How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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Dems need to be screaming about the 10,200 tax forgiveness on unemployment benefits from the mountaintops. It's great for the people of this country after what has happened and shows what can be achieved when Dems have power. God knows Rs would've never brought this to the table.
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Biden the GOAT 
President Biden will be making his first national oval office primetime speech live on on Thursday. Seems like its for the 1 year mark of covid.
He normally shines in these serious and intimate speeches.
He normally shines in these serious and intimate speeches.
Goddamn. Biden is MOVING out here 
He was NOT playing about this union shyt
He was NOT playing about this union shyt
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Glory to Michigan
Why? Why would you do this? Morons across this country will just claim they're vaccinated. People had fake doctor's note saying they didn't have to wear masks.
You had me turn Scott Kelly into a whole other person.Yeah Sister, Sister had a whole episode about this.
i'm just fukkin around breh
washingtonpost.com
Biden grasped what the media did not
Jennifer Rubin
5-6 minutes
A month ago, I wrote, “It may be that we have undergone a fundamental shift — among Democrats and Republicans alike — about what they expect government to do that Biden’s political opponents on the Hill have failed to grasp.” On Saturday, the Senate passed President Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, supported by roughly 70 percent of voters, largely intact.
The president pushed aside repeated media chiding that he was not being bipartisan enough. In fact, as he observed in a victory lap speech on Saturday, “without the overwhelming bipartisan support of the American people, this would not have happened.” He continued, “Overwhelming public support — every public opinion poll shows overwhelming support for this plan. And for the last weeks, it’s shown that. Every public opinion poll shows the people want this, they believe it’s needed, and they believe it’s urgent.” Bipartisanship, the administration maintained, was not found in capitulating to Republicans whose paltry $650 billion plan failed to grasp the magnitude of the dual economic and health threats. Bipartisanship was achieved in meeting the needs of Americans who are eager for active government.
The Post’s report underscores the shift in the Overton Window: “The disparity between the reception to President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan and President Biden’s is the result of several seismic shifts in American politics — the most dramatic of which may be the apparent impact of the pandemic on attitudes about the role of government in helping the economy.”
Several points deserve emphasis.
First, Biden has been consistently underestimated by the chattering class. He was boring, a weak debater, too old, not progressive enough, they said during the campaign. Biden and his team had the confidence and experience to ignore the trite, conventional and wrongheaded “take” that Democrats were looking for a fire-breathing socialist in 2020. They knew to ignore Twitter, ignore the complaints about an “ambitious” vice president and ignore sneering about his campaign from the basement. What pundits would like to chalk up to luck was in fact a savvy, disciplined campaign.
Second, the laser-like focus that served him well in the election also helped him secure the biggest progressive victory in history. As many center-left Democrats argued during the campaign, the way to win the biggest gains for progressives is to elect someone from the center of the party. (Hearing the enthusiastic praise for Biden’s achievements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, his former primary competitors, proves the point.)
Biden might have been the only candidate who could have won in 2020, and the only one who could have delivered a huge win less than 50 days into his term. (“Biden is in some ways the ideal messenger for their spending blitz,” The Post reports. “A septuagenarian who spent four decades in Congress, the president is hard to portray as a socialist or radical leftist — even as he advances some ambitious expansions of government spending, including a major new child tax benefit.”) Just as he did in the campaign, he rejected media entreaties to respond to the latest outburst from the disgraced and now former president or from his hysterical enablers obsessed with irrelevant cultural memes. He would not be knocked off message.
The Biden team’s focus allowed them to woo back into line moderate Democrats such as Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who might irrationally deny a qualified woman of color a Cabinet spot or seek the limelight in holding up the deal to lower the unemployment subsidy from $400 to $300. Frustration is kept behind closed doors; the eyes of Biden’s colleagues are invariably on making the most important deal when the chips are down.
Third, success builds on success. As Biden turns to items such as infrastructure, Republicans may feel more pressure to end their reflexive obstruction. One wonders if having bet against an overwhelmingly popular rescue plan, swing-district and swing-state Republicans want to keep turning up their noses at the very economic populism they insist they support. In the 1930s, disaster struck and metastasized on the Republicans’ watch; now, similarly, the GOP may find out that opposition to vigorous governmental action is a political loser that may keep them out of power until memories of their gross mismanagement fade.
Biden will have huge challenges ahead. He will run into opposition on his green energy plans. Republicans will seek to filibuster voting reforms intended to thwart their Jim Crow legislative onslaught in dozens of states. But now that Biden has one major victory under his belt and the prospect of covid-19 and economic recovery ahead, the media might want to stop underestimating him. He and his team seem to know what they are doing.
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Biden is rolling back the culture war. The country should thank him.
E.J. Dionne
5-7 minutes
One of President Biden’s early achievements does not get enough attention: He is rolling back the politics of culture wars. This is good news for his electoral and governing projects, but also for our country.
This assertion will invite contradictory dissents. On the one side, culture wars were bound to abate during a pandemic and economic downturn. The other response is: Are you kidding? If culture wars are over, why is Dr. Seuss all over Fox News?
To take the second point first: Sure, cultural conflict will forever be part of American life. Our habits, mores and assumptions are always in flux, especially given the United States’ exceptional religious, racial and ethnic diversity — along with our long-running feuds between big cities and the countryside. We battle even when there’s a surface cultural consensus: Think of the early stirrings of feminism in the 1950s and the furor unleashed by the Beats.
But what matters is how politicized these conflicts become. Republicans and conservatives have used culture wars as a way of encouraging working-class voters to cast their ballots on the basis of social, religious and racial issues rather than on economic questions.
Ever since the 1960s, the GOP has chipped away at the New Deal coalition by insisting that when the word “elitist” is used, it is a reference to cultural trendsetters and professors, not corporate titans.
And when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Princeton, Harvard Law School) claimed that Republicans are now the party of “working class men and women” in an interview on Fox News, he spoke of how their wages were being “pulled down” because they were competing with “people coming illegally.” Thus did undocumented immigrants become the class enemy.
Post Senior Producer Kate Woodsome talks to Americans who voted for Trump, or simply don't feel like denouncing him, about why they feel wrongly scorned. (Kate Woodsome, Joy Yi/The Washington Post)
A member of the party that has done everything it could for the past four decades to destroy organized labor, Cruz even had the temerity to say that Democrats “don’t represent unions anymore.”
His words came a day after Biden offered one of the most pro-union speeches ever given by a president. “Unions put power in the hands of workers. They level the playing field, they give you a stronger voice for your health, your safety, higher wages, protections from racial discrimination and sexual harassment,” Biden said. “Unions lift up workers, both union and nonunion, and especially Black and brown workers.”
Of particular note here is how Biden linked the inequalities of class and race. Here again, he’s fighting against wedge politics aimed at dividing middle- and working-class voters along racial and ethnic lines — and immigration status.
Now, you could argue that Biden’s relentless attention to the pandemic, and the work of economic relief and recovery, is simply common sense. And it is. These, more than any others, are the issues by which he will be judged.
But the president and his team have exercised enormous discipline in keeping the national conversation focused on bread-and-butter assistance to the vast majority of Americans. It’s one reason his $1.9 trillion aid package that cleared the House and then passed the Senate on Saturday with only Democratic votes polls so well. (The House is expected to ratify the Senate version this week.)
And whenever he could, Biden has tried to shift the conversation about the pandemic away from cultural conflict and toward the practical work of ending the scourge.
Former president Donald Trump, and now his allies, keep trying to turn mask-wearing into a cultural question linked to personal liberty. Biden calmly but pointedly speaks for the roughly three-quarters of the American public that sees mask-wearing not as some esoteric form of compulsory virtue signaling but as part of everyone’s responsibility to help prevent the spread of covid-19.
The right wing tried to make a new flash point out of Biden’s rebuke to “Neanderthal thinking” after Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi lifted mask-wearing requirements. “You know, this is Mr. Unity,” sniffed Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Stanford, Yale University Law School). “And yet, if you disagree with him, you’re a Neanderthal.”
But it hasn’t stuck, and Biden cares more about getting people to wear masks than in pushing the fight further. In any event, most Americans know how deadly it was to politicize mask-wearing in the first place, and it’s excruciatingly hard to turn Biden (D-University of Delaware, Syracuse University College of Law) into an elitist peddler of cultural radicalism. And, yes, since racism and sexism are often blended into culturally divisive appeals, a 78-year-old White guy is harder for the radical right to demonize than, say, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi.
No wonder anti-Biden paraphernalia sold so poorly at the CPAC meeting, as The Post’s David Weigel reported. “I can’t give the Biden stuff away,” mourned merchandizer David Solomon.
As for Dr. Seuss, Republicans might yet help Biden turn that controversy into an economic question, too. After all, their resolute opposition to Biden’s proposal to help Americans in economic trouble makes them resemble no one so much as the Grinch, before his heart began to grow.
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Republicans about to use this as a political weapon against Dems. I will be surprised if every single GOP Governor does not lift mask mandates based on that guidance. Then they will say Dems are stopping you from your freedom and all that other fear mongering shyt they do.
