Hence why I provided the list. Your post #18 led me to believe you'd appreciate that sort of information.
BREAKING NEWS - Biden's final humiliation: Most Americans can't name a single success!
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Busy day?Nope. Exact same thing. I guess you've missed my many posts of two sides of the same [spaz] coin:
I’m aware.
I’m also aware how bad Ryan and other MAGAs are on here.
You don’t get the high road on this one.
Nope. I accounted for my 48 hour and 13 minute absence just for you. I know you get worried. 👇
What are your weekend plans, HBOT?
I will wake up tomorrow. Shower. Put on either Kelce, Mahomes, or D Thomas jersey on. Then will figure out what to do for in game food. If the Chiefs lose....somebody call me a medic If the Chiefs win....somebody call me a medic
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You could just ask him out. I doubt he'd say yes, but at least you'd get it out there.
So, more like a Buffalo Bill type infatuation? Maybe you just want to wear his skin?
Nice clips you store!So, more like a Buffalo Bill type infatuation? Maybe you just want to wear his skin?
Ever heard of a poll??...you don't need to include everyone to draw significant statistical conclusions...
OP Ed from today's Gazette.
I submit that few Americans will actually miss Joe Biden.
Sure, it’s a harsh thing to say as the “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” takes his leave. But the first draft of history is written while it happens. Time may soften Biden’s legacy, but it won’t change it. It may heal the scars of bad leadership, but it won’t erase the effects of his poor decision-making.
And Biden’s four years in office were riddled with poor decision-making.
On his first day in office, he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline with the mere stroke of a pen, destroying the multibillion- dollar investment in the production and transport of crude oil from Canada, a reliable ally whose partnership didn’t carry hefty geopolitical implications.
Had it not been canceled, the Keystone XL pipeline would have likely been completed in 2022. That year, war flared as Russia invaded Ukraine. OPEC+ countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, cut oil production to keep prices higher. Gas prices in the U.S. skyrocketed during the summer to over $5 per gallon on average.
Biden’s answer was to release a million barrels a day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and threaten “consequences” against Saudi Arabia, which fell on deaf ears and were never acted on. So much for a show of strength.
He attempted to halt deportations on his first day in office. By March 2021, illegal border crossings had doubled from only two months earlier. Over the next three years, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol would have over 10.8 million encounters with unauthorized entrants, over triple the number from the previous three years.
Some entrants were hardened criminals with existing convictions for rape and murder. Some had already been deported multiple times, yet waltzed back in. Some were children transported by cartel members.
At least 382 people whose names appear on the terror watchlist have been caught attempting to illegally cross the southern border. That’s up from a grand total of 11 during the previous three-year period under Trump.
In a move halted by the Supreme Court, Biden attempted to cancel a staggering $400 billion in student loan debt. A court also pumped the brakes on his subsequent “Plan B” move. Apparently if the law requires student loans to be — get this — repaid, a president and his administration can’t just say, “Nah, you’re good.”
Yet in a series of smaller actions announced during an election year or performed during the final weeks of his lame duck presidency, Biden has successfully managed to wipe away almost $189 million of student loan repayments owed to the American taxpayer.
Politico called it a “parting gift.” Those who paid their own way for college, went into the trades, or — again, get this — paid off their loans in full might call it a parting shot.
Meanwhile, no meaningful reforms have been applied to the student loan system, and the current academic year’s student loan interest rates are at their highest since the Great Recession. Great.
Biden turned his only Supreme Court pick into a DEI stunt by declaring before the search process even began that he would appoint a Black woman. In April 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed with a metaphorical asterisk next to her name and legacy, denoting that she was judged by the color of her skin and her sex before the content of her character or her judicial merit.
He attempted to enact rules that would allow boys in girls’ locker rooms and force unwilling students to use inaccurate pronouns under threat of punishment in the name of “inclusion.” And had the 2024 election gone a different way, he would have followed through with rules forcing female student- athletes to compete both alongside and against male athletes with distinct physical advantages, ruining women’s sports.
He botched the United States’ exit from Afghanistan with devastating results: A suicide bombing followed by a gunfire attack by members of ISIS-K resulted in the death of at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 American service members. And a trove of U.S. weapons, ammunition, military vehicles and other tactical equipment worth over $7 billion was left behind to be seized by the Taliban.
According to reports, the Taliban has sold some of the weapons left behind by the U.S. to American adversaries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Those same adversaries preferred for the U.S. to remain “tied down” in Afghanistan, Biden claimed in a speech defending
his foreign policy last week.
But if the U.S. military was stretched thin by its commitments to the region, it defies logic that at roughly around the same time, Biden signed off on a defense department policy that would result in the subsequent discharge of U.S. service members leery of the new COVID-19 vaccine who refused to get the jab.
While young adults are the least likely to die from COVID-19 or experience long COVID, studies have shown that males under 25 — a significant portion of the U.S. military — have an increased risk of COVID vaccine-related cardiac inflammation.
Over 8,000 American service members were discharged from the military for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, while the pool of potential replacements is shrinking: 77 percent of Americans ages 18-24 are unqualified for military service due to obesity, drug use, mental health or chronic illness. Forty-four percent are unqualified due to more than one of those reasons.
Biden spent a significant portion of his Jan. 15 farewell speech warning about “the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of very few ultra-wealthy people.” It was a thinly-veiled reference to the incoming Trump administration.
But he was supposed to be the one who led the country out of the Trump era.
Most Biden voters didn’t actually desire to see Biden as president so much as they desired to see Trump not be president. Biden was just supposed to be the one to hit the reset button, hand the baton to the next generation of presidential leadership, and take a bow.
But he tripped over the button. He dropped the baton. He wasn’t all there upstairs. The country struggled, and voters went back to Donald Trump — in larger numbers than the first time.
It will be hard even for supporters to miss a guy whose most impactful decision was also his worst: the decision to run for president.
How Joe Biden will be looked at as a figure in history is up in the air. After all, there was so much to his life in federal politics before he became commander in chief. Between the swearing-in of a just-widowed 30-year-old senator in a Delaware hospital following a car accident and an elderly president’s final trip on Marine One is a federal career totaling almost a half-century.
But we all know the most consequential part of that career. No matter how or if Biden’s legacy continues, his presidency will finally meet its end.
Comments: (319) 398-8266; althea.cole@thegazette.com
I submit that few Americans will actually miss Joe Biden.
Sure, it’s a harsh thing to say as the “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” takes his leave. But the first draft of history is written while it happens. Time may soften Biden’s legacy, but it won’t change it. It may heal the scars of bad leadership, but it won’t erase the effects of his poor decision-making.
And Biden’s four years in office were riddled with poor decision-making.
On his first day in office, he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline with the mere stroke of a pen, destroying the multibillion- dollar investment in the production and transport of crude oil from Canada, a reliable ally whose partnership didn’t carry hefty geopolitical implications.
Had it not been canceled, the Keystone XL pipeline would have likely been completed in 2022. That year, war flared as Russia invaded Ukraine. OPEC+ countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, cut oil production to keep prices higher. Gas prices in the U.S. skyrocketed during the summer to over $5 per gallon on average.
Biden’s answer was to release a million barrels a day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and threaten “consequences” against Saudi Arabia, which fell on deaf ears and were never acted on. So much for a show of strength.
He attempted to halt deportations on his first day in office. By March 2021, illegal border crossings had doubled from only two months earlier. Over the next three years, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol would have over 10.8 million encounters with unauthorized entrants, over triple the number from the previous three years.
Some entrants were hardened criminals with existing convictions for rape and murder. Some had already been deported multiple times, yet waltzed back in. Some were children transported by cartel members.
At least 382 people whose names appear on the terror watchlist have been caught attempting to illegally cross the southern border. That’s up from a grand total of 11 during the previous three-year period under Trump.
In a move halted by the Supreme Court, Biden attempted to cancel a staggering $400 billion in student loan debt. A court also pumped the brakes on his subsequent “Plan B” move. Apparently if the law requires student loans to be — get this — repaid, a president and his administration can’t just say, “Nah, you’re good.”
Yet in a series of smaller actions announced during an election year or performed during the final weeks of his lame duck presidency, Biden has successfully managed to wipe away almost $189 million of student loan repayments owed to the American taxpayer.
Politico called it a “parting gift.” Those who paid their own way for college, went into the trades, or — again, get this — paid off their loans in full might call it a parting shot.
Meanwhile, no meaningful reforms have been applied to the student loan system, and the current academic year’s student loan interest rates are at their highest since the Great Recession. Great.
Biden turned his only Supreme Court pick into a DEI stunt by declaring before the search process even began that he would appoint a Black woman. In April 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed with a metaphorical asterisk next to her name and legacy, denoting that she was judged by the color of her skin and her sex before the content of her character or her judicial merit.
He attempted to enact rules that would allow boys in girls’ locker rooms and force unwilling students to use inaccurate pronouns under threat of punishment in the name of “inclusion.” And had the 2024 election gone a different way, he would have followed through with rules forcing female student- athletes to compete both alongside and against male athletes with distinct physical advantages, ruining women’s sports.
He botched the United States’ exit from Afghanistan with devastating results: A suicide bombing followed by a gunfire attack by members of ISIS-K resulted in the death of at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 American service members. And a trove of U.S. weapons, ammunition, military vehicles and other tactical equipment worth over $7 billion was left behind to be seized by the Taliban.
According to reports, the Taliban has sold some of the weapons left behind by the U.S. to American adversaries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Those same adversaries preferred for the U.S. to remain “tied down” in Afghanistan, Biden claimed in a speech defending
his foreign policy last week.
But if the U.S. military was stretched thin by its commitments to the region, it defies logic that at roughly around the same time, Biden signed off on a defense department policy that would result in the subsequent discharge of U.S. service members leery of the new COVID-19 vaccine who refused to get the jab.
While young adults are the least likely to die from COVID-19 or experience long COVID, studies have shown that males under 25 — a significant portion of the U.S. military — have an increased risk of COVID vaccine-related cardiac inflammation.
Over 8,000 American service members were discharged from the military for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, while the pool of potential replacements is shrinking: 77 percent of Americans ages 18-24 are unqualified for military service due to obesity, drug use, mental health or chronic illness. Forty-four percent are unqualified due to more than one of those reasons.
Biden spent a significant portion of his Jan. 15 farewell speech warning about “the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of very few ultra-wealthy people.” It was a thinly-veiled reference to the incoming Trump administration.
But he was supposed to be the one who led the country out of the Trump era.
Most Biden voters didn’t actually desire to see Biden as president so much as they desired to see Trump not be president. Biden was just supposed to be the one to hit the reset button, hand the baton to the next generation of presidential leadership, and take a bow.
But he tripped over the button. He dropped the baton. He wasn’t all there upstairs. The country struggled, and voters went back to Donald Trump — in larger numbers than the first time.
It will be hard even for supporters to miss a guy whose most impactful decision was also his worst: the decision to run for president.
How Joe Biden will be looked at as a figure in history is up in the air. After all, there was so much to his life in federal politics before he became commander in chief. Between the swearing-in of a just-widowed 30-year-old senator in a Delaware hospital following a car accident and an elderly president’s final trip on Marine One is a federal career totaling almost a half-century.
But we all know the most consequential part of that career. No matter how or if Biden’s legacy continues, his presidency will finally meet its end.
Comments: (319) 398-8266; althea.cole@thegazette.com
Now there’s a citizen who wants unity for our beloved country. 😳
Trump rigging the Supreme Court and Federal Courts with judges that are loyal to him and the Constitution is a secondary concern.
It puts oil on the skinSo, more like a Buffalo Bill type infatuation? Maybe you just want to wear his skin?
Are you saying you are in favor of packing the court?
Nope…I am saying the Republicans are however…they have dedicated all their nominees to this goal since Reagan. The Mitch/Grassley coup d’etat of 2016 is the proof of my comment. Republicans have out maneuvered FDR on this one.
America has been poorly served by the Trump nominees especially.
So you're on record saying that 0.00041% is "significant"? Were you polled? I wasn't polled. Anyone else care to share if they were polled?
Some could say I have the demeanor to president someday. Just looking up to those in charge.
How so?
The House is rudderless. Zero leadership. The WH is clueless with no ideas on how to unite but plenty on how to be vindictive.
Xi and Putin have us just where they want us, Boyz!
