With what has Trump got away with, I will say yes.
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Of course he can. I’ll even send him a box of Sharpies!
Can’t wait to see the official Trump portrait - I can think of a number of really vicious political cartoonists who could be called upon to paint it.
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Go, Joe, go!
He’s going to have a stack of Executive Orders to sign bigger than Cockholster’s phony business records when he gets to work.
President-elect Cadet Bone Spurs wouldn’t allow reporters
to see piles of documents displayed at his press conference,
which he and lawyers said detailed his plans to disentangle
himself from his businesses.
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Agreed. Clearly define points of use and authority.
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A proper Fountain Pen. Just to show our guy has class.
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Calligraphy would be the two scoops on top…
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Okay, executive order by illuminated manuscript. Joe can establish an in house order of monks to provide the documents.
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At least Obama quit the mega raids on meat packing plants and etc.
We need to return to his policy of focusing on employers.
In April 2009, about three months into Obama’s first term, ICE announced a new focus on the criminal prosecution of employers who knowingly hired workers illegally in the country. Arresting and removing workers alone was insufficient, an ICE memo said, and focusing on employers would target the root causes of illegal immigration. The agency also said it would continue to arrest and deport unauthorized workers encountered during operations.
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That which lives by the EO, dies by the EO.
I am still calling for a blanket EO to reverse everything in one fell swoop the day after Biden’s inauguration. Rather than dither with individual EOs, just reverse them all. It has to be possible - there isn’t time to address all of them, one by one (for the record, Wiki lists 193 EOs by Trump and there will likely be more).
ETA: And now this:
Maybe it’s beginning to sink in. This sounds somewhat like the resolve might be weakening or melting.
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I was hoping for a news like this. This election had a personal touch for me, as I have been separated from my spouse (just like 100s of thousands of other people from their families) thanks to Trump’s executive order in the spring that suspended family based immigration for permanent residents “to protect the labor market during the pandemic”. Though this particular executive order is going to expire at the end of the year, I have no doubt that Trump would have extended it again had he won. He still might do it, because he is a dick, but in that case I assume Biden would cancel this order too.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, shouldn’t we be worried about alienating Scumbag voters and potential overreach acting like a tyrant?
Can’t wait for the NY Times followup.
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If we don’t win the two GAQ runoffs—and we have a very good chance of winning.
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I nominate Tom Toles.
He’s just retired, and will have time on his hands.
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It’s not even mentioned on his transition website’s top priorities: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial justice and climate change.
This feels a bit… disingenuous. He’s openly planning quick EOs to address the parts of the immigration picture that he can without the Senate, and the top priorities listed here… all impact immigration.
COVID: Before you tell people ‘come in, it’s ok’, make sure coming here won’t kill them.
Economic Recovery: before you welcome people in, let’s get back to where they’ll be able to find work, huh?
Racial Justice: Does anyone even question that this is an issue for the largely POC immigrants Trump has persecuted?
Climate Change: You know, if we stop fucking up where everyone else lives, they might have a chance to make their home countries someplace they want to / can safely stay in. To the fullest extent we can, we should be working to make sure people aren’t immigrating here because we made there too dangerous to stay.
NYT say Joe picked Ron Klain as CoS…
Known each other for decades, solid experience and not a flashy household name… perfect recipe for CoS.
Now for the cabinet
- SoS: Obama, (I mean, he is a Nobel Prize winner)
- SecDef: Jack Reed
- AG: Sally Yates (can’t have a politician as AG if we want to investigate trump)
- DNI: Susan Rice
- Treasury: Sorry Liz, Baker is a threat to an otherwise solid blue seat. Until he is neutralized we can’t risk it.
- Labor: Sure, be happy enough with Bernie here, assuming the popular Republican VT Gov isn’t interested in the seat
- HHS: Charlie Baker (yes he’s a Republican, but his resume fits enough, but he supports O-care and would be funny to have a Republican coordinating that effort, also he could be competitive in a Mass Senate seat, be good to be sure he’d never make it in a Republican primary…)
Not cabinet but…
- DNC Chair: Stacy Abrams
That always ticked me off. Biden-Harris won’t please everyone (energy policy), but this issue in particular will be under a microscope.
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Yes, I don’t expect them to, either, but some of us can at least be honest about this.
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trump
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