View Poll Results: Will Biden be a good president |
Yes
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No
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He won't live long enough to determine either way
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Define "good"
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01.03.2021, 19:27
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | On his first day in office, he rejoined the Paris climate agreement,
cut off funding for the border wall,
reversed Trump’s travel ban
recommitted to the World Health Organization. | | | | | All things, other than the stupid wall, that I fail to see an a positive light.
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01.03.2021, 20:13
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | All things, other than the stupid wall, that I fail to see an a positive light.
Tom | | | | | Regardless of positive or negative, you must admit the "sleepy Joe" label is totally destroyed.
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02.03.2021, 10:29
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: |  | | | Biden still supports a $15 minimum wage. He just acknowledges that it would be very hard to win the 60 votes required to get it through the Senate, where the Democrats and independents hold 50 seats. Alternatively, tacking it onto another bill requiring a simple majority isn't a slam dunk either, as it requires approval that may not be forthcoming, and a couple of moderate Democrats (read, Senators with slim majorities from Republican-leaning states) are against that idea. So Biden is breaking no promises on the minimum wage, and despite being a demented career politician, seems to understand political processes a lot better than you do.
I'm curious; why do right-wing people feel the need to call their political opponents facile, puerile names? Trump and his entire family does it, as do you and many of your right-wing brethren here on EF.
As for the $2,000 Covid relief cheques, obviously you didn't pay attention the first time this was explained to you in crystal clear terms. Please search back through this thread. I believe it was 3Wishes who set out the details, although all you have to do is listen to the news to understand that the promise was to top up the woefully inadequate first relief cheque sent out by the Trump administration, to $2,000.
This is ancient history, nothing to do with trade deals, and at least to my mind, not really comparable to screwing a porn star while your third wife is pregnant (to name but one dalliance). And, no doubt, would have been just fine if Kamala Harris had been a man and had had an affair with a woman at City Hall -- but she's a woman, so that's completely unacceptable.
Also, see my comment on name-calling.
But it's interesting to see that you're confident that Harris will win the presidency. Pretty much a shoo-in if she's running against Trump.
Biden never said that. Please feel free to prove me wrong.
He did say that the Trump administration left no distribution plan for the vaccines, because it was spectacularly unhelpful and uncooperative with the handover, and whatever had been done was very poorly executed. So, call that a plan if you like, but Biden has certainly kicked distribution up several notches and is well on track to exceed his promised 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days, with almost 75 million doses injected already after just 40 days in office.
It must be so disappointing that Biden isn't living up to your expectations. | | | | |
Exact words from Joe Biden - "It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but one also needs a vaccinator."
We all know that if Kamala was man her career would be over. With the lawsuits to follow. Man or Woman it does not matter, sleeping your way up the ladder *should* be frowned upon. But that was in the past so all should be forgiven right? Go tell that to the cancel culture.
Kamala wont win anything, the only way she gets the POTUS is by being installed using the 25th against Biden which looks like it could happen any day now.
It was actually Trump who pushed it up to $2,000 after Jimmy Dore went on a rant on Faux news.
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02.03.2021, 11:07
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Exact words from Joe Biden - "It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but one also needs a vaccinator."
We all know that if Kamala was man her career would be over. With the lawsuits to follow. Man or Woman it does not matter, sleeping your way up the ladder *should* be frowned upon. But that was in the past so all should be forgiven right? Go tell that to the cancel culture.
Kamala wont win anything, the only way she gets the POTUS is by being installed using the 25th against Biden which looks like it could happen any day now.
It was actually Trump who pushed it up to $2,000 after Jimmy Dore went on a rant on Faux news. | | | | | Excuse me, why is it always assumed that if a woman reaches some high level power position "she slept her way up the ladder"? Or is it because she's black? I try not to think "it is because she's......" but help me out here. I think these are unfounded rumours and gossips.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Excuse me, why is it always assumed that if a woman reaches some high level power position "she slept her way up the ladder"? Or is it because she's black? I try not to think "it is because she's......" but help me out here. I think these are unfounded rumours and gossips. | | | | | Harris' relationship with Willie Brown was certainly real and well documented, but suggesting that it got her to the VP position is a bit of a stretch! Also, who is California Dreamer to suggest that the relationship was not genuine... you know, like Trump's, with his much younger wife Melania—clearly a relationship based purely on love?
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Kamala wont win anything, the only way she gets the POTUS is by being installed using the 25th against Biden which looks like it could happen any day now. | | | | | Your misogynist attitude aside, what the hell are you talking about here?
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: |  | | | Harris' relationship with Willie Brown was certainly real and well documented, but suggesting that it got her to the VP position is a bit of a stretch! Also, who is California Dreamer to suggest that the relationship was not genuine... you know, like Trump's, with his much younger wife Melania—clearly a relationship based purely on love? | | | | | Well, I do think Melania was attracted by him in a weird way, not only by his money...
But pure love? I don't think so...
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
As if any Western politicians got up the career-ladder by pure merit?
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02.03.2021, 19:44
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Your misogynist attitude aside, what the hell are you talking about here? | | | | | Ha-ha, so I am a misogynist for pointing out how she advanced her career? Get real.
I've said over and over that I would love for Tulsi Gabbard to be POTUS.
But one criticism of heels up Harris and now I am misogynist? Get real. No really, GET. REAL.
I guess I am also a misogynist for pointing out that Harris bragged about prosecuting people with possesion of marijuana...in San Fransico. Nice of her to go against the will of the voters, typical of todays democrats. Whats worse is her refusal to hand of evidence to prove the innocense of a man on death row. If it wasnt for a court order she would have sent an innocent man to his death.
She is not very well liked in the state of California, or anywhere for that matter.
But hey, I guess we are only allowed to criticize one side huh? So tolerant and open minded of you.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | As if any Western politicians got up the career-ladder by pure merit? | | | | | It is not that Maynar, Russia, China or North Korea or whatever monarchies have that much merit to share.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Ha-ha, so I am a misogynist for pointing out how she advanced her career? Get real.
I've said over and over that I would love for Tulsi Gabbard to be POTUS.
But one criticism of heels up Harris and now I am misogynist? Get real. No really, GET. REAL.
I guess I am also a misogynist for pointing out that Harris bragged about prosecuting people with possesion of marijuana...in San Fransico. Nice of her to go against the will of the voters, typical of todays democrats. Whats worse is her refusal to hand of evidence to prove the innocense of a man on death row. If it wasnt for a court order she would have sent an innocent man to his death.
She is not very well liked in the state of California, or anywhere for that matter.
But hey, I guess we are only allowed to criticize one side huh? So tolerant and open minded of you.  | | | | | You do not criticize her on how well or not she is doing her VP job just on character assassination based on ancient history, we can therefore assume you believe she is now doing a great job. As a matter of interest did you see that FBI Director Christopher Wray has completely destroyed your fact-free claims of violent left involvement in the Jan 6th armed assault on the Capitol? He said today under oath to a Senate committee that the bureau has no evidence that far-left violent extremists were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
I know looking at the evidence is not one of your strong points but do try it this time.
For example, you claimed, "What's worse is her refusal to hand of evidence to prove the innocence of a man on death row." I assume you are referring to the Kevin Cooper case who demanded renewed DNA testing? Eventually, the request was granted and the DNA results did not exonerate him.
The Department of Justice DNA lab at UC Berkeley did find Cooper’s DNA on the tan T-shirt discarded near the murder house, which also contained partial DNA profiles of two of the victims, Doug and Peggy Ryen.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
Biden took positive steps to help newly unemployed get health insurance | Quote: |  | | | More than 206,000 people signed up for Affordable Care Act policies on the federal exchange in the first two weeks of the special enrollment period ordered by President Joe Biden,
Last year, only 76,000 people picked Obamacare plans during the second half of February
Uninsured Americans who want to buy 2021 coverage could start doing so on February 15, thanks to an executive order Biden signed in January.
Typically, signing up for coverage outside of the traditional enrollment period is restricted to those who lose their job-based policies or have a change in status, such as divorce. | | | | | | 
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
Getting interesting | Quote: |  | | | Former House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell has sued former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in a second major lawsuit seeking to hold Trump and his allies accountable for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.
The new lawsuit filed on Friday by Swalwell, a California Democrat who helped to lead impeachment arguments against Trump for inciting insurrection, follows a similar suit filed last month by Rep. Bennie Thompson against Trump, Giuliani and the extremist groups the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Swalwell's case makes some of the same claims as Thompson's -- citing a civil rights law meant to counter the Ku Klux Klan's intimidation of elected officials. | | | | | | 
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
He will be okay, i.e. sorta stable and boring standard. I wouldn't expect anything exciting or chaotic (like DJ Trump) apart from diversity in the cabinet.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
Funny how the world turns. | Quote: |  | | | Republicans are bashing the new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package for further ballooning the federal debt, but it’s the Trump administration that greased the path for a smooth federal spending spree.
Surprisingly the Treasury has a cash pile of well over $1 trillion. That robust rainy-day fund was built last year by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who preemptively cranked up the pace of government borrowing, unsure of how and when Congress might mandate further relief measures.
So, despite concerns that markets will be flooded with new U.S. government debt to pay for the rescue package, the Treasury Department might not have to change its borrowing plans much at all.
When Biden took office, Treasury’s deposits at the Fed stood at about $1.6 trillion, compared to $400 billion in 2019, and Treasury is expected to burn through about $1 trillion of that already-borrowed cash to help fund the relief package. | | | | | | 
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | He fell twice and then ran up the stairs, saluted and in the jet he went. Perhaps the steps were slippery?
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | He fell twice and then ran up the stairs, saluted and in the jet he went. Perhaps the steps were slippery? | | | | | Long live President Harris.
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President?
This must have been Putin's doing, it's his revenge for Biden calling him a murderer.
Nobody else would dare target the president of such a peaceful nation.
Other than that, there's always Trump. | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | | 
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| | Re: Will Biden be a good President? | Quote: | |  | | | This must have been Putin's doing, it's his revenge for Biden calling him a murderer.
Nobody else would dare target the president of such a peaceful nation.
Other than that, there's always Trump. | | | | | A CIA intelligence report confirms that nobody from antifa or blm was present .
This proved beyond any doubt that this was Trump‘s doing . Pelosi is preparing fresh articles of impeachment .
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