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Joe Biden is now officially the 46th President of the United States of America

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Hanafuda said:
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Also fair point.
Now that Biden's in charge, there's but one circumstance left in which talking about the Orange Julius Caesar himself is on-topic: when discussing Biden's actions to fix what he broke.
 
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Plasmaster09 said:
Also fair point.
Now that Biden's in charge, there's but one circumstance left in which talking about the Orange Julius Caesar himself is on-topic: when discussing Biden's actions to fix what he broke.
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To fix what he broke?? Biden just re-enacted all Trump's travel bans, and added South Africa.
 
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Hanafuda said:
To fix what he broke?? Biden just re-enacted all Trump's travel bans, and added South Africa.
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For different reasons, and with new precautions.
Trump implemented the bans for the sake of racism, and lifted them a week before he left for whatever reason (likely so that people could blame Biden for having to keep them).
Biden reimplemented them because if he didn't, the pandemic would likely worsen even further.
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Isn't there a covid variant from Africa that our vaccines won't work on?
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This is what I mean.
And it seems that things like the Moderna vaccine do still work, but are significantly less effective.
 
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Isn't there a covid variant from Africa that our vaccines won't work on?
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Well if it was xenophobic and racist to ban people traveling to the US when there was no vaccine, how does it excuse a travel ban when there is? And Biden only added South Africa ... travel from most of Europe and Brazil was banned too.
 
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Hanafuda said:
Well if it was xenophobic and racist to ban people traveling to the US when there was no vaccine, how does it excuse a travel ban when there is? And Biden only added South Africa ... travel from most of Europe and Brazil was banned too.
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IIRC, Trump implemented the bans before there was even a global pandemic in the first place.
And as mentioned above, Biden's new addition of South Africa is likely due to the new, alarmingly vaccine-resistant strain from there.
 
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Plasmaster09 said:
IIRC, Trump implemented the bans before there was even a global pandemic in the first place.
And as mentioned above, Biden's new addition of South Africa is likely due to the new, alarmingly vaccine-resistant strain from there.
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Not the ban Biden was referring to in the tweet above. That was in February. Democrats criticized it as racist, xenophobic, and an overreaction then, and later in 2020 they said Trump didn't act fast enough.
 
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Hanafuda said:
Not the ban Biden was referring to in the tweet above. That was in February. Democrats criticized it as racist, xenophobic, and an overreaction then, and later in 2020 they said Trump didn't act fast enough.
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...Because last year things kept on getting worse.
At the time, it was those things.
But last week, at a time when the ban was quite possibly a substantial help, Trump undid it. Knowing his sheer pettiness, I'd say he likely undid the ban specifically so that Biden would have to take the blame for redoing it when we actually need it.
 
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Democrat Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will not support eliminating the filibuster and her mind cannot be changed, according to a spokesperson
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Niceeeeeeeeee some good news finally
 
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>a Dem senator refusing to kill the filibuster
well let's just hope there's at least one Republican willing to- among fifty people, there's bound to be SOMEONE going "come on guys, stop trying to block everything Biden does by abusing this one rule"
 
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Hanafuda said:
Well if it was xenophobic and racist to ban people traveling to the US when there was no vaccine, how does it excuse a travel ban when there is?
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The ban in february 2020 was about limiting visas that could result in permanent residency, not travel.

It's now about preventing virus spread, during a pandemic.

If you don't understand why one is based on xenophobia and racism and the other isn't then I'm not sure you should bother continuing with the conversation.
 
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smf said:
The ban in february 2020 was about limiting visas that could result in permanent residency, not travel.

It's now about preventing virus spread, during a pandemic.

If you don't understand why one is based on xenophobia and racism and the other isn't then I'm not sure you should bother continuing with the conversation.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-impeachment-trump-past-democratic-presidents

“If it is a good idea to impeach and try former presidents, what about former Democratic presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022?”

Sure. Sounds like a great idea. Do Trump now and in 2022 go after other former presidents that did something illegal.
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I mean yeah
if person do bad thing, punish for bad thing
this really shouldn't be a partisan statement, but we're in a timeline where the former president basically tried to beat our democracy to death with a stick made of his own shit and then blame it all on the Dems so I guess it needs to be restated
 
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shamzie said:
Defending BLM causing atleast 19 deaths and millions upon millions of damage to homes and business because "muh opressed, but lemme loot that PS5 real quick and some new trainers" as fighting the system. You'll see it how you'll see it I guess. Easy to defend those if you refuse to look and cover your eyes.
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Nobody is defending deaths. See my previous posts on why BLM protests and Trump riots are not comparable.

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To fix what he broke?? Biden just re-enacted all Trump's travel bans, and added South Africa.
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Trump's travel bans were too little too late, and then he ended the travel bans on his way out of office. Biden fixed Trump's fuck up.
 
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-AZ SL to eliminate "permanent mail in voting list". -GA SL to heavily restrict VBM and require ID check for absentees. -PA SL to introduce legislation repealing VBM entirely. -MI SL plans to FINALLY adopt photo ID requirements to vote.
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Damn not looking good for Biden the popular President in 2024
 
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