President Biden thread

4 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

Do you realize probably 90% of all media is left or hard left.  Conservatives have one new channel and maybe 3 newspapers.  

In your opinion...I call BS...from your right wing POV everything probably feels hard left to you.  Nevertheless, your opinion doesn't fit with the media bias and accuracy analysis that's widely available for comparison.  

Tell me, was Limbaugh a television or a newspaper conservative pundit? Maybe if you shared the reporting that had you believing such silliness we could talk about how that conclusion about media bias was reached instead of just asserting that you are incorrect in your claim. 

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's so odd that a republican voter would want to remind us how much time the 45th president spent visiting his golf courses... as compared to any other president.  Additionally, border and immigration concerns were not a high enough priority to get the republicans elected who wanted to highlight it in the recent midterms.

Maybe the republican controlled House will forward some meaningful legislation to improve our immigration policies and laws.  What do you think the odds are that they'll take action?

Perhaps if Biden followed the law currently on the books we wouldn’t have this problem.  Liberals sure got put on notice when they showed up at Martha’s Vineyard.  They couldn’t get those brown people out of there fast enough.

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's so odd that a republican voter would want to remind us how much time the 45th president spent visiting his golf courses... as compared to any other president.  Additionally, border and immigration concerns were not a high enough priority to get the republicans elected who wanted to highlight it in the recent midterms.

Maybe the republican controlled House will forward some meaningful legislation to improve our immigration policies and laws.  What do you think the odds are that they'll take action?

Biden hardly golfs, but he's on track to be away from the White House more than Trump, and even G. W. Bush if re-elected, who apparently spent a year of his 8 years in office away from the White House.  So that's fair.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/joe-biden-presidency-delaware-work-from-home/index.html

Tucker Carlson went on an anti-border rant recently and blamed Republicans for not doing more.   That's fair because really all they've done is complain about Biden's lack of action, but haven't really come up with any action of their own, except some governors shipping them off somewhere else.

16 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Biden hardly golfs, but he's on track to be away from the White House more than Trump, and even G. W. Bush if re-elected, who apparently spent a year of his 8 years in office away from the White House.  So that's fair.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/joe-biden-presidency-delaware-work-from-home/index.html

Tucker Carlson went on an anti-border rant recently and blamed Republicans for not doing more.   That's fair because really all they've done is complain about Biden's lack of action, but haven't really come up with any action of their own, except some governors shipping them off somewhere else.

Follow the laws already in place.  Problem solved.

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's so odd that a republican voter would want to remind us how much time the 45th president spent visiting his golf courses... as compared to any other president.  Additionally, border and immigration concerns were not a high enough priority to get the republicans elected who wanted to highlight it in the recent midterms.

Maybe the republican controlled House will forward some meaningful legislation to improve our immigration policies and laws.  What do you think the odds are that they'll take action?

15 minutes ago, Beerman said:

So, following that logic,  I guess the voters care even less about "threats to our democracy ", transgender rights, and abortion?

My logic is that those are the precise issues that halted the red wave.  You even said there would be a "bloodbath".

But yes, they lost elections and no need to get too emboldened that losing less than expected is a mandate for progressive change.

My point is the border didn't make much of a difference on swaying the vote to a red wave.

15 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I don't have a problem with him spending as much time as he wants in Deleware.  But, then I also don't want him telling us he doesn't have time to things that he should be doing.

Tweety said something similar.

You do realize the Dems lost seats, right?  You seem to be saying since Republicans didn't win as much as they thought they would, voters don't care about conservative issues such as the border crisis.

So, following that logic,  I guess the voters care even less about "threats to our democracy ", transgender rights, and abortion?

Right after the election I heard a conservative talking head say that the absence of the red wave might actually hurt the Democrats in 24, as now they may be emboldened to continue a far-leftist progressive agenda.  

I wasn't buying that, but may have to rethink that based on you and Tweety's comments.

 

Yes...Democrats lost seats, however, the bread and butter right wing grievances failed to produce the expected red wave or bloodbath.  Yet we frequent these topics as if they are the most pressing matters for Americans...

52 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Yes, the sentence too harsh.

I didn't realize she was a  LBGQT.  I don't know which, but it was important that the WH also mention that.  I guess it's a good thing she wasn't a strait white dude.  He'd still be there.

I don't know I would go as far to say what the WH did...Griner is a role model that represents the best of America.  

 

Well, it would be hard not to notice she was LBGT since her wife was at the press conference.  But I really didn't know that about her either, but I didn't follow it all that closely.  Apparently her wife has been very outspoken in drumming up all this publicity.  Apparently her being both black and lesbian were safety concerns from her loved ones.  

Playing the straight white dude card sounds a bit off, if not racist.  Disappointed because you're better than that.

The straight (?) white male left behind, Whelan, got an understanding response from his brother.   My heart aches for him and his family.

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“I am so glad that Brittney Griner is on her way home,” David Whelan, Paul’s twin brother, said in a statement Thursday via ABC’s Jay O’Brien. “As the family member of a Russian hostage, I can literally only imagine the joy she will have, being reunited with her loved ones, and in time for the holidays. There is no greater success than for a wrongful detainee to be free and for them to go home. The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home, and to make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn’t going to happen.”

49 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Yes, the sentence too harsh.

I didn't realize she was a  LBGQT.  I don't know which, but it was important that the WH also mention that.  I guess it's a good thing she wasn't a strait white dude.  He'd still be there.

I don't know I would go as far to say what the WH did...Griner is a role model that represents the best of America.  

 

About 99% of the WNBA are lesbians.  Those that aren’t are harassed just like they were on the soccer team.

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“Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge,” Wiggins added. “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they (the other players) could apply.”

https://www.essence.com/entertainment/candice-wiggins-wnba-toxic-basketball/

She made the bullying accusations back in 2017 but I guess there aren't enough heterosexuals to back her up.  But fair enough, if she was being bullied for being straight that's a toxic environment and wrong.

Or she could just be a homophobe.

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It’s sad when a person tries to tarnish an organization that gives you an opportunity of a lifetime, an opportunity to be a role model and be able to make a living doing what you love. 

Candice Wiggins, the former storied WNBA guard, is full of lies when she claimed that she was “bullied for being a straight woman in a league that was 98 percent gay.”

The first problem with that claim is that it is based on unfounded facts. In fact, there is no evidence or research that backs up what she said. Several players and coaches have disputed what she said and no other player has been vocal about a similar experience.

https://www.theprospectordaily.com/2017/11/06/wiggins-out-of-bounds-claims-should-be-tossed-in-the-trash/

BTW.  I didn't mean to post this topic in the Biden thread.  It's way off topic.