Thread: President Joe Biden

"patriots! Joe Biden is coming after your constitutional right to drink meat-beer!

holy fucking shit, it's impossible to keep up with the twentyfourseven firehose of fucknuttery from the wingnuts"

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Americans give Biden mostly positive marks for first 100 days, Post-ABC poll finds

That's perhaps since the population appreciates the increased money for armoring (however started by the former guy, the current guy will surely reverse it, won't he?)

Despite virus, global military spending grew in 2020, led by US
2020 saw largest uptick in year-on-year outlay for more than a decade, even as some countries redirected funds to fight pandemic.

The US was by far the world's biggest spender, with Washington accounting for 39 percent of total global military expenditure in 2020 [File: Lockheed Martin/Handout via Reuters]
26 Apr 2021
Global military expenditure rose by 2.6 percent to $1.98 trillion last year even as some countries reallocated their defence funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report issued on Monday.

The five biggest spenders in 2020, which together accounted for 62 percent of military spending worldwide, were the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom, in that order, according to the Sweden-based body.

“We can say with some certainty that the pandemic did not have a significant impact on global military spending in 2020,” Diego Lopes da Silva, a SIPRI researcher and one of the report’s authors, said in a statement.

As global gross domestic product (GDP) declined because of the worldwide health emergency, military spending as a share of GDP reached a global average of 2.4 percent in 2020, up from 2.2 percent in 2019.

The jump represented the largest year-on-year increase since the financial crisis of 2009.

As a result of the increase, more NATO members hit the transatlantic security alliance’s guideline target of spending at least two percent of GDP on their military, with 12 countries doing so in 2020 compared with nine in 2019.

However, some countries such as Chile and South Korea redirected part of their planned military spending to their pandemic response.

Several others including Brazil and Russia spent considerably less than their initial military budgets for 2020.

US, China biggest spenders
The world’s two biggest spenders by far were the US and China, with Washington accounting for 39 percent of total global military expenditure in 2020 and Beijing for 13 percent.

US military expenditure reached an estimated $778bn last year, 4.4 percent more than in 2019.

It was the third consecutive year of growth in US military spending, coinciding with the term of office of former President Donald Trump, following seven years of prior continuous reductions.

“This reflects growing concerns over perceived threats from strategic competitors such as China and Russia, as well as the Trump administration’s drive to bolster what it saw as a depleted US military,” Alexandra Marksteiner, one of the report’s authors, said in a statement.

China’s military expenditure, the second highest in the world, was estimated to have totalled $252bn in 2020, a rise of 1.9 percent from the previous year.

Chinese military spending has now risen for 26 consecutive years, the longest series of uninterrupted increases by any country in SIPRI’s database.

Despite virus, global military spending grew in 2020, led by US | Military News | Al Jazeera

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Americans give Biden mostly positive marks for first 100 days, Post-ABC poll finds

How "positively" the cousins over the ocean see it:

Biden's 52% approval rating at 100 days in office is third-lowest since tracking began – but is 10 points higher than Trump

-Joe Biden is sitting at a 52% approval rating as he nears his 100th Day in office

-This is the third-lowest of any president since tracking began in 1945

-Biden's approval is still 10 points higher than Donald Trump's was at 100 Days

-Trump had the lowest of all presidents in modern history with 42%

Biden's 52% approval rating at 100 days in office is third-lowest since tracking began | Daily Mail Online

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Of the 1,007 adults polled by phone for the survey, 42% say they disapprove of Biden's job as president so far, with 35% saying they strongly disapprove and 7% saying they somewhat disapprove.

If you believe that 1,007 people pool gives a representative sample of 330,000 population?

And what they know about him? Who has got a chance to ask him something? Quite a different communication with the guy before, isn't it?

Biden cuts off press questions: 'I'm really gonna be in trouble' if I keep answering
Biden has been historically cagy with media since taking office
27 April 2021

President Biden said he would be "in trouble" if he continued to take questions from reporters during a rare back-and-forth with the press Tuesday afternoon.

After speaking about new federal health guidelines for mask-wearing for vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals, Biden answered a few shouted questions from gathered reporters at the White House.

"I'm sorry," he said, after listening to questions about his own mask-wearing and a potential summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "This is the last question I'll take, and I'm really gonna be in trouble."

WHITE HOUSE DENIES ALLOWING MORE REPORTERS TO COVER OUTDOOR BIDEN SPEECH ON RELAXED CDC GUIDANCE

It wasn't clear what Biden meant, although he's known for self-deprecation over his history of gaffes.

"Who will Biden 'get in trouble' with for taking basic press questions? He's the PRESIDENT!" Ricochet's Lyndsey Fifield tweeted.

Since he became president, he's been more reserved, limiting his engagements with the media to one solo press conference and occasional impromptu question-and-answer sessions like Tuesday's.

CBS ANCHOR 'SO CONFUSED' BY BECERRA'S INSISTENCE VACCINATED PEOPLE STILL WEAR MASKS

While White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has held daily press briefings, reporters have expressed frustration at times for a lack of transparency on border issues and the lack of access overall to Biden.

The Washington Post's Fact-Checker, breaking down the 67 falsehoods it had recorded from him during his first 100 days, noted the number was partly a function of how Biden "rarely faces reporters or speaks off the cuff."

Biden repeated CDC guidelines about people continuing to wear masks indoors, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated, while saying vaccinated people can gather outside without one. He continued to advise any Americans who have not received a vaccine to get one as soon as possible.

Asked why people who aren't vaccinated should still wear masks outdoors, given the risk of transmission is extremely low, Biden said, "because the science indicates that the most certain way to make sure it doesn't spread is if both people have been vaccinated, and you're outside."

Biden cuts off press questions: 'I'm really gonna be in trouble' if I keep answering | Fox News

Going easy on Joe: WaPo drops presidential fact-checking database they maintained under Trump after Biden’s 100 days
27 Apr, 2021

The Washington Post, which obsessively “fact-checked” every utterance by former president Donald Trump for years, is discontinuing its presidential database only 100 days into Joe Biden’s tenure, saying it’s just too much work.

The Post’s chief fact-checker Glenn Kessler announced the decision late on Monday, making a Freudian slip by describing the database as a “Trump” one rather than presidential, while trying to argue it required “about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular jobs.”

“Biden is off to a relatively slow start but who knows what will happen. We will keep doing fact checks, just not a database,” Kessler added.

If the argument that boils down to ‘Trump lied so much we’re now too tired to keep tabs on Biden even though he lies much less’ sounds strange, the one Kessler offered in the Biden database write-up on Monday is even more so.

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Going easy on Joe: WaPo drops presidential fact-checking database they maintained under Trump after Biden’s 100 days — RT USA News

‘Trump lied so much we’re now too tired to keep tabs on Biden even though he lies much less’

Good logic ...

Klondick posts links from RT and Fox news. What a fuckwit.

The stock market during President Biden’s first 100 days in office has outperformed every one of his predecessors going back 80 years, adding yet another notable data point to what’s been dubbed the “Biden boom.”

The Wall Street surge is expected to translate into economic gains as well, with analysts forecasting the fastest pace of gross domestic product (GDP) growth since the Reagan era as the coronavirus-ravaged labor market begins to heal and the country moves closer to fully reopening.

The strengthening economy, fueled by a turbo-charged vaccination campaign and $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, is boosting Biden’s political capital heading into policy fights over his multitrillion-dollar spending plans on infrastructure and families.

“The economy is looking fantastic. It’s probably going to be the best year of GDP growth in three decades,” said Dan North, senior economist at Euler Hermes North America Insurance Co.
And voters of all stripes are taking notice, said John Leer, an economist with the polling firm Morning Consult.

“What we have seen since Biden took office is that consumer confidence has consistently increased over that period of time,” he said. “That increase in confidence is occurring not only among Democrats, but among Republicans.”

Congressional Democrats are now seizing on the chance to link the widespread economic optimism to their legislative agenda, and they’re hoping to gain ground on an issue that’s often dominated by Republicans.

“After one of the most difficult years in the recent memory, the first 100 days of the Biden presidency and the new Senate Democratic majority has seen the country turn a corner,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday.

The booming economy comes despite numerous warnings from former President Trump during the 2020 campaign that markets would tank if Biden were to win.

"With Joe Hiden' it would crash,” Trump tweeted in September as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 29,000. It is now hovering around 34,000.

While many economists credit Biden with successfully scaling up the U.S. vaccination campaign and quickly pushing a COVID-19 relief bill through Congress, North noted that the president had some luck along the way.

Biden came into office with two safe, effective vaccines that already had emergency approval, with a rollout underway. Additionally, the post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases was beginning to recede by Inauguration Day, when funds from a coronavirus-relief bill just a few weeks earlier were making their way into the economy.

“He’s really come in with a huge tailwind, riding a wave of a lot of stimulus,” said North.

But with every boom comes the threat of an eventual bust. A stalled economy would likely hamper Biden’s agenda, and potentially carry electoral implications heading into the 2022 midterms.
“To me, the biggest risk is COVID. They’ve had these really big resurgences in Europe. That is a big risk if the trends here reverse,” North said.

In the U.S., vaccine hesitancy poses an obstacle. And public health officials worry about the possibility of a vaccine-resistant strain of COVID-19.

For some economists, the Biden economy could be a victim of its own success.

Larry Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and prominent Democratic economist, has warned that the flood of fiscal and monetary stimulus will result in persistent inflation, which could upend the growth trajectory and lead to higher interest rates that in turn could prompt another recession.

“We were providing demand well in excess over the next couple of years of any plausible estimate of the economy’s potential to produce, and that meant substantial price increases,” Summers said last week. “All the signs are for inflation starting to break out.”

The economy still has a long way to go before it reaches full recovery, particularly as millions remain unemployed.

Even as weekly jobless claims have fallen significantly — reaching pandemic-era lows in each of the past two weeks — 17 million Americans are without any employment.

Recent polling suggests Biden might not need to rely solely on the strength of the economy to accomplish some of his top priorities.

“When you talk to people about building the roads, bridges, broadband — these are safety issues, water supply, etc., and health issues, as well, it's vastly popular in a bipartisan way,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said earlier in April.

A recent Monmouth poll found 68 percent supported the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, and 64 percent support the families plan he’s set to formally unveil Wednesday evening before his first address to Congress. Similar numbers support his plan to tax corporations and the wealthy in order to pay for those proposals.

“The Biden administration’s presumption that spending programs are popular is borne out by these poll numbers,” said Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray. “The key to maintaining this level of support is whether Americans can point to direct benefits in their own lives once those plans are put into action.”

Still, polling numbers and an accelerating economy aren’t what will get Biden’s policies through Congress.

He must still contend with Republicans, who want to dramatically scale back the infrastructure plans and set aside some of the broader social benefits he’s proposing.

Without their support, Democrats can only pass whatever the Senate parliamentarian deems permissible under the arcane budget reconciliation rules that would allow Democrats to sidestep a GOP filibuster.

Biden must also ensure progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and centrists such as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) are willing to back the same legislation.

But the strong economy and popular voter support can’t hurt, and the Biden team has taken every opportunity to remind political rivals of that.

“These polls show what we have long known: That the president came into office at one of the most divisive moments in modern American history and the president's focus is on fulfilling his promise to bring the country together,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

“On delivering on the things the American people elected him to do, we have seen broad approval for getting the pandemic under control, turning our economy around, especially for working families and the middle class,” she said.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5...first-100-days

Originally Posted by bsnub

Klondick posts links from RT and Fox news. What a fuckwit.

So, what? Perhaps you can point out what is there not true?

(BTW, is meaning of the red points intended whether somebody likes or dislikes a source? A good style of argumentation...)

BTW2: reading somewhere, that like some social media (we know which they are) have been banning publicizing of somebody, similarly also some publishing houses cease to publish some. Then, it's just a small step to sort out our libraries and throw some books in a fire...

^ Poor Clowndyke. He can't decipher the truth from the false, the right from the wrong, living a life of quiet desperation, crying out for attention.

Originally Posted by elche

He can't decipher the truth from the false, the right from the wrong

Awaiting that somebody tells me...

Originally Posted by bsnub

The stock market during President Biden’s first 100 days in office has outperformed every one of his predecessors going back 80 years, adding yet another notable data point to what’s been dubbed the “Biden boom.”

This tool is very interesting regading stock prices compared to presidents.

Stock Market Performance by President | MacroTrends

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Awaiting that somebody tells me...

Some believe insulting the messenger is more acceptable than providing evidence that may support their opinion.

C'est la vie

Originally Posted by OhOh

Some believe insulting the messenger is more acceptable than providing evidence that may support their opinion.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Some believe insulting the messenger is more acceptable than providing evidence that may support their opinion.

That is pretty much what El Condescendiente has to offer

Originally Posted by elche

crying out for attention.

Here you are
Enjoy

Originally Posted by misskit

The pot calls the kettle black.

Evidence of your opinion would assist us all in judging the validity of your allegation,

Originally Posted by misskit

The pot calls the kettle black.

Wrong

You might feel that he insults your intelligence, but he doesn't insult posters much

Originally Posted by bsnub

The stock market during President Biden’s first 100 days in office has outperformed every one of his predecessors going back 80 years, adding yet another notable data point to what’s been dubbed the “Biden boom.”

If somebody believes that stock market figures represent the state of the economy?

That's Las Vegas enabling some to get rich - and some to get poor - within 1 day... Does it change anything on the economy within 1 day?

And if it goes really wrong - as it had gone many times - sometimes it can be helped, as it was helped in 2008 (who was the POTUS and VPOTUS that time?).

How had it helped to the population? To the ones not playing on Las Vegas?

Originally Posted by OhOh

I highlight the questionable content in the post MK makes, not her intelligence.

I tried to be diplomatic

^
Anybody who is "fragile" should stick to reading posts and refrain from their offering opinions.

Originally Posted by OhOh

If MK posts are enhancing any financial or any other status, online or otherwise, so be it.

I’m afraid to even ask what this means.