Politics The Joe Biden Thread

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  1. julius

    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I think, between you using "cogent" and me using "cogent" correctly in the last week, including me explaining what it meant, we should test @THE HCP to see if he can define it without looking the word up.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Good food was about the only the reward for having to put up with all the Mickey Mouse bullshit that comes with being on a flagship..... Blue Ridge mid-rats while on WESTPAC was the best chow of the entire day. Mid-rats while stateside blew chunks......but yes, in general we ate very well regardless of where we were. It’s just that overseas the ship got reimbursed for every sailor whether they went through the chow line or not, so good food was plentiful. Stateside, they only got reimbursed for whoever actually went through the chow line. With most guys eating from the pier side roach coaches, pickings were usually pretty slim on board ship. I did eat on an overseas Air Force base once and it was at least as good as what we got on the Blue Ridge......and you are 100% correct. We had to pry the jarheads out of the mess hall when it came time for them to debark.......
     
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    I spent very little time on the Blue Ridge stateside...just a couple of weeks after getting back I transfered the the USS Hull...a tin can...by that time we all had apartments in San Diego and great mexican food everywhere......I flew to meet the Blue Ridge in Vietnam (Tonkin Gulf)from the Philipines. I was supposed to go back for a second tour on the Blue Ridge but I didn't want to go back or we'd have served together.
     
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  5. stampedehero

    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    True. Check out MRE Steve 1989 and savor those wonderful menu's
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    Hello darkness, my old friend
    Well, Scott, it explains why in the article:

    Mexico's president said Saturday that Biden told him the U.S. would send $4 billion to help development in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala — nations whose hardships have spawned tides of migration through Mexico toward the United States.

    López Obrador, who spoke Friday with Biden by phone, said the two discussed immigration and the need to address the root causes of why people migrate.

    Mexico has stopped recent attempts by caravans of Central American migrants to cross Mexico.
     
  8. julius

    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I wonder what it's like to be that fucking idiotic.
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Google's your friend. You could do a search on Trump accomplishments, but, again, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't meet with your relative sensibilities. So be it.
     
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    I just did this and discovered he's accomplished the destruction of his brand and the financial support of his lines of credit, probably his marriage and the trust of the nation he tried to dictate by coup....I believe now he's also accomplished the pardoning of some really bad people and accomplished the exposure of several white supremacist organizations and cults that are now under investigation...yup....Google is my friend. Google the lobby to kick Trump out of Mar Lago and the longtime members canceling their 200k per year memberships...the Trump logos being taken down in New York City...yeah...Trump is all over google....he's made a lot of people regret their choices....some even more than once...and after all.....I LIKE PRESIDENTS THAT DON'T GET IMPEACHED!
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    You'll be fine, I'm sure. Carry on.
     
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    I know...Google is my friend
     
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    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I wasn't asking for a list of laws enacted under Trump, I was asking for what you, personally, thought were great policies that Trump enacted. But I should have realized that you say these things without actually knowing what you're talking about.

    "I like stuff Trump did."
    "Oh, what did you like?"
    "I don't know, google it."
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    How is that wall going? And did my people cut the US a check yet? Isn't that what he told everybody was going to happen?
     
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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    "You know the burden is on you to explain what it is you like about him, right?"

    "It's not hard to find out what it is that is likeable about his presidency"
    "No, I didn't ask what is likeable about his presidency, I asked what YOU liked about his presidency"
    "Such a typical tactic by the left, you're attacking me for my beliefs"
    "Maybe let us know what those beliefs are, and we can have a discussion about them"
    "It's this kind of persecution that the left does, that is why there is so much division in the country. You're trying to take away my 1st amendment right!"
     
  17. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    K, I'll google just a few. That said, he's now gone, so it's relatively moot. I had my reasons for supporting him (many of those listed , below), but, again, I've now turned my head towards the future and hope/pray Biden becomes a successful President in his own right. My guess, is, though, he won't serve out his first term. Gut feeling. Nothing more.

    https://www.hometownsource.com/morr...cle_867b4ed0-5ce5-11eb-8278-27505f4da65d.html

    https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/.../trumps-long-list-accomplishments/3671585001/

    https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article248659305.html

    https://highlandcountypress.com/Con...lists-accomplishments-from-2017-21/2/20/63948

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-accomplishments-ari-fleischer

    https://bnn-news.com/trumps-accomplishments-or-why-74-mln-americans-voted-for-his-re-election-221014

    https://www.oaoa.com/editorial/colu...cle_6ba7c076-5d52-11eb-acfe-83eb5a9ce467.html

    https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/01/18/trumps-presidential-report-card-by-howie-carr/
     
  18. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I do understand that, and he fell way short of that claim. Valid point. That said, many Presidents make great claims early on.

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    What Trump fell really short on was telling the truth.....never has a president gone on record as being this sort of compulsive liar.....that's his main accomplishment...that his supporters didn't care if he told the truth or not as long as he insulted their enemies....which is a major source of national divisions...Hitler taught dictators that the first thing you do to seize power is discredit the free press...textbook authoritarianism....people addicted to following someone are easily fooled and need that figurehead....the spirit of America does not need that figurehead.
     
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    Hmmmm...and I thought this was a Joe Biden thread.
     
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