A report card on the Biden administration

[basquebromance]

Biden wants to restore the soul of america...by stealing america's presidential election and destroying american democracy

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Biden's approval rating hits 53%.

CNBC reports, "More than half of Americans say they support President Joe Biden’s performance in office so far and approve of his sweeping infrastructure proposal, according to a new NBC News poll.

"The poll findings released Sunday showed that 53% of respondents approve of Biden’s job in office, including 90% of Democrats, 61% of independents and 9% of Republicans, while 39% [percentage equal to the dwindling Trump cult] of respondents disapprove of Biden’s performance."

Throughout his Presidency Biden's approval numbers have exceeded his disapproval numbers.

Throughout his Presidency, beginning with 40% approval, Trump's disapproval numbers consistently exceeded his approval numbers. Not once did Trump's approval number exceed his disapproval number.

That is what happens when a President is regarded as the worst in American history.

And that is saying something.

 

[badger2]

Not taking the bait on that one. China JoeXi is an installed catholic-CIA puppet. Stats differences, differences of the more and the less, are false problems. The blm-antifa protest, largest in U.S. history does not proportionally match the intelligence of the collective mass of protestors. If you believe JoeXi’s stats, you should join the catholic protection-racket mafia.

 

[bripat9643]

President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.

Taxes may be necessary. We may need to roll back the trump bush and Reagan tax breaks.

We need to roll back the Biden "infrastructure" bill and any other boondoggle spending he proposes.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Throughout his Presidency Biden's approval numbers have exceeded his disapproval numbers.

Throughout his Presidency, beginning with 40% approval, Trump's disapproval numbers consistently exceeded his approval numbers. Not once did Trump's approval number exceed his disapproval number.

Biden wants to restore the soul of america...by stealing america's presidential election and destroying american democracy

Not taking the bait on that one. China JoeXi is an installed catholic-CIA puppet. Stats differences, differences of the more and the less, are false problems. The blm-antifa protest, largest in U.S. history does not proportionally match the intelligence of the collective mass of protestors. If you believe JoeXi’s stats, you should join the catholic protection-racket mafia.

We need to roll back the Biden "infrastructure" bill and any other boondoggle spending he proposes.

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Republicans appear to be living in another universe.

 

[bripat9643]

Throughout his Presidency Biden's approval numbers have exceeded his disapproval numbers.

Throughout his Presidency, beginning with 40% approval, Trump's disapproval numbers consistently exceeded his approval numbers. Not once did Trump's approval number exceed his disapproval number.

Biden wants to restore the soul of america...by stealing america's presidential election and destroying american democracy

Not taking the bait on that one. China JoeXi is an installed catholic-CIA puppet. Stats differences, differences of the more and the less, are false problems. The blm-antifa protest, largest in U.S. history does not proportionally match the intelligence of the collective mass of protestors. If you believe JoeXi’s stats, you should join the catholic protection-racket mafia.

We need to roll back the Biden "infrastructure" bill and any other boondoggle spending he proposes.

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Republicans appear to be living in another universe.

You mean a sane universe? No. We know the universe we live in is totally insane.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The sheriff's department in North Carolina is definitely hiding something.

USA Today reports, "The mayor of Elizabeth City declared a state of emergency Monday as authorities in North Carolina worked to redact bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. before allowing the Black man's family and lawyers to view it."

Redact?

USA Today continues, "The family and its representatives plan on viewing the video at the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office, lawyers said at a news conference where they urged immediate release of the video.

“City officials realize there may potentially be a period of civil unrest within the city following the public release of that footage,” Mayor Bettie Parker said in the emergency declaration.

"The lawyers said they wanted the raw video, not a redacted version."

Redacted or not, after an exhaustive internet search, I was unable to determine if the video(s) will be released to the media. That seems like a very curious omission from the sheriff and/or the North Carolina courts.

Why does it take a court order in North Carolina to release videos of a police shooting?

To protect the police, of course.

That doesn't work. The protests are getting stronger and more violent by the day as many are frustrated by the silence from North Carolina. It is definitely not a wise course of action.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The sheriff's department in North Carolina is definitely hiding something.

USA Today reports, "Lawyers and a family member for Andrew Brown Jr. repeatedly referred to his death in North Carolina as an “execution’’ Monday while complaining they were only allowed to watch 20 seconds of body-camera video of his fatal encounter with law enforcement."

The stupidity on the part of the sheriff's department and the Pasquotank County attorney general cannot be understated. In how many ways can their stupidity be measured? Count them.

They allowed only the family and its lawyers see the video. This means that only one view of the incident in question is being presented to the public at large -- the view of Edward Brown's family.

The American public knows no different. News correspondents know no different.

The authorities permitted only one unfavorable highly prejudicial view of their departments to be seen by the public! That kind of stupidity defies understanding.

The family was allowed to see only a 20 second body cam video from one officer. We don't know what happened before the short video, and we don't know what happened after the short video. There were seven other deputies present. There were seven body cam videos. The family was shown only one 20 second video.

It is almost as if the county authorities wanted to make themselves look incredibly stupid while lacking even a hint of transparency. Does the sheriff and his department think they are above the law?

If we are to believe what the family and its lawyers are saying, the 20 seconds shown was the worst possible 20 seconds of the entire incident. Brown was in his car on his driveway with both hands in plain sight on the steering wheel when the eight deputies open fire. Brown was not armed.

The part of the ME's report made public did not tell us how many times the unarmed Brown was shot. We do know he was shot in the back from recorded calls of the sheriff's department. Brown died from a shot to the back of his head the ME said.

The Justice Department in the past five days has announced that they will be investigating the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments. The country would be well served if Garland investigated the Pasquotank County attorney general and sheriff department. They both need a lot of help.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The authorities permitted only one unfavorable highly prejudicial view of their departments to be seen by the public! That kind of stupidity defies understanding.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy S. Wooten in a video statement later Monday characterized the incident as quick and said that outside investigators are interviewing witnesses and gathering more information.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The part of the ME's report made public did not tell us how many times the unarmed Brown was shot.

ABC News reports, "The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies said Tuesday that an independent autopsy shows he was shot five times, including once in the back of the head.

"Andrew Brown Jr.'s relatives and attorneys announced the outcome of the postmortem exam they commissioned during a news conference Tuesday morning outside the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Department in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, saying it confirms he was "executed."

"Dr. Brent Dwayne Hall, the former medical examiner for five northwest North Carolina counties, performed the independent autopsy, the family's attorney's said.

"Wayne Kendall, an attorney representing Brown's family, displayed autopsy graphics pointing out that Brown was shot four times in his right arm. Kendall described those wounds as glancing wounds that did not kill Brown.

"He said the fatal shot hit Brown as he tried to drive away to save his own life. He said a bullet hit Brown at the base of the back of his skull and lodged in his brain."

"He was able to back up, turn the vehicle around, spin off across a vacant lot. And at that time he was hit in the back of he head and that is the fatal bullet wound," Kendall said.

 

[toobfreak]

A report card on the Biden administration

This can't be good. Enough red Fs to shock a gradeschooler into needing counseling!

President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds.

Hate to hear what obscenities you normally mumble.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons

You obviously have more air in your head than a block of Swiss cheese?

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America

For the first time in four years, we have:

• $4.00 regular gasoline.
• Food prices soaring.
• Energy costs out the roof.
• Suspicion and fascism running rampant.
• Crime and racism going quickly up.
• Conflicts soaring around the globe.
• Total dishonesty in our media.
• A president who can't recite the alphabet without cue cards and a teleprompter.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

ABC News continued, "According to the search warrant obtained by ABC News, sheriff's investigators wanted to search Brown's home for crack cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. In an affidavit attached to the search warrant, detectives claimed they used a confidential informant to record audio and video of the informant purchasing crack cocaine and methamphetamine from Brown on several occasions."

Brown's family and their attorneys claimed investigators failed to find weapons or drugs in Brown's vehicle and home.

Body cam videos still haven't been made public by the sheriff's department. All we get is meaningless rhetoric.

 

[toobfreak]

I'll settle for politics becoming boring again.

There hasn't been nor is there likely ever going to be any "boring" moments with Selected Joe Obidden.

 

[toobfreak]

Biden hit the ground running.

That's only because he can't see for shit and keeps getting out of his car while it is still moving down the street.

Or maybe Kamela keeps shoving him out the door.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Brown's family and their attorneys claimed investigators failed to find weapons or drugs in Brown's vehicle and home.

Body cam videos still haven't been made public by the sheriff's department. All we get is meaningless rhetoric.

The sheriff's department and the Pasquotank County attorney general continue to allow only one side of the story to be told -- the version from Andrew Brown's family and their lawyers.

Maybe it is not because of their stupidity. Maybe it is because the family's version is correct. Maybe it is because the sheriff's deputies committed murder. Maybe it is because they don't have anything to say in defense of the deputies.

We know the Brown family version is damning, as is the ME report they commissioned.

CNBC reports, "The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Tuesday that it will investigate the killing of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who died after police shot him during an arrest in North Carolina last week.

"The announcement comes a day after attorneys for Brown’s family, allowed to watch a 20-second video of his arrest, said the 42-year-old was shot in the back of the head while he had his hands on his steering wheel.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said Tuesday he believes a special prosecutor "should handle all matters regarding the shooting in Pasquotank County" that resulted in Andrew Brown's death.

The mayor of Elizabeth City had previously declared a State of Emergency. That order has been amended to add a curfew.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Why does this not surprise me about Republicans?

The Post reports, "A longtime New York Post reporter said she has resigned after being “ordered” to write a false story that claimed undocumented minors were being welcomed to the United States with copies of a children’s book authored by Vice President Harris."

“The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against — was my breaking point,” Laura Italiano tweeted Tuesday afternoon, several hours after her viral article about the books had been deleted from the Post’s website and replaced with corrected versions.

"Since the Post ran the story on its front page Saturday, the conservative mediascape has been in an uproar over the supposed distribution of Harris’ 2019 book, “Superheroes Are Everywhere,” at migrant shelters. A slew of prominent Republicans expressed outrage over the possibility that taxpayers were funding the program. Even the White House press secretary was grilled about it."

 

[Sandy Shanks]

The sheriff's department and the Pasquotank County attorney general continue to allow only one side of the story to be told -- the version from Andrew Brown's family and their lawyers.

Maybe it is not because of their stupidity. Maybe it is because the family's version is correct. Maybe it is because the sheriff's deputies committed murder. Maybe it is because they don't have anything to say in defense of the deputies.

Why am I not surprised?

NPR reports, "A judge in North Carolina ordered law enforcement body camera footage of the death of Andrew Brown Jr. disclosed to his family, but not released to the public until completion of a state investigation into Brown's death.

"Judge Jeffrey Foster ordered the video disclosed to Brown's family within 10 days.

"A coalition of media organizations had requested the release of the video, but Foster ruled the media did not have standing to petition for release, and that the public release could harm the reputation or safety of the deputies depicted in it and impact the state's investigation.

"The judge says five body camera videos and one car camera video will be disclosed to Brown's family and to their attorney. He ordered all faces and nametags of deputies blurred."

The sheriff's department and the Pasquotank County attorney general are looking very guilty of trying to hide a murder. They apparently think they do not have to answer to the American people.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Even Presidents are allowed to dream. Biden has proposed a $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, or infrastructure plan. Now he is proposing the$1.8 trillion American Families Plan.

CBS reports, "President Biden is set to call for universal preschool when he delivers his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday. With the unveiling of the American Families Plan, Mr. Biden is seeking an "investment in our kids," and will lay out how his proposal will help families with basic expenses so many struggle with now, according to a White House official familiar with the plan.

"In an effort to provide free, high-quality, accessible preschool care to all 3 and 4 year old children, the president will call for a national partnership with states. The move is expected to benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000, when fully implemented, according to the White House."

The operating principle here is, ask for the whole loaf, and you might get some slices.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

It doesn't pay to be a lawyer for Donald Trump.

Michael Cohen is a disbarred lawyer who served as an attorney for President Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018. He was the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by the media as Trump's "fixer."

On December 12, 2018, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations. Cohen joined Trump's campaign manager and deputy campaign manager in prison.

The Times reports, "Federal investigators on Wednesday seized cellphones and other electronic devices from Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who became Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the investigation said.

"F.B.I. agents executed search warrants around 6 a.m. at Mr. Giuliani’s apartment on Madison Avenue and his Park Avenue office in Manhattan, carting away the electronic devices, Mr. Giuliani confirmed in a statement.

"The execution of search warrants is an extraordinary action for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president. It is a major development in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani, which examines some of the same people and conduct that were at the center of Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial."

All of this is a remarkable turn around for Giuliani. As mayor, Giuliani won national recognition for steering New York through the dark days after the Sept. 11 attacks, and earlier in his career, he led the same U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that is investigating him now, earning a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor who took on organized crime and corrupt politicians. It appears, as a Trump colleague, he may have become one.

When President, Trump's party lost the House, Senate, and the Presidency within a span of four years, a ninety year old record. Trump was virtually kicked out of New York where he was born and raised. Everything he touches turns to dust, and his devout followers avoid him.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

CNN recalls, "In a September 2019 interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Giuliani first denied that he had asked the Ukrainians to investigate Joe Biden before admitting he actually had moments later."

"In October 2019, two men connected to Giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt on Biden -- Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman -- were arrested before a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. The charges involved alleged attempts by the two men to funnel foreign contributions into US elections."

"In February 2020, then-President Trump acknowledged that he had sent Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponents. (Trump had denied doing so during the impeachment process.)"

"None of this looks good for Giuliani. The bar for securing a search warrant against such a high-profile figure is very high -- and that was met here. And this level of activity suggests that the investigation may well be moving into a new and more active stage."

Food for thought -- Donald Trump is no longer protected by Presidential immunity, not when it comes to Ukraine and not when it comes to his incitement of an insurrection on Jan. 6.