Joe Biden Discussion

[Saviour]

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[Pappywinkle]

President Biden has masterminded the biggest Republican upset in decades, which is just so humiliating for those who desperately tried to claim Biden wasn't competent. Thankfully, President Biden has made all of his haters look like absolute fools with his amazing midterm successes!

Great work, Joe!!

Joe Biden Could Have the Most Successful Midterms for Democrats in 60 Years

In a huge win for President Joe Biden, Democrats kept control of the Senate in last week's elections, but they also could score their biggest midterms victory since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.

This year, Democratic Senate candidates held 11 seats and flipped one in Pennsylvania, retaining control of the evenly split chamber. Although Republicans were able to hold on to more seats, 20, their failure to flip Nevada and Arizona, combined with their loss in Pennsylvania, prevented them from taking over the Senate.

Georgia's Senate race is still to be decided in a runoff election next month. But even if Republican Herschel Walker unseats Senator Raphael Warnock, the Democrats will have 50 seats—along with Vice President Kamala Harris's tie-breaking vote.

If the runoff vote goes in the Democrats' favor, it will be the first time the party has made a positive net gain in the Senate during the midterms since 1962, when the Democrats gained two seats. Should Warnock be ousted by his Republican challenger, the Democrats would still have their biggest Senate gain since the 1998 midterms, when Bill Clinton was president and the party had a net gain of zero Senate seats.

In last Tuesday's elections, Democrats managed to keep more Senate seats than they did in both the 2010 and 2014 midterms, when Barack Obama was president. In 2010, Republicans had a net gain of six seats—winning four seats held by retiring Democrats and defeating two incumbents. However, Democrats were able to maintain control of the Senate with 51 seats. That was also the last time the party had outright majority control of the chamber.

This year's midterms were also better for the Democrats than the 2014 midterms, when Congress was hit with a massive red wave that saw the largest Senate gain by either party since 1980. In 2014, Republicans not only made a net gain of nine seats but won control of the Senate after defeating five Democratic incumbents and picking up four open seats.

Compared with the last midterms, when Donald Trump was in the White House, Democrats failed to make as many gains as the party of the sitting president did in those 2018 races. Four years ago, Republicans made a net gain of two seats, bringing their total to 53 and making it easier for Trump to pass more of his agenda with a GOP-controlled Senate.

If Democrats lose in Georgia next month, the party will continue to be confronted with an evenly divided Senate. Political scientist Steven Schier predicts that will mean the second half of Biden's presidency will be marked by the same partisan conflict that occurred in the first half.

American University government professor James Thurber said that because neither party will have the 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster, the next Congress will reflect the same polarization and gridlock that took place over the past two years, even if Warnock wins reelection.

As national politics have increasingly bled into state and local politics, midterms have become largely viewed as a referendum on the sitting administration rather than on individual politicians. Winning an outright majority in the Senate would be a way for the White House to show that it's still "keeping their heads above water" with the American public, Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, told Newsweek.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-coul ... rs-1757583

[Pappywinkle]

Joe Biden Was Right

Joe Biden took a risk in making the midterms about democracy. I cheered that decision, because I thought it was the right issue—in fact, the only issue. But even I started to lose confidence as the election approached. America’s voters, however, affirmed Biden’s gamble, and our democracy is better for it.

It’s been a rough ride for democracy in the United States and around the world. We’ll talk later in the week about the setbacks for authoritarians overseas in Brazil and Russia, but for now the results of the 2022 elections are good news for American democracy. Biden took heat from friends and foes alike for making closing arguments in favor of democracy instead of prosaic “kitchen-table” issues, but the president—a man with half a century of experience in elected politics—knew the voters better than his critics did.

Consider the magnitude of what happened last week. The Republicans went into the midterms as heavy favorites, with advantages that included the patterns of political history, some star power, money from churlish billionaires, and—in theory—Donald Trump. The Democrats had every headwind imaginable, including an unpopular president, a fractious coalition, and an economy beset with high inflation.

The misfit flotilla of Republican election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and other assorted flakes and phonies was poised, it seemed, to board the American ship of state without much resistance. Instead, much of the Republican fleet sank within sight of the shore. A few survivors (such as the reprehensible J. D. Vance) made it to the beach, and the GOP seems likely to control the House by the thinnest of margins. But the Republicans fell short when the voters noticed their extreme positions on almost everything, including January 6, elections, and abortion.

Jim Marchant of Nevada, for example, put together a slate of fellow election-denying secretary-of-state hopefuls under the banner of “America First.” This congerie of conspiracy theorists ran as a bloc that promised to make voting more difficult and hold up election results they didn’t like. The gang included Arizona’s Mark Finchem, an extremist whose bio notes that he is a “Six Sigma practitioner” but leaves aside that he was also a member of the Oath Keepers. Arizonans, who kept some of their other races close, had no trouble rejecting Finchem by more than five points. Marchant and the rest of the deniers lost, except for one candidate in Indiana (not exactly a battleground state).

Pennsylvanians elected Josh Shapiro their governor in a double-digit drubbing of the Christian nationalist Doug Mastriano, and they seem close to flipping the state’s House to the Democrats. In Michigan, Tudor Dixon—another out-of-nowhere candidate endorsed by Trump—lost and took the weird secretary-of-state candidate Kristina Karamo down with her, while Michigan voters placed their state under unified Democratic rule. And in Wisconsin, the Democrat Tony Evers beat Tim Michels—a man who said that if he won, the GOP would never lose another election in Wisconsin—by three points.

The challenge to American democracy is not over, but the 2022 results should give the prodemocracy coalition hope, for many reasons.

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We should not lull ourselves into believing that the fight for democracy is over. The local governments, state houses, and the new Congress will still have plenty of odious characters in them. There’s still a lot of work to be done.

Nonetheless, the gloom and gathering darkness I felt last week has dissipated to a considerable degree. The president and the prodemocracy forces issued a call to the public to defend the American system, and the public responded in force. I regularly criticize the public for a lack of civic virtue; I even wrote a book about it. But I must give credit where it is due: The voters, this time, proved me wrong—and showed that Joe Biden was right.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters ... ht/672118/

[The Green Barbarian]

Afghanistan mess: Biden’s national security agencies cite growing problems 15 months after withdrawal
The group responsible for the death of 13 American service members is now operating outside Afghanistan

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghan ... withdrawal

[Pappywinkle]

[Pappywinkle]

Biden to Pelosi: ‘I Hope You Stick’

Of all the Democrats delighted by the party’s surprisingly strong midterm showing, few were more overjoyed than President Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who in the twilight of their careers have become the faces of their party.

And as it became clear on Wednesday that Republicans would have, at best, a narrow majority, Biden told Pelosi he’d like her to remain in office, to serve with him in what could be the final two years of their decades in public life.

“I hope you stick,” Biden told Pelosi in a phone call after congratulating her on the caucus’s unexpected victories and asking about her convalescing husband, according to Democrats familiar with the conversation. Pelosi interjected to note her personal considerations and Biden continued, “I know it’s family first but I hope you stick,” before Pelosi deflected again.

Biden wasn’t on the ballot and Pelosi faced little challenge in her San Francisco district, but you wouldn’t have known it from their reactions to the results. The soon-to-be 80-year-old president and the 82-year-old speaker, mutual admirers with similar roots and shared grievances toward critics and wise-guy pundits, were bullish about their prospects and felt vindicated by the party’s success.

With low approval ratings, endangered incumbents rejecting his presence on the campaign trail and much of the party grumbling about his last-minute decision to deliver a closing speech on democracy, Biden felt the election demonstrated, again, his tactile feel for the American voter.

He dialed a few dozen Democrats on Tuesday night and was, an aide recalled, thrilled when many of them mentioned how they had run on elements of his legislative agenda.

No conversation may have been sweeter than the one he made early in the evening to one of the House’s bellwether candidates, whose race hadn’t yet been called. Still, Biden knew Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia would prevail and wanted to be among the first to congratulate her. He needed no reminding that it was Spanberger who, in the aftermath of the party’s defeat in last year’s Virginia governor’s race, said Biden wasn’t elected “to be FDR.” but to “be normal and stop the chaos.”

To voters, it was Republicans who appeared abnormal and perpetuating the chaos.

No Democrat grasped that more personally, and painfully, than Pelosi. Already devastated by the home invasion and vicious attack on her husband, Paul, the speaker was horrified at the callous response by some Republicans, who either belittled the assault or trafficked in conspiracy theories about its nature. She was, a confidante said, deeply wounded and did little to mask her feelings.

Pelosi put on an upbeat face at her traditional Election Day lunch with labor leaders and other allies at a Washington steakhouse. But friends there could tell she was concerned about the forthcoming results and had absorbed all the predictions from those dreaded pundits, to say nothing of her own lieutenants, that Democrats were likely to suffer a 20-plus seat defeat in the House.

Late that night, one of her longtime Democratic allies got on the phone with a very different Pelosi. She was “nearly giddy,” this Democrat told me, and was going through the election district by district to explain how the party was curtailing its losses.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/1 ... s-00066844

[The Green Barbarian]

Biden official mocks 'oppression' voiced by 'White protesters' against lockdowns, shares defense of BLM riots

Biden's DOE official wrote, 'Black people share truth and white people act like its an intellectual exercise'

FIRST ON FOX – A Biden official at the U.S. Department of Education previously shared a tweet which blasted what she referred to as "White protesters" for their activism against lockdowns during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, while later on she posted a defense of pro-Black Lives Matter rioting, according to her Twitter account.

Tiffany Taber is the chief of speechwriting for Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

In April 2020, Taber tweeted out an article about the "whiteness of anti-lockdown protests."

Tauber wrote, "YES… That feeling of ‘oppression’ these white protesters have voiced is the residual effect of living in a country that has been shaped to cater to their racial majority status & consequently their perceived loss of power & privilege."

The article had said the anti-lockdown protests were "far-right theatrics." The piece went on about how "ignorance, privilege, and anti-black racism [were] driving white protests."

"Being white is the default identity in America. Whiteness is our cultural tapestry… So when you suddenly do not have free rein to go about your business unchecked, it can feel like a massive threat," the article said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-off ... -blm-riots

[Pappywinkle]

[captkirkcanada]

I will say this now , i ,as a canadian do not think joe should run again . I think he is fine health , age wise but we need a new generation to come and bring new ideas .

Regardless Canadians, Americans and the free world are indebted to President Biden for defeating Trump with his landslide election victory. A lasting legcy.

Its a great thing i never said that . I think because djt said he is in biden will run again . Im almost sure of it , i dont think he should because the world needs newer ideas .

[nucksRnum1]

Biden making sure that there is less meddling by the SCOTUS conservative appointees by there being nothing making its way past appeals courts. Winning...

[GordonH]

Figures, Joe doesn’t want to PO their oil supplier even though the entire Saudi family is monster human rights violator.

https://www.castanet.net/news/World/396 ... st-killing

[Pappywinkle]

[gertlush]

Figures, Joe doesn’t want to PO their oil supplier even though the entire Saudi family is monster human rights violator.

https://www.castanet.net/news/World/396 ... st-killing

Wow, I mean... Biden looked a spineless flip flopping jelly before but now... he'll be nominating Putin for a Nobel peace prize next.

[The Green Barbarian]

Figures, Joe doesn’t want to PO their oil supplier even though the entire Saudi family is monster human rights violator.

https://www.castanet.net/news/World/396 ... st-killing

Wow, I mean... Biden looked a spineless flip flopping jelly before but now... he'll be nominating Putin for a Nobel peace prize next.

[Pappywinkle]