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This was a good take I stumbled upon. I suspect he’s a right winger, but his take on the cynical straw man of Biden’s speech today (“we had to end this war / I would not pass it to another president”) is very aligned with what I saw.
Few people argue for another generation of fighting in Afghanistan. Most people are outraged at the botched pullout and evacuation, and especially at the betrayal of friendlies. Far worse than Trump’s so-called double cross of the Kurds.
I'm well aware that it's Political Damage Control 101 to create a principled straw man imperative to amplify as a deflection from the core issue, but the cynicism of @JoeBiden's remarks today are nonetheless striking. Every rational human in this country, be they for or against..
— Jason Beale (@jabeale) August 17, 2021
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)They can’t help themselves on Trump, but when CNN is turning against Biden, you know he’s in big trouble.
What Biden is proving…again…is that Senators are terrible executives. Hell, Trump was an awful presidential personality, but a better executive in his own way.
And, at some point, everybody will realize that we had the answer in front of us for years. Why would Obama ever say something like the quote about never underestimating Biden’s ability to F*** it up. Why would there be a quote from Robert Gates on Biden being wrong on every foreign policy decision in four decades?
It’s because people know he’s incompetent. They know it, they said it, and Trump was so distasteful that people actually voted Biden president.
And now we have Biden, the incompetent.
He is what we thought he was.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I could open another board here for stanford fb only. Anybody think that would be of use?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Gotta love leadership via rhetoric.
“The world is watching you.” That has teeth.
Yah, like the Taliban cared about that before all this, and so will care about it afterward. While we have a very good sense of how the Taliban will govern, they certainly seem to have the mandate of a lot of people in Afghanistan.
Pelosi’s empty words probably give solace to some people. But they are, like Biden’s July 8th PC, empty words. The Taliban will do what they want.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=5056]America is back, my friends! Biden is a limp noodle. I’m amending my comment: leaving is right, leaving this way? Not really.[/quote]
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Humble my foot. Obama is a child of privilege if there ever was one. He was raised by his rich white grandparents and went to the best schools in the country.
Being raised by one’s grandparents doesn’t confer disadvantage.
Humble indeed.
Clinton had humble beginnings. Not sure any other president since Reagan did.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Right GR, blame Trump. That will move us forward.
I would have expected a more cogent analysis of the disproportionate impact theory with respect to this policy. Whether you like it or not, is it likely to have a disproportionate impact on disadvantaged minorities?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Minorities or women”
So you just put your business in your wife or daughter’s name. Suddenly you are just like a minority.
government is stupid.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We can’t fight for other people’s freedom against their neighbors. Helping in a civil war ultimately undermines the ones we help and creates dependency.
On this one Biden is right.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wow. That’s scathing. I’m really quite surprised he wasn’t enough of a bully to suppress this. It shows that not only is he a pig, but he manages via fear. Neither is a surprise based on what I’ve seen of him.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The “Republican strongholds” trope is a smokescreen. The “largest” group of unvaccinated might be white people in red states, but the highest proportions of unvaccinated are minorities across the board. When we look at population concentrations, and overall rates of vaccination, the focus on minorities is a good one.
A few facts that matter:
- “Case counts” as a metric does NOT have the same meaning it had a year ago. A year ago, people were dying at a much higher rate than now and we had no treatments. What we should be focusing on is deaths, but that’s too touchy.
- Whites are more vaccinated than AA in pretty much every state of the union. Whites are more vaccinated than Hispanics in most states.
- The largest group of vaccine-resistant folks are white, rural dwellers.
- Blaming Republicans for the surge ignores the highest proportions of unvaccinated populations also tend to live around larger cities, and likely have higher risk of transmission.
My hunch is that if you promoted vaccination among rural whites like is happening among urban minorities, you’d see a lot more vaccination activity by targeting these “largest groups” but you would lose the virtue of focusing on “disadvantaged groups.” Politicians are in a pickle.
https://www.vox.com/22587443/covid-19-vaccine-refusal-hesitancy-variant-delta-cases-rate
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. Can’t wait until the government can slander private citizens for “wrongthink.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have flown for the past few weeks on American and haven’t had terrible disruptions since I generally fly between big hubs. My teams have flown into smaller airports and have been hosed with ridiculous delays (e.g., arrivals at 2am).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s a feature, not a bug.
The reality is that there is a humanitarian crisis that is not going on at the border, it’s going on within the communities that the immigrants are being released into. Just wait.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
actually a very prescient take when it comes to the current iteration of Covid, which is about like the flu for anybody with the vaccine. Yet we are talking about shutting down the economy…again.
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