Senate votes to keep Biden rule toughening requirements on stabilizing braces for firearms
By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lindsay Whitehurst
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New rules that require owners to register stabilizing braces for firearms will stay in place after the Senate rejected a Republican effort on Thursday to overturn them.
President Joe Biden had promised to veto the resolution overturning the rules if it had passed. In January, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finalized the new regulations on pistols with stabilizing braces, also called pistol braces, that require owners to register them and pay a fee or remove the braces. The agency found the accessories can make pistols as dangerously powerful and easy to conceal as short-barreled rifles or sawed-off shotguns.
The Senate voted 50-49 to reject the resolution, with all Democrats voting against it and all Republicans voting for it. The Republican-led House had passed the resolution earlier this month.
Republicans argue that the braces are needed for Americans who have disabilities to be able to shoot guns with one hand. Sen. John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican who sponsored the resolution, said he believes the regulations are a “backdoor way to subject pistols to more smothering regulations” and create a national gun registry.
Democrats said that the country needs more gun regulations, not fewer, as mass shootings proliferate.
The GOP effort to overturn the rule was “outrageous and it is completely removed from the conversation that families and kids are having all across the country,” said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., ahead of the vote.
The new rule is also being challenged in several lawsuits by gun owners and state attorneys general who say it violates the Second Amendment by requiring millions of people to alter or register their weapons. In some cases, judges have recently agreed to temporarily block enforcement of the rule for the plaintiffs.
Biden mentioned the rule in a speech last week as he urged tougher gun restrictions around the country. This month marks the one-year anniversary of legislation passed by Congress that toughened background checks for the youngest gun buyers, sought to keep firearms from domestic violence offenders and aimed to help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier to take weapons away from people judged to be dangerous.
Biden noted that the pistol brace rule is one of several steps his administration has taken to try and curb gun violence.
The braces are essentially turning a gun into a short-barreled rifle, he said, “which has been a weapon of choice by a number of mass shooters.”
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"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
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"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
Fair enough
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"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
The Juggler
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What is it about magas that make them so susceptible to believing so much of what they see on social media? Here is the rest of Biden's joke:
"Now, all
kidding aside -- look, we’re teaming up to design and develop new technologies
that are going to transform the lives of our people around the world. And
together, we’re lifting the private and public partners to make this possible,
including launching a new program between India and America -- American
astronauts, Indian astronauts, and entrepreneurs, scientists, students."
Video misrepresents Biden joke as admission of crime
In a video shared online, US President Joe Biden appears to admit to selling state secrets during a White House roundtable. But the clip is misleadingly edited; the full footage and transcript of the meeting show Biden was telling a joke.
"Joe Biden’s brain is going and he’s literally admitting his crimes out loud," says Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from the US state of Georgia, in a June 26, 2023 tweet.
The post shares a video originally published by the Republican National Committee. The clip shows a meeting with Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which the former says: "I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things."
On June 23, Biden and Modi met with technology executives at the White House to discuss ramping up cooperation between the United States and India. The event was part of a state visit in which the two world leaders reached agreements on US engines for India's new home-grown fighter jets and a major semiconductor factory.
The footage shared online does show the June 23 roundtable, but it has been edited to remove the context -- the official White House video and transcript show Biden immediately clarified that his remark was a joke.
Here is what the president said to kick off the meeting, according to the transcript (archived here):
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"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
It has spread like wildfire through the right wing ecosphere
More like rattled around the right wing empty craniumsphere. And you think Chris is going to fix that? “Truth” doesn’t even register with these folks.
Who said Chris is "going to fix that?" I think you are confused.
Speaking “truth” to a constituency so deluded isn’t going to dent POOTWH’s popularity amongst repub primary voters or bloody him for the general. Not when their elected representatives, reflecting the repub base and voters at large, are so easily duped.
See Liz Cheney’s column of today in the WaPo.
Again, Chris being honest about POOTWH with the rank and file is meaningless. He needs to convince the elected representatives and big money donors, the party establishment, to loudly reject POOTWH. Which just opens the door for Deathsantis. ‘Murica’s got a problem.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
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Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,298
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
It has spread like wildfire through the right wing ecosphere
More like rattled around the right wing empty craniumsphere. And you think Chris is going to fix that? “Truth” doesn’t even register with these folks.
Who said Chris is "going to fix that?" I think you are confused.
Speaking “truth” to a constituency so deluded isn’t going to dent POOTWH’s popularity amongst repub primary voters or bloody him for the general. Not when their elected representatives, reflecting the repub base and voters at large, are so easily duped.
See Liz Cheney’s column of today in the WaPo.
Again, Chris being honest about POOTWH with the rank and file is meaningless. He needs to convince the elected representatives and big money donors, the party establishment, to loudly reject POOTWH. Which just opens the door for Deathsantis. ‘Murica’s got a problem.
Yeah we'd be better off if he was running on an anti woke agenda. You're right! lol
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
It has spread like wildfire through the right wing ecosphere
More like rattled around the right wing empty craniumsphere. And you think Chris is going to fix that? “Truth” doesn’t even register with these folks.
Who said Chris is "going to fix that?" I think you are confused.
Speaking “truth” to a constituency so deluded isn’t going to dent POOTWH’s popularity amongst repub primary voters or bloody him for the general. Not when their elected representatives, reflecting the repub base and voters at large, are so easily duped.
See Liz Cheney’s column of today in the WaPo.
Again, Chris being honest about POOTWH with the rank and file is meaningless. He needs to convince the elected representatives and big money donors, the party establishment, to loudly reject POOTWH. Which just opens the door for Deathsantis. ‘Murica’s got a problem.
Yeah we'd be better off if he was running on an anti woke agenda. You're right! lol
I don’t need Chris to explain to me why POOTWH is a rotten POS person/candidate and the repubs don’t care. Chris should run on his policy proposals, seeing how Deathsantis and POOTWH have given him lanes on immigration and abortion and it should be easy to steer clear of the anti-woke agenda. But silly me.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
It has spread like wildfire through the right wing ecosphere
More like rattled around the right wing empty craniumsphere. And you think Chris is going to fix that? “Truth” doesn’t even register with these folks.
Who said Chris is "going to fix that?" I think you are confused.
Speaking “truth” to a constituency so deluded isn’t going to dent POOTWH’s popularity amongst repub primary voters or bloody him for the general. Not when their elected representatives, reflecting the repub base and voters at large, are so easily duped.
See Liz Cheney’s column of today in the WaPo.
Again, Chris being honest about POOTWH with the rank and file is meaningless. He needs to convince the elected representatives and big money donors, the party establishment, to loudly reject POOTWH. Which just opens the door for Deathsantis. ‘Murica’s got a problem.
Yeah we'd be better off if he was running on an anti woke agenda. You're right! lol
I don’t need Chris to explain to me why POOTWH is a rotten POS person/candidate and the repubs don’t care. Chris should run on his policy proposals, seeing how Deathsantis and POOTWH have given him lanes on immigration and abortion and it should be easy to steer clear of the anti-woke agenda. But silly me.
Yeah you're right. We'd all be better off if he was running on an anti woke agenda!
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
I guess this isn't my kind of comedy?
Tell us how you feel about tan suits.
I f'ing love them!
So is right wing social media criticizing him for bat jokes or that he committed treason? You know it's the latter. But if they lie to you about this, why wouldn't they lie to you about everything else?
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"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Can you explain why multiple republican congressmen and women are trying to deceive people like you into thinking it wasn't a joke? One of them even insinuated it was an impeachable offense. These are not serious people.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Can you explain why multiple republican congressmen and women are trying to deceive people like you into thinking it wasn't a joke? One of them even insinuated it was an impeachable offense. These are not serious people.
"Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared."
-President Joe Biden
He's the president...all he had to do was THINK about declassifying that shit right before he sold it.
I'll help. He was joking. People aren't actually saying he was serious???
My bad. I always forget that President Biden has the funniest, most appropriate jokes.
No, OUR bad. We assumed when conservatives kept blathering on about “doing my own research”, they weren’t referring to right wing talking points.
They keep falling for bullshit....however now that bullshit is being spread by their own elected leaders in congress, as opposed to just the far right corners of the internet.
Can someone please explain to me how this is funny or appropriate?
I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
Where were you, say, between 2015 and 2023, like yesterday?
I guess this isn't my kind of comedy?
Tell us how you feel about tan suits.
I f'ing love them!
So is right wing social media criticizing him for bat jokes or that he committed treason? You know it's the latter. But if they lie to you about this, why wouldn't they lie to you about everything else?
"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” - Allegedly Hunter Biden
Can two things be true at the same time? Where were you the other day when the press asked Karine Jean-Pierre about the quoted text above? Six different reporters asked questions about this, not just FOX. There are whistleblowers coming out with allegations all over the place. Are some not telling the truth? Sure.
Joe Biden said that he never discussed Hunter's overseas business dealings with Hunter. Do you believe that to be true to a lie? There are pictures with Joe, Hunter and Hunter's business associates to prove that Joe at least met with some of them.
Joe Biden is a liar and has proven that multiple times. If he's lied about some things, why wouldn't he lie to you about everything else?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New rules that require owners to register stabilizing braces for firearms will stay in place after the Senate rejected a Republican effort on Thursday to overturn them.
President Joe Biden had promised to veto the resolution overturning the rules if it had passed. In January, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finalized the new regulations on pistols with stabilizing braces, also called pistol braces, that require owners to register them and pay a fee or remove the braces. The agency found the accessories can make pistols as dangerously powerful and easy to conceal as short-barreled rifles or sawed-off shotguns.
The Senate voted 50-49 to reject the resolution, with all Democrats voting against it and all Republicans voting for it. The Republican-led House had passed the resolution earlier this month.
The regulation, which went into effect June 1, was one of several steps Biden first announced in 2021 after a man using a stabilizing brace killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. A stabilizing brace was also used in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that left nine people dead in 2019 and most recently in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Republicans argue that the braces are needed for Americans who have disabilities to be able to shoot guns with one hand. Sen. John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican who sponsored the resolution, said he believes the regulations are a “backdoor way to subject pistols to more smothering regulations” and create a national gun registry.
Democrats said that the country needs more gun regulations, not fewer, as mass shootings proliferate.
The GOP effort to overturn the rule was “outrageous and it is completely removed from the conversation that families and kids are having all across the country,” said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., ahead of the vote.
The new rule is also being challenged in several lawsuits by gun owners and state attorneys general who say it violates the Second Amendment by requiring millions of people to alter or register their weapons. In some cases, judges have recently agreed to temporarily block enforcement of the rule for the plaintiffs.
Biden mentioned the rule in a speech last week as he urged tougher gun restrictions around the country. This month marks the one-year anniversary of legislation passed by Congress that toughened background checks for the youngest gun buyers, sought to keep firearms from domestic violence offenders and aimed to help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier to take weapons away from people judged to be dangerous.
Biden noted that the pistol brace rule is one of several steps his administration has taken to try and curb gun violence.
The braces are essentially turning a gun into a short-barreled rifle, he said, “which has been a weapon of choice by a number of mass shooters.”
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
-President Joe Biden
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-sold-a-lot-of-state-secrets/
"Now, all kidding aside -- look, we’re teaming up to design and develop new technologies that are going to transform the lives of our people around the world. And together, we’re lifting the private and public partners to make this possible, including launching a new program between India and America -- American astronauts, Indian astronauts, and entrepreneurs, scientists, students."
https://news.yahoo.com/video-misrepresents-biden-joke-admission-173326935.html
Video misrepresents Biden joke as admission of crime
In a video shared online, US President Joe Biden appears to admit to selling state secrets during a White House roundtable. But the clip is misleadingly edited; the full footage and transcript of the meeting show Biden was telling a joke.
"Joe Biden’s brain is going and he’s literally admitting his crimes out loud," says Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from the US state of Georgia, in a June 26, 2023 tweet.
The post shares a video originally published by the Republican National Committee. The clip shows a meeting with Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which the former says: "I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things."
The video spread elsewhere on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, including in Spanish.
On June 23, Biden and Modi met with technology executives at the White House to discuss ramping up cooperation between the United States and India. The event was part of a state visit in which the two world leaders reached agreements on US engines for India's new home-grown fighter jets and a major semiconductor factory.
The footage shared online does show the June 23 roundtable, but it has been edited to remove the context -- the official White House video and transcript show Biden immediately clarified that his remark was a joke.
Here is what the president said to kick off the meeting, according to the transcript (archived here):
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See Liz Cheney’s column of today in the WaPo.
Again, Chris being honest about POOTWH with the rank and file is meaningless. He needs to convince the elected representatives and big money donors, the party establishment, to loudly reject POOTWH. Which just opens the door for Deathsantis. ‘Murica’s got a problem.
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I did see the full transcript of the FULL QUOTE but this doesn't change the fact that some things are not funny nor appropriate. Joe Biden is the President and this is his idea of comedy and you all just go along with it like it is normal.
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Can two things be true at the same time? Where were you the other day when the press asked Karine Jean-Pierre about the quoted text above? Six different reporters asked questions about this, not just FOX. There are whistleblowers coming out with allegations all over the place. Are some not telling the truth? Sure.
Joe Biden said that he never discussed Hunter's overseas business dealings with Hunter. Do you believe that to be true to a lie? There are pictures with Joe, Hunter and Hunter's business associates to prove that Joe at least met with some of them.
Joe Biden is a liar and has proven that multiple times. If he's lied about some things, why wouldn't he lie to you about everything else?