Thread: President Joe Biden

Originally Posted by peaches

Originally Posted by Klondyke

He could give only such stupid advice as to get out from Afgh., Iraq, Syria, you name it... (so, where else they would go? The MacDonalds and similar are lockdown and ...)

Translation.......The snake oil salesman,the messiah to the brain dead, was a great president,
and Klondyke is sad that the imposter didn’t get another 4 years.

Actually, I am utmost impressed, that the current POTUS kicked out from the Oral Office the picture of Andrew Jackson and instead placed there MLK jr., his idol over his 50 years fighting for the human rights (of the most oppressed)...

When President Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force One for the first time this month, he did not spend much time soaking in the moment.The flight, after all, was only 25 minutes long. He was headed home to Delaware for the weekend, in part to have his foot X-rayed at his orthopedist. And unlike his most recent predecessors, Biden was already familiar with the unique combination of executive swank and military rigor aboard the presidential jet, having flown more than a million miles aboard Air Force Two.

So, like a weary passenger on a commuter shuttle, he spent most of the flight reading the newspaper.

"It's a great honor," he told reporters who asked about his debut ride aboard Air Force One, "but I didn't think about it, to tell you the truth."

As Biden settles into a job he has been seeking on-and-off for three decades, the daily routine of being president -- with a phalanx of Secret Service agents, regular updates on the nation's top secrets and an ever-present press corps -- has come more naturally for him than for his more recent predecessors.

He has established a regular schedule, including coffee in the mornings with the first lady, meetings and phone calls from the Oval Office starting just after 9 a.m. and a return to his residence by 7 p.m. As he walks home along the Colonnade, he's often seen carrying a stack of binders or manila folders under one arm. He still brings a brown leather briefcase into the office.

Finding his own path

Unlike his most recent predecessors -- night owls who spent the dark hours reading briefing materials (President Barack Obama) or watching television (President Donald Trump) -- Biden is more of an early-to-bed type. He has continued a tradition of reading letters from Americans, a handful of which are tucked into the briefing materials he brings home in the evenings. Recently they have focused on the pandemic; Biden has also spoken by video conference with business owners and laid-off workers weathering the economic crisis.

Biden spent ample time at the White House as vice president, navigating West Wing hallways and administration politics for eight years as Obama's No. 2. He has spent more time working in Washington than any president in decades. His adjustment period inside the executive mansion has been minimal.

"It feels like I am going home," he said as he entered the White House on Inauguration Day. Though he had never lived in the building previously, it was a return of sorts for a man who has wanted to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for years.

He has found his old stomping grounds familiar, dropping into his onetime office in the West Wing one day last week to show his new vice president the place on the window where his wife wrote him a Valentine's Day greeting in 2009.

He's made surprise visits to other offices in the building as well, asking staffers what they are working on or consulting them on specific questions related to his Covid-19 relief plan.
He wasted little time showing off his new digs to his old colleagues in the Senate, inviting nearly a quarter of all senators to the Oval Office over his first three weeks on the job for talks on his Covid-19 relief plan and a new infrastructure package.

And he hasn't been put off by the pack of reporters who track his every move. He's shown more willingness to answer shouted questions than Obama was, weighing in on his predecessor's impeachment trial even as the White House insisted he was focused on other things.

The President's Daily Brief, a highly classified update on the country's top intelligence, is back to a daily occurrence after happening only sporadically under Trump. Joined in the Oval Office by Vice President Kamala Harris -- who has used an iPad to receive the briefing, like Obama -- Biden is run through the update by a range of intelligence professionals.

He has expressed a preference for a fire built in the Oval Office fireplace, and sometimes adds a log himself to keep it going. His dogs, two German Shepherds called Major and Champ, sometimes join him.

Structure and routine

His days are more structured than Trump's, whose aides began blocking out large chunks of "executive time" to accommodate his television viewing and telephone calls. Biden's meetings are more routine, though they often run longer than planned. The door to the Oval Office is not considered open to just anyone, as it sometimes was under Trump.

Meetings among staffers, which begin before 8 a.m. ET every weekday, are a combination of in-person and video conference while the West Wing remains sparsely staffed due to Covid-19 precautions. In the waning days of the Trump administration, which did not make much use of video-conferencing during the pandemic, cameras were installed on desktops for the incoming team.

When Biden cannot meet an official or Cabinet secretary in-person, a large screen is wheeled into the Oval Office for the individual to participate, as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg did this week for a session on infrastructure. Buttigieg was in isolation after one of his security agents tested positive for coronavirus. His face loomed on the screen in front of the Resolute Desk.
The screen has also been used to display charts and data tracking the coronavirus pandemic during briefings with federal health officials.

On weekends, Biden has kept to his routine of attending public mass, in Washington at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown and at his home parish in Delaware -- occasions that aides say allow him to blend back into normal life, at least for an hour. After one outing, he stopped by a bagel shop; officials expect he and the first lady will be more frequent patrons of Washington's restaurants once the pandemic is over.

More so than any recent first couple, Joe and Jill Biden have demonstrated a publicly affectionate relationship, one that extends to private moments spent together in the White House residence. For the first time in decades, there are no children residing in the building, leaving the 55,000 square-foot mansion to the two of them. Jill Biden recently saw the President off with a kiss before his first flight aboard Marine One.

The President traveled to Camp David for the first time since taking office on Presidents Day weekend -- but even the mountainside retreat was familiar after many trips there as vice president.
Biden said before leaving he planned to "just hang out with the family and do what we always do," which included playing Mario Kart at the arcade inside one of the lodges with his granddaughters, who bought him a hat emblazoned with the presidential seal and embroidered with their name for him: Pop.

Still, even for someone well acquainted with presidential life, there are some upgrades that come with the top job.

"It's the same plane we had as vice president, only it's much nicer in terms of what the inside is," Biden said after his first Air Force One ride, which was aboard a smaller jet than the main presidential aircraft because of the shorter runway in Delaware.

He will have his first chance to ride the iconic Air Force One, a military version of a Boeing 747, on Tuesday when he travels to Milwaukee for a CNN town hall -- his first public event out in the country since taking office.

Even Biden will likely set aside his newspapers to relish that moment.

Inside the new President's routine: Oval Office fires and early bedtimes - CNNPolitics

Originally Posted by bsnub

On weekends, Biden has kept to his routine of attending public mass, in Washington at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown and at his home parish in Delaware -- occasions that aides say allow him to blend back into normal life, at least for an hour. After one outing, he stopped by a bagel shop; officials expect he and the first lady will be more frequent patrons of Washington's restaurants once the pandemic is over.

Forgotten to mention the video games (Mario Kart) with his granddaughter - perhaps lost in translation?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Forgotten to mention the video games (Mario Kart) with his granddaughter - perhaps lost in translation?

Klondyke
It is not lost in translation it is lost in your misunderstanding.
I know English is not your first language so unlike others on here who berate you for some of your stuff ups I won't.
Instead I will just point out the error of your ways.

In the statement you quoted from bsnub they were talking about what he (Biden) does on the weekend in DC but the playing Mario Kart was what he does when he is at camp David.

Hope that clears that up for you.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Forgotten to mention the video games (Mario Kart) with his granddaughter - perhaps lost in translation?

Really?

Originally Posted by bsnub

Biden said before leaving he planned to "just hang out with the family and do what we always do," which included playing Mario Kart

Originally Posted by ootai

I know English is not your first language

Thanks that you did remember that, just in case, some did not know. It always adds (or deducts) the weight of one's argument...

^Green owned...

Originally Posted by Backspin

Bidens red head with the big knockers is ok to look at

Originally Posted by lom

^ Not only that, she is also ok to listen to, the White House has got a real press secretary after four years of amateur ones.
This lady is professional!

It's seems it was a good choice. That's why some do not really hear what she is saying (and questions dodging) but just looking...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

It's seems it was a good choice. That's why some do not really hear what she is saying (and questions dodging) but just looking...

Yes, that's what the two posts you have quoted are saying. Drunk again/still?

Just watched Biden townhall on CNN. What a refreshing change over the previous me, me kunt.

Agreed. Nice to have a real leader back at the helm.

Originally Posted by Norton

Just watched Biden townhall on CNN. What a refreshing change over the previous me, me kunt.

And you can actually listen to him without getting an overpowering urge to bitchslap him for talking shit.

Originally Posted by Cujo

And you can actually listen to him without getting an overpowering urge to bitchslap him for talking shit.

Especially, when speaking about vaccination...BTW, when did he (or "they") come into office?

“The biggest thing though…it’s one thing that the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator. How do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?” he said.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Biden says he will not support $50K in student debt forgiveness

Shame, it would be a big boost to the economy and he could get the top 0.1% wealthiest to pay for it. They wouldn't even fucking notice.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Repeater's best post yet

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Shame, it would be a big boost to the economy and he could get the top 0.1% wealthiest to pay for it. They wouldn't even fucking notice.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Imagine the outcry at Fox . . .

Originally Posted by panama hat

Repeater's best post yet

Originally Posted by panama hat

Repeater's best post yet

He's made more sense in that one post than his entire back catalogue.

Biden's message to G7, Munich events: Allies should work together on China challenge


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will seek on Friday to rally global democracies and European allies to work together to address a range of concerns about China, but is not looking for a “new Cold War,” a senior administration official said.The Democratic president, sworn in less than a month ago, will use a “virtual visit” to Europe to try to re-establish the United States as a multilateral team player after four years of divisive “America First” policies pursued by Donald Trump.


Biden will arrive bearing gifts - a $4 billion pledge of support for global coronavirus vaccination efforts, the re-entry of the United States into the Paris climate accord and the prospect of a nearly $2 trillion spending measure that could bolster both the U.S. and global economies.


Biden will meet at 9 a.m. (1400 GMT) with G7 leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan by videoconference, but plans to join them for an in-person summit hosted by the UK this summer, the official told reporters.


Later on Friday morning, he will address an online session of the Munich Security Conference, which often draws top global leaders and where several years ago as a private citizen he reassured participants rattled by the Trump presidency: “We will be back.”


Biden will underscore that democracies, not autocracies, offer the best path forward for the world, after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters made clear that democracy was fragile.


“He will make a strong, confident case that democracy is the best model for meeting the challenges of our time,” the official said. “Democracy doesn’t happen by accident. We need to fight for it.”


RUSSIA, CHINA CHALLENGES


Biden will drive home his view that major market economies and democracies must work together to tackle challenges posed by great-power competitors like Russia and China, as well as transnational challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation to climate change and cybersecurity, the official said.


The U.S. president will speak specifically about “malign” and concerted action he believes Russia has taken to destabilize and undermine democracy in the United States and Europe and elsewhere, and will call on allies to stand firm with Washington, the official said.


The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any such action.


With regard to China, the world’s second-largest economy, Biden will urge democracies to work together to push back against practices and policies of the Chinese government that he will describe as “economically abusive and ... counter to our values.”


The Biden White House is reviewing China policy across an array of fronts, including its military buildup and trade policies, its actions in Hong Kong, treatment of minority Uighurs in Xinjiang and its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.


“He will make clear in the speech that he’s not looking for confrontation, he’s not looking for a new Cold War, but he’s expecting stiff competition and he welcomes it,” the official said.


On the challenge posed by Iran’s nuclear program, Biden will say the United States looks forward to re-engaging in diplomacy amid efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal that Trump abandoned, the official said.


On the economic front, Biden will urge other G7 leaders to continue to invest heavily in their economies to foster and accelerate economic growth, the official said.


“The fear is not that we do too much, it’s that we do too little,” the official said. “This is an era for action and investment and not for austerity and that will be an important part of the message.”

Biden'''s message to G7, Munich events: Allies should work together on China challenge | Reuters

Originally Posted by OhOh

Bribery and corrupt practice?

No , you changed the quote to support your own narrative. The actual quote is :
" a $4 billion pledge of support for global coronavirus vaccination efforts, "

It is to the US's benefit that Covid 19 is eradicated all around the world. What good would it do in it was eradicated in the US, only to come back a three months later when the vaccine losses it's potency from another country?