President-elect Biden first 100 days thread

[ElNono]

Now that Biden won the election and we have a new President, what should be the policy priorities to kick off his presidency, tbh?

Obviously, the transition team already mentioned COVID as a priority, and I read today he's planning to expand the Child Tax Credit and address some of the College debt burden.

I think the ACA will come up, depending on anything the SCOTUS might gut from it. What other items should be priority, tbh?

[RD2191]

Re-education camp for MAGA tards.

[ElNono]

Re-education camp for MAGA tards.

I don't see Joe going for that, tbh... I can see him hiring Comey or Strzok back to the FBI, to make sure they keep an eye on the scourge that's white supremacists terror, but that's about it, tbh...

[gambit1990]

can someone ask kori what rights biden will take from us during the first 100 days? :lol

[boutons_deux]

kill all the Trash EOs, esp the "decapitate / politicize the civil service"

kill the Tongass development

greatly increase EV, solar, and WPC incentives

nationalize the electrical grid

kill the "carried interest" loophole

kill all the shit in CARES for the wealthy

Pass DACA again, to have the Senate exposed again as anti-Hispanic

rejoin Paris agreement

rejoin WHO

pay UN dues

roll back Trash's tariffs, they only cost USA consumers $10Bs

the economy won't get strong untll the pandemic is tamed, but since 71M Americans won't mask/distance, USA economy, including the 71M, will stay fucked and declining.

roll back all DoL, DoE, EPA, shit

refund IRS by $500M that Repugs cut, to go after tax evaders

raise minimum wage to national median of $20, with more for expensive metro areas, and less for the boonies.

Troll Pootin with visit to the Baltics to affirm USA/NATO frienship/defense

Pull US troops out of Poland, Hungary back to Deutschland

[ElNono]

I agree he should take decisive action on his carbon initiative. Clearly didn't cost him the election, so he should move forward on it.

[Ef-man]

1. Executive orders canceling trump’s orders.
2. Mandating wearing masks in public places
3. Releasing trump’s tax returns

[ElNono]

People hoping for Joe to be vindictive are going to be sorely disappointed, IMO.

[boutons_deux]

People hoping for Joe to be vindictive are going to be sorely disappointed, IMO.

Trash and his mafiya MUST be investigated, indicted by Biden's DoJ.

That's not vindictive, that law enforcement that discourages the next much smarter Repug POS that's planning to take over the country. We were lucky Trash is do fucking dumb.

[Spurtacular]

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[RD2191]

Sigh. Back on ignore you go, Spurt.

[Spurtacular]

Now that Biden won the election and we have a new President, what should be the policy priorities to kick off his presidency, tbh?

Obviously, the transition team already mentioned COVID as a priority, and I read today he's planning to expand the Child Tax Credit and address some of the College debt burden.

I think the ACA will come up, depending on anything the SCOTUS might gut from it. What other items should be priority, tbh?

https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/free/png-256/exclamation-punctuation-mark-point-amaze-circle-round-44646.png This claim about election victory is disputed

https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/free/png-256/exclamation-punctuation-mark-point-amaze-circle-round-44646.png Learn how voting by mail is fraudulent and insecure

Dat cart and horse thing.

[ElNono]

Some or all of the content shared in this thread is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process


Dat cart and horse thing.

Come to terms, derp.

[Spurtacular]

Sigh. Back on ignore you go, Spurt.

You're still here, little bitch?

[ElNono]

You're still here, little bitch?

:lol calm down, it's just an election.

[Spurtacular]

Come to terms, derp.

If people thought the media weren't the enemy of the people, President Donald John Trump wouldn't have received 70 million plus legitimate votes (an all-time record). Come to terms.

[ElNono]

If people thought the media weren't the enemy of the people, President Donald John Trump wouldn't have received 70 million plus legitimate votes (an all-time record). Come to terms.

He lost his job derp. It is what it is. He'll be fine, not so sure about you though.

[Spurtacular]

:lol calm down, it's just an election.

I'm sure that outlook is ingrained in you from your days of living in a third world shit hole.

[boutons_deux]

If possible, cut Dejoy, and cut Repugs from USPS board

Cancel the PAEA Act

Power up the CPFB like it was initially, and make it tougher.

re-install the fiduciary act

[ElNono]

I'm sure that outlook is ingrained in you from your days of living in a third world shit hole.

Now you're just lashing out... you need to move on from anger, tbh...

[boutons_deux]

add retail banking to USPS (BigFinance will block chickenshit, compromised Dems from proposing it)

[Spurtacular]

Now you're just lashing out... you need to move on from anger, tbh...

Plenty of fraud being documented as we speak. We all saw the fix; you're no exception.

[ElNono]

Plenty of fraud being documented as we speak. We all saw the fix; you're no exception.

Not really no. 0-10 in lawsuits so far. Apparently all this 'documented fraud' can't be proven in court.

It is what it is.

[DMC]

Yay another slap fight thread.

[ElNono]

add retail banking to USPS (BigFinance will block chickenshit, compromised Dems from proposing it)

Not going to happen, I expect Biden to be Goldman Sachs bitch, tbh

[ElNono]

Yay another slap fight thread.

It wasn't meant to be, just trumpartd soy boy got triggered, tbh

[Winehole23]

Re-education camp for MAGA tards.Boot camp for blue team, as led by *an international socialist*:


The tragedy of progressives is that Trump’s supporters are not entirely wrong. The Democratic party has demonstrated time and again its determination to prevent any challenge to the powerful that are responsible for the pain, anger and humiliation that propelled Trump to the White House. Democrats can talk until the cows come home about racial justice, the need for more women in positions of power, the rights of the LGBT community etc. But, the moment politicians like Bernie Sanders threaten to challenge the power structures that keep black Americans, women, minorities and the poor in society’s margins, they go all out to stop them (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html).

Trump’s supporters are unlikely to articulate this in so many words. However, their contempt for the liberal establishment is rooted in the realisation that the rich Democrats behind the Biden-Harris ticket won’t ever truly change conditions for the poor. Any redistribution of wealth and power that threatens their kids’ trust fund, or soaring asset prices on Wall Street, are off-limits – and those voters know that.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/08/hoping-for-a-return-to-normal-after-trump-thats-the-last-thing-we-need

[boutons_deux]

Not going to happen, I expect Biden to be Goldman Sachs bitch, tbh

the entire Dem establishment is BigFinance's bitch eg, Obama/Holder wouldn't touch Wall St banksters.

[DMC]

He has to appoint a cabinet. I wonder how many recycled names he's going to use from the Obama administration vs building his own. I'd like to see him keep certain names out of it but not be completely surprised if some get added due to loyalty.

[ElNono]

He has to appoint a cabinet. I wonder how many recycled names he's going to use from the Obama administration vs building his own. I'd like to see him keep certain names out of it but not be completely surprised if some get added due to loyalty.

I'm ambivalent if I want him to appoint Shillary though. While it would make for a glorious conservatard trigger, it would be a shitstain on his administration, tbh

[Winehole23]

He has to appoint a cabinet. I wonder how many recycled names he's going to use from the Obama administration vs building his own. I'd like to see him keep certain names out of it but not be completely surprised if some get added due to loyalty.People like Rahm Emanuel, almost unbelievably.

[ElNono]

I also don't expect a lot of Obama cabinet members, tbh... I can see a number of Dem primary candidates like Yang, Klobuchar, Warren to get positions

[DMC]

I'm ambivalent if I want him to appoint Shillary though. While it would make for a glorious conservatard trigger, it would be a shitstain on his administration, tbh

It would be great if he appointed her Sec of State.

:lol I didn't even consider her.

AOC for Sec of Defense
Talib as Sec of Homeland Security

Abrams as HUD

[ElNono]

It would be great if he appointed her Sec of State.

:lol I didn't even consider her.

AOC for Sec of Defense
Talib as Sec of Homeland Security

Abrams as HUD

:lmao tbh

[ElNono]

Throw in Bernie as Treasury Secretary, IMO

[baseline bum]

People like Rahm Emanuel, almost unbelievably.

God I hope not, fuck that pos

[baseline bum]

I also don't expect a lot of Obama cabinet members, tbh... I can see a number of Dem primary candidates like Yang, Klobuchar, Warren to get positions

They're not giving up a senate seat to give Warren anything

[baseline bum]

Throw in Bernie as Treasury Secretary, IMO

Also fuck no since Vermont elected a Republican governor

[baseline bum]

It would be great if he appointed her Sec of State.

:lol I didn't even consider her.

AOC for Sec of Defense
Talib as Sec of Homeland Security

Abrams as HUD

Abrams should lead the DNC after the way she delivered GA to 46. And Tom Perez should get fucked with a spiked bat.

[Will Hunting]

It would be great if he appointed her Sec of State.

:lol I didn't even consider her.

AOC for Sec of Defense
Talib as Sec of Homeland Security

Abrams as HUD
He’s gonna make black Hillary (Susan Rice) SOS, and equally shitty choice.

[DMC]

Throw in Bernie as Treasury Secretary, IMO

Beto as Sec of Education

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/2g1RKjf/3000.jpg

How cute he has his own lil podium

[ElNono]

https://i.ibb.co/2g1RKjf/3000.jpg

How cute he has his own lil podium

Bow to your new president! He's white, you should be proud, tbh

[FrostKing]

Re-education camp for MAGA tards.
Building camps for 71 Million will spur on the economy

[Winehole23]

Yves Smith slams the Biden/Harris COVID plan


First, this new plan (https://buildbackbetter.com/priorities/covid-19/) isn’t the same as the one on the Biden campaign site (https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/). The campaign version had no mention of contact tracing, while this iteration does. But if you simply skim the campaign version versus the president-presumptive one, you’ll see tons of program proposals from the campaign have vanished, like emergency paid leave (with reimbursements to employers), income support for gig workers whose pay has declined, rental assistance, and support for small businesses.

The campaign plan also had sweeping promises about paying for all Covid treatments, not just testing. For instance, this section, by using the term “balance billing” clearly meant it included hospitalizations and emergency room visits:


All copayments, deductibles and any cost-sharing for treatment for COVID-19 for insured. Providers will submit cost-sharing claims to NDMS that document private insurance contractual arrangement for co-payments. To ensure maximum provider participation and minimum billing abuses to consumers, current Medicare law’s “conditions of participation” and system-wide prohibitions against balance billing and surprise medical bills will apply. To guard against fraud and abuse by bad-apple health care providers, harsh civil and monetary penalties under the False Claims Act will apply.





There’s not a peep about any of this in the new version. All it has regarding “treatments,” in context, is new medications to reduce the severity and/or length of a Covid infection, and not, say, being administered oxygen in a hospital:


Plan for the effective, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines — because development isn’t enough if they aren’t effectively distributed.


The lack of financial support for workers to stay at home because they are sick, quarantined, or just waiting for test results makes it difficult to treat this scheme as serious. And the failure to even ask for the government to cover all Covid treatment costs, not just the kind that can be administered with a needle means a lot of people who have or think they have Covid won’t seek treatment until they are really really ill, increasing the load on hospitals and producing worse outcomes.

And the severe downgrading of his Covid plan shows Biden embracing the Obama playbook: meet the Republicans 75% of the way when you start negotiating, with the expectation that the final deal will move even more in their direction.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/quick-comments-on-the-biden-harris-covid-plan-not-much-sizzle-and-no-steak.html

[Winehole23]

Transition plan: https://buildbackbetter.com/priorities/covid-19/

Campaign plan: https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/

[Winehole23]

And don’t get too hopeful about the Pfizer vaccine. Aside from the distribution issues resulting from the need to keep it super cold (discussed at length yesterday in Links), Bloomberg flagged another wee problem (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/pfizer-vaccine-results-leave-questions-about-safety-longevity):

It’s also important to continue watching those who received the vaccine for years. The messenger RNA technology used in the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has never been deployed in humans before.



A Pew survey in September found that about half the Americans would not take a Covid vaccine out of concern over side effects and safety. (https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/09/17/u-s-public-now-divided-over-whether-to-get-covid-19-vaccine/) Relying on a heretofore unused method isn’t a way to encourage confidence. Admittedly there are other vaccines in the pipeline, but the Pfizer vaccine doesn’t look like a magic bullet.

That means the Biden-Harris Administration, like Trump, can’t over-rely on a medical industry save. They need to do some Covid heavy lifting. “Better than Trump” doesn’t cut it. Their current scheme isn’t close to adequate.

[Winehole23]

:cry

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[boutons_deux]

:cry

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Years ago, I read comments that quality people who would otherwise accept to work for an Administration and get a career benefit, simply didn't want Trash on their resumes.