American Politics III: New President, Same Old Country

[Cannot think of a name]

Articles of impeachment have been sent

Hahaha...whose the ninja now?

I mean...I didn't include a link, so...whatever.

Also, watching them do the weird stand in the hallway and now walk two by two is just strange. Though after the last four years, go ahead and go all in on the formality and decorum weirdness. Turns out it's better than the alternative.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Biden to replace the entire federal fleet with electric vehicles

While a nice sentiment… it’s just not feasible immediately

[Kowani]

Hawaii GOP official resigns after defending Qanon

[Cannot think of a name]

Cobalt isn't cool anymore.


GM and Toyota have also developed non-cobalt batteries.

Oh, good for them (although if I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say "Musk didn't give a timeline" I would be richer than Crassus)

now it's just the supply of lithium and every other rare earth that I have to worry abt

The rare earth metals are out, and it's not just Musk, it's just that dude sucks up the oxygen so it was easiest to find the article about his battery because I couldn't remember the name of the GM battery or I think there's one called REEE, which is just an internet nightmare to google. Lithium I think is not far behind. Though there are some diehards still holding out for hydrogen fuel cells to not be more trouble than their worth, but they've been saying that since the 90s.

But the Toyota Mirai...is that right? Ooo. first try. That car still exists, as does the BMW 7 Hydrogen. There's a supercar maker who's making 300 supercars and someone made a Le Mans racer that did a lap at Le Mans last year with aims to compete in their experimental slot soon. So maybe it won't be BEV but fuel cell EVs. Kinda doubt it, I think organic battery tech will advance faster than hydrogen and fuel cell is still a vehicle you have to fuel, but it's faster and if you want more range just make the tank bigger.

[Picairn]

Military transgender ban overturned, Janet Yellen confirmed, Article of Impeachment sent.

The good news keep coming and brighten my morning!

[Kowani]

[Senkaku]

Military transgender ban overturned, Janet Yellen confirmed, Article of Impeachment sent.

The good news keep coming and brighten my morning!

Hopefully next we'll close down some camps at the border and get some stimulus rolling

[Cannot think of a name]

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Do they get to keep using the seal? Probably. Be funny if they didn't, though.

[Zurkerx]

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I feel no other former President does this. Establishing an Office of the Former President? The man needs to get a life...

[My Political Fantasy]

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Trump is officially in the acceptance stage

[Valrifell]

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I feel no other former President does this. Establishing an Office of the Former President? The man needs to get a life...

I'm pretty sure this is the first time something like this has been established, though I'm sure several presidents have started advocacy groups akin to the stated goals of this... office.

[Celritannia]

I feel no other former President does this. Establishing an Office of the Former President? The man needs to get a life...

I'm pretty sure this is the first time something like this has been established, though I'm sure several presidents have started advocacy groups akin to the stated goals of this... office.

Yeah, where as Bush is more like a "hey, look what we are doing now" website.

[Cannot think of a name]

Military transgender ban overturned, Janet Yellen confirmed, Article of Impeachment sent.

The good news keep coming and brighten my morning!

Hopefully next we'll close down some camps at the border and get some stimulus rolling

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/01 ... n-us-hope/

Zavala added the Biden administration’s executive orders and directives “have given us a new sense of hope that asylum seekers of all backgrounds will no longer be subjected to such undignified treatment caused by harsh immigration policies like MPP and fear of deportation.”

Abdiel Echevarría-Cabán, a South Texas-based immigration attorney who is also a human rights law and policy expert, told the Blade that he has several LGBTQ clients — many of whom are Cuban — in Mexico under MPP who have been waiting for their asylum hearings for more than a year. Echevarría-Cabán, like Zavala, welcomes the new White House’s directives.

“MPP is clearly a violation of human rights and U.S. domestic immigration law,” Echevarría-Cabán told the Blade. “Now we can expect a better outcome under Biden’s new policy.”
Biden immigration policies ‘restore humanity, dignity’

Other immigrant advocates have also welcomed the Biden administration’s actions.

“The fact that our new president is taking a stand against the awful immigration policies that the previous administration left us with is a great deal,” TransLatin@ Coalition President Bamby Salcedo told the Blade on Friday from Los Angeles. “Having put a moratorium to stop deportation is a step in the right direction.”

“In addition, having a bill ready to send to Congress on the first day is a great deal,” she added. “It is giving hope to the over 11 million people who live in uncertainty every single day.”

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration is a Minnesota-based organization that works with LGBTQ migrants and refugees around the world. Jardín de las Mariposas, an LGBTQ migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, is among those with which ORAM has partnered.

“Above all, President Biden’s new immigration policies restore humanity, dignity and a common-sense approach to immigration which will have a positive impact on LGBTQ migrants and asylum seekers both in the U.S. and around the world,” ORAM Executive Director Steve Roth told the Blade on Thursday.

Altagracia Tamayo is a lesbian activist in Mexicali, a Mexican border city that borders Calexico, Calif., in California’s Imperial Valley. She runs the Cobina Posada del Migrante shelter.

Tamayo on Thursday told the Blade that more than 70 migrants who currently live at the shelter have been forced to return to Mexico under MPP.

“We are hopeful that he (Biden) will keep his word,” she said.

[Cannot think of a name]

I feel no other former President does this. Establishing an Office of the Former President? The man needs to get a life...

I'm pretty sure this is the first time something like this has been established, though I'm sure several presidents have started advocacy groups akin to the stated goals of this... office.

Pretty much what the Clinton Foundation was. Though were remember what happened when Trump tried to run a charity last time.

Carter, of course, just out there building people houses.

[Kowani]

In the greatest court filing I've ever seen, Blacks For Trump and Latinos for Trump ask a Federal Court to establish "Trump's Cabinet as the Stewards of Gondor in the Absence of Aragorn"

they also want the entire congress and biden barred from doing anything

so after the entire internet laughed at them, the lawsuit changed
Instead of instituting the Stewards of Gondor, the plaintiffs say having a court make up a new system of government was perhaps "heavy-handed and overly punitive." Instead, they now want a judge to take away basically all of the powers of the current government.


(and also, they're sleep deprived and had a sewage backup)

Further complicating this process is Counsel’s intense amount of sleep-deprivation, having to do the work of
several attorneys, mostly alone, with a skeleton staff while being plagued with threats to his safety and an
apparent act of vandalism at his home where someone stuffed bundles of wood and garbage into the drain sewer
at his home causing a massive sewage backup. Indeed, it is now 5:21 A.M. and counsel has not slept in an attempt
to get more reasonable relief in front of the Court prior to the court opening at 9:00 A.M.

[Albrenia]

Does he realise that by running the 'Office of the Former President' he is, in fact, conceding that he is no longer the elected President?

[Rusozak]

Does he realise that by running the 'Office of the Former President' he is, in fact, conceding that he is no longer the elected President?

He could be playing pretend President with a doll house for all I care. That's the glory of him being out of office and ignorable now.

[Corrian]

Military transgender ban overturned, Janet Yellen confirmed, Article of Impeachment sent.

The good news keep coming and brighten my morning!

Hopefully next we'll close down some camps at the border and get some stimulus rolling

Gotta deal with the Senate bullshit first unfortunately, it seems.

And it doesn't seem like we're gonna get the filibuster gridlock removed any time soon thanks to people like Sinema, Manchin, etc. Because McConnell will use it as a tactic just to oppose anything good to come.

[Kowani]

I like how it says he'll become the 19th President. Like wot.



Easily too: 84-15.

I wonder who voted no.

Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Cotton
Cramer
Cruz
Hawley
Hoeven
Lee
Paul
Risch
Scott
Shelby
Sullivan
Tuberville

[Corrian]

Has Tuberville voted yes on anything yet since he's been a Senator? Christ.

[Albrenia]

Does he realise that by running the 'Office of the Former President' he is, in fact, conceding that he is no longer the elected President?

He could be playing pretend President with a doll house for all I care. That's the glory of him being out of office and ignorable now.

Nonono. Q says he's just letting Biden think he's the President until March the 4th, because apparently that makes sense in the clown world these people live in.

[Kowani]

Has Tuberville voted yes on anything yet since he's been a Senator? Christ.

Avril Haines DNI confirmation, Lloyd Austin's waiver and confirmation,, and then both of the EC objections

[Corrian]

Has Tuberville voted yes on anything yet since he's been a Senator? Christ.

Avril Haines DNI confirmation, Lloyd Austin's waiver and confirmation,, and then both of the EC objections

Huh. What did he not like about this specific candidate I wonder.

[Kowani]

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) wants the entire Postal Board of Governors fired

[Neanderthaland]

Hawaii GOP official resigns after defending Qanon

Good.