Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

I'd imagine most of what was said was for inclusion in her re-election campaign adverts.

frankly, i think the televising of the whole process is idiotic.

It is spun like some sort of reality tv event.

Hold the hearings in private - there would be a lot less drama and the whole process would be a lot smoother.

That information can be made available to the public in multiple other ways.

It's theatrics, and one of the reasons why we as a nation voted against giving our Seanad a similar forum.

An echoing drive-by fart? Very weak - how?

It'd just be easier if they said they didn't like her because she's black.

It is not "anti science" to take that approach - it is a political decision, science is by definition not political. Or at least it should be that way.

Also since science is ever changing and continuously evolving as we discover our mistakes - to dispute climate change is not "anti science" in the same way that advocating for the heliocentric model was not anti science back when we thought the earth was the center of the universe. Anti-science would be taking a "faith" or "belief" based approach - which is the antithesis of science. Science is that which is proven or attempted proven using scientific methods of discovery. Self-preservation or the lack thereof has nothing to do with pro or anti science.

Presumably weak due to gaffes like "It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion" during the border tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Getting snubbed by MBS and Emirati leaders too. Biden admins energy policies have left them far more dependent on oil imports than previous, and now they have substantially less leverage over players such as Saudi Arabia, and none effectively over Russia (all sanctions deployed, what else is there for them to do?) - they just today announced oil and gas exports will need to be paid for in Rubles also.

And of course the US continuously trying to pressure China into condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine, to which the Chinese have responded with an unequivocal backing of the Russians. Again, it makes Biden look weak.

Ill concede Sinophobia was worse under Trump, but US-Russia relations were markedly better than under Obama (not Bush, Putin and Bush were very chummy). But the Russia-China axis was weakening under the last admin, China were seen as the big threat (they are from a US dominance POV), China on its own could be isolated but China and Russia together are a self-sufficient bloc with enough raw materials and military strength to put it up to anyone unfortunately.

The price we in the west pay for outsourcing all manufacturing there I suppose.