Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Exactly. And anyone who had actually done any would understand that it's nothing to do with reverse racism.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Should any one who has had the need to do it be bragging about it?:)

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Well Joe's approval rating is at 54%, Trumpy was at 41% at the same stage.
Tackling the pandemic instead of dismissing it might have helped.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...proval-rating/

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Trouble Brewing?

Biden backtracks on keeping Trump cap on refugees

I'm pretty sure Ms Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be keen to offer homes, employment and free health care to those who arrive ;)

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

BREAKING: U.S President Joe Biden and First Lady of the United States to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on Sunday 13th June during the G7 Summit.

https://news.sky.com/story/queen-to-...astle-12323842

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

It’s a negotiating tactic…

Probably not wise to say "sod ‘em" to our largest individual export market (US$57.5 billion (14.3% of total UK exports)).

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

The Biden administration want to impose a minimum “ global “ rate of corporation tax, the U.K. hasn’t signed up to the idea as yet. This is just pressure from sleepy Joe’s team to push Dishy Rishi into agreeing.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

U.K isn't the problem IIRC. It's Ireland. They do well with low corporate tax rates and without them, they may be less attractive in comparison to London or other British cities. Especially given the housing and even hotel situation in Dublin.

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The Queens meets another President.

The Queen is already our longest serving Monarch and in a few more years she becomes the longest-serving in world history, surprising Louis the 9587th or whichever Louis it was.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Hard to "wave two fingers" at the world's largest economy, which is over seven times the size of the UK's.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Could you provide an example, please?

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

We've done it once, probably gets easier with practice ;)

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

That’s a "no", then…

I was serious - the USA is the world’s largest economy, and the home to most of the big Tech & Finance companies; what could we do to them that could not lead to a negative backlash?

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

We just tell them that we are ending our special relationship.

That should do it. :D

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Looks like the knives are out for sleepy Joe.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Nothing out of the ordinary there. A dozen or so republicans using a stunt to make noise about a democrat president. :shrug:

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

There's been plenty of examples of his "senior moments", so it's a valid question. Although they might want to be careful of what they wish for.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Biden is in Cognitive Decline.

Just look at the Gas price rises in America. Republicans are going to do well in the Mid terms - Democrats just don't know how to govern properly, high taxes, high crime guaranteed under Democrat rule - just look at New York City crime statistics. :rolleyes:

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

It might be a valid question if it wasn’t to brazenly partisan.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

But they got a new Holiday, Yay.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

And not asking the question isn't extremely partisan?:rolleyes: There is more than enough evidence for the question needing to be answered.

It needed to be answered before the election. I wonder what the Constitution would have to say about any answer.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

I do have reservations about his mental state and I think it shows how desperate the Dems were for Bernie to not get the nomination.

However people voted for him. The same people who had the same view before the election - to put it in CF binary terms - lost. Biden won. If new people come to that view or new evidence arises to suggest he's incapable of the role then there's due process to replace him.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Ah, the doctor who said And who said Trump was 6' 3" (here is Trump, standing right next to Obama, who is 6' 1")

I suppose Trump could have grown 2 inches after he was elected President?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTs6iXSV...jpg&name=small

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Height and weight accuracy does not stop a Doctor being concerned about the current occupant of the White House, hell, I am not a doctor and can tell Biden is a walking Dementia case.

Stop being in denial Hugh - Biden is a walking embarrassment for the U.S right now, more so than Trump could ever have been.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

I'm curious what the mechanism is for removing a POTUS who becomes incapacitated in office?

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

It’s the 25th amendment. A gang of people have to agree he’s not medically competent to go on. It requires a declaration from the VP, signed by a majority of the cabinet, to be delivered to congress. If the president contests it, congress decides, but requires a supermajority to ratify his removal.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Two main ways.

President themselves can declare if they are fit to be president or not, say if they have a short illness or have to be hospitalised, they have to submit a written declaration, one to President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House.

After their own written submission, they can shortly after retake the presidency, by declaring in the same way as above.

Vice President and Cabinet declaration with majority view that the President is unable to perform their duties. The Vice President then becomes Acting President.

Congress plays a role if they do not agree, if a president tries to declare they are medically fit for duty after a Vice Presidential and Cabinet declaration, two thirds majority required (in each chamber) to successfully remove the unfit president permanently and the Acting President becomes President, this process of the 25th Amendment has never been used.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Thank you Chris. :tu:

The guy is clearly struggling. It would be a kindness to put him out to grass. But is the USA ready for a female president?

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

I’ve always suspected Biden only ever intended to serve one term, with the party pushing for its primaries to crown Kamala Harris as his successor. If he has a good run, and endorses her, it would be hard for anyone to seriously contest it. Of course it’s always possible for him to voluntarily resign during his term, perhaps in his third year, so Harris contests the 2024 election as the incumbent. Assuming he makes it that far of course ...

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

Here he is snapping at a female journalist, just the other day after his Putin meeting in which he had said he had "Constructive talks", had this been Trump, it had have been a much bigger, negative story.

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

:tu:

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Trump, Reagan Nixon - the bar isn't set high for US President. Never convinced they ever really have that much power anyway, thankfully.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Yes they do, the Presidency, is one of the third Branches of U.S Government. They can set key policies. The U.S Constitution disagrees with you.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

I wouldn't worry Mick, according to Donnie, Deep State runs everything anyway. Just aswell. ;)

Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office
 

But he’s not just a ‘doctor’ - he’s one who lied about a previous patient, over-exaggerated other information about him, and is currently a Republican politician.

He has an agenda, perhaps?

Strange how the doctor wasn’t worried about the previous incumbent when he spouted his word salad, couldn’t walk down a ramp without assistance, tweeted "covfefe", and speaking of deranged mental states, still thinks he won the election…

The rest of the world doesn’t agree with you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2...rump-to-biden/ https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...7&d=1624092267

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The good thing about joe's dementia is you get a different president every day.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Takes me back to the classic Spitting Image series, and the long running joke thread “ The President’s brain is missing”. Regarding Reagan’s later years.......yes, I’m that old.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Spitting Image was riffing off that theme from the get-go with Reagan. Here’s a sample .... Chris Barrie doing the voice by the sounds of it. :D



I guess if it proves anything, it’s that if the US president is a senior citizen, mental capacity becomes the standard attack line, whether it’s true or not.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Simple question. Has Biden publicly presented many examples of "senior moments", yes or no? When you're having trouble remembering names of your own family, it's not a good sign.
Trying searching for "Biden Senior moments" for the answer.
Link

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Try doing the same for Trump.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Something you might do



In a thread about Trump.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

And the articles would be from supporters or critics? The quote I included was from a Biden supporter. How many of those articles considered it would be ok for Trump to remain in office?
Link

Usual bias from the media etc.
Did they do that for Biden?
Slight mis-steps are one thing, but things like this are quite another.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

I look forward to the same principle being applied when Corbyn gets a mention.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Corbyn is not going to get a mention and neither is Trump from this point onwards.

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Bollocks to one sided and rubbish polls, you certainly know by now how I rate polling, Joe Biden is a walking embarrassment and laughing stock, nothing you say or dodgy polling reveals, changes this one iota.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

You seem happy to quote polls when you like them ....

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Wrong as usual - goodness, you're so ignorant, it blinds you Mr K, always in the wrong, always support the losing, wrong side and what is funny is that your petulant responses in topics, shows how absolutely, that you demonstrate the inability or you are simply just too lazy to read things correctly and skim past stuff that does not suit your trolling behaviour/agenda.

I have posted polls many times, but I have never said, nor given any indication, I am "happy" or trust the accuracy of them, because they are never always accurate and I have often accompanied this statement when posting any poll.

Joe Biden is a walking, sometimes stumbling embarrassment, he is a gaffe prone idiot that forgets his words mid sentence.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Still good enough to beat the last president though. As I said the bar wasn't set high.

Anyway if you're right the US can look forward to their first black woman president. That will surely be welcomed by everyone as progress from the geriatric white old men they seem to end up with. :)

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...dable-care-act

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

As hundreds of my U.S friends say, there is nothing affordable about the Health care system in the U.S. It's a joke and the ACA makes it tons worse.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/stat...850600448?s=21

Apologies if you don’t Twitter.

But……it’s just intriguing how long they will keep this charade up for. He is clearly cognitively impaired. They will have to install Harris before someone forces them too.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

That was the plan all along, as the Dems knew the majority of the voters wouldn’t vote for a mixed-heritage woman.

They got her to perform badly in the Primaries so Joe would win, put her in as VP, give it a year, 25th Amendment time, bish-bash-bosh, President Harris, and FEMA camp/Black helicopters/weapons confiscation/compulsory growing of dreads time.

Cunning plan comes to fruition…

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Baldrick, how did you get such a large amount of sick from such a small cat?

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Next they'll be sending white people off to be re-educated to give up their jobs, homes, physical safety, etc.:rolleyes: It's happening RIGHT NOW. Copious examples exist. And all NOW allowed to be federally funded.
As a TV presenter said, non-melanated people are to be "annihilated". His words. He just had to apologise to Jews as that statement includes them, and everything was ok.
So nobody is being re-educated in the "horrors" of White privilege and "critical race theory" and so on?
Biden said he was going to pick a female prospective VP. Nothing to do with ability. There was no, "I've picked X on ability, and they just happen to be female", just outright sexism.


As it was plain to see that Biden was not fit before any election, does that make the election not valid and fraudulent?

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

An election is only fraudulent if the result has been rigged, lying (or lying via omission) doesn't invalidate an election. Roosevelt and Regan both seem to have held back medical information before running for their fourth and second terms respectively.

The Biden thing does make me question if the US should add an upper age limit in addition to the lower age limit on being President. It's not just mental acuity to consider but also physical fitness. It's a demanding job being President: stressful situations, on-call 24/7, lack of proper sleep routines and so on. You need to be sharp, have a healthy heart and have a lot of energy to do it effectively.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

They're Americans, the greatest nation on Earth, they know what they're doing and God is on their side :Yes:

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Putting forward an ineligible candidate is fraudulent, just as putting forward a candidate that is just a front for somebody else is fraudulent. Not sure anybody could truly disagree with that.
Spreading deliberate falsehoods is also fraudulent.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Bit difficult to prove putting Biden forward was fraudulent.
By the same token, also difficult to prove Biden was the right person for the job ;)

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

He isn't ineligible though.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Well, that would have invalidated another candidate… ;)

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

JFK was incredibly ill to, perhaps they they should make serious illness a prerequisite as there is three of the better ones

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

A pity being totally incompetent isn't a bar to being chosen in any political position.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

But if that doesn't work they have guns, loads and loads and loads of guns. :D

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Once again, apologies not twitterers

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/stat...917594118?s=21

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

BREAKING: U.S President Joe Biden calls for New York and Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign, following an investigation that found he sexually harassed multiple women.

https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-cu...women-12372002

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

That's a shock, I thought the accepted protocol was to back them to the hilt and even campaign for them providing they were in your party of course, I hope this new trend catches on

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

That's leadership, I agree, I hope this sets the tone for the future.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Cuomo's position seems untenable. He released a crackpot defence document that included pictures of Obama hugging hurricane victims as if this were remotely comparable to what he is being accused of.

Lots of ppl think Biden is a joke..... Not doing well at all.....

Well YA he had to have the election rigged sky high to win!

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

See what I was saying yesterday about conspiracy theories :dozey:

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Donald, you really need to find some other activities to do now you're not President.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Mock what you will, you two, I refuse to believe 80 Million voted for the current occupant of the WH. If he even knows he’s in the WH. The bit the other day was rather hilarious, where he has a bit of food stuck on his chin, and he’s there babbling to the press and right in front of the camera’s, receives a card from an aide, simply informing him he had something on his chin. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...036.html%3famp.

He has been an absolute disaster for America since his inauguration this year. High inflation, high energy costs. Absolute madness at the Texas Border and migration.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Technically not about Joe Biden but follows on from the previous stuff on the thread:

Cuomo is gone: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/n...o-resigns.html

Also, Biden's Infrastructure bill has passed the Senate with some Republican support: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/u...ll-passes.html

Yes I read about Cuomo.. Doesnt that admit his guilt??

Im glad he isnt lying.......

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

The Cuomo issue is hiding the important decision to continue Trump's policy of exiting Afghanistan. The Trump deal was "a rotten one", according to Britain's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who confirmed this week what many suspected.

Whilst neutral observers note that Biden seems to be more successful than Trump in many areas (eg infrastructure bill, vaccine roll-out), I wonder if Afghanistan could be his undoing or will that country's unravelling not impact voters. I suspect the latter and the Republicans can't really complain if he continues with their policy.
More on Afghanistan: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanist...tiate-12377962

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

What I can't help thinking is (retired, too much time on my hands etc), once the Taliban have full control over Afghanistan, are all those fighters going to throw their weapons down and start farming?

Given that a 'Taliban' governed country will probably rule with laws & customs not admired by much of the western world, it seems to me they'll struggle somewhat with probable sanctions and things.

Pakistan their next target?

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

This was the one I had in mind, seems to be ok now
https://news.sky.com/story/afghanist...tiate-12377962

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

All seems like a waste of time really, if you notice though the area the taliban went for first was/ is in the North, the only part of the country they didn't get their grubby claws on last time, I think when leaders are so negligent there needs to be repercussions greater than them being voted out of office and retiring to the lucrative lobbying/ after dinner circuits, it's not right, the amount of blood and money this has cost needs something more substantial to show than running with our tail between our legs, Bush Jr and his obsession with the guy who tried to kill his daddy has a lot to answer for and is literally delivering those people into the hands of monsters

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

It'll end up being a nest of vipers, and I wouldn't like to be the next country that pokes it with a stick.

I think even Russia will back away from this one

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

I've often wondered why the Taliban, without the aid of an airforce, can make as much progress through Afghanistan, the link below supplies a few pointers to this.


https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...aliban-winning

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Aged well?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...n-afghanistan/ :rolleyes:

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Oops …

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

It's a complete disaster. 20 years wasted.

I am not sure what could have been done to stop this as the USA/UK can't stay there forever but there has to be a better way than throwing the country under the bus.

Another surge might have helped to try and root out the Taliban but they don't seem to go away. America and ourselves seem to have achieved nothing for all that cost and bloodshed.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Sadly the US will always be on the back foot over any issue anywhere on the globe . Damned if they interfere/assist and damned if they don’t.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Once they, and we, did intervene we should have finished the job.

In fairness, the Afgan Government was pushing for the Americans to leave in 2014. They refused Obama's request to keep troops there. They must have relented eventually but it's been six years so far of borrowed time.

But their security forces are clearly not up to the job.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Not sure how anyone "finishes the job" in an asymmetric warfare scenario (without "instant sunshine" glassing over the whole country)?

No one has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan (the book discusses Iraq as well), due to the terrain and tribal society - when the tribes are being defeated, they just fade back into the mountains, when the occupying troops lessen, they come back out again.

There is a really good book about this called "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins that I would recommend to others for an insight into why it's a losing proposition, whatever anyone does.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Britain has been successful there twice before and we could have been again. One thing that shocked me is a lot of the taliban fight for them because the pay, $5 a day is much better than being a farmer, we could have paid them more not to fight, there's a worldwide shortage of morphine we could have crippled their heroin operation solving that issue at the same time, I also remember one mid-high ranking taliban leader handing himself in to claim the reward, I'd like to think these things were looked at and taken on board by people that mattered

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Sadly, the only way to defeat ISIS is a squadron of B52s and carpet bomb them off the planet, but this would kill thousands of innocent people.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

Yeah 'cos that worked in Vietnam didn't it . . . something the USA should have learnt from.

You can't beat them on their own ground, you can push them back and 'contain' them, but that takes an awful lot of resources & manpower . . and again costs innocent lives.

Re: US President Joe Biden
 

The Taliban must be getting support from countries in the region that are not big fans of the U.S.A as well.