New Batch Of Biden Racial Justice Orders Returns Obama Actions Trump Trashed | Talking Points Memo

The Biden administration on Tuesday rolled out a series of presidential actions on racial justice, including multiple actions that re-established policies of the Obama administration that were subsequently done away with by President Donald Trump. 


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Who’s got the Sharpie now, EXIMPOTUS?

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This just tickles me…that and how the fuzzy haired ferret and friends are screaming that ‘all these executive orders’ don’t show ‘unity’…

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…phasing out federal government contracts with private prisons.

Private prisons.

Otherwise known as for-profit businesses.

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Somewhat related:

God told him so, himself, at the diner where they were both being interviewed by the NYT.

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This is great news. After four long years it’s like dialling back to go forward.

I’m hoping for clear and decisive action on banning all forms of torture, commuting and rescinding the death penalty and finally joining the IC. It’s time to catch up to the rest of your main allies.

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And so Trump ends, ignominiously tossed in the bin with other losers.

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Kinda sad that rights for some can get nullified and reinstituted with a signature, though

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This should be titled "Biden reverses Trump’s White Nationalist policies.

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Another example of racial injustice. I guess to Target security and the sheriff’s department, they all look alike, right?

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Obama had his pen and a phone. Biden has many pens and a mask.

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And a Peleton, two German Shepherds, and a bottom of the line Rolex. What a hypocrite!

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GOP would find more unity at Harbor Freight, with all the other POS tools.

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Feels like a breath of fresh air. But what would feel even better would be if these policies were in enacted laws and not simply by executive order, so that they don’t disappear and reappear as new administrations start and end.

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Hardware humor?

Nailed it.

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We also have a new secretary of state.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Antony J. Blinken as the nation’s 71st secretary of state, installing President Biden’s longtime adviser who has a mission to rejoin alliances that were fractured after four years of an “America First” foreign policy.

Mr. Blinken, 58, has already signaled he is prepared to roll back a number of State Department policies that were set under President Donald J. Trump. A centrist with an interventionist streak, he was approved by a vote of 78 to 22 after receiving mostly gentle prodding at his nomination hearing last week by senators who seemed eager to move past Mr. Trump’s confrontational approach to diplomacy.

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As much as I admire Biden’s actions in reversing Trump’s needlessly harmful EOs, I can’t help but think this is just no way to run a country.

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With a name like Scott Lively he sounds like a client at Marcus Bachman’s reparative therapy center.

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This is the worry about so many of Biden’s actions over the last week.

Joe reinstating rules and order, etc is wonderful; but the fact that this can be done every four years makes progress impossible.

One note: These actions MUST be kept in the public’s mind. Voters need to understand the extent of the consequences of poor choices.

This is vital for the mid-terms.

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I don’t know this man, but:

  1. At this point, Joe’s choices have been good to EXCELLENT
  2. It might be nice to NOT know the person. Those who seek to make a name for themselves in diplomacy are not necessarily the best choices.
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