Biden heads to St. Croix as winter blast kills dozens, cancels 10,000 flights

I didn't write the headline BTW, part of me wants to say it's no big deal, but it is kind of what we have devolved into. Look at how the media portrays this differently and is all over the place. Hell, I expect politicians to be sleazy and have questionable ethics. But it's difficult to find a decent respectable non-slanted media presentation anymore from either side. Just look how the tone of both sides is so far apart when it actually should be at least toward the middle of the spectrum like the media feeds off the energy of both extremes.

I think it's semi BS they are taking this vacation with so many stranded but I also know we were a better country when we prioritized where crap like this didn't matter at all. Almost makes you feel like unplugging from the national news and just briefly watching the local and getting the highlights

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Biden heads to St. Croix as winter blast kills dozens, cancels 10,000 flights

Wanna get away?

President Biden left the White House Tuesday night for a tropical vacation in St. Croix to ring in the New Year — as much of the country deals with extreme cold and snowfall that has killed at least 65 people and canceled 10,000 flights since Christmas Eve.

The 80-year-old commander in chief will bask in the Caribbean sun near an in-ground pool at a three-bedroom beachfront villa with sweeping views on the largest of the US Virgin Islands.

Meanwhile, travel chaos, widespread power outages and rising deaths caused by single-digit weather continue across the Midwest and East Coast, but especially in Western New York, where at least 32 people died in Buffalo’s Erie County amid more than 4 feet of snow.

It’s unclear who owns the vacation property or whether Biden will be paying for his stay, though he has a long record of staying for free at the houses of wealthy Democratic donors.

a reply to: putnam6

Oh yeah this is sorta like that time Hurricane Katrina wiped out Nawlin's, and Bush went out west to a a concert got himself a fancy POTUS guitar had a good time.

Considering the hyperventilating done by the left when cruz went to mexico during a winter storm if wee werent such a partisan hack country they would crucify puddin brain.

I see it as an opportunity for him to do less harm.

It might take him longer to make things worse. He is very good at making things worse.

"...cancels 10,000 flights"

Why are all these flights being cancelled? Most airports around the US are open. Here in San Diego, they've cancelled flights from Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin, and Oakland--all airports that are not experiencing snow. Yet flights from Chicago, New York, and Boston are on time.

Is this part of the planned implosion of our economy?

a reply to: putnam6
When Bush, Obama and Trump (more so) were out playing golf every other week, nobody complained that I know of.

originally posted by: eManym
a reply to: putnam6
When Bush, Obama and Trump (more so) were out playing golf every other week, nobody complained that I know of.

Interesting...I complained but it's only because I had to work and wanted to play golf instead!

So, which president played the most golf? Woodrow Wilson played the most golf, logging over 1200 rounds in his term. That’s about 200 rounds per year and 3.78 times a week! But other presidents played a lot of golf too, including Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, William Howard Taft, and Gerald Ford.

Golf times examined...

10,000 flights seems like nothing for the U.S...I mean considering how many flights take off and land on U.S. soil everyday...but interesting none the less! Personally I never know where the president is...and I hardly ever care...so this doesn't shock me!

I think we would all be better off if he just stayed in St. Croix without a computer or phone for the rest of his presidency.

originally posted by: starviego
"...cancels 10,000 flights"

Why are all these flights being cancelled? Most airports around the US are open. Here in San Diego, they've cancelled flights from Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin, and Oakland--all airports that are not experiencing snow. Yet flights from Chicago, New York, and Boston are on time.

Is this part of the planned implosion of our economy?

Planes and pilots are highly mobile and have to be able to move from A to B in order to be able to fly from B to C, and so on. Even though there may not be any weather problems on the West Coast, there may not be enough planes and pilots able to arrive there to allow flights from the West Coast to proceed onward. Also, there are different kinds of planes involved. The kind of plane that you would fly from New York to San Diego is not the kind of plane you would fly from Phoenix to San Diego, for example. If the plane that’s supposed to fly from Phoenix to San Diego gets stuck in Salt Lake City and can’t make it to Phoenix, for example, then the flight from San Diego to Oakland that was planning on using that plane has to be cancelled.

It’s not one of jizz lanes or Epstein’s is it?

a reply to: putnam6

It's terribly that 60 people have died across the US because of this latest storm, and that's a terrible thing, and as 1947Boomer pointed out planes not arriving at cross-country destinations because of storms has created a bottleneck in air travel. None are within the capacity of any POTUS to fix, yet the media keeps reporting and people get all worked up.

What's really sad and news worthy, yet never gets any media attention is citizens dying across the country because they can no longer afford housing. There were 162 deaths last year in Spokane, Washington in the homeless population that were NOT drug related. Imagine how many are happening across the US!

It's never a good look for a POTUS to frolic while a there's a major crisis, even though there isn't much they can do about it but I'll save my outrage for the things happening that our POTUS does have some control over yet chooses to ignore.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I think we would all be better off if he just stayed in St. Croix without a computer or phone for the rest of his presidency.

Well, that would be a fine late Christmas gift for all of us, pretty sure even some of the left wishes this too.

originally posted by: nugget1

It's terribly that 60 people have died across the US because of this latest storm, and that's a terrible thing, and as 1947Boomer pointed out planes not arriving at cross-country destinations because of storms has created a bottleneck in air travel. None are within the capacity of any POTUS to fix, yet the media keeps reporting and people get all worked up.

What's really sad and news worthy, yet never gets any media attention is citizens dying across the country because they can no longer afford housing. There were 162 deaths last year in Spokane, Washington in the homeless population that were NOT drug related. Imagine how many are happening across the US!

It's never a good look for a POTUS to frolic while a there's a major crisis, even though there isn't much they can do about it but I'll save my outrage for the things happening that our POTUS does have some control over yet chooses to ignore.

Nailed it, and much more succinctly than I could do so late in the evening.

I get the whataboutisms too, but somehow we need to end that cycle, of well he did this or that when they were President.

But I don't think we have had a President that put the country ahead of themselves or thier respective party, since Eisenhower. I liked Kennedy but I grew up in the shadow of his assassination and as we have found out he wasn't exactly squeaky clean, but he still has those leadership elements this country has sorely lacked ever since. Regardless of party affiliation.

a reply to: putnam6

I Think he should have vacationed in his Homeland.
CHINA.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I think we would all be better off if he just stayed in St. Croix without a computer or phone for the rest of his presidency.

originally posted by: eManym
a reply to: putnam6
When Bush, Obama and Trump (more so) were out playing golf every other week, nobody complained that I know of.

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then it must not have happened.