President Biden thread

Beerman said:

He drove into the parking lot and went into the building for a short time of a Mormon church that happened to be across the street from his home.  

I have a hard time believing that is confirmation of him being a "church-going Christian".

Fair enough.  If that's what you want to nit pic about I'll drop it as you're not so wrong. I made a leap because he was at a church and a MAGA.   I forget how literal and "support your opinion with data please" we can be around here.

I, too, am old, fat and disabled, and my friends think I'm way too nice. Does that give me a pass to point a gun at LEOs executing a search warrant after I made multiple threats to assassinate the POTUS? Behavior, including "bluster", has consequences, even for us old folks. Given the non-stop threats of violence from the top down to every nutjob with internet access, what did he think would happen?

I am SO done with bullies.

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Travis Clark told the paper. "You know, a guy who's nearly 80 years old, 300 pounds and can barely get around with a cane.”

I do hope the shooting was justified.  An 80 year old man with a gun and vendetta with nothing to lose is a dangerous person.  I'm sure he's not naive about using a fire arm.

I got attacked the other day by a demented little old lady that drew blood when she scratched my arm.   

Beerman said:

He drove into the parking lot and went into the building for a short time of a Mormon church that happened to be across the street from his home.  

I have a hard time believing that is confirmation of him being a "church-going Christian".

OK. 

Your skepticism is what makes Tweety's "speculation" seem reckless, I guess. We may have a different definition of reckless in this context.  

Beerman said:

"President Biden admitted Thursday that Democrats' signature Inflation Reduction Act wasn't as much about actually reducing the then-record-high inflation facing the nation as he originally touted to the American people.

"I wish I hadn't called it that. It has less to do with inflation than it does providing alternatives to economic growth," Biden said during an appearance at a campaign fundraiser in Pary City, Utah."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admits-inflation-reduction-act-less-inflation-originally-sold-americans

"I wish I hadn't..."

Oh no, what a troubling show of weakness... am I right? On the other hand, that legislation is successful and has broad impact for the American people, it was a "win" for We the People.  Maybe that's why Republicans want to diminish and criticize it. 

Beerman said:

Joe's a little testy.

"President Biden snapped at Fox News's Peter Doocy on Wednesday over a question about the president's son, Hunter Biden, and his business dealings."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4146220-biden-snaps-at-foxs-peter-doocy-for-lousy-question-about-devon-archer/

It's a good thing that republicans don't have any issue with crabby, rude or divisive language from political figures in the era of Trump, eh? 

Just saw a tiktok video in which a man explicitly threatened armed revolution if the electorate chooses Biden.

"Give me what I want or I'll shoot you."

I am so DONE with bullies. 
 

heron said:

Just saw a tiktok video in which a man explicitly threatened armed revolution if the electorate chooses Biden.

"Give me what I want or I'll shoot you."

I am so DONE with bullies. 
 

Unfortunately, we are in a contest with modern fascists and fascists encourage dishonest bully behavior as they destabilize the societies they seek to control.  A clue to the seriousness of the contest is revealed when those who proclaim moderation will support a fascist rather than a centrist.  The propaganda is so profuse and successful that Americans will destroy their own democracy because of their partisan anger. 

I do remember wondering at the time of the "Inflation Reduction Act" what  a spending bill had to do with inflation.  We talked at the time about Manchin's concerns about it contributing to inflation and how that proved true.

Other parts of the speech he made in Utah where he stated he wished he called it something else.

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The Bidenomics program is: We've built the economy from the middle out and the bottom up.  And today, inflation is down two thirds.  And we've created 13 million jobs in two years and 800,000 manufacturing jobs; 3.5 percent uninflation [unemployment], the lowest continuous rate in 55 years. 

The American Rescue Plan vaccinated the nation and got the economy moving again.  We found ourselves in a position where the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — remember, we had — we're going have a bip- — a bi- — excuse — excuse me.  We were going to have investments in — in all our infrastructure –infrastructure month.  We were going to have that on a monthly basis with the last guy.  Nothing happened in four years. 

Now we have — we have infr- — we have infrastructure decade.  I got my colleagues in both parties to commit to a 10-year commitment to $1 trillion 300 billion.  And guess what? It's attracted an awful lot of investment. 

We've attracted private investment investing in America of over a half a trillion dollars — a half a trillion dollars.  Many of you were part of that.  We're in a situation where they're mes- — where we, as I said, the bipartisan infrastructure plan has already generated 37,000 projects.  Here in Udah [sic] — Utah, 60,000 households already are getting affordable high-speed Internet.  We're in a situation with $28 million for Salt Lake City Airport to resurface the aging infrastructure. 

I guess Biden's response on Hawaii wasn't good enough.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/09/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-wildfires-in-hawaii/

(I was actually looking at Fox News to see what they were saying about Trump's possible 4th indictment and found nothing, but they are talking about this in a couple of stories)

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President Biden was sharply criticized on Sunday after telling reporters during a Delaware beach getaway that he had "no comment" on the rising death toll in Hawaii from severe wildfires.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-sharply-criticized-after-saying-no-comment-response-death-toll-hawaii-absolutely-terrible