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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Gee, thanks for making me think about that. Pass the Brain Bleach, please?
The discussion on Sacramento is more topical in this thread
, for what it's worth.
Speaking of injections, Biden laid out his plan for tackling COVID
. It involves initial executive orders to invoke the Defense Production Act and really make it a point to promote mask usage, while asking Congress for aid money.
And boy do they have a lot of work to do.
Daily Beast: ‘Worse Than We Imagined’: Team Trump Left Biden a COVID Nightmare
“What we’re inheriting from the Trump administration is so much worse than we could have imagined,” Jeff Zients, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 czar, said in a call with reporters Wednesday. “We don't have the visibility that we would hope to have into supply and allocations.”
“I think we have to level-set expectations,” added Tom Frieden, the former director for the Centers for Disease Control in the Obama administration. “There are lots of things that an incoming administration can do on Day One, including speaking honestly about the pandemic.”
The new administration is already behind, in part because the Trump administration was unprecedentedly hostile during the transition. The question now, however, is how Biden can get a handle on a raging pandemic when his team is already so far behind.
The alt-right seems chastened right now. It's running from law enforcement and not planning attacks, or at least that's the impression that I get. Meanwhile, its Dear Leader left on a whimper rather than a bang, its prophet Q is missing, and it's just sort of flailing about.
I'm sure it'll be back, but for now we can take advantage of its discomfiture.
Meanwhile, on the COVID-19 response, I am quite certain that the incoming administration will find no plans for anything, no serious efforts to enact any sort of policy. Effective action will be delayed by the necessity of rebuilding government itself.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 21st 2021 at 9:29:39 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I think we're going to find a lot of examples of "the Trump administration left us with a mess" in the coming days. Speaks volumes about how bad the previous administration was.
Doesn't stop people like Hannity from claiming Trump left Biden with multiple vaccines. Yeah, which he didn't properly distribute! Sheesh...
Edited by speedyboris on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:32:49 AM
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That indeed seems to be the case:
Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/biden-covid-vaccination-trump/index.html
The Biden administration has promised to try to turn the Covid-19 pandemic around and drastically speed up the pace of vaccinating Americans against the virus. But in the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration's Covid-related work told CNN one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.
"There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch," one source said.
Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from "square one" because there simply was no plan as: "Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence."
Edited by sgamer82 on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:34:33 AM
I assume Biden came in with that understanding that there wasn't much of a plan to begin with, and has prepared accordingly.
Remember, this president actually reads his briefings and prepares himself for his work. Hard to get used to after four years, I know.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
That’s why the executive orders are so important.
As for the Alt-Right, they lack central figures to rally behind. Q has betrayed them (and numerous articles are covering the followers realizing they’ve been had, similar to apocalypse cults realizing the apocalypse isn’t happening any time soon), the head of the Proud Boys was arrested in conjunction with the capital terrorist acts, and Trump slithered off to Florida to prepare for his grand jury indictment. For now, their power is fragmented.
Yes, in this case executive orders are certainly needed.
I think that shows where executive orders can work well: for emergency responses. The problem is that they have been steadily overgeneralized to be a fix for long term problems that really need the legislative branch providing answers, not the executive one.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesQ didn't exist but the con men exploiting the Q mythology for money did. In what is the most interesting and relevant portion of the Q myth, the fact is that Q only existed to make money and never had an ideological component to it. Like Trump, they wielded unimaginable power over millions of followers but the only way they could think to use this was to line their pockets.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531
In one way, this is beneficial because all of the conmen involved including the owner of 8chan weren't actually interested in overthrowing the US government. No, it was all about Patreon, Go Fund Me, and merchandising money. They're the Jude Law character from Contagion (who was eeriely Trump like in retrospect). When the jig was up with the US election, they disappeared with their bank.
It's the thing where I can't actually sympathize with these people because they were grifted for being fascists.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:51:19 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump doesn't need to be on Twitch to have Trump's people post on Twitch.
Which is to say, yes, Trump had a Twitch channel.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:52:25 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump's Twitch account would rebroadcast any events and such. Every presidential candidate had them and a lot of other people running too.
Ao C and is the only one to actually use Twitch for its intended purpose, video games, and she became one of Twitch's top streamers for doing it.
Edited by Memers on Jan 21st 2021 at 6:58:32 AM

Given Trump's diet, I can only imagine the smell he left in the Lincoln bedroom.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"