Joe Biden of the day
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Biden plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline immediately.
Jason Kenney of Alberta, Canada announced plans to sue the US government over it.
Legal scholars from Canada have already weighed in to say there’s no legal case to be made but Hooooboy you have to be a real dumb hoser to think you can sue the US government and win, eh?
- awesomebezoar
- goodGuyFawkes
- Given that the project is part owned by native tribes and is supported by many unions I suspect this isn't the end of that project.zarkonite
- Can you post the article?I can only find ones that say he want to talk with the US so they don't cancel the project outright.eryx
- https://www.cbc.ca/n…nb
- “Kenney also said Alberta has a strong legal basis for seeking damages.The premier said Alberta is getting legal....nb
- ... advice in both Canada and the U.S. about seeking compensation if the project is scrapped.”nb
- utopian3
- this is just a Q plot getting ready to arrest all the libtards and make Trump Dictator for life. #MAGAcapn_ron
- Barr is a libtard?monospaced
- Isn’t it his last day today?monospaced
- perhaps this is why he is leaving early?monNom
- president hunter... hehePonyBoy
- utopian3
- A gay frog cuckbabydick
- It bums me out whenever fat people try to simulate a jawline with facial hair. You're not fooling anyone lardass!MondoMorphic
- Lard faces are the thing that upsets you in this scenario?CyBrainX
- Wonder what he's up to the now, he's been a bit quiet, shat out of the storming of the capitol too.PhanLo
- whatthefunk5
- this is me. 3rd place is pretty good imosarahfailin
- dont get itpango
- OBBTKN3
Dear Joe Biden: are you kidding me?
Erin Brockovich- Good share. PEOPLE. Let’s hold our own candidates to the same scrutiny we would put on the republicansnb
- true, i don't like this move.tank02
- Then his recent response to student debt will amaze you!face_melter
- Yeah he's done some really dodgy draft picks. Way better than Tronald, but stillProjectile
- Continuity3
This is a pretty on-point opinion piece about an eventual Biden administration.
'The US was lucky to get Trump – Biden may pave the way for a more competent autocrat
Only if the president-elect is willing to fight big money and redistribute wealth can he stop the rise of someone far worse than Trump'
https://www.theguardian.com/comm…
One of the key statements is this: 'Unless Biden unites the people against the oligarchs who dominate the nation, the people will remain divided against each other.'
And Monbiot's correct, of course, taken at face value.
I think the problem with his central thesis is that he's trying to create a Bernie Sanders out of someone who — despite noting he's turned leftward since being in the WH with Obama — hasn't got a shred of Bernie Sanders in him. Not his ideology, not his desire to disrupt the status quo, and certainly not his lifelong fight for same.
Biden — indeed like his former boss, and all of the other Democrat presidents since Carter — is a dyed-in-the-wool centrist. Expecting anything meaningfully progressive out of him is wishful thinking, and a waste of time.
Yes, he's not Trump, and that's a great thing. But there will come a point where that rationale has to give way to a more critical examination of what his ideas are, and if US society will actually progress under his watch, or if he will set up the conditions for it to do so after he's gone.
Don't expect miracles out ol' Joe, kids.
- Biden could be the perfect person to delivery some left-wing fiscal policy, as long as he hides it in his centrist pocket.Fax_Benson
- I'm not sure about that. I just don't think he's got the conviction/values required to do so.Continuity
- And adding to the problem is people like Pelosi, who are blaming The Squad for their misfortunes in the HoR and Sentate.Continuity
- So, I don't think there's any appetite on the part of either Biden or the rest of the old guard in the party to do what really needs to be done for progress.Continuity
- There will be if it's a vote-winner. People don't trust the left to deliver left-wing policy. Same in the UK. Hence Johnson winning on 'levelling-up'Fax_Benson
- Sanders and Corbyn had some popular policy ideas but need somebody else to deliver them to a sceptical public. And before the right does.Fax_Benson
- Well, we can be assured that the American right would never do any such thing. The aversion to anything remotely resembling 'socialism' is so deep, they wouldContinuity
- ... rather neuter themselves with a spoon.Continuity
- Biden has been an austerity ghoul for his entire career. He and the other corporate Dems are too crooked and rotten to do anything worthwhile. Harris even more.face_melter
- I think Biden's history shows he mostly just goes with the flow rather than having strong views in any direction. Even the stuff that colin_s posted above,yuekit
- almost all of them were popular with the American public at the time. So the key here would be to force Biden to do the right thing by electing a Democratyuekit
- House and Senate. Unfortunately Americans didn't do that, for some reason they decided the best thing would be divided government at a time whenyuekit
- maybe, but that's the kind of talk that illustrates the point. The left needs a trojan horse. It's just a political fact, whether it's Biden or notFax_Benson
- the country desperately needs to pass major legislation. So what can you say lolyuekit
- sorry, yuekit - I was too slow and messed up your flow. Was replying to face.Fax_Benson
- whatthefunk5
- ‘Margins this big’ ? OkayGnash
- Most state laws allow a recount if the margin is less than 0.5 percent of all votes cast. AZ & GA satisfy these criteria, others not so much...whatthefunk
- Bennn3
Biden should steal Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again" is on point now... Trump haven't made anything great, complete opposite!
- Continuity2
So, on to the practicalities.
Just read on CNN that Biden intends to announce his coronavirus task force on Monday:
'The task force will reportedly be lead by three cochairs: Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale University’s Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith.'
I note that Fauci isn't in the list, which makes me wonder if Biden hasn't got him in mind for Health Secretary.
- Finally some science accepting adults.monospaced
- Fauci is the head of infectious disease department has been since the early 80syuekit
- So he'll probably keep his job unless he wants to retire. But they may want to put some new people out there as the public face of the effort.yuekit
- ^yeah this, but Fauci will keep his chair, like mono said, "some science accepting adults"grafician
- it must feel fucking great knowing the adults are back in control. So happy for my American friends and family.fadein11
- ^fadeinNairn
- drgs1
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
"Joe Biden is a corpse with hair plugs whose idea of “empathy” is to jam fingers in the sternums of people who ask the wrong questions, or call them “fat” or “full of shit,” or dare them to “try me” — and that’s if he remembers what state he’s in. Is he a better human than Donald Trump? Probably, but his mental decline has hit Lloyd Bridges-in-Hot-Shots! levels and he shares troubling characteristics with the president, beginning with a pathological struggle with truth.
Biden spent much of 2020 lying about everything from his Iraq War vote to his educational history to a fantasy about being arrested in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. The same press that killed him for this behavior in the past let it all slide this time. Same with the growing ledger of handsy-uncle incidents that had adolescent girls and campaigning politicians alike wondering why a Vice President needs to smell their hair or plant lingering kisses on their heads while cameras flash.
Biden’s entire argument for the presidency, and it’s a powerful one, is his opponent."
- lol @ "Lloyd Bridges-in-Hot-Shots...
Very 90s reference thereyuekit - Just fuck off with all your alter ego username. You remind me of my brother, the same psuedo intellectual arrogance.tank02
- huh? what alter ego username?PonyBoy
- They think I'm Sondrgs
- no dude, this guy is the real Son http://www.somethino… esoteric af toografician
- @drgs tell that kid that david rudnick called, he wants his aesthetics backgrafician
- "Biden’s entire argument for the presidency, and it’s a powerful one, is his opponent."....ok. What's your point then Matt?dkoblesky
- Point is, in 20 years time "the land of the lead" will be where Brazil is todaydrgs
- ha... why would drgs hide behind another username given how blatant and to the point he is on his own? and he most certainly isn't son... derpPonyBoy
- lol @ "Lloyd Bridges-in-Hot-Shots...
- nb4
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/…
Great article on "Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts"
EXCERPT 1:
"If a probability model gives a candidate a 53 percent chance of winning, that means that if we ran simulations of the election 100 times, that candidate would win 53 times and the opponent 47 times — almost equal odds.In its final forecast in 2016, FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary Clinton a 71.4 percent chance of victory. (The digit after the decimal providing an aura of faux precision, as if we could distinguish 71.4 percent from 71.5 percent.) All that figure really said was that Mrs. Clinton had a roughly one-in-three chance of losing, something that did not get across to most people who saw a big number. "
Excerpt 2:
If I read that there is a 20 percent chance of rain and do not take an umbrella, the odds of rain coming down don’t change. Electoral modeling, by contrast, actively affects the way people behave.Excerpt 3:
I’m not sure there is a meaningful difference between, say, a 20 percent and a 40 percent chance of winning. That’s another way of saying these forecasts aren’t that useful, and may even be harmful if people take them too seriously.- Excerpt 2 does not compute. The rain rain prediction actively affected your behaviour not to take an umbrella.tangoxray3
- Excerpt 1: 71.4 is closer to 75 than 66.6%. So it’s a 3 in 4 chance of winning.tangoxray3
- Or 1 in 4 chance of losing.tangoxray3
- 4 years ago should have already taught us this, people are dumb though, its easier to just be told what to think.moldero
- The rain happens regardless of your umbrella. They didn't say the odds of getting wet. They said the odds of rain don't change. It's pretty simple.nb
- whatthefunk6
- exactly. The amount of mind share Trump takes every day is unhealthy.dkoblesky
- Ramanisky23
Biden continued to talk to potential voters after the broadcast on ABC ended ... that’s how it’s done.
I’m sure the Orange Orangutan is already in his bed eating KFC and watching OANN.- ...and crapping his pants.CyBrainX
- It's a sad state when people are creaming in their pants over the wildly underwhelming Biden, just because he's perceived to be the lesser of two evils...MondoMorphic
- We desperately need a true, viable third party, ideally one that's centrist, between idiots on both extremes. Who would the media villainize though??? :0MondoMorphic
- lol at the dems not being anything but centristfadein11
- Biden is so centrist, MondoMorphic. He's not progressive at all.bainbridge
- Totally agreed. My point was a desire for additional viable Presidential options and that Biden isn't the ideal for many within his own party.MondoMorphic
- Ramanisky22
- https://pbs.twimg.co…nb
- ^HAHA!Projectile
- Bitch, you got a purse too!FNP14
- blonde bimbo is blond bimboingneverscared
- Thanks for the deathmongering, Tomi. You're the best.CyBrainX
- Her joke is based on the idea that women are weak?!? Mask = purse = woman = fucking pussy!!!! So weirdnb
- Ramanisky23
- politicians are trashmoldero
- https://images.daily…_niko
- https://www.blogtalk…_niko
- https://www.wnd.com/…_niko
- no idea what this bird brain is on about nor do i care, I'm officially now a republican!_niko
- I would vote for her. I'd vote the shit out of her. over and over again... :)_niko
- she's nuts https://twitter.com/…
https://i.imgur.com/…
"face diaper" deletedimbecile - Thankfully, this assload isn't even running for anything.CyBrainX
- yuekit6
- Biden survives in spite of Trump's best attempt to murder himyuekit
- Funny to watch how fast the likes are going up on this post
https://twitter.com/…yuekit