Is anyone keeping track of all the stuff they've gotten done this past week? Between Net Neutrality, flight cancelation policy, non-compete clauses, and this, a lot has happened.
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Why would medical care ever be withheld from anyone?! (checks notes) oh because America hates it's none wealthy and powerful people
But Biden isn’t doing anything!
I mean he's not. But I've been pretty happy with his administration overall
He is, but no president will ever do enough. The news doesn’t really cover much good stuff.
What would you like this administration to do, that is actually likely to get through the Republican Party?
Don't be like that, my comment was not a partisan one and I did not attack you. I would appreciate the same courtesy.
No one is perfect. I think this administration is doing decent. I'm independent, so I rarely fully agree with a party.
That said, my comment is more about the same criticism that I have of most of Washington... They're way too old. There is no 80yo that's still firing on all cylinders.
I have found that the news has done a decent job covering positives and negatives. Or at least I'm hearing about both.
Be like what? It was a serious question. What do you want him to do? Just keep it realistic.
I want him and others like him to stop trying to be president at 80.
I would also like him to speak in full sentences and stay awake at important outings.
That said, my comment is more about the same criticism that I have of most of Washington... They're way too old. There is no 80yo that's still firing on all cylinders.
Agreed. But, politically… if he’s doing nothing… what do you want?
Both sides are the same!
To be completely honest I see this comment sarcastically significantly more often than not. I mean I can't remember the last time I've opened a political post and this wasn't the top comment.
Because it's a constant reminder.
Democrats aren't perfect. But when a conservative gets elected, things get shittier.
Not if the post is about Gaza.
Wonderful news. It should also be noted that it took Biden almost a whole election cycle to reverse Trump era decisions.
First of all, it's not like Biden sat down and wrote these himself. Appointees by Biden at the health and human service administration directed these rules be written by civil servants who work at the department. Changes to regulations have to follow the processes laid out in the laws originally passed by congress giving the agency the authority to write that regulation. Usually that involves a long process of research, mandatory waiting periods, comments, legal reviews, votes by administrators, etc. These new rules began to be drafted in January 2022. Here's all about 600 pages of them. It's not something like, Biden rolled out of bed this morning and decided to reverse lgbtq discrimination in healthcare finally to help himself in the election. The rule this is replacing/updating for instance had work on it begin in 2015 that didn't finish until 2020.
If the complex processes for these new regulations aren't followed then they aren't drawing their power from any law, and they'll be struck down by courts in a heartbeat. This happened to a lot of Trump's incompetent administrators who had a lot of hastily passed or incorrectly passed regulations that didn't survive legal review.
This is something people often do not realize. Proper process is slow and nothing for sure works UNTIL it gets challenged. A law could be on the books for 50 years but it might as well have been passed yesterday if they are enacting it for the first time. Until someone is actually effected it's basically inert... and establishing precedent can be a fucking mess.
Creating a law with teeth that can not be easily challenged for poor phrasing, unintended exemptions or loopholes takes time. If a law is written that doesn't correctly follow the correct proceedure for it's original implementation it can turn out to be the legal equivalent of a temporary tattoo.
That was kind of the only saving grace of the Trump presidency- he is incredibly shit at working inside the law. When people bang on about "How good he was on economic affairs" they don't realize how all of his international trading stunts only lasted as long as the court preparations to refute them. Him passing his tariffs and "winning" on trade deals was big press but those deals being dismantled and damages being sought barely made the papers.
It wasn't like the US's international court lawyers didn't try and defend those deals under Biden. They really tried. But when what you defend is hastily scribed garbage legislation made as a political stunt you're fucked.
it took Biden almost a whole election cycle to reverse Trump era decisions.
Do you think Congress (negotiations, etc.) had anything to do with that delay?
Not when it’s not a change that came through Congress.
Do you think Congress (negotiations, etc.) had anything to do with that delay?
Not when it’s not a change that came through Congress.
All things being equal, Presidents usually try to work with Congress first, and then go around them second.
That did not one bit of good for any trans people denied healthcare in the past 3 years, but at least the dignity of the office of president is intact. 🙄 Who knows, with this rule in place trans people might get four whole years of having the legal right to access nondiscriminatory medical care before a Republican gets elected or SCOTUS decides our right to exist is up to the states!
Is it better than nothing? Sure! Am I old enough to remember this song and dance with gay rights up until the early ‘10s and this literal exact thing happening right at the end of the Obama administration? Also yes!! Do not try to sell me on this executive order being bigger and stronger than it is.