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

Context is also important here: Trump was fine with starting an all-out war with Iran, you'd have to be prior to targeting someone so high-profile. Biden was only looking to fire warning shots, as he's soon going to be back at the negotiation table with Iran to discuss a new nuclear treaty.

Texas would like a word. Of course, that's just the latest and most blatant example of Republicans leaving the "little people" to fend for themselves in a crisis, it's obviously not the only example. How Ted Cruz reacted to a three-day freeze is exactly how you can expect most Republicans to react to worsening natural disasters across the country as a result of climate change.

 

Texas? Try "the entire fucking nation since the pandemic started". We've discussed time and time again how Trump willfully refused to actually treat the coronavirus as seriously as it needed to be treated, and that really should be enough evidence of "the far right is built off of extraordinary selfishness" for almost anyone.
Not for Trump supporters though I guess... :/

 

"are people really upset we bombed a foreign country we have no reason to be in???????????????????" headass

 

remember folks red was always bad even before trump trump just made it 100X worse and we're still feeling the after effects what i fear the most is the SOTU address coming up after Jan 6th I always worried about it even the Mayor of DC said their were "credable threats" of another attack during that time (it's worse cause people are actually carrying out these attacks or show more willingness too after trump left the WH)

 

Is that relevant? I don't remember Trump asking Congress' permission for the Soleimani assassination either.

That was not theater. Both Russia and Israel wanted the US to be their proxy in a war with Iran, and Trump would've been more than happy to oblige in his second term when there would be nothing left for him to lose from it. The only reason war profiteering wasn't his first priority is because he was already conning so many rubes out of their money here at home. And that well may still not have run dry yet, I guess we'll see in 2024.

There was nothing vague about the previous treaty, the US and its allies had full access to frequent inspections. Dropping bombs on them wouldn't stop their nuclear program, if anything it would make them commit even more resources to it and be more inclined to utilize those nuclear weapons once they've been developed. So I'm not sure what you think the alternative is here.

There was no plan in place previously. The federal government under Trump was actually a hindrance to quick distribution of the vaccine, that much was obvious. He immediately lost what little interest he had in his duties as president once he lost the election.

Huh? The COVID relief package already passed the House, we're just waiting for the inevitable passage of it through reconciliation in the Senate.

He's not moving to reform immigration policy as quickly as I'd like, but the policies of mandatory family separations at the border and criminalization of asylum seekers have already been overturned by executive order. And while immigrants need to be housed somewhere while being processed through CBP, there's no reason to make those facilities as inhumane as possible like Trump did. New facilities are being built with showers, beds, all the basic necessities that immigrants were denied over the last four years.

At least he doesn't try to set government policy via Tweet at 3 AM after snorting a line of Xanax, you mean. That does help to keep the nation's collective blood pressure under control.

 

I'm not excusing anything, just pointing out the differences in motive. As I already explained to Valwinz, the bombs will continue to fall as long as every president we elect is a staunch capitalist beholden to the military-industrial complex. With that as a baseline, all we can compare them on is how many new wars they start or don't start.

Under Trump our stance on Russia was whatever Putin wanted it to be. The same is true of Israel and Netanyahu, as well as Saudi Arabia and their royal family. They all had strings firmly attached to the presidency, which is why Trump was still asking about his authorization to bomb Iran even after losing the 2020 election.

Tsk tsk, deeming an entire nation of individuals "terrorists" just because some of their leadership is attempting to develop nuclear weapons? Or perhaps it's because you think the US' religious extremists are somehow morally superior to religious extremists in the Middle East? Either way, a bit of your neocon is shining through the cracks.

More specifically, Fauci called the Trump administration's plan for a vaccine rollout "vague." That's the closest you're gonna get to a career CDC doctor saying they were fucking clueless.

Well we already tried throwing trillions at corporate welfare last year. For some odd reason, that didn't make the pandemic immediately and completely disappear.

That's fair, though the Obama administration didn't have a policy of family separation, and the influx of immigrants coming from South America during the Trump administration required the construction of additional facilities. Those facilities were left as bare-bones as possible, with nothing but concrete floors to sleep on surrounded by steel fencing. Hell, they even went to court to argue that immigrant children didn't need showers, soap, or toothpaste.

 

What do you mean "as I expected"? It sounds passive aggressive. As if you're telling us something that only you could know.

The time it would have made a difference was 6 months ago, but there was a grossly incompetent president in the Whitehouse at the time. The roll out is not great and is in spite of Donald Trump.

So yeah, as everyone expected.

 

This conversation proves one thing:

We need a 3rd party to win this time....

 

This is all awfully presumptuous of you. Until a new treaty is established, we won't know what the US is willing to give in exchange. As far as the treaty Obama established goes, we only ever returned to Iran their own funds which were frozen by the US. We essentially got what we wanted for free, but Trump wasn't smart enough to understand that. Or perhaps he was, and his desire to spite Obama simply overruled his desire to follow diplomatic best practices.

Wal-Mart and the like were never in any real danger of shutting their doors permanently, and Republican-proposed relief efforts thus far have provided little to no support for small businesses. Biden's relief package does include funds for small businesses, as well as a whole lot of money to re-open schools safely and to assist in the vaccine rollout. I'm not opposed to a few new museums either, as I'm sure my tax dollars have gone to much worse endeavors.

I wouldn't say I'm opposed to military intervention under any and every circumstance, but the last time the US was in the right for entering into a foreign conflict was probably WW2. So it's been a hot minute.

 

It seems I interpreted it exactly as the posturing you intended.

As vaccine rollout schemes take longer to implement than Biden has been in power then it would be obvious that there would be little change and why there is little change. So no disingenuous arguments please.

Slower than the UK.

They were late to that party as well because they didn't want to get involved, Japan forced their hand. I'm sure in their version of the movie they are the good guys, but it's not so clear to me.

 

If you hold a ruler up to your screen between january 1st and january 25th & compare it to now, then it's nothing like a straight line. Biden released vaccine that was being hoarded by Trump and ordered more, which hasn't been delivered yet.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n246

President Joe Biden announced on 26 January that he had purchased 200 million more doses of the two authorised vaccines

The Biden administration said that beginning next week it would increase by 16% the supply of vaccines distributed to states, tribes, and territories from 8.6 million doses per week to a minimum of 10 million doses, allowing more people to get vaccinated sooner than previously anticipated. It said that it would maintain this as a minimum supply level for the next three weeks with the supply expected to increase in late March. The recipient states, tribes, and territories will now get three weeks’ notice of what deliveries to expect, instead of the previous one week, to improve planning.


It seems his plan is going as well as expected bearing in mind what he inherited from the idiot president. It would be impossible to turn round the disaster of the last four years in less than four months.

 

What a dumb and uncultured thing to say. You act like Japan isn't allowed onto the internet and that you have no way of verifying your racist assumptions before spouting them.

 

This has nothing to do with anything.
It's one giant ad hominem attack with a side of deliberate misinterpretation and some whataboutism drizzle on top.