Positive or Negative, Part 2/Biden

[md11fr8dawg]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

Side Note:  The Senate can't even agree on who's in charge, let alone any sort of legislation.

 

Wonderful news!!!

Edited January 22, 2021 by md11fr8dawg

[Shabibilicious]

29 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Today....2 years...or 4 years from now....same response.

 

Biologically we are all a male or a female.....just a fact....

 

What's next......will it be ok if I think I'm a dog.....free to walk down the road and piss on every fire hydrant...or take a dump at the base of a mail box?

 

Perhaps in this new scheme of thinking my partner who thinks they're a zebra can carry a plastic bag to clean up after me.....

 

Ths EO was created day 1.....making it a top priority in the process......and to me it is very telling as to the motivations,  and directions,  this administration has, and will take....

 

Not at the top of my "to do" list......what about you?

 

Doesn't affect me one way or the other, as......I'm not transgender and already enjoy my right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  You?

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

31 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

To my knowledge, there haven't been any hard questions.....or any real journalism....yet...

 

As to the combative disrespectful press conferences of the past....that was on the left...

CL

 

Kind of true....as the Left has a real issue with "alternative facts".  

 

GO RV, then BV

[md11fr8dawg]

1 hour ago, caddieman said:

Transparent, truthful, non combative and daily press conference’s.........a breath of fresh air!

Full of , and no substance. Nothing but tough questions from the deep digging investigative LSM. 

[md11fr8dawg]

3 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Kind of true....as the Left has a real issue with "alternative facts".  

 

GO RV, then BV

How can they have an issue when that's ALL the spew 24/7??

[coorslite21]

54 minutes ago, adhoc10 said:

Soverign rights vs corporate greed. A proven track record of unacounted for polution.. Also a bullcrap marketing presentation. An injustice being corrected. Shoud have been done by Obama during the truly peaceful protests that were violated by Governmnt law enforcement. 

 

Montana tribal members, fearing water contamination, relieved as Keystone XL pipeline blocked

 

Montana tribal members, fearing water contamination, relieved as Keystone XL pipeline blocked (msn.com)

 

Fear......something so well utilized today most every where......fear of sickness....AIDS....Swine flu...bird flu....SARS....now Covid...keep the people fearful.....easier to control.....

 

Guess building a pipeline is too difficult.....can't be safe...

What a joke......double lined with thousands of pressure gradient shut down valves.....even if a crazy did something the environmental impact would be minimal......

 

I haven't heard of any disasters along the Alaskan pipeline......

 

Fear shouldn't be a driving force in anyones thought process...    JMO.    CL

 

[coorslite21]

2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Biden tells appointees 'I will fire you on the spot' for showing disrespect to colleagues

Wed, January 20, 2021, 7:01 PM

 

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-tells-appointees-fire-spot-000137278.html

 

A respectful workplace environment is a positive in my book.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

The Trump press briefing room could have used this philosophy.....Acosta and the other disrespectful weenies should have all been thrown out.....    CL

[Shabibilicious]

5 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

The Trump press briefing room could have used this philosophy.....Acosta and the other disrespectful weenies should have all been thrown out.....    CL

 

They did throw Acosta out for a bit.....and then when someone enlightened the administration to the constitutional protection of free speech, they allowed him back in. 

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited January 22, 2021 by Shabibilicious

[adhoc10]

14 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

Guess building a pipeline is too difficult.....can't be safe...

What a joke......double lined with thousands of pressure gradient shut down valves.....even if a crazy did something the environmental impact would be minimal......

The lack of accountability in the industry fuels a lot of concerns. I agree that fear shouldn't be a driving force in anyone's thought process, but recent events indicate the it is still used as the go to strategy to herd the sheep. Oil spills are a common and frequent occurrence that is well documented and easy to research.

List of oil spills - Wikipedia  The big mistake that the keystone folks made is in trying to sell their proposal to a nation that can see right through the lies and misrepresentation of a corporate sales pitch. 

 

[Ziggy]

12 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Fear......something so well utilized today most every where......fear of sickness....AIDS....Swine flu...bird flu....SARS....now Covid...keep the people fearful.....easier to control.....

 

Guess building a pipeline is too difficult.....can't be safe...

What a joke......double lined with thousands of pressure gradient shut down valves.....even if a crazy did something the environmental impact would be minimal......

 

I haven't heard of any disasters along the Alaskan pipeline......

 

Fear shouldn't be a driving force in anyones thought process...    JMO.    CL

 

Amen to that!!!

 

 

[coorslite21]

 

Biden is the Commander in Chief.....head of all the branches.....2 nights ago up to 5000 troops were moved into a parking garage....just a couple of bathrooms....few electrical outlets......to do an overnight....

 

Dr Jill came out the next day to make amends with a couple of baskets of candy...SWEET.......!

(pun intended)

 

Of course the youtube videos that pop up in the search all cut the last 2 minutes.....where they all gather in a group to complete the photo op...

 

Domestic Detente using candy with Americas finest....nice attempt....pretty weak in my mind!    CL

 

 

 

[coorslite21]

This just might be a positive for Joe......if he really does something about it....

 

This would also explain some of the scrambling done by Zuckerberg and the social media giants....ban Trump....impress Joe so he doesn't break them up....

 

C'mon man .......Joe, do the right thing here!    CL

 

Zuckerberg's Biden problem

By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter

•  25 January 2021

 

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Image captionFacebook's Mark Zuckerberg and President Biden

Before the Cambridge Analytica story had broken. Before Facebook's acknowledgement that its platform had been used to help incite ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Before the WhatsApp lynchings in India. Before QAnon and the Proud Boys - Mark Zuckerberg had the world at his feet.

 

So much so in fact, that at the start of 2017 he decided to tour America.

 

In a Facebook post, he said he wished to "talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future".

His goal was to speak to people in all 50 states - to get out and engage with real Americans.

It was seen by some as the start of a possible 2020 presidential bid - something he always denied.

His potential candidacy was seriously debated in the press - he had money, drive, and power.

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Image captionThere had been speculation that Mr Zuckerberg would run for president

This week, Joe Biden took the job that many believe Mark Zuckerberg secretly craves, or at least craved. And in doing so, he completed a reverse metamorphosis for Zuckerberg. A butterfly no longer, he finds himself alienated politically.

 

"He's not a welcome figure at the cocktail party any more. And I don't think he has been for a long time," says Sarah Miller, director of the American Economic Liberties Project. She also happens to be on Joe Biden's transition team.

"There is not a lot of love lost there," she told me. "Facebook is broadly seen as the most prominent villain, among all the tech monopolists."

 

Obama's administration was considered to be close to Silicon Valley and to Facebook. If Biden was ever a friend, he's not now.

In fact, the president often uses Facebook as a byword for the ills of a free internet gone wrong.

 

Talking to the New York Times a year ago he said:

"I've never been a fan of Facebook, as you probably know. I've never been a big Zuckerberg fan. I think he's a real problem."

 

It's not just Biden. In the days after Biden's election victory, his deputy head of communications, Bill Russo, tweeted:

"If you thought disinformation on Facebook was a problem during our election, just wait until you see how it is shredding the fabric of our democracy in the days after."

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Democrats blame Facebook for what happened in 2016. The Republicans' use of Cambridge Analytica to micro-target voters was seen as a crucial component in Trump's victory. Some of the angst is about settling old scores.

But if that was the turning point, relations are even worse now. Since then, Democrats - Joe Biden included - have been appalled by what Facebook has allowed on its platform.

 

Talking to a CNN anchor in late 2019 Joe Biden said:

"You can't do what they can do on Facebook, and say anything at all, and not acknowledge when you know something is fundamentally not true. I just think it's all out of hand."

Devastating for Facebook

When you're a billionaire, perhaps it doesn't matter that the president doesn't like you much.

But what President Biden has a chance to do now is restructure Big Tech and reformulate the relationship that social media companies have with their users.

That could be devastating for Facebook.

 

Its most obvious problem is the potential repealing of Section 230.

This is a small but crucial piece of legislation that prevents companies like Facebook from being sued for the things people post.

 

Joe Biden has said he wants it removed. In fact, in that same New York Times interview from a year ago he said he wanted it "revoked immediately".

 

That could spell disaster for Zuckerberg. Suddenly all the things people post, all of the defamatory and fraudulent things people say - would be the responsibility of Facebook. It's hard to see how Facebook functions in its current form without Section 230.

 

And that's before we get into Facebook's anti-trust problems. It's currently being sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 46 states for "illegally maintaining its monopoly position" by buying up the competition.

 

The FTC has also said it's looking at "unwinding Facebook's prior acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp" - ie breaking the firm up.

 

Facebook will, of course, fight that. But Biden seems a pretty willing ally to those who want to split up Big Tech.

 

In 2019, he said that breaking up companies such as Facebook was "something we should take a really hard look at".

 

Jameel Jaffer, a media legal expert at Columbia University, told me: "I would expect the Biden administration to be pretty aggressive in enforcing the anti-trust laws. And to have the whole spectrum of harms in mind, not just the democratic harms, but harms relating to user privacy and consumer welfare."

 

President Biden is even reportedly thinking of creating an anti-trust tsar, designed specifically to restore competition in areas like Big Tech.

 

Donald Trump and other Republicans always claimed that Facebook was too liberal, that it was biased against conservatives. But Trump did very well out of the platform. Both Trump and his high profile supporters regularly featured in the top 10 most shared Facebook posts of the day.

Trump's indefinite suspension from both Instagram and Facebook of course changes that dynamic again. But would he have been suspended if he'd had a year to go of his presidency rather than a week?

 

Trump's suspension has to be seen through that lens. Facebook is now scrambling to show it can moderate itself - that it agrees with Joe Biden's view that a free internet isn't necessarily a great and glorious thing.

 

And what better way to show you're serious than banning the president?

 

Joe Biden though, doesn't like Facebook. That die is cast.

What he now decides to do to Big Tech may well be framed around his dislike of the social network, and its emperor, Mark Zuckerberg.

James Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5 .

[Shabibilicious]

Biden's latest executive order will require the federal government to "buy American"

 

Hans Nichols

Mon, January 25, 2021, 6:34 AM

 

 

President Joe Biden will continue his flurry of executive orders on Monday, signing a new directive to require the federal government to “buy American” for products and services.

Why it matters: The executive action is yet another attempt by Biden to accomplish goals administratively without waiting for the backing of Congress. The new order echoes Biden's $400 billion campaign pledge to increase government purchases of American goods.

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What they're saying: "President Biden is ensuring that when the federal government spends taxpayer dollars they are spent on American made goods by American workers and with American-made component parts," the White House said in a fact sheet.

 

The big picture: Biden’s action kick offs another week in which the president will seek to undo many Trump policies with executive actions, while signaling the direction that he wants to take the country.

• Biden will also reaffirm his support for the Jones Act, which requires maritime shipments between American ports to be carried on U.S. vessels.

• Last week, Biden signed an order to attempt to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors and workers to $15 an hour.

The bottom line: Former President Trump also attempted to force the federal government to rely on U.S. manufacturers for procurement with "buy American" provisions.

• But supply chains — with some parts and components made outside of the U.S. — require long and complicated efforts to boost domestic manufacturing.    

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-latest-executive-order-require-113404251.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[nstoolman1]

As Biden sells out America to his Chinese handlers. 

[coorslite21]

Thought I'd "circle back" to this thread.....

 

Have to wonder about the new administration....

 

Both Israel and the Saudi's are unhappy with Biden......Iran just claimed they will have a nuke in a week......

 

Netanyahu has notified Putin they will prevent that from happening as a courtesy to Putin....

 

One of Biden's first acts was to move US troops into Syria....

 

Hey, war is good business....and if you radiate all those fossil fuels .....it's easier to promote going green.....