Well…Joe, Joe, Joe…..I know you remember the bipartisanship from your time in the senate a long time ago, but are you listening to these assholes who you are trying to do a deal with? To start, turtle mcconnell has stated bluntly that his entire job is to make sure you are not successful and that any bill that will help the American people will be blocked and the tax cuts for the rich are set in stone and will not be touched…some bipartisanship, huh? Yesterday, after the idiot mccarthy walked out of the meeting you held to try to find common ground, he scurried right to the microphones and called you “corrupt Joe Biden” and promised that he would not even try to help the American people….so more bipartisanship? Look, Joe…these guys have shown you for years and years that they will never buy into anything that you are proposing so just leave them behind…your bigger problem is to get Manchin and Sinema to stop covering for ole mitch and start acting like dems…that is your real problem and is something you need to deal with and right now…or you can kiss your very popular agenda goodbye…get after it…
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Foreign policy takes center stage…
Well…wow, lots of stuff to talk about on the foreign policy stage today and after the chaos of the past 4 years, we have a coherent policy taking shape that will start to restore our standing in the world. First, and something that went basically unnoticed when it was announced two weeks ago, the US is entering back into talks with Iran on their nuclear program that was discarded by the idiot trump and that lead to Iran advancing it’s uranium enrichment that has been stopped under the agreement negotiated by damn near all of the world that trump crapped all over…now, it’s going to be slow going since no one in the world trusts us anymore after the incompetence of trump and his cronies but at least diplomacy is back and is retaking it’s rightful place in foreign policy. Second, Joe has done what I have advocated for years…he is getting us out of Afghanistan in September after 20 long years of losing our soldiers to a war that has no reason for being other than to enrich defense companies…I know the hawks out there are wringing their hands about it but nothing we can do will change the outcome there…so let’s declare victory and go home. Third, and the coolest thing yet is the announcement of stiff sanctions on Russia, Putin, and his oligarch cronies for their interference in our elections and the hacking of most of the US government last year…and hey, let’s contrast that to the previous guy who had the same information from the intelligence agencies and didn’t do a damn thing since he just loved him some Putin. Joe even went farther than expected when he tied Paul Manafort to Konstantin Kilimnik and stated that Manafort gave information to Kilimnik who then gave it to Russia and it’s intelligence agencies to allow them to micro target our election and install the idiot trump….so, and I know we knew this before, there was collusion between the trump campaign and Russia that got trump elected…and no matter how many times trump chants “no collusion” the truth is the truth…and I hope these sanctions crash the Russian economy and stirs a revolt against the murderer Putin….it is so cool that we finally have someone with backbone as president who will look out for the country and not just himself…go Joe…
Mitch is not too smart…
Well…with the revelation of Joe’s infrastructure plan that would spend another 3 trillion dollars to fix everything that the repubs have left go to rot to give tax breaks to the rich, it appears that old mitch mcconnell is not the master tactician that he has been said to be…just the other day, old mitch came out and gauranteed that not one repub would vote for the bill in the senate…I don’t think that is the smartest thing he could have done; giving away his tactics and freeing up Joe to just ignore everything that mitch has to say and taking his case directly to the American people….after all the bill is pretty popular with both dems and repubs that are not in congress and the thing they like the most is having the rich and corporations pay for it. Again, I have to ask..”who the hell are repubs representing anymore?” It sure isn’t their constituents in the polls that have been done since more than half of the repubs want this bill to go through…and who can be against fixing the crappy roads, bridges, and everythnig else? I know the repubs are against it because they have been told to be by their corporate masters but corporations don’t vote and the way the repubs are pissing them off with their voter suppression bills across the country, the dollars could be drying up just as they have started to in Georgia….and Texas is next. I don’t think the repubs have realized that times have changed and the dems have changed…we are not going to believe the stalling and lies anymore and we’ll go on without them if we have to…and it’s about damn time….
Joe has a spine…
Well…as time goes on, I am getting happier with Joe and how he’s handling the presidency….after repairing the broken vaccine system that the idiot trump left him and getting almost 150 million shots in arms by today, and then going big on the covid recovery plan to the tune of 1.9 trillion dollars ( that I still haven’t seen a dime of by the way) and now starting to work on infrastructure that has been ignored since the moronic tax cutting that started with Reagan, Joe is showing a spine behind that smile…especially when it comes to trying to get the repubs to come along and help with getting this country going again….I wonder why they are still trying to play by the obstruction playbook when the entire country wants to get things going, including almost 60% of repubs? Just the other day, Joe made the point to them that they could do something good for the country by working with him to repair the crumbling roads, bridges and electrical grid…along with helping more people who are struggling with child care and the new normal of working from home that requires high speed internet everywhere across the country….or he will do it with just the dems so get off your hands and pitch in in that folksy way that you just can’t get mad at…although the repubs are doing their best to do just that, playing to their ever shrinking base. It’s pretty damn nice that we have a functioning government again with competent people running it….but the repubs will never admit that….they are just too stupid or cynical to get onboard…geez…
Government that works again…
Well….I don’t want to gush about Joe and the changes he is bringing to almost everyone’s lives here in the US, but damn, after 4 years of bullshit lies and feeding all the money to the rich, it feels good that we have someone on our side again….and finally, the dems are bulldozing the repubs for a change and it is for the people, not for the rich. I mean the recovery act is forecast to cut childhood poverty by 50%…I can’t remember when a piece of legislation did something so well for the people who need it…and the cool thing is that the dems are not apologizing for it but are owning it and the repubs don’t know how to act with over 70% of the people supporting it….I think ole moscow mitch made a huge mistake by not allowing any senator to vote for it just as the idiot McCarthy did in the House….how do they explain voting against help for Americans? The media has even started to tear into the repubs when they whine about the “exploding” deficit by reminding them that in just 4 years of trump, the repubs added over 7 trillion dollars to the national debt and they never once bitched about it….so let’s get to work on HR1 to protect the vote in the entire country from repub voter suppression…and if it means getting ride of the filibuster, then just do it and take away the only thing that gets any repub elected…go Joe…
A president for all Americans…
Well…damn, it feels good to have a president for all Americans again and who doesn’t think people in states that didn’t vote for him can just go to hell. Just today, Joe Biden authorized emergency fund for the state of Texas that is getting battered by the worst snow storm there in the past century…2.5 million people are without power and travel has essentially halted since they don’t have the type of equipment that we in the snow belt states have…and they really shouldn’t have it for a once in a century event. Here’s the thing, Texas is part of the US and Joe understands that and it was one of his best campaign slogans that he would be president for the whole country…and he is not “thinking” about getting them aid or putting conditions on it like the idiot boy did for states that didn’t vote for him…nope, it’s just all hands on deck with FEMA taking control of the relief efforts and Joe pouring in whatever is necessary to help our fellow Americans….just as it should be. This is what a real president looks and acts like…no bitching, no bluster, just getting to work to help people…it’s just a damn shame that the folks in Texas will still hate all dems no matter what happens or how much is done for them…we’ll still know what a real president is and be thankful that Joe is in charge…
Humanity is back in the WH…
Well….I don’t mean to gush about the Bidens but damn, it’s nice to have humanity and decency back in the WH…just this morning when there was a photo op with Joe and Jill talking about Valentine’s day…one of the reporters shouted out that she would bring donuts if they would come back out to talk next Friday, too…and Joe noticed that the reporter didn’t have any coffee on a cold day in DC…so Joe walked over to her and told her he hadn’t had a sip of his coffee and handed it to her…telling her that next week they would have enough for everyone….that goodness and humanity is just who Joe is and it is such a great thing to see after 4 years of trump being an asshole to the press…Joe understands they have a job to do and if he’s honest with them, they will be fair to him…and to see the press treated as equals is such a return to normalcy that even that little thing of giving the reporter his coffee seems like a really big deal….keep at it Joe….
They passed it….
Well…just sitting here under a blanket trying to warm up after working on the snow for over an hour and thought I’d talk about the damn miracle that happened this morning in the senate…Joe’s 1.9 trillion dollar covid relief package passed with, of course, no repub support with Kamala casting the vote that broke the tie…it is now over in the house and should be approved later today for a signature by the first of the week. Unlike the 2008 stimulus that was way too small according to every economist who is not a right wing hack…Biden learned that lesson and just ignored the bleating of the repubs who are crying about the deficit…and they only do that when there is a dem president…you heard not one peep from them about the deficit when they passed their tax giveaway to the rich and corporations that added at least 1.9 trillion to the debt….and that wasn’t needed in an economy that was still good after Obama did all of the heavy lifting after the 2008 crash. Now, this relief package is necessary again to lift the economy and give people at least some money to pay their rent and continue to eat….and to my mind, this should just be the start of other targeted economic boosts that should continue until the pandemic is under control…people are hurting out there and we can afford to help them….and me, I hope…
Back to politics…
Well…I think Joe has learned that you can’t negotiate with the repubs since everything they do is in bad faith and you can’t trust them. In the latest covid relief plan, the repubs tried to cut out all help for state and local governments, cut extended unemployment benefits and make the next relief checks, that I won’t get, only a couple of hundred dollars when people are losing their homes and hunger is at an all time high in this country…but that is normal repub crap since they don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich. So Joe just said nope and he has asked Schumer and Pelosi to go it alone and pass his 1.9 trillion dollar package without any repub help or input…and the normal whining has started from the repubs that there has never been anything this big passed by only one party…hey, morons, what about the 1.8 trillion dollar tax cuts that you guys passed without any dem support? I find it heartening that Joe has leaned to play hardball with almost 70% of the country supporting what he is trying to do…and no thought about the politics of it….just doing what’s right…keep it up….
Too much good stuff going on in politics…
Well…do you hear that? It’s the quiet sound of competence that Joe is bringing to all parts of the of the government…no fanfare, no boasting, no fighting, no name calling and guess what? Over 70% of the country likes what he’s doing and that even includes a lot of repubs that haven’t drunk the qanon koolaid….now, how long will that last? Who knows but one thing that I am a little pissed about is the damn MSM like the NYT who are questioning the use of executive orders to reverse the damage that idiot boy did with his…saying he is using them too much…look, Joe has been in office for 9 days and they are already bitching? Especially for protecting the DACA young adults who just want to have some stability in their lives and to know that ICE is not going to show up at their college and put them on a plane to a country they have never been to? All of the things Joe has done with EO’s have to been to root out the racist and homophobic bullshit that trump was doing with them and protecting Americans from discrimination like the ban on trans people serving in the military. Gee, I guess it’s hard for the media to understand that what Joe is doing is what the people want done, not just the rich or corporations…what the people want…now that’s a strange concept that the media just doesn’t understand….