PRESIDENT Joe Biden: A Return to Normalcy?

[GreyhoundFan]

[47of74]

No wonder the reich is so pissy about student loans being forgiven - it's going to help working and middle class folks.

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President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan is expected to help mainly working and middle class borrowers, an updated report from an influential research group found. That's a shift from its earlier projection that more higher-income borrowers would benefit from basic loan forgiveness.

About 75% of the benefit will go to households making $88,000 or less per year, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis released Friday.

The three-part relief package could cost up to $605 billion over 10 years, though the price tag could exceed $1 trillion depending on how the proposed income-driven repayment program is actually set up and how many people participate, Penn Wharton found. That's substantially higher than its initial estimate of a less comprehensive debt relief plan.

 

[AnywhereButHere]

When you say the quiet part out loud…

[GreyhoundFan]

Chris Hayes explains what's behind the new WH twitter responses:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

LOL, Dark Brandon is on a roll.

 

[fraurosena]

TIL that there was no federal anti-lynching law in the US yet…in 2022… 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I hope we get more of dark Brandon

 

[GreyhoundFan]

More of this, please:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm glad he's calling out the crap.

 

[47of74]

Biden is going to give a speech on Branch Trumpvidianism this evening and the threats to democracy...

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Thursday's remarks will instead adopt a far graver tone, officials say. After tearing into Republicans for what he calls "MAGA extremism" and "semi-fascism," administration officials say Biden has determined the time is right to provide a serious, sober reckoning on what he regards as growing anti-democratic forces building across the country.

"This is not a speech about the former President," a senior administration official told reporters. "This is a speech about democracy."

Yet the speech also will serve as an implicit acknowledgment that Biden's efforts to move past the divisiveness and chaos of former President Donald Trump have been harder than he might have imagined. Trump continues to dominate headlines, especially in recent weeks after federal agents searched his Florida home, revealing an investigation into the former President's possession of classified documents after he left office. Biden's speech will take place hours after a court hearing regarding that investigation.

"The way that he sees it, the MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said a day ahead of the speech. "This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights. They just don't respect the rule of law."

The White House apparently wants to stress it's not talking about all Republicans.  Sorry, Mr. President.  That ship sailed some years ago.  Far as I'm concerned anyone who is still a Republican is a fascist.

[onekidanddone]

Not sure I can tune in for it as it would probably trigger a panic attack. I’ll swoop in to FJ for updates

[Dandruff]

Glory hallelujah...Biden ripped 'em a new one.

[AnywhereButHere]

8 minutes ago, Dandruff said:

Glory hallelujah...Biden ripped 'em a new one.

We were just saying, did his advisors get together and have a “It’s time to let Biden be Biden” meeting (West Wing reference - love that show!). Lately he’s definitely not been Uncle Fluffy!

Edited September 2, 2022 by AnywhereButHere

[47of74]

14 minutes ago, Dandruff said:

Glory hallelujah...Biden ripped 'em a new one.

Yeah no wonder Qevin is so whiny now.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on President Joe Biden to apologize for invoking fascism to describe the ideology of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

McCarthy made the remarks during a prebuttal speech ahead of the President's prime-time address later in the evening. The speech from the House GOP leader marks an effort to counter the President's message -- ahead of the 2022 midterms as Republicans fight to win back control of the House of Representatives.

Go fuck yourself Qevin.

Edited September 2, 2022 by 47of74

[GreyhoundFan]

This is a good excerpt:

 

 

 

Another good excerpt:

 

[Xan]

Sorry.  Put this in wrong thread.

 

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by Xan

[47of74]

Good thing it wasn't me up on that stage because I would have ended the speech with "fuck you, Donald Trump."

 

[onekidanddone]

5 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Good thing it wasn't me up on that stage because I would have ended the speech with "fuck you, Donald Trump."

 

I’d be right there with you and waving a huge ass sign. Lock up The Fucking Git

[47of74]

59 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

I’d be right there with you and waving a huge ass sign. Lock up The Fucking Git

In fact I probably would have fuck any number of GQP politicians in addition to fuck face including Iowa's own useless Governor and congressional drones right after saying fuck Trump.  And include if people don't like my attitude what they could go do to themselves.

[GreyhoundFan]

Go Dark Brandon!

 

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I hope this happens.

 

 

 

More Dark Brandon, please.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Stop Trump: Biden’s rendezvous with destiny"

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Whether Joe Biden decides to run for reelection in 2024 or not, the central achievement of his presidency is already clear. He is the person who moved decisively to stop Donald Trump — first at the ballot box and now through his administration’s steady, unblinking application of the rule of law.

If Biden and his team can succeed in that mission over the next two years, I would bet that he will do what any chief executive around his age does, which is to think carefully about finding a successor who can carry on his policies and preserve his accomplishments.

Some presidents struggle in office to frame their legacy. But for Biden, it’s easy. His core mission from the beginning was to prevent Trump from destroying American democracy.

For all his ups and downs, Biden has been consistent in framing that goal. When he entered the 2020 presidential race in April 2019, he said bluntly: “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.” If Trump won another term, he warned, “He will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

Biden was right, and he set his course to stop Trump. He recognized that only a centrist Democrat could win enough independent votes to displace the incumbent, and he held fast to that position despite withering fire from the left. The political class often echoed Trump’s line that Biden was too old and inarticulate to be president. Biden’s wry retort, way back in December 2018: “I am a gaffe machine, but, my God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth.”

Biden’s victory at the polls in November 2020 was a hinge moment in U.S. history. Trump, as we now realize with shocking clarity, was willing to do anything to cling to office. But he failed, thanks partly to principled Republicans who refused to join a coup — and thanks even more to Biden, who ran a disciplined campaign as a centrist who would restore normal order.

Biden’s inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 2021, focused on this basic mission. “Democracy has prevailed,” he said. He used the word “unity” eight times in the speech. And he seemed to understand his place in the American story, replacing Trump’s “carnage” with something decent. “We answered the call of history,” he said toward the end of the speech. “We met the moment.”

Biden at first hoped that Trump would accept defeat and go away. He avoided mentioning him by name for most of his first 18 months, referring to him as “the former president.” He must have hoped that Trump, starved of publicity to feed his ego, would shrivel to normal ex-presidential size. But Trump couldn’t adjust to reality. His stationery bore the presidential seal, he treated super-secret government documents as his personal property, and he insisted that he had never lost the election at all.

Ignoring Trump wasn’t going to work. It only made him clamber for attention more loudly and recklessly. And Trump’s supporters amplified the danger. So during a Sept. 1 speech in Philadelphia, Biden changed tone. He stated bluntly the idea that brought him into the presidential campaign back in 2019: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

Biden’s language was tougher, but the message was the same one he delivered in his inauguration speech. If Trump’s extremism could be stopped, he said, “then ages still to come will say … we kept the faith. We preserved democracy. … We heeded not our worst instincts but our better angels.”

Biden’s sharp warnings about the threat to democracy might seem out of character for a career politician whose genial, back-slapping style was refined by decades in the Senate. But as Sen. Christopher A. Coons, the president’s close friend and fellow Delaware Democrat, told me, Biden got his start trying to dampen the politics of rage. His first elected office was as a member of the city council in a Wilmington, Del., torn by racial violence and occupied by the National Guard. “He has seen this moment,” explains Coons.

After a ragged 12 months, Biden seemed to rediscover the art of politics this summer, breaking the political impasse (within his own party as well as with Republicans) to pass significant legislation on climate change, technology investment and gun control. He convinced progressive House Democrats that half a loaf was better than none. It helped that he looked like a commander in chief in supporting Ukraine and the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. And his wise decision to make Merrick Garland his attorney general has been validated by Garland’s slow and steady — but unyielding — pursuit of possible criminal actions by Trump and his supporters.

Biden has found a better groove, politically, in recent weeks. His approval ratings are up, and Democrats are hoping they can retain control of the Senate in the midterms, though an all-but-assured Republican takeover of the House will shift the balance of power in Washington.

Biden might have difficulty governing after the midterm elections, and 2024 remains a mystery. But as Trump’s political death spiral accelerates, Biden’s presidential legacy is nearly complete.

 

[Ozlsn]

9 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Biden has found a better groove, politically, in recent weeks. His approval ratings are up, and Democrats are hoping they can retain control of the Senate in the midterms, though an all-but-assured Republican takeover of the House will shift the balance of power in Washington.

Biden might have difficulty governing after the midterm elections, and 2024 remains a mystery. But as Trump’s political death spiral accelerates, Biden’s presidential legacy is nearly complete.

I hope the legacy will be to neutralise Trump but given the bolded sentence I fear it will only hold the line for democracy briefly, not turn the tide away from authoritarianism. Too many of the exact same people who were willing to support Trump through anything as long as they stayed on power are still there, and they haven't changed their basic values.

[GreyhoundFan]

Go Joe:

 

[47of74]

The President will host his first state visit in December 

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President Joe Biden will host his first state visit at the White House for French President Emmanuel Macron on December 1, the White House confirmed, marking the return of a tradition not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We'd like to announce that President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Biden will host President Emmanuel Macron and Mrs. Brigitte Macron of France for a state visit to the United States on December 1st, 2022. This will be the first state visit of the Biden-Harris administration," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during Monday's press briefing.

The state visit, which will include a state dinner, "will underscore the deep and enduring relationship between the United States and France -- our oldest ally," Jean-Pierre said.

"Our close relationship with France is founded on our shared democratic values, economic ties and defense and security cooperation. The leaders will discuss our continued close partnership on shared global challenges and areas of bilateral interest," she added.

 Macron attended one with his wife when the orange fornicate was in office.  Bet he’ll be relieved not to have to pretend to like the orange fornicate now.