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#2697827 25-Apr-2021 15:16

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed by the House of Representatives with an eight vote majority intends to end USA police use of choke-holds, no knock warrants, end qualified immunity, require body cameras, establish officer misconduct registry to prevent bad individuals joining another force, and a few other things.

Republicans are threatening a filibuster in the Senate - meaning a 10 vote majority is required to pass it. The filibuster technique was created accidentally as a side effect of a rule change in 1806. That should be grounds for removing it.

Despite that, it's possible that enough support will be found, or a compromise will emerge. NPR: "Scott, who has been leading talks for Republicans, expressed cautious optimism about reaching a deal on Wednesday, saying, "I think we are on the verge of wrapping this up in the next week or two".

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#2700133 30-Apr-2021 15:12

source: BBC News - What has he achieved in 100 days?

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Biden's first 100 days have been a glass half full/half empty sort of affair.

By one measure, the Democratic president is doing quite well. ...

Public opinion polls show Biden has the support of a majority of the American public, well ahead of where Donald Trump was at this point in his presidency. ...

As for the empty part of the glass, Biden's approval rating is relatively low by historical standards. ...

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#2700141 30-Apr-2021 15:48

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As for the empty part of the glass, Biden's approval rating is relatively low by historical standards. ...

That's because a lot of the ones ranked ahead of him were lucky in not having to deal with a house divided against itself.

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#2700166 30-Apr-2021 15:50

I had no idea Jimmy Carter was so popular.

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#2700504 1-May-2021 15:56

His overall rating is boosted by his rating on the pandemic (68%+ 32%-) and knocked back by his handling of immigration on the southern border (28%+ 72%-).

If his immigration figures are as bad as that come the mid-terms he will lose control of both houses.

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#2700527 1-May-2021 18:27

He has done fine. IIRC most POTUS's complete about 60% pf promises in a term. Unlike the past loser, this POTUS has been unwinding the past sh!tshow and moving stuff forward. If he did nothing except undo Trumps endless fails then that would be a win. What any country needs is a leader who wants to improve his country's lot, and that's not typical of politics. Most want votes instead of health, safety, prosperity, and human rights.

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#2711276 22-May-2021 13:21

Biden announces proposal for student debt relief, free tuition at state colleges, worker entitlement for retraining:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/markkantrowitz/2021/04/28/president-biden-proposes-free-college-tuition-and-a-big-increase-in-the-pell-grant/amp/

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#2711610 23-May-2021 09:08

gzt: ~~Biden~~ Bernie announces proposal for student debt relief, free tuition at state colleges, worker entitlement for retraining:

https://www.google.c0om/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/markkantrowitz/2021/04/28/president-biden-proposes-free-college-tuition-and-a-big-increase-in-the-pell-grant/amp/

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#2732199 21-Jun-2021 17:54

The Balance of Power ...

A cruel joke, but a ghastly possibility 😕

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#2733318 23-Jun-2021 18:44

President Joe Biden Holds Press Conference

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#2761225 17-Aug-2021 03:17

Very strange. Trump initiated the Afghan pull out but the every article I read is blaming Biden. He is not votable for a second term (assuming his health is still ok)

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#2761279 17-Aug-2021 09:43

The New York Times - Biden stands by his decision to pull out of Afghanistan, despite ‘hard and messy’ final days.

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WASHINGTON President Biden offered a defiant defense on Monday of his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, returning to the White House from a weekend at Camp David amid chaotic scenes at the Kabul airport following the collapse of the Afghanistan government to the Taliban. ...

“The choice I had to make as your president was either to follow through on the agreement to drawdown our forces,” Mr. Biden said, “or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat and lurching into the third decade of conflict.” He added: “I stand squarely behind my decision.” ...

“Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country,” he said, accusing the military of laying down their arms after two decades of U.S. training and hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment and resources. “If anything, the developments of the past week reinforce that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.” ...

Donald Trump, who himself sought a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan with an even earlier deadline of May 2021, issued repeated denunciations of his successor.

“The outcome in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal, would have been totally different if the Trump administration had been in charge,” Mr. Trump said Monday morning.

“Who or what will Joe Biden surrender to next? Someone should ask him, if they can find him.” ...

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#2761474 17-Aug-2021 15:14

yes facts don't matter. the way it is, Biden is not electable for another term. he's really being blamed by every person that has a voice (or internet connection)

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#2761482 17-Aug-2021 15:25

Batman: Very strange. Trump initiated the Afghan pull out but the every article I read is blaming Biden. He is not votable for a second term (assuming his health is still ok)

Why is that? He's actioned a lot of things. The Afghan Govt has had 20 years to be trained up by the allied forces

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#2761860 17-Aug-2021 22:20

Good article in the WaPo about the endemic fail built into the Afghan security forces that were set up by the US:

Afghan security forces’ wholesale collapse was years in the making

Senior U.S. officials said the Pentagon fell victim to the conceit that it could build from scratch an enormous Afghan army and police force with 350,000 personnel that was modeled on the centralized command structures and complex bureaucracy of the Defense Department. Though it was obvious from the beginning that the Afghans were struggling to make the U.S.-designed system work, the Pentagon kept throwing money at the problem and assigning new generals to find a solution.

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Jack Kem, a retired Army officer who served as Gen. Caldwell’s deputy from 2009 to 2011, said the training command struggled to overcome a host of challenges. Recruiting was hard enough, but was compounded by startling rates of desertion and attrition. And trying to maintain an ethnic balance in the force among Afghanistan’s fractious tribes was another “enormous problem,” he said.

But perhaps the biggest hardship was having to teach virtually every recruit how to read. Kem estimated that only 2 to 5 percent of Afghan recruits could read at a third-grade level despite efforts by the United States to enroll millions of Afghan children in school over the previous decade.

“The literacy was just insurmountable,” he said in an Army oral-history interview. Some Afghans also had to learn their colors, or had to be taught how to count. “I mean, you’d ask an Afghan soldier how many brothers and sisters they had and they couldn’t tell you it was four. They could tell you their names, but they couldn’t go ‘one, two, three, four.’ ”

In case the implications of the illiteracy comment aren't clear, the US army that the Afghan army was designed after is high-tech, full of equipment that requires lots (and lots, and lots) of training and reading of manuals and instructions to operate. The Taliban forces in contrast are equipped with guns whose sights are calibrated in arshins and whose action you can work with a brick.

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