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Discussion > President-elect Biden

C'mon man

Jan 27, 2021 at 4:40 AM | Unregistered Commenter.
Jan 27, 2021 at 4:42 AM | Unregistered Commenter.

"the press can’t really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want,”

White House Correspondents Association

Feb 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM | Registered Commentertomo
Feb 7, 2021 at 9:17 PM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

I'm seeing things about Biden getting booed at the Superbowl....

- that's gonna make his motley crew even more antsy...

Feb 10, 2021 at 4:19 PM | Registered Commentertomo

That is serious. If a proportion of the US population no longer have respect for the office and will boo the current incumbent, how long before nutters reason that Biden needs to be assassinated?

Feb 10, 2021 at 5:33 PM | Unregistered CommenterAK

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-jill-biden-booed-super-bowl/

Feb 10, 2021 at 6:19 PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil Clarke

AK

quite surprising that DJT wasn't ... of wait, Kathy Griffin etc., etc... reap/sow etcetera

Clarky

WGAF about Snopes? It used to be handy... now diluted by rather too much partisan meddling - but woo-hoo - booing Biden is #Number1. Seems a lot of people are talking about boo-ing Biden.....

Feb 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM | Registered Commentertomo

"I am seeing reports that" = "I am hearing that" = Almost certainly never happened. LOL.

Feb 10, 2021 at 7:00 PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil Clarke

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

Yellen says that “China is clearly our most important strategic competitor.” But the pro-China oligarchy is not competing with the country from which it draws its wealth, power, and prestige. Chinese autocracy is their model. Consider the deployment of more than 20,000 U.S. armed forces members throughout Washington, D.C., to provide security for an inauguration of a president who is rarely seen in public in the wake of a sporadically violent protest march that was cast as an insurrection and a coup; the removal of opposition voices from social media, along with the removal of competing social media platforms themselves; the nascent effort to keep the Trump-supporting half of America from access to health care, credit, legal representation, education, and employment, with the ultimate goal of redefining protest against the policies of the current administration as “domestic terrorism.”

What seems clear is that Biden’s inauguration marks the hegemony of an American oligarchy that sees its relationship with China as a shield and sword against their own countrymen. Like Athens’ Thirty Tyrants, they are not simply contemptuous of a political system that recognizes the natural rights of all its citizens that are endowed by our creator; they despise in particular the notion that those they rule have the same rights they do. Witness their newfound respect for the idea that speech should only be free for the enlightened few who know how to use it properly. Like Critias and the pro-Sparta faction, the new American oligarchy believes that democracy’s failures are proof of their own exclusive right to power—and they are happy to rule in partnership with a foreign power that will help them destroy their own countrymen.

What does history teach us about this moment? The bad news is that the Thirty Tyrants exiled notable Athenian democrats and confiscated their property while murdering an estimated 5% of the Athenian population. The good news is that their rule lasted less than a year.

Feb 11, 2021 at 3:32 AM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

Clarky - erm.... how's it topping the Snopes charts then?

btw - it came up briefly on Google and DDG news searches

Feb 11, 2021 at 11:05 AM | Registered Commentertomo

"I am seeing reports that", "I am hearing that", No link to an actual news organisation, "it came up on Google"

Still = it almost certainly never happened.

Hint: Not everything posted on the internet is true.

Feb 11, 2021 at 11:23 PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil Clarke

"Hint: Not everything posted on the internet is true"

And yet you keep posting on the internet....

Feb 12, 2021 at 4:01 AM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

48 hours at the top! - way to go

Feb 12, 2021 at 7:26 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Snopes channelling @TheBabylonBee

Feb 12, 2021 at 10:03 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Tomo is not a fan of fact checking.

Anyone surprised?

Case in point

Feb 13, 2021 at 12:08 AM | Unregistered CommenterPhil Clarke

Back in the day when The Darwin Awards were a novelty, Snopes had some integrity - that was a long time ago.

As far as the WHO is concerned - they don't seem to be made of the same stuff as Carlo Urbano these days?

Feb 13, 2021 at 1:13 AM | Registered Commentertomo

Carlo Urbani

The text checkers on phones are getting worse, I swear.

Feb 13, 2021 at 1:32 AM | Registered Commentertomo

That is serious. If a proportion of the US population no longer have respect for the office and will boo the current incumbent, how long before nutters reason that Biden needs to be assassinated?

https://imgix.pedestrian.tv/content/uploads/2017/05/72ba6215-271e-4f7e-8158-7752308f8bfa-griffin2-619-386.png

Feb 13, 2021 at 1:36 AM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

But, but, but you disdain the fact checkers (no evidence, obvs) at Snopes but you give the anonymous tin foil hatters at Zero Hedge a free pass?

Oh dear.

Feb 13, 2021 at 1:43 AM | Unregistered CommenterPhil Clarke

The Guardian knives are out for Andrew Cuomo

Seems likely that California's Gavin Newsome has (iirc) cleared the bar for recall.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has a bit of a wobble on.

Joe's just settling in....

Feb 13, 2021 at 5:22 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Joe's playing Mario Cart apparently before dropping another log on the fire for his afternoon nap?

however ..

then there's this video - which is sad, very sad

Feb 16, 2021 at 3:06 PM | Unregistered Commenter.