#46 President Joe Biden

mickeyrat

Merkin Baller said:

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

"theres a sucker born every minute"

Bentleyspop

tbergs said:

My uncle is a whack righty and is also a racist who slings the big Mike conspiracy. Anyone who believes that or shares it deserves to have karma kick them in the ass. Deplorable indeed. 

Every single person who believes this whackjob conspiracy theory and every single person who laughs in agreement are ignorant racists.

shecky

Legal experts slammed President Biden's announcement declaring the 28th Amendment law as "cynical and irrelevant."

Biden on Friday released a statement saying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) should be considered ratified and a new addition to the U.S. Constitution. 

"It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex," he said. 

"Biden’s announcement is both cynical and irrelevant," said former Assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy. "If he believed what he is saying, he would’ve said it when his administration started, not when he is on his way out the door as a failed, one-term president. 

"More importantly, the president has no constitutional role in the amendment process, so his view carries no weight."

"President Biden seems intent on moving his administration from the odious to the absurd," Jonathan Turley, Fox News contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital. "This was an embarrassingly pandering moment to the most extreme elements in his party. It is a position based on a long-rejected and frankly ridiculous foundation."

When asked about the timing of the announcement by reporters, Biden said Friday, "Because I had to get all of the facts and I contacted every constitutional scholar in the world to make sure it was the right decision."

The ERA would prohibit discrimination based on gender. It was sent to the states for ratification in 1972, with Congress setting a 1979 deadline for three-quarters of state legislatures to ratify the amendment. The deadline was later extended to 1982. 

Virginia became the last state to pass the amendment in 2020, pushing the final number of states who had passed the amendment to a total of 38. McCarthy noted that the ERA "was not ratified by the states within the statutorily allotted timeframe."

"The only way to get it into the Constitution would be to start all over again," McCarthy said. "Everybody knows this, including Biden. That is why the national archivist has not published it, nor has Biden had the temerity to try to order that that be done."

Turley also said: "Biden notably stopped short of giving the left what it wanted most: an actual executive order on the ratification. He simply made a declaration and presumably left the matter up to the archivist."

ERA: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

The national archivist is responsible for making constitutional amendments official. The archivist had previously declined to certify the amendment, citing a 2020 opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel of the DOJ (OLC) that "affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable."

"The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts. Court decisions at both the District and Circuit levels have affirmed that the ratification deadlines established by Congress for the ERA are valid," the National Archives said in a statement in December. "Therefore, the Archivist of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal Rights Amendment. As the leaders of the National Archives, we will abide by these legal precedents and support the constitutional framework in which we operate."

"This is just pandering," McCarthy said. "It will have no lasting significance."

Haley Chi-Sing is a Writer for Fox News Digital. You can reach her at @haleychising on X.

Kat

Closed for review.

HughFreakingDillon

enjoy your retirement. 

DE4173

🫡

battle1

Imagine telling the internet how smart you are over and over.  Pathetic. 

tbergs

battle1 said:

Imagine telling the internet how smart you are over and over.  Pathetic. 

🤪

Halifax2TheMax

battle1 said:

Imagine telling the internet how smart you are over and over.  Pathetic. 

Now imagine the opposite. Even more so.

DE4173

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129

Promise made, promise kept.

Gern Blansten

DE4173 said:

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129

Promise made, promise kept.

he either got bad advice or ignored good advice....love Biden but he should have bowed out in 2023

DE4173

"Welcome home" 1/20/25

HughFreakingDillon

this is respectable, whether you agree with what he did or not. He's not going to whine and cry about being attacked. He says what he feels and deals with the slung mud. 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/entertainment/video/the-lead-george-clooney-president-joe-biden-oped-2024-elections-jake-tapper

DE4173

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

Lerxst1992

DE4173 said:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

Thanks for posting this. Been waiting for the tapper book. Democrats have become everything we complained about Trump eight years ago. Gaslighting and rampant dishonesty.

The yahoos on the left claiming the election was lost due to the price of bread, or the yahoos thinking a WI special election absolves the Democratic Party from lying to us, and the absolute loss of trust, need to read this book. This was a nightmare train wreck, and someone on the left needs to apologize to the country for the bullsht they pulled.

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“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe said. By deciding to run for reëlection and then waiting more than three weeks after the debate to bow out, Plouffe added, “He totally fvcked us.”

The real issue wasn’t his age, per se. It was the clear limitations of his abilities, which got worse throughout his Presidency. What the public saw of his functioning was concerning. What was going on in private was worse. While Biden on a day-in, day-out basis could certainly make decisions and assert wisdom and act as President, there were several significant issues that complicated his Presidency: a limit to the hours in which he could reliably function and an increasing number of moments when he seemed to freeze up, lose his train of thought, forget the names of top aides, or momentarily not remember friends he’d known for decades. Not to mention impairments to his ability to communicate—ones unrelated to his lifelong stutter.

It wasn’t a straight line of decline; he had good days and bad. But, until the last day of his Presidency, Biden and those closest to him refused to admit the reality that his energy, cognitive skills, and communication capacity had faltered considerably. Even worse, through various means, they tried to hide it. And then came the June 27th debate against Trump, when Biden’s decline was laid bare before the world. As a result, Democrats stumbled into the fall of 2024 with an untested nominee and growing public mistrust of a White House that had been gaslighting the American people.

DE4173

People will read it, but Tapper has Dems upset for writing it and magas upset for covering it up.

😄

Go Beavers

Lerxst1992 said:

DE4173 said:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

Thanks for posting this. Been waiting for the tapper book. Democrats have become everything we complained about Trump eight years ago. Gaslighting and rampant dishonesty.

The yahoos on the left claiming the election was lost due to the price of bread, or the yahoos thinking a WI special election absolves the Democratic Party from lying to us, and the absolute loss of trust, need to read this book. This was a nightmare train wreck, and someone on the left needs to apologize to the country for the bullsht they pulled.

…..

“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe said. By deciding to run for reëlection and then waiting more than three weeks after the debate to bow out, Plouffe added, “He totally fvcked us.”

The real issue wasn’t his age, per se. It was the clear limitations of his abilities, which got worse throughout his Presidency. What the public saw of his functioning was concerning. What was going on in private was worse. While Biden on a day-in, day-out basis could certainly make decisions and assert wisdom and act as President, there were several significant issues that complicated his Presidency: a limit to the hours in which he could reliably function and an increasing number of moments when he seemed to freeze up, lose his train of thought, forget the names of top aides, or momentarily not remember friends he’d known for decades. Not to mention impairments to his ability to communicate—ones unrelated to his lifelong stutter.

It wasn’t a straight line of decline; he had good days and bad. But, until the last day of his Presidency, Biden and those closest to him refused to admit the reality that his energy, cognitive skills, and communication capacity had faltered considerably. Even worse, through various means, they tried to hide it. And then came the June 27th debate against Trump, when Biden’s decline was laid bare before the world. As a result, Democrats stumbled into the fall of 2024 with an untested nominee and growing public mistrust of a White House that had been gaslighting the American people.

This begs the question why is mental decline a significant issue for a dem president, but not for a republican one? 

mrussel1

Lerxst1992 said:

DE4173 said:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

Thanks for posting this. Been waiting for the tapper book. Democrats have become everything we complained about Trump eight years ago. Gaslighting and rampant dishonesty.

The yahoos on the left claiming the election was lost due to the price of bread, or the yahoos thinking a WI special election absolves the Democratic Party from lying to us, and the absolute loss of trust, need to read this book. This was a nightmare train wreck, and someone on the left needs to apologize to the country for the bullsht they pulled.

…..

“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe said. By deciding to run for reëlection and then waiting more than three weeks after the debate to bow out, Plouffe added, “He totally fvcked us.”

The real issue wasn’t his age, per se. It was the clear limitations of his abilities, which got worse throughout his Presidency. What the public saw of his functioning was concerning. What was going on in private was worse. While Biden on a day-in, day-out basis could certainly make decisions and assert wisdom and act as President, there were several significant issues that complicated his Presidency: a limit to the hours in which he could reliably function and an increasing number of moments when he seemed to freeze up, lose his train of thought, forget the names of top aides, or momentarily not remember friends he’d known for decades. Not to mention impairments to his ability to communicate—ones unrelated to his lifelong stutter.

It wasn’t a straight line of decline; he had good days and bad. But, until the last day of his Presidency, Biden and those closest to him refused to admit the reality that his energy, cognitive skills, and communication capacity had faltered considerably. Even worse, through various means, they tried to hide it. And then came the June 27th debate against Trump, when Biden’s decline was laid bare before the world. As a result, Democrats stumbled into the fall of 2024 with an untested nominee and growing public mistrust of a White House that had been gaslighting the American people.

You are so tiresome.  Who is defending Biden staying in the election?  Who is defending Biden's team from being transparent? No one.  You can be all mad about what happened in 2024 or you can get a fucking life and move forward.  It's your call, but don't come at me with your passive aggressive bullshit.  

"Someone on the left needs to apologize...".  

Okay @Halifax2TheMax , can you PLEASE apologize to LERX (and the country) already so we can move on and we don't have to read the constant stream of whining that makes these pages intolerable so often?  If I had known he just wanted someone on the left to apologize, then we could have made this stop a long time ago.  

josevolution

Por favor perdóname 

mrussel1

josevolution said:

Por favor perdóname 

Perfect.  Thank you.  It's all over now.