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The Game-Changing Biden Order You Haven’t Heard About
A directive about the regulatory process could lead to progressive movement on climate change, public health and worker safety.
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden quickly set about undoing some of his predecessor’s signature policies: He said the United States would rejoin the Paris Agreement; he halted construction of a wall along the Mexican border; and he ended the ban on travel to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries.
Tucked into all of those high-profile moves, though, was a memo with a title seemingly designed to be ignored: “Modernizing Regulatory Review.” Sent to the press at 9:43 p.m. on Wednesday in the middle of the Tom Hanks-led inaugural celebration, the White House was not expecting the dry document to drive headlines or set American hearts aflutter.
But the memo could unleash a wave of stronger regulations to reduce income inequality, fight climate change and protect public health. Among left-leaning experts on regulation, it’s a signal that Biden could break with 40 years of conservative policy.
“I realize what I’m about to say to you sounds absurd,” James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform, told HuffPost. “It has the potential to be the most significant action Biden took on day one.”
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Just gotta wait and see this power play, Trump vs McConnell, my money is on Moscow Mitch but a trump’s 3rd party would change politics (Might be beneficial to Dems short term but long term prob would split the left too)
“Here’s a warning the GOP needs to hear,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a newly elected member who has embraced Trump’s conspiratorial view and made supportive comments about the extremist group QAnon. “The vast majority of Republican voters, volunteers, and donors are no longer loyal to the GOP, Republican Party, and candidates just because they have an R by their name. Their loyalty now lies with Donald J Trump.” |
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Melania has had it with The Donald. She left him stranded on the tarmac. It looked like Trump did a double-take. He didn't know Melania had left.
Trumps arrive in Florida after White House departure
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Just gotta wait and see this power play, Trump vs McConnell, my money is on Moscow Mitch but a trump’s 3rd party would change politics (Might be beneficial to Dems short term but long term prob would split the left too)
“Here’s a warning the GOP needs to hear,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a newly elected member who has embraced Trump’s conspiratorial view and made supportive comments about the extremist group QAnon. “The vast majority of Republican voters, volunteers, and donors are no longer loyal to the GOP, Republican Party, and candidates just because they have an R by their name. Their loyalty now lies with Donald J Trump.” |
Cultist gunna cult.
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | Cultist gunna cult. |
TrumpTards & TrumpTurds
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Where are those people who, on election night, were bragging about how well Trump was doing?
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| FernieBee wrote: | Where are those people who, on election night, were bragging about how well Trump was doing?
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Where do roaches go when the lights are turned on? 
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Just gotta wait and see this power play, Trump vs McConnell, my money is on Moscow Mitch but a trump’s 3rd party would change politics (Might be beneficial to Dems short term but long term prob would split the left too)
“Here’s a warning the GOP needs to hear,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a newly elected member who has embraced Trump’s conspiratorial view and made supportive comments about the extremist group QAnon. “The vast majority of Republican voters, volunteers, and donors are no longer loyal to the GOP, Republican Party, and candidates just because they have an R by their name. Their loyalty now lies with Donald J Trump.” |
I don’t see this as anything but beneficial to the left both short and long term. It will split votes on the right and ignite the left’s fundraising anytime they see a MAGA party candidate. It will drain funds from the GOP. The left doesn’t have the cult of personality on its extreme progressive side to pull off a party of its own like the MAGAs.
The MAGA party will have little impact other than what power it has to threaten the GOP to get what it wants in any legislation. It will be the minority of the minority.
I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
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| Quote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
Let the church say AMEN!
Donald is not only his own worst enemy, he's turning into one of the party's worst.
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | governator wrote: |
Just gotta wait and see this power play, Trump vs McConnell, my money is on Moscow Mitch but a trump’s 3rd party would change politics (Might be beneficial to Dems short term but long term prob would split the left too)
“Here’s a warning the GOP needs to hear,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a newly elected member who has embraced Trump’s conspiratorial view and made supportive comments about the extremist group QAnon. “The vast majority of Republican voters, volunteers, and donors are no longer loyal to the GOP, Republican Party, and candidates just because they have an R by their name. Their loyalty now lies with Donald J Trump.” |
I don’t see this as anything but beneficial to the left both short and long term. It will split votes on the right and ignite the left’s fundraising anytime they see a MAGA party candidate. It will drain funds from the GOP. The left doesn’t have the cult of personality on its extreme progressive side to pull off a party of its own like the MAGAs.
The MAGA party will have little impact other than what power it has to threaten the GOP to get what it wants in any legislation. It will be the minority of the minority.
I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The danger here is that it gives the Squad license to go to full war with Dems because they see themselves as the “swing” vote. AOC is already trying to undermine the leadership while she plans to go after Schummer’s seat. You could also lose Manchin.
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it?
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
The cost is yet to be determined. It looks like it's going to be high.
However, "every cloud." Flaws in our system have been uncovered. There's much shoring up to do. Blockades to keeping what Trump did from happening again must be explored.
I think we'll come out the other side stronger.
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| Quote: | Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence.
For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
July 28, 2020, 12:15 AM UTC
By Robert P. Jones, author of "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity"
Over the last several weeks, the United States has engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with the racist symbols of the past, tearing down monuments to figures complicit in slavery and removing Confederate flags from public displays. But little scrutiny has been given to the cultural institutions that legitimized the worldview behind these symbols: white Christian churches.
A close read of history reveals that we white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the nation's dominant cultural power, we have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has framed the entire American story. The legacy of this unholy union still lives in the DNA of white Christianity today — and not just among white evangelical Protestants in the South, but also among white mainline Protestants in the Midwest and white Catholics in the Northeast.
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The results point to a stark conclusion: While most white Christians think of themselves as people who hold warm feelings toward African Americans, holding racist views is nonetheless positively and independently associated with white Christian identity. Again, this troubling relationship holds not just for white evangelical Protestants, but also for white mainline Protestants and white Catholics.
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The plain testimony of history is that, alongside what good we white Christians have done, white Christian theology and institutions have also declared the blessings of God on the enslavement of millions of African Americans, the construction of a brutal system of racial segregation enforced by law and lynchings, the resistance to the civil rights movement and the mass incarceration of millions of African Americans. When the patterns in the current public opinion data are seen in this light, they seem unsurprising and, indeed, inevitable.
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| FernieBee wrote: | | Quote: | | Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. |
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In other news, it has been determined that water is wet, the sky is blue and ice is colder than fire.
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
no. even though politics is corrupt already he pushed the limits now both parties see they can too. It will never be the same for the worse |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
I would have rather not had democracy tested and stretched, thank you very much.  And if there is no accountability, then it just highlighted the path to our own self destruction. Were we dangling on a thread by the conscious of a few people willing to resign and Trump not willing to just plow ahead through those people? Maybe, but I don't think we would have allowed it to happen one way or another.
Ultimately this is cultural evolution. It requires friction to advance. The youth today get to higher consciousness much faster than the youth of 30 years ago because of our gravity. It's progressing in the right direction. Even some of the things the right is saying these days would be thought of as highly liberal a few decades ago.
It's very possible the convulsions caused by Trump (as well as the horrible management of the pandemic) speed up our evolution, which needs to happen in certain areas. |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
We lost our chance at the SC. No, it wasn’t. And assuming Trump destroyed the right is jumping the gun. I remember people thinking the right was fading when Obama was elected and re-elected, and they grew stronger and crazier than ever. |
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| mhan00 wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
We lost our chance at the SC. No, it wasn’t. And assuming Trump destroyed the right is jumping the gun. I remember people thinking the right was fading when Obama was elected and re-elected, and they grew stronger and crazier than ever. |
I think all the damage done will weigh heavier the potential for good from here on out. However, this time it's not about the GOP fading, it's about them imploding and fracturing.
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
Depends on the alternative. |
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| Halflife wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
no. even though politics is corrupt already he pushed the limits now both parties see they can too. It will never be the same for the worse |
Our democracy has been tested in the past and solutions to fix were enacted.
I'm thinking what Trump did exposed some weaknesses in our system. Houses will circle the wagons and find ways to not let what he did become the norm.
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| jodeke wrote: | | Halflife wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
no. even though politics is corrupt already he pushed the limits now both parties see they can too. It will never be the same for the worse |
Our democracy has been tested in the past and solutions to fix were enacted.
I'm thinking what Trump did exposed some weaknesses in our system. Houses will circle the wagons and find ways to not let what he did become the norm. |
He’s just trying to get some both sides-ism going.
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| Omar Little wrote: | | He’s just trying to get some both sides-ism going. |
Both sides sometimes suck, but the GOP side is riddled with racists and hypocrites...who like to thump the Bible and shoot non-whites.
I'll stick to voting for centrist and left-of-center Demz.
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| FernieBee wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | He’s just trying to get some both sides-ism going. |
Both sides sometimes suck, but the GOP side is riddled with racists and hypocrites...who like to thump the Bible and shoot non-whites.
I'll stick to voting for centrist and left-of-center Demz.
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The difference is how greatly the difference is in how they do so. Dems may do some unpopular and aggressive things, but they never do so out of malicious intent to harm American citizens. Which is where Halflife's "both sides" argument is total horse (bleep). Dems would never "push" things to the extent of blatantly engaging in sedition and attempting a coup.
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| Omar Little wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | Halflife wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | DancingBarry wrote: | | I’ll say it again, I think Donald Trump ultimately will be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. |
The question is, was the cost worth it? |
no. even though politics is corrupt already he pushed the limits now both parties see they can too. It will never be the same for the worse |
Our democracy has been tested in the past and solutions to fix were enacted.
I'm thinking what Trump did exposed some weaknesses in our system. Houses will circle the wagons and find ways to not let what he did become the norm. |
He’s just trying to get some both sides-ism going. |
No. I’m just saying that the laws have been pushed. Both sides means there are power hungry people on both sides. You think if a Bloomberg type guy ever got elected he wouldn’t push the boundaries? Obviously in different ways than dump but nonetheless. |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | FernieBee wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | He’s just trying to get some both sides-ism going. |
Both sides sometimes suck, but the GOP side is riddled with racists and hypocrites...who like to thump the Bible and shoot non-whites.
I'll stick to voting for centrist and left-of-center Demz.
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The difference is how greatly the difference is in how they do so. Dems may do some unpopular and aggressive things, but they never do so out of malicious intent to harm American citizens. Which is where Halflife's "both sides" argument is total horse (bleep). Dems would never "push" things to the extent of blatantly engaging in sedition and attempting a coup. |
I agree demz aren’t malicious but being inept can do as much harm. My hope is that there are some young indys/moderate conservatives out there who worship the planet and country. There are some dems I like. Katie porter, yang, Kamala, Pete. I think we are 4yrsaway from being in a nice progressive place with people who understand the 21st century. |
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