Biden / Harris Focused Discussion

[Breccia]

Day One isn't even over and already the WH recognizes climate change is real again.

Man, Trump was right. It's so easy to remove all these with the stroke of a pen.

[Thepersona]

Day One isn't even over and already the WH recognizes climate change is real again.

Man, Trump was right. It's so easy to remove all these with the stroke of a pen.

I love to see that. People accepting objective reality and all of that jazz

[Egomaniac]

And of course, here's FOX News proving how "fair and balanced" they are.

The headline:



"Biden won't get the two sides to agree," the GOP said, "because we're just not going to do it. Seriously, have you been paying attention?"

The GOP's defintion of "lower the temperature" is, and has been, "Give us everything we want"

[Zan15]

Also, Fox News isn't broadcasting the inauguration concert.

Fucking tools.

after the great ratings collapse of 2020 and the great purge of 2021 they are afraid to do anything to rock the boat till trump makes a move

[Adam Jensen]

I'll give Trump this, his inaugural crowd was bigger than Joe Biden's

[gondrin]

Well, Biden is already purging the swamp that the orange menace brought in. Expect more in the coming weeks/months.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...eter-robb.html

Biden Has Already Fired Three of Trump’s Worst Appointees

Many of Donald Trump’s most notorious appointees, including his cabinet secretaries, resigned shortly before Joe Biden took office. But myriad officials whom Trump installed in the executive branch remained in spite of their antagonism toward the new president’s agenda. Hours into his presidency, Biden has already ousted three of his predecessors’ most unqualified and corrupt appointees. This clean break sends a clear message that Biden will not tolerate hostile Trump holdovers in his administration, including those with time remaining in their terms.

First, Biden terminated Michael Pack, who was confirmed to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June. Pack sought to transform the agency, which oversees the international broadcaster Voice of America, into a propaganda outlet for Trump—despite a statutory mandate that prohibits such political interference. He purged the staff of VOA and its sister networks, replaced them with Trump loyalists, demanded pro-Trump coverage, and unconstitutionally punished remaining journalists who did actual reporting on the administration. In a perverse move, he refused to renew visas for foreign reporters who covered their home countries, subjecting them to retribution by authoritarian regimes. Pack also illegally fired the board of the Open Technology Fund, which promotes international internet freedom, and replaced them with Republican activists.

Following whistleblower complaints, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel found a “substantial likelihood” that Pack had violated federal law and engaged in “gross mismanagement.” He was eight months into his three-year term when Biden demanded his resignation shortly after taking the oath of office. In his resignation letter, Pack complained that his termination “will long be viewed as a partisan act” without any apparent sense of irony.

Second, Biden sacked Kathleen Kraninger, who was confirmed as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2018. Kraninger, who had no previous experience in consumer protection, immediately tried to undermine the agency’s role as a watchdog for the financial sector. She scrapped a landmark rule that restricted predatory payday lending, pressuring staff to downplay the resulting harm to consumers. And she refused to enforce a federal law that protected military personnel against a broad range of predatory lending. Her decision yanked federal support from military families who were defrauded by lenders. In the midst of the pandemic, Kraninger also approved a rule that allows debt collectors to harass Americans with limitless texts and emails demanding repayment.

Through the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress gave the CFPB’s director significant independence by barring the president from firing her over political disagreements. In 2020, though, the Supreme Court found this protection unconstitutional. Kraninger supported that decision, which paved the way for her termination on Wednesday. Had the court upheld the agency’s independence, Kraninger could have remained in office through the end of 2023.

Third, Biden demanded the resignation of Peter Robb, who was confirmed as the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel in 2017. The NLRB was created to enforce federal laws that guarantee workers the right to form a union and bargain collectively. Yet Robb is vehemently anti-union; during his tenure, he tried to limit employees’ free speech, give managers more leeway to engage in wage theft, hobble unions’ ability to collect dues, and prevent employers from helping workers organize. He also tried to seize near-total control of the agency by demoting every regional director and consolidating power in his office. If successful, this gambit would’ve given him unprecedented authority to bust existing unions and prevent new ones from forming.

Robb’s term is set to end in November, but Biden has authority to fire him before then. On Wednesday evening, Robb announced that he would not step down voluntarily, stating that his resignation “would set an unfortunate precedent.” (In reality, the precedent has already been set: President Harry Truman demanded the resignation of NLRB general counsel Robert N. Denham in 1950 over political disputes.) Biden fired him shortly thereafter.

Pack, Kraninger, and Robb are the tip of the iceberg: Trump spent his presidency packing the federal government with Republicans eager to undermine the missions of the agencies they led. But Biden’s aggressive action upon taking office should be encouraging for progressives, since it indicates that the new president will move swiftly to fire Trump allies with high positions in the executive branch. Moreover, Biden should not have much trouble replacing these holdovers with Democrats in control of the Senate. (Republicans cannot filibuster nominees to the executive branch.) The new president undoubtedly faces legislative challenges ahead. But in the meantime, he can rapidly erase the legacy of the Trump administration by simply replacing Trump’s lackeys with qualified civil servants eager to do the job right.

[Felya]

Well, Biden is already purging the swamp that the orange menace brought in. Expect more in the coming weeks/months.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...eter-robb.html

He was turning US into 1984...

[Cthulhu 2020]

Anyone keeping a pulse on conservative media? Has the unemployment rate jumped to 40%? Do Republicans once again care about the debt/deficit? Are they suddenly concern troll crying about how many people have died from COVID since Biden took office?

[gondrin]

Anyone keeping a pulse on conservative media? Has the unemployment rate jumped to 40%? Do Republicans once again care about the debt/deficit? Are they suddenly concern troll crying about how many people have died from COVID since Biden took office?

I believe they are still in the grief phase, someone in denial. I figure it will be sometime next week until we hear about that. Also, they are picking up where the left off on the pearl clutching of Hunter Biden. Figure somehow Benghazi will show up sometime soon since that is always a go-to play for them.

[Orange Joe]

Anyone keeping a pulse on conservative media? Has the unemployment rate jumped to 40%? Do Republicans once again care about the debt/deficit? Are they suddenly concern troll crying about how many people have died from COVID since Biden took office?

What do you think?



Found in 10 seconds of searching lol


https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...pected-to-grow

[Felya]

Anyone keeping a pulse on conservative media? Has the unemployment rate jumped to 40%? Do Republicans once again care about the debt/deficit? Are they suddenly concern troll crying about how many people have died from COVID since Biden took office?

A bit of overything, but they have not settled on their message for next 4 years... unless it’s bitching about social media...

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What do you think?



Found both in 10 seconds of searching lol

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/national-debt-nears-28t-biden-administration-expected-to-grow

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/budget-deficit-to-hit-record-3-3t-putting-us-debt-on-track-to-exceed-gdp-next-year?fbclid=IwAR0uvpGz2XufJfWLyOkJk1m7tZYirwtBSt8j-zAylUfofgxsHGj_5AxN-qU

Sounds like GOP and conservative media are demanding austerity... oh boy... they about to get it...

[Orange Joe]

A bit of overything, but they have not settled on their message for next 4 years... unless it’s bitching about social media...

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Sounds like GOP and conservative media are demanding austerity... oh boy... they about to get it...

Do gotta make a correction the fox10 one is older so I can't really use that one :P

[Felya]

Do gotta make a correction the fox10 one is older so I can't really use that one :P

The fact that they were saying it before he even took office, is a different... but, pertinent point in it self...

[Milchshake]

Just remembering all the "Trump is going to win b/c he has all the enthusiasm (crowd size) & Biden has none" takes & how incredibly wrong they were.

Also strange that Rahm Emmanuel ended up getting 0% of the administration positions of the 100% The Hill's twitter feed indicated that he was Strongly Considered for.

[Paranoid Android]

As a fan of The Wire this is the best of the best.

Tweet from David Simon:

DeAngelo: "Man who invented them things still workin' in that basement for regular wage, thinkin' up some shit to make the fries taste better, some shit like that. Believe."
Bernie: "Why the hell you think I'm socialist, yo."
Wallace: "Yeah fuck Hamilton. He wasn't no president."

[Milchshake]

As a fan of The Wire this is the best of the best.

Tweet from David Simon:

DeAngelo: "Man who invented them things still workin' in that basement for regular wage, thinkin' up some shit to make the fries taste better, some shit like that. Believe."
Bernie: "Why the hell you think I'm socialist, yo."
Wallace: "Yeah fuck Hamilton. He wasn't no president."

Ongoing In: Everything the Cosplay Socialists were wrong about.

They spent the last five years swearing that the "Dem Establishment really hated Bernie's guts." Or that "Liberals hate Socialists more than Fascists".

This is really about kids who grew up conservative, projecting their own authoritarian worldview onto Dems.
Historically when authoritarians take power they immediately destroy the opposition. The Jacobins murder everyone not Jacobin enough. The Bolsheviks execute and send the remaining Mensheviks, Trade Unionists, Democratic Socialists to Siberia. Trotsky has to hide in the trunk of a car on his way to MExico.


Democrats win power, "Ok Bernie can be Head of the Budget Committee."

I cant wait until next week during Neera Tanden's confirmation hearing.
Committee Chairman, "So Madam Tanden, what is your goal for the OMB?"
M. Tanden, "To use the office of the OMB to help working class Americans."
Committee Chairman, "Approved!"

[Themius]

Ongoing In: Everything the Cosplay Socialists were wrong about.

They spent the last five years swearing that the "Dem Establishment really hated Bernie's guts." Or that "Liberals hate Socialists more than Fascists".

This is really about kids who grew up conservative, projecting their own authoritarian worldview onto Dems.
Historically when authoritarians take power they immediately destroy the opposition. The Jacobins murder everyone not Jacobin enough. The Bolsheviks execute and send the remaining Mensheviks, Trade Unionists, Democratic Socialists to Siberia. Trotsky has to hide in the trunk of a car on his way to MExico.


Democrats win power, "Ok Bernie can be Head of the Budget Committee."

I cant wait until next week during Neera Tanden's confirmation hearing.
Committee Chairman, "So Madam Tanden, what is your goal for the OMB?"
M. Tanden, "To use the office of the OMB to help working class Americans."
Committee Chairman, "Approved!"

But the democrat establishment does have a problem with bernie and progressives what changed is that THE POLICIES ARE CLEARLY POPULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE AND THEREFORE IF THEY WANT TO MAINTAIN SUPPORT they need Bernie as part of that. Do not pretend the dem establishment just loves Bernie and his progressive policies that are detrimental to most of their pocketbooks.

[Gelannerai]

A bit of overything, but they have not settled on their message for next 4 years... unless it’s bitching about social media...

Which is a hilarious non-starter. For one, the only political capital they could possibly farm out of it is attempting to tie corporations like Twitter and Facebook solely to liberals. This will ultimately create a multi-layered problem for conservatives and their base, as it will drive said base to other platforms that are perceived to be “conservative friendly.”

For another, it will silence stubborn conservative voices on more established platforms like the aforementioned Twitter and Facebook as they’ll be punished for pushing conspiracies, like, you know, T and FB being insidious liberal propaganda spreaders. Not that the modern GOP has any problem shooting itself in the foot as evidenced by years of catering to/coddling domestic terrorists and crazy shitbirds like Trump, but still.

[Krakan]

Which is a hilarious non-starter. For one, the only political capital they could possibly farm out of it is attempting to tie corporations like Twitter and Facebook solely to liberals. This will ultimately create a multi-layered problem for conservatives and their base, as it will drive said base to other platforms that are perceived to be “conservative friendly.”

For another, it will silence stubborn conservative voices on more established platforms like the aforementioned Twitter and Facebook as they’ll be punished for pushing conspiracies, like, you know, T and FB being insidious liberal propaganda spreaders. Not that the modern GOP has any problem shooting itself in the foot as evidenced by years of catering to/coddling domestic terrorists and crazy shitbirds like Trump, but still.

I think people have a warped view about how much will realistically change. Things are going to keep running as usual just with less twitter fights.

[Derpleton]

I like to call Trumpsters out on their lies. We'll see if he can provide that evidence. Methinks he cannot, and we can rightfully call him a liar.

Well I had a bit of a chuckle this morning, I thought it was hyperbole at the time but uh... https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2021-01-21 4200 COVID deaths yesterday. Oops.