Cont: The Biden Presidency (3)

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Biden is under pressure from both sides of the aisle in COngress to do more for the Ukraine.
He is going to have to come up with something. I suspect he might have a change of heart about the Migs.
 
dudalb said:
Biden is under pressure from both sides of the aisle in COngress to do more for the Ukraine.
He is going to have to come up with something. I suspect he might have a change of heart about the Migs.
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It's "Ukraine" not 'the' Ukraine. :)
 
ponderingturtle said:
It is interesting about what nations are "the"

The United States, but not The Canada. The UAE but not The Israel.
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And far more importantly, the name of the band is Eagles, not The Eagles.....apparently


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In English, perhaps the distinction is whether the first word is an adjective rather than a proper noun ?

The United States, Kingdom, Arab Emirates
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The Federated States of Micronesia

On second thoughts, no

The Gambia :o

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-whose-official-names-begin-with-the.html
 
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It is interesting about what nations are "the"

The United States, but not The Canada. The UAE but not The Israel.
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The Don said:
In English, perhaps the distinction is whether the first word is an adjective rather than a proper noun ?

The United States, Kingdom, Arab Emirates
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The Federated States of Micronesia
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One of two rules at work here is about whether the noun is just a word or a name. In "the United States", "state" is just a word. In "the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics", "union" is just a word. In "the Netherlands", "lands" is still easy to recognize as just a word even though it's been smushed together with its adjective. In "The Republic of X", "republic" is just a word even though X would be a real name if it were isolated. And an emirate is a political entity ruled by an emir, like a kingdom is ruled by a king.

The other rule is that places that were originally named as geographical things (mountain ranges, rivers, valleys, ecosystems, even places named after a resident human culture) rather than political ones get a "the": the Amazon, the Steppe, the Appalachians, the Sahara, the Rift, the Outback. But later some of these also become political names, in which case they can start to lose the "the", but it doesn't happen suddenly & immediately: the Congo, the Sudan, the Ukraine.
 
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There was a recent poll on "What has Biden done that you agree wit?" and supposedly, "Nothing" was the most popular answer.

I wonder, considering there are republican politicians boasting about how their constituents are going to benefit from some specific aspect of the infrastructure bill, even though they voted against it.

More than half of the country doesn't think the infrastructure bill was a good thing? Yeah, right.

Either they are lying or they are idiots.
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What does that mean? That we should follow the party devoid of answers outside of tax cuts and blaming evey problem on the Democrats? Biden came into office with solutions that have been obstructed by the Republican party and two Democrats.

I agree with citizens who say we're not going in the right direction. We haven't been for 11 years. Presidents without a Congress willing to make changes can do little.

The problem isn't Biden. It's McConnell.
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That's kind of the point.

People are paying so little attention that they don't realize that the things they like and want done are often exactly what Biden has been trying to get done or even doing. Some think 'well if they were doing what I want, things would get fixed fast, therefore they must not even be attempting it', not understanding that the reasons some of that isn't done isn't Biden (I have some criticisms of him and some others I find reasonable even if I don't agree with them). More than that, they vastly over-estimate the effectiveness and speed of their ideas.

It doesn't help that the US is so self-absorbed they forget that other places and peoples have agency too, so it's all only the US President not working that is the problem.
 
To poke at this -

"Thank you to the American people, American states and personally to President Biden ... Really, President Biden ... has done more than all Presidents of United States."

— @AndriyYermak
, Pres. Zelenskyy's chief of staff, on additional U.S. aid and leadership for peace
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The virtual meeting between Biden and XI has started.
Biden cannot afford to be seen as weak. He needs to lay down, calmly but firmly, exact what the consquences will be if Xi supports Putin. And there is plenty the US can do do hurt China ecnomically.
XI can be freinds with the US and Europe, or he can be friends with Putinl He can't have both.
 
This war is going badly for Republicans. They are all tweeting other stuff. Border security (Bill disguised as fentanyl security is really just border patrol $$) and Keystone XL for oil (if we had started it in Trump II era, it would still not be finished. And the oil is not for cars.) Now, BIDEN CRIME FAMILY claim. Again! It's the laptop thing.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1504942804560195594
 
Biden administration endorses transgender youth sex-change operations, 'top surgery,' hormone therapy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi...ender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy

The HHS documents describe what it calls appropriate treatments for transgender adolescents, including: "'Top' surgery – to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts;" and "'Bottom' surgery – surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures."
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Knocking it out of the park!
 
Warp12 said:
Biden administration endorses transgender youth sex-change operations, 'top surgery,' hormone therapy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi...ender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy
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The administration isn't "endorsing" anything. In a direct response to things like the crazy Texas laws, it is simply affirming that standard science-based medical care is not child abuse.

From your own Fox link:
"For transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender-affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system," the NCTSN wrote in their release. "It may include evidence-based interventions such as puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones."

The NCTSN document goes out of its way to assure the public that the use of gender-affirming methods such as surgery and hormone replacement are not child abuse – most likely in response to recent policy decision in Texas that made such treatments illegal.
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In other good news:

Here's *exactly* why Joe Biden's poll numbers aren't getting better
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/biden-polling-inflation-russia-ukraine/index.html

A key measure of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, soared 6.4% in February as compared to the same period in 2021. That's the fastest increase for the index since January 1982. That's in keeping with the Consumer Price Index, which was also at its highest level since January 1982 in the 12-month period that ended in February.
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Another feather in Biden's cap, no doubt. I wonder how this will impact things come November?

As of 2018, the average -- yes, average -- House seat loss for a president's party when that president's job approval was under 50% was 37 seats. If history repeated itself this fall, Republicans would be back in the majority, with a decent cushion to boot.
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Things are looking up...in some ways, at least.
 
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Fox News proving Trump was right about Fake News!

Biden:

'In the past year, hundreds of anti-transgender bills in States were proposed across America, most of them targeting transgender kids. The onslaught has continued this year. These bills are wrong,' the president said.

'Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation's values.'
 
Stacyhs said:
Fox News proving Trump was right about Fake News!

Biden:

'In the past year, hundreds of anti-transgender bills in States were proposed across America, most of them targeting transgender kids. The onslaught has continued this year. These bills are wrong,' the president said.

'Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation's values.'
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You must not have read the article.

At any rate, I guess we will see how the popularity for Biden's support of "transgender children" pans out. I don't see hormone therapy and surgery on physically healthy children as part of our "nations values", unlike the Biden administration and some liberal weirdos. And I am far from alone.
 
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