The Case For Biden

But please don't let the peaceful protestors gouge out the eyes of policeman.

That's exactly what he could have done

In a nation divided so "cleanly" down red and blue lines, your president could have made any number of edicts, which the blue states would have roundly ignored.

Each state and territory in Australia is making their own edicts on the epidemic, and that's been working just fine for us.

Trump would have had to have known a helluva lot more than what state governors could or would have told him, before any kind of rational "one size fits all" package could have been pushed on the nation.

Sucks that a foreigner needs to remind you that you reside in the United States, rather than a cohesive whole.

What's creepy Joe doing about those Americans freezing to death in Texas?

And while state power officials scramble to get Texas's electric grid back to pre-storm capacity, the Biden administration has also begun unlocking federal aid to help provide lifesaving emergency gear for struggling Texans. On Monday, President Biden approved an emergency declaration for the state, opening the doors for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin moving power generators, blankets, and water into at-risk zones. FEMA has already reportedly dispatched 60 "very large" generators intended to keep crucial sites such as hospitals running. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also announced this week that the agency would send diesel fuel to the state in order "to ensure the continued availability of backup power."


In addition to FEMA supplies, the government has reportedly begun the process of dispatching active duty military personnel to help facilitate Texas's ongoing — and since disrupted — coronavirus vaccination effort.

Biden Administration Formally Offers to Restart Nuclear Talks With Iran

President Biden campaigned on restoring an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program. It remains unclear if Tehran, which is demanding that sanctions be lifted first, will accept the offer to talk.

WASHINGTON — The United States took a major step on Thursday toward restoring the Iran nuclear deal that the Trump administration abandoned, offering to join European nations in what would be the first substantial diplomacy with Tehran in more than four years, Biden administration officials said.

In a series of moves intended to make good on one of President Biden’s most significant campaign promises, the administration also backed away from a Trump administration effort to restore United Nations sanctions on Iran. That effort had divided Washington from its European allies.

And at the same time, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken told European foreign ministers in a call on Thursday morning that the United States would join them in seeking to restore the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, which he said “was a key achievement of multilateral diplomacy.”

Hours later, Enrique Mora, the European Union’s deputy secretary general for political affairs, appealed to the original signers of the nuclear deal — Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — to salvage it at “a critical moment.”

“Intense talks with all participants and the US,” Mr. Mora said on Twitter. “I am ready to invite them to an informal meeting to discuss the way forward.”

While it was unclear whether the Iranians would agree to join discussions, three people familiar with the internal debate said it was likely Iran would accept. The officials said Iran would probably be more open to a meeting with the European Union, where the United States was a guest or observer, rather than direct formal talks with Washington as a participant.

In recent days, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and President Hassan Rouhani have suggested they were open to discussing some kind of synchronized approach, in which both sides would act on a certain date. That has an appeal inside the White House, one senior American official said, noting it was how key steps for carrying out the original 2015 deal were coordinated.

But with an Iranian presidential election only four months away, it was not clear if the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the nation’s political and military leadership would fully support re-engagement with the United States.

The first obstacle to restoring the deal may be a delicate political dance of who acts first. Mr. Blinken said this week that the Biden administration believed simply restoring the old deal was insufficient. He has other goals that include extending and deepening the agreement in an effort to rein in Iran’s growing missile ability and its continued support of terrorist groups and the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, issues that Iran has said are not on table.

Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign and the transition, Mr. Biden insisted he would lift sanctions imposed by President Donald J. Trump only if Iran returned to the limits on nuclear production that it observed until 2019.

Under the original 2015 deal, Iran shipped 97 percent of its nuclear fuel out of the country and agreed to sharp limits on new production that would essentially assure it would take it a year or more to produce enough material for a single weapon. (It would take even longer to build a weapon.) In return, world powers lifted international sanctions that had choked the Iranian economy.

I am confused on which page to post Biden stuff.

6 deaths, 60 cops sent to hospital, a cop beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, mobs roaming the halls demanding pence be lynched,a violent shutdown of constitutional congressional action. over a hundred indictments, is a pretty strange definiton of "peaceful". Of course, oralloy does have a facility for orwellian double-think.

The newer Biden page is locked out, probably due to all the down votes or something. If the moderators can pin down who it is, I hope they can suspend their usernames.

Anyway:

The Lost Hours: How Confusion and Inaction at the Capitol Delayed a Troop Deployment

I have argued for doing away with the up-vote/down-vote for years. Actually, I have no problem with voting up or down on comments...but there should not be up or down on the thread itself. And the notion of anonymous up or down votes is an abomination. Every vote up or down should be user identified.

someone successfully preventing certain posts being visible without members making the extra click to view them.