#46 President Joe Biden

mrussel1

23scidoo said:

Oh gods..

https://twitter.com/i/status/1669801413604519937

It's a joke and like saying "sayonara".

nicknyr15

All I see in every thread are tweets. When have tweets become news? I thought everyone here hated Twitter? 

23scidoo

mrussel1 said:

23scidoo said:

Oh gods..

https://twitter.com/i/status/1669801413604519937

It's a joke and like saying "sayonara".

hahahahahahahaha

Merkin Baller

nicknyr15 said:

All I see in every thread are tweets. When have tweets become news? I thought everyone here hated Twitter? 

Twitter's just the medium. It's the origin and source of the tweet that matters IMO. 

HughFreakingDillon

he literally has been saying "god save the queen, man" for years, as russell said, a joke. but of course, that means he's "confused". 

Gern Blansten

I hear Frederick Douglass is being recognized more and more though.

nicknyr15

Merkin Baller said:

nicknyr15 said:

All I see in every thread are tweets. When have tweets become news? I thought everyone here hated Twitter? 

Twitter's just the medium. It's the origin and source of the tweet that matters IMO. 

I understand but Damn. Scrolling through these topics feels like Twitter. I usually came here to see discussions 

Gern Blansten

nicknyr15 said:

Merkin Baller said:

nicknyr15 said:

All I see in every thread are tweets. When have tweets become news? I thought everyone here hated Twitter? 

Twitter's just the medium. It's the origin and source of the tweet that matters IMO. 

I understand but Damn. Scrolling through these topics feels like Twitter. I usually came here to see discussions 

Not every post is a discussion starter I guess

nicknyr15

Gern Blansten said:

nicknyr15 said:

Merkin Baller said:

nicknyr15 said:

All I see in every thread are tweets. When have tweets become news? I thought everyone here hated Twitter? 

Twitter's just the medium. It's the origin and source of the tweet that matters IMO. 

I understand but Damn. Scrolling through these topics feels like Twitter. I usually came here to see discussions 

Not every post is a discussion starter I guess

Very true but even just someone’s thoughts on something. I’m not on any social media so don’t mind me. I know I’m the minority in that I just hate seeing so many tweets 

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1671276740478668800?t=8wsjonkL91LnlyDhNPAq4w&s=19

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/pistol-braces-gun-control-biden-rules-shootings-cb82dd071f47413e5c55ab36d4c9a5a7

 

Senate votes to keep Biden rule toughening requirements on stabilizing braces for firearms

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Lindsay Whitehurst

Today

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.”

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1672242222060773384?t=fe7vxIOQINv18r0yB5E36w&s=19

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1672242222060773384?t=fe7vxIOQINv18r0yB5E36w&s=19

So much winning.

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1672247803039596544?t=mMhZp-G7lk5B8abyvBQ63w&s=19

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1673353411050209280?t=ALFVmIgl0lflDKKd7Zbugg&s=19

JB16057

"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

Gern Blansten

JB16057 said:

"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.

JB16057

Gern Blansten said:

JB16057 said:

"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

Kat

Gern Blansten said:

JB16057 said:

"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??? 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-sold-a-lot-of-state-secrets/

The Juggler

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."

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."

Screenshot of a tweet taken June 27, 2023

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):