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Menendez Case Focuses on How Qatar Trades Its Riches for Clout
The tiny Gulf state has cultivated relationships with powerful people and institutions to raise its global profile, and to protect its interests.
How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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Just more proof that GOP doesn't care about governing, they just want power and to make the Dems look bad.
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Hiring in December blew past economist expectations. Here’s what it means — ABC News
Hiring accelerated in December, defying the Fed's effort to slow the economy.
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Gas $3 a gallon btw despite all the crazy shyt happening in the world
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U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business.
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U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business.www.nytimes.com
Why they not suing them for not paying taxes tho???
Maybe if you voted they’d give you an answerWhy they not suing them for not paying taxes tho???
let men beat the shyt out of women, jack
Yeah, you’re definitely into trannies. 
none of you actually agree with letting biological men box women, and yet you can't just admit the dems are wrong. on one issueYeah, you’re definitely into trannies.
it's like an inverse version of owning the libs
the psychology is fascinating
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They share a podium — and a mutual frustration. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the National Security Council's John Kirby frequently split the podium at media briefings, but behind the scenes their relationship is fraught with tension, White House sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: As President Biden heads into a tough re-election campaign, his top-ranking spokespeople are at odds while navigating a situation in which there's one press secretary in name but two in practice — one for domestic policy, the other for foreign policy.
Zoom in: Some of the tension stems from how much time each gets at the podium each day.
Jean-Pierre's relationship with her principal deputy, Olivia Dalton, also has been bumpy. Dalton voiced frustrations during her first year, when she didn't brief from the podium despite several months of practice sessions.
Looks like if Biden wins re-election, Kirby is going to take her job.
They share a podium — and a mutual frustration. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the National Security Council's John Kirby frequently split the podium at media briefings, but behind the scenes their relationship is fraught with tension, White House sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: As President Biden heads into a tough re-election campaign, his top-ranking spokespeople are at odds while navigating a situation in which there's one press secretary in name but two in practice — one for domestic policy, the other for foreign policy.
Zoom in: Some of the tension stems from how much time each gets at the podium each day.
- Kirby — a Biden favorite who has become the public face of the administration's response to the Israel-Hamas war — has told people he'd like to be White House press secretary one day.
- Jean-Pierre has told people she plans to stay in the job through the election and beyond if Biden wants her — and that he has asked her not to leave.
- A White House official told Axios that Kirby never volunteers that he would like to be press secretary.
- Jean-Pierre and Kirby have split the podium in the White House pressroom more frequently since the Israel-Hamas war began in October — aggravating tensions that began in the spring of 2022, when Jen Psaki departed as press secretary, current and former Biden officials said.
- Kirby has become more influential publicly and behind the scenes as he has developed a close relationship with the president.
- Biden frequently asks for Kirby to personally brief him. Senior adviser Anita Dunn recently had Kirby start traveling on Air Force One for domestic trips, not just international ones.
- In the more than 30 press briefings and gaggles since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Jean-Pierre has briefed reporters solo just once — during a gaggle on Air Force One.
- Kirby has accompanied her at every other briefing she has conducted except for three, when she was joined by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. (Sullivan joined once because Kirby was ill, according to two people familiar with the matter.)
- That's standard procedure for most briefing room guests. But Kirby is there often, and has expressed frustration that it applies to him. Some White House aides see the practice as a sign of Jean-Pierre being insecure.
- The aides note that Sullivan calls on reporters himself when he attends the briefing — a practice that began during Psaki's tenure.
- When Biden offered Jean-Pierre the press secretary job in 2022, he awkwardly added that Kirby also would be joining and that they'd be a team, Jean-Pierre told people afterward.
- Jean-Pierre left the meeting with Biden upset and confused about whether she actually had the job and what Kirby's role would be, according to three people familiar with her comments at the time.
- A White House official told Axios that it's overwhelming — in a good way — to be offered the prestigious job, and that Jean-Pierre was not upset or confused.
- Ron Klain, then the White House chief of staff, met with Jean-Pierre to try to smooth things over and reassure her that she was the press secretary. He and Dunn then worked to find an agreeable arrangement. (Klain did not respond to a request for comment.)
- After haggling over what Kirby's role would be, the White House and the NSC settled on the title of "coordinator for strategic communications."
- Kirby, however, doesn't supervise or report to the NSC communications director. His role is more focused on public communications than coordinating messaging across the administration.
Jean-Pierre's relationship with her principal deputy, Olivia Dalton, also has been bumpy. Dalton voiced frustrations during her first year, when she didn't brief from the podium despite several months of practice sessions.
- Dalton has conducted more gaggles on Air Force One recently, but has briefed reporters from the podium just once — last June.
- A White House aide who works closely with Jean-Pierre and Dalton told Axios: "They have been friends for over a decade and have a strong relationship."
- Before she became press secretary, Jean-Pierre didn't deal with many tough stories in the press, and wasn't as experienced as Kirby or Psaki in combative briefing environments.
- Jean-Pierre's defenders say the arrangement undermined her from the beginning and made a difficult job harder. Some Black Democrats in the administration and on Capitol Hill say the situation was insulting because it suggested that the first Black press secretary to represent the president needed supervision.
- Some current and former Biden aides have been frustrated by some flubs, such as when Jean-Pierre answered a question about antisemitism by talking about Islamophobia. She later said she misheard the question.
- Other current and former Biden officials say that both Jean-Pierre and Kirby should put aside any frustrations and embrace the arrangement, given the chaotic world and the critical election ahead.
Looks like if Biden wins re-election, Kirby is going to take her job.
Joe Biden Just Delivered the Speech Democrats Have Been Desperate for Him to Give
Biden delivered a point-by-point denunciation of Donald Trump’s actions around Jan. 6, casting the 2024 election as a stark choice and calling his predecessor a 'loser'
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Joe Biden Just Delivered the Speech Democrats Have Been Desperate for Him to Give
Biden delivered a point-by-point denunciation of Donald Trump’s actions around Jan. 6, casting the 2024 election as a stark choice and calling his predecessor a 'loser'
Published 01/05/24 04:42 PM ET | Updated 14 hr ago
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Joe Biden Just Delivered the Speech Democrats Have Been Desperate for Him to Give
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Democrats have been desperate for Joe Biden to hold nothing back in defining former President Donald Trump as an anti-democratic threat.
On Friday in Pennsylvania, the president did just that.
Biden’s 32-minute speech was a point-by-point takedown of Trump’s actions around the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, three years ago tomorrow. The president lambasted his predecessor as anti-American because of the way he supported the insurrection, called him the “election denier in chief” because of the way he continues to deny he lost the 2020 election, and, in a dig targeted at the image-conscience Trump, called the Republican leader “a loser.”
“Let's be clear about the 2020 election. Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. Every one,” Biden said. “But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth: That I’d won the election and he was a loser.”
Biden added: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question we have to answer is, who are we? That’s what’s at stake.”
The speech, which Biden aides have cast as the opening salvo in the president’s race against the expected Republican nominee in 2024, sets up an extraordinary moment in presidential politics where the current officeholder, in his bid to keep the job, is questioning his predecessor’s commitment to democracy ahead of their expected rematch.
Democrats have publicly and privately urged Biden to repeatedly deliver this kind of message, questioning Trump’s commitment to American democracy and positioning the election as a stark, but simple, choice between him and Trump.
“He’s resetting the terms of the debate, as he needs to,” said Democratic strategist Christy Setzer.
With polls showing Biden trailing the former president across the country and in key battleground states, many Democrats – some of whom have grown nervous about the president’s reelection – have argued it is time for Biden to deliver on his most persistent political mantra: “Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.”
President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College January 5, 2024 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. In his first campaign event of the 2024 election season, Biden stated that democracy and fundamental freedoms are under threat if former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
This speech was filled with comparisons between the current president and his predecessor. Biden argued Trump’s campaign was a self-centered endeavor – “Trump's campaign is about him. Not America. Not you,” the president said – while he said his campaign was “different” and called protecting democracy the “central cause of my presidency. While Biden recalled attending the funerals of police officers who died as a result of events on Jan. 6, he blamed Trump’s lies for those deaths.
“They died because these lies brought a mob to Washington,” he said. “He promised it will be wild and it was. He told the crowd to fight like hell. And all hell was unleashed.”
The speech was also loaded with body language. Biden spoke through gritted teeth about Trump disparaging deceased military members as “suckers.” The Catholic rosary on his wrist shook with his fist. He shouted, pointed at the audience, and seemed passionate and angry.
“I'll say what Donald Trump won’t: Political violence is never ever acceptable in the United States political system, never, never never,” Biden said. “It has no place in a democracy. None. You can't be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American.”
The speech comes as a perilous moment for American democracy. Recent polling around the Jan. 6 anniversary has found Republicans are more sympathetic to what happened at the Capitol in 2021 than they were years ago and while some Republicans censured Trump in the wake of the attack on the Capitol – a fact Biden brought up – the former president has not only survived those attacks, he has deepened his hold on the Republican base and forced many of his party’s top elected officials to retreat from the criticism they leveled years earlier.
The Trump campaign’s response to Biden’s speech highlighted the difficulty the former president may have responding to these attacks in 2024. Instead of taking on Biden’s criticism that Trump is a threat to democracy for what happened around the 2020 election, Trump’s top aides and supporters questioned why Biden was talking about the issue at all. And his campaign tried to turn the attack around by claiming the former president’s legal jeopardy makes Biden “the greatest threat to democracy the United States of America has ever faced.”
“The bottom line today is that Joe Biden has given up on running an issues-based campaign for 2024,” wrote Jason Miller, a top Trump adviser. “Rather than help those suffering from Bidenomics or our porous southern border, Biden plans on weaponizing government against his leading political opponent.”
In a tweet highlighting increased inflation, Miller added: “Biden sure doesn’t want to talk Bidenomics.”
That response will likely only embolden Democrats who would like Biden to talk more about Trump.
“I have told anyone who would listen [at the White House] that he needs to be relentless about defining Trump and also punching him in the face,” said one Democratic strategist close to the Biden administration. “Today he did all of that. And he needs to keep doing more.”
Josh Schwerin, a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Trump in 2016, echoed Biden’s “don’t compare me” mantra, saying the speech represented “a powerful reminder” that this election is a choice between Biden and Trump.
“When that fact is internalized more broadly by voters, we’re going to see numbers move in Biden’s direction,” Schwerin said on the recent polling.
Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko called the speech “one of the most powerful speeches of my lifetime.”
“There's no shortage of Democrats who often wet their bed wondering if President Biden is the right choice for them to get behind,” said Parkhomenko. “And this is exactly the kind of speech that puts those thoughts and very siloed efforts to rest.”
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let men beat the shyt out of women, jack
"Please Mr. Biden, please please have the government take over sports enforcement please. Please save us from decisions from private sports organizations that I don't like Mr. President pls"
nice deflection attempt, but it's a simple question of support/the democrat platform. one party is enabling this. and i'll give you a pass on letting trehs compete in swimming and track, since i know how passionate you are about the movement
if you support letting biological men beat the shyt out of women in a boxing ring, you're a fukking clown
