Biden is President - filling out the cabinet and beyond

This is the day Biden became President-elect...

.@JoeBiden’s instruction to @jakejsullivan was to approach every issue with the question:“Will this make life better, easier, safer, for families across this country?” Because national security only makes sense if understood as
*our* security.

— Jarrett Blanc (@JarrettBlanc) November 24, 2020

Oh wait!

 

Amen, brother!!

 

Kind of amazing that Sleepy Ben Carson made it all the way through

57. Trump's Cabinet is more white and more male than any first Cabinet since President Ronald Reagan’s https://t.co/0ridDiuOB5

— American Progress (@amprog) April 25, 2017

 

Hey now!! Make room on the fainting couch. She is a stunner. What tribe is she? And she should definitely head it up as the last head was pro Trump and she came out for Biden. Shame her name is not more tribal like my personal fav Lawrence Eagle Hawk.

 

Gotta disagree. What happened to Omar and the way the way the press spins it is her concern. Duct tape over the mouth physically is not how 1A right are taken. Being harassed and attacked for sharing a view point is. At no point has any US president or government ever dropped the hammer on Israel for their actions. Papa Bush cut funding due to settlements and was torn apart in the press. So Israel has left the two state solution behind and they should be called out on it. But as soon as anyone does they are attacked for anti-semitism. The GOP is gonna play that card, it would be nice if the Dems stood behind their reps right to Express their opinion. Also Tlaib is Palestinian-American and reps the largest Muslim city in America. Israel Palestine relations matter to her people. She should be free to go off the ranch as much as a guy like Gaetz is but instead her party continually have people who criticize Israel out to dry.

Meanwhile people are free to pile on Muslim nations. Watch how much shade will be thrown at KSA and no one will question is it Islamophobia.

 

That is the Future.

 

DSB only targets the single Jewish state in the world, that is why it can be anti-semitic.

Maybe if it were a movement to force American companies to divest from countries with terrible human rights records then it could pass as not anti-semitic.

But China would probably be on that list, good luck getting American companies to divest from China.

 

I guarantee you that I am the only person on this board to have seen Sonny Sixkiller play live, both in football and in basketball.

 

So I do follow some very Lefty Chicago fire fans on twitter, well some of them are not liking some of Biden picks, what did they expect, Sanders and AOC for everything?

I also did not know that Glen Greenwall had a nice following with the far left, I guess is the thing. (The replies is what I am talking about, sorry I posted the initial tweet only)

1331757380669943808 is not a valid tweet id

 

That's a damn fine college IM team name. The Hung and the Restless was probably the best at my college, though my indoor soccer team's was pretty good: White Punks on Dope. Which was funny largely because the team was mostly Indonesian Muslims who thought the Tubes' song was hilarious, and I was the only white guy on the team.

 

Well, the list did include one...

 

I guess that means I won't hang out art the WH. I am allergic to cats.

 

Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB https://t.co/3o9kYJS8Wp

— David Stirling (@dwstirl) November 29, 2020

 

Still probably my favorite college quarterback

I've only seen him play football live (and a bunch of times on TV).



I'm not 100% on board with all Biden's picks, but they are all actually qualified for the jobs they're being mentioned for, so that's a nice change.

 

It was a "Husky basketball alums vs. current Husky football team" charity hoops game, so I was reaching deep down there.

 

There is a part of me that wants to tell every GOP type to go die in a fire and pull the same shit that the GOP has pulled on us for years. And the last four years have made it stronger.

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...p-polarized-climate-change-health-immigration

Interesting article. It starts with a pair of premises. One is that the GOPs are going to engage in bad faith arguments and obstruction and general ********ery in an attempt to tank the US and hurt the president's party in 2022. The other is that under Obama the Dems failed by operating under the "old" rules, in particular the notion that the "right" way for a president and his party to pass their agenda is to pursue one big initiative at a time. (The article has a good recitation for you kids out there of how the GOPs responded.)

The writer proposes that Biden steal a page from Trump, in a way, by trying to do everything at once. Trump showed that in our current political-media climate, brazen, constant, pervasive lying has no repercussions. The writer's corollary is that Biden should try to push his entire agenda all at the same time. The idea is that the GOPs are going to react to everything as an American version of Maoism, that the number of persuadable voters is nearly nil, and that the media is wedded to both sidesism. So Biden should flood the zone because the reactions are going to be the same regardless.

"By constantly acting, being on the offensive, generating new stories and controversies, he [Trump] simply overwhelmed the ability of the system to fasten on any one thing.

Biden should learn the lesson. All that matters is what gets done, put on paper and into law. The rest is vapor.

The administration should staff up as rapidly as possible with ambitious young progressives and tell every single civil servant that the next two years are going to be a full sprint. Start immediately rewriting and reimplementing the environmental, public health, and worker safety regulations Trump has weakened. Reverse his immigration policies. Drop his lawsuits."

 

And lots of executive actions (if dems fail to win in the run offs).