The next Olympics is going to be an utter farce when it comes to women sports. However, it will be wonderful for the LOLZ. Imagine actually a real woman who has trained all her life only to be sidelined by some bloke who has just fixated on winning a medal and decides to identify as a female just to achieve that.

A tiny part of me feels sorry for the Lefties. I reckon loads of them find this lunancy as horrendous as the rest of us but they simply cannot do anything else other than play along with it. They are trapped by an orthodoxy of ideology that us on the Right cannot even begin to comprehend.

Your understanding of this, and the usual "jump on the bandwagon" contributions that follow yours, is really absurd.

Biden and his team have a plan. It's been talked about for months and isn't so different to what we and other countries have been doing. Social distancing, mask-wearing, testing, isolating the infected and close contacts and, of course, vaccinate as fast as humanly possible.

It has been scrutinised, discussed and supported by the media. Just ignored by Trump.

That's not the point of Biden making his remark is it?

He is warning people that there are no instant answers primarily because these things weren't done early enough. That the trajectory cannot be altered for some months is a direct consequence of the LACK of action and not because they are now doing the right things.

It seems that some people are determined to knife Biden in his first week and to claim justification because they feel that Trump was given the same treatment. It's complete nonsense. If that's the level of debate we are going to witness here now this will quickly become a very uninspiring and tedious place.

Trump deserved all he got and more. He did nothing other than lie constantly. Biden is being open and honest. He won't always succeed, especially when people try to obstruct him, but what he will do will genuinely be for the good of the country and all its people.

Frankly, China should not be allowed anywhere near critical national infrastructure. You flippantly comment that there's no reason why Chinese foreign investment shouldn't be allowed. I agree, in extremely limited circumstances. Unlike you, I'm under no illusion that when we get to companies like Huawei and ....cough.... CEFC China Energy Co...

(oh... an energy company you say? NI HAO! [Link]

...that these are little more than CCP fronts designed to exert actual state control over another country. You have to be asbsolutely f***ing insane to permit legislation..

(or indeed XO via "Presidential overreach"... or is that only when Trump did it?

[Link] )

..that enables these foreign actors any control levers to your vital industries and infrastructure.

You've really swallowed the Kool-aid, haven't you? I've made my views known on Biden as the candidate. You will excuse me for not dabbing at your crocodile tears at the sheer injustice of not permitting Biden a free pass. He'll be getting enough of that with his new branch of government: the press.

You will see, readers, likely a lot of "provenance prejudice" in the coming months and years - haughtily disregarding sources of information that are not from a Biden-pandering MSM. "Oh, it's fringe", "Oh, you believe the Russian-backed article?", "Oh, they're partisan!" "They hate the president, they call him Joe Briben!".

The Biden-fawning press must no longer control the political agenda: I encourage everyone to look to other sources of information to counter-balance their narrative. If you're reading your news from exclusively one source, you're not doing it right.

Edited by davenotamonkey (24 Jan 2021 9.12am)

Did you actually read what I wrote or just jump in again to re-write your prejudice?

I explained what seems to be Biden's plan, which has nothing at all to do with the remark you referenced.

I also explained that it's down to each country to ensure oversight. Provided that is done and they are satisfied that no security issues exist then no country, China included, should be excluded from bidding for contracts. That oversight is the key.

I am neither crying any crocodile tears than I am giving Biden a free pass. Nor indeed will the media. I, and they, will judge him in exactly the same way as any other President is judged. On what he says and does. That was, despite your and others views on here, how Trump was always treated. Trump was just consistently aggressive, divisive and untruthful. Unsurprisingly he got a consistently critical response. If Biden behaves in the same way so will he.

Of course you need to mix up your news sources. That applies to you just as much as to anyone else. The important thing though is to make sure they really are news sources. Ones that are subjected to editorial and legal oversight. Unfortunately in today's internet age, it's very easy to construct something which looks authentic but is really just propaganda. It's also unfortunately true that there seem to be many on the right who cannot differentiate between real news and fake news, encouraged as they have been to mistrust the MSM. You won't find many if any, fake sites promoting left-wing views but loads who feed endless right-wing propaganda to willing recipients. It's a really serious problem these days.