The Biden Presidency

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Just popped up on my Twitter feed.

“Joe Biden is the worst president in history and he’s turning my dog into a socialist”...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colu...0210122-3i4jrasksjaubmcqk55bej7pla-story.html

Wanna give the real deal a try? This guy is a super smart physicist and completely brainwashed.

Within hours, the demented senior has already reversed and destroyed the result of the work by thousands of amazing people. He has returned the U.S. to the suicidal and pointless Paris Agreement that wants to cripple the energy industry and transportation with the excuses rooted in a pseudoscientific fundamentalist religious system revolving around the weather (when they prevent you from having a car or anything like that, don't be surprised, almost all of the people will deserve it); ordered the reinclusion of the U.S. into the Chinese-and-African communists-controlled, pseudoscientific, medically cluless and counterproductive World Health Organization.

https://motls.blogspot.com/2021/01/parasites-retards-scum-terrorists.html

 

[dudalb]

The Biden Administration pretty much declared war on Right Wing Extremisim in today's press conference.

 

[dudalb]

The GOP's denialism toward Global warming is incredible. I don't get why;most of the big corporations can see the handwriting on the wall and are moving towards renewable energy. Holdouts are the companies in the fossil fuel business,and even some of them are beginning to divesity
It'sot just a case of doing what business wants;it has developed a life ot it's own.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

Right. Because threatening to withhold our government's money from a foreign government to get them to do something in line with our government's policy is just the same as threatening to do so unless that foreign government takes an action that has no bearing on government policy, and has no other effect than to personally and politically benefit the person doing the threatening. And I'm sure you know this, but the Obama administration didn't want the prosecutor in question fired because he was too tough on corruption (and therefore a threat to Biden's son), but because he wasn't tough enough (USA Today):


So...no, not "exactly the kind of thing Trump was accused of during his impeachment hearings." In fact, pretty much the opposite.

See, in order to properly do the childish "tit for tat" thing, you need both a tit and a tat. All you have is a tit- and that's tough.

Impeachment of the President as a political tool does lead to "tit for tat". Democrats were told this to no avail and here we are.

As long as Biden doesn't mention that the prosecutor he wants fired has anything to do with his son or the Ukrainian company he works for then everything is peachy....I see how that's supposed to work. The folks doing the impeachment stuff are the ones you'll need to convince that there was nothing going on out of the ordinary. I don't know anything other than the appearance of impropriety with these Biden family deals may come back to haunt President Biden.


Of course this could all be Russian disinformation exactly like Hunter's laptop was said to be. No worries.

 

[Mader Levap]

What if I was in an electric vehicle? How many Superchargers are on i-95 between The Sunshine and Meth State and the Tarheel and Tobacco State? If takes longer to even supercharge a Tesla then it does to pump a tank of gas into a Dodge Dart, to say nothing of older electric vehicle charging systems which take hours and even now a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of electrical charging stations compared to gas stations. What if I'm in a Tesla or Volt trying to evacuate along the same pathway as dozens of other Teslas and Volts? The infrastructure just isn't there yet.

Length of charging itself is not problem, actually. You have to straighten legs, go to toilet, eat something in middle of long, long journey anyway. That will take half a hour at least.

 

[Shalamar]

Length of charging itself is not problem, actually. You have to straighten legs, go to toilet, eat something in middle of long, long journey anyway. That will take half a hour at least.

You can also sit in your car, and watch some netflix on the screen.

 

[Cavemonster]

The GOP's denialism toward Global warming is incredible. I don't get why;most of the big corporations can see the handwriting on the wall and are moving towards renewable energy. Holdouts are the companies in the fossil fuel business,and even some of them are beginning to divesity
It'sot just a case of doing what business wants;it has developed a life ot it's own.

Industry is pivoting toward the green, but for them to make maximum profits, that means pivoting at their own pace and style to follow the market rather than having the government mandate change from the top down.

Right now they're still playing both sides and they don't want to stop milking the fossil fuel side of the profits any sooner than they absolutely have to.

Denial is still profitable, but it's been slowly hedging. We went from "There is no climate change" to "You can't prove humans are the cause!" and now we're moving on to "It's too late to avoid climate change anyway, why crush the economy" or "We have to make sure the cure isn't worse than the disease, maybe warming is good?"

I'd say their positions are actually still very much in line with corporate interests.

 

[kookbreaker]

Impeachment of the President as a political tool does lead to "tit for tat". Democrats were told this to no avail and here we are.

Oh please. You genuinely approve of letting the President do whatever the hell he wants just on the basis of the next President might be impeached in revenge? You're basically approving of holding the office hostage?

Sorry but no. This "impeachment" is a one shot spurt from a bootlicking, braindead QAnon clownshoe. It will go nowhere and frankly serves only to embarrass the GOP to anyone who isn't their utter sycophant, even then most of the sycophants are rolling their eyes art the Qnut.

{dreary old pathetic attempt at a Biden/Ukraine scandal that never was into something of note snipped, I doubt even Chris actually believes it at this point}

 

[dudalb]

Sda fact is a number of people in the GOP have totally embraced authoratraisim.
They want power, and if that means destroying democracy, so be it.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

There are other electric cars than Tesla. Using a top tier brand car as an example is really not fair.

I'm a taxi driver. Is that working class enough for you?

I drive electric.

I drive a Nissan Leaf.

And I'm very, very happy with my car.

And the electricity to charge my car costs a helluva lot less than fossil fuels would cost. I save so much money on fuel, it's amazing. I will never go back to driving a fossil fuel car.

And you're a very saavy and smart person for owning one. I've seen a few in my area too. The Nissan Leaf is a cool little car and more reasonably priced than a Tesla.

According to an article from December, Nissan has sold about 148K here is the US. That would cover roughly 1/5th of the Biden voters in my home state of Kentucky. Everyone else would still be driving a gasoline or diesel powered automobile. So production will need to be stepped up before we can move away from fossil fuels.

I expect the Biden Admin to have some sort of Government backed rebate for purchase of a new EV. And I'm all for it. Currently waiting to see how much the US taxpayer would like to chip in on a new EV for myself.
30% would be nice but I'd accept more of course. I'll need something with a big trunk space to fit in all that free money.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

Oh please. You genuinely approve of letting the President do whatever the hell he wants just on the basis of the next President might be impeached in revenge? You're basically approving of holding the office hostage?

Sorry but no. This "impeachment" is a one shot spurt from a bootlicking, braindead QAnon clownshoe. It will go nowhere and frankly serves only to embarrass the GOP to anyone who isn't their utter sycophant, even then most of the sycophants are rolling their eyes art the Qnut.

{dreary old pathetic attempt at a Biden/Ukraine scandal that never was into something of note snipped, I doubt even Chris actually believes it at this point}

I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. I also believe impeachment of the President is a serious business. It's not me that's looking for "impeachment payback". But that exact sentiment is alive and well in DC at this moment.

Should they impeach Biden? NO, they shouldn't. They also should not have impeached Trump. You can't remove a sitting President after he or she is out of office. If anyone believes it's not political now you're fooling yourself. Impeachment was NOT placed in the Constitution as a political tool.

 

[JoeMorgue]

I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. I also believe impeachment of the President is a serious business. It's not me that's looking for "impeachment payback". But that exact sentiment is alive and well in DC at this moment.

Should they impeach Biden? NO, they shouldn't. They also should not have impeached Trump. You can't remove a sitting President after he or she is out of office. If anyone believes it's not political now you're fooling yourself. Impeachment was NOT placed in the Constitution as a political tool.

If they shouldn't have impeached Trump then what possibly should they ever impeached a President for?

 

[kookbreaker]

I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories. I also believe impeachment of the President is a serious business. It's not me that's looking for "impeachment payback". But that exact sentiment is alive and well in DC at this moment.

With one (maybe two) Representative. And a kook at that. Not impressive. Vengeance is going to look very silly if more try to ride that wave.

Should they impeach Biden? NO, they shouldn't. They also should not have impeached Trump. You can't remove a sitting President after he or she is out of office. If anyone believes it's not political now you're fooling yourself. Impeachment was NOT placed in the Constitution as a political tool.

Sorry, but Trump's traitorous antics deserve consequences. An impeachment at the minimum will keep him from holding office again.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

If they shouldn't have impeached Trump then what possibly should they ever impeached a President for?

When there is bipartisan support to do so. Unless both parties agree that a crime has been committed the impeachment proceeding is only political.

 

[Segnosaur]

Should they impeach Biden? NO, they shouldn't. They also should not have impeached Trump. You can't remove a sitting President after he or she is out of office.

No, but congress can still judge their activities and enact punishment... such as blocking him from holding public office again.

And there is precedent for it... impeachment proceedings have gone on in the past for people that had already left office.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

With one (maybe two) Representative. And a kook at that. Not impressive. Vengeance is going to look very silly if more try to ride that wave.



Sorry, but Trump's traitorous antics deserve consequences. An impeachment at the minimum will keep him from holding office again.

It will be yet another waste of taxpayer dollars.



Political, they need him to not be a candidate. I think you know why and it has nothing to do with a riot at the Capitol building.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

No, but congress can still judge their activities and enact punishment... such as blocking him from holding public office again.

And there is precedent for it... impeachment proceedings have gone on in the past for people that had already left office.

Let them censure him in that case. NOT impeach.

 

[smartcooky]

Impeachment of the President as a political tool does lead to "tit for tat".

It would not lead to "tit-for-tat" if politicians would look at the evidence without viewing it through a partisan lens.

That Trump attempted to blackmail the leader of a foreign country for his own personal and political benefit was so blindingly obvious, it utterly defies belief anyone would be so ******* stupid enough to believe otherwise. The evidence was conclusive, overwhelming and irrefutable. Even better, the evidence was documentary, it came from his own words, as testified to by impeccable witnesses who actually heard the call.

Even worse, the vast majority of the Republicans in the Senate privately knew that he was guilty (they confessed this to their Democrat colleagues) but they were too afraid to vote that way because they knew they risked being primaried by Trump supporters next time they were up for election. Only one Senator had the courage to vote his convictions... Mitt Romney.

Trump was so obviously guilty that if the Senate trial had been a jury trial in a court, the jury would very likely have been out for less than an hour before coming back with a unanimous guilty verdict

 

[Modified]

What were you evacuating from? I mean, a current EV has what, 300 miles range? What would you be evacuating from where 300 miles could not get you out of harm's way? OK, you might have to make a night stop before reaching the comforts of relatives, but ...

Hans

From Jacksonville he had a lot of options, but during Irma I really was not out of harm's way after 300 miles.

 

[Cavemonster]

Let them censure him in that case. NOT impeach.

To be clear here. If Trump had taken the same actions a year or so earlier in his term, would you have supported impeachment? Is your objection here mainly that the actual action is coming after he has left office?