Cable Forum
Page 2 of 8 1 2 3456 Last »
Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

Cable Forum (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/index.php)
-   Current Affairs (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=20)
-   -   US President Joe Biden (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33709710)

Damien 25-01-2021 07:41
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
It's probably because it was a livestream. The other videos on there have more negative than positive upvotes and they also turned off comments on all of them. I think this is going to be a President a lot less focused on social media.

Maggy 25-01-2021 08:48
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36067969)
It's probably because it was a livestream. The other videos on there have more negative than positive upvotes and they also turned off comments on all of them. I think this is going to be a President a lot less focused on social media.
In other words a politician not a tv presenter.

1andrew1 25-01-2021 11:19
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36067963)
I suspect some people in Iran, Russia and North Korea had some very sore fingers soon after that YouTube video was posted up. :D

---------- Post added at 11:19 ---------- Previous post was at 11:02 ----------

Continuity from the Trump regime?
Quote:
Biden set for ‘buy American’ push to boost domestic manufacturing

Policy on procurement risks straining relations with key US allies

US president Joe Biden is set to tighten “buy American” provisions as part of a push to boost domestic manufacturing, in a move that risks straining relations with key US allies. Mr Biden is on Monday expected to order an increase in domestic content requirements for federal procurement contracts, following a campaign pledge to boost the US manufacturing industry as he aimed to outflank Donald Trump in key swing states.

However, America’s top trading partners and strategic allies, including Canada and a number of European countries, have long complained that buy American measures are a protectionist attempt to shut out their multinationals from the US economy. Biden administration officials laid out the changes to US federal procurement rules in a call with reporters, saying it marked an effort to rebuild “the backbone of America”.
https://www.ft.com/content/5cb92834-...d-cbf11305a888

Mick 25-01-2021 11:43
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36067992)
I suspect some people in Iran, Russia and North Korea had some very sore fingers soon after that YouTube video was posted up. :D
Youtube is blocked in North Korea, wouldn’t be surprised if it was in Iran. What you suspect is usually falsehoods. It’s easy to blame Russia when this could actually be genuine people unliking the White House content.

Also, I’ve told you several times to stop posting and linking to content behind pay walls.

Hugh 25-01-2021 12:41
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36067992)
I suspect some people in Iran, Russia and North Korea had some very sore fingers soon after that YouTube video was posted up. :D

---------- Post added at 11:19 ---------- Previous post was at 11:02 ----------

Continuity from the Trump regime?

https://www.ft.com/content/5cb92834-...d-cbf11305a888
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36068006)
Youtube is blocked in North Korea, wouldn’t be surprised if it was in Iran. What you suspect is usually falsehoods. It’s easy to blame Russia when this could actually be genuine people unliking the White House content.

Also, I’ve told you several times to stop posting and linking to content behind pay walls.
Pretty sure people in NK & Iran who work for their governments will have access...

Mick 25-01-2021 12:48
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36068028)
Pretty sure people in NK & Iran who work for their governments will have access...
LOL. You just cannot accept the fact the videos on YouTube coming from the official White House have been genuinely disliked more than liked. And then try excuse it with pathetic excuses and reasons. “It’s Russia” or it’s “something else”. :rolleyes:

Hugh 25-01-2021 12:52
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
No, I wasn’t - I was rebutting your comment about no one in those countries having access to YouTube.

I haven’t commented in the source of any "unlikes" the video has received.

Mick 25-01-2021 12:54
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36068034)
No, I wasn’t - I was rebutting your comment about no one in those countries having access to YouTube.

I haven’t commented in the source of any "unlikes" the video has received.
You’ve rebutted nothing. Those countries and its citizens are blocked with access to YouTube.

1andrew1 25-01-2021 12:56
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36068028)
Pretty sure people in NK & Iran who work for their governments will have access...
I would be amazed if they didn't. ;)

Hugh 25-01-2021 13:05
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36068036)
You’ve rebutted nothing. Those countries and its citizens are blocked with access to YouTube.
By their Governments, not YouTube...

Mick 25-01-2021 13:08
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36068040)
By their Governments, not YouTube...
I never commented it was blocked by YouTube. I’m well aware it’s their government(s). So not sure why you needed to have posted this.

Paul 25-01-2021 20:21
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
*sigh* Can we move on back to the main subject please.

Maggy 25-01-2021 21:39
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36068172)
*sigh* Can we move on back to the main subject please.
It's a bit hard when all the news seems to link Biden's actions to overturning so much of he whose name we must not mention's former actions and decisions. Maybe we should have waited a month to start this thread?

Paul 25-01-2021 22:13
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggy (Post 36068196)
Maybe we should have waited a month to start this thread?
LOL, so "Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office, but not his first 31" - maybe not ;)

Maggy 25-01-2021 23:23
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36068202)
LOL, so "Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office, but not his first 31" - maybe not ;)
Then it’s going to be hard to not make comparisons with the previous POTUS which we have been asked not to mention 😉

Mick 25-01-2021 23:24
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggy (Post 36068196)
It's a bit hard when all the news seems to link Biden's actions to overturning so much of he whose name we must not mention's former actions and decisions. Maybe we should have waited a month to start this thread?
He can be mentioned so long as the end result doesn’t end up being the thread turns full circle and we’re talking about Trump non-stop.

OLD BOY 26-01-2021 13:24
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36067712)
Perhaps they "will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. They will make many calls and have many meetings."
Nah. Sleepy Joe was just having a well deserved lie in. Would anyone want to deny him that?

Mick 26-01-2021 21:26
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
BREAKING: A District Judge halts Biden 100-day deportation freeze in early blow to administration immigration policy

www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN29V2CU

Mr K 26-01-2021 21:37
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36068352)
BREAKING: A District Judge halts Biden 100-day deportation freeze in early blow to administration immigration policy

www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN29V2CU
Thought you weren't interested in US politics Mick :D

Anyway, you forgot to post the rest of the article...
Quote:
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump in the Southern District of Texas, issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the policy nationwide for 14 days following a legal challenge by Texas

Paul 26-01-2021 22:01
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Who appointed them is irrelevant, let me help you with what is

Quote:
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump in the Southern District of Texas, issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the policy nationwide for 14 days following a legal challenge by Texas.

Mick 26-01-2021 22:10
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36068354)
Thought you weren't interested in US politics Mick :D

Anyway, you forgot to post the rest of the article...
I forgot nothing. The link is there. Posting entire articles is not a given. And you know this, stop trolling.

I’m not going to say this again. Another troll, said the same last week, I don’t have to be interested in the subject matter, to engage in the debate.

Damien 26-01-2021 22:10
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
I think it's not uncommon to have temporary halts to allow the case to be heard.

Even if the case succeeds and they get to deport some immigrants the Democrats are largely united on immigration reform and getting the 'Dreamers' citizenship so congress will be able to pass something on that. These executive orders are intended to be sticking plasters until then.

The Dreamers (FYI people who've been there since children) are protected anyway as The Supreme Court stuck down the Trump administration's attempts to remove their protection but if the Democrats finally get them their path to citizenship they're protected forever.

Damien 27-01-2021 11:11
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Biden has ordered an end to the use of private federal prisons: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden...afb1dd3a5f115e

Paul 27-01-2021 15:14
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
So I wonder where they are going to put the prisoners instead ...

heero_yuy 27-01-2021 16:24
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36068413)
So I wonder where they are going to put the prisoners instead ...
Probably going to let them all out with a slap on the wrist and a promise not to do it again. :D

1andrew1 27-01-2021 16:40
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36068413)
So I wonder where they are going to put the prisoners instead ...
I think they're just management contracts so the state will just take them in-house.

Damien 27-01-2021 16:47
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Yeah. The vast majority of prisoners are not in private prisons, federally anyway, as the Obama Administration had the same policy I think so there hasn't been the chance for the numbers to increase that much.

Plus this is 'when the current contracts run out' so the turnover isn't going to be huge.

TheDaddy 27-01-2021 17:05
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36068423)
Probably going to let them all out with a slap on the wrist and a promise not to do it again. :D
That would be as rediculous as locking people up for profit, where recidivism is actively encouraged as a revenue stream

nomadking 27-01-2021 17:18
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36068436)
That would be as rediculous as locking people up for profit, where recidivism is actively encouraged as a revenue stream
Didn't realise the re-offending rates for public run prisons were so low.:rolleyes:

It's the public run courts that send them there.

Hugh 27-01-2021 17:54
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36068438)
Didn't realise the re-offending rates for public run prisons were so low.:rolleyes:

It's the public run courts that send them there.
https://www.rochester.edu/endowment/...-3.18.2020.pdf
Quote:
Private prison companies have a vested interest in high incarceration rates. A 2010 CCA Annual Report states that, “the demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws. . .

[R]eductions in crime rates or resources dedicated to prevent and enforce crime could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities.”50 Both CoreCivic and GEO Group have spent millions of dollars lobbying at the state and federal levels for policies that increase incarceration and against those that would limit it.
Quote:
Likewise, the GEO Group lobbied Congress regarding legislation affecting their business interests such as the Corrections Act, Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, Border Security Act, and Immigration Modernization Act.53 Further, both GEO Group and CoreCivic benefitted from active partnerships with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that hosts conferences and writes model bills, which are then introduced in state capitols by ALEC members (one-quarter of state legislators are members). GEO Group and CoreCivic were long-time members, and CoreCivic (then CCA) Vice President John Rees served concurrently as ALEC criminal justice task force co-chair until 2000. In 1995, twenty-five states enacted “truth-in-sentencing” laws based on ALEC model legislation requiring prisoners to serve 85 percent of their sentences in prison. Eleven states enacted ALEC model “three-strikes” laws.54 The effect of these laws is to increase the duration of time served, by limiting the discretion of parole boards and courts to judge that less time served is more just and consistent with the public interest

nomadking 27-01-2021 18:15
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36068441)
A report from people who would gladly see the criminals out committing more crime, and of course able to vote for the Democrats.

Nothing there that reduces crime, only ignoring it.
Quote:
Private prison companies have a vested interest in high incarceration rates. A 2010 CCA Annual Report states that, “the demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws. . .
Reductions in crime rates or resources dedicated to prevent and enforce crime could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities.

Quote:
President Clinton then promised in a budget proposal to cut costs through privatization, and the ensuing Appropriations Act allowed states to use funding received under the act for private prison facilities.

Hugh 27-01-2021 18:43
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Ad hominem attack on a source (University Ethics Committee), not addressing the highlighted points.

nomadking 27-01-2021 19:15
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Must have missed the post that answered my questions about what must be the lower re-offending rates of public run prisons and whether non-public courts send them there.
A central aim of prisons should be that nobody wants to go there, or at least not again.

Angua 28-01-2021 07:59
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36068449)
Must have missed the post that answered my questions about what must be the lower re-offending rates of public run prisons and whether non-public courts send them there.
A central aim of prisons should be that nobody wants to go there, or at least not again.
A central aim, should be reforming those incarcerated. Criminals (for the most part) do not commit crimes in the expectation of getting caught.

Maggy 28-01-2021 09:42
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Topic? Let's not jump down a rabbit hole.

Mick 14-02-2021 02:26
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
BREAKING: White House Latest: Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned. He had only yesterday been suspended for a week for being disrespectful to a Politico journalist, this despite a warning from newly President Biden, that he’d fire anyone in his administration, on the spot for being disrespectful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-56058477

Damien 14-02-2021 08:09
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Yeah was inevitable. Had to go.

Mick 18-02-2021 20:47
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
1 Attachment(s)
No.... not CNN turning on President Biden....

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1613680169

http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/17/po...kee/index.html

Quote:
The minimum wage

Biden said the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage is too low, then said soon after: "For example, if it went -- if we gradually increased it -- when we indexed it at $7.20, if we kept it indexed by -- to inflation, people would be making 20 bucks an hour right now. That's what it would be."

Facts First: This is false; the White House told CNN after the event that Biden got mixed up with another statistic about the minimum wage. Today's federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which took effect in 2009, would not be even close to $20 per hour if Congress had decided to link it to inflation. Adjusted for inflation, $7.25 in January 2009 was equal to $8.98 in January 2021.

The White House told CNN that Biden was attempting to refer to a claim, from a progressive think tank about how the minimum wage would have been $24 per hour in 2020 if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth (not inflation) since 1968 (not 2009).

The undocumented population

Biden said of the US population of undocumented immigrants: "The vast majority of the people, those 11 million undocumented, they're not Hispanics; they're people who came on a visa -- who was able to buy a ticket to get in a plane and didn't go home. They didn't come across the Rio Grande swimming..."

Facts First: Biden was wrong to claim that the majority of undocumented immigrants in the US are not Hispanic. While it is obviously difficult to compile comprehensive statistics on this population group, the Migration Policy Institute think tank estimated in 2018 that 73% of undocumented people in the US speak Spanish at home and 68% are from the Mexico and Central America region, with an additional 7% from South America. The Pew Research Center has found that the Mexican share of the undocumented population has fallen over time, but that people from Latin America still made up 77% of the 2017 undocumented population.

Biden was more correct with his second claim, about the means by which undocumented people are arriving in the US. A 2019 study by the Center for Migration Studies of New York, based on 2017 data, found that, for the seventh straight year, more newly undocumented people overstayed visas than crossed a border illegally; it was 62% overstays and 38% illegal crossings, according to the study.

Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications for the Migration Policy Institute think tank, said that while recent new additions to the undocumented population are more likely to have overstayed a visa rather than illegally crossed a border, that wasn't the case in the past. Considering that 60% of the total undocumented population has been in the country for a decade or more, she said, "we believe a slight majority crossed a border illegally to get here." Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York, also said that, among the total undocumented population, people who crossed illegally still outnumber people who overstayed their visa.

China's workforce

Biden talked about how he met with China's now-President, Xi Jinping, while Biden was vice president, and then returned to the US and mused about China's demographic challenges. He said, "And I came back and said they're going to end their One China -- their one child policy, because they're so xenophobic they won't let anybody else in, and more people are retired than working. How can they sustain economic growth when more people are retired?"

Facts First: It is not even close to true that more people in China are retired than working -- even today, let alone when Biden was vice president and the Chinese workforce was younger. China reported having about 775 million employed people at the end of 2019; China had a reported 254 million people aged 60 or above, the normal retirement-benefits age for men. "The working aged population has peaked and is now declining and retirees are growing rapidly, so the ratio of workers to retirees is becoming less favorable. But the ratio is still greater than 1," said David Dollar, an expert on the Chinese population who is a Brookings Institution senior fellow.

The vaccine situation

Biden made a series of claims about the Covid-19 vaccine situation upon his January inauguration. He said early at the town hall that when "we came into office, there was only 50 million doses that were available." Moments later, he said, "We got into office and found out the supply -- there was no backlog. I mean, there was nothing in the refrigerator, figuratively and literally speaking, and there were 10 million doses a day that were available." Soon after that, he told Cooper, "But when you and I talked last, we talked about -- it's one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office, but a vaccinator -- how do you get the vaccine into someone's arm?"

Facts First: Biden got at least one of these statistics wrong -- in a way that made Trump look better, not worse, so Biden's inaccuracy appeared accidental, but we're noting it anyway. A White House official said that Biden's claim about "10 million doses a day" being available when he took office was meant to be a reference to the 10 million doses a week that were being sent to states as of the second week of Biden's term, up from 8.6 million a week when they took over.

The official said Biden's claim about "50 million doses" being available when he took office was a reference to the number of doses that had been distributed to states as of the end of January. That was less than two weeks into his term, but he could have been clearer on the time frame.

Biden's more dramatic claim here, that there was "nothing in the refrigerator" when he took office, has a solid factual basis, though Biden could again have been clearer about what he meant. The official said this was a reference to the fact that, as reported by the Washington Post in the week before Biden's inauguration, there was no federal reserve of second doses available at the time. The Trump administration confirmed to the Post for a January 15 article that the contents of the stockpile had been released to states; then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the doses in the reserve could be shipped out "because we now have a consistent pace of production." (It's worth noting that Biden's own transition team itself called for the release of second doses from the reserve.)

It's also generally true that there were serious problems with vaccine supply just before Biden's inauguration. Some states said that they had not been sent enough doses or that they faced major logistical issues in getting doses to residents.

Some of Biden's Republican critics have focused on his claim that "we didn't have" the vaccine when we came into office -- suggesting that Biden was denying that a Covid-19 vaccine existed at all under President Donald Trump. Given the other comments Biden had just made, we think it's clear in context that this was not his actual meaning.

Hugh 18-02-2021 20:56
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Reporting factual inaccuracies is not "turning on" - it’s the basis of democracy that Leaders are held accountable by a free Press, without being accused of being "Fake News".

Anyway, he’s got a lot of catching up to do to get near his immediate predecessor (who is still saying he didn’t lose the Election*).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1790285.html
Quote:
According to analysis by the Washington Post, Mr Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims between his first day in office, on 20 January 2017, and his final day on Wednesday, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country’s next president.
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56104687
Quote:
Just days after his impeachment acquittal, Mr Trump also again pushed the false narrative that victory had been stolen from him in the 2020 election, saying: "Rush thought we won, and so do I. I think we won substantially

Mick 18-02-2021 21:32
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Weak cop out Hugh. We’re not discussing Trump, he’s out of office. This thread is about Biden.

Damien 18-02-2021 22:27
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Good? That's what they should be doing. As you said Trump is out of office so we're not going to see as much outrage that someone dares question the most powerful politician in the world.

1andrew1 18-02-2021 22:46
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36071216)
Good? That's what they should be doing. As you said Trump is out of office so we're not going to see as much outrage that someone dares question the most powerful politician in the world.
This one amused me, more practice required :D
Quote:
Biden got at least one of these statistics wrong -- in a way that made Trump look better, not worse,

pip08456 18-02-2021 22:54
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36071217)
This one amused me, more practice required :D
It takes a great politician to make Trump look better!:D:D:D:D:D:D

papa smurf 19-02-2021 09:05
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36071218)
It takes a great politician to make Trump look better!:D:D:D:D:D:D
Indeed making the greatest ever American president look even better would be a monumental task ;)

Mick 26-02-2021 07:33
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
BREAKING: U.S President Joe Biden has ordered an airstrike against Iran-backed militia following rocket attacks against US forces in Iraq and kills 17 people according to sources in the Syrian Observation of Human Rights.

nomadking 26-02-2021 07:42
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
So after being attacked by Iranians, he attacks Syrians(Iran-backed Syrians) in Syria?:confused:

Damien 26-02-2021 07:48
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
They attacked the same groups that attacked them in Iraq it seems. They're both 'Iranian backed' but not Iranian troops.

nomadking 26-02-2021 07:56
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36072072)
They attacked the same groups that attacked them in Iraq it seems. They're both 'Iranian backed' but not Iranian troops.
So the group in Syria, aren't Syrians? They are still separate groups. Your use of the word "both" indicates that.

Hugh 26-02-2021 08:52
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36072073)
So the group in Syria, aren't Syrians? They are still separate groups. Your use of the word "both" indicates that.
It was reported by the Syrian Observation of Human Rights, because the attack was on a border-crossing station in eastern Syria - it wasn’t stated that Syrians were attacked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...8a1_story.html
Quote:
The facilities were used by Iranian-linked Iraqi militias, including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada

Pierre 26-02-2021 19:03
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
He’ll no doubt get the Nobel Peace Prize for it, worked for Obama.

TheDaddy 26-02-2021 23:22
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36072163)
He’ll no doubt get the Nobel Peace Prize for it, worked for Obama.
Really, I thought him not being George Bush jr worked for Obama in that he didn't start wars that killed hundreds of thousands "coz that man tried to kill my daddy"

Pierre 27-02-2021 09:43
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36072196)
Really, I thought him not being George Bush jr worked for Obama in that he didn't start wars that killed hundreds of thousands "coz that man tried to kill my daddy"
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...6-obama-legacy

Also pretty sure that Bush SNR was no where near Kuwait, or that Saddam tried to kill him.

Also pretty sure the US was attacked by a terrorist outfit resident in and backed by Afghanistan.

Iraq. Well that is a stain on the UK and US.

TheDaddy 27-02-2021 17:46
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36072216)
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...6-obama-legacy

Also pretty sure that Bush SNR was no where near Kuwait, or that Saddam tried to kill him.
You don't remember Bush jr saying those words then, about his daddy, shame I'd have thought you'd have been sure about that to

Quote:
Also pretty sure the US was attacked by a terrorist outfit resident in and backed by Afghanistan.
And that also added to the tragedy of it, pretty much the whole world was squarely in their corner and they squandered an opportunity to make the world better for everyone in it for the betterment of themselves but I wasn't really thinking of Afghanistan, more of Iraq, the insurgency and al qaeda

nomadking 27-02-2021 18:04
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36072075)
It was reported by the Syrian Observation of Human Rights, because the attack was on a border-crossing station in eastern Syria - it wasn’t stated that Syrians were attacked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...8a1_story.html
Still not Iranian, only backed by Iran, and still separate from any attacks in Iraq.

1andrew1 27-02-2021 18:29
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36072251)
Still not Iranian, only backed by Iran, and still separate from any attacks in Iraq.
I'm not sure anyone has claimed they were Iranian - "Iranian-linked Iraqi militias" is what has been posted in this thread.

Hugh 27-02-2021 19:01
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36072251)
Still not Iranian, only backed by Iran, and still separate from any attacks in Iraq.
Never said they were - I quoted what was reported.
Quote:
The facilities were used by Iranian-linked Iraqi militias, including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada
You were the one talking about Syrians, no one else...

papa smurf 02-03-2021 19:36
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
'What am I doing here?


https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...atest-video-vn

Hugh 02-03-2021 20:01
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
It's OK, Kamala's waiting in the wings... :D

Here's the full speech.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...tion-facility/

TheDaddy 02-03-2021 20:16
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36072705)
'What am I doing here?
Trolling mainly, oh sorry thought you meant what were you doing here

1andrew1 03-03-2021 14:48
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
This is a good start
Quote:
Biden says US will have enough jabs to vaccinate all adults by end of May

White House announces accelerated timeline after brokering production deal between J&J and Merck

The US will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses for every adult by the end of May, Joe Biden said on Tuesday, thanks in part to an unusual production deal between two of the country’s largest drugmakers.

Merck will manufacture doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine after receiving $269m from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to adapt its manufacturing facilities to produce Covid-19 medicines and shots.

The US president said on Tuesday the deal would accelerate the production of Covid-19 vaccines so that enough doses would be available to inoculate every adult within 90 days — two months earlier than previously announced.

Biden said: “I want to thank Johnson & Johnson and Merck for stepping up and being good corporate citizens during this national crisis. Here’s what all this means: we’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May.”

The Biden administration helped engineer the deal between the rival companies after J&J, which was granted an emergency use authorisation for its vaccine at the weekend, was beset by production delays.
https://www.ft.com/content/89442c1b-...-c040b9017882?

Chris 03-03-2021 15:00
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
That's interesting. Are they saying that vaccine supply has been the key factor in their vaccination rate so far? As of yesterday they're still vaccinating at a marginally lower rate than the UK (they're at 0.54 jabs per 100 population, we're at 0.58). They haven't exceeded our daily rate at any point in the programme except for a brief spell around the turn of the new year, although their daily rate has been accelerating slightly faster than ours for the past week or so.

1andrew1 03-03-2021 15:24
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36072859)
That's interesting. Are they saying that vaccine supply has been the key factor in their vaccination rate so far? As of yesterday they're still vaccinating at a marginally lower rate than the UK (they're at 0.54 jabs per 100 population, we're at 0.58). They haven't exceeded our daily rate at any point in the programme except for a brief spell around the turn of the new year, although their daily rate has been accelerating slightly faster than ours for the past week or so.
The J&J vaccine was only cleared at the weekend but J&J has experienced production difficulties. The Merck deal also enables the date to be moved from July to May which is a huge change. And it's a single-injection vaccine.

Damien 03-03-2021 15:55
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Another interesting thing that whilst all the headlines are on the stimulus Biden is making plans to cement Obamacare/ACA into American life. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...re/4560965001/

For the most part it's just increasing the subsidies making the premiums cheaper

1andrew1 04-03-2021 12:29
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36072862)
Another interesting thing that whilst all the headlines are on the stimulus Biden is making plans to cement Obamacare/ACA into American life. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...re/4560965001/

For the most part it's just increasing the subsidies making the premiums cheaper
Yes, some staggering health costs shown in that article. I guess the employer does not pay the equivalent of national insurance so more of the burden is on the employee.
Quote:
A 64-year-old woman whose $58,000 (£41,500) income puts her out of range for subsidized health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could see her premium drop from $12,900 to $4,950 under President Joe Biden's pandemic relief bill that passed the House on Saturday.
Some good news for the UK. ;)

Quote:
The US has agreed to suspend tariffs imposed on UK goods including single malt whiskies that were imposed in retaliation over subsidies given to the aircraft maker Airbus.

The suspension also covers items like cheese, pork, cashmere and machinery.

The tariffs will be suspended for a period of four months.
On 1 January, the UK had already dropped its own tariffs on some US goods put in place over a related dispute about US subsidies to Boeing.
The Scotch Whisky Association called the suspension "fabulous news".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56279525

Hugh 06-03-2021 18:05
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...ing-1-n1259795
Quote:
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package Saturday, capping off a marathon overnight session after Democrats resolved internal clashes that threatened to derail President Joe Biden's top legislative priority.

The far-reaching legislation includes $1,400 stimulus checks, $300-per-week jobless benefits through the summer, a child allowance of up to $3,600 for one year, $350 billion for state aid, $34 billion to expand Affordable Care Act subsidies and $14 billion for vaccine distribution.

heero_yuy 19-03-2021 10:33
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Quote from The Sun: Joe Biden called Kamala Harris the president in another gaffe this week.

During a press conference touting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout on Thursday, Biden, 78, experienced a slip of the tongue about his second-in-command.

"The hardest hit and suffered the most especially black, latino, native american, and rural communities," he began

Biden went on to say that he believed that efficiency had to be met with "fairness" before the gaffe.

"President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago," he said after a brief pause.
Attaboy sleepy Joe. :D

TheDaddy 19-03-2021 11:27
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
I think I miss donny, joe is dull, his gaffes are dull, it was never dull with donny

Hugh 19-03-2021 12:20
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36074798)
Attaboy sleepy Joe. :D
He's just getting everybody used to the idea... :D

Chris 19-03-2021 14:04
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
He randomly drops words all the time. It's as if he thinks them, but doesn't realise he didn't necessarily say them out loud. I bet he's convinced he heard himself say 'Vice president.' :D

Damien 19-03-2021 14:28
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
It's quite nice Americans politics being boring again. I did see Biden got his stimulus passed.

Hugh 19-03-2021 14:28
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
That’ll be that "stammer" thing...

papa smurf 19-03-2021 16:05
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Joe Biden falls while walking on aeroplane stairs


The US President was on his way to Atlanta to meet with Asian community leaders when he fell.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...s-president-vn

1andrew1 19-03-2021 16:27
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36074810)
He's just getting everybody used to the idea... :D
That awkward moment when you talk about someone's promotion forgetting that it's not official yet. :D

Mad Max 19-03-2021 17:09
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36074825)
That awkward moment when you talk about someone's promotion forgetting that it's not official yet. :D
Mums the word..:)

Mick 19-03-2021 19:07
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Biden officials say it was the wind that caused Joe to tumble (3 times), however, the former presidents son, Donald Trump Jr. has another theory...

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/s...82815109840898

Mick 22-03-2021 12:03
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
I do not want to see anywhere in this thread Statements from Trump about Election Fraud, a topic that ran its course until it was closed, in a thread that’s is specifically about Biden’s achievements (or lack of) in his first 100 days.

If Trump makes a statement, attacking Biden’s policies, which I believe he has in the last day or so, that’s fine to post. But chatter about election fraud, has no place in this thread.

heero_yuy 26-03-2021 10:00
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Quote from The Sun: Confused Joe Biden completely forgot what he was talking about and mumbled incoherently at the camera before walking away from the podium mid-question in an excruciating press conference.

The president took questions from reporters for the first time on Thursday afternoon, but quickly began to make mistakes.

As he finished answering a question about filibuster, Biden appeared to trail off-thought, ending with a pause, concluding "anyway."

"...If you hold near and dear to you that you uh um like to be able to um...." Biden said, before concluding "anyway."

Biden then closed his eyes and appeared to struggle to form the next sentence.

However, after seconds of confusion, he quickly told reassured viewers "we're ready to get a lot done."

He then appeared to call out a name from a list of White House reporters who were quizzing the president.

Going back to his list at a later point of the conference, Biden asked "where am I" before asking CNN's Kaitlan Collins for another question.
As a famous comedian once said: "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear"

Mick 26-03-2021 10:53
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Kamala Harris is on track to become the first Female & 47th President of the United States. The 25th Amendment needs to be enacted immediately. Biden needs to retire gracefully.

Mr K 26-03-2021 10:57
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36075373)
Kamala Harris is on track to become the first Female & 47th President of the United States. The 25th Amendment needs to be enacted immediately. Biden needs to retire gracefully.
Good, by far the best candidate at the last election, and they came as a 'ticket'.

Carth 26-03-2021 11:14
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
I hope he stays, there's little enough to laugh about in the world today so why remove a guaranteed daily chuckle? :D

Damien 26-03-2021 11:25
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Biden's approval is actually going up after the stimulus package: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2BB1TM

Quote:
The March 17-18 national opinion poll found that 59% of adults in the United States approved of Biden’s overall job performance, while 35% disapproved and 6% said they were not sure.

The number of adults who approve of Biden is up by about 4 percentage points since a poll that ran in late January, and the increase is largely due to a rise in Biden’s popularity among independents.
Hopefully a sign American politics is calming down slightly.

Mr K 26-03-2021 11:45
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36075382)
Biden's approval is actually going up after the stimulus package: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2BB1TM



Hopefully a sign American politics is calming down slightly.
Could be because he's slightly competent.They haven't had that for 4 years.

1andrew1 26-03-2021 15:04
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Biden seems to be delivering and actually intends to stand again in 2024.

By the end of his first 100 days in Office in April, he also aims to secure 200m Coronavirus injections, doubling his original goal of 100m vaccinations.

TheDaddy 26-03-2021 15:13
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36075398)
Biden seems to be delivering and actually intends to stand again in 2024.

By the end of his first 100 days in Office in April, he also aims to secure 200m Coronavirus injections, doubling his original goal of 100m vaccinations.
And he's doing it without hanging up the phone on Australia or pushing other world leaders out the way at a photo op, mind you these are the type of things I miss, so much better than getting confused mid sentance, it's not like we haven't seen that act done before and better by Bush jr anyway

Mick 26-03-2021 15:29
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36075374)
Good, by far the best candidate at the last election, and they came as a 'ticket'.
Best?

You know nothing.

She was one of the first to drop out due to being in the 1% chance of winning the Democratic ticket. Everything you post, shows how little you know. That much good of a candidate that she locked up many African American people up in her district in California when she was a prosecutor.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/stor...lifornia-crime

Mr K 26-03-2021 15:37
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick (Post 36075404)
Best?

You know nothing.

She was one of the first to drop out due to being in the 1% chance of winning the Democratic ticket. Everything you post, shows how little you know. That much good of a candidate that she locked up many African American people up in her district in California when she was a prosecutor.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/stor...lifornia-crime
So a right winger, thought Trump called her a communist...

nomadking 26-03-2021 15:41
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36075398)
Biden seems to be delivering and actually intends to stand again in 2024.

By the end of his first 100 days in Office in April, he also aims to secure 200m Coronavirus injections, doubling his original goal of 100m vaccinations.
Delivering what exactly?
Before Biden, the US had a contract with just Pfizer to deliver 100m doses by April. Then there are the other vaccines on top of that.
Back in December, Moderna planned to supply 100m doses by the end of March.
The US, just as everywhere else, has been hit by shortages of key ingredients.


They may not be so happy when they sent off to the federally funded, racist anti-white re-education "camps". Biden signed an executive order to that.

Hugh 26-03-2021 17:23
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Will there be black helicopters, FEMA re-education camps under Denver Airport, a child-trafficking ring under a DC Pizza restaurant. and are they coming to take away everyone's guns, like Obama did(n't)?

nomadking 26-03-2021 17:39
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36075422)
Will there be black helicopters, FEMA re-education camps under Denver Airport, a child-trafficking ring under a DC Pizza restaurant. and are they coming to take away everyone's guns, like Obama did(n't)?
So did or did not Biden sign an executive order allowing federally funded "diversity" training such as:-
Link

Quote:
The city of Seattle held a training session for white employees aimed at teaching them how to “practice self-talk” that “affirms their complicity” in racism and about “undoing” their own whiteness.
“The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called 'Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,'” the director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty and contributing editor at City Journal, Christopher Rufo, tweeted Monday. His tweet thread described what a public records request suggested about the training, which the city confirmed to the Washington Examiner is provided by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights.

Hugh 26-03-2021 21:19
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36075424)
So did or did not Biden sign an executive order allowing federally funded "diversity" training such as:-
Link
I don’t know - do you have a link to said Executive Order?

Or are you confusing something with Section 10 of Executive Order 13985, which revoked President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, which had imposed restrictions on workplace diversity training?

(btw, Diversity Training is about 8.6 Light Years away "re-education camps" - you cannot be Sirius... ;) ).

nomadking 26-03-2021 21:47
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36075440)
I don’t know - do you have a link to said Executive Order?

Or are you confusing something with Section 10 of Executive Order 13985, which revoked President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, which had imposed restrictions on workplace diversity training?

(btw, Diversity Training is about 8.6 Light Years away "re-education camps" - you cannot be Sirius... ;) ).
On which planet is it NOT meant to involve re-education to force people to think they are inherently racist.
Quote:
One handout distributed in the session declared how “racism is not our fault but we are responsible." Another said White staffers must give up “the land” and their “guaranteed physical safety” in order to be an “accomplice” for racial justice.
Quote:
Shapiro took aim at the president's push for racial equity, and a decision to revoke an order, signed by Trump, that prohibited federal funding for workplace training that urges employees to acknowledge concepts like white supremacy and white privilege.
Why the need for federal funding?

Pierre 27-03-2021 10:35
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36075440)
(btw, Diversity Training is about 8.6 Light Years away "re-education camps" - you cannot be Sirius... ;) ).
Critical Race Theory is not “Diversity Training”.

“Diversity Training” itself as a concept is inherently racist anyway.

1andrew1 27-03-2021 18:48
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36075457)
Critical Race Theory is not “Diversity Training”.

“Diversity Training” itself as a concept is inherently racist anyway.
Why is diversity training racist?

Sephiroth 27-03-2021 19:15
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Given that diversity training does not take place other than under pressure from non-white quarters, there is a case for putting a racist handle on it.

What does diversity training seek to achieve? On all accounts, it's to make whites less white. It seeks to tolerate dilution of our culture without demanding that the other cultures move towards ours. That's racist towards whites.

Enough controversy in the above?

GrimUpNorth 27-03-2021 19:33
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36075500)
Given that diversity training does not take place other than under pressure from non-white quarters, there is a case for putting a racist handle on it.

What does diversity training seek to achieve? On all accounts, it's to make whites less white. It seeks to tolerate dilution of our culture without demanding that the other cultures move towards ours. That's racist towards whites.

Enough controversy in the above?
I suppose you could say from the statement above that you don't quite understand what diversity training is and could well benefit from some yourself! Lesson 1 - look up and understand the meaning of workplace diversity ;)

Carth 27-03-2021 19:41
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 36075505)
I suppose you could say from the statement above that you don't quite understand what diversity training is and could well benefit from some yourself! Lesson 1 - look up and understand the meaning of workplace diversity ;)
To save us all looking, maybe you could give us a quick heads up as to "the meaning of workplace diversity", and how this Diversity training helps ;)

pip08456 27-03-2021 20:07
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 36075505)
I suppose you could say from the statement above that you don't quite understand what diversity training is and could well benefit from some yourself! Lesson 1 - look up and understand the meaning of workplace diversity ;)
Starting a discussion 101. Don't tell people to look up anything, you are advancing a theory that they may not have the intelligence to do so.

Where possible provide reasoned evidence to back up your point or link to something you feel does.

Pierre 27-03-2021 22:25
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36075499)
Why is diversity training racist?
What is diversity training?

---------- Post added at 22:25 ---------- Previous post was at 22:24 ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 36075505)
I suppose you could say from the statement above that you don't quite understand what diversity training is and could well benefit from some yourself! Lesson 1 - look up and understand the meaning of workplace diversity ;)
Do you understand what diversity training is?

1andrew1 27-03-2021 22:33
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36075533)
What is diversity training?
If you need to ask that question, how can you pronounce on its being racist?

Pierre 27-03-2021 23:03
Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36075537)
If you need to ask that question, how can you pronounce on its being racist?
Do you know what it is?


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 02:39.
Page 2 of 8 1 2 3456 Last »
Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
All Posts and Content are © Cable Forum