Before He Exits, Biden Tries To Undermine Trump
Nature is healing.
Things are beginning to change. Donald Trump will be taking his oath of office in a few days, but in order for him to take office, Joe Biden has to go.
And before he goes, Biden is attempting to constrain President Trump as he comes in.
The New York Times reported:
In the final days of his term, President Biden has issued a series of policy decisions intended to cement his agenda and, in some cases, make it harder for President-elect Donald J. Trump to put in place his own.
The 11th-hour decisions, many of them executive actions, include measures on environmental justice, prison reform, immigration and foreign relations. Some are intended to preserve Mr. Biden’s legacy, while others are last-ditch efforts to expand his approach. Many are likely to be undone after Mr. Trump takes office next week.
“Environmental justice” means banning fracking and limiting drilling off the coast. “Prison reform” means jailbreak.
This is always the danger of an outgoing administration, particularly one as venal, corrupt, and terrible as Joe Biden’s administration.
Biden is creating two national monuments in California, an action that is not really about creating national monuments; the monuments are intended to prevent mining and drilling that would cover 848,000 acres of desert and mountainous land in a portion of the state where no human would ever visit — unless they were actually going to increase the energy production of the United States.
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The Biden administration announced they would remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in an attempt to box Trump in.
Biden commuted the sentence of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal death row. He left out those who had murdered protected classes of people, which apparently does not include small children. Biden said he would cancel student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, which he doesn’t actually have the capacity to do and the Supreme Court said he could not do.
The Biden administration issued sweeping extensions of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people to prevent President Trump from actually moving those people out of the country. And, of course, President Biden signed a piece of legislation that gives full Social Security benefits to some public sector retirees who are currently receiving them at a reduced level.
The garbage policies that Biden is planting in the heart of American democracy are going to take a while to come to fruition, but they’re going to be completely damaging. The vast overspending, the changes to procurement systems, the way that environmental regulations have been done, all those things will take time to fully materialize.
By the time Biden left office, people didn’t like him — across the spectrum. Moderates didn’t like him because he wasn’t moderate. The Left didn’t like him because they are nuts and felt he wasn’t nuts enough.
Meanwhile, President Trump is entering the White House with more positive sentiment than he has ever had in his entire political career, including his first term. According to a new CNN poll, Trump continues to see majority approval for his handling of the transition; 55% approval, which is a very, very high percentage.
Almost six in 10 Americans expect Trump to do a good job in his second term, and that’s including moderates, Democrats, and everybody else.
Why?
It’s because as it turns out, Trump is a pragmatist. He’s utilitarian. All he cares about is winning. Even people who may not agree with many of his conservative policies are interested in a country that actually functions again, a country that actually has a booming economy and a strong foreign policy.
He is coming in with a honeymoon. And if Congress does what it is supposed to do, then we are going to see this boomlet turn into an actual boom on behalf of President Trump.
You can feel the mood changing in the country.
The addition of Elon Musk on the Republican side of the aisle has been an imagistic boon in extraordinary ways. Yesterday, for example, his super-heavy booster was caught again by the so-called chopsticks. Musk is doing things with technology that are simply astonishing.
It’s cool to be American. It’s cool to live in a country that makes this sort of thing possible. It’s cool to live in a country where a guy who comes to America with pretty much no money can build himself into the richest person on Earth, making companies that create electric cars and rockets that are reusable and can be caught in mid-air that are 20 stories high.
It gives you a feeling of optimism about the country.
The Trump effect.
It’s real and it’s amazing.
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