The Biden Presidency

If it’s legal I’m glad they used it. When do the Republicans ever throw a card away? Never. It seems from the article some Democrats still want to ban it, so maybe we can get some bipartisan agreement.

The coalition between Clintonites, the media and neocons is something that should concern everybody. Having the GOP lose their mantle as the pro-war party is something that I didn’t think would happen.

I think that we will remember this as Trump losing far more than Biden winning. If you think that he ‘had Trump for breakfast’, what do you think his best campaign line or strategic move was?

Common sense and competency

I think it was hiding in his basement, followed closely by getting the media to cancel the second debate.

The fact that you can’t remember a single line that he uttered throughout the entire two year campaign is telling how genius his strategy was.

Excuse me, you asked for his best campaign line or strategic move. I answered.

Apologies. I didn’t see anything other than this.

If you can’t remember anything that he actually said (fair because he didn’t say a lot), what was his best strategic move? Kamala wasn’t bad. Getting half the candidates in the primary to drop before South Carolina was brilliant…though I don’t think that he came up with it.

Okay, I will try again and write in full sentences.

His best strategic move was having common sense and being competent. Why? Because it was the complete opposite of Trump.

Got it…and by ‘it’, I mean that you can’t come up with anything other than disliking Trump (which is fair).

I guess you don’t but I never expected you to.

And here’s me who cut my teeth chanting:
Hey, hey , LBJ,
How many kids did you kill today?

I guess when the opponent sets a low bar, just don’t trip over it. The fact that he didn’t embarrass himself or get involved in yet another scandal on a daily basis like his opponent did went a loooong way towards securing his victory.

And the Trump low bar phenomenon continues.

Biden has to to so very little because of the Trump low bar: Don’t belittle each other, Biden tells his staff, or you’re through. America’s reaction: Awesome! Such a wise man.

Biden to America: Wear masks. America’s reaction: Damn, this guy’s good.

Biden to America: I have come up with a vaccine distribution plan. Still working on the details. But I do have a plan. America’s reaction: This guy’s on fire!

In some ways, Biden is the luckiest US president because of the incredibly low bar set by Trump.

Oh you dreamer.

Continuing the move from stunts to real world results

No doubt Biden will inevitably, speculatively be a loser in this effort, because a business genius came up with these results for his best efforts:

One thing that’s clear is that the factory will be far smaller than what was initially envisioned. Rather than the 20 million square feet Trump announced a year ago, the current facility appears to be a bit less than a million square feet.

Foxconn says it will still eventually employ 13,000 people, and that this factory is only the initial phase. The company says the factory will come online in the fourth quarter of 2020, though Gou also recently told reporters that Trump would attend the start of production next May. Foxconn has said the factory will employ 1,500 people.

Yet the building plans Foxconn submitted to the village show only 570 parking spots. At the end of last year, the company employed just 156 people in the state. It’s possible Foxconn could make up the remaining thousand or so workers by filling its currently vacant innovation centers, though its current rate of hiring makes that unlikely, and it’s probably not what anyone had in mind when they envisioned the return of manufacturing jobs to Wisconsin. To put this shortfall in perspective, Foxconn’s original target was to employ 5,200 people next year.

So one year after the groundbreaking, Foxconn owns a lot of vacant office space across Wisconsin, and it’s building something, but that something has gone from the first Gen 10.5 outside of Asia, to a much smaller Gen 6, to an assembly facility, back to a Gen 6, to possibly not even that.

And no one is any closer to knowing what an AI 8K+5G ecosystem actually is.

On the lookout for the day when the Biden presidency thread is no longer a Trump discussion thread.

Not there yet…

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Dunno if this is mentioned in the thread already, but Bidens nominee for trade secretary Katherine Tai’s parents were both born in China and grew up in Taiwan.

Thanks Obama!

Agreed, not quite yet. Some healthy comparison is inevitable and appropriate but it should be kept to a reasonable level. After all the standard for Biden threads need to be higher and more rigorous than Trump threads.

WRONG! Where’s Pocahontas?