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#Antisemitism envoy
President Joe Biden’s first year in office has seen the lowest confirmation rate of nominees to key posts in recent memory, according to a report from the nonpartisan Center for Presidential Transition. Despite nominating approximately the same number of people for presidentially appointed Senate-confirmed positions as George W. Bush and Barack Obama, only 41% have been confirmed by the Senate. This compares to 57% of Trump’s nominees, 69% of Obama nominees, and 75% of G.W. Bush nominees.
The declining success rate of presidential nominees in part reflects a more partisan Senate environment. However, it is important to note that many of Trump’s nominees were rejected due to a lack of qualifications and/or controversial views. Even with a 50-vote threshold to confirm judicial nominees and a Republican majority, 15 judges nominated by Trump were withdrawn due to a lack of support in the Senate.
The backlog of Biden nominees has been engineered by Republican senators, who for reasons varying from personal grudges to policy disagreements have stymied confirmations every step of the way.
>“The truth is that some Republicans’ unprecedented obstructionism is straining the system to the breaking point,” Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor last month, adding that the situation was forcing the president to operate without critical national security officials in place, “leaving our nation weakened.”
One of these long-languishing nominees is Deborah Lipstadt, picked to serve as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. She has unquestionable qualifications for the position: a historian and author of numerous Holocaust and antisemit
... keep reading on reddit ➡Title says it all. A pipe dream but hey, why not bring Pink Floyd back for 2022?
Tbh: this is kinda a shitpost but damn if it wouldn’t be lengendary
Roger Daltrey - Vocals
Pete Townshend - Guitar
Ringo Starr - Drums
Paul McCartney - Bass
While searching in the Wikipedia list of oldest people ever I noticed a new addition in the french page : Paul Roger Henry (1902-2021) who supposedly died at 118 being the 4th oldest person ever and the 1st oldest man ever. I just found that registration from INSEE institute, a reliable source because it’s the french institute of survey and a government’s institute (photo 1)
death certificate from the French institute of survey
I also found :
- two separate certificate of birth : he was declared in the city hall of the 16th district of Paris on the 27th of November 1902 but was born on the 24th (photos 2 and 3)
birth certificate from the \"Archives de Paris\" in 1902
- several death certificate which seem to be reliable as they were delivered by the competent authorities : he seemed to have died in Bobigny (93) near Paris on the 7th of April 2021, as shown on the death certificate delivered by Bobigny's city (photo 4)
report of his death in Bobigny's (city near Paris) list of deaths from April
In addition it seems like every other Paul Roger Henry's certificate of death that I found on internet are the ones of other namesake because none of them were born in 1902.
What I also find interesting about him is that he never claimed to be 118 prior to his death. That's rare : a lot of claimed supercentenarians want their moment of fame while they're alive, and a lot of them lie to do so. Here, we can assume that he didn't want to be annoyed for his age and that it only came to light after his death.
Didn't know where to post it but if everyone is having some clue about him or wants to join me in my investigation, tell me, I'd be delighted to discuss about it !
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