All Things Biden: Is It Over Yet?

[laklak]

Tortoise or terrapin?

[Joe]

Having the executive separate from the legislature is a good idea, but governing that way does rather depend on a kind of honour system. Unfortunately that seems to have ridden away on wild horses some time ago.

Yep, our system is based on people keeping their oaths of office, which bind them to support the Constitution. Without that, it's whatever they can get away with.

[JimC]

Tortoise or terrapin?

Whichever is sexier, I suppose. Probably a good idea to avoid snapping turtles, particularly for oral...

[laklak]

Particularly these.

[rainbow]

Particularly these.

You've always been a bit of a sucker for snapper

[Tero]

Biden nominee deletes her emai....tweets.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... et-nominee

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's a nice kick in the head that Tweetolini's obeisant followers are suddenly having the vapors over somebody's twitter history.

[Brian Peacock]

Nothing is deleted on the internet, ever. Only when the meteor strikes will we be able to live without shame.

[Tero]

QAnon Supporters Think Biden's Medical Boot Is Hiding Ankle Monitor Following Secret Arrest

"Amazing how common right ankle injuries are with these criminals...," added Twitter user @Springjack73, again along with hashtags used by QAnon supporters.

The claim that leading Democratic figures will soon be getting arrested—a moment known as "the storm"—has been one of the most prominent beliefs of QAnon supporters.

...A similar claim was also made for McCain while he wore a medical boot the same year. Outlandish theories later suggested the senator did not die of brain cancer but instead killed himself ahead of his trial at Guantanamo Bay for aiding Islamic terrorists.

https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-biden-fo ... D=ref_fark

What was he arrested for? Sniffing the hair of underage girls? Boys?

[NineBerry]

For putting pineapple on pizza.

[Sean Hayden]

Trump Is Better’: In Asia, Pro-Democracy Forces Worry About Biden

The president-elect’s aim of returning normalcy to foreign policy has spooked human rights defenders in Asia, who see President
Trump as someone who confronted dictators.

....

“The United States must realize that there will be no improvements on human rights issues in China if there is no regime change,” Mr. Wang added. He has continued to question Mr. Trump’s electoral loss, baseless claims shared by other prominent Chinese-born dissidents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/worl ... -asia.html

[Tero]

Mr Xi, tear down that wall!

[Sean Hayden]

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Even in a Pandemic, the Knives Are out for Social Security

We’re in the middle of a devastating pandemic and economic crisis — but that hasn’t stopped both Democrats and Republicans from coming up with new ways to assault and destroy Social Security.

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The GOP Agenda: Corporations Get Bailouts, Workers Get to Raid Their Own Meager Savings
Now here’s the kicker: Sarin’s idea — which has also been pushed by conservative economists — is suddenly gaining momentum among top Trump officials, according to the Washington Post.

In addition to Trump pushing a payroll tax cut that could drain funding for Social Security, the newspaper reports that senior White House officials are exploring an initiative “that would allow Americans to choose to receive checks of up to $5,000 in exchange for a delay of their Social Security benefits.”

This is part of a larger GOP effort to at once give the corporate class no-strings-attached bailouts, while somehow pretending that the best way to help ordinary workers is to merely let them cannibalize their own meager retirement savings. Indeed, it follows Rand Paul’s proposal to address the student debt crisis by letting Americans raid their own 401(k) savings, and Marco Rubio’s plan to address the childcare crisis by letting Americans raid their future Social Security benefits.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/social-s ... biden-cuts

[Tero]

Biden is divisive!

McEnany was annoyed that Biden mentioned the Republicans’ “unprecedented assault on democracy” after the GOP spent over a month attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

[Tero]

Biden facing large group of whites believing steal the election, steal the country myth:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/politics ... index.html