Joe! Biden!

He’s surrounded himself with experienced adults, he has significant experience operating at the highest levels of US government

Which means much more than all the Botox, formaldehyde and Werthers comments bandied about.

Apparently the Donald left the traditional letter to the new president.
I’m guessing it was either written in crayon capital letters, or was just a smelly brown smear on a sheet of paper.

IMO after covid, his biggest fight will be getting “the peoples/democracy act” through without the supreme court crushing it. That could really correct the balance of power over the next generations, but opposing that sort of policy is why the GOP has politicised judge appointments.

The world seems less poisonous with Trump off twitter

Biden has inherited some shit to deal with: covid & beyond, Iran, China, N Korea will want to make a show, Putins been quiet for a while….

Apparently the Donald left the traditional letter to the new president.

Bet its one of those McDonald’s colouring in pictures.

Ah must be sad for folks like @brads that heir Trump is no longer in power

Why ? Given that you have no clue of anything about me at all, or are you just trying to provoke a reaction to make your dull/lonely night brighter.?

Saddo.

And it’s Herr I think you actually mean.

Ah you’re right it is Herr 👍

You been crying to mummy all night about Trump then or what? You’ve used his classic ‘deny, re-acuse’ deflection tactic, so he must have been a real figure of inspiration 😂

You are actually talking shit . Why ?

Actually why do people think it’s great to try and provoke and insult in a way they would never be man enough to do in real life.?

Always seems like a small man thing. But hey ho, whatever gets you hard dude.

He’s quite easy to land ain’t he?,

😂😂😂😂

His first steps to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of former President Donald Trump’s signature policies.

With the stroke of a pen, Biden has halted funding for the construction of Trump’s border wall, reversed his travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries and embraced progressive policies on the environment and diversity that Trump spent four years blocking.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/executive-actions-biden/index.html

Since Donny achieved so little it should only take a short time to put right.

Yup as I thought. Always funny how they then make out it’s “fishing” blah blah. Oh you’re so easy to wind up hahaha.

Then off for a chug.

Anyhoo.

The formaldehyde quip was not entirely in jest. I reckon he is coached to do his little jogs onto the stage to try and come across as sprightly, but in reality he really does look like he’s not got long left.
VP will be getting the job sooner than you think.

Well I thought he’d last longer than THAT pic.twitter.com/sFF2VdL05r

— Just give out the vaccine who cares (@crumbbutler) January 20, 2021

He’s an old man, this is a surprise to no one.

He also understands the challenge ahead better than anyone.

Christ, you try and put him back in the water but he jumps back onto the bank.

the press sec very nearly said president obama 😀

VP will be getting the job sooner than you think.

Oh no! That will be so much worse than a Mussolini walt.

It occured to me that he must be older than any elected Pope. After a quick check the oldest Pope to enter office since the 18thC was Benedict XVI at 78 and three days.

Boris Johnson is 56 and he’s a completely useless **** 😕

VP will be getting the job sooner than you think.

And there was some talk a few weeks back about the first female US president….

That’s bound to spell the end of the world. Thatcher destroyed British industry.

Pleasing to have a WH press secretary who didn’t seem to view the press as an enemy. I’m not going to miss McEnany.

https://www.axios.com/jen-psaki-press-briefing-inauguration-biden-a76a40a4-d6ad-4111-be5b-06c0b0a22f4f.html

I don’t see how the Biden campaign comes back from this https://t.co/2juYSWBOPf

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 21, 2021

pic.twitter.com/1T8ZfdqAr9

— Jason Newman (@TripleH2413) January 21, 2021

He is a consummate washington operator, which is why Obama had him as a VP, because Obama hated that sir of politics and wasn’t good at it. So expect Obama part II policy wise. Biden’s stance throughout his career has been old school democrat but the modern party as moved on. If he has any sense he’ll listen to his kids and grandkids.
He has 2 years before the next election cycle and has the Senate and congress, so he’d better get cracking. I suspect he will avoid anything too extreme and seek to work with the adult Republicans. He knows from his VP years how hamstrung a President without support in congress is, so he can’t drive voters to the other party and lose congress.

The insurrection plot thickens – anyone wondering why it was so hard for the Capitol Police to get backup on the 6th?

NEWWWWS — Michael Flynn's brother was on the call and resisting emergency pleas for the National Guard when the Capitol was under attack Jan. 6. The Army falsely denied it for weeks. me w the greats: @DanLamothe @PaulSonne @byaaroncdavis https://t.co/k6QNnXrwBh

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) January 21, 2021

I am just relieved that Trump is gone, an awful president, a horrible person IMO, what goes around, come around…

Biden seems like a decent guy who has his work cut out for him, good luck to him!

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Democrats have the house and senate, hopefully he gets a lot done – and quickly.

The Democrats barely control the senate and some of their senators are far enough to the right to ally with Republicans from time to time. While Biden may be able to get some moderate things done with relatively little grief, there’ll still be a lot of effort required to pass anything particularly progressive.

Joe Manchin is often cited as a very conservative Democrat senator.

the press sec very nearly said president obama

President Obaden?

It does appear like there is finally an adult back in the big chair.

Harris for 2024.

Pleasing to have a WH press secretary who didn’t seem to view the press as an enemy. I’m not going to miss McEnany.

Agreed. Psaki deflected a few times, wish they’d just say they don’t have that info and come back later (perhaps she will), but she didn’t call the press activists. Just returning to a daily briefing is a big step forward.

In general, I think the first day benefited from not having the inaugural ball and events full of donors and lobbyists. He just got straight to work. Good luck to him.

I’m hoping that in a couple of years Kamala Harris takes over as president paving the way in the future for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Nah, Harris may already be in post come 24′ and ideally will be able to point at a solid 4 years of VP service in the next election. But I think AOC will suffer from being so vilified by the RW meeja by that point that she’d never pull over as many centrist votes in a presidential election… she might have a shot by the late 30s depending how the next decade and a half goes…

TBH though all this speculation about future succession is a bit pointless now.
The next 24 months will be critical to the US, Biden and his administration’s effecacy will be judged on some quite short term, mainly Trump cleanup prompted actions. Setting an agenda for the next election can’t really start before Q3/22 at the earliest (IMO)…

I really like AOC but at the moment she is a rookie still

I think the best use for her would be to give her a important task and let her rip on it. 2028 might be right for her to be VP

Looks like Trump is now using Fox News as his mouthpiece for spreading falsehood and inciting hatred instead of Twitter.

Tomorrow Never Dies was single handedly the worst Bond film ever (well, maybe Die Another Day gave it a close run), but seemingly a genius piece of future forecasting……..

BTW, I think (and I might be wrong) that he needs to survive 2 years in office before the presidency would naturally hand to the VP. Otherwise it’s a new election. KEEP THAT MAN ALIVE!!!

Every time I see Fox news I just imagine Kent Brockman from the Simpsons talking. Fox is an embarrassment and I can’t believe people take them seriously.

I’m surprised he speaks to Fox after Murdoch turned on him.

Otherwise it’s a new election. KEEP THAT MAN ALIVE!!!

My understanding is that there’s no way to have an early election. If the sitting president dies, resigns or is removed then the VP takes over for the rest of the term even if it’s only one day in.

There’s going to be a lot of pressure on Biden and the democrats to prove that establishment politics can address the problems in the US and beyond. Covid, cliimate change, inequality, and unaccountable monopolism are all things that require urgent action. If he fails to make inroads into these there’ll be another populist (Pompeo probably – shudder!) waiting to capitalise in four years time.

Covid, cliimate change, inequality, and unaccountable monopolism are all things that require urgent action.

The problem he has is that there’s a sizeable chunk of the US population that would put these things at the bottom of the todo list, or worse deny they even exist, or worse again deny they exist while accusing you of being a traitor for saying they do.

These are not a new phenomenon in the USA, it’s just that social media gave Trump a means to reach these people not afforded to those who went before. Now that cat’s out of the bag and Trump and others will continue to propagate nonsense, President Joe has a worse problem. He has to deal with all those points above AND make inroads into the populist right wing movement. The two things being very much set against each other over the last 4 years.

Looks like Trump is now using Fox News as his mouthpiece for spreading falsehood and inciting hatred instead of Twitter.

The CNN live feed is bad enough, Fox is just bonkers on a scale I cannot describe.

It’s just all bonkers. Hopefully now the USA is more centralist than it was with trump we might see some sense come out of thier government.

I only wish we could do the same in the UK where we are locked into a facist conservative majority for the foreseable, so we are basically ****.

but in reality he really does look like he’s not got long left.

Erm… No he doesn’t.

Well Biden/Harris have worked out how to outvote the rednecks and that lesson will be repeated going forward.

If Biden keeps the USA more or less the USA he could well pick up votes.

The people who voted Donald are on the decline (statistically) and the fringes like Qanon have shot their bolt.

Ots the Republicans that need to shape shift and they know it.

looks like he’s going to win “My peleton bike in rad setting compo”

The problem he has is that there’s a sizeable chunk of the US population that would put these things at the bottom of the todo list,

Climate change and covid maybe but the rednecks are very aware of the inequality issue. All they want is good working and middle class jobs which enables them to support their families without needing support from the state. If Biden can achieve that and generate jobs in the rust-belt and other former industrial areas then a lot of the support for Trump and the conspiracy nonsense will evaporate.

All they want is good working and middle class jobs

Assume they want jobs doing the same old thing without having to retrain or learn something new.
See also Alberta oil patch and the seeming unwillingness to move the O&G workforce into renewables

You would think someone would be willing to do a bit of PE with him, negating the need for peloton?

Or does he just fancy the instructors?