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Average JOE Biden
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[h1]Bidens Revolution Takes Shape[/h1] [h3][b]If you ever believed he would govern like Obama, it’s time to rethink.[/b][/h3] [link=https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/bidens-revolution-takes-shape?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTM1MDIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjMzNjI1MDU2LCJfIjoiWFhadSsiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTU1NzczNDUsImV4cCI6MTYxNTU4MDk0NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rShOu0ruq4T_0sLRP1BrIEiQBJHM1hbVgX0yUZ_xBps]Andrew Sullivan[/link]:
This seems to me to be a sea-change in American history and politics, greater than any since the 1970s. The most centrist candidate the Democrats put forward in early 2020 has, in his first fifty days, become the most radically progressive president since LBJ.
The Covid-19 plague, in other words, has done [link=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/coronavirus-pandemic-plagues-history.html]what many others have in history[/link]. By shaking the society up in so many ways, by suspending it in mid-air while forcing the population into mass and fearful isolation, by shattering so many familiar patterns, it has blown the future wide open.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-is-leading-a-quiet-revolution/2021/03/10/bd31e9f4-81e6-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html]https://www.washingtonpos…4e187ee4939_story.html[/link]EJ Dionne: [b]Biden is Leading A Quiet Revolution[/b]
Forty years ago, the victory of Reagans tax cut plan inaugurated [link=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/12/08/what-we-learned-from-reagans-tax-cuts/]a new ideological era[/link], its core conviction summarized by a line in [link=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/reagan1.asp]Reagans inaugural address[/link] that conservatives of a certain age can recite in their sleep: In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
Passage of the Biden plan reflects the triumph of precisely the opposite view: that only active and competent government can get us out of the mess were in now. The willingness of Democrats to speed through a program of this size reflects the final shrugging off of Reagan-era constraints that made even liberal politicians gun-shy about government activism.
The shift away from top-down supply-side economics could not be more dramatic. The Reagan theory, reduced to its essence, was: Help the rich, and their investments will produce jobs and prosperity for everyone else. The Biden theory is bottom-up: Help middle-class and low-income Americans, and their purchasing power will drive an unprecedented era of growth.[/QUOTE]
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Helping the 3% by siphoning up money from most of the country’s GDP helps the poor so the 3% can hire more gardeners and carpenters and “associates” etc to trickle down prosperity to everyone.
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[h1]Prosperity Over Vengeance[/h1] [b]The future of American democracy depends on Joe Bidens ability to show that even when the Republican Party loses, Americans who vote Republican do not.[/b]
[link=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/biden-chose-prosperity-over-vengeance/618279/]Adam Serwer[/link]:The Trump administration moved quickly, if not always efficiently, toward its paramount goal of punishing Democratic-leaning constituencies. Early in his administration, Trump banned travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, barred federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities, and sought to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were in the U.S. on temporary protected status. Almost all of his accomplishments were punitive. He failed to secure passage of an infrastructure or health-care bill; his biggest legislative victory was a tax cut that, despite his purported populism, was more regressive than those signed by President George W. Bush. He began his [link=https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/donald-trump-i-will-be-the-greatest-jobs-president-god-ever-created]campaign by promising[/link] to be the best jobs president god ever created and ended his term with the worst jobs [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/final-jobs-report-election-day-shows-just-661-000-positions-n1241779]record since Herbert Hoovers[/link].
[b]Trump was not a successful president. But as a form of punishment, he was everything conservatives dreamed of, and they loved him for it.[/b]Whereas Trump entered office and immediately sought to use the power of the state to crush the rival partys constituencies, Biden and the Democratic Party will be deploying that same power to ensure that Americans, regardless of partisan affiliation, will receive the necessary vaccines to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and have enough money to feed their families, stay in their homes, and keep their businesses afloat. The passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 symbolizes more than an ideological divergence on public policy; it reflects a radically different theory of governance. The Democrats are no saints, but theyve come to believe that both the viability of their party and the sustainability of American democracy depend on their capacity to broaden their appeal to right-leaning voters. Trump wanted to punish his enemies; Biden must convince Trump supporters that he is not their enemy. Defeating Trump was but a battle; defeating Trumpism is the war.
Trump and his nationaliststhe [link=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/ahmari-french-orban/591697/]religious integralists[/link] who pine for the social mores and hierarchies of the 1950s; the immigration restrictionists who [link=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/stephen-miller-alarming-emails/602242/]want to engineer a whiter America[/link]; the self-styled populists who imagine splitting the Democrats base through [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/22/stephen-bannon-has-a-grand-plan-to-secure-trumpisms-future-will-democrats-cooperate/]trade and infrastructure[/link]had four years to deliver prosperity to the struggling communities they pledged to represent. They failed miserably, because they cared more about hurting and humiliating their opponents than they did about keeping their promises. All they ultimately had to offer was the anguish of the Democratic constituencies they sought to punish, [link=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/trump-tax-plan-benefit-rich/541584/]and tax cuts for the rich[/link]. The libs were not owned, and the swamp was not drained. Of the Republican ambitions at the dawn of the Trump era, what remains is a cult of personality devoted to a vain tax cheat who cannot conceive of human beings acting on anything but their basest, most selfish impulses.
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[h1]Boring Biden a Disaster for Talk Radio[/h1]
Conservative radio host Dan Bongino, who will be replacing Rush Limbaugh, told [link=https://www.businessinsider.com/dan-bongino-joe-biden-boring-a-challenge-2021-3]Insider[/link] that President Biden a disaster for talk radio because he is just boring.
Said Bongino: Biden, not only do I think is a terrible president in these last few months, its just terrible for talk radio. I think Biden is a disaster for the country and his ideas are an atrocity. But hes boring. Hes just boring.
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[link=https://www.axios.com/biden-filibuster-agenda-history-05be3812-6ee0-414b-ae71-b6dfa37d8df4.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter]https://www.axios.com/bid…amp;utm_source=twitter[/link]
[h1]Biden’s New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly[/h1]
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big and how fast is too fast to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.. The historians views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a [link=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-3-trillion-infrastructure-fbf6fcb8ca51ab5b4b45b5318046e831]$5 trillion-plus[/link] overhaul of America, and vast changes to voting, immigration and inequality.
[ol][*][b]He has full party control [/b]of Congress, and a short window to go big.[*][b]He has party activists[/b] egging him on.[*][b]He has strong[/b] gathering economic winds at his back.[*][b]And hes popular[/b] in polls. [/ol] …People close to Biden tell us hes feeling bullish on what he can accomplish, and is fully prepared to support the dashing of the Senates filibuster rule to allow Democrats to pass voting rights and other trophy legislation for his party.
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[h1][b]Bidens First News Conference Will Test His Discipline[/b][/h1]
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-news-conference-gaffes/2021/03/25/5580e840-8ca5-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html]Washington Post[/link]: Biden has surprised many longtime associates with the discipline and conciseness of his communications as president during his first two months in office. Thursdays session will test whether Biden truly has grown more scripted, or whether the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic and the tight controls on the presidency just make it seem that way.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/politics/biden-press-conference-preparation/index.html]CNN[/link]: Biden has been getting ready for days to face the White House press corps, according to multiple people, who all conclude he recognizes the bright spotlight it will garner. Biden has talked his strategy through with several members of his inner circle and even held an informal practice session earlier this week.
[link=http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/647556374/0/usatodaycomwashington-topstories~President-Joe-Biden-is-holding-first-press-conference-Heres-what-he-may-get-asked/]USA Today[/link]: Here’s what Biden May be asked.
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They really need to make that extra-strength prevagen they shoot him up with available to the general public.
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Still playing that losing dementia card ehhh
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Quote from Chirorad84
Still playing that losing dementia card ehhh
I think Republicans are still doing Biden a favor by setting the bar so low.
If he gets up there and survives without a major gaffe or drooling, it’s a win.
I don’t understand the strategy.-
The strategy is simple as you can read in some posters’ comments, they do not like Biden and Democrats so the bias remains regardless of what is reality. And consider how many people are consumers of right-wing media which would never present a neutral stance on Biden and Democrats and in fact leave out entirely any presentation showing Biden as not drooling and you have your strategy. If you do not see or hear any evidence of Biden’s non-dementia but hear about it constantly directly or inferred, it is what you believe.
As we have been taught by master propagandists, repeat the lies often enough & they become the truth; present the truth to those who want to believe the lies and they will fall back deeper into the lies rather than reconsider their beliefs as being dead wrong. It is basically how Trump and all of his lies has become their leader and their truth.-
The strategy is simple as you can read in some posters’ comments, they did not like[strike] Biden[/strike] Trump (they can’t stop talking about him so they can distract from poor demented Joe) and [strike]Democrats[/strike] GOP so the bias remains regardless of what is reality. And consider how many people are consumers of [strike]right[/strike]- left wing media which would never present a neutral stance on [strike]Biden[/strike] Trump and [strike]Democrats [/strike] GOP and in fact leave out entirely any presentation showing [strike]Biden[/strike] Trump [strike]as not drooling[/strike] in a positive way and you have your strategy. If you do not see or hear any evidence of [strike]Biden’s non-dementia[/strike] Trumps policies in a positive manner but hear about it constantly directly or inferred, it is what you believe.
As we have been taught by master propagandists (like the dems constant spinning race into every issue), repeat the lies often enough & they become the truth; present the truth to those who want to believe the lies and they will fall back deeper into the lies rather than reconsider their beliefs as being dead wrong. It is basically how [strike]Trump[/strike] Biden and all of his lies has become their leader and their truth.
It plays the same both ways and to claim otherwise is intellectually dishonest. All you have to do is change the name.
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The trumpers have nothing left by conspiracy and anger
Im still shocked at what happen to Republican Party
They stand for nothing but guns and conspiracy
I never would have believed this 5 years ago
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Im still shocked at what happen to [strike]Republican [/strike] Democratic Party
They stand for nothing but [strike]guns [/strike] using racism as propaganda and [strike]conspiracy[/strike] collusion delusion.
It plays the same both ways.
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Democrats stand for
Voting rights
Infrastructure
Clean energy
Education
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Why arent the kids back in school? Science?
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[link=https://messagebox.substack.com/p/fewer-press-conferences-more-ads?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTM1MDIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjM0NDM1NDM5LCJfIjoidk5ZVlciLCJpYXQiOjE2MTcwMTY3MzQsImV4cCI6MTYxNzAyMDMzNCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTY1MDI2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.LFToMQliPq9fePIFhrKL4b6MMKd54RmgH9mwVLbKkZI]Dan Pfeiffer[/link] (Former Obama Communications Advisor) –
[h1]Fewer Press Conferences, More Ads[/h1] [h3]Biden’s recent presser was a textbook example of why the traditional media is a terrible way to get the message out[/h3]
Yesterdays press conference highlighted the challenge of press conferences and press coverage in selling the American Rescue Plan. Biden took questions for about an hour, but none of the questions were about the pandemic, vaccines, or the American Rescue Plan. Honestly, it is shocking there were no questions on the biggest issue facing the country in decades, but there were a couple of questions asked about Bidens plans for 2024.
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I can promise you that if Biden were failing to meet (as opposed to exceeding) his vaccination goals, the topic would have dominated the event. This dynamic is not unique to the press conference. Biden, Vice President Harris, and an array of cabinet secretaries will spend the next several months touring the country touting the American Rescue Plan. While those events will certainly receive valuable local coverage, the White House Press Corps will give these events scant coverage. If Biden takes questions from the media at these American Rescue Plan events, the questions will be about other topics. With each day, the passage of the American Rescue Plan fades further into the past, and more of the media moves onto the next crisis du jour.
Utilizing the media as the primary communication vehicle means the success or failure of our political strategy depends on the whims of news executives who do not share our interests.
Think of it this way. Our message is the product, and the voters are the customers. A business would never entrust the distribution of its product to a competitor. Yet, thats exactly what Democrats do when they rely on the [i]New York Times[/i] and others to tell voters about our accomplishments and agenda.
…In the long run, the only way to solve our problem and compete with the Right is to build up a robust progressive media ecosystem. Much good work has been done on this front, but we are still very far behind. In the meantime, Democrats need to supplement their earned media efforts with paid advertising. The great news is that an array of Democratic groups are doing exactly that as part of the effort to sell the American Rescue Plan.
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[b]”I can’t find my mask! I can’t find my mask. Where’s my mask?” [/b]Right there on display for the world to see the leader of the free world in full panic mode over a mask. And the kicker is he was outside. I thought falling up the stairs 3x was bad especially after he made fun of Trump on the ramp.
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Is that all you got?
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[h1]Inside Bidens Private Chat with Historians and his ‘New Deal’ Mentality[/h1]
[link=https://www.axios.com/biden-historians-meeting-filibuster-0a7d726c-4041-405f-a3ac-c31550c590bc.html]Axios[/link]:The chatty, two-hour-plus meeting is a for-the-history-books marker of the think-big, go-big mentality that pervades his West Wing.
Bidens presidency has already been transformative, and he has many more giant plans teed up that could make [link=https://www.axios.com/biden-filibuster-agenda-history-05be3812-6ee0-414b-ae71-b6dfa37d8df4.html]Bidens New Deal[/link] the biggest change to governance in our lifetimes.
Afterward, Biden told an aide: I could have gone another two hours.[/QUOTE]
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Biden holds first press conference of presidency; SNL writers regret voting for him.
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Biden: “My plan is to run for reelection. Thats my expectation.”
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Still playing that losing dementia card ehhh
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[h2][link=https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/25/reaction-to-bidens-first-news-conference/]Reaction to Bidens First News Conference[/link][/h2]
David Jonas:[ul][*]For all the talk about Bidens shortcomings in public speaking and communicating effectively, he comes off as genuine, which is probably all that really matters. He takes his time, he tries to answer the questions hes been asked, and he doesnt rely on talking points. It works. [/ul]
[ul][*]In general, Biden is very confident on where he stands on major issues. Even talented politicians often revert into hiding or speaking in code when pressed. Biden avoids that and just searches for the words to express his convictions.[*]Biden continued to press that bipartisanship means being in step with Republican voters and not Congressional Republicans. Again, I think it works.[*]As a former Congressional staffer, I remember well when I thought my boss did a good or a bad job in a big hearing. If Biden were my boss, Id be thrilled with how he performed. [/ul] Summary: Biden does well in this format, but its also easy to see why Bidens team would want to limit these. Very few of Bidens best qualities and good answers make it through the cut-and-paste ringer of modern media. I do hope he does more of theseit shows hes connected to the pressing issues of the day.
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“Successful electoral politics is the art of the possible” ~ Joe Biden
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[h1]Bidens Eye-On-The-Prize Strategy[/h1]
President Biden revealed in vivid display this week the thinking animating his 100-day plan: Do not allow outside events to take his eye off the make-or-break imperatives of virus eradication and economic growth, [link=https://www.axios.com/biden-press-conference-strategy-d1843e3a-eb21-4581-ac08-a0c3522de0cf.html]Axios[/link] reports.
Said Biden: Successful presidents better than me have been successful, in large part, because they know how to time what theyre doing order it, decide and prioritize what needs to be done.
[link=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/03/26/the-most-important-sentence-from-bidens-presser-492258?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318]Playbook[/link]: Over and over in the East Room, the president made it clear Thursday that hes in control of the timing of his legislative priorities and that he would not allow events to overtake his plans. Guns, immigration, voting rights, filibuster reform the big issues that have intervened recently and that dominated questioning by reporters would have to wait.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/25/bidens-news-conference-was-pretty-boring-thats-just-fine/]Gary Abernathy[/link]: The most impressive revelation on Thursday from President Bidens first news conference was that he has a plan and he intends to stick with it.
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[link=https://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/545960-watch-live-biden-holds-first-cabinet-meeting]https://thehill.com/video…-first-cabinet-meeting[/link]
[b]Biden holds first Cabinet meeting[/b][/h1]
Is the part where they all go around in a circle and thank the lord for how blessed they are to serve a genius like Joe Biden?
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Hes a first-rate person. Nevertheless, this is a bold left-wing administration. I dont think they have a mandate to do what they are doing.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, quoted by [link=https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1377661951543762945]Politico[/link], describing his thoughts on President Bidens agenda.when Mitch sees no benefit in attacking Joe, you know he’s just not a good target for the hate.
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/business/biden-corporate-tax-increases.html]New York Times
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[h1][b]The Biden administration seeks to raise $2.5 trillion through corporate tax increases.[/b][/h1]The plan, if enacted, would raise $2.5 trillion in revenue over 15 years. It would do so by ushering in major changes for American companies, which have long embraced quirks in the tax code that allowed them to lower or [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/business/economy/zero-corporate-tax.html]eliminate their tax liability[/link], often by shifting profits overseas. The plan also includes efforts to help combat climate change, proposing to replace fossil fuel subsidies with tax incentives that promote clean energy production.
The plan, announced by the Treasury Department, would raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent. The administration said the increase would bring Americas corporate tax rate more closely in line with other advanced economies and reduce inequality. It would also remain lower than it was before the 2017 Trump tax cuts, when the rate stood at 35 percent.
The White House also proposed significant changes to several international tax provisions included in the Trump tax cuts, which the Biden administration described in the report as policies that put America last by benefiting foreigners. Among the biggest change would be a doubling of the de facto [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/business/raising-taxes-corporations.html]global minimum tax[/link] to 21 percent and toughening it, to force companies to pay the tax on a wider span of income across countries.The plan would also repeal provisions put in place during the Trump administration that the Biden administration says have failed to curb profit shifting and corporate inversions, which involve an American company merging with a foreign firm and becoming its subsidiary, effectively moving its headquarters abroad for tax purposes. It would replace them with tougher anti-inversion rules and stronger penalties for so-called profit stripping.
The plan is not entirely focused on the international side of the corporate tax code. It tries to crack down on large, profitable companies that pay little or no income taxes yet signal large profits with their book value. To cut down on that disparity, companies would have to pay a minimum tax of 15 percent on book income, which businesses report to investors and which are often used to judge shareholder and executive payouts.[/QUOTE]
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I’d like to see them tool up the cruise industry who all wanted bailout but sail under Caribbean flags.
