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Democratic senator on Biden’s farewell plea: ‘Now he tells us’
BY ASHLEIGH FIELDS
01/16/25
Democratic senator on Biden’s farewell plea: ‘Now he tells us’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander in chief’s parting remark…
thehill.com
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander in chief’s parting remarks.
“Now he tells us. Biden speaks out against dark money, for climate action, and for SCOTUS term limits. I pressed four years for this speech,” Whitehouse posted on social platform X.
“That was a great speech. Had that speech launched the reelection campaign, we’d have won. Had that speech launched his presidency, we’d have saved America. Now we fight on,” he wrote in a subsequent post….
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
That's all well and good, but we just saw the hate train take a win. I don't think any of that would have tipped the scales. People just weren't trying to hear it then (and some still aren't now).Democratic senator on Biden’s farewell plea: ‘Now he tells us’
BY ASHLEIGH FIELDS
01/16/25
Democratic senator on Biden’s farewell plea: ‘Now he tells us’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander in chief’s parting remark…thehill.com
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said statements in President Biden’s farewell speech came much too late in a Thursday statement, raising question with the commander in chief’s parting remarks.
“Now he tells us. Biden speaks out against dark money, for climate action, and for SCOTUS term limits. I pressed four years for this speech,” Whitehouse posted on social platform X.
“That was a great speech. Had that speech launched the reelection campaign, we’d have won. Had that speech launched his presidency, we’d have saved America. Now we fight on,” he wrote in a subsequent post….
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Alabama community demands accountability for flood damage before Biden's term ends
Advocates followed top federal officials around the country to call for action. The properties of the historically Black Shiloh community in Coffee County, Alabama, have been damaged since the state widened Highway 84.
ByJared Kofsky andMaia Rosenfeld
January 17, 2025
abcnews.go.com
…After six years of frequent flooding, two presidential administrations and numerous reassurances from top officials, homeowners like Williams who live in the majority-Black Shiloh community say they are still waiting for state and federal agencies to make them whole…
Advocates followed top federal officials around the country to call for action. The properties of the historically Black Shiloh community in Coffee County, Alabama, have been damaged since the state widened Highway 84.
ByJared Kofsky andMaia Rosenfeld
January 17, 2025
Alabama community demands accountability for flood damage before Biden's term ends
After years of flooding and two presidential administrations, homeowners in Shiloh say they are still waiting for state and federal agencies to make them whole.
…After six years of frequent flooding, two presidential administrations and numerous reassurances from top officials, homeowners like Williams who live in the majority-Black Shiloh community say they are still waiting for state and federal agencies to make them whole…
Im not wasting my energy voting ever again . This world is rigged.
How many times did you vote in the past and for what county/Parrish. It's easy to not do the minimum.
I e hesn voting for almost 30 years after this bullshit especially after that bulshit florida lulled on marijuana ,egslization im done. If a convict'ted felon can vet into office especially after inciting an insurgency on the capital building this bullshit just means that y vote means nothing.
Coming from Florida yeah it makes sense but you should start back small and focus on local elections idk what county but for you being someone denied the right for so long, you shouldn't give up.
Aight bet
Left her in prison to rot away. Without a man, she has turned to gender cannibalism to meet her sexual needs.
Setting up these fake businesses, nonprofits, or real estate ventures are slick ways to funnel money to a person. I deal with a lot of clowns that have these scheme set up to enrich themselves then come at me. I have a bias towards these set ups because these fools be chasing me after getting that paper.
If she had withdrew money to pay for her kids college or repair her house, then this prosecution was unwarranted.
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Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call
| If the essence of Greek tragedy is that the hero is undone by his flaws, Joe Biden gets star billing. He defeated Donald Trump, stood up to Russia, enacted more reforms than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and bequeaths a robust economy. That made Biden a hero to America’s left and beyond. Yet most of his achievements will now be erased. His legacy is Trump’s return. After Biden, the deluge. He largely has himself to blame. The Greek tragic hero’s defect is hubris. Last week, Biden said he could have won the 2024 election had he stayed in the race. This was in spite of the fact that just 27 per cent of Americans last June thought he had the cognitive ability to be president again. It is likelier that Trump would have won a far bigger victory. Whatever blame Kamala Harris deserves, her vote came within 1.5 percentage points of Trump’s. Much has yet to be reported about the conspiracy of silence around Biden’s waning capacities. Though he was shielded from press conferences and other unscripted events, it was an open secret in Washington that his mind was in decline. Biden’s inner cabinet of family and longtime aides should take some of the blame. It was also a media failing. The rare journalist who blew the whistle risked loss of access and ostracism on liberal social media. But the buck stops with Biden. Had he redeemed his vow to be a one-term “bridge” to the post-Trump era, the Democratic party would have had time to find a stronger candidate than Harris — someone who could have distanced themselves from what was unpopular about Biden’s economy. Instead, an isolated Biden was cut off from public sentiment. To be sure, the biggest swing to Harris in November came from voters who paid most attention to the news. Trump, meanwhile, swept the low information vote by thumping margins, irrespective of race, income and gender. All right-thinking Americans are with you, a supporter told Adlai Stevenson, the twice-losing 1950s Democratic nominee. Yes, but I need a majority, he quipped. Nobody said politics was fair. Biden helped ensure the post-Covid US rebound was stronger than in any other big economy. But a nostalgic country associated Trump with the pre-Covid era. People blamed Biden for inflation — and his stimulus did help fuel it. But voters gave him no credit for the rest. Clear majorities of Americans polled by Gallup this week said the US had lost ground in six areas during Biden’s term. These were the economy, federal debt, immigration, income inequality, America’s position in the world and crime. In only one area did a majority say progress was made during Biden’s presidency — “the situation for gay, lesbian and transgender people”. No data could better capture the Biden administration’s weakness of narrative and leadership. Until he dropped out in July, Biden kept doubling down on the threat Trump posed to democracy, though his team had known for months that democracy did not feature in the top five voter concerns. But it is the flawed hero’s nobility that gives Biden a Greek ending. Virtue and hubris were both present in his personal tragedies. When Biden was vice-president, his net worth was estimated at around half a million dollars. After almost half a century in public life, that was barely a rounding error. No informed American thought Biden was corrupt. But he turned a blind eye to his son, Hunter, who sought to monetise the family name even as he was falling into addiction. Biden paid a big price for that indulgence. Like Othello, Biden loved not wisely but too well. Ukrainians will remember Biden warmly. The same cannot be said for Palestinians. Amid the rubble of the worst civilian death toll in years, the Gaza Strip is littered with US munitions supplied by Biden. He believes that he was acting nobly to prevent even higher tolls and stop a Middle Eastern war. By bottling up Vladimir Putin’s military resources in Ukraine, Biden may also have contributed to Bashar al-Assad’s downfall in Syria. But much of the global south sees Biden as a man who failed to uphold the values that he promised. That Trump is seen as a different version of Biden in so much of the world — not as a radical departure — may be the hardest verdict of all. Biden promised four years ago to be the “ally of light not the darkness”. He meant it. In Biden’s farewell to the nation on Wednesday night, only he will know how it feels to be ceding the stage to Trump. |
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’
Karine Jeane-Pierre speaks at the Institute of Politics about media's role in democracy on Wednesday. Jeane-Pierre was former President Joe Biden's press secretary. By Elise A. Spenner
By Elise A. Spenner, Crimson Staff Writer
February 27, 2025
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.
“I have never seen anything like that,” she said. “It was truly, truly unfortunate. And I think it hurt us more than folks realized to have done that.”
Jean-Pierre attended a discussion with spring IOP fellow Brittany Shepherd and Anoushka Chander ’25 — her first public event since leaving the White House in January.
Jean-Pierre stood by Biden’s achievements, his cognitive fitness, and his decision to run for re-election during the talk. She echoed statements from Michael C. Donilon — a senior advisor to Biden and a current IOP fellow — who defended the former president on the same stage just two weeks ago.
“I believe in what we were trying to get done,” Jean-Pierre said. “I would not have come back into the administration, I don’t think, for anybody else.”
Jean-Pierre served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025, and is the first Black person and openly LGBTQ person to hold the position. She credited the Biden administration with restoring a traditional and productive relationship between the press and the White House.
“We tried to bring that norm back, because we understood how important it was to have the freedom of the press,” Jean-Pierre said. “Even when we didn’t agree with them, it didn’t matter, even when it was contentious in that room.”
But President Donald Trump has already taken steps to reverse the Biden administration’s efforts. One day before Jean-Pierre spoke, Trump announced his plan to take control of the White House press pool, hand-picking the small group of reporters given access to the President’s movements.
“What I am seeing now is scary,” Jean-Pierre said. “When you take that away, when you do not do that, then where’s the democracy? Where’s that healthy back-and-forth? Where’s the accountability?”
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Jean-Pierre said that over the last month she has “deprogrammed” herself after the stress of her White House responsibilities, which required her to wake up at 4:30 a.m. for four years. Jean-Pierre wrote in a recent Vanity Fair op-ed that she was simultaneously caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023.
“I have not missed it at all,” she said. “It was an honor and a privilege to have the job, to be the White House press secretary, and I would do it again easily, but I don’t miss it.”
Jean-Pierre said the traditional demands of the role were compounded by the pressure to “represent many communities.”
“You have to outperform,” she said. “You have to be better than everybody before you, because you don’t want to be the last. You want people to see you doing the job and say, ‘Oh yeah, okay, we can see someone else who looks like you be in that job.’”
“There were moments where I was like, ‘Okay, can I get up and do this over again? Can I continue to do the job?’” Jean-Pierre added. “And I would always say yes.”
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.www.thecrimson.com
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’
Karine Jeane-Pierre speaks at the Institute of Politics about media's role in democracy on Wednesday. Jeane-Pierre was former President Joe Biden's press secretary. By Elise A. Spenner
By Elise A. Spenner, Crimson Staff Writer
February 27, 2025
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.
“I have never seen anything like that,” she said. “It was truly, truly unfortunate. And I think it hurt us more than folks realized to have done that.”
Jean-Pierre attended a discussion with spring IOP fellow Brittany Shepherd and Anoushka Chander ’25 — her first public event since leaving the White House in January.
Jean-Pierre stood by Biden’s achievements, his cognitive fitness, and his decision to run for re-election during the talk. She echoed statements from Michael C. Donilon — a senior advisor to Biden and a current IOP fellow — who defended the former president on the same stage just two weeks ago.
“I believe in what we were trying to get done,” Jean-Pierre said. “I would not have come back into the administration, I don’t think, for anybody else.”
Jean-Pierre served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025, and is the first Black person and openly LGBTQ person to hold the position. She credited the Biden administration with restoring a traditional and productive relationship between the press and the White House.
“We tried to bring that norm back, because we understood how important it was to have the freedom of the press,” Jean-Pierre said. “Even when we didn’t agree with them, it didn’t matter, even when it was contentious in that room.”
But President Donald Trump has already taken steps to reverse the Biden administration’s efforts. One day before Jean-Pierre spoke, Trump announced his plan to take control of the White House press pool, hand-picking the small group of reporters given access to the President’s movements.
“What I am seeing now is scary,” Jean-Pierre said. “When you take that away, when you do not do that, then where’s the democracy? Where’s that healthy back-and-forth? Where’s the accountability?”
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Jean-Pierre said that over the last month she has “deprogrammed” herself after the stress of her White House responsibilities, which required her to wake up at 4:30 a.m. for four years. Jean-Pierre wrote in a recent Vanity Fair op-ed that she was simultaneously caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023.
“I have not missed it at all,” she said. “It was an honor and a privilege to have the job, to be the White House press secretary, and I would do it again easily, but I don’t miss it.”
Jean-Pierre said the traditional demands of the role were compounded by the pressure to “represent many communities.”
“You have to outperform,” she said. “You have to be better than everybody before you, because you don’t want to be the last. You want people to see you doing the job and say, ‘Oh yeah, okay, we can see someone else who looks like you be in that job.’”
“There were moments where I was like, ‘Okay, can I get up and do this over again? Can I continue to do the job?’” Jean-Pierre added. “And I would always say yes.”
Joe had no chance of winning. What does saying this now accomplish? We need to focus on the immediate problem the country is facing, Elon/Doge/Drumpf......
Mike Donilon Says Democratic Party ‘Melted Down’ After Biden’s June Debate at IOP | News | The Harvard Crimson
In a wide-ranging post mortem at the IOP Thursday evening, Donilon remained adamant that the former president would “still be the best” for the job – despite his poor performance in a June debate.
People are OBSESSED to getting an answer and blaming SOMEONE ANYONE.
Instead of focusing on what is right in front of them and the future
BRUH!!
Like seriously, now is not the time for finger pointing and looking back! We have a big ass hill/obstacle in front of us, let's get over this and then we can revisit that shit. We need to focus all of out attention on this before this dude does even more damage to society and our future......
The sheer amount of bullshit he has done in 6 weeks is more than enough to warrant our full attention....
^^^^
Whoopi Goldberg cuts off 'View' star Alyssa Farah Griffin's tense moment with Karine Jean-Pierre
'The View' star Whoopi Goldberg cut off a tense moment between Karine Jean-Pierre and Alyssa Farah Griffin live on the air: 'You see this conversation is getting going.'
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.
Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Forced Out of Race by Democratic ‘Firing Squad’
Karine Jeane-Pierre speaks at the Institute of Politics about media's role in democracy on Wednesday. Jeane-Pierre was former President Joe Biden's press secretary. By Elise A. Spenner
By Elise A. Spenner, Crimson Staff Writer
February 27, 2025
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Democratic leadership for attacking Joe Biden like a “firing squad” at a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum Wednesday, saying the party should have united behind the former president.
“I have never seen anything like that,” she said. “It was truly, truly unfortunate. And I think it hurt us more than folks realized to have done that.”
Jean-Pierre attended a discussion with spring IOP fellow Brittany Shepherd and Anoushka Chander ’25 — her first public event since leaving the White House in January.
Jean-Pierre stood by Biden’s achievements, his cognitive fitness, and his decision to run for re-election during the talk. She echoed statements from Michael C. Donilon — a senior advisor to Biden and a current IOP fellow — who defended the former president on the same stage just two weeks ago.
“I believe in what we were trying to get done,” Jean-Pierre said. “I would not have come back into the administration, I don’t think, for anybody else.”
Jean-Pierre served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025, and is the first Black person and openly LGBTQ person to hold the position. She credited the Biden administration with restoring a traditional and productive relationship between the press and the White House.
“We tried to bring that norm back, because we understood how important it was to have the freedom of the press,” Jean-Pierre said. “Even when we didn’t agree with them, it didn’t matter, even when it was contentious in that room.”
But President Donald Trump has already taken steps to reverse the Biden administration’s efforts. One day before Jean-Pierre spoke, Trump announced his plan to take control of the White House press pool, hand-picking the small group of reporters given access to the President’s movements.
“What I am seeing now is scary,” Jean-Pierre said. “When you take that away, when you do not do that, then where’s the democracy? Where’s that healthy back-and-forth? Where’s the accountability?”
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Jean-Pierre said that over the last month she has “deprogrammed” herself after the stress of her White House responsibilities, which required her to wake up at 4:30 a.m. for four years. Jean-Pierre wrote in a recent Vanity Fair op-ed that she was simultaneously caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023.
“I have not missed it at all,” she said. “It was an honor and a privilege to have the job, to be the White House press secretary, and I would do it again easily, but I don’t miss it.”
Jean-Pierre said the traditional demands of the role were compounded by the pressure to “represent many communities.”
“You have to outperform,” she said. “You have to be better than everybody before you, because you don’t want to be the last. You want people to see you doing the job and say, ‘Oh yeah, okay, we can see someone else who looks like you be in that job.’”
“There were moments where I was like, ‘Okay, can I get up and do this over again? Can I continue to do the job?’” Jean-Pierre added. “And I would always say yes.”
Trump reveals whom Biden blamed for Dems’ 2024 election defeat — and it’s not Kamala Harris
Trump told the Spectator World he had visited the White House to meet with an “angry” Biden shortly after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris — who took Biden’s place on the Democratic ticket after he was forced out of the race due to concerns over his age and abilities.
By Patrick Reilly
Feb. 28, 2025
Trump reveals whom Biden blamed for Dems’ 2024 election defeat — and it’s not Kamala Harris
Trump said he visited the White House to meet with an “angry” Biden shortly after he defeated Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris.
nypost.com
Trump reveals whom Biden blamed for Dems’ 2024 election defeat — and it’s not Kamala Harris
Trump told the Spectator World he had visited the White House to meet with an “angry” Biden shortly after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris — who took Biden’s place on the Democratic ticket after he was forced out of the race due to concerns over his age and abilities.
By Patrick Reilly
Feb. 28, 2025
Trump reveals whom Biden blamed for Dems’ 2024 election defeat — and it’s not Kamala Harris
Trump said he visited the White House to meet with an “angry” Biden shortly after he defeated Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris.
Could be true but I don't believe anything this rapist/racist says.
I could see him being aware of it but I'm not sure Biden would have had this conversation with Trump.
But at the same time Biden is known to have those moments of talking and saying shit when he shouldn't.
Either way the reality is it was clear he was struggling so I can't say that his party snaked him.
This is just the inevitable finger pointing and blame placing the Democrats are good at and always engage instead of focusing on the actual reasons they lost which wasn't Kamala's performance/ability or the fact that Joe was forced out.
Exactly what I'm thinking.
I was thinking the same thing.
But what you have to take into account is that POTUS/Former POTUS are in a unique “Club”.
Regardless of their political positions/beliefs, they know shit that the general public will never know and they are given information that they will take to their grave.
Both Obama and Biden left Trump traditional letters in the Oval Office desk for Trump when they left.
Trump actually kept the tradition and left Biden a letter back in 2021.
Majority of what’s in those letters, they do not reveal to the public.
With how the election played out last year, there is a high possibility and rare chance that Trump is telling the truth. Every now and then he does tell the truth, but it gets ignored with the millions of lies and BS he normally dishes out.