Ridin’ with Biden

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Just like last time: Trump wants the people who voted for him to try another January 6th.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Biden jabs at Trump at Gridiron Dinner before closing on serious note

President Joe Biden took jabs at former President Donald Trump at Saturday's annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington before ending on a serious note about democracy.

abcnews.go.com

Biden Campaign Raises Over $53 Million In February

As Donald Trump struggles to raise cash, the sitting president has now amassed $155 million to spend.

www.huffpost.com

New RNC chair accidentally says America is better off now than under Trump

Newly elected Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Michael Whatley accidentally said America is better off now than under former President Trump during a Fox News appearance Friday. Wha…

thehill.com

Heatmap - Economic Indicators By Country

Trading Economics provides data for 20 million economic indicators from 196 countries including actual values, consensus figures, forecasts, historical time series and news. Heatmap - Economic Indicators By Country - was last updated on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

tradingeconomics.com

 

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‘You’re Not Voting For A Democrat’: Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Tells Republicans Voting Biden Is ‘Voting For Your Country’

Michael Steele urged Republicans refusing to support Trump to not sit out during the upcoming election and instead vote for President Joe Biden.

www.mediaite.com

 

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‘You’re Not Voting For A Democrat’: Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Tells Republicans Voting Biden Is ‘Voting For Your Country’

Michael Steele urged Republicans refusing to support Trump to not sit out during the upcoming election and instead vote for President Joe Biden.

www.mediaite.com

I hope they do.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort

Biden locked up the Democratic nomination last week, but looking ahead to the general, anxiety has seemed to increase.

www.nbcnews.com

My advice? Start actually doing something about Israel instead of talking and thinking about doing something.
Focus on federal marijuana legalization (I honestly believe most people would overlook the faults of any President who gets this passed)
More needs to be done about student loan debt.

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

The president giving a report to Congress is mandated by the Constitution, though most earlier presidents just submitted a document instead doing an in-person address.

The address fulfills the requirement in Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution for the president to periodically "give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."

Written addresses:

State of the Union Written Messages | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

President Washington began the tradition by doing his in-person:

President George Washington Delivered His First Regular Annual Message to a Joint Session of Congress | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

On this date, George Washington delivered his first regular Annual Message to a Joint Session of Congress. Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to...

history.house.gov

Believing the practice of appearing in person to be too like the British monarch's address to Parliament, President Thomas Jefferson began sending written annual messages in 1801. President Woodrow Wilson revived the practice of presenting the message to Congress in person in 1913. The Annual Message to Congress became known as the State of the Union Address by the 1940s.

With any luck Republicans won’t even be able to stop a re-elected Biden from giving an address next March because they’ve lost the House majority.

 

[InCali]

Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort

Biden locked up the Democratic nomination last week, but looking ahead to the general, anxiety has seemed to increase.

www.nbcnews.com

My advice? Start actually doing something about Israel instead of talking and thing about doing something.
Focus on federal marijuana legalization (I honestly believe most people would overlook the faults of any President who gets this passed)
More needs to be done about student loan debt.

WRT Student loan debt, I think it's clear he's doing everything he can. In fact, some of his relief was blocked as an overreach. WRT Israel, I have some real problems with the way he's "progressing" in doing what he can to help fix this situation. Again, Netanyahu is the real culprit (okay, Hamas initially brought this on, but 2 wrongs don't make a right) and Biden's mistake was to not be more forceful at an earlier point in time.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Any president is boxed in by both the court decisions and a divided Congress so he’s nearly tapped out in what he can do there on debt alone.

I do agree with the article’s suggestion he needs more surrogates - particularly young Gen Z ones - out there to get the campaign’s message out both for Biden and against Trump.

 

[squeekness]

Oh, boo hoo.

 

[DA_Champion]

Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort

Biden locked up the Democratic nomination last week, but looking ahead to the general, anxiety has seemed to increase.

www.nbcnews.com

My advice? Start actually doing something about Israel instead of talking and thinking about doing something.
Focus on federal marijuana legalization (I honestly believe most people would overlook the faults of any President who gets this passed)
More needs to be done about student loan debt.

Trump lost power in large part due to a random event: covid-19. Covid happened, and then the people evaluated that he mishandled it.

The same could happen to Biden. Israel/Gaza is one example, but bad things could also happen in the rest of the world as well, for example a Russian flag flying over Kharkov, or the Houthis sinking a major American vessel.

I think the election is very uncertain.

 

[DA_Champion]

This is erroneous.

In his speech, Trump clearly said there'd be a bloodbath for the American auto industry if Chinese cars are let in. He's said that he'd hit Chinese cars with 100% tariffs.

 

[squeekness]

Trump lost power in large part due to a random event: covid-19. Covid happened, and then the people evaluated that he mishandled it.

The same could happen to Biden. Israel/Gaza is one example, but bad things could also happen in the rest of the world as well, for example a Russian flag flying over Kharkov, or the Houthis sinking a major American vessel.

I think the election is very uncertain.

I think Trump DID mishandle covid. He tried to ignore the problem instead of taking it on, pitted the states against each other in a bidding war over supplies, ruined the vaccine. 9/11 brought the country together, covid tore it apart. I took it as a shining example of what a poor leader does in a crisis. Nobody was ever going to handle it perfectly because we were so unprepared, but I still think Biden would done a better job of getting us through the worst of it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This is erroneous.

In his speech, Trump clearly said there'd be a bloodbath for the American auto industry if Chinese cars are let in. He's said that he'd hit Chinese cars with 100% tariffs.

Not just the auto industry, he said the whole country and tied it to his lack of election.

Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

In a caustic and discursive speech in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump once again doubled down on a doomsday vision of the United States.

www.nytimes.com

The dark view resurfaced throughout his speech. While discussing the U.S. economy and its auto industry, Mr. Trump promised to place tariffs on cars manufactured abroad if he won in November. He added: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole — that’s [the auto industry] going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country.”

 

[squeekness]

He's trying to scare people into voting for him.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

WATCH: Biden meets with Irish leader at White House, discusses Ukraine, Israel

Biden played host to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the White House and then attended a lunch at the U.S. Capitol. The two countries are celebrating a century of diplomatic relations.

www.pbs.org

 

[DA_Champion]

I think Trump DID mishandle covid. He tried to ignore the problem instead of taking it on, pitted the states against each other in a bidding war over supplies, ruined the vaccine. 9/11 brought the country together, covid tore it apart. I took it as a shining example of what a poor leader does in a crisis. Nobody was ever going to handle it perfectly because we were so unprepared, but I still think Biden would done a better job of getting us through the worst of it.

I think that Trump did an awful job of handling COVID, deserved to lose the election over it, and then Biden proceeded to be awful as well.

Trump should have closed the border earlier and embraced non-pharmaceutical interventions such as masks and better ventilation. A lot of lives would be better now.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

One other thing the president has to look out for is shenanigans by OPEC+ (Saudi Arabia + Russia) to raise global oil prices in the run up to the 2024 election date.

 

[DA_Champion]

Not just the auto industry, he said the whole country and tied it to his lack of election.

Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

In a caustic and discursive speech in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump once again doubled down on a doomsday vision of the United States.

www.nytimes.com

I watched the speech. He's referring to the American auto industry.

The more important question is whether or not he's right. Can the American auto industry survive competition from Chinese cars?

(I don't know).

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Proving the experts wrong, the Biden economy is booming while reducing inequality

President Joe Biden has been having some fun with the economists whose predictions about the economy were so wrong. He jabbed back: “Experts, from the time I got elected, were insisting that a recession was just around the corner. Every month, there...

www.dailykos.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Becky Lynch meets President Biden as part of St Patrick’s Day festivities

Becky Lynch made the most of her invitation to St Patrick’s Day celebrations at the White House on Sunday.

www.postwrestling.com

Well it beats their last Irish pro-wrestling industry visit.

Entrepreneur takes family to visit business partner in new office

What a time to be alive.

www.cagesideseats.com

 

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Biden HYSTERICALLY ROASTS 'Mentally Unfit' Trump and Honors the Free Press at Annual Gridiron Dinner

The Gridiron Club is a renowned organization comprised of journalists and other media professionals that hosts a dinner every year featuring pundits and politicians delivering humorous observations of the state of the media and the nation. Among the...

www.dailykos.com

 

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Biden HYSTERICALLY ROASTS 'Mentally Unfit' Trump and Honors the Free Press at Annual Gridiron Dinner

The Gridiron Club is a renowned organization comprised of journalists and other media professionals that hosts a dinner every year featuring pundits and politicians delivering humorous observations of the state of the media and the nation. Among the...

www.dailykos.com

I loved the joke about student debt and the defeated man.

 

[blueharvest]

Biden to sign executive order to boost women's health research

The president will also announce more than 20 new actions and commitments by federal agencies to advance women's health research, including $200 million for the National Institutes of Health.

www.nbcnews.com