Was Biden playing Rope-a-dope or just governing?

yes they are. So Biden's talking a good game - will he be able to walk it?

I think so. Early performance is reassuring.

Thanks for answering one of the questions.
What about the first one?

Trump tried seven times to pass a infrastructure bill. Failed utterly and completely.

Do you think it will take Biden more or less?

How does it make you feel that someone you consider incompetent is getting more done than your boy Trump?

U mad bro? Sounds like I struck a nerve. Calm down, he won't be in charge much longer anyway.

I was on a work road trip last Thursday so I couldn't watch the press conference but I listened to CNN on Sirius.

I had the same thoughts about the press.

I thought the president did fine. I wish I could've seen it instead of listening to it.

Desperate trolling is obvious.

So ... can't actually defend your assertions?

Stop smoking crack plz

Remember how convinced @Zombie was that Biden was gonna get replaced by Hillary?

Link?

I feel like @Zombie checked outta here way before the nomination was official so I genuinely forgot but I'm not shocked by this.

There isn’t just one link. He was beating that drum for months.

https://wordforge.net/index.php?search/25433204/&q=Hillary&o=date&c[node]=2&c[user][0]=57

what specifically do you think am I asserting?

The current Republican line is that the Biden Admin is only successful because Biden hired competent staff and cabinet heads who are doing the actual work of running the government. Biden is supposedly just hiding in the Whitehouse.

Which uh... okay....?

Even if there was no other difference between Trump and Biden than this, it would already be a thoroughly sufficient reason to prefer Biden.

Trump, 'relentlessly focused'??!!

I think that tweet was sarcastic.

Yes. He was making fun of the current Republican line by sarcastically contrasting it against the last Republican administration.

Slightly off-topic but was Biden being sarcastic when he said that FDR stacking the Supreme court was a bone-head idea back in 1983? Asking for a friend.

Biden in 1983: FDR's Court-Packing Proposal was a 'Bonehead Idea' - YouTube

A bit more off topic but did you know that 1983 is as far away from today as it was from WWII?

Stop making me feel old

Biden wasn't enthusiastic about court-packing during the campaign either. Saying you'll "study" an idea is basically Washington's way of burying a radioactive issue. Pelosi isn't enthusiastic, either.

Frankly, I'd like to see it used to push Thomas into retiring. "You can either step down, or we're gonna give you four new colleagues..."

Since the court absolutely should not be biased in any way, the court should be balanced. If a president and congress cannot behave correctly, then there needs to be an amendment that states the supreme court to always be balanced.

There is no possible way to enforce that other than demanding justices state their political affiliation or preference, which isn't going to happen.

As to the earlier charge of things being different as opposed to 1983, you're right. It's no longer a liberal supreme court. Doesn't change the fact Biden is being a hypocrite on this issue. And if you think it's okay for a president to add justices( and we all know your reasons why), what do you think happens when the shoe is on the other foot? It will be thrown right back in your faces.

What do you think all this about? The right is being hypocritical. Conservatives are denying the rights for everyone they don’t like and doing so using the court - which is the weakest of the 3 branches of government and the only branch that can do so because they are appointed, not voted.

So, take your bullshit argument and fuck off.

The president has the constitutional duty to ensure balance on the Supreme Court.

And he won’t regardless of how much pressure is put in him - because he is also conservative. If he were truly left leaning, he’d be all over balancing the court.

Calm down Karen.

The President does not have a constitutional duty to ensure balance on the Supreme Court. His only duty is to fill that vacancy. Balance was never the consideration for Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W, Obama or Trump. Appointing their own ideologues was.

Duh. That’s exactly my point.

And yes, despite not being spelled out in the constitution, all elected officials have a duty to the people -all the people. Not their parties. The court is made up of humans. We know all appointees over the last 40 +/- years have all been partisan. That’s why it’s important now more than ever, to balance it.

So what you're saying is, if the supreme court makeup was reversed and a conservative justice keeled over tomorrow, you wouldn't be wanting Biden to appoint another liberal justice to take his place? Forgive me if I call bullshit.