Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasnāt joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Bidenās age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
And after McConnellās second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his āfriendā sounded like āhis old selfā and that such episodes are a āpart of his recoveryā from a fall and a concussion this year.
Jimmy Carter would also not have allowed rail workers to illegally strike, in violation of their contract, and in such a way that thousands of people would literally die. That is why their contract forbids striking.
Like Biden, Carter would have sought to continue to address issues regardless of the strike not materializing.
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Then maybe we shouldnāt have allowed the railway companies to try and fuck them over into suicide schedules for profit.
Or, and Iām just spitballing here, if the rail companies are that important then maybe they shouldnāt be allowed to be run for profit. If theyāre that critical, maybe they should be GASP nationalized.
Maybe you should be angry at the financiers that bought the companies and forced the workers to run suicide schedules for forcing the workers into a position where they started to feel like they had to strike to have normal human lives.
Youāre blaming the victims here.
Vote for Congresspeople who will change the law.
I do not appreciate Presidents changing laws on a whim. Thatās Trumpian horseshit.
I havenāt blamed anyone for anything - Iāve simply explained the end result that occurred, because of Biden, after you stopped paying attention.
If youād cared enough to continue following the story, I wouldnāt need to explain any of these things to you. I knew what to look for because I did care enough to continue following the story.
Weāve had an imperial presidency since at least bush. If youād cared enough to pay attention recently, youād know that legal precedent has already occurred to give the president almost any power they want.
Calling that Trumpian either shows your age, or how long youāve cared about this.
Incrementalism is an intentional tactic used by liberals to explain why they canāt undo the things the right wing does, and to explain why they canāt change things themselves when they are in power.
Liberalism is a fucking disease.
EDIT: Congress sure as shit wasnāt required to fuck over all the air traffic controllers. Funny that. Congress is never required to fuck over workers, but it is always an excuse as to why we canāt do things for the workers.
āimperial presidencyā is not a phrase with any meaning. Imperialism isnāt āshit I donāt like.ā
In this case, Congress is literally the authoring body of the contractās binding legislation.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139876084/congress-house-railroad-strike-bill
Consider knowing what youāre talking about before getting mad about it.
The precedent had been set that the US president can assassinate US Citizens without trial or judicial overview, right?
You know who set that precedent, right? That it wasnāt Trump, and there was no talk of impeaching the president that set that precedent, right?
We have a fucking imperialist presidency for the same reason people hated Trump (not a fan, or a right winger, before you accuse me of that.) People hated Trump for violating the norms of the office. Most of the powers Presidents have now are based on executive orders and precedent from previous presidents, not, you know, by actual laws. I am exaggerating for effect here somewhat, but not a lot. But violating norms is not a crime, especially when you donāt have clear laws delineating what a president can and canāt do. And it apparently isnāt a broken norm to assassinate US citizens without a trial. I donāt know how you donāt consider that an imperial presidency. Or, youāre just younger then 40 and havenāt been paying attention.
If norms are all that define a position, and you have one side breaking the norms, and the other side following them and whining to a non-existent hall monitor that the other side is breaking, not the rules but the norms, then you get what we have now.
Justifying Democratic presidents not using power they absolutely have because of subsection 6 of paragraph 5 is just a self righteous way to justify why they didnāt fight for you when the time came.
A drone strike against a terrorist group is both legal and not an assassination. They didnāt isolate that one guy. He was killed while doing terrorist shit with a terrorist group, and the entire group was killed.
In other words, legal. Donāt join Al Qaeda if you donāt want to be hit by a drone.
Imperialism isnāt āviolating the norms of officeā any more than it is āshit you personally donāt like,ā and the above is not a violation of the norms of office, but rather something the President was given power to do by Congress, twice by that point.
Iām not sure what you wanted Biden to do here when he accomplished his goal without overstepping the bounds of his office, per the union that asked for help.
I wasnāt talking about him, I was talking about his two children. Whom were absolutely not members of Al-Qaeda.
Remember, under Obama, the definition of being a terrorist was that you were male, over 14, and you were killed by the U.S.
Being a civilian in the Afghan/Yemen war was a privilege only women were afforded.
Finally, it wasnāt Al-Qaeda. I will excuse this one, because you wouldnāt know it based on US reporting unless you specifically interested in the Yemeni conflict. The genocide we assisted in perpetrating in Yemen against the people of Yemen who would not/did not ally themselves, and never would with Al-Qaeda for religious reasons. The US did what it did in Yemen under the auspices of the AUMF. Which has, as the one limiting factor, that force be used against countries with an Al-Qaeda presence. Nevermind that they were the ones we were arming and backing in Syria. Nevermind that they didnāt REALLY exist in Yemen, and the few that did were imported by āusā (Saudi Arabia, not the US), and the houthi did fight quite hard against them, and certainly not in the area this individual was killed. Nevermind that the Yemeni āGovernmentā that was forced in by Saudi Arabia was not accepted as the legit government of the majority of the Yemeni people (hence the reason for the ācivil warā. We had to say they did to give the assistance that Saudi Arabia was demanding. The Yemeni āgovernmentā was literally of puppet of Saudi Arabia that any sane person wouldnāt listen to. They accused everyone of being Al-Qaeda because, as puppets of Saudi Arabia, they had explicit instructions on what to say to allow the US to continue supporting their puppet regime. You wonāt find this in the wikipedia article, by the by, this actually required some thought, analysis, and paying attention to the situation when it was happening.
And no, it was not approved twice by congress. Unless you are again counting the AUMF. which seems a pretty big stretch. That law wasnāt written addressing the assassination of US citizens, does not explicitly state anywhere that it can be used for those purposes. Instead, Obama used the law in a way it was written to do something he wanted to do. I.E. he used powers not explicitly given to him to accomplish his goals. Huh. Imagine if his goals were to help workers.
Give me a definition of imperial that we donāt fit then. Iām sure Iāll enjoy the internal inconsistencies in the definition you give.
I want Biden to use power to help the people, and not the financier owners of the rail companies that exist to siphon of Americaās productivity like parasites. Because, frankly, there are far less bounds of the office than you are implying. This appeal to notional bounds is what Democrats always do to justify their feckless helplessness when it comes to helping their constituency.
Fuck, youāre the definition of āScratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.ā
If you hadnāt been wrong almost immediately I may have taken the time to respond to the entire post, but I did catch the end and our conversation is only happening in response to a post in which I showed, with citations, that Biden did use his power to help the people, and that the union in question directly credits him for it.
Anyway hereās a page about AQY (AL-Qaeda in Yemen)
https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/al-qaeda-yemen#:~:text=Executive Summary Al Qaeda in,the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
But then, if you knew things, you wouldnāt be dumb enough to think āLibā is an insult.
Edit: since I already know you wonāt click the link:
Surely youāre not deadnaming AQY by pretending they arenāt who they identify as.