Joe Biden is now POTUS
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Biden is completely different than trump, first and last of all: Biden is a politician, trump never was and never will be a politician, he's barely a business man but definitely a grifter/salesman. Biden would literally have to push the nuclear button to fuck up America worst than trumps one term presidency.
Yep he’s definitely throwing in the towel but boy they are gonna be waiting for his ass when you get outside the White House. Flynn lied I am mean he lied to the investigators about Russia and Trump is going to pardon him yeah this is not going to end well for Trump
I think he is full on trolling again.
Not even black folk In Wisconsin like it is in Michigan lol
Absentee ballots aka mail in ballots is hard to cheat the system vs in person voting
And it’s even more funny how republicans are all of a sudden against absentee ballots when that was literally their bread and butter with their senior voters
When the outgoing president sabotages the income president's efforts because well, he's Trump and he didn't get 4 more years ...what a fucking baby move...
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What is the special trap ? I can not read the Waspost
Do not underestimate the alphabet Gang they hate Trump
Start with USA Today and you'll be able to handle The Post in no time if you stick with it.
You so funny
It says I am out of free reads on the WasPost, So What was the special Trap ?
Trump has set a hidden trap for Biden. It could do great damage.
Opinion by Greg Sargent
November 24, 2020
From beginning to end, Joe Biden’s campaign focused heavily on President Trump’s encouragement of white supremacy. His campaign launch video was all about Trump’s refusal to unambiguously condemn racist violence. At the final debate, Biden declared that Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire.”
But, now that Biden is set to become president, he will have to act on these words. And therein lies a hidden trap that Trump has set for Biden, one that will present grueling political and policy challenges at the outset.
Biden vowed to “restore the soul of the nation” as president, meaning he won’t use the power and influence of the office to carry out a white nationalist agenda or to lend support to right-wing extremists and white supremacists, instead “uniting” the country.
But what does all this mean in practice? It means many things, from purging immigration policy of naked bigotry to rolling out an agenda that takes systemic racism seriously to having a president who doesn’t actively encourage police and even vigilante violence.
But one of the most thorny problems Biden faces will be how to reverse the failures of the previous administration when it comes specifically to violent domestic extremism and white supremacy.
A massively complex challenge
This is a complicated challenge that will entail action on many fronts. They include a look at whether federal law needs to be revamped to treat white nationalist and white supremacist mass killings as a form of domestic terrorism.
Another imperative, as former National Security Council official Joshua Geltzer points out, will be to take seriously the transnational nature of global white nationalist and white supremacist groups and ideologies. Numerous recent domestic mass shootings were inspired by white supremacist mass murderers abroad, and social media has created transnational networks espousing white supremacist violence.
All this would require determining whether this sort of law enforcement activity can be done — and this is absolutely crucial — without violating civil liberties. Only the pursuit of political aims through violent means should be the focus, and all violent ideologies must be targeted. Civil libertarian groups must be fully included in discussions of any legal reorientations.
This will also pose a big communications challenge to the new president. And here’s where the Trump trap comes in.
Trump’s failings on right-wing extremism
Trump’s own Homeland Security Department declared this fall that violent white supremacy is “the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland.” Trump’s own FBI director has testified to the same thing.
But all this came after Trump and his administration systematically downplayed (or actively encouraged) the white nationalist and white supremacist threat. Former senior Homeland Security analyst Elizabeth Neumann has revealed that officials vainly tried to get Trump to take right-wing extremism seriously for months.
What’s more, Neumann has suggested, Trump continued to make public statements lending tacit support to such groups despite surely knowing that this type of rhetoric encourages them, such as his infamous call for the extremist Proud Boys to “stand by.”
And a Homeland Security whistleblower revealed top-down pressure to downplay intelligence on the white supremacist threat. Numerous top Trump officials hyped impressions of organized leftist terrorism to eclipse right-wing violence in keeping with his reelection message.
Obviously, one big change will be that Biden will not make public statements tacitly encouraging or downplaying violent right-wing extremism. But the big problem Biden faces is how to successfully communicate and level with the public about the threat in a way that’s constructive, not destructive.
Mary McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general, told me that this challenge involves several components. One involves communicating to those vulnerable to violent right-wing radicalization that they have “another way,” McCord says, which entails giving them a stake in a larger “purpose” other than such causes.
“I see fear as motivating some of the white supremacist organizations and movements — fear of a loss of white privilege, economic and educational privilege,” McCord told me.
Another entails drawing careful distinctions between adherents of violent right-wing extremism and those who might be at much earlier stages of radicalization, to preserve the possibility of communicating with the latter. Still another entails dealing with online disinformation, but that’s a whole other massive problem.
The trap Trump set
Labeling the threat itself carries perils that Biden will have to avoid. Recall that in the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a Homeland Security analyst produced a report on right-wing extremism that caused an explosion of controversy among conservatives. That led to a quick retreat on the topic.
It’s easy to see the same happening again. However Biden does seek to address the threat, we’ll likely see another effort by right-wing media to label it a tyrannical attack on conservatism.
This time, retreat is not an option. Trump has aligned himself with various strands of right-wing extremism. He continues to assert the election was stolen from him. He will continue to claim measures against the coronavirus pursued by Biden constitute tyranny (such measures may have partly motivated the plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer).
All this will be designed to keep a pro-Trump insurgency as active and as angry as possible. There may be all kinds of overlap between that violent white supremacist activity and continued resistance to the Biden administration and anti-virus measures on the invented grounds that his victory was illegitimate.
The trap Trump set is to activate this insurgency, making it more fiendishly challenging for Biden to make good on his vow to take the white supremacist threat far more seriously than Trump ever did. Biden will be tempted to retreat in labeling that threat in the interests of “unity.” But that would be a retreat on a core rationale of his victorious candidacy.
This is bullshit. Seriously. Did he win this election alone? He was almost
gone until people took extraordinary intervention. He wants to appoint
a Republican but refuses to consider Sanders or Warren. Biden should not
forget that he won because of how much Democrats hated Trump. He also
needs to remember that this sort of bullshit is what cost Obama the 2010
midterms. He needs to stop this centrist bullshit because it might depress
the enthusiasm for the GA runoff among Democrats. Wtf is wrong with
this dummy?
Sounds like he's basically - Diet Republican.
Question, did bloomberg ever use those millions he promised to help with?
edit. Yep he did, didn't work tho
Not directly anyway:
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Mike Bloomberg spent more than $100m to help Biden in states that Trump won
Mr Bloomberg spent an additional $15m on doomed efforts in Ohio and Texas.
Graig Graziosi
Wednesday 04 November 2020 22:11
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's decision to dump millions of dollars in Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign efforts in Republican states appears to have been a waste.
Mr Bloomberg - who ran in the Democratic primary but dropped out - contributed more than $100m into Mr Biden's efforts to oust Donald Trump in Florida, Ohio and Texas. Each of the states was won by Mr Trump.
The money was used primarily in ad campaign promoting Mr Biden and attacking Mr Trump.
In addition to the advertising, initiatives to engage black and Latino voters were also funded. However - at least in Florida - Mr Trump appears to have gained support in certain Latino communities.
The majority of Mr Bloomberg's money - $100m - was spent in Florida. He contributed an additional $15m in Texas and Ohio.
Mr Bloomberg does not view the infusion of cash - and the lack of payoff on his investment - as a loss.
“The goal was to help elect Joe Biden president. We are well on the way to helping achieve that goal,” Bloomberg political adviser Howard Wolfson told The New York Post.
edit. Yep he did, didn't work tho
Not directly anyway:
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Mike Bloomberg spent more than $100m to help Biden in states that Trump won
Mr Bloomberg spent an additional $15m on doomed efforts in Ohio and Texas.
Graig Graziosi
Wednesday 04 November 2020 22:11
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's decision to dump millions of dollars in Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign efforts in Republican states appears to have been a waste.
Mr Bloomberg - who ran in the Democratic primary but dropped out - contributed more than $100m into Mr Biden's efforts to oust Donald Trump in Florida, Ohio and Texas. Each of the states was won by Mr Trump.
The money was used primarily in ad campaign promoting Mr Biden and attacking Mr Trump.
In addition to the advertising, initiatives to engage black and Latino voters were also funded. However - at least in Florida - Mr Trump appears to have gained support in certain Latino communities.
The majority of Mr Bloomberg's money - $100m - was spent in Florida. He contributed an additional $15m in Texas and Ohio.
Mr Bloomberg does not view the infusion of cash - and the lack of payoff on his investment - as a loss.
“The goal was to help elect Joe Biden president. We are well on the way to helping achieve that goal,” Bloomberg political adviser Howard Wolfson told The New York Post.
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Yep, Obama appointed Republicans and that shit didn't work. The Senate still works against him.
I am wrong. Both Sanders and Warren would be replaced by Republicans since
the governors in NH and MA are Republicans...Romich20 correctly reminded me
of this
That is nothing to Bloomberg. Biden may not have won those states, but it forced
Trump to pour money in Ohio, Texas and FL, leaving him broke and having to pull
out of places like MN, AZ, WI and MI on occasion, and losing all in the process...
Not only did it work well, but Trump owes a lot of people a lot of money. That blitz
of campaign stops was mostly done on credit. All those stadiums and arenas had
to be rented for those stops from private owners and municipalities. The locals cities
still need to be reimbursed for the police escorts....
And even before the elections, there was a report that showed just how much and
how many cities Trump owed for all the campaign stops he did well before the
elections. All had not been paid....
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14 U.S. Cities Still Waiting for Trump Campaign to Pay Nearly $2M in Police, Public Safety Bills
BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 8/17/20 AT 12:31 PM EDT
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign owes nearly $2 million to 14 U.S. cities for unpaid police and public safety bills.
According to the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), interviews with municipal officials and municipal records and statements show that Trump's campaign has not paid at least 14 bills totaling more than $1.82 million. The unpaid money was used to cover public safety and police costs related to the president's campaign rallies.
The 14 cities are Spokane, Washington; Billings, Montana; Mesa and Tucson, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Minneapolis and Eau Claire, Minnesota; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Battle Creek, Michigan; Lebanon, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; Burlington, Vermont; and Wildwood, New Jersey.
The Trump campaign's largest unpaid bills were from El Paso and Minneapolis, with $569,204 and $542,733, respectively, according to CPI. Both of these cities are awaiting payment for campaign rallies in 2019.
Other cities, such as Spokane, Tucson, Burlington, Eau Claire and Green Bay, are still waiting to be reimbursed for rallies in 2016.
"Without this money, we cannot help our most vulnerable, and I guarantee we do not have enough money to prevent lives lost and homes lost," Kate Burke, a City Council member in Spokane, told CPI.
Rebecca Fleury, city manager of Battle Creek, told CPI that "any revenue received would be helpful to our general fund." Her city billed Trump's campaign over $93,000 for a rally in December 2019.
Lane Mandle, a spokesperson for Tucson, told CPI, "What the city of Tucson needs, like every major municipality, is a direct infusion of cash from the federal government that can be put toward our general fund to offset the millions currently being lost in sales tax revenue."
A statement sent to CPI by Trump's campaign said the billing should be directed to the Secret Service and not the campaign.
"It is the U.S. Secret Service, not the campaign, which coordinates with local law enforcement. The campaign itself does not contract with local governments for police involvement," the statement said.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Despite these unpaid bills, the president has been known to express his support for law enforcement during many of his rallies and press conferences.
On August 14, Trump tweeted that he was accepting an endorsement from the New York Police Department (NYPD).
"Today it is my great honor to proudly accept the endorsement of the @NYCPBA," Trump wrote. "I have deeply and profoundly admired the brave men and women of the #NYPD for my entire life. New York's Finest are truly the best of the best — I will NEVER let you down!"
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Put this on the list of things I did not know..
Cassandra Wilson (Jazz Singer) .... Huge Coon
Cassandra Wilson (Jazz Singer) .... Huge Coon
Obama did a great job Especially coming after Bush some people don’t know that we was really close to collapsing. What slowed Obama down a little bit Was the 2010 election And that tea party bullshit. Remember people Congress has the purse strings I was trying to beat this into some people in 2010 and that came back and almost bit all of us in the ass. Also this is why the Senate race is very important in Georgia January 5, 2021.
It's a new religion the MAGA Cult
I've worked w her before. This is disappointing.
The reason why Obama did badly in the midterm is that he dispirited his own followers
by moving to the center and premising all his programs on the support of even one Republican,
which he never got. The ultimate betrayal is that under withering criticism from the Tea Party
about TARP and the Stimulus, Obama shifted position and went out on campaign touting
fiscal austerity and disdain for bailout, thus leaving the House members, who had pinched their
noses, and voted to bail out wall street to pay the price on their own. As everyone knows, the
GOP actually ran on the bailouts and won the House in 2010. Politically, Obama was for Obama.
People are confused about why Texas which was ripe for the taking went for Trump, breaking
almost an unheard of 50-50 among Latinos. The reason is simple: Obama was the most anti
immigrant president since well before Nixon. Obama was one of the main Senators who killed
George W Bush's immigration bill in 2006. Obama deported 3,000 people a day, and began the
program of family separations. Obama only changed right before the 2012 elections and signed
DACA to appease Hispanics, who then gave him 70% of their vote. However, Hispanics in this
cycle were in the same mood as some black American men, and were asking themselves what
the Democrats had done for them.
To be fair, Biden has openly said that he told Obama not to pursue the anti-immigrant policies
that he did, and Obama refused to listen....
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