President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Um ... what?

 

DO NOT CONGRATULATE

 

Trump demoted defense lawyer during impeachment trial: report

 

Don't forget all the whining about the abuse he is taking on social media. Definitely can't forget that part. I also don't buy the story about his wife being fired due to his comments. I don't buy that for a second.

 

I can't think of one remarkable memory regarding Brooke Baldwin ahead of her departure from CNN.

 

That's helpful.

Anderson Cooper was as surprised as I was hearing it. I didn't attribute it to Obama being rude or whatever; Biden has a weird "not fit for any of this" streak to him.

 

Because he didn't visit the residences? What a very specific job qualification requirement.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...hows-that-when-you-cannot-govern-you-lie-lot/


Opinion: Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.


Incompetence is not the purview of one party. But when you view politics as theater and grievance-mongering, chances are you are going to shortchange governance. Elect a president with no public-sector experience, no interest in learning, no desire to hire competent people and no ability to accept responsibility, and you get something like the covid-19 debacle. Moreover, if your party is hostile to government and exercising regulatory power because it is beholden to a donor class and right-wing ideologues, you will not be prepared for disasters when they strike.

And that brings us to Texas. The Post reports, “As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed his ire at one particular failure in the state’s independent energy grid: frozen wind turbines.” There is one problem: That is not remotely true (as you might have guessed from a state with an enormous oil and gas sector). “The governor’s arguments were contradicted by his own energy department, which outlined how most of Texas’s energy losses came from failures to winterize the power-generating systems, including fossil fuel pipelines.”

In other words, rotten policy and management are to blame. “What has sent Texas reeling is not an engineering problem, nor is it the frozen wind turbines blamed by prominent Republicans,” The Post reports. “It is a financial structure for power generation that offers no incentives to power plant operators to prepare for winter. In the name of deregulation and free markets, critics say, Texas has created an electric grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices over reliable service.”

 

it was all foreshadowed

 

Josie is 65 and until the pandemic hit was still playing gigs in SoCal