President Biden thread

9 hours ago, Beerman said:

"There is clear evidence that his cognitive abilities and speech patterns have fallen in the last 20 years...there's video to prove it.  Some of the obvious decline has been pretty recent. "

A past post from TMB about the last guy.  But he see's nothing similar in Biden.  

 

Yep.  Libs just don’t get it.  Then when they lose they blame everything but the policies they believe and push.  Just like all the “Rising Stars” we constantly here about from the Dem media that get trounced in elections.  

11 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Professor Joe

 "President Biden told an audience in New Mexico Thursday that he was a professor after leaving the vice presidency, despite never properly assuming that role. "

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-he-was-professor-didn't-teach-single-class-nearly-1m-gig

Where’s Corn Pop when you need him?

5 hours ago, Beerman said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/02/biden-harris-drop-out-2024-george-will/

I think nitpicking and cherry picking certain phrases from the Vice President is a bit lame. But George Will is a respected commentator.   She's been a senator for a while and knows the inner working of Washington and certainly is has the qualifications to remain in her position.

"Frightening", "Imperiling the nation" sounds a bit over the top.

In a country that's about to elect Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker, or Marjorie Taylor Greene that says climate change is good for us because people die in the cold,  I find this a bit amusing.  However those same people that will elect them will make Harris and Biden unelectable and take over.   I'm very inclined to believe that we need a new fresh, younger liberal dynamic duo to oust Biden and Harris, but I don't know who.   

If the majority of Americans can't understand the peril that these right wing liars and extremists put our democracy in, then they will elect them and we will lose our democracy.  It happens in countries when the people believe lies from right wing authoritarians... they were working on that sort of transition from democracy to fascism in Germany about 100 years ago. Our population seems conditioned to be angry enough to just not care about protecting the mechanisms of democracy and to somehow believe that our form of government is impervious to the attempts to weaken it with lies and election deniers. 

What do people think comes next when individual votes can be ignored because those in power don't like them?

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

If the majority of Americans can't understand the peril that these right wing liars and extremists put our democracy in, then they will elect them and we will lose our democracy.  It happens in countries when the people believe lies from right wing authoritarians... they were working on that sort of transition from democracy to fascism in Germany about 100 years ago. Our population seems conditioned to be angry enough to just not care about protecting the mechanisms of democracy and to somehow believe that our form of government is impervious to the attempts to weaken it with lies and election deniers. 

What do people think comes next when individual votes can be ignored because those in power don't like them?

You mean like secretaries of state that ignore the law and won’t follow the orders given to them by the courts?

On 11/2/2022 at 11:32 PM, paramedic-RN said:

Here's some actual quotes from Biden, as a nurse would you seem this person to have 'good cognitive health'? You're in denial if you don't think a bumbling elderly man who tries to shake hands with invisible people is not loosing it. Also do not compare to Trump, I'm not talking about Trump, he's in the past, this has nothing to do with Trump, I'm talking about the cognitive capacity of the current president. 

You can find many Youtube video clips of just utter word salad gibberish that's not even translate-able into sentences to paste here. But below is a few that are actually some what readable.

 

"The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S."

 

When quoting the declaration of independence 

“All men and women, created by the, you know, you know the thing.”

 

Following the high profile death of Rep. Jackie Walorski at a White House conference 

“Representative Jackie — are you here? Where’s Jackie?” the president asked from the podium, peering futilely about the room. “I think she was going to be here,” he added.

 

“I’m also sending to Congress a comprehensive package of — that will enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take their — take their, their ill-begotten gains,” Biden began.

“Ha, we’re going to ‘accommodate’ them,” he said, snorting at his own mistake. “We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten gains of Putin’s kleptocrac- — yeah …” he said, blinking hard and looking to aides for help.

“Kleptocracy and klep- — the guys who are the kleptocracies,” he finished with a chuckle. “But these are bad guys.”

 

“I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,” Biden said.

The next day, the White House had to admit that Biden made the story up.

 

He has also said many racist things toward African Americans which I won't even paste here because it would probably get taken down, not to mention really creepy quotes about children. 

Well I'll post one

"Poor Kids Are Just as Bright and Just as Talented as White Kids" - Biden

Jobs?  The job market is hot.  What are you talking about?  That's such an obvious lack of looking at the news that I can't trust anything else you say. ..especially when you have no citations.  

38 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Meh, she was a US Senator for 4 years, and spent half of that running for President,  then VP.  Never mind if you think she is qualified for VP.  You need to think of her as taking over the presidency.  Especially if Biden were to be re-elected.  Imo, if she wasn't a black woman, she never would have been on the ticket.

Walker and Oz's lack of experience keeps getting mentioned here.  I think having people of various backgrounds as well as politically experienced folks in Congress is a healthy thing.  It certainly isn't new.  The Dems have had Warren, Franken, Hilary Clinton, for example.  I'll counter MTG with AOC.

Would you like to compare the governance capacity of MTG compared to AOC? influence on committees?

Clinton and Franken aren't members of Congress but they do have personal lives which when compared to Walker's are more conservative, more centered on family values, and more committed to democracy than to a political party or single political figure.  

Oz wants women to make reproductive health decisions with their doctor AND their local politicians.  Most Americans aren't okay with that. 

34 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Can you tell me what proposals from these right-wing extremists will put our democracy in peril?

Democrats spent millions helping some of them win primaries because they thought they'd be easier to beat.  At least a few of those are going to win.  Unethical, incompetence, or both?

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/14-gop-controlled-states-have-passed-laws-to-impede-free-elections/

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/01/texas-election-official-hood/

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/02/rnc-stop-the-steal-advocates-poll-workers-00049109

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-may-2022

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This year, state lawmakers, who spent 2021 passing laws that made it harder to vote, have focused more intently on election interference, passing nine laws that could lead to tampering with how elections are run and how results are determined.

Election interference laws do two primary things. They open the door to partisan interference in elections, or they threaten the people and processes that make elections work. In many cases, these efforts are being justified as measures to combat baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and a stolen 2020 election. 

Between January 1 and May 4, six state legislatures — Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma — have passed nine election interference laws. As of May 4, at least 17 such bills introduced this year are still moving through five state legislatures. Moving bills are those that have passed at least one chamber of the state legislature or have had some sort of committee action (e.g., a hearing since the beginning of 2022, an amendment, or a committee vote). In total, lawmakers in 27 states have proposed at least 148 election interference bills. 

In many of the same state legislatures, lawmakers have continued to introduce or enact laws that restrict access to the vote. Legislation is categorized as restrictive if it would make it harder for eligible Americans to register, stay on the rolls, and/or vote as compared to existing state law. In addition to two such laws enacted in Arizona and Mississippi, a restrictive ballot initiative in Arizona passed both houses and will be placed on the ballot for voters in the November general election.

Republicans are busily undermining confidence in elections so that they can make votes less important in election outcomes. Some people don't care and that road leads to chaos and an end to our democracy.