Biden / Harris Focused Discussion

[Poopymonster]

IT'S TAN SUIT GATE ALL OVER AGAIN

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-ne...o-at-a-funeral

Apparently Fox devoted a whole segment to talking about how Biden wears tennis shoes. This is a big problem?

Tennis shoes.
No boots.
No straps.
Goddamn fucking commie pinko bastard.

[s_bushido]

I thought they were going to be like New Balance or something. You probably wouldn't even notice them if the sole wasn't white.

It will never not be fascinating to me that these losers can make such a big deal about Biden's age and supposed senility, while "their guy" is... Trump...

[Edge-]

They're so short on substantive policy disagreements they're down to playing the fashion police over at Fox.

Again.

[Breccia]

Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images

Yeah, I know we just talked about this, but this is Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, taking the action. Also the Capitol Insurrection thread hasn't been merged yet. So, it goes here.

Sorry. I don't make the rules.

Hunter Biden. the son of President Joe Biden, ’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint, a direct action on their part, against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she showed sexually explicit photos of Biden at a congressional hearing this week.

In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), Biden attorney Abbe David Lowell slammed Greene’s actions as “abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct.”

“This week, your colleague has lowered herself, and by extension the entire House of Representatives, to a new level of abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct. If the OCE takes its responsibilities seriously, it will promptly and decisively condemn and discipline Ms. Greene for her latest actions,” Lowell wrote.

“Now more than ever, the House has a duty to make loud and clear that it does not endorse, condone, or agree with her outrageous, undignified conduct and brazen violations of the standards of official conduct that do not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives,” he added.

The OCE is a non-partisan, independent entity previously established by the House that reviews allegations of misconduct involving lawmakers, officers and House staffers and, if warranted, refers matters to the Ethics Committee.

Here is another quote from the lawyer representing Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, in the direct action they took:

Rather than evaluate the credibility of the IRS agents’ testimony or review our tax laws, Ms. Greene sought to use the power of her office to generate some clicks online, fundraise, and provide sensationalist clips for Fox News at the expense of harassing and embarrassing Mr. Biden, a private citize

There is more to the story leading to the actions taken by Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, and the actions they are taking. More on this in this thread, where it belongs, as it pertains to actions taken by Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.

(checks Capitol Insurrection thread)

For a while, at least.

[s_bushido]

Unfortunately, I don't see this going anywhere. It's going to be a "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" situation, most likely. If it even gets that far to begin with. The piece of shit should have been ejected from her seat long ago...but here we are.

[Breccia]

Unfortunately, I don't see this going anywhere. It's going to be a "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong" situation, most likely. If it even gets that far to begin with. The piece of shit should have been ejected from her seat long ago...but here we are.

It's an excuse for McCarthy to push out Greene...if he thinks he can get away with it.

Other than that, yes, I'm with you.

[Flarelaine]

Ah, so the discussion should go in the thread about the people doing the actions in question. Not the target. Okay, that's fair.

I hereby petition that the entirety of the Capitol Insurrection thread be moved into the Trump thread. As Trump is now formally accused of leading that charge. Every single post of the 331 pages. After all, Trump is now the actor, the Capitol was the target.

No need to get vindictive over a mildly worded admonition.

The Capitol Insurrection was a momentous event and its repercussions are still playing out. Meanwhile the Hunter Biden dick pics will amount to a wet fart in the long run.

[unfilteredJW]

No need to get vindictive over a mildly worded admonition.

The Capitol Insurrection was a momentous event and its repercussions are still playing out. Meanwhile the Hunter Biden dick pics will amount to a wet fart in the long run.

The last “wet fart” led to an attempted insurrection so seems pretty comparable.

[Breccia]

No need to get vindictive over a mildly worded admonition.

Vindictive? You wound me, sir. I was merely signalling my firm, nay, eager desire to comply with a clearly-established, followable set of forum rules. Why, anything else would be discussing moderation, and perish the thought!

I also must say, I admire your optimism that attacks from Speaker Greene against Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, which have now led to both their own dic pic-filled Congressional hearing and a formal complaint to the OGE, will fade out in time. I look forward to that happening.

Any day now.

Aaaaaaaaany day now.

But until that happens, and because I don't have precognition as to when that will happen, and because both you and I know it's already led to an actual impeachment shown in this official dot-gov site that will be documented as part of America's history forever, yes this is still because of Hunter Biden, filed two years four months ago, I feel that something so important to almost half the country and a leading part of their political ideology must continue to be discussed with the seriousness they at least claim it deserves.

If and when it vanishes, I will be happy to see it go. Until then, it's not my fault it's here.

Thank you for your continued work here. I'm sure it's a tough job. It's not going to get any easier.

[gondrin]

IT'S TAN SUIT GATE ALL OVER AGAIN

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-ne...o-at-a-funeral

Apparently Fox devoted a whole segment to talking about how Biden wears tennis shoes. This is a big problem?

They are upset that, at least in tennis shoes, Biden can, you know, walk down a ramp without needing an excuse on why he would have trouble walking down a ramp, if he even did have issues. I mean, who here knows others that wear leather soled shoes that also try to walk down ramps but have to hold onto someone but when asked about it, makes up excuses on why that happened.

[Benggaul]

No need to get vindictive over a mildly worded admonition.

The Capitol Insurrection was a momentous event and its repercussions are still playing out. Meanwhile the Hunter Biden dick pics will amount to a wet fart in the long run.

Uh huh, neat. Now, however, the fact that the GOP are trying to use Hunter as a weapon against Joe in the runup to the 2024 elections means that the subject belongs here in the thread specifically about Biden. More effort combating the insanely obvious bad-faith posters; less micromanaging what we can talk about within the bounds of the topic. I mean, no talking about NATO in the Russia thread? No talking about Hunter in the Joe thread? Good. Fucking. Grief.

[draynay]

I get it, its just Flarelaine trying to be consistent with the earlier mod statement about not derailing this into a Hunter Biden thread.

[Benggaul]

I get it, its just Flarelaine trying to be consistent with the earlier mod statement about not derailing this into a Hunter Biden thread.

Which was a ham-fisted warning in the first place considering who and how the thread had derailed at that point ("OMG R U STALKING ME?!"). Hunter belongs in the conversation here just as much as Trump Jr. belongs in the conversation in the Trump thread. Not because he's running for office or working for his dad but because even though they shouldn't his actions have an effect on the perception of Joe and their administration. It's unfair, but it's inevitable and as such should be fair-game for discussion in that context.

As an aside, the only other person calling Joe Biden by their full name like that hereabouts is Yuppie. Just saying.

[Edge-]

Why does Fox News hate comfort and style? Biden just wants to be comfortable in his kicks, ain't nothing wrong with that when he's just walking the red carpet for Air Force once. Honestly I kinda want him to start going around in sweatpants now. Let's really give them something to lose their fuckin minds over.

[Poopymonster]

Why does Fox News hate comfort and style? Biden just wants to be comfortable in his kicks, ain't nothing wrong with that when he's just walking the red carpet for Air Force once. Honestly I kinda want him to start going around in sweatpants now. Let's really give them something to lose their fuckin minds over.

Next month, Margie Traitor Greene shows Congress blown up pictures of Joe Biden in grey sweatpants and being all hot and bothered by them.
Followed by side by side comparisons of Hunter and Joe's genitals.

[gondrin]

Why does Fox News hate comfort and style? Biden just wants to be comfortable in his kicks, ain't nothing wrong with that when he's just walking the red carpet for Air Force once. Honestly I kinda want him to start going around in sweatpants now. Let's really give them something to lose their fuckin minds over.

Pajamas. Gotta be pajamas. They might have a stroke if that happened.

[Breccia]

Pajamas. Gotta be pajamas. They might have a stroke if that happened.

Well yes, but then again, what choice do they have?

GOP's crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation

Republicans are hammering “Joe Biden’s America” as a land of rising violent crime, surging immigration and out of control inflation, but there’s just one problem: the numbers are starting to move in the opposite direction.

With 2024 around the corner, the U.S. is making measurable progress in the areas where Biden has been most vulnerable to GOP attacks.

Violent crime surged in U.S. cities during the pandemic

Ah, yes, the pandemic. Thank goodness that was stopped by huffing bleach and packing into Easter churches to pray.

and ranked as a top concern for voters in the 2022 midterms.

Republicans slammed Biden and Democratic leaders for rising crime rates, and many Democrats started embracing a more centrist approach to policing.

Homicides were down 9% in the first half of this year over the same period last year, according to a study of 37 major cities from the Council on Criminal Justice.

Violent crime rates are generally down across the board, thought they're still higher than 2019 levels.

Meanwhile, illegal border crossings dropped to the lowest level in over two years in June, the first full month under Biden’s new, restrictive asylum rule, which makes it much harder to attain asylum.

Arguably the biggest factor driving voter discontent has been inflation, which made consumers feel lousy about the Biden economy, despite otherwise favorable economic and job market conditions.

Now, as inflation retreats, there are signs of a shift.

Consumer sentiment, as measured by a long-running survey conducted by the University of Michigan, is the highest in two years — a jump “largely attributed to the continued slowdown inflation along with stability in labor markets.”

The Biden team has long been frustrated, and at times confounded, that these positive data points are not reflected in his approval rating, which is stuck in the low 40s, Axios' Alex Thompson reports.

And we all know why. Republicans are refusing to admit things are getting better, that Biden is repairing the damage caused by Trump. They still want to find his F in gym and ship him to Monster Island.

The good news, is the stuff I just posted. The country's economic situation is getting better, not worse.

The other good news, is that the Republican Party and Trump cultists were specially cultivated to have goldfish memory spans. "Things were bad in 2022" won't work. Again, cultists are a lost cause, we may find out soon enough if they'll vote for a felon who committed their felony because of the last time they lost an election. But any DeSantis voters, Christie voters, and what few moderates exist might actually see the country improving and say "well...if the choices are Biden and Trump..." and just not vote for Trump.

They might even vote for someone in sweatpants.

[Shadowferal]

Not sure where to put this; Israel passes law to strip Supreme Court of power to block government decisions, defying months of protests

The controversial bill, which strips Israel's top judges of the power to declare government actions unreasonable, passed by a vote of 64-0. All members of the far-right governing coalition voted in favor of the bill, while all opposition lawmakers walked out of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, as the vote was taking place.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who left hospital on Monday morning after having been fitted with a pacemaker, pushed the bill through despite Israel's most important ally, the United States, issuing increasingly forceful warnings not to do so.

In a highly unusual step, the US President Joe Biden weighed in on the policy and warned that rushing the changes through without a broad consensus amounts to an erosion of democratic institutions and could undermine US-Israel relations.

"Given the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn't make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this – the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus," Biden said in a statement provided to CNN.

Biden raised concerns directly with Netanyahu during a phone call last week and then called New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to the Oval Office to make clear his stance on the judicial overhaul.

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The cynic in me say Mossad will "deal" with an event to make us all grateful for this push towards a more totalitarian stare.

[Gaidax]

The cynic in me say Mossad will "deal" with an event to make us all grateful for this push towards a more totalitarian stare.

Yes, Mossad will release more sharks into the Red Sea to attack tourists and ruin the tourism industry of Egypt and Jordan, so we get more tourists and hence funds to fund the government bullshit.

Some people are worse than C19 conspiracy theorists, when it comes to Israel.

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What happened is a negative development that we will rectify with the next government, once this one is out and it will be out in a year or two. I do hope, however, that this won't be signed into law so fast, to open the way for compromise.

This law will open a path to 2 laws intended to be passed next in Winter, one of which will give the government more power to elect Supreme Court judges.

[Edge-]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mo...tlook-cfcb6ba8

At least one major investment bank has bought into Bidenomics.

President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has seeped into the domestic economy, “driving a boom in large-scale infrastructure,” wrote Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley, in a research note out late last week. Plus, she wrote, “manufacturing construction has shown broad strength.”

As a result Morgan Stanley now projects 1.9% economic expansion in the first half of this year. That’s nearly four times the bank’s previous 0.5% forecast for growth in gross domestic product in the first half of 2023.

Infrastructure spending signed into law in 2021 marked an early legislative win for a president handed only a slim majority in Congress upon his election over then-incumbent Republican Donald Trump in November 2020. It was followed up by another legislative banner for the incumbent: the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate-change- and healthcare-focused spending bill signed into law about a year ago. Many of the incentives in the laws are tied to domestic manufacturing and require U.S. hiring, sometimes at the expense of less-expensive or readily available goods from abroad.

As a result of these economic lifts, the Morgan Stanley MS, +0.70% analysts more than doubled their original estimate for GDP growth in the fourth quarter, to 1.3% from 0.6%. And they nudged up their forecast for GDP in 2024 by a tenth of a percentage point, to 1.4%.

“The narrative behind the numbers tells the story of industrial strength in the U.S,” Zentner wrote.

CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS THE BIDENOMICS TRAIN DON'T HAVE NO BRAKES, GET THE FUCK ON

or something, I dunno. I'm just laughing at how badly "Bidenomics" continues to blow up in the faces of Republicans.