Topic: Joe Biden is President of the United States of America - page 18. (Read 12659 times)

I guess the answer is Tash, and the media, and to some degree I care as well.  Formal Presidential press conferences seem important for the country.  They aren't the same as just taking a few questions here and there or joint pressers where you can hand a question off to someone else.

I was only posting the stats to show it's not that big of an irregularity yet that Biden hasn't had one.  If he never has one, then yeah it would be.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TRUMP+PRESS+CONFERENCE+2017

That's all I had to type in. Sure seems a lot more than just one. He did plenty of press conferences and took plenty of questions from the press "informally".

The question is, who cares if it's a "formal" or "informal" press conference? As long as you answer the media's questions, does it matter? Jen Psaki said we'll get a press conference at the end of the month, the world is waiting. What I hope to see Biden pressed on: Border crossings and what his plan is to deal with the influx of immigrants. School reopenings, hopefully some reporters will point out that the EU has schools opened without uptick in cases (data is clear). And hopefully about COVID relief -- Someone should ask about potential inflation rates skyrocketing due to spending.

Formal Press Conference Count during First Year as President:

Trump: 1
Obama: 7
Bill Clinton: 11
George H. W. Bush: 27
Ronald Reagan: 6
Jimmy Carter: 22
Gerald Ford: 4
Richard Nixon: 6


I'm guessing we'll see Bidens first in the next couple weeks

Biden not yet holding a formal news conference raises accountability questions
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-holding-formal-news-conference-raises-accountability-questions/story?id=76341787

Yet, in the constitution, it is mostly a pledge to serve the people. The constitution is for the people, that is what our country's constitution is, I don't know in other country tho.

I was talking about the children in cages, not family separation. And what were the numbers during the Obama/Bush era? Because I truly don't know, I just don't remember much talk about it then. Social media wasn't too big then either so perhaps people were angry but it didn't make the newspapers.

It was not "nothing". Thousands of families were separated and the government was ordered by court to stop doing that and to reunite them, which AFAIK they were unable to do because they fucked up the whole thing bigly (couldn't track family members etc). So it was quite something.

I know you're a huge fan of AOC but even GOP congressfolk weren't too happy about it, mostly because it was going to cost them the midterms.

Family separation also happened during Obama and during Bush. The thing new about Trump was a zero tolerance policy, but, I think people can reasonably disagree on that. Me personally, a bit cruel to have a zero tolerance policy. But I'm also not an expert on border crossings so who knows what volume of children were coming in and whether they were being brought in by their biological parents or not. Were they concentration camps? Fuck no they weren't. And AOC was an idiot for saying so. And it was also during this time the left coined the whole "children in cages" debacle which they're silent on now. So you'd also have to go full Qanon to deny that the left wasn't screeching about children in cages back then and made an issue out of nothing. This isn't new though. The whole "believe all women" thing also got thrown out the window after Tara Reade and her allegations against Biden so I've already prepared myself for this to be a recurring thing with the far left now that Biden's in charge.

Huh? Speaking of revisionist history, what happened then? Trump/Sessions/Nielsen pitched family separation as necessary deterrent against illegal immigration. That is, until they did a 180 and started blaming Obama for it. There are court rulings requiring the government to reunite the separated families, so you'd have to go full QAnon to deny it.

Yeah no that is not at all what happened. Kids in cages was the new buzzword of the left. I see how that’s all different now that Biden is President. Remember AOC calling them “concentration camps”?

And btw, they  aren’t kids in cages. They weren’t when Trump was President, and it isn’t now that Biden’s President.

What’s scary is the revisionist history. How could you forget the kids in cages fiasco that lasted for literal months?

The reason there's not so much talk about it is because the real issue was Trumps family separation policy, which is not in happening under Biden.

Trump Policy:  If a parent(s) crosses border with children and no documents, they are separated from them.  Parents go to one facility, children go to separate facility.

The same facility that Trump used for children of all ages (not sure about infant's, lets say most, maybe all ages) has been reopened and is being used for teenagers that crossed the border without a guardian.

Both dems and republicans are trying to make it seem like Biden is doing the same thing Trump did that was widely considered outrageous to push political narratives (republicans to claim dems are hypocrites/Trump wasn't so bad, dems to get Biden to relax immigration policy).  Neither are accurate.

Opinion piece - https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/542043-team-biden-offers-alternative-reality-on-border-crisis-with-no-plan-to

Joe Biden is taking a soft approach on border crossings because it's a bit politically inconvenient to do what Obama did and actually have a tough(er) stance illegal immigration. But, this is an actual crisis. If you live in South American and you know that Joe Biden will be weak on immigration, why wouldn't you attempt to either illegally immigrate or show up at the border and request asylum? And Press sec Jen Psaki refuses to give a number on the amount of immigrants that are being kept at these detention facilities (so much for transparency).

For one, you have the whole "children in cages" optics which I remember very closely being a massive scandal during the Trump administration. Not so much talk about it now but set that aside. What is the ethical way of handling illegal immigration during a pandemic? Do you forcefully vaccinate all immigrants crossing to prevent spread? Do you bother testing anybody? Do these detention centers have social distancing? Mexico is basically a 3rd world country, COVID is spreading rampant and the only reason COVID cases are "down" is because of lack of testing and a lack of a national database that tabulates positive cases. So it isn't unreasonable to believe that some of the illegal immigrants crossing into the US will be COVID positive.

Depends.  In a constitutional republic it is more about serving the constitution.

Isn't that what democracy is all about? Serving the people in your country.

Government, the servant of the people
https://streamanity.com/video/rVtysXCGIvTG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM

The Elder Joes V game play trailer is released.

Maybe Biden is so far gone that he doesn't know that he doesn't know. All this shows is that he is remaining in character.

Biden isn't the one who orchestrated the election fraud. He simply sat there and wondered what happened.

That's called lying.

Admitting you don't know, or admitting you were wrong about something is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of character.

Everything is an issue, I even forget the names of the members of my thesis group in defense while presenting the paper, and I am young. It doesn't mean anything.

I'm also hearing that deficit is bad again. The party of fiscal responsibility is back for the next couple of years at least, yay.