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

Disappointing and shows the need for a proper left wing option in the US. Obviously won't happen in the foreseeable future.

Until it can have electoral impact, no. The odd independent being elected doesn't count, and mea cupla, mea maxima culpa, voting for the likes of Nader was a big mistake in 2000 that I'll regret forever and led to Trump.

For more than 2 parties to be viable in the Presidential election in the US the way the US President is elected will have to change. In the current system if one candidate doesn't get 50% + 1 of the available votes from the Electoral College then Congress decides who are President and Vice President. They don't have to just get more votes than any other candidates, they have to get more than 1/2 of the available votes. There EC ballots are not ranked, and they only vote a single time. If there isn't a winner then the House of Representatives decides who is President, and each state delegation gets 1 vote between them. California has 52 members in the House, and Wyoming has 1. Both of them get a single vote if the Presidential election goes to the House.

However changing how the President is elected would require amending the US Constitution. And that isn't going to happen with both of the major parties against it. And they will be, because the current system gives them a lot of power that they don't want to share with any other political parties. So the US is kind of stuck.

I cant say I'm surprised this hasnt been mentioned here yet

Alot of answers to question and its only the beginning of them for the Oversight committee.

Probably because you're in the wrong thread mate.

Notice how your story doesn't mention the POTUS?

Also these payments reportedly originate from the year 2017. No Biden was in civic service at the time? Former Vice President Joe Biden was a private citizen. I fail to see how this relates to the presidency, it's even years removed from his candidacy in 2020.

Into the Biden family during a time when they weren't in any office or official role.

Therefore nothing to do with the Presidency and so probably best discussed in the Hunter Biden thread, as he is the actual target of the oversight investigation, not the President or the White House.

When Democrats gained committee chairs in the midterms 2018, they didn't investigate the Trump family for pre-presidential activity, they investigated the President for presidential activity, so your counterfactual argument is rendered moot.

Relates to contacts Kushner made during his time as a snr white house advisor.

So we've that you don't understand the definition of insurrection. You don't know how to use 'literally' correctly. And you don't know the difference between before and after.

Whats this grammatical error, shall I berate you for it, no I wont.

I understand the definition of insurrection perfectly, its others interpretations of it I dont agree with.

Heres a good article to highlight the point

Here is the Cambridge dictionary definition of Insurrection btw

"An organised attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence"

Anyone who says the people on Jan 6th were trying to take control of their country is delusional.

I do, it was a play with words on the original post which contained the word Literal.

There's always a bit of the 'marveling at numbers' I see in the Irish media you don't really get in the US. Someone getting a million dollars as a book advance? In Ireland, alert the media. In the US? Yawn. A big-time UK sportscaster earns 1.5 million pounds/year and everyone's sure to mention that in their attacks on him? Snore. The Fox types like Hannity earn multiples of that, Hannity earns like $45mn/year, but you don't hear anything about it.

Biden might've earned some money, like $1million, for something something China something? How much was earned by TrumpCo in Russia? Per Eric, that's where they were getting their money (before, in theory, TFG got elected and wasn't working directly anymore for his eponymous company that he left his misbegotten spawn run. Uhuh.)

Pop over or poop over ?

Lol, legend!

I suppose he could go "Off Script" and call for his domestic terrorists and while supremacists to "Stand by". Maybe tell them they are fine people or that he loves them. or maybe rile his cult up to attempt a failed insurrection... unless you think trump didn't deviate and this was GQP policy....

Yes I did and the crew made the same excuses for him

Ok if it was an Insurrection how many people were actually charged with Insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383 ???

Insurrection is a legal term with specific elements.

Seditious Conspiracy is not Insurrection.

Have another go at answering the question, how many people were actually charged with Insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383 ???

§2383. Rebellion or Insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.