Joe Biden: " ... Take a guess how long it took me to sign a stack of 65 of them."

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

1. Great video!

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. It takes less time

when you don't feel the need to hold up everything for the cameras to prove that you can spell your own name.

[TigressDem]

4. +1000 nt

[AllyCat]

13. Yes!

[rubbersole]

14. When your childhood didn't have macaroni art...

[IronLionZion]

18. They should check the spelling on TFG's signatures

and question if they're valid

[OMGWTF]

36. Both TFG and Mrs. TFG's signatures look like a drawing of a KKK rally.

[louis-t]

55. My aunt, who was very Republican, would look at a sig like that

and say "That person has mental problems." She didn't live long enough to see tfg become what some people call 'president'.

[Grins]

81. Took a fun class on handwriting years ago.

Instructor held up a sample of writing close to Trump’s, he told the women in the class - you see handwriting like that - RUN!!!

A violent sadist.

I remembered that class the first time I saw his signature in 2017. He was right.

[PatSeg]

90. Wow!

I knew his handwriting looked disturbing, but to have a handwriting analyst to confirm it is really scary. In so many ways, Trump is always telling us who and what he really is.

[Grins]

91. He said look at the signature

That defines how he wants you to see him.

Trump’s hard, bold, up and down writing has the appearance of slashing. Instructor, showing the handwriting of an actual convicted murderer, actually made an up and down motion that a slasher with a knife would make. He made sure every woman in the class got a good look at that signature!

Think: the shower scene in the movie “Psycho.” Trump’s signature has that same up and down slashing.

[PatSeg]

92. Yes, he never really hides who he is

I think he is proud of it.

And that was the most disturbing signature I've ever seen.

[ShazzieB]

75. What spelling?

His signatures all look like ♒. (Steeper and pointier than that, but you get the idea.)

[lunatica]

42. Or write huge letters with a broad sharpie!

[TigressDem]

3. Huzzah!!

[onetexan]

23. Huzzah!!! MoJoe gets LOTS of things done.

1st 2 years have been amazing

[2naSalit]

5. Works for me!

[barbtries]

6. these are the times i miss my twitter account.

i could go wish this wonderful president a Happy New Year and block 1/2 million trolls.

[DDySiegs]

7. A Masterstroke!

This is a great political ad. And in summer 2024 shortly before next pres election it should be combined with an analogous video prepared in summer 2024 (which might have 5 bills to be signed).

[gratuitous]

8. Smokin' Joe Biden

It also saves a lot of time when a person does his job without a crowd of sycophants standing around to praise even the most routine tasks, handing out "I signed it all by myself" stickers.

[LiberalFighter]

9. For an old geezer he smokes thru them. :)

[marieo1]

10. MY PRESIDENT

My President, Joe Biden..........YOU ARE GREAT!!

[getagrip_already]

19. What makes you think he hadn't read them?

I'm sure his staff went through them and provided exec summaries and recommendations

This was just a signing, not the review.

Sheesh.

[dickthegrouch]

21. What? No signing statements?

They were all perfect?
If you believe that, I’ve a bridge I want to sell.

[Genki Hikari]

31. I can guarantee that Biden knew more about

Each and every one of those bills than anyone here.

Especially any naysayers.

[ShazzieB]

76. Absolutely!

[Marthe48]

39. I bet someone realized the effect of this video

and the timer. Galvanizing! Dynamic!

President Biden doesn't shirk, doesn't dillydally. He works tirelessly for us. I have said recently that no matter how fast people go, we won't make up the time we lost because of Covid. I think Pres. Biden is proving me wrong!

[demmiblue]

24. ...

[LudwigPastorius]

25. Username checks out.

[Probatim]

30. First four letters anyway....

[NBachers]

67. What you said

[panader0]

26. Seriously? You don't think he knows what's in the legislation he signs?

[BumRushDaShow]

33. "The line item veto is still one of the most important reforms needed"

Guess what? A "Line Item Veto" bill WAS passed by Congress in 1996, and had been part of Newt Gingrich's "Contract (against) America." The legislation was -

S.4 - Line Item Veto Act

and ended up actually being used by a Democratic President - Bill Clinton.

And guess what happened next when he started using it?

Line-Item Veto Struck Down

By CBSNews.com staff CBSNews.com staff

June 25, 1998 / 12:05 PM / CBS

The Supreme Court Thursday struck down as unconstitutional the line-item veto law that let the president cancel specific items in tax and spending measures.

The line-item veto lets the president cancel specific items in tax-and-spending measures. The 6-3 decision says the law violates the part of the Constitution that requires every bill to be presented to the president for his approval or veto.

President Clinton was the first president to exercise a line-item veto, an authority sought by nearly every president this century as a tool to limit pork-barrel spending. Congress voted in 1996 to give the president such authority, and Mr. Clinton used the veto 82 times last year.

A federal judge ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional in February, saying Congress could not delegate such authority to the president. The line-item veto law is the only major provision of the 1994 House Republican "Contract with America" campaign manifesto that Mr. Clinton endorsed.

(snip)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/line-item-veto-struck-down/

Good luck getting a new Constitutional Amendment through BOTH Congress AND 3/4 of the state legislatures.

[SunSeeker]

43. Thank you! nt

[BumRushDaShow]

51. You are welcome!

As a retired fed who worked under 6 Presidents (thankfully only 2 weeks under 45), I remember the GOP ranting and raving about Clinton actually using the very tool that THEY demanded be available that, like everything else they are hypocritical about, THEY wanted "For me but not thee". So they made sure to find a way to torpedo it quick, fast, and in a hurry.

[forgotmylogin]

49. There were MAGATs on Twitter responding like this.

"Isn't he even going to READ them?!?" Of course Joe Biden has read them and knew what he was signing. These bills have been worked on for months and this was a planned event to close out the year and the congressional session. It was pretty sly to frame it like a TikTok length challenge and the video is perfect for social media. People like to see the signing and it's designed for a broadcast news-length clip and they aren't going to film him reading the bills. They aren't going to hand him random new bills he's never seen on camera to blindly sign because that's not how "presidenting" works.

I suspect this was a wry swipe at the former guy who felt the need to sign each bill with pomp and circumstance with a fat child-size marker in front of an assembled group of 20 tourists and display his work, carefully turning it side to side so each camera could see like "look how cool my signature is and appreciate the hard work I've done to write it here."

Joe uses an actual pen to sign. I think there's a custom also - some presidents will sign multiple bills and swap pens between each one so they can have several "used to sign legislation" pens to give out as souvenirs. I didn't notice if they were doing that here, and that did look like a fancy expensive pen so it might have been Joe's personal one.

[BumRushDaShow]

52. RE: Pen swaps

I remember early on he sortof announced that he didn't like doing that (i.e., each letter of his signature done with a different pen). But I think he does swap out pens for different bills in general.

In the OP's case, it appears he did use the same one pen for that entire stack.

On "day one" right after he was inaugurated, he used one pen (despite having a set of pens in front of him) to sign his first pile of Executive Orders.

[niyad]

60. Really? You are seriously attacking President Biden, based on what, exactly?

Why in the f*** would you not only make, but state, your bizarre assumption as fact, and then criticize him for it? Did you make a wrong turn on the internet this morning?

Please delete that most insulting post.

[NBachers]

68. niyad, I like how you take dickthegrouch to the woodshed. Wrong turn on the internet indeed!

[niyad]

71. Thank you. That was the most polite way I ciuld put it.

[kacekwl]

65. ???

???

[Cha]

12. Ty! Love the imagery .. TY PJB!!

[Hortensis]

15. Great! And all 65 were first produced by our Democratic-majority congress.

[Mr.Bill]

32. The Congress that Trump called

"The do-nothing Congress".

[DENVERPOPS]

34. What Trump meant was

they did absolutely nothing, FOR HIM PERSONALLY OR FINANCIALLY, ESPECIALLY....

[vlyons]

16. I read some of the RWer comments to Biden's tweet

and saw a lot of mean-spirited comments aimed at invalidating Biden's intelligence and effectiveness.

The GOP is a party of degenerate, mean-spirited, selfish assholes, who have nothing to offer but hate and fear-mongering.

Thank-you Joe for all the good that you do for the American people.

[LuckyCharms]

17. EXCELLENT

[tishaLA]

20. But he didn't hold them up to the camera

and pose like a GD moron, so did it really happen?

[ornotna]

35. And he used a real pen

Not a stupid magic marker.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. Because tRump's sig has to be bigger & bolder than anything on the page, because tRump is tRump. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

46. Trump's got the same proud look on his face as a...

toddler who has just smeared a wall with the contents of his diaper.

[fierywoman]

54. A demonstration of small dick energy.

[Blue Owl]

83. The signature of a sociopathic asshole

[electric_blue68]

22. Oh that was good! Definitely an ad for 2024.👍

[Meadowoak]

27. Biden did more work in 10 minutes than Trump did in 4 years.

[markodochartaigh]

28. I hope that we get a summary of the bills

to share when people say that President Biden didn't do anything, or do anything which helped them. Also I wish that the debt ceiling had been abolished, but I guess there wasn't enough support for that. Maybe the Republicans doing exactly what they said that they would do to cut Social Security and Medicare by holding the budget hostage will wake up some nonvoting people.

[LudwigPastorius]

66. About half of those are end-of-the-year bills taking care of unfinished business, but...

Joe also signed plenty of laws with positive consequences for millions of Americans.

https://www.congress.gov/public-laws/117th-congress
_____________________________________________________________________

PL 117-327 S.5230 - Billy's Law 12/27/2022

PL 117-326 S.5229 - A bill to direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to remove the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the Capitol and to obtain a bust of Thurgood Marshall for installation in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds, and for other pu 12/27/2022

PL 117-325 S.4003 - Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-324 S.3905 - Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-323 S.3846 - Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-322 S.2991 - Countering Human Trafficking Act of 2021 12/27/2022

PL 117-321 S.2899 - Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021 12/27/2022

PL 117-320 S.2607 - Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-319 S.1687 - Small Business Cyber Training Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-318 S.1466 - Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-317 S.789 - RESPECT Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-316 S.558 - FLOODS Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-315 S.7 - VAWA Technical Amendment Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-314 H.R.9308 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6401 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego, California, as the "Susan A. Davis Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-313 H.R.8260 - Faster Payments to Veterans' Survivors Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-312 H.R.8226 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 236 Concord Exchange North in South Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the "Officer Leo Pavlak Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-311 H.R.8203 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 651 Business Interstate Highway 35 North Suite 420 in New Braunfels, Texas, as the "Bob Krueger Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-310 H.R.8026 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 825 West 65th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the "Charles W. Lindberg Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-309 H.R.8025 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 South 1st Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the "Martin Olav Sabo Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-308 H.R.7735 - Improving Access to the VA Home Loan Benefit Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-307 H.R.7638 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6000 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland, Florida, as the "U.S. Marine Corporal Ronald R. Payne Jr. Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-306 H.R.7519 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2050 South Boulevard in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, as the "Dr. Ezra S. Parke Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-305 H.R.7518 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23200 John R Road in Hazel Park, Michigan, as the "Roy E. Dickens Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-304 H.R.7514 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 345 South Main Street in Butler, Pennsylvania, as the "Andrew Gomer Williams Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-303 H.R.7335 - MST Claims Coordination Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-302 H.R.7299 - SVAC Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-301 H.R.7181 - Human Trafficking Prevention Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-300 H.R.6961 - Dignity for MST Survivors Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-299 H.R.6917 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 East Congress Parkway in Crystal Lake, Illinois, as the "Ryan J. Cummings Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-298 H.R.6630 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1400 N Kraemer Blvd. in Placentia, California, as the "PFC Jang Ho Kim Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-297 H.R.6604 - Veterans Eligible to Transfer School (VETS) Credit Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-296 H.R.6427 - Red River National Wildlife Refuge Boundary Modification Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-295 H.R.6386 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 West Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, as the "Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-294 H.R.6267 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15 Chestnut Street in Suffern, New York, as the "Sergeant Gerald T. 'Jerry' Donnellan Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-293 H.R.6221 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 155 Main Avenue West in Winsted, Minnesota, as the "James A. Rogers Jr. Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-292 H.R.6220 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 3rd Avenue Northwest in Perham, Minnesota, as the "Charles P. Nord Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-291 H.R.6218 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 317 Blattner Drive in Avon, Minnesota, as the "W.O.C. Kort Miller Plantenberg Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-290 H.R.6080 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5420 Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Ronald A. Robinson Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-289 H.R.6064 - To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a review of examinations, furnished by the Secretary, to individuals who submit claims to the Secretary for compensation 12/27/2022

PL 117-288 H.R.6042 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 213 William Hilton Parkway in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as the "Caesar H. Wright Jr. Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-287 H.R.5973 - Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Reauthorization Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-286 H.R.5961 - To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code. 12/27/2022

PL 117-285 H.R.5952 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 123 East Main Street, in Vergas, Minnesota, as the "Jon Glawe Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-284 H.R.5943 - To designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Greenville, South Carolina, as the "Lance Corporal Dana Cornell Darnell VA Clinic". 12/27/2022

PL 117-283 H.R.5900 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2016 East 1st Street in Los Angeles, California, as the "Marine Corps Reserve PVT Jacob Cruz Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-282 H.R.5865 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4110 Bluebonnet Drive in Stafford, Texas, as the "Leonard Scarcella Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-281 H.R.5794 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 850 Walnut Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as the First Sergeant Leonard A. Funk, Jr. Post Office Building. 12/27/2022

PL 117-280 H.R.5659 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1961 North C Street in Oxnard, California, as the "John R. Hatcher III Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-279 H.R.5650 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16605 East Avenue of the Fountains in Fountain Hills, Arizona, as the "Dr. C.T. Wright Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-278 H.R.5349 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1550 State Road S-38-211 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, as the "J.I. Washington Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-277 H.R.5271 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Thelma Harper Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-276 H.R.4899 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 Broadway Street West, in Akeley, Minnesota, as the "Neal Kenneth Todd Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-275 H.R.4881 - Old Pascua Community Land Acquisition Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-274 H.R.4622 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 226 North Main Street in Roseville, Ohio, as the Ronald E. Rosser Post Office. 12/27/2022

PL 117-273 H.R.4250 - War Crimes Rewards Expansion Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-272 H.R.3285 - 21st Century President Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-271 H.R.2724 - VA Peer Support Enhancement for MST Survivors Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-270 H.R.2473 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem, Ohio, as the "Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office". 12/27/2022

PL 117-269 H.R.2472 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 82422 Cadiz Jewett Road in Cadiz, Ohio, as the John Armor Bingham Post Office. 12/27/2022

PL 117-268 H.R.1095 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 South Willowbrook Avenue in Compton, California, as the "PFC James Anderson, Jr., Post Office Building". 12/27/2022

PL 117-267 H.R.478 - Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act 12/27/2022

PL 117-266 H.R.441 - Don Young Alaska Native Health Care Land Transfers Act of 2022 12/27/2022

PL 117-265 H.R.203 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4020 Broadway Street in Houston, Texas, as the Benny C. Martinez Post Office Building. 12/27/2022

PL 117-264 H.R.4373 - Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023 12/27/2022

PL 117-263 H.R.7776 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

[markodochartaigh]

82. Thank you

there are certainly bills in that list to point out to naysayers.

[Prairie_Seagull]

88. IMHO a great addition to this thread. Thank you Ludwig. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

29. That's hilarious!

And after he left the WH, he signed another one - a BIG one - while down in St. Croix yesterday!

Link to tweet

President Biden
@POTUS
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Today, I signed the bipartisan omnibus bill, ending a year of historic progress.

It'll invest in medical research, safety, veteran health care, disaster recovery, VAWA funding – and gets crucial assistance to Ukraine.

Looking forward to more in 2023.
President Biden signs the bipartisan omnibus bill into law.
6:18 PM · Dec 29, 2022

[Fiendish Thingy]

37. Only 10 minutes, because he didn't have to stop and hold each one up to show everyone

But, seriously, some of those bills were likely naming post offices and such.

[jmowreader]

78. Upthread is a list

There are lots of post offices on it.

[cilla4progress]

38. So great. Love this man. But...

no stamp? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Even state court judges have a stamp!!

[Wounded Bear]

40. K & R...nt

[progressoid]

41. So...what are in these 65 bills?

32 are just naming post offices. But a lot of the others actually deserve more attention.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2022/12/27/bills-signed/

[SunSeeker]

44. Go Joe Go!

[BadgerMom]

45. Thanks, Pres. Biden!

Love to see good things happening for my country!

[Botany]

47. So even if the House GOP that got the majority by cheating

.... wants to block everything the best President of my lifetime will still be getting things done for the American people.

Btw President Biden knows a few things about parliamentary procedures as per the Congress and
he will have those dip wad Republicans all kinds of
tied up.

[Historic NY]

48. That comes from all the chalk board practice the nuns gave him in

catholic school. You learn to write fast so you can get home before they knew your were kept after school

[fierywoman]

53. Play it for a few days in the red states please.

[werdna]

56. Sure. But does he have a Diet Croak delivery button? N/T

[Trueblue1968]

57. LOVE THIS .... SHARED ON FACEBOOK !!!!!!

[Native]

58. I absolutely loved how he caressed the stack.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

59. A working man, not a golfing, grifting, parasite. Go Joe!

[wryter2000]

61. Delightful

I do love this man

[Emile]

62. Love this video!

[Wild blueberry]

63. Bravo!

Feels wonderful to have a president who works for us.
Thank you.

[myohmy2]

64. 10:41...

...fast as a man half his age...

...he's in great signing shape...

...get him more to sign...

[NBachers]

69. Wait, where's his crowd of lackeys, backslappers, glad-handers, hand-outers, & slobbering grifters?

[crickets]

70. Joe Biden, getting things done. I love our president so much! 💙

Kudos to whoever thought of filming a marathon signing session and posting it this way because it's fantastic.

[JuJuChen]

72. Not one gripe about the pen (*coughs King Charles)

[bucolic_frolic]

73. Magnifique!!

That is how good governance gets it done for the people!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

74. love this video

[StarryNite]

77. Love it!

Thank you President Biden!

[COL Mustard]

79. 45 minutes

And that’s rushing.

[DemocraticPatriot]

80. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! TEN Minutes and 41 seconds ???

I just turned 60 yrs before Christmas--
I suppose it might take me longer--
unless I was very sloppy about the signature....



LET'S GO JOE!
Mi Presidente!!!!


(Just an old white Democrat who has taken the effort to learn to speak a little espanol...)

[Aussie105]

84. Reasons to love Joe . . .

1. He uses one pen rather that a stack of sharpies.

2. He gets things done, in this case, sign a lot of bills without being a showcase about it.

3. His tax returns don't smell rancid, unlike some others in the news.

4. He is Joe to his closest acquaintances, no pretence there.

5. Brings years of experience to the job. Unlike some others not worth mentioning.

6. Makes comments like 'Will You Shut Up Man?' where others might use stronger language.

[liberalla]

85. That's my President!

Excellent! and thank you!

[spanone]

86. Great Work President Joe Biden!!!!!!

THANK YOU

[Lulu KC]

87. I love that guy.

My heart is warmed.

[Prairie_Seagull]

89. Our form of democracy hard at work.

President Joe Biden seriously tries to be almost everyones President. I sure am glad he's mine.