So far Biden has said he wants a united nation, and continues to makes gestures in that direction. But it seems large numbers of actual citizens do not want to compromise, reunite or live in peace and harmony. They may not be wrong. Many seem to prefer conflict as the necessary path to do the good and the right things. If we had a poll, which choice would predominate, conflict or compromise?
Because they don't want to or because they recognize that it's futile? I can point to people right now and tell you who doesn't want to and who won't because they can't. It's different.
The thing is he's been in federal politics for 48 years and being VP for 8 of those years he should have a pretty good handle of how to do things. However, I'm judging him solely on what he's done so far. His statement on "funding the police" was ridiculous since he's not calling for oversight with it. He's being really soft on Russia, especially with their cyberattacks. The border is a mess and those being detained are being put into horrible conditions. And finally, he's pushing grossly inflated bills without coming up with a way to pay for it.
REvil has gone silent since Joe phoned Vlad. Probably a coincidence but hey, progress.
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Yea it's a mixed bag with Biden, I agree largely with your take, though you're a little harder on the infrastructure bill than I would be. The COVID response was excellent, and I think desperately needed. But ultimately what I will probably judge the Biden presidency on is how it handles the insurrection that is still happening in the US. The jury is still out on that.
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So will Florida "arrest" any of NCL's workers if they step foot in their state again?Norwegian Cruise Line Will Abandon Florida if Vaccine Law Not Reversed
"The only way [Norwegian Cruise Line] could maintain its protocols and operations as currently planned is by abandoning Florida altogether," the lawsuit reads.
It's nice to see non-politically-affiliated healthy skepticism. Always appreciated wherever I see it.This feels like it's to Trump what "Hunter's laptop" was to Biden. Which is exactly nothing.
Reported Kremlin Leak Confirms Existence of Trump Kompromat
A document that The Guardian claims is from the Kremlin cryptically refers to “certain events” that happened during Trump’s “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory.”www.thedailybeast.com
Grain of salt. Many, many grains of salt. There's a warning in the headline and several more in the body of the article, but it probably won't make much difference.
Scientists were also skeptical that Covid originated from a Chinese lab. Skepticism is great as long as it doesn't simply dismiss the obvious, likely scenario which ultimately becomes supported by mounting evidence. I agree that skepticism has its place but for some reason a whole lot of really smart, really important people have been just plain wrong lately and I'm not exactly sure why. That makes me skeptical. Matter of fact, I'm more skeptical of that than I am of a "document" that confirms everything we've already known about Russia for decades.
And the fact that they dismissed one with little evidence but fully supported another with little evidence? Have you forgotten that the bat thing was the defacto explanation for a year with zero evidence to support the idea? Even South Park made an episode about how moronic it was.
I edited my comment with more points. But to answer your question, you're right that we do have tons of evidence supporting animal gestation and transmission but absolutely none of it has ever made sense in the context of Covid, not even from the beginning when a very small number of intimately familiar scientists said things like, "That doesn't make sense". Everybody's favorite librul journalist Johnny Harris does an entertaining job of summarizing. Off topic but relevant in the broad spectrum of American media and politics:
Who?
If you were a Republican you'd know his name because he used to work for Vox and they're a bunch of commies. He's probably got a stupid nickname but I'm not sure what.
There's no doubt China is bent, perhaps even destined, on becoming the world's #1 superpower, and that the US is divided, distracted, and bogged down in environmental, economic and social problems. We are dependent on the Chinese for all kinds of strategic essentials, from pharma to rare earth minerals, even basic manufacturing. The Chinese would be blithering idiots if they didn't take advantage of the situation and pounce on what they want and need most. If I were them, I'd snatch Taiwan, the South China Sea , and the Himalayans, and do it sooner rather than later.
That's a gift to democrats for sure. He was doing a fine job of making them look bad without taking money from republicans. Now he looks like a plant.I was definitely vacillating between posting it here or there or the 2020 election thread.
This story might be a little more relevant to the America thread.
Rupert Murdoch-funded Fox Corp. PAC contributes to Democrat Joe Manchin's campaign
The Fox News parent company's PAC donated money to moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's reelection campaign, a new filing shows.www.cnbc.com
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Just the one source? I can't seem to find any information elsewhere, even anything that cites the Murdoch rag.That's an... interesting WH dinner party guest list.
Hillary Clinton, GOP leaders will join Biden for dinner with German chancellor
Hillary Clinton and top congressional Republicans Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy will join President Biden on Thursday for a small dinner party with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It…
I found multiple sources when I looked up the story but this was the only one which mentioned the party guests up top so I could quote it in the unfurl box.
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