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New polls show Biden leaving office with approval ratings still buried deep in negative territory

President Biden's approval ratings remain well underwater as he is just days from leaving office, and the surveys suggest that many Americans see his time in the White House as a failure.
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Just 36% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing in the White House, according to the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with 64% saying they disapprove. The approval rating matches the president's previous low mark in the cable news network's polling during Biden's single term in office.

According to the USA Today/Suffolk University survey, which was released on Tuesday, 44% of registered voters said history will assess Biden as a failed president, with 27% saying he will be judged as a fair president. Twenty-one percent of those questioned said history will view Biden as a good president, with only 5% saying he will be seen as a great president. - And that scary bunch walks among us.

Strange -

I thought jobs were good, economy was good and all the rest of the hoop-lah being promoted by the left. You would think the approval rating would be 64%.

All fake news folks. A couple more days.
 
Live Update arrow right icon From the Liveblog of Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Asked whether he or Trump should get credit for the deal, Biden replies, ‘Is that a joke?’​


LOLOLOLOLOL!! Good one JOEYYYYYYYYYY

​

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President Joe Biden turns back to the cameras to answer a question from a reporter about who deserves credit for the ceasefire, in the Cross Hall of the White House after speaking about the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Jan. 15, 2024, in Washington. With Biden are Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Joe Biden turns back to the cameras to answer a question from a reporter about who deserves credit for the ceasefire, in the Cross Hall of the White House after speaking about the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Jan. 15, 2024, in Washington. With Biden are Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
US President Joe Biden says he is “confident” that Israel and Hamas will reach phase two of the agreement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought during the negotiations to ensure that Israel would be allowed to resume fighting after the first stage, but Biden indicates he’s determined to make sure that doesn’t happen, given the pledges from the mediators to ensure negotiations on the second phase will continue until an agreement is reached. The fighting will remain at a halt, so long as those talks continue, Biden says.
Asked who should get credit for the deal — him or Trump — Biden responds, “Is that a joke.”

Biden says the hostage negotiation, which climaxed today, was one of the most difficult of his career.
“I’m deeply satisfied this day has come for the sake of the people of Israel and the [hostages’] families of waiting in agony, for the sake of the indigenous people in Gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the war,” Biden says.
“The Palestinian people have gone through hell. Too many innocent people have died. Too many communities have been destroyed,” he continues.
Biden notes that while the deal was negotiated by his administration, it will be implemented by the incoming Trump administration. “In these past few days, we’ve been speaking as one team.”
“This has been a time of real turmoil in the Middle East, but as I prepare to leave office, our friends are strong, our enemies are weak, and there’s a genuine opportunity for a new future,” Biden says.
He also suggests that the hostage deal could lead to the creation of a “credible pathway” to a Palestinian state. This would require Israeli acquiescence, which Jerusalem has repeatedly made clear it will not grant.
With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the ceasefire in Gaza, “we’re handing off to the next team a real opportunity for a better future for the Middle East,” says Biden.
He quotes former US senator and northern Ireland peace negotiator George Mitchell who said, “Diplomacy is 700 days of failure and one day of success.
“We’ve had many difficult days since the Hamas began this terrible war. We’ve encountered roadblocks and setbacks. But we haven’t given up. And now, after more than 400 days of struggle, a day of success has arrived,” Biden says.
 
PAM DA BIMBO!!!!

What is striking about this new set of confirmation hearings, and those that will doubtless follow, is that the sole determinant for an appointment in 2025 is loyalty to Trump. Not to the GOP. Not to conservative legal values. Not to some inchoate theory of separation of powers or to an old-school vision or to the unitary executive. The unitary executive is Trump. To be eligible to serve in Donald Trump’s Cabinet one needs to have shown fealty to Donald Trump. Which means that during these hearings one needs to mouth platitudes about institutions and theories of justice and independence and liberty and justice for all, and rape crisis centers at the border, without ever disavowing a single word spoken by Donald J. Trump, or acknowledging his activities to set aside the last election, or statements made by his loyalists, or statements made by oneself in order to curry favor. One is simultaneously auditioning for just one person and also saying whatever needs to be said in order to prove that nothing Donald Trump has ever said or done is real, or true, or salient. Bondi happens to be superb at this. By the end of the afternoon Senate Democrats seem to be conceding that justice and liberty and independence are the name of the game. Bondi still believes Trump won in 2020.

FROOT LOOPS
 

Trump's China tariff threats are helping fuel a manufacturing boom — in Mexico​

The migration of manufacturing to Mexico could undermine Trump’s promise that ratcheting up tariffs on China would give companies incentives to bring production back to the U.S. and give American companies a more even playing field.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has indicated that one of his top priorities when he takes office next week will be to impose steep tariffs on Chinese imports, a move he claims would protect American jobs and bolster domestic manufacturing.

But if recent trends are any indication, one of the biggest beneficiaries might be workers in Mexico.


After Trump levied tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese goods in his first term, a growing number of companies moved manufacturing operations from China to Mexico. Industry analysts and executives working with Mexican manufacturers said that with Trump promising to escalate the trade war, they are seeing a renewed wave of interest from companies looking to shift production from China to Mexico.

“It’s absolutely déjà vu, and it’s just getting started,” said Raine Mahdi, whose company, Zipfox, connects businesses with manufacturers in Mexico. “The last time, this issue caught the tail end of the Trump administration, and then it pretty much died off with the Biden administration. Now it’s already starting before Trump is even officially in office. It’s not going to just go away. Companies are not going to be able to wait it out.”

There are generally no tariffs on goods made in Mexico that are shipped to the United States under the USMCA trade pact among the United States, Canada and Mexico — similar to the previous North American Free Trade Agreement — though Trump has threatened Mexico with new tariffs if it doesn't do more to stop the flow of immigrants and drugs across its border.

The migration of manufacturing to Mexico could undermine Trump’s promise to voters that ratcheting up tariffs on China would give companies incentives to bring production back to the United States and give American companies a more even playing field. During Trump’s first round of China tariffs, the number of companies moving production for the U.S. market out of China increased. But rather than relocate that production to the United States, many companies went to other low-cost countries, instead.

“It will produce jobs in a few sectors who get protection and where there’s not a way to make it offshore, but for most companies it just moves it from China to Vietnam or Mexico,” said Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economic. “I really do think it’s a false promise.”

Since his election, Trump has threatened to put tariffs on goods from Mexico on day one of his administration. But doing so would violate the USMCA trade pact — a deal Trump touted as a major negotiating victory during his first term. Breaching the agreement could trigger legal challenges and retaliatory tariffs that would affect U.S. companies, lawyers and trade policy analysts have said. It could also cause upheaval in the financial markets and increase prices for consumers on everything from cars to groceries, they said.

The United States will be able to start renegotiating the USMCA pact in July 2026 under a provision in the agreement. If the three countries don’t agree to extend the deal, it will terminate in 2036.

But even with the looming uncertainty of tariffs, companies have continued their interest in Mexico, said Alejandro Delgado, Mexico country manager for SiiLA, a real estate data analytics firm. Along with the low trade barriers, the close proximity to the United States means cheaper shipping costs and the ability to avoid potential bottlenecks at U.S. ports. Mexico also has relatively low labor costs, with a minimum wage of around $20 a day in the region near the U.S. border.

“Since Donald Trump’s election, Chinese companies’ interest in Mexico has remained, but with some uncertainty,” Delgado said. “Of course, there is this threat of implementing new tariffs, but the sense is that Mexico is in a better position to negotiate with the U.S. than China.”

In Nuevo León, an area just south of the U.S. border, industrial parks full of Chinese companies have been springing up in recent years. Among those opening operations there are the equipment maker Lingong Machinery Group, which announced plans for a $5 billion industrial park, and the appliance maker Hisense, which said it would spend $260 million on a facility that it expects to create 7,000 jobs. Adjustable bed manufacturer Keeson Technology invested $30 million in a plant, and the Chinese furniture maker Kuka Home opened operations in Mexico in 2020 and announced a $150 million expansion in 2022 that it said would employ 3,500 people.

In total, nearly $4 billion in investment deals were announced in 2023 by Chinese companies and an additional $1.4 billion were recorded in the first half of 2024, according to data compiled by the research firm Rhodium Group. While that is a relatively small amount compared with other countries with deeper ties to Mexico, it’s nearly four times the average Chinese investment in Mexico from 2014 to 2020, the report found.

The footprint of industrial real estate occupied by Chinese firms has doubled since 2021, with the largest investments coming from companies manufacturing higher-end products for the automotive and tech sectors, according to data from SiiLA. More than half of Chinese-based companies currently occupying industrial space in Mexico weren’t present in the country before 2020, SiiLA said.

MEXICO SAYS gracias senor dip shit!
 
movetheboat said:
Live Updatearrow right icon From the Liveblog of Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Asked whether he or Trump should get credit for the deal, Biden replies, ‘Is that a joke?’​


LOLOLOLOLOL!! Good one JOEYYYYYYYYYY

​

By Jacob Magid
Follow
Today, 10:31
President Joe Biden turns back to the cameras to answer a question from a reporter about who deserves credit for the ceasefire, in the Cross Hall of the White House after speaking about the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Jan. 15, 2024, in Washington. With Biden are Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Joe Biden turns back to the cameras to answer a question from a reporter about who deserves credit for the ceasefire, in the Cross Hall of the White House after speaking about the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Jan. 15, 2024, in Washington. With Biden are Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
US President Joe Biden says he is “confident” that Israel and Hamas will reach phase two of the agreement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought during the negotiations to ensure that Israel would be allowed to resume fighting after the first stage, but Biden indicates he’s determined to make sure that doesn’t happen, given the pledges from the mediators to ensure negotiations on the second phase will continue until an agreement is reached. The fighting will remain at a halt, so long as those talks continue, Biden says.
Asked who should get credit for the deal — him or Trump — Biden responds, “Is that a joke.”

Biden says the hostage negotiation, which climaxed today, was one of the most difficult of his career.
“I’m deeply satisfied this day has come for the sake of the people of Israel and the [hostages’] families of waiting in agony, for the sake of the indigenous people in Gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the war,” Biden says.
“The Palestinian people have gone through hell. Too many innocent people have died. Too many communities have been destroyed,” he continues.
Biden notes that while the deal was negotiated by his administration, it will be implemented by the incoming Trump administration. “In these past few days, we’ve been speaking as one team.”
“This has been a time of real turmoil in the Middle East, but as I prepare to leave office, our friends are strong, our enemies are weak, and there’s a genuine opportunity for a new future,” Biden says.
He also suggests that the hostage deal could lead to the creation of a “credible pathway” to a Palestinian state. This would require Israeli acquiescence, which Jerusalem has repeatedly made clear it will not grant.
With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the ceasefire in Gaza, “we’re handing off to the next team a real opportunity for a better future for the Middle East,” says Biden.
He quotes former US senator and northern Ireland peace negotiator George Mitchell who said, “Diplomacy is 700 days of failure and one day of success.
“We’ve had many difficult days since the Hamas began this terrible war. We’ve encountered roadblocks and setbacks. But we haven’t given up. And now, after more than 400 days of struggle, a day of success has arrived,” Biden says.
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Fake news above.

Real news follows.


WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President-elect Donald Trump is threatening the terror group Hamas to release its remaining hostages in Gaza before his inauguration Jan. 20.

“If they’re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East,” Trump said.

“It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” he said.

Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is part of the effort to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Witkoff said the negotiations are making progress.


Trump speaks - the world listens. He is not even the President yet and fixing world problems.
 
movetheboat said:

Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal​


The cherry on top of four great years for BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes .. 4 great years

So great his own party cut his balls off and evaded the Democratic process to appoint a losing candidate.

Now THAT'S what I call a cherry on top!

Thank you democrats!

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Trump Is Walking Back His Biggest Campaign Promises Before Taking Office
From lowering the costs of groceries to ending the war in Ukraine "in 24 hours," the president-elect is backpedaling on the things he said he would do.

SORRY MAGA



By Jennifer Bendery

Jan 15, 2025, 05:45 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump made lots of big promises on the campaign trail about what he would do as president.

But in the weeks since he won the election, Trump and his transition team have been quietly walking back some of his most significant commitments — a reflection of how unrealistic they were to begin with.

Ukraine
Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly bragged that he was uniquely positioned to resolve Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In March 2023, he said he could “fix” the war before he was even inaugurated.

“I would fix that within 24 hours, and if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled,” the president-elect said in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity. “100% sure.”

Trump said the same thing in May 2023 during a CNN town hall — “If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours” — and again in June 2024.

But on Wednesday, two of his advisers conceded that isn’t going to happen.

It will take months or even longer to resolve the war, which has been going on since February 2022, Trump’s associates told Reuters. They chalked up Trump’s promises to quickly end the war to “campaign bluster” and “a lack of appreciation of the intractability of the conflict and the time it takes to staff up a new administration,” per Reuters.

Trump himself backpedaled on this promise last week, saying during a Mar-a-Lago news conference that his “hope” is to try to get a deal in six months.

Lowering Grocery Prices
In another vow that was central to his campaign, Trump said he would magically halt inflation and bring down the costs of everyone’s groceries.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down,” he said at a rally in September. “It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

Trump said the same thing a month later at another rally: “We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories back to America.”

But shortly after the election, Trump was already moving the goal posts, conceding it would be impossible for him to single-handedly lower the costs of consumer goods.

“It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up,” the president-elect said in a November interview with Time. “You know, it’s very hard.”

Jan. 6 Pardons
Vice President-elect JD Vance is lowering expectations for Trump’s repeated but vague plans to release his supporters from prison who were convicted for their roles in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which Trump infamously egged on in an effort to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as president.

In March, Trump promised he would “free” Jan. 6 rioters in one of his first acts as president if reelected. He didn’t say how many people he would pardon, but suggested it would be hundreds. More than 1,000 rioters have been sentenced since the violent attack, with more than 700 of them spending at least some time in prison.

“I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control,” Trump declared at a CNN town hall in May 2023. He added later, “I would say it will be a large portion of them, and it would be early on.”

On Sunday, Vance drew the ire of some of Trump’s most diehard backers by saying in a Fox News interview that the president-elect would not be issuing blanket pardons to everyone charged in the riot.

“If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 … you should be pardoned,” Vance said. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

“There’s a little bit of a gray area there,” he added.

SORRY PROUD BOYS :-(

Slashing Government Spending
Some of Trump’s high-profile associates are walking back their grand plans too, now that the election is over. Billionaire Elon Musk, who Trump tapped to lead a nongovernment advisory panel called the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, previously talked a big game about using the panel to cut “at least” $2 trillion in government spending.

Not anymore.

Musk admitted last week that the dollar amount was aspirational. Slashing $2 trillion from the $6.8 trillion federal budget would be a “best-case outcome,” he said in an interview on his social media platform, X, formerly called Twitter, and added that the reality is DOGE has a “good shot” at cutting maybe half of that amount.

A Trump transition spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about all these campaign promises being scaled back before the president-elect has even taken office.

ALL JUST LOCKER ROOM TALK? OR WERE YOU CONNED?
 
Biden's DOJ - just a few things left to do before they clear out their offices...

The Saenz brothers were the leaders of a Suffolk County, New York, branch of MS-13 known as the Sailors, according to federal authorities. Their group was known for extreme brutality and violence, including the murder of two Brentwood High School girls with a machete and a baseball bat.
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Lame duck Biden's DOJ gives brutal gang leader sweetheart plea deal in murder spree that killed 7

Long Island MS-13 leader Jairo Saenz has admitted to his role in seven brutal murders but will avoid both the death penalty and life in prison, authorities said.
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