Politics Biden - How’s he doing?

rogue49 · Aug 22, 2021

Chris Noyb said: ↑

I like Biden, I believe overall we're moving in the right direction under him.

While there were and are some surprises in the evacuation of Afghanistan, I think Biden totally blew it. The chaos he directly mentioned could've been mitigated to a certain degree with some good sense foresight and planning.
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I don’t think Biden blew it, although he made the call to get out…which was good.

It was the Pentagon and the field generals that blew it.
Also, the State Dept and ambassador.
They assumed the Afghanistan president and govt would hold up
They also assumed the Afghanistan army and regulars would hold tighter
Both were wrong and then some
THEN they were slow to move to react or adjust

Biden isn’t god, nor does he do everything
That’s what everyone else is for.

The arrogance that we got in it with
Was also the arrogance that screwed our leave

Then again, Russia and England also did the same.
And if anything, lost more and more resources and money. They bled it, especially Russia which starved itself for it. The $$$ is smaller in relative term, even if the number is large.

The US actually grew the civilization more.
So it’s not all a loss, the people are much more sophisticated and educated now, having access to more, how to use it and to expect it.

The Taliban, while successful with their blitzing,
Is going to find the country and people VERY different and likely more difficult to rule and stay that way. It will likely turn into death by a 1000 cuts for their reboot term.

The US isn’t totally gone either. And now China, Russia, India, etc will be involved too. The Taliban will have to keep its nose clean once it stabilizes.

Biden just saved the US lots of future money
And lots of future headaches.

The Pentagon has got to stop presuming their superiority and everything will just be a cakewalk.
People on the other side can pull triggers too.
AND they live there…

Chris Noyb · Aug 22, 2021

rogue49 said: ↑

I don’t think Biden blew it, although he made the call to get out…which was good.

It was the Pentagon and the field generals that blew it.
Also, the State Dept and ambassador.
They assumed the Afghanistan president and govt would hold up
They also assumed the Afghanistan army and regulars would hold tighter
Both were wrong and then some
THEN they were slow to move to react or adjust

Biden isn’t god, nor does he do everything
That’s what everyone else is for.

The arrogance that we got in it with
Was also the arrogance that screwed our leave

Then again, Russia and England also did the same.
And if anything, lost more and more resources and money. They bled it, especially Russia which starved itself for it. The $$$ is smaller in relative term, even if the number is large.

The US actually grew the civilization more.
So it’s not all a loss, the people are much more sophisticated and educated now, having access to more, how to use it and to expect it.

The Taliban, while successful with their blitzing,
Is going to find the country and people VERY different and likely more difficult to rule and stay that way. It will likely turn into death by a 1000 cuts for their reboot term.

The US isn’t totally gone either. And now China, Russia, India, etc will be involved too. The Taliban will have to keep its nose clean once it stabilizes.

Biden just saved the US lots of future money
And lots of future headaches.

The Pentagon has got to stop presuming their superiority and everything will just be a cakewalk.
People on the other side can pull triggers too.
AND they live there…
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Fair enough, but it doesn't leave Biden blameless. And it begs the question regarding the quality of the people Biden put in place to keep him properly informed.

Chris Noyb · Aug 23, 2021

How Biden handles Afghanistan, namely changes how things are being done in Afghanistan, is extremely important to his presidency.

By this time next year most of the midterm elections campaigns will be in full force. I hope the mess in Afghanistan will have been resolved in a positive way...for the USA.

Afghanistan itself appears to be on track to become another India. In the sense it's a country that's a cesspool for the majority of its citizens, with little (no) hope for improvement.

rogue49 · Aug 25, 2021

Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences. Just Don’t Call Her Nice — Vogue

He hired a damn good Press Secretary

Let’s hear for the lady.

Smart as a whip
And a wicked wit.

Fun to watch the ping-ping match these days.

#PsakiBomb - luv it.

Chris Noyb · Aug 25, 2021

rogue49 said: ↑

Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences. Just Don’t Call Her Nice — Vogue

He hired a damn good Press Secretary

Let’s hear for the lady.

Smart as a whip
And a wicked wit.

Fun to watch the ping-ping match these days.

#PsakiBomb - luv it.
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Paywall,

I think.

rogue49 · Aug 25, 2021

Chris Noyb said: ↑

Paywall,

I think.
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Fixed it - Now goes to TFA
it's a good one too

Chris Noyb · Aug 25, 2021

That's a very well written article, even if a little asskissy. But it's intended to introduce her, so to say, not to attack her.

rogue49 · Aug 26, 2021

Biden warns Kabul airport attackers: 'We will hunt you down'

I feel for him, he's got a big heart for those soldiers and afghan citizens.
He's between a rock & a hard place.

Chris Noyb · Aug 27, 2021

In reality the best action for Biden is keep up the evacuation, don't retaliate. But that is not what people want to hear. We, generally speaking, want to react violently when our soldiers are killed.

If I were Taliban leadership, I would be extremely angry with any group taking action against US troops. Because I would not want to give the US any reason to hang around in Afghanistan.

rogue49 · Aug 27, 2021

Chris Noyb said: ↑

In reality the best action for Biden is keep up the evacuation, don't retaliate. But that is not what people want to hear. We, generally speaking, want to react violently when our soldiers are killed.

If I were Taliban leadership, I would be extremely angry with any group taking action against US troops. Because I would not want to give the US any reason to hang around in Afghanistan.
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IMHO, after the big spotlight of the evacuations
Dark ops is going to begin…

Special forces, etc. will be going in for cleanup
Removing and destroying US equipment

Drone and bombs for strikes vs the Taliban
Looks like despite their words and propaganda
They’re doing SSDD…like Dick Dastardly

So you’ll get most of support from the world for the US to slap them around a bit…get their act together, be civilized

Russia & China doing their typical protests and shaming
But still enjoying the benefits as the US does their dirty work.
As they’ve done for the past 20 years

They know damn well, the US isn’t staying despite the requests from the UK, Japan, India and EU

We’ve moved out
Now the Taliban will have to deal with the world neighborhood watch.

rogue49 · Nov 15, 2021

Biden names former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to oversee infrastructure plan

Smart move, having someone specifically hired to help manage 1.2 Trillion distribution and execution.
This way someone can coordinate, make there's no corruption, politicians and bureaucrats to interfere less, get over roadblocks and put boots on the ground...actually working and fixing things.

Let's hope he does a good job. We need this done right.

Chris Noyb · Nov 15, 2021

rogue49 said: ↑

Biden names former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to oversee infrastructure plan

Smart move, having someone specifically hired to help manage 1.2 Trillion distribution and execution.
This way someone can coordinate, make there's no corruption, politicians and bureaucrats to interfere less, get over roadblocks and put boots on the ground...actually working and fixing things.

Let's hope he does a good job. We need this done right.
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I wish could rate this ^ agree and optimistic.

This definitely needs to be handled correctly, even more so than normal. The conservative assmouths are already blaming every thing on Biden, and the smallbrains are believing it because it beats thinking about how most of what's happening was inevitable regardless of who is POTUS.

ASU2003 · Nov 18, 2021

I wonder if Landrieu will run for President in 2024? He might be one of the better choices to have a successful run.

rogue49 · Dec 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f9a7b0-5dd1-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

In Trump country, a willingness to set aside politics as Biden visits
An American flag flies Wednesday in front of a house destroyed by a tornado in Mayfield, Ky. (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
By Matt Viser
Today at 6:00 a.m. EST

MAYFIELD, Ky. — Cliff Giambrone most certainly didn’t vote for President Biden and, in fact, was outside the U.S. Capitol protesting the election results on Jan. 6. On the trailer hitch on the back of his van, he usually uses two 10-foot poles to fly a flag with a derogatory message aimed at Biden: “Let’s Go Brandon.”

But when the 67-year-old retired construction worker drove from his home in Hamburg, Pa., to help the recovery effort here, he made a conscious decision to leave that flag at home, bringing an American flag instead. “Believe me, part of me wants to wave that flag and smile when he looks at it,” he said. “But I don’t want to be that guy.”

Pausing in his search for a lost photo album in the rubble of a home, Giambrone added, “I am political, but there are times you have to set that aside. This is one of those moments. I hope it’s not temporary. I didn’t vote for him, but he’s still my president. I want to support him.”

As Biden arrived in Mayfield on Wednesday, he came to perhaps the most conservative place he has visited as president, the one where open hostility would be most apparent. He set foot in a county that voted for Donald Trump by nearly a 4-to-1 margin. Many here protested his election, and some still do not accept that he is the rightful president.

But the storms that have transformed parts of western Kentucky suggest that a natural disaster remains one of the few spaces left in American life where, however briefly, many attempt to put their politics aside. Biden’s response to the tornadoes has won praise from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who rarely has warm words for the president. Most here say they welcome Biden’s visit, even if they question how effectively he may be able to help them.

“I didn’t vote for the president, and I’m not a fan of his policies,” said Clayton Howe, a 57-year-old lifelong resident who was assessing damage to his downtown building that Biden would walk past an hour later. “But I appreciate him being here. He’s still the president of the United States.”

President Biden tours Mayfield on Wednesday. (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)

Cliff Giambrone, who drove from Hamburg, Pa., to volunteer with the tornado cleanup, said of Biden’s visit: “I didn’t vote for him, but he’s still my president. I want to support him.” (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
Biden carried just two of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Thirteen months after the presidential election, signs of the region’s deep support for Trump remain vivid, even amid the rubble.

In Dawson Springs, a town of 2,500 where an estimated 75 percent of the houses were destroyed, tattered Trump flags still hang outside damaged homes. And even as they picked through the debris, emergency personnel were spotted over the weekend wearing “Make America Great Again” hats.

At least one “Let’s go, Brandon” shout was heard as Biden toured the area, but that reaction was relatively muted. More conspicuous were people like Gary Killian, a 55-year-old who stood in a red Trump 2020 cap but nonetheless said he wanted to hear from Biden.

Biden pledges federal aid for tornado victims

President Biden said the federal government would help Kentucky with 100 percent of its costs related to tornado damage during remarks on Dec. 15. (The Washington Post)
“You can’t help but have compassion for our town,” Killian said. “I just want to see into his eyes. I want to hear what he has to say. And I can’t say I don’t want to hear him just because I’m from the other side of the aisle.”

Many Mayfield residents appeared to be wrestling this week with their emotions toward Biden, combining a deep-seated disdain and even contempt with a respect for the presidency and a sense that Biden deserved credit for coming. And there was a recognition, grudging for some, that they desperately needed help, or at least money, from the federal government.

Tami Trevarthen, a 58-year-old who works at a deli market and sat outside her brother’s destroyed home, said she approved of Biden’s visit. “He should see what’s going on here. People need help, federal help,” she said.

“He needs to come,” she said, before adding, “But is he coherent?” She recalled that Biden referred to the tornado that swept the area as a hurricane, and she blames him for rising gas prices and the persistence of covid.

Her brother, George Long, agreed for the most part with her assessment of Biden, but the Army veteran added that he is still the commander in chief. “I’d be diligent and courteous” if he met Biden, he said. “I’d even call him president. Everything is too political.”

Trevarthen demurred. “I’d be cordial to him,” she allowed. “Let’s see what he can do for people.”

“I didn’t vote for the president, and I’m not a fan of his policies,” said Clayton Howe, a 57-year-old lifelong resident of Mayfield. “But I appreciate him being here.” (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
A tattered Trump flag flies from the back of a pickup truck driving past the damaged Graves County courthouse in Mayfield. (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
Biden’s empathy has been a trademark of his political career, exhibited when he meets with families dealing with cancer, makes an unexpected call to a staffer’s mother or pauses to listen to someone’s grief. But recent months have also shown the potential strains when a president who is often viewed through a harshly partisan lens seeks to connect with those who disagree with him.

After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden met with families who had lost loved ones during the chaotic pullout. But some of the relatives greeted him with gritted teeth rather than open arms — blaming him for the troubled military operation, dismissing his comments as scripted and even ridiculing him after the meeting.

Several people in Mayfield said they could drop any impulse to turn the moment into a partisan moment, if Biden did the same. As he arrived, Biden seemed determined to strike a tone of unity.

“There is no red tornadoes and blue tornadoes,” he said. “There’s no red states or blue states when this stuff starts to happen.”

Biden praises Kentucky leaders in the wake of deadly tornadoes
President Biden on Dec. 15 told local Mayfield, Ky., leaders, "there’s no red tornadoes, there’s no blue tornadoes" during a briefing with local officials. (The Washington Post)
Touring the downtown destruction, Biden unexpectedly approached two women who were clearing rubble from a family-owned business called Debi’s Tax Service. “He said, ‘Hi, my name is Joe,” recalled Shawna Driscoll, a 45-year-old lifelong Mayfield resident. “I said, ‘I know who you are!’ ”

The exchange was positive, she said, adding that the encounter was shocking because she had just met the president and because he seemed so normal. Asked if she was a Trump supporter, Driscoll deflected, saying, “I’m a supporter of whoever wants to support us.”

From the outset of his presidency, Biden has seen natural disasters as an opportunity to showcase competence and bipartisan unity. He rapidly approved emergency declarations for areas hit by cold and snow, wildfires and hurricanes. His responses have won praise from leaders who disagree with him on almost everything else, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, potential Republican challengers in 2024.

In July, Biden traveled to Surfside, Fla., to comfort families after a condominium collapse, and DeSantis sat next to him. “You know what’s good about this?” Biden asked the local officials around him. “We’re letting the nation know we can cooperate” — here he looked at DeSantis — “when it’s really important.”

For Wednesday’s trip, the White House invited all eight members of Kentucky’s congressional delegation — seven Republicans, one Democrat. Only one, Rep. James Comer (R), whose district was the most heavily affected, flew with him on Air Force One.

Marine One flies by a damaged tree in Mayfield on Wednesday. (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
Sylas Ingram, a sophomore at Graves County High School, films on his phone as Biden’s motorcade arrives in Mayfield. (Austin Anthony for The Washington Post)
Although at least one person yelled “Let’s go, Brandon!” during the president’s visit, Comer emphasized in an interview that “it was just one person” and that the yell was “not appropriate.”

“Overwhelmingly, 99.5 percent of the people who were on the parade route were very polite and, I think, appreciated that the president of the United States took time to come here after the disaster,” Comer said.

“The people here are very patriotic — very conservative, but they’re patriotic, and they respect the office of the presidency,” he added. “I think they were appreciative of his visit, and the people he had interaction with, I could tell, were really honored to talk to the president and appreciated him being there.”

In Mayfield, the president surveyed a blasted landscape where shards of siding and insulation were stuck in trees or gathered in heaps like pick-up sticks. Some houses had no roof, and others retained only the front façade.

Historic churches were gone. The candle factory, an economic engine that was working in overdrive to satisfy Christmas demand, was leveled. The courthouse in the center of town had lost its cupola, its clock and much more.

Deanna Knisely sat outside what was once her home, resting on a concrete slab that used to be her front porch. She saw in Mayfield a metaphor for a struggling country, and a president she viewed as incapable of leading it.

“As far as my government goes, I’m saddened,” said the 57-year-old retired mother of five and grandmother of seven. “This whole country is feeling this particular depression. People are angry.”

But she also saw a lesson in the blankets being tossed around. The food being handed out. The community realizing a new bond. “People here are coming together. They’re loving each other,” Knisely said.

She doesn’t really care for Biden or his visit and thinks her community is unified in spite of him, not because of him. But her boyfriend, smoking a cigarette and wearing an American flag cap, disagreed as he sat in a rocking chair, one of the last remaining functional items from the home.

“I think he ought to see this firsthand,” said Allen Roper, a 61-year-old carpenter. “I’m hoping he sees this and puts some money into fixing this.”

Around the block, Tim Andreasen had moved most of what was salvageable from his roofless home onto the front lawn: the exercise machine. Books and DVDs. A Twister game.

Rain was in the forecast, but because he had no roof, he was unsure what to do with the belongings. He worked in a chicken hatchery that had been leveled, so he feared he would be out of work for months, while caring for two kids and two parents.

The disabled veteran said he did not trust Biden to fix his problems. “He can shake my hand and say, ‘I’m here to help you,’ ” he said, “and it’ll go in one ear and out the other.”

For his part, Giambrone hoped the moment would be somehow transformative and unifying, even if he conceded he might again fly his “Let’s Go Brandon” flag.

“I’m not going to go to Biden rallies,” he said. “But I wish him well. He’s our president.”
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Now, here’s the difference.
The US President is the President of ALL
The taxes we pay in, go to ALL
Biden gets it.

He understands this, the federal government kicks in where there’s need, no matter the location or politics.

Y’know who’s not there? T
Y’know who hasn’t said anything? T
Y’know who hasn’t donated a cent of his billions or setup a fund? T
Because he really does NOT care
Not for anyone but himself.

And even when he was prez, he withheld funds from opposing areas and groups…or at least tried.

Biden honors his oath.
TFG didn’t.

Completely different
Completely opposite

ASU2003 · Dec 17, 2021

As part of "Build Back Better", a big thing needs to be new housing building codes to bring hurricane level protections to the entire eastern US. Hurricane straps on roofs, better windows and doors, and improved materials and insulation. Every house should have a reinforced pantry or bathroom on the ground level. It is cheap to do it right the first time, but it costs a lot of money and effort to redo existing homes, but that also needs to be done.

The IRS has a form that lists all of the natural disasters that have been declared that I came across a few days ago, and I don't think the storms will be getting less frequent anytime soon.

ralphie250 · Jan 4, 2022

rogue49 said: ↑

Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences. Just Don’t Call Her Nice — Vogue

He hired a damn good Press Secretary

Let’s hear for the lady.

Smart as a whip
And a wicked wit.

Fun to watch the ping-ping match these days.

#PsakiBomb - luv it.
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Shes just sexy.

rogue49 · Jan 5, 2022

ralphie250 said: ↑

Shes just sexy.
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View: https://twitter.com/funder/status/1478795745817997313?s=20

Can't get sexier than this...speak the truth, woman. She's steel.
Can't wait for the Biden speech...this is going to get interesting... (where's the popcorn)

rogue49 · Jan 6, 2022

President Biden blasts Trump for 'spreading a web of lies' in a Jan. 6 speech

Very impressive speech.
The full version is in the article.

I like the way he actually called it out. No ambiguity.
Lies
Insurrection.

Now, we need action, not just words.

omega · Jan 7, 2022

Saw marine force one today, heading from Denver International to the Marshall fire location. It was preceded by a couple of v-22 ospreys carrying marines. Yesterday, three ospreys flew over my work training for today. Then Biden threw rolls of paper towels out of the helicopter on people. Truly a man of the people. I'm totally kidding. We're mostly white here, unlike Puerto Rico. Trump thought he was resupplying housekeepers.

rogue49 · Jan 11, 2022

Justice Dept. forms new domestic terrorism unit to address growing threat

Brilliant idea.
Now make a whole plan of action.
Can't wait to staff.

It's already been a year, if not more.

This is good to take the ball after a series of initiatives. (and plays already done_

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