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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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NRSKarenRN said:

Decency in the White House...

One last visit: President Biden pays respects to former Pa. first lady Ellen Casey

Ellen Casey, the former first lady of Pennsylvania, died last week at 91.

 

He doesn't sound like a demented person to me and even demonstrated a high EQ by electing not to "mess everything up."  Trump would wander right up to the casket and speak in a word salad about the effort he made to come.

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Tweety said:

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)

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

Ask a stupid question like Fox did, and you deserve a "no comment."  What a waste of time for both parties involved.

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Trump posted a video about Hawaii and turned it into an attack on the governor and Biden. Classy. 

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subee said:

Ask a stupid question like Fox did, and you deserve a "no comment."  What a waste of time for both parties involved.

How do you know it was Fox who asked?  And, why was it a stupid question?  

Bloomberg was the first and other media criticized him for his "no comment ".  

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nursej22 said:

Trump posted a video about Hawaii and turned it into an attack on the governor and Biden. Classy. 

Fox News found a women whining about the President saying "we're Americans too...why are we forgotten?".  Meanwhile millions of dollars are being poured in and the President announced an aid package, as well as a visit.  Like I said, guess it's not good enough.

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New York City is being crushed with 100,000 migrants, about 1,000 a day.  Lots of infighting. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-city-migrants-hunger/

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Tweety said:

Fox News found a women whining about the President saying "we're Americans too...why are we forgotten?".  Meanwhile millions of dollars are being poured in and the President announced an aid package, as well as a visit.  Like I said, guess it's not good enough.

The people of Hawaii are grieving and striking out. It seems in character for Fox News to use their pain to attack the President. They could report on all the efforts to help, but no, let's blame Biden for the daunting logistics to get supplies to an island in the middle of the Pacific. He's going to visit on Monday, maybe he'll toss them some paper towels. 

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nursej22 said:

He's going to visit on Monday, maybe he'll toss them some paper towels. 

Like a certain president did to an island part of the US a full two weeks after the hurricane.

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nursej22 said:

The people of Hawaii are grieving and striking out. It seems in character for Fox News to use their pain to attack the President. They could report on all the efforts to help, but no, let's blame Biden for the daunting logistics to get supplies to an island in the middle of the Pacific. He's going to visit on Monday, maybe he'll toss them some paper towels. 

They have reported on the efforts to help.  

The woman "whining" also has her opinion of things from her perspective.  Should that not be reported on?

Getting things to this "island in the middle of the Pacific" is actually pretty strait forward these days.  Let's don't be so dramatic.

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Tweety said:

Fox News found a women whining about the President saying "we're Americans too...why are we forgotten?".  Meanwhile millions of dollars are being poured in and the President announced an aid package, as well as a visit.  Like I said, guess it's not good enough.

A woman "whining"?  What's the context?  Did she lose her home?  A family member?  A way to earn a living?

What exactly was she whining about?

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Tweety said:

Fox News found a women whining about the President saying "we're Americans too...why are we forgotten?".  Meanwhile millions of dollars are being poured in and the President announced an aid package, as well as a visit.  Like I said, guess it's not good enough.

Here is the whiney woman.  Fox actually found her on CNN.

Are you and @nursej22 now going to criticize CNN for the same reasons you just did for Fox?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/maui-resident-grows-visibly-emotional-family-continues-suffer-wildfires-wheres-president

 

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Beerman said:

Here is the whiney woman.  Fox actually found her on CNN.

Are you and @nursej22 now going to criticize CNN for the same reasons you just did for Fox?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/maui-resident-grows-visibly-emotional-family-continues-suffer-wildfires-wheres-president

 

I saw her on Fox which is why I mentioned Fox.    But yes, media parading all to willing emotional victims of disasters, murders, etc. for publicity is something I've long had an issue with.  Reminds of of the old Don Henley song "dirty laundry"...."get the widow on the set...give us dirty laundry".  

 

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