Finally, a Biden news conference on Mar 25 !!

Yeah, he's a busy guy and he should say "sorry folks, I've only now gotten a breather from the Covid crisis and the stimulus bill".

I don't buy that he couldn't break away and do a news conference. But it's a satisfactory excuse considering vaccinations supply & shots seem to finally be ramping up and last weeks passage of the stimulus.

Not specific to Biden but what the heck ..

It's hard to feel sorry for someone that willingly returned to the Lion's den for some miscalculated sense of importance/relevance. More power to you and hope you turn out to be a Nelson Mandela ... but I'm thinking the odds are significantly against you.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/europ...no2/index.html

Yup, it's pending in my bank account right now.

I'll probably do the boring thing and just invest it in my mutual fund.

This is so accurate. It's almost as if all they care about is white men holding on to power.

So who here thinks a Putin-Biden debate would be must-see?

Least we know he's not an asset like Trump.

Biden should be focusing on Xi (let EU worry about Putin) and possibly, Iran.

Read the AK summit hasn't gone well but guess that is to be expected. Hoping he plays hardball with China ... not the Trump-like, meandering hardball but one with a long-term strategy with friendly countries.

How about a Putin-Biden- Jung Un- Rouhani-Johnson- Steinmeier debate.

If we are dreaming, lets got big

Battle Royale Cage Match! in Thunderdome!

SI

The crackdown on admitted weed smokers in the WH is a bunch of Boomer horseshit.

When are we going to get the common sense thing done and just decriminalize MJ. This is fucking ridiculous.

Dola - And I say that as a Boomer :)

Decriminalization isn't enough.

it's much better than we have now and much easier to pass. It gets the records of users and small time dealers expunged so they can have a life, gets the feds out of states business and opens up an even bigger boom for the MJ industry. We can worry about the rest later.

Biden obviously schooled to try and run up the stairs to AF1 (I’m assuming that’s an acronym!) and trips. Now has to justify he’s OK... Just walk up like anyone normal, don’t try and pretend you’re 20 years younger and concentrate on the important stuff

BUT THE MEDIA ISN'T REPORTING ON IT LIKE TRUMP AND THE RAMP.

Never mind that Trump insisted on making it a deal all on his own, bringing it up during his rallies, as a way to show how aggrieved he was. Just like the stupid water drinking thing.

SI

Ok, when can we 25th Amendment his ass?

When he colludes with Russia to steal an election? When he colludes with other world powers to try and take out a political opponent? When he tries to lead an insurrection after he lost an election?

SI

I thought we established that those aren't reasons to 25th a President?

But falling while walking up the stairs is. Imagine if he was wearing a tan suit while doing it? It would be the total downfall of the Republic.

Because this was one incident, I'm okay with his mea culpa. Sounds like he was being a drunk boor.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/polit...ion/index.html

At least there's almost no chance Biden uses Grey Poupon.

The richest Americans don't report at least 20 percent of their income to the IRS, new research suggests

A heck of a lot of people who aren't rich also don't report a lot of their income to the IRS.

So are you saying that means it doesn't matter, or that it's just as bad, or that the media headline is "wrong and over dramatized" because it only focuses on one side? I mean, one of those feels like that is what you're saying.

I don't know that I'd fully endorse any of those takes, but it's pretty close to 'just as bad'. Basically I'm not a fan of the hypocrisy of demonizing the rich for doing something a lot of not-rich people do.

But this story is based on an academic paper specifically looking at tax avoidance strategies of the ultra-wealthy.

They get audited though. The rich don't.

Other way around. Most recent year I can find good info for is 2015, in which:

** Those who made $10 million or more were audited over 8% of the time
** $1 million to $10 million, 2.5%
** Those making under $500k, less than 1%

The rich are audited far more often than the poor are.

That has changed as enforcement funding has been slashed.

Where in the U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS? | ProPublica
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/ir...xpayers-easier

That's not good, but it also doesn't support your statement - unless you are claiming people who make six figures but less than $500k are rich, but those who make over $500k aren't.

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

Israel held an election but it looks like nobody has enough MKs to form a government.

For a guy with late stage dementia, Biden did pretty well in his presser.

They'll just come up with something else to complain about now. He did well. Seemed prepared and gave thoughtful, empathetic answers.

The general buzz I am seeing is that he was wonderfully, refreshingly boring.

My goodness how I've missed boring.

Boring is good

It's refreshing not to be lied to daily.

He's actually being criticized for showing up too prepared.:rolleyes:

LOL, God forbid the President has a plan

He used notes! Why didn't he just make shit up?

Speak from the gut! Say wacky things that could easily be construed as suggesting people drink bleach!

That way you can troll them after the fact and feed your persecution complex.

SI

Sorry guys, it's over, I heard this was going around Facebook and will be officially announced over the weekend.

https://i.redd.it/pgra0zn4sbp61.jpg

Man Molson, its just like Trump always said when asked about the election I guess, "you all know that the Democrats cheated". Guess we should have believed him after all.

I do have to question why he needed cheat sheets of the attending press, and why some journalist had numbers marked next to them.

Some lawyers preparing for oral arguments in courts that don't give the judges/justices nameplates will make a cheatsheet of the judges'/justices' names and where they are sitting.

The key is to offload as many of those things as possible onto paper so that you can focus on answering the questions.

It is even more acute for Biden because he knows that if he slightly flubs a name, the only story out of it will be

DEMENTIA
DEMENTIA
DEMENTIA

I am way younger than Biden, and there is no way I could keep up with the name of a bunch of reporters while trying to recall varied information over numerous topics.

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Why does he need to know the names?

Because he is personable. It is a business trick. You call people by their names to help make a connection. It is also a basic form of respect.

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It is so easy to keep people that want to believe nonsense on the hook. Eventually the goalposts will move to January 2025 and if Biden is defeated or decides not to run for re-election they will say "See, I told you it is only a matter of time" as they celebrate.

It's like we have more 2 year old minds over the age of 30 than we do under the age of 3.