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The Biden White House
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. Biden's chief of staff will be Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff to Vice-President Al Gore and Vice-President Biden and worked as an adviser for Biden's Presidential campaign.
Biden builds out White House senior staff with top campaign advisers
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/polit...aff/index.html
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The results of the election were not expected in the way they turned out. There are (always) more things to know about elections than most care about. They're complex. But one aspect of this last one is undeniable - many voted against Trump rather than FOR Biden.
The country has been significantly harmed by Trump in many ways, some perhaps permanent. There was already major deterioration over the last forty years preceding Trump. Clearly, that should require that Dems support the most knowledgeable and assertive progressive candidate possible. That didn't happen because Biden is not that person.
We are going back to the environment that loosed Trump on the country, one that ignores the needs of working people. The Dem leadership, including Biden, hate progressives and any policy they promote.
I could post twenty links that prove the assertion but I'll settle for these now. Bad times are coming in The United Corporate States of America.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/j...edric-richmond
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...s-say-n1247959
Pay particular attention to Ricchetti.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ts/6324404002/
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...heitkamp-wrong
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Who else do you think could have defeated Trump? Sanders is too liberal and Warren is too progressive and none of the other candidates had much chance of winning the nomination.
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"Who else do you think could have defeated Trump? Sanders is too liberal and Warren is too progressive..."
Your characterizations of these people are inaccurate and wrong. Dems and the media bash the term progressive and their policies. It is an effort by the establishment to avoid programs that threaten their power and wealth.
There are reams of objective evidence that show it is likely that Sanders' would have defeated Trump. This was also true in 2016.
Not one progressive, eg, AOC, lost their election. When progressive policy details are given an opportunity to be heard there is a huge level of acceptance. M4A is an example. Approximately, 75% of ALL voters like it. Biden does not because he supports the corporate insurance industry.
You should read more widely. There are no shortcuts to understanding complex issues. It takes time and effort. Without that you will never be even minimally knowledgeable.
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Donald Trump's lackeys continue to serve Donald Trump and not the American people. By refusing to allow a coordinated transition between the incoming and outgoing administrations, the Trump administration is threatening national security, jeopardizing the coronavirus response and putting more lives at risk.
Biden transition steps up fundraising as Trump withholds federal money
Politico, Nov 19 2020 11:15 AM ET
President-elect Joe Biden's team is appealing to its high-dollar donors to help raise millions of dollars more for his Presidential transition amid concerns the Trump administration will continue to block public funding. The General Services Administration must "ascertain" that Biden won the election before the federal government will release roughly $10 million in funds to which the transition is legally entitled. GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, a Trump appointee, has thus far refused to acknowledge Biden's victory, despite the fact that news outlets called the race 12 days ago.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...l-money-438197
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Donald Trump does not care about our nation. Donald Trump does not care about our democracy. Donald Trump does not care about the American people. Donald Trump cares only about Donald Trump. This becomes increasingly obvious with every passing day.
Analysis: How Trump is sabotaging Biden – and America
The President's actions at the Treasury and the Pentagon and denialism about the pandemic are undercutting the President-elect and harming the American people.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/polit...-18/index.html
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Biden will be inaugurated as President two months from today.
Biden taps several long-time aides for White House roles
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/polit...res/index.html
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The Cult of Donald Trump will survive for many years – and possibly many decades – after Trump leaves office. His blindly loyal followers will continue to worship him almost as much as he worships himself and they will continue to believe everything he says. Biden will likely never be able to convince any of them that he won the Presidency in a fair election. They will go to their graves parroting Trump's lie that Trump won the election but the Democrats "stole" his victory from him.
Opinion: Biden's mistake about Trump
Frida Ghitis, Nov 21 2020 9:46 PM ET
Joe Biden is making a mistake. The President-elect is right in believing that Trump's efforts to overturn the people's will in the election will fail. In the end, the courts will turn away the crumbling case that Trump's lawyers are trying to build to prevent Biden from assuming his rightful position. But Biden is incorrect if he thinks Trump's legal assault on his election and on American democracy is the principal problem the outgoing President poses.
Trump is poisoning the soil for Biden and for America's future. The libel, the calumnies, the discrediting of Biden's legitimacy and of American democracy will persist, unless Biden tackles them head-on now and prevents Trump from crippling his Presidency before it begins.
Trump's disinformation campaign is arguably more important than his legal and political challenges to the vote. Polls show a majority of his supporters believe the wild fabrications of large-scale fraud concocted in the imagination of the Trump camp. Tens of millions of Americans will greet the Biden presidency as illegitimate. The President-elect is making a mistake by letting Trump use his disinformation weapons to advance this propaganda war. Trump is hurting America and its democracy – and he is undercutting the Biden presidency.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/opini...tis/index.html
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Biden promised a diverse Cabinet – and he is starting to fulfill that promise.
Joe Biden nominates first woman to lead intelligence, first Latino to head homeland security
The President-elect has tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry as special envoy on climate.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/polit...net/index.html
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If Republicans keep control of the Senate, Biden could have a difficult time getting his cabinet picks confirmed.
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I guess we can put this under the heading "Better late than never." Trump affirmed Murphy's decision to start the transition – and then he tweeted, "Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!" Delusional Donald lost the popular vote by 6,069,294 and lost in the Electoral College 306 to 232 – and he still thinks he will win a second term. Wow.
GSA says Biden transition can formally begin
CNN, Nov 23 2020 6:41 PM ET
The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump's defeat, 16 days after Biden was declared the winner in the election.
Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the formal transition and did not make a decision "out of fear or favoritism." She wrote, "Please know that I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts. To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination." The letter signals that Murphy has formally signed off on Biden's victory, a normally perfunctory process known as ascertainment. The move will allow the transition to officially begin, permitting current administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team and providing millions in government funding for the transition.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/polit...gin/index.html
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Yellen was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2004-10, Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, 2010-14; and Chair of the Federal Reserve, 2014-18. I know it is no longer fashionable to use sexist terms but it still sounds strange to hear her referred to as a "chair" instead of a "chairwoman."
Biden picks Janet Yellen to lead Treasury
Yellen would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department
in a line stretching back to Alexander Hamilton in 1789.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/...lead-treasury/
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Donald Trump insisted his policy was "America first." In reality, it was always Donald Trump first.
'America is back,' Biden says, as he dumps Trump's foreign policy approach
Reuters, Nov 24 2020 3:06 AM
President-elect Joe Biden said today the United States will be "ready to lead" again on the global stage, turning the page on President Donald Trump's unilateralist policies as he pledged to work together with America's allies. Introducing his new foreign policy and national security team, Biden signaled he intends after taking office on January 20 to steer the United States away from the "America First" nationalism pursued by Trump, who has has unsettled many US allies with an antagonistic approach toward the NATO alliance and trade relations, abandonment of international agreements and warm relationships with authoritarian leaders.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2841BA
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"Let's begin the work to heal and unite America and the world," Biden said today. Biden's task will not be easy, though, after four years of Donald Trump doing everything he can to "Make America Hate Again" and "Make America White Again."
Biden stakes out his anti-Trump Presidency
Biden has already kept his first promise – his approach to the Presidency will be a top-to-bottom repudiation of the behavior, policies and obsessions of Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/polit...net/index.html
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The swamp will finally be drained – but by Joe Biden, not Donald Trump.
Opinion: Biden's cabinet picks send a clear message
CNN, Nov 28 2020 3:46 PM ET
With each cabinet pick, President-elect Joe Biden has conveyed the same message – government experience will matter in this administration. Thus far, Biden has put forward an impressive team of advisers with résumés that offer a stark contrast to what we have seen in the past four years. Janet Yellen, a renowned University of California economics professor and former chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, has been nominated to become Treasury secretary. Biden has nominated Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, both of whom worked on the most pressing foreign policy issues under the Obama administration, as secretary of state and national security adviser, respectively.
For director of national intelligence, Biden has picked Avril Haines, who was the deputy national security adviser under President Obama. To serve as a special envoy for climate change, the President-elect selected former secretary of state and US Senator John Kerry, who played a key role in negotiating the 2015 Paris Agreement. Biden chose Alejandro Mayorkas, who served as the former deputy secretary of homeland security under the Obama administration, to lead the DHS. Ron Klain, who boasts decades of experience in government, will join the Biden administration as chief of staff.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/opini...zer/index.html
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The comparison is NOT whether the choices are better than Trump's but what tendencies and history do they have vis-a-vis what the country needs - and needs to AVOID in the future.
Anyone who really knows Biden's history knows he is the wrong person to be president, now or at any time. But, much of the media protects the establishment, ergo, the "opinion" above.
The exhaustion the reasonable feel as a result of the last four years should not put us into a trance so that we miss the renewed dangers that brought us Trump in the first place.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/j...-pro-war-hawks
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11...into-the-past/
Biden is also an adherent to the myth of government finances being like household finances. That VERY dangerous austerity will prevent the needs of the country being satisfied, especially the harm that has occurred due the pandemic.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/...s-mmt-and-more
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More of Biden's MO.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...ervice-and-now
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In October, Trump called Fauci a "disaster" and inexplicably objected to Fauci's advice that wearing masks will stop the spread of COVID-19: "People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots – these people that have gotten it wrong. If we listened to him, we’d have 700-800,000 deaths right now." Welcome to Trumpworld. On January 20, things will change for the better.
Biden asks Dr. Anthony Fauci to be a chief medical adviser during his administration
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/polit...per/index.html
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I wonder if the day will ever come when the news media quit feeling compelled to identify people by their skin color.
Biden picks retired Army general Lloyd Austin as defense secretary
If confirmed, he would be the first Black man to lead the Department of Defense.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/polit...nse/index.html
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I wonder if the day will ever come that the politicians will put the country, and its citizens, ahead of corporate power, the wealthy and war-loving militarism. There should, at the least, be civilian control ALWAYS.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...ustin-pentagon
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In April 2019, Buttigieg announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for President. He was 38 and the youngest candidate in the race. On March 1, 2020, he dropped out of the race and a day later endorsed Joe Biden. If Buttigieg is confirmed as transportation secretary, he will be better qualified to run again in 2024.
Joe Biden picks Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/polit...ary/index.html