The Biden Presidency

[turingtest]

Bipartisanship in Biden's speech--examples:

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I submit that quite to the contrary to Miller's observation, at nearly every single occasion that political parties came up as a topic, Biden expressed support for bipartisan cooperation.

Especially that last one-

Quote:
I know Republicans have their own ideas and are engaged in productive discussions with Democrats in the Senate. We need to work together to find a consensus.

That's pretty much the definition of bipartisanship. The problem is that Biden is dealing with people who have their own, special definition of the word. Tim Scott, in his rebuttal the other night, spoke of Biden's "divisive policies" and how they betrayed his promise to try to unify the country. But Biden's policies are the policies of a Democrat, as opposed to the policies the GOP would prefer, so the "divisiveness" Scott sees is really nothing more than the normal division between parties that is how our system works. By Scott's definition, the only way a Democrat elected President could not be divisive is to agree that the proper cost of being elected as a Democrat is to act in office only as a Republican.

Anyway, both these guys need to attend to the beam in their own party's eye before they worry about the mote in the other's. After all, the GOP is still, for the most part, slavishly devoted to that blubberbag down in Florida, the one who made his last three months in office an extended performance of truly divisive partisanship, building it on lies about "stolen election!" and finishing it off by exhorting his faithful to fight! to overturn it. As long as that man is their party's titular head and they continue to tiptoe around him (at best), instead of calling him out for the deliberately polarizing liar that he is, they really do not need to sniff about how Biden isn't living up to his promise to unify. He can't, not when their apparent idea of unity is his plain and simple, unconditional surrender to them- he can be President as long as he doesn't try to be the one he was elected to be.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Republican definitions of words are different from everyone else.

Bipartisanship = Other parties only do what Republicans would do.
Partisanship = Not doing anything Republicans do not like.
Compromise = Republicans get everything they want, everyone else gets only what Republicans decide they can have.
Fascist = Anyone that doesn't toe the Republican line.
Freedom of Religion = Only Christianity counts, and only the denominations Republicans like.
Infrastructure = oil
Lefty/Liberal = Anyone that isn't a Republican.

 

[portlandatheist]

Imagine going back in time to the 1980's and telling people that in the future, pot will be legal, advertised on billboards and everywhere else, dirt cheap and there will be talk about banning menthol cigarettes which are already massively expensive and illegal to advertise.

 

[Belz...]

Infrastructure = oil

You forgot coal also.

 

[Dr. Keith]

Imagine going back in time to the 1980's and telling people that in the future, pot will be legal, advertised on billboards and everywhere else, dirt cheap and there will be talk about banning menthol cigarettes which are already massively expensive and illegal to advertise.

Back then I think I would have nodded and said "yeah, that sounds pretty good." But I always hated menthols.

 

[Horatius]

This just in, that SOB Biden is going to give everyone asthma!

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

This just in, that SOB Biden is going to give everyone asthma!

This cracks me up:

which he bizarrely said "hasn't even blossomed into a flower yet."

And this:

"I say it was a planted dandelion there, who knows."

Has the man never seen a lawn? You do not need to plant the dandelions.

 

[JoeMorgue]

The GOP wants to bring back "They're a witch!" so bad they can't stand it.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Also "Planted Dandelion" would be a great porn star name.

 

[Paul2]

The GOP wants to bring back "They're a witch!" so bad they can't stand it.

Where is Hillary when you really need her (again)?

 

[Trebuchet]

You can make wine from dandelions, and it's plant based! Why does Biden hate America?

 

[dudalb]

As opposed to Trump's rants?[/QUOYou

You expect anything different from Miller?

 

[dudalb]

Hate to break up the love fest, but I think voiding the patent on Covid vaccine is a bad idea. Hopefully htis is just jawboning to get the companies to give a discount to contries like India. No love for the huge Pharma companies, but arbirtillyer voiding a legal patent is a bad precedent.

 

[Dr. Keith]

Hate to break up the love fest, but I think voiding the patent on Covid vaccine is a bad idea. Hopefully htis is just jawboning to get the companies to give a discount to contries like India. No love for the huge Pharma companies, but arbirtillyer voiding a legal patent is a bad precedent.

I haven't looked into this, but Biden has no control over patent rights outside our borders. Foreign countries sometimes have mandatory licensing of patents built into their laws. I never managed patents in India, so I have no idea what their system looks like, but I know Biden has no control over it.

 

[Segnosaur]

Republican definitions of words are different from everyone else.

Bipartisanship = Other parties only do what Republicans would do.
Partisanship = Not doing anything Republicans do not like.
Compromise = Republicans get everything they want, everyone else gets only what Republicans decide they can have.
Fascist = Anyone that doesn't toe the Republican line.
Freedom of Religion = Only Christianity counts, and only the denominations Republicans like.
Infrastructure = oil
Lefty/Liberal = Anyone that isn't a Republican.

You forgot:

Socialist = anything that doesn't involve tax cuts

 

[Belz...]

You expect anything different from Miller?

I'm not expecting anything but grifting from the GOP at this point.

 

[Paul2]

Hate to break up the love fest, but I think voiding the patent on Covid vaccine is a bad idea. Hopefully htis is just jawboning to get the companies to give a discount to contries like India. No love for the huge Pharma companies, but arbirtillyer voiding a legal patent is a bad precedent.

I heard on the news yesterday that most of the vaccines are made in India, and there are noises there about nationalizing the vaccine-making to use the vaccines in India.

 

[acbytesla]

The GOP wants to bring back "They're a witch!" so bad they can't stand it.

Burn her! Burn her!

 

[acbytesla]

Hate to break up the love fest, but I think voiding the patent on Covid vaccine is a bad idea. Hopefully htis is just jawboning to get the companies to give a discount to contries like India. No love for the huge Pharma companies, but arbirtillyer voiding a legal patent is a bad precedent.

They have to do something. It's unreasonable to expect India not to protect its citizens.

 

[Horatius]

Hate to break up the love fest, but I think voiding the patent on Covid vaccine is a bad idea. Hopefully htis is just jawboning to get the companies to give a discount to contries like India. No love for the huge Pharma companies, but arbirtillyer voiding a legal patent is a bad precedent.

I haven't looked into this, but Biden has no control over patent rights outside our borders. Foreign countries sometimes have mandatory licensing of patents built into their laws. I never managed patents in India, so I have no idea what their system looks like, but I know Biden has no control over it.

Yeah, this. They have emergency powers to issue licenses to use the patents to other companies, if the owning company is incapable of meeting the immediate demand. Sometimes this is done with no license fee, but usually they do set a reasonable fee, which is often lower than the owner would prefer.

The owner still owns the patent, and once the crisis is past, can profit from it for the remainder of its lifetime.

There's a very good article on it here:

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/public_health_faq_e.htm