The Biden Presidency
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goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
This could be the biggest gas lighting you’ve ever done here
And that’s saying something lol
I’ve always loved this little tax quirk. Don’t they just have this in the code to Al Capone people?
sturg33
I
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
cajunrevenge
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As far as I am concerned economic record should start from 1 year into a Presidency and extend through the first year of the next President. So we are just now getting to the effects of Bidens economy.
acesfull86
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https://reason.com/2021/12/29/joe-biden-would-be-a-better-president-if-he-stopped-saying-things-that-arent-true/
"When I took office," President Joe Biden tweeted Monday, "our economy was on the brink of collapse."
This statement is false. As the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis reported one week after Biden was sworn into office, real Gross Domestic Product in the United States, after increasing by 33.4 percent in the third quarter of 2020, showed a preliminary increase of 4 percent for the last quarter of Donald Trump's presidency. "After a year in which a pandemic and politics posed challenges unlike the U.S. has seen in generations," CNBC reported, "the economy closed 2020 in fairly good shape."
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At his big omicron speech and mini-press conference last week, the president, when asked a question about Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.V.), who had just signaled his opposition to Biden's signature Build Back Better legislation, said, "Joe went on TV today and—I don't know if it was TV or not; I'm told he was speaking to the liberal caucus in the House and said, 'Joe Biden didn't mislead you, I misled you.'"
The White House later had to clarify that, "Senator Manchin did not characterize himself as having been 'misleading.'"
In the same press conference, when asked the very reasonable question of "What took so long to ramp up testing?", the president snapped: "Come on, 'What took so long'?" (That sarcastic rejoinder was edited out of the White House transcript, but the next sentence was not.) "Well, what took so long is—it didn't take long at all. What happened was the Omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought."
Well, that's not true, either. As the Washington Post's Claire Parker pointed out, "experts had sounded the alarm for more than a year that such a variant could emerge, especially in the vast swaths of the world that remain largely unvaccinated, coming back to bite wealthy countries accused of hoarding doses. Some had repeatedly urged the U.S. government to accelerate the authorization and distribution of rapid tests, pointing to other wealthy nations that have done just that." Indeed, the White House's answer to such questions as recently as early December was mockery.
The president telling two whoppers at a pandemic press conference seems like the type of thing that might attract notice from those journalistic quarters specializing in the intersection between media, politics, and truth. And yet here was the next-day headline at CNN's Reliable Sources: "Biden calls out anti-vax liars for promoting 'dangerous misinformation.' But don't expect anything to change."
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Well, supporters of all politicians at all times, including of President Biden at this time, need to develop more exacting standards. It's not OK for a pandemic-era political leader to say, as Biden did just two weeks ago, that if you're vaccinated, you "do not spread the disease to anybody else."
It is not acceptable for a president to claim, as he did Tuesday in a single tweet, that Build Back Better is "fully paid for" (it's not), that it "will not increase the deficit" (it would), and that it "won't raise the taxes by one penny for anyone making less than $400,000 a year" (counters the Tax Policy Center: "roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022"). Such hyperbolic balderdash is worthy of a 24-year-old social media intern at a hack think tank; not the Commander in Chief of allegedly the greatest nation on Earth.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Norms!
"When I took office," President Joe Biden tweeted Monday, "our economy was on the brink of collapse."
This statement is false. As the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis reported one week after Biden was sworn into office, real Gross Domestic Product in the United States, after increasing by 33.4 percent in the third quarter of 2020, showed a preliminary increase of 4 percent for the last quarter of Donald Trump's presidency. "After a year in which a pandemic and politics posed challenges unlike the U.S. has seen in generations," CNBC reported, "the economy closed 2020 in fairly good shape."
…
At his big omicron speech and mini-press conference last week, the president, when asked a question about Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.V.), who had just signaled his opposition to Biden's signature Build Back Better legislation, said, "Joe went on TV today and—I don't know if it was TV or not; I'm told he was speaking to the liberal caucus in the House and said, 'Joe Biden didn't mislead you, I misled you.'"
The White House later had to clarify that, "Senator Manchin did not characterize himself as having been 'misleading.'"
In the same press conference, when asked the very reasonable question of "What took so long to ramp up testing?", the president snapped: "Come on, 'What took so long'?" (That sarcastic rejoinder was edited out of the White House transcript, but the next sentence was not.) "Well, what took so long is—it didn't take long at all. What happened was the Omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought."
Well, that's not true, either. As the Washington Post's Claire Parker pointed out, "experts had sounded the alarm for more than a year that such a variant could emerge, especially in the vast swaths of the world that remain largely unvaccinated, coming back to bite wealthy countries accused of hoarding doses. Some had repeatedly urged the U.S. government to accelerate the authorization and distribution of rapid tests, pointing to other wealthy nations that have done just that." Indeed, the White House's answer to such questions as recently as early December was mockery.
The president telling two whoppers at a pandemic press conference seems like the type of thing that might attract notice from those journalistic quarters specializing in the intersection between media, politics, and truth. And yet here was the next-day headline at CNN's Reliable Sources: "Biden calls out anti-vax liars for promoting 'dangerous misinformation.' But don't expect anything to change."
…
Well, supporters of all politicians at all times, including of President Biden at this time, need to develop more exacting standards. It's not OK for a pandemic-era political leader to say, as Biden did just two weeks ago, that if you're vaccinated, you "do not spread the disease to anybody else."
It is not acceptable for a president to claim, as he did Tuesday in a single tweet, that Build Back Better is "fully paid for" (it's not), that it "will not increase the deficit" (it would), and that it "won't raise the taxes by one penny for anyone making less than $400,000 a year" (counters the Tax Policy Center: "roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022"). Such hyperbolic balderdash is worthy of a 24-year-old social media intern at a hack think tank; not the Commander in Chief of allegedly the greatest nation on Earth.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Norms!
cajunrevenge
Well-known member
I imagine Fox News and the rest of Republican propoganda media would say its a hoax and it was all Democrats purposely causing the traffic problem to make Trump look bad. Then they would cite one interview with a person stuck out there who says "Yeah I was having a good time" as proof it was all a hoax.
I'm surprised he could read it to be honest