• dhork@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The only thing that will make a bit of difference is filling all the judicial vacancies, because those decisions canot be undone. I am flabbergasted that that hasn’t been done already.

    Everything else done by executive order won’t have any point, because Trump can just un-executive-order it all. The time to do all that shit was 2-3 years ago, not now.

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      7 days ago

      because those decisions canot be undone.

      Oh honey…

      Please educate yourself about authoritarianism.

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    Biden won’t do anything useful.

    He’s had 4 years to be useful and he decided early he’d rather drool than, oh, codify roe v wade or set up protections against fascist rule

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      How does Biden codify Roe V Wade? He can’t sign a bill into law because there is no bill to sign. That starts in the Republican controlled house.

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      7 days ago

      To be fair he’s done a lot of great things. Definitely dropped the ball on a bunch of stuff, but it’s not fair to say he’s just been drooling all this time.

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        Honey, no…

        We don’t have to do this “respect the man, he worked hard” routine. That doesn’t help anyone. The dude failed to protect the most vulnerable or safeguard the country from Nazi elements within while also propping up genocidal regimes and he never did close those “kids in cages” camps that the media stopped talking about Jan 20, 2021.

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    7 days ago

    Every single Executive Order suggested by the author can be immediately repealed by Trump on day one.

    The irreversible acts Biden could take are very limited. He could pardon without reversal, as well as provide funding to allies that will surely be cut off by Trump. He could also seat the remaining vacant judge positions before Trump takes office.

    There may be more, but those are the only ones I can think of at the moment.

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      7 days ago

      If you look through that list, some of those things are easy to undo, and some are not. For example, revoking people’s citizenship would be pretty involved and would be a giant shit show.

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          Agreed, but they would have to pass legislation and imagine the protests and media shit storm Trump would face if he started revoking citizenship. It would be a massive time and energy suck for the GOP.

          I’m all for anything Biden can do that will distract this Congress and administration from being able to do other shit.

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            The current Congress is far less effective with split control than the fully Republican controlled Congress we have coming. The President can veto congressional legislation, but does not have the authority to redefine their power.

            Trump wouldn’t be the one revoking citizenship. It would be Congress. He’ll just point the finger.

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              Why are people still discussing parliamentary bullshit like this? The man promised to be a dictator. He will have absolute power.