Joe Biden

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Joe Biden

Remember Tara Reade? Biden sexual abuse accuser defects to Russia

Back in 2020, news was rife with a sexual misconduct allegation involving Joe Biden and a former employee named Tara Reade. Even then, the timing of the allegation was seen to be politically motivated given that Joe Biden was running for President later that year, and he appeared to have

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Analysis: Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has stoked something of a hornets' nest with a recent Substack piece detailing how he thinks the US (together with Norway) was responsible for the explosion on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia to Europe in September 2022. If this is the case,

Joe Biden

Are the Biden documents a Trumpian parallel? Not even close

It might be easy to think that the recent Biden classified documents blunder is one that mirrors the Trump debacle, but you would be wrong. Here's why. First, let's unpack exactly what happened with the Trump classified documents. Trump's documents Back in May 2021,

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Brittney Griner and the comparative worth of humans

What we value and how much we value any given thing is a subjective affair. We might look at price tags on things, but they are for guidance only. If you aren't prepared to pay that much for a widget, you won't buy one. You can

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Biden: We are facing the 'prospect of Armageddon'

The world has been perilously close to an apocalypse on a number of occasions. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is one of the most famous. It actually involved several examples, with the closest being when the Soviet submarine B-59 surfaced after a US warship had been dropping practice depth

Coronavirus

Is the pandemic over? Depends on who you listen to

"The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s...but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s

China

Are China and Taiwan the next Russia and Ukraine?

As if Russia and Ukraine hasn't been a challenging enough conflict to manage, the bubbling political cauldron of Taiwan that China is threatening to knock over. This thorn in China's side has been a long time in the sharpening. So why now? Is Taiwan pushing the

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Ukraine war fatigue: Keep your eyes open

Six months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Putin still can't really win, no matter what his endgame might be. The campaign has been catastrophic from the very start. Even Russians are feeling the fatigue as they are turning their televisions off, bored of the non-stop propaganda.

Joe Biden

A sad goodbye: Jen Psaki's final briefing

After the four years of Trump's tenure in the White House, and a series of infamous press secretaries who became the butt of many liberal comedy shows, we finally found stability in the position that is the face of the US government. This stability hasn't just

climate change

Biden's Landmark Environmental Positioning

Just one more on politics (though this is about the environment) before I get back to talking God. I wanted to write this earlier this week but didn't have the time. I did say this elsewhere: Holy crap, I'm sad enough to be watching the climate

Joe Biden

Such Competence and Moral Integrity

I could be talking about any part of the last 24 hours, other than Trump's own "farewell do", which looked like a wholly embarrassing affair (with desperate appeals for almost anyone to turn up). I am actually referring to the press briefing that I (being a

2020 Election

A Lesson in Probability to a Twit

A long time commenter here (See Noevo Twit), who has contributed precisely nothing to any conversation he has been involved in bar annoyance, is not long for these boards. It finally came to a head and I announced he would be banned after the election given: a) if Trump won,

2020 Election

Truth Decay and the Normalisation of Conspiracy Theories

So much has gone on recently that I don't know where to start and can't hope to include everything. Conspiracy theories are being flung at as many walls as possible to see what sticks and where, and it's all so depressing. We really are

2020 Election

The Election: Talking Energy, Foreign Policy & Demographics

I have written an awful lot on this election and there will be some more post mortem examination to take place. This piece will be an analysis of a right-wing commenter, Person223, who comments here regularly and who at least gives a little more substance than most every other right-wing

Democratic Party

The Republicans Smashed It

Pennsylvania has just flipped Blue and some people are even calling it. Biden is looking to be President. The Republicans smashed it. This is why Trump's claims are completely incoherent. There can be no fraud because, ostensibly, the Republican Party absolutely destroyed the Democrats outside of the presidential

2020 Election

US Politics for Beginners

Okay, for my British and non-US readers. If I get anything wrong, let me know. US POLITICS FOR BEGINNERS Here is my US politics for beginners, for those of you British people who might not understand the US election system. The system has a trifecta (3) of elements: President and

2020 Election

Being Honest with your Moral Consequentialism: Single Issues and Trump Support

We're almost there, so a few more political pieces to go... Trump supporters must really be careful now. He has moved into such open lying in his rallies and messaging now that he is swimming in conspiracy theories and nonsense. It's dangerous. As I have said

2020 Election

Putting the Trumpian Cognitive Dissonance to Bed

This is my second piece dealing with a comment from someone I know on Facebook. Yesterday, I went to town on the claims that, compared to Trump, Biden is a racist crook. This seemed to be one of the bases of this person's support for Trump against Biden.

crime

Astounding Cognitive Dissonance and Trump Support

I am writing this as both a challenge and a response to someone I know on Facebook who has featured namelessly as an interlocutor in a number of articles here. I am interested in his, as a well-read and educated British citizen, public support for Trump. He will produce memes

Arizona

Some More Polling Analysis and Hunter Biden

Here are some interesting points of late: * The race, as predicted in the final stages, is tightening to some degree. * Even with Rasmussen, who skew Republican big time, have Biden to win 319 Electoral College seats. * Given that Trump won the three Rust Belt seats by less than 1% only,

2020 Election

Poll Analysis: Clinton vs Biden in Swing States; Grassroots Texas

I am interested in the polls for a host of reasons, not least because they supposedly got it so wrong in 2016 (they didn't nationally, though Wisconsin was inaccurate and some other states to a degree) and, if you look at present polls with a squint, they look

Joe Biden

The Pope, Catholicism and Trump, and other US Political News

Trump's Covid Trump has just returned from hospital, seemingly fairly well. I don't go in for conspiracy theories, but these things always persist when there is a lack of transparency and clarity, which there clearly is on a number of things: * When did Trump last test

2020 Election

My Debate Analysis

My debate analysis: Biden had absolutely everything to lose from the debate and lost nothing. Trump had everything to gain from that debate and gained nothing. Nobody gained anything. Nobody lost anything, really. It didn't change a thing. Those mad people who love Trump seem to think he

Debate

The Debate: What To Expect Tonight

America, and to some degree the rest of the world, are waiting with bated breath as to the outcome of the debate tonight between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Of course, only Biden has anything to lose so the event is more important to him than to Trump. Trump can

2020 Election

Trump's War on Democracy

I really fear for the state of US democracy. I mean, really. Things are dire in a way that Republican supporters and voters don't realise, like lobsters slowly boiling in a pot not realising as, incrementally, the temperature rises. There is so, so much I could write about