panties in a wad over the most insignificant things.  The Jews aren't making a major deal of it; it seems that National Review had some time on their hands.  It was not the brightest thing to say but the reaction to it by the Biden-haters is even more stupid.

You mean like a frat party that got out of control on January 6 that almost completely peaceful.