Joe Biden Love Thread

[Guybrush]

The US has become a gerontocracy. Don't you have politicians that are not ancient?

[music_collector]

Don't you have politicians that are not ancient?

We have a municipal election coming. One of the mayor candidates was mayor years ago. He's 80.

During his time as a provincial member of parliament, his party was so scandal ridden and corrupt, that when the people woke up and voted them out, they won so few seats that they were not considered an official party in the legislature. His slogan was "fighting for you", but the party's policies were more "fighting against you". It's how I thought, anyway.

There comes a time when the piggy has to be weened off the trough. Take your gold plated pension and go already.

There is a definite shortage of candidates for this municipal election. Three incumbents currently have no opposition. One of those incumbents was found to have attempted to bribe a candidate to bow out of the previous election.

[Trollheart]

If you're going to do a meme at least have it make sense: "All your safe are belong to us"? Is this a Russian thing?

[SGR]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

If you're going to do a meme at least have it make sense: "All your safe are belong to us"? Is this a Russian thing?

It's a reference to a video game meme based on a 1991 game called Zero Wing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_yo...e_belong_to_us

[The Batlord]

Ffs it was like the first meme. The ur meme from which all later memes sprang forth as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/a...e-belong-to-us

[Trollheart]

**** off. I'm old and out of touch.

[The Batlord]

It was 20 years ago. You're more likely to remember it than some zoomer.

[Trollheart]

Well I don't.

[Lisnaholic]

I wouldn't like MB to get filled up with propaganda, so I hope people won't follow my example. Nonetheless, for a thread called JB Love Thread, there isn't much love for JB in evidence.
To remedy that, and if anyone wants a quick reminder the accomplishments of his admin so far, here's an extract from a CNN article this morning:-

1.
Gas prices, which wounded Biden when they spiked, have declined for two months. The President didn't cause either movement. But the turn of fortune has relieved some of the inflation pressures that remain his single largest political problem.
2.
Late last month, weather conditions cleared the way for a CIA drone to kill al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on the balcony of his Kabul home. The precision strike, the planning of which began this past spring, vindicated Biden's assertions that the US could fight terrorism in Afghanistan even without troops on the ground.
3.
The 2021 infrastructure law, which eluded Biden's two immediate predecessors, means $550 billion for new federal investments in roads, bridges, airports, public transit, railroads, rural broadband, clean water and electric-vehicle charging stations, among others.
4.
The semiconductor bill provides over $52 billion to spur domestic manufacturing of vital components for products ranging from cars to computers, reducing America's reliance on foreign suppliers.
5.
The so-called "burn pits" bill extends new health care and disability benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxins during their service.
6.
The Inflation Reduction Act means Medicare beneficiaries will pay no more than $35 per month for insulin and no more than $2,000 per year in out-of-pocket drug costs. For the first time, Medicare can use its market power to negotiate lower prices from drug companies.
The IRA also devotes $370 billion to developing clean energy and curbing climate change, which analysts say will help the US reduce carbon emissions 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. It sustains American leadership at a time when extreme weather events increasingly place the dangers to the world in sharp relief.

[music_collector]

Thanks for the summary. I honestly haven't followed US politics much. It's no wonder they have CNN. It's a non stop reality show in Washington.