The Biden Presidency

[Firestone]

Truly shocking. Seriously though, the amount of coverage granted to the "forgotten" GOP rural voters is a bit incredible. It's to the point where I find myself pondering the chicken and the egg issue with relation to the narrative that they're forgotten. It's actually much more of a surprise to see interviews of Biden voters on whether Trump should be held accountable for his actions or, say, interviews of people waiting in those absurdly long food lines.

Exactly. The US media seems to suffer from a Stockholm syndrome.

Love that scrawl too- "Loyal Texas Trump voters want Biden to be less divisive." Do those Texans live in another reality? One where the guy they're "loyal" to, who lost the election and then spent two months doing everything he could think of to steal it back, is somehow not a cause of the divisiveness, but the guy who fairly won is? I'm sure that they don't like Biden's agenda, but he has as much right by his victory to try to enact it as Trump did by his in 2016; to call that somehow too "divisive" is just to pretend that elections can only properly have consequences when it's your side that wins them.

Yes, because it's not normal politics: it's a cult.

And entitlement.
It's not only an American phenomenon, though, we have that in Europe too. Conservative rurals behave and are treated by most media as somehow being the "real" people, as opposed to the cosmopolitan masses of the cities.

It even impacts reality in all sort of ways. (Example: when our government started to impose COVID-19 restrictions in March 2020, they were in general presented with the unspoken assumption that everyone lives in a village or in a villa. It took quite a while for the authorities to adapt the restrictions, and the messaging about them, to take into account cities and apartments, where obviously most Belgians live.)

 

[Bubba]

There will be a lot of biological girls missing out on collegiate scholarships, and possibly participating in the Olympic Games, all in the name of *equality*.

Political strategist explains why he LOVES President Biden’s executive order on trans women in girls’ sports


https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/202...ecutive-order-on-trans-women-in-girls-sports/

 

[Aridas]

Exactly. The US media seems to suffer from a Stockholm syndrome.

Not exactly, I'd say. At last check, the corporate media, which is pretty much what the MSM is in the US, is generally owned and run by Republicans/right-wingers. Reporters and others who do much of the work tend to be more centrist or even on the left, but they don't tend to be the ones to set the overall agenda and what to focus on. It's a rather safe observation that, for equal offenses by Republicans and Democrats in similar positions, Democrats will usually be bashed much harder, much as that's a product of multiple reasons and not *just* acting to please the owners. That Republicans have been getting more negative coverage in total for years, even with that taken into account, is rather telling in and of itself.

Either way, one of the inherent flaws of trusting necessary institutions to unregulated or poorly regulated capitalism is that the goals that the capitalists will be trying to reach will generally be far more focused on profits than the good of the people - which is obviously problematic when they're necessary institutions.

 

[Stacyhs]

There will be a lot of biological girls missing out on collegiate scholarships, and possibly participating in the Olympic Games, all in the name of *equality*.

More right wing fear mongering:

On his first day in office, newly inaugurated President Joseph Biden enacted 17 executive orders.

One combats discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The policy addresses Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other gender discrimination policies such as Title IX and the Fair Housing Act and section 412 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Claim:

Shortly after this executive order was released, the hashtag #BidenErasedWomen was trending on Twitter. Some people expressed concern that the order will allow transgender female athletes to compete on women's sports teams.

Abigail Shrier, author of "IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," said in a tweet that the order" eviscerates women's sports" and places a "new glass ceiling" over girls because allowing transgender women have a biological advantage on women's sports teams.


The Ruling

Mostly false.

The executive order addresses that Title VII and Title IX protect against discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

Not that the facts will mean diddly squat to the right wingers spreading this crap.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

it's the new Bathroom Scare.

 

[MRC_Hans]

If boring, inoffensive Joe Biden is "one of the very worst human beings in the entire population", what does that make Trump?

Obviously not a human being.

Hans

 

[MRC_Hans]

I believe in Europe (correct me if I am wrong), Tesla uses a different connector for charging, and any EV can theoretically use the tesla Superchargers.

In North America, ONLY Teslas can use the Supercharging network. Smartest thing Tesla did, was the Supercharge network.

Smart for Tesla. Very silly for the environment. They should not be allowed to do that.

Hans

 

[The Great Zaganza]

This is kinda awesome, IMO:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90597086/the-story-behind-the-moon-rock-in-the-biden-oval-office?

Biden asked NASA for a piece of Moon Rock for the Oval Office.

 

[smartcooky]

Smart for Tesla. Very silly for the environment. They should not be allowed to do that.

Hans

Maybe you don't understand the reasons why this is. Its not about Tesla being pissy. Its not that they are "not allowing" others to use them, and the fact that they cannot is not Tesla's fault. Its not because Tesla wanted a separate plug standard to the rest of the world, but because they led the field, and needed a standard straight away - they could not wait for the rest of the world’s EV manufacturers to catch up.

Very early on, Tesla offered other car manufacturers to share chargers and plugs. They all declined, and instead, they took years to come up with a standard between them about plug and charging standards.

https://thedriven.io/2019/04/03/can-non-tesla-electric-cars-use-tesla-ev-chargers/

https://thedriven.io/2018/10/10/tesla/

 

[Paul2]

For mine, I think he will keep the filibuster, and give the Rs every opportunity to act in good faith. However, if they start trying to stonewall his agenda, that will give him the high ground and the moral authority to nuke'm, and I think he will!

Exactly. Give them one chance to step up to the plate and be responsible. When they show that they aren't interested in that, then the filibuster is gone.

There is a version of a strategy of the prisoner's dilemma which depends on repetitions of the game in which, over time, one player punishes the other in round X when the other player made the wrong move in round X-1. That teaches the other player to cooperate to the benefit of both.

 

[Paul2]

There will be a lot of biological girls missing out on collegiate scholarships, and possibly participating in the Olympic Games, all in the name of *equality*.

There are plenty on the left who think that females should keep on not competing with those who went through male puberty, despite what others on the left may think. So leftists can disagree with other leftists. Do you see that same phenomenon on the right? I hope so.

 

[Stacyhs]

Biden is going to left the ban on transgenders serving in the military on Monday per CNN reversing Trump's EO.

Yea!

 

[Stacyhs]

I was watching a reporter interview Trump voters in a very red district in TX. He asked them what Biden could do to be a good president. Almost all of them said to stop being so divisive. I had to wonder just what Biden had done to be divisive in their minds but made them think Trump was not responsible for the divisiveness of the last four years? It just goes to show how people can look at the same events yet see entirely different things.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Fourth day of the Biden presidency, fourth day of a Democratic senate.
What is CNN interested in? The voters that helped flip Georgia or Arizona?
Nah, boring.

Let's see what goes in rural Texas:

View attachment 44039

After Trump won the EC in 2016, US media were inundated with profiles of Trump voters.
After Trump lost the EC and the popular vote in 2020, most voter profiles on the "liberal" media (CNN, NYT) are again about Trump voters.

/rant

The only way the man in the picture could look more like a stereotypical Texan is if his other hand was holding a gun. Or his shirt had frill.

 

[rdaneel]

Fourth day of the Biden presidency, fourth day of a Democratic senate.
What is CNN interested in? The voters that helped flip Georgia or Arizona?
Nah, boring.

Let's see what goes in rural Texas:

View attachment 44039

After Trump won the EC in 2016, US media were inundated with profiles of Trump voters.
After Trump lost the EC and the popular vote in 2020, most voter profiles on the "liberal" media (CNN, NYT) are again about Trump voters.

/rant

Love that scrawl too- "Loyal Texas Trump voters want Biden to be less divisive." Do those Texans live in another reality? One where the guy they're "loyal" to, who lost the election and then spent two months doing everything he could think of to steal it back, is somehow not a cause of the divisiveness, but the guy who fairly won is? I'm sure that they don't like Biden's agenda, but he has as much right by his victory to try to enact it as Trump did by his in 2016; to call that somehow too "divisive" is just to pretend that elections can only properly have consequences when it's your side that wins them.

I think this goes to why the Mainstream Media picks stories of Trump supporters over Biden supporters. Biden was the smarter, more competent and less corrupt candidate.
Voting for Biden was a lot of people making a reasonable decision. It makes for a dull story because there is no reason to be curious why anyone made that choice.

Voting for Trump on the other hand, is like a "Man bites Dog" headline.
71 million people looked at 4 years of a transparently corrupt and incompetent administration and decided that was what they wanted and the MSM has clearly decided enough people want know how that is even possible to make it a story worth pursuing.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

yep.

Reporting that water is still wet is not News.


But I also think that Reporters are hoping to find the first cracks in the Trump Wall of unquestioning followers.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

And in other Biden news: Biden's youtube channel "The White House" now clearly the domain of the newly sworn in President, continues to receive massive thumbs down on every video posted. More dislikes than likes.

Strange that this would be an issue for the most popular US President in history.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

And in other Biden news: Biden's youtube channel "The White House" now clearly the domain of the newly sworn in President, continues to receive massive thumbs down on every video posted. More dislikes than likes.

Strange that this would be an issue for the most popular US President in history.

why would this be strange?
Seems like you conflate youtube votes with actual votes.

Also, no one said that Biden is the most popular President in US history.
As empirical fact, Trump is the most unpopular President in US history, and people voted for his challenger.

you still think the election was stolen?

 

[Matthew Ellard]

And in other Biden news: Biden's youtube channel "The White House" now clearly the domain of the newly sworn in President, continues to receive massive thumbs down on every video posted. More dislikes than likes.

Wow. Do all you Trump fans really spend all day holding grudges and clicking dislike buttons? You should call Rudy Giuliani to audit the dislikes.... he needs the work apparently.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Trump introduced his rally sizes, compared to Biden's, as evidence that he won in Georgia.

If YT likes are an expression of US votes, I guess that makes Ed Sheeran President.