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You are here: Home / Politics / Biden Administration in Action / Biden Takes Adam’s Advice

Biden Takes Adam’s Advice

by Cheryl Rofer|  June 14, 202111:19 am| 57 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Open Threads

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President Biden met today with the Prime Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Today is the anniversary of the beginning, in 1941, of the Soviet Union’s deportation of citizens of those countries to Siberia and Kazakhstan after invading.

Here’s Biden’s public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) pic.twitter.com/4zyoFjLNaU

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 14, 2021

Adam suggested a larger group of countries, but these three, on this day, will send a message to Vladimir Putin.

[It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.]

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    MisterForkbeard

    June 14, 2021 at 11:25 am

    Hm. Someone should get this “Adam” guy a job with the administration. :)

  2. 2.

    laura

    June 14, 2021 at 11:26 am

    Strength through competence.

  3. 3.

    Jeffery

    June 14, 2021 at 11:28 am

    Mother Russia wants her break away provinces back. Vlad will not be amused.

  4. 4.

    Old School

    June 14, 2021 at 11:30 am

    Will this count as a press conference for Biden? Or will we still be told he never holds them?

    Just kidding – I know it won’t count.

  5. 5.

    Redshift

    June 14, 2021 at 11:35 am

    Just wanted to point out that Fred freakin’ Hiatt of WaPo is calling out Republicans as “anti-democracy forces”! ?

    Are you listening, Manchin?

  6. 6.

    Leto

    June 14, 2021 at 11:45 am

    @laura: Competence through a genuine desire to help your fellow man, combined with practical/relevant experience in your given field.

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 14, 2021 at 11:47 am

    Joe should give a shout-out to Vlad’s mini-me in Belarus.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 14, 2021 at 11:48 am

    @Redshift: Say it, Fred.  Say “fascist”.  It’s what they are now.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    June 14, 2021 at 11:48 am

    It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.

    Estonian has no grammatical gender and uses the same pronoun for “he” and “she”, though of course the English translator should have got the gender right.

    I’m reminded of this recent examination of Google’s translation of Hungarian, which also has a single ungendered third-person singular pronoun. The machines have picked up English gender bias – the gender-neutral Hungarian phrases become “he builds, she cleans, he is a politician, she raises children”.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    June 14, 2021 at 11:57 am

    @Ken:

    I’m reminded of this recent examination of Google’s translation of Hungarian,

    I’m having a tough time getting it to translate “My hovercraft is full of eels.”

  11. 11.

    Benw

    June 14, 2021 at 11:58 am

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Hm. Someone should get this “Adam” guy a job with the administration. :)

    You’re not fooling anyone, Adam! :)

  12. 12.

    Baud

    June 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm

    DATE: June 13, 2021

    FROM: POTUS

    TO: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS

    RE: PUTIN SUMMIT

    ______________________________

    MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

  13. 13.

    germy

    June 14, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    Reality Winner has been released from prison to a halfway house.

    Albeit 4 years overdue this is wonderful news and we wish Reality and her family unbridled health, healing, and happiness. pic.twitter.com/QGcLmDe67j

    — The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) June 14, 2021

  14. 14.

    The Dangerman

    June 14, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    Adam/Baud 2024?

  15. 15.

    oatler.

    June 14, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/10/biden_putin_nuclear_weapons

  16. 16.

    Raoul Paste

    June 14, 2021 at 12:22 pm

    So US intelligence is reading this almost top 10,000 blog?

    And Adam said he wasn’t an insider, that sly dog

  17. 17.

    Ken

    June 14, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    @Baud: I was imagining something more dramatic. The POTUS is in a dimly-lit conference room with the entire Cabinet, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  There is much agitated whispered conversation and sweaty brows being mopped. Suddenly the doors open and a mysterious figure is silhouetted in the doorway. The POTUS says “Silverman…” in an awestruck tone, and a sense of palpable relief sweeps the room.

  18. 18.

    Cheryl Rofer

    June 14, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    Here’s the communique from the NATO meeting. There’s a lot to it, some of which will show up in Biden’s meeting with Putin.

  19. 19.

    germy

    June 14, 2021 at 12:30 pm

    BREAKING: An attorney for Reality Winner says the former NSA translator is out of prison for good behavior. She had been serving a sentence of more than five years for passing classified information to a news outlet. pic.twitter.com/lkUaewN2MI
    — Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 14, 2021

  20. 20.

    Baud

    June 14, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    @germy:

    She had been serving a sentence of more than five years for passing classified information to a news outlet.

    I thought she leaked it to The Intercept.

  21. 21.

    germy

    June 14, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    @Baud:

    You beat me to that joke by about five seconds.

  22. 22.

    Gin & Tonic

    June 14, 2021 at 12:36 pm

    @germy:  No moss growing under Baud’s typing fingers.

  23. 23.

    Ken

    June 14, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Am I the only one who hears “Reality Winner” and thinks for a moment it’s a racehorse, before remembering who she is?

    Er, clarifying; the only one on Balloon Juice. I’m fairly sure 95% or more of the US population never heard of her.

  24. 24.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 14, 2021 at 12:43 pm

    @Old School: The press today,..

    Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs Jun 13
    The 13-member Biden traveling press pool was given no access to   Potus  ’s inspection of the Guard of Honor with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
    It’s a breach of precedent to not have White House reporters there.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    June 14, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Noted.

  26. 26.

    rikyrah

    June 14, 2021 at 12:48 pm

     

    Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) tweeted at 10:20 AM on Mon, Jun 14, 2021:
    Here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell telling Hugh Hewitt that if Republicans retake the Senate in 2022, any Biden SCOTUS nominee is not only a no go in 2024, but also maybe even in 2023 too https://t.co/ze2pEH6dO9 https://t.co/4FhUZXPptc
    (https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1404458817614663680?s=03)

  27. 27.

    narya

    June 14, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    Chemical plant explosion in Rockton, IL; the blob is showing up on weather radar.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    June 14, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    Was this a recently announced or surprise meeting, or has this been known all along?

  29. 29.

    debbie

    June 14, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @Ken:

    No.

  30. 30.

    sab

    June 14, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    @Baud: What happened to her is when some of is realized that the Intercept is not actually a news organization. Before that I was under the mistaken that it was a news organozation that had the bad judgment to associate with GG. Afterwards I realized that the GG association was a feature and the occassional news coming out through them was the bug.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 14, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    [It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.]

    Yup. “His Excellency Kaja Kallas” is an error I wouldn’t have expected from this White House. NBD, of course. I just hope Fox doesn’t notice — they’ll do a week of outage.

  32. 32.

    TomatoQueen

    June 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    Go Waffle House (onions/possible paywall warning): Waffle House staff got teen server Timothy Harrison to his graduation – The Washington Post

  33. 33.

    Mike in NC

    June 14, 2021 at 1:01 pm

    Email informed me that tickets to Trump’s 2nd Inauguration dated August 15th are selling for $1200. Get them while they’re hot!

  34. 34.

    zhena gogolia

    June 14, 2021 at 1:02 pm

    @Baud: 
    LOL

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 14, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    @Ken:

    Ha! I do the same thing, every time!

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 14, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    @rikyrah:

    I hate these fucking people SO MUCH.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    June 14, 2021 at 1:11 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: It was a breach of protocol when so-called reporters became stenographers, but these people didn’t care then.  And they don’t care about that now.

    shorter: the press is a bunch of entitled self-absorbed whiners.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 14, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    @laura:

    Strength through competence. 

    How nice it is to have those back!

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 14, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    @Mike in NC: So many rubes that are still fleece-able.

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 14, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: Hence my nym.

  41. 41.

    stinger

    June 14, 2021 at 1:21 pm

    @Ken: one who hears “Reality Winner” and thinks for a moment it’s a racehorse, before remembering who she is some other jackal makes it clear in their own comment.

    Every single time.

  42. 42.

    elm

    June 14, 2021 at 1:49 pm

    @Baud: Glem must be inconsolable about her release. Hopefully *ucker can cheer him up.

  43. 43.

    Betty

    June 14, 2021 at 2:02 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Heavens, no! How did this happen? Heads must roll!

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    June 14, 2021 at 2:11 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: It was a breach of protocol when so-called reporters became stenographers, but these people didn’t care then.  And they don’t care about that now.

    shorter: the press is a bunch of entitled self-absorbed whiners.

    CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

  45. 45.

    Ken

    June 14, 2021 at 2:17 pm

    @Betty: Heads must roll!

    Only if the reporters take their complaints to the queen and she pulls out some special reserve power.  It would probably be one that hasn’t been invoked since the twelfth century so Parliament never got around to restricting it, or forgot to cover this particular case — like the (disputed) claim that the Duke of Cornwall can legally set off nuclear bombs.

  46. 46.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 14, 2021 at 2:56 pm

    @Ken: How can there be a Medieval precedent for starting a nuclear war?  Richard the Lionhearted was using The Bomb on the Saracines or something?

  47. 47.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 14, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    @WaterGirl:shorter: the press is a bunch of entitled self-absorbed whiners.

    It sure fits into the thesis that the White House press poll thinks they are part of the elite because the President talks at them time to time.

  48. 48.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 14, 2021 at 3:01 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yes, DougJ was on about this on twitter. Just… damn.

  49. 49.

    Gravenstone

    June 14, 2021 at 3:10 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Holy Hand grenade of Antioch!

  50. 50.

    Nora Lenderbee

    June 14, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    @Ken: ​
     No, you’re not alone.

  51. 51.

    CaseyL

    June 14, 2021 at 3:21 pm

    @Ken: Along with Zephyr Truthout, truly horrible names to saddle one’s kids with.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    June 14, 2021 at 3:29 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Just thought the Matt Negrin add-on was funny.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    June 14, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Apparently it’s because the Duchy of Cornwall was exempted from various laws over a century ago. I don’t understand it, and a lot of people that have looked at the analysis say it’s nonsense.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    June 14, 2021 at 3:56 pm

    @CaseyL: Actually, it’s Zephyr Teachout. Teachout ran as the “progressive” candidate in the Democratic primary for N.Y. Attorney General in 2018, and lost to Letitia James.

  55. 55.

    CaseyL

    June 14, 2021 at 5:50 pm

    @Geminid:  Oops; you’re right. Still not a good name.

  56. 56.

    Tehanu

    June 14, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    Just wondering, when do they eat lunch?

  57. 57.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    June 14, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    @Redshift: regime change against rona romney mc daniel.

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