Joe Biden

[pipbarber]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rio-grande

Trump must be furious, that was his policy! As was/is, ignoring indigenous people and disregarding environmental welfare.

We needed a thread on Biden, a perfect place to start.

[stevebrooks]

The story is that it's like Afghanistan, a policy by the previous administration that the current administration is required to follow by law, once the money was allocated by the Trump administration it must be used for its allocated purpose unless rescinded by congress, but they can blame the next guy and use it to attack him anyway so it's all good.

Mayorkas said the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made earlier in the year. "We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law," he said.

So since congress is a dysfunctional mess with Republicans being a mob of idiots they are required to follow the law and use the money where it says it has to be used unfortunately. Could Biden stop this? I don't know, I suspect it's taken this long to come out because they were trying to delay doing it as long as possible in the hopes they could get congress into line.

One of Biden's first actions after taking office in January 2021 was to issue a proclamation pledging that "no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall" as well as a review of all resources that had already been committed.

The administration said Thursday's action did not deviate from Biden's proclamation because money that was allocated during Trump's term in 2019 had to be spent now.

So they should really be blaming Trump and the Repub's in congress for this.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-bui ... 023-10-05/

[pipbarber]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ing-states

They have to make the call. He cannot run. Anytime before the end of the year, perhaps? He should give the field air during 2024 and just stand back and watch and maybe someone will emerge who might be able to do something to mitigate what looks like an inevitable train wreck of a nation, which would likely precipitate a collapse of the global system....so, no pressure then Joe, but your time is up.

[stylofone]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ing-states

They have to make the call. He cannot run. Anytime before the end of the year, perhaps? He should give the field air during 2024 and just stand back and watch and maybe someone will emerge who might be able to do something to mitigate what looks like an inevitable train wreck of a nation, which would likely precipitate a collapse of the global system....so, no pressure then Joe, but your time is up.

The implication from the David Axelrod comments is that Biden has the power. At this stage there's no "they" to make the call. Biden has to be persuaded to step aside himself.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1jtoUW

[stevebrooks]

Going all out now. A bank, yes an industry that probably hates Biden and the democrats for increased regulation that holds them accountable and loves Trump because he removes regulations and lets them go broke and then bails them out, is predicting that Biden will drop out of the race for the WH due to ill health.

Joe Biden will drop out of the 2024 presidential race, a top JPMorgan strategist says.

The prediction is among ‘ten surprises’ contained in Michael Cembalest’s ‘Eye on the Market | Outlook 2024’ report.

President Biden will withdraw sometime between Super Tuesday (the day when many US states hold primary elections) and the November election, according to Mr Cembalest, who is the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management.

So a financial strategist, who as far as I can tell has no medical training, is predicting Biden will fall ill and exit the race for the WH? How can anyone not see this as an attempt to throw doubt on the electoral race and try and paint a negative view of Biden to voters. As in, "look he's not serious, you get behind Biden and you have no idea who you might end up with!" No comment on how much Trump's health, both mental and physical seem to be deteriorating? So transparently political it's not even hiding itself!

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/le ... a2ea5e366f

[pipbarber]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -questions

Oh dear. This was always going to be the big problem. Small, irrelevant news in the media consumption for most of us around here but i can only imagine what Fox and murdoch's stable generally, along with cnn and social media platforms are doing with this.

Can you imagine the potential train wreck of a debate?

[stevebrooks]

Yep, Trump calling Orban leader of Turkey and Biden mistaking dead people for living people, guess which one would get the most airtime?

[pipbarber]

Truly, that first debate will be something to behold!

[stylofone]

[Disclaimer: the reason I say anything against Biden is that it is imperative that Trump is defeated.]

This could be the moment the Democratic Party realises its arse is on fire, and the flames are spreading. How bad the blaze is will be determined by the reaction to the age question in coming weeks. I see several issues: the first is competency, is his fading brain up to it? The second is fragility, men his age get sick and die all the time. The third is the rot of gerontocracy. Young people are simply not allowed to participate in society in so many ways, and it's getting worse. All of this applies to Trump too, but it seems to be hurting Biden worse. Trump has always been cognitively inferior, but it doesn't seem to affect him in the same way it does Biden. Stupidity is a key part of the Trump brand.

The long-shot Democratic primary challenger Dean Phillips, who is campaigning against Biden, said Hur’s report had “all but handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ts-respond

[stylofone]

Politico thrashes it out a bit more, while examining silly MAGA conspiracy theories.

Biden does often look and sound so enfeebled it’s hard to believe that a political party would really be pinning all its hopes — including purportedly saving American democracy — on him. In the latest NBC News poll, 76 percent of voters have concerns about whether Biden has the requisite mental and physical health to be president for a second term — a threshold question of fitness that wasn’t there in 2020.

If anything, those numbers could go up.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... p-00140209