I think that’s a gross oversimplification and uses the word “power” solely in the sense of grand gestures and threats, etc. Biden believes in our power, but also believed (perhaps too much…a point that can be argued) in wielding it carefully, discretely and judiciously. You can’t make the assertion Malinowski is making unless you’re ignoring everything Biden did to Putin and Russia in order to assist Ukraine and expand NATO.
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This could use a hyphen or two, but I am unsure as to their placement.
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I’m again numb.
My fear is that he’ll do exactly that and there will be schmucks who still blame him for not putting pple under the jail sooner.
They might even cite South Korea as a positive and that would be a mistake.
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While he is largely sideline and ignored, President Biden took the opportunity of farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office to warn of rising oligarchy and a “tech-industrial complex” that both threaten fundamental freedoms – an extraordinary warning from a sitting president.
I agree with David Kurtz that Biden delivered an extraordinary warning but would put more emphasis than DK on the phrase “tech-industrial complex”. The president was explicit that he was echoing Eisenhower’s phrase, “military-industrial complex,” which Ike coined in his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office.
That portion of Biden’s address, indeed his whole address, was eloquent and insightful – in its written form. It pained me to listen to him last night because his delivery was, as usual, awful. I often had to strain just to make out what he was saying, and he seldom availed himself of the rhythms and emphases that the text invited him to use.
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Her exchange with Ted Cruz seemed like it was scripted akin to a rom com. Cruz”four indictments”, Bondi “and two assassination attempts!”.
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Not sure I get Alec’s point /s
It’s scary when Jews have money?
A Medal of Freedom confers power over government decisions?
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I have a rare criticism of David. “Dropping viable criminal charges [against Nauta and DeOliveira] in return for a special counsel’s report seems like a pretty lopsided bargain.”
Not a lawyer, but those charges look about as “viable” as the chances of the celluloid dog chasing the asbestos cat through hell.
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David Rubinstein has given MILLIONS to preserve American historical sites. The visitor centers at Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier were all financed by David Rubinstein. He also backed the renovation of the elevators at the Washington Monument. When my husband and I first visited Montpelier (back when it was still the duPont Mansion), the “visitor center” was a double-wide trailer.
ETA: On 1/20/2017, we visited Montpelier, to visit the family cemetery to personally apologize to President Madison for what this country was about to do.
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It is amazing, one interview and so many opinions snapped into recrimination and anger. Joe did a great job, under immense distress and his family suffered along with him. Yet he made pivotal moves that bettered us. No presidency is perfect, without critique.
But I do agree with this. The flex in addressing an opposing entity so driven by lies, grievance and absolute subterfuge did not happen. Instead our messaging was still reactive and guided by the Republicans and their outrage machine. We might as well have just yelled “Ow, stop hitting me!” every time the Republicans pulled out a new shenanigan.
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Joe Biden’s farewell address last night was excellent. But, tragically, he led off with his apparent success with the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
Which Bee-Bee has reneged on already this morning. As everyone knew he would.
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I like it.
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This new kid on the block might be worth looking at.
Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.
Rubin is partnering with former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen and launching something new: a startup publication called The Contrarian.
The startup’s tagline, “Not owned by anybody,” is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin’s view, have “bent the knee” to President-elect Donald Trump.
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Raising the flag on monday to please the god-emperor besmerches the memiry of a good and caring man. Something donnie does not understand. When donnie dies flags should never be lowered… ever.
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Folks can’t say that they didn’t know what was at stake, because Biden and other top Democrats have been pounding that strike zone for four years.
What happens on Monday is the culmination of progressives and a few centrists/liberals taking their eyes off the finish line. Ignoring that with a Republican majority in Congress, preventing Trump’s return was important.
Happy MLK day.
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What are you going to do with all that cut wood? Roaring fireplaces 24/7 at the White House and Mar-A-Lago?
ETA: Or for burning Witches? (aka Democrats)
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I’ve said this before – that phone DOES NOT belong to him. It’s a phone owned by the House of Representatives. He doesn’t pay the bill.
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I dread 4 years of having his pockmarked, orange pancake makeup anus-shaped lying mouth shoved in our faces every minute of every day. The media is inexplicably in love with him, so there’s no escape.
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Tuner made the mistake of showing actual concern about Russian malfeasance and leaked some info about it. Can’t have a Committee Chair who might break the goose-stepping ranks and report publicly on the clandestine shit Mango and Putin are about to get up to.
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He’s “suggesting” that Biden’s point is bs, because Soros is a billionaire.
Like Winfred Scott Hancock watching Dan Sickles getting hurled back, I’m looking forward to McGillis backtracking.
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As we now know, the laws do not apply to trump. SCOTUS has declared him king, immune to all his crimes, in office or not. So we might as well quit stressing about what horrific things he’s done in the past, because more are on the horizon, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
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