A report card on the Biden administration

So we are going to pretend that Iran wasn't moving towards enriching uranium under the Obama adminostration?

 

Why do some have such a difficult time explaining themselves? You left out what Biden said to encourage migrants to cross our border illegally.

I will tell you what Biden's Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Mayorkas said "the border is closed" and that the U.S. was expelling families and adults but will not turn back "young, vulnerable children."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/21/dhs-mayorkas-border-closed-children-477361

 

Yes, but we are not pretending. You seem to also have a reading comprehension problem.

I said, "The Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA), signed during the Obama administration, permanently barred Iran from making a nuclear weapon."

Emphasis is mine. I didn't want you to miss it this time.

 

Lol.

Even left leaning publication's see the truth.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ch...uofgs3n53xtxcmdpjty-story.html?outputType=amp

Why are you starting your argument at the point that he's reacting to the disaster he created, rather than looking to when he actually created it on the campaign trail?

 

I saw what you wrote, but apparently you're only capable of retaining facts that align with your ideologies. All other facts fly easily over your head.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?outputType=amp

The nuclear agreement was rif with high faluting assumptions of success when really it was a farce.

 

That is an opinion piece by a conservative columnist who says nothing about the agreement itself involving the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany. Nor does he mention that was Iran's money.

You discredit the agreement, but you can't say why. That is typical Trumpian, making accusations without substance.

 

So you believe the agreement was effective using UN inspectors to prevent enrichment for weapons.

Just want to make sure we are clear.

That's your belief? 100% the agreement allowed zero opportunity for development of weapons. Right?

 

Biden signed executive orders on gun control today.

NBC News reports, "President Joe Biden is trying to limit "ghost guns" and make it easier for people to flag family members who shouldn't be allowed to purchase firearms with a series of executive actions taken Thursday in the wake of recent mass shootings.

"Efforts to find bipartisan agreement for popular gun control measures have fizzled, even as lawmakers expressed openness to provisions like tightening background checks.

"Biden directed the DOJ to write rules that will reduce the proliferation of "ghost guns," homemade firearms often made from parts bought online and that do not have traceable serial numbers.

"Biden also sought to reduce access to stabilizing braces, which can effectively turn a pistol into a more lethal rifle while not being subject to the same regulations that a rifle of similar size would be.

"Finally, he asked the DOJ to publish model "red flag" laws for states to use as guides. Red flag laws allow family members or law enforcement agencies to petition state courts to temporarily block people from obtaining firearms if they present a danger to themselves or others."

For those concerned about multiple mindless murders in our schools, shopping malls, and workplaces, the E.O.'s are disappointing. They did not tighten background checks nor ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines.

The latter have only one purpose -- kill people.

 

Don't be silly. It is not a "belief." It is fact produced by research into the agreement. You should try it sometime.

THE FACTS

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was adopted in October 2015 and formally implemented on Jan. 16, 2016, by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States — and Germany and Iran.

Iran agreed to constraints meant to ensure that its nuclear program will be used only for peaceful purposes, such as energy production. In exchange, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations agreed to lift a broad range of sanctions on Iran.

Trump is one of those critics. But it's not clear what he meant by saying the deal would expire in seven years. President Trump's statement indicates either abject confusion over the parameters of the JCPOA or a willful misinterpretation of that deal.

As a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has pledged not to develop nuclear weapons — ever. In agreeing to the JCPOA, Iran recommitted itself to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Bell said. "The NPT is of indefinite duration and serves as the underpinning for the entire global nonproliferation regime," she said.

Iran also has agreed to abide by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Additional Protocol. It has committed to ratify this agreement in 2023. The IAEA already has the ability to investigate nuclear facilities and activities disclosed by Iran's government. The Additional Protocol supplements those powers by giving IAEA investigators the "ability to investigate undeclared nuclear facilities and activities by increasing the IAEA's authority to inspect certain nuclear-related facilities and demand information from member states.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-fact-check-trump-iran-deal-20180508-story.html

 

Naw, this is too corny even for Hollywood. The day before the President of the United States issued executive orders to control the sale of guns there is a mass shooting in South Carolina. The day he issued the executive orders, there is a mass shooting in Texas.

Corny, but true.

The Post reports, "At least five people are dead, including two children, in what police in York County, S.C., called a “case of a mass shooting” that involved a former National Football League player as the suspected gunman.

"Four of the victims of the Wednesday shooting came from what authorities described as a “very prominent and very well-known” family in the Rock Hill community: Robert Lesslie, a 70-year-old doctor; his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69; and two grandchildren, Adah, 9, and Noah, 5. The fifth victim, James Lewis, 38, of Gastonia, N.C., was working at the home at the time of the shooting.

"The York County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release to The Washington Post on Thursday that the suspected gunman was Phillip Adams, a former NFL player who killed himself early Thursday after an hours-long search by police."

Today, CNN reports, "One person was killed and at least four others were wounded in a shooting at an industrial park in Bryan, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, police said.

"One person was later taken into custody in nearby Grimes County after a trooper was shot, Sheriff Donald Sowell told CNN, adding the incident may be connected to the industrial park shooting."

Texas has an open carry law. A person can walk down a street in Bryan carrying an assault rifle. On March 17, 2021, the South Carolina House gave key approval to a bill allowing people to carry an assault rifle on a street in Rock Hill.

All this follows mass murders in Atlanta and Boulder three weeks ago. Both Georgia and Colorado allow persons to carry assault rifles down their city streets.

Go figure.

 

You could leave your snide little comments like "you should try it sometimes" at the door.

To be completely honest, most people have you on ignore. That's why very few people actually respond to your threads. My advice, realize your a partisan extremist, come to the forum to actuay have a discussion rather than shove your beliefs down everybody else throats, and try to actually engage differing opinions and maybe people would start taking you out of their ignore bin.

Back to the topic.

It is simply foolish to believe that any UN developed agreement with Iran to stop enriching uranium that could be used for weapons is feasible.

Since you like to praise Obama and blame Trump consistently, what do you have to say about this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-55530366

 

He gets an F on border security.

TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT ORDERS INVESTIGATION INTO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE OF CHILDREN AT BIDEN MIGRANT FACILITY.

Joe Biden needs to immediately close a federal migrant facility that it threw up in San Antonio to house illegal alien children. It's reported that the children are being abused. Biden has crowded 1370 children into the facility, according to the Daily Mail.

Biden's Super Spreader Event:

Biden better not obstruct the investigation.

 

Following several mass murders, Republicans on this forum are avoiding discussions on the Second Amendment and gun ownership. Why? It once was their favorite topic. There was zero reaction to the comments I made concerning recent mass murders (see post 260). I anticipate my comments here will be avoided by my Republican friends as well.

Republicans argue that reasonable laws to control gun ownership is a slippery slope to taking away all guns. It is a ludicrous argument, and they know it.

There are state laws that require a person to wear a seat belt while driving. Is that a slippery slope to take away your car?

You are told not to exceed a certain speed limit when driving your car. Is that a slippery slope to take away your car?

If it becomes illegal to walk down a street with an assault rifle or prevent a deranged person from acquiring an AR-15, does that mean the government is going to take away your deer rifle? Only an idiot would believe that to be true.

Not unlike the seat belt law and the speed limit, certain laws are created to prevent injury or death to others as well as ourselves.

 

It is illegal for aliens to flood into the USA too but do you see Biden stopping them from flooding into this country?

 

Biden's always been an irresponsible race-baiter.

America is a nation that through two centuries of struggle is today the most inclusive and tolerant, multi-ethnic and multi-racial society in human history.

But Democrats will have none of that.

The transparent bigotry of this remark and its agenda is revolting. Bigotry on behalf of groups that are designated as victims of oppression is deeply ingrained in the politics of the left, and so influential in the political culture at large, that Dowd’s comment passed unnoticed.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/identity-politics-is-destroying-america.php

I give Biden an F on bringing Americans together.

 

Corny, but true.

The day before, at least five people are dead, including two children, in what police in York County, S.C., called a “case of a mass shooting” that involved a former National Football League player as the gunman.

The day of the President's E.O.'s, one person was killed and at least four others were wounded in a shooting at an industrial park in Bryan, Texas.

Three weeks earlier, on March 22, a mass shooting occurred at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people were killed, including a local on-duty police officer.

Three days after that, a man who police say went on a rampage at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, was charged with eight counts of murder in connection with the attacks.

On March 17, 2021, the South Carolina House gave key approval to a bill allowing people to carry an assault rifle while walking down a street.

In Texas, Colorado, and Georgia it is perfectly legal to walk down a city street carrying an assault rifle.

Today, according to the L.A. Times, "A confrontation in a Tennessee high school that involved police officers responding to a report of a possible armed man left one person dead and an officer wounded, authorities said.

"No other persons were killed or wounded, police said, adding the scene had been secured at the Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville following the afternoon shooting. Authorities said only that a man was deceased but that another person was detained for further investigation.

"The school was the subject of media reports in February after three students were shot to death over a three-week span."

Last week, Republican governor Bill Lee signed off on legislation that would make Tennessee the latest state to soon allow most adults 21 and older to carry handguns — openly or concealed — without first clearing a background check and training.

Surreal.

Republicans do not have the brains to agree to reasonable controls on the sale of guns.

They also don't know how to talk. Their silence on this issue is deafening.

Surreal!

 

In this long-winded article not once did you mention anything Biden is actually doing or what he has said. That's because, like all Republicans today, your accusations are vague, without substance, and meaningless.

 

NBC News reports, "A man has been charged with second-degree murder after an 11-month-old girl was killed and two other children were injured in a weekend drive-by shooting in New York, authorities said.

"Chavez R. Ocasio, 23, is being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center on multiple charges, including violating his parole, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, online jail records show. His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

"According to Syracuse police, three girls were sitting in the back seat of a car when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire on them around 7 p.m. Sunday."

Congress -- Republicans -- must take certain steps to try to bring this gun violence under control. Instead, as shown in the previous analysis, Republicans are making it easier for men like Ocasio to get guns and openly display them in malls and on our city streets. So, the carnage continues. Republicans don't cre as long as they continue to get their NRA contributions.

Through it all, Republicans remain silent on the issue.

 

Finally!

President Biden is ending America's involvement in our longest war -- Afghanistan.

The Post reports, "President Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan over the coming months, U.S. officials said, completing the military exit by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that drew the United States into its longest war."

Then it gets complicated.

According to the Post, "The decision, which Biden is expected to announce Wednesday, will keep thousands of U.S. forces in the country beyond the May 1 exit deadline that the Trump administration negotiated last year with the Taliban, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters Tuesday under rules of anonymity set by the White House.

"While the Taliban has promised to renew attacks on U.S. and NATO personnel if foreign troops are not out by the deadline — and said in a statement it would not continue to participate in “any conference” about Afghanistan’s future until all “foreign forces” have departed — it is not clear whether the militants will follow through with the earlier threats given Biden’s plan for a phased withdrawal between now and September."

 

Finally!

President Biden is ending America's involvement in our longest war -- Afghanistan.

One thing about Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, he is consistent.

Business Insider reports, "GOP senators on Tuesday had mixed reactions to reports about President Joe Biden's planned announcement on Wednesday to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks."

"Foreign terrorists will not leave the U.S. alone because our politicians have grown tired of taking the fight to them," McConnell said on the Senate floor. Biden "needs to explain to the American people why he thinks abandoning our partners and retreating in the face of the Taliban will make America safer," he added.

Trump ordered a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1. How did McConnell act when a Republican President ordered a withdrawal?

Once again, it is Business Insider. "President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan is meeting resistance from Republican lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who likened it to the US's retreat from Vietnam in 1975.

Speaking on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, McConnell stressed that the US must provide a "limited but important role in defending American national security ... against terrorists who would like nothing more than for the most powerful force for good in the world to simply pick up our ball and go home."

"A rapid withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm," McConnell said.

 

Oh yes, this isn't a biased assessment at all.

(sarcasm)

I think a lot of this talk about "wanting to unite us" is just lip service and not genuine at all. Words are cheap, but look at the actions, political maneuvering.

 

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday announced tough new sanctions on Russia and formally blamed the country’s premier intelligence agency for the sophisticated hacking operation that breached American government agencies and the nation’s largest companies.

In the broadest effort yet to give more teeth to financial sanctions — which in the past have failed to deter Russian activity — the actions are aimed at choking off lending to the Russian government.

In an executive order, President Biden announced a series of additional steps — sanctions on 32 entities and individuals for disinformation efforts and for carrying out the Russian government’s interference in the 2020 presidential election. Ten Russian diplomats, most of them identified as intelligence operatives, were expelled from the Russian Embassy in Washington. The country also joined with European partners to sanction eight people and entities associated with Russia’s occupation in Crimea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Now that Putin's pal is no longer in charge Vlad should expect consequences for sabotaging US politics.

 

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Thursday addressed the sweeping sanctions his administration imposed on Russia, a move that seeks to address a litany of malign behaviors and is expected to peeve Moscow.

“If Russia continues to interfere with our democracy, I’m prepared to take further actions to respond. It is my responsibility as president of the United States to do so,” Biden said from the White House.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/bid...s-if-russia-escalates-actions-against-us.html

Good to see we have a prez who actually does put America first. Not just use it as a slogan.

 

We got ourselves a President, not a Putin bootlicker!

The Post reports, "The Biden administration on Thursday imposed the first significant sanctions targeting the Russian economy in several years to punish the Kremlin for a cyberespionage campaign against the United States and efforts to influence the presidential election, according to senior U.S. officials.

"The administration also sanctioned six Russian companies that support Russian spy services’ cyberhacking operations and will expel 10 officials at the Russian Embassy in Washington, most of them identified as intelligence officers working under diplomatic cover, U.S. officials said. The administration formally named the Russian intelligence service SVR as responsible for the hacking operation commonly known as SolarWinds.

"The measures were taken under a new executive order and are an effort to make good on President Biden’s vow to hold Moscow accountable for a series of operations, including the election influence and the cyberhacks, that compromised nine federal agencies and about 100 private firms."

As Americans we can feel proud again. No more mollycoddling communist dictators like Putin and Kim while trashing our traditional allies.

 

I see we think alike, Lee. Of course, I knew that.