Current Affairs Joe Biden POTUS #46

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Xizor said:
I don't entirely understand this. All political Executives have teams of unelected advisors, special advisors, communications directors and the like. When you elect a President (or when a Prime Minister is appointed via a less directly democratic method) there is the understanding they will appoint a team to support them in their role. Or are you talking about the cabinet? All of Biden's appointees had to be confirmed by the Senate, so again there's indirect democratic accountability. It's not feasible to run a national referendum for every political pick. In the UK it's slightly different as senior cabinet members are almost always elected MPs, but even then it's up to the PM to select who will carry out the roles, not the public.

So whilst it's true that some members of an administration are not directly accountable to the public, there is still an expenditure of political capital involved in every appointment by those that are, and if there are any overtly controversial picks then those that made the decisions can suffer later at the ballot box.

That's just how it works so not really sure why you have specific gripe over 'the candidate of Biden' here, as he appears to be running his administration the same way as any other Executive.
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Mate, you're wasting your time.

Think...

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Toffee_Loaf said:
You don't think it's relevant for a young girl that her father and grandfather tell her that i don't know who you are and don't want anything to do with you? I wouldn't have thought that was good for a kid, but may be you know better...
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I think they’re missing the big hitter of the Bribery accusations and fact that his presidency is coming to an end.

Family drama is small fry compared to that, but I don’t want to make editorial decisions on behalf of 100%fedup.com. They know what they’re doing.
 
Xizor said:
I don't entirely understand this. All political Executives have teams of unelected advisors, special advisors, communications directors and the like. When you elect a President (or when a Prime Minister is appointed via a less directly democratic method) there is the understanding they will appoint a team to support them in their role. Or are you talking about the cabinet? All of Biden's appointees had to be confirmed by the Senate, so again there's indirect democratic accountability. It's not feasible to run a national referendum for every political pick. In the UK it's slightly different as senior cabinet members are almost always elected MPs, but even then it's up to the PM to select who will carry out the roles, not the public.

So whilst it's true that some members of an administration are not directly accountable to the public, there is still an expenditure of political capital involved in every appointment by those that are, and if there are any overtly controversial picks then those that made the decisions can suffer later at the ballot box.

That's just how it works so not really sure why you have specific gripe over 'the candidate of Biden' here, as he appears to be running his administration the same way as any other Executive.

I don't really see anything in that video? He's on stage, she wants him to meet and greet some dignitaries on the other side of the stage. She's still holding his hand from shaking it. At the end, he's shaking the hands of the others. I don't see what's awful in there.
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What you're seeing in the video is a man that has no free will. There's ample evidence of this. It's apparent even anecdotally in many of the different events that Joe Biden does. At the end of every speech, he shuffles off talking to himself or shaking hands with himself. He also has any media assembled immediately pushed out of the event by handlers refusing them access to ask the President questions. Now, that's not a new phenomenon, but there's nothing comparable in recent memory to what happens now. A week scarcely went by when Trump or Obama were taking press conferences and fielding aggressive questions from journalists on important issues, but Biden doesn't do press conferences at all. The few occasions they have tried it they have given him a cue card, with a picture of the reporter, their name, the actual question they're going to ask him and some pointers on how he should answer - all prepared before hand. It's 100% stage managed to avoid any accountability. The President clearly cannot exercise his judgment or be trusted to exercise it based on how many times the people behind the curtain in the White House have walked back his embarrassing comments that he has made. He also has the habit of reading things on the autocue and when he truly goes off script, he says things like I can't say anymore or 'I'll get in trouble'. Get in trouble with who?

While all leaders delegate tasks and responsibilities, the leader holds those decision makers that they have empowered to account on behalf of the electorate (and in exceptional situations it is the leader only that determines what should happen). If that person isn't Joe Biden and it clearly is not, then who is it and shouldn't we know? How is it done? By what criteria? If Biden doesn't answer for his administration. Then who is in charge?
 
Prevenger17 said:
HUGE if true
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Dan Bongino clearly isn't very good at laying things out in a calm and well structured fashion, but the audio tapes of Biden's conversations with the Ukrainian President do add intrigue as to what Biden is trying to conceal from the Trump administration. Biden seems to know things that he shouldn't about who the FBI are or aren't investigating. While I have no idea why what the FBI are investigating should be of any concern to a Ukrainian President, what is Biden asking the Ukrainian President to hide from Trump and reassuring him that there won't be any investigation of it?
 
Toffee_Loaf said:
What you're seeing in the video is a man that has no free will.
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Well he has the same body language as I do when my mum forces me to make small talk with distant relations at family events, but to say 'no free will' is pretty baseless based on a 12 second clip.

Toffee_Loaf said:
If that person isn't Joe Biden and it clearly is not, then who is it
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"Clearly is not"? Is that based on anything either? He's an old man, not a zombie.
 
Toffee_Loaf said:
Dan Bongino clearly isn't very good at laying things out in a calm and well structured fashion, but the audio tapes of Biden's conversations with the Ukrainian President do add intrigue as to what Biden is trying to conceal from the Trump administration. Biden seems to know things that he shouldn't about who the FBI are or aren't investigating. While I have no idea why what the FBI are investigating should be of any concern to a Ukrainian President, what is Biden asking the Ukrainian President to hide from Trump and reassuring him that there won't be any investigation of it?
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As I say, MASSIVE if true
 
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