Joe Biden Discussion

[gertlush]

Hey could you repost the one exulting Biden for solving the rail strike in the US? You know, the offer the Unions just rejected?

Thanks in as advance,

[The Green Barbarian]

[Pappywinkle]

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[The Green Barbarian]

Biden opens secret amnesty door, swamping border facilities

The Biden administration, desperate to mute headlines about record illegal migrant crossings, has secretly started a new system to let in potential law-breakers that also puts them on a fast-track to legal status.

The program amounts to an amnesty ticket and pre-selects some of those caught up in Mexico’s immigration controls.

Word of the program has spread like wildfire, swamping border camps involved in the program, according to a new report by immigration expert Todd Bensman with the Center for Immigration Studies.

In his report, shared with Secrets today, Bensman said, “thousands are hearing about this new legal way in – and swamping an expanding system of Mexican shelters that gradually feed their occupants through American ports of entry with temporary legal status and opportunity to make the big move permanent.”

Bensman, who has revealed several loopholes in Biden immigration policies, called the program “part of a purposeful strategy to create work-arounds to court-ordered expulsion policies but also to reduce politically painful illegal crossing statistics by channeling ever more people through these legalized crossings. While neither DHS nor the White House has publicized this legalized entrance program, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly telegraphed it in his oft-stated intentions to create ‘legal pathways’ as part of the administration’s overarching ‘safe, orderly, and humane’ vision for southern border immigration.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rest ... facilities

[Pappywinkle]

[Pappywinkle]

Biden just won a significant diplomatic victory with China

“I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War,” President Biden said last week after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. I’m afraid it’s too late: For all intents and purposes, the Cold War is already here.

Both the United States and China — the top two military and economic powers in the world — already view each other as the main threat to their own security. Tensions are rising over flash points such as the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Disputes over China’s unfair trade practices, human rights abuses and pandemic response have exacerbated animosities.

Just a decade ago, slightly more Americans had a favorable rather than a unfavorable view of China. Today, according to the Pew Research Center, 82 percent have an unfavorable view while only 16 percent have a favorable view. Meanwhile, about 60 percent of Chinese respondents expressed a negative view of the United States in a poll by the Central European Institute of Asia Studies.

Long gone are the hopes that attended China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001 — an event that President Bill Clinton hailed as “the most significant opportunity that we have had to create positive change in China since the 1970s.” Today, with Xi having consolidated more power than any Chinese ruler since Mao Zedong, such talk seems hopelessly naive. Biden now speaks of “extreme competition” with China, and fears are rising of a U.S.-China war.

But while the Cold War might be here, it need not lead to a hot war. We are not doomed to a “Thucydides trap,” a term popularized by Harvard University’s Graham Allison after the famous observation by the ancient Greek writer that “it was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” Allison found that in the past 500 years there were “sixteen cases in which a major nation’s rise has disrupted the position of a dominant state,” and that “twelve of these rivalries ended in war.”

But it is significant that four of them did not lead to war, including the only one to occur in the nuclear age: the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. Our goal today should be to manage the new Cold War as we managed the old Cold War by striving for detente and seeking to avoid high-risk confrontations such as the Cuban missile crisis. Biden’s own national security strategy is clear-eyed about the imperative to both compete with China and cooperate on areas of shared concern, such as global warming and covid-19.

But that’s easier said than done when anti-China passions are surging in the United States and the two parties are competing on who can be tougher on China. Among MAGA Republicans, China-bashing often turns racist. Last week, for example, Daniel McCarthy, a former Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, pointed to the fact that Treasurer Kimberly Yee, a Chinese American, was the only winning GOP candidate for statewide office as evidence that “China controls our elections.” It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that Yee is not an election denier, could it?

Unfortunately, former president Donald Trump — who called covid-19 “Covid19” and mocked his own transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, in racist terms — mainstreams these vile prejudices. The pending House Republican investigation of Hunter Biden will cater to such sentiments by trying to portray the Bidens as dupes of Beijing, just as in the 1940s and 1950s many Republicans tried to portray Democratic officeholders as dupes of the Kremlin. (Richard M. Nixon called Secretary of State Dean Acheson the “Red Dean of the College of Cowardly Containment.”)

Fear of being attacked for “losing” South Vietnam, as President Harry S. Truman supposedly “lost” China, led John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to ramp up the United States’ ill-fated intervention in Vietnam. That should serve as a warning about the dangers of anti-Communist paranoia run amok.

We have legitimate reasons to abhor China’s regime and to fear its ambitions to dominate East Asia, but we can also work with it. It was significant, for example, that, during their meeting in Bali, Biden and Xi “underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.” China also joined in the G-20 summit statement that noted “most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine.” Those are major diplomatic victories that further isolate Russia. Of course, on most other issues, Biden and Xi did not see eye to eye — but that’s an argument for more diplomacy, not less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... r-not-hot/

[gertlush]

Pretty low bar for a "significant diplomatic victory"

Had to scroll all the way down to find that China agreeing "ya, nukes are bad" is a big win for Biden. What leadership!

[The Green Barbarian]

Biden White House fact-checked by Twitter users again for exaggerated deficit claim
President Biden has overseen 4th-largest budget deficit in US history for fiscal year 2022

The White House was fact-checked by Twitter users on Monday after trying to take credit for the "largest" one-year cut to the federal budget deficit in American history.

President Biden's communications team attempted to exaggerate the administration's record on lowering the deficit on Twitter and was handed another Community Note that provided missing context for the White House's claim.

"The Biden-Harris Administration lowered the deficit with the single largest one-year reduction in American history," the White House tweeted Monday.

But readers added important details the White House left out, noting that deficit spending ramped up during the COVID-19 pandemic between fiscal years 2020 and 2021.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden- ... icit-claim

[Pappywinkle]

U.S. President Biden sending federal aid as N.Y. digs out from huge snowstorm

U.S. President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as 6 feet (1.8 metres) of snow in western and northern New York, the White House announced Monday.

The emergency declaration authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief in 11 counties hit by the the lake-effect snowstorm Friday and Saturday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul thanked Biden for granting her request for emergency aid, and added in a news release, "My team and I will continue working around the clock to keep everyone safe, help communities dig out, and secure every last dollar to help rebuild and recover from this unprecedented, record-shattering historic winter storm."

The National Weather Service recorded 77 inches (196 centimetres) by Saturday in Orchard Park, home to the NFL's Buffalo Bills, and 72 inches (183 centimetres) in Natural Bridge, a hamlet near Watertown off the eastern end of Lake Ontario.

The storm forced the Bills to move Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns to Detroit. The Bills won 31-23.

More snow fell overnight Sunday in some areas, but it stopped by daybreak Monday. "We are finally dry," weather service meteorologist Liz Jurkowski said.

A driving ban had been lifted for most areas affected by the storm by Monday morning, but schools remained closed in Buffalo and nearby towns.

The snowstorm was at least the worst in New York state since November 2014, when some communities south of Buffalo were hit with 7 feet (2.13 metres) of snow over the course of three days.

Jurkowski said snowfall totals for this storm were still being tabulated Monday.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-presid ... -1.6162060

[The Green Barbarian]

[Pappywinkle]

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Biden White House slammed by liberal journalists for denying access to wedding, called liars
Reporters for The New York Times and Washington Post spoke out against the White House

Liberal journalists are calling out the Biden administration, claiming they were misled regarding press access to the White House wedding of the president's granddaughter.

Members of the White House press corps claim they were waved off coverage for Naomi Biden and Peter Neal’s wedding and told that the event was private. However, on Tuesday Vogue revealed, via a special digital cover, that it was given exclusive access to lavishly photograph the event; as it turned out, it took pictures days before the actual wedding.

Bloomberg White House correspondent Katie Rogers reacted to Vogue’s reveal by citing a Nov. 18 quote from White House press secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre, who said that the wedding would be a private family event.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-whi ... lled-liars

[The Green Barbarian]

[The Green Barbarian]

Senile flatulent Joe hit 80 years old the other day. Did anyone hear about this? No?? Surprised???