Personally my top 3 asks are Medicare for All (or something similar, he can call it Bidencare or whatever if he wants), reduced presence in the Middle East, and abolish ICE (replace it with something else if they must, but ICE is corrupt to the point you need to at least rebuild from the ground up). I doubt we'll see much improvement on the first two if only because of the massive pharma lobby and the military-industrial complex. I do think there will be a return to Obama-era policies as regards migration, but I'd like to push for something a bit nicer than that. Interestingly enough I think that M4A-esque plans and reduced military presence actually flies with a significant enough amount of Republicans since a few of them will continue to model Trump and play at populism.
Ooh, an actual policy discussion on waygook. I'm out of practice, hang on a sec. ... Okay, so M4A as you say has a large hurdle of Pharma, but also it will be labeled socialism and the Americans who depend the most on socialism really really hate things called socialism.
I think highway funding should be withheld from states that don't adopt state-wide rigorous standards for police officers, including ongoing training. And everyone in jail over a dime bag should be released and their records expunged.
But policies come and go. In my mind, the biggest matter of a presidency is actually SCOTUS. I'm hoping Breyer will resign on Jan 21 or 22 and we'll some young blood in there, while Senate GOP is still on their back heels. Next out is presumably Thomas (and I mean to retire, of course) but it's a long time until the next chance, unless something unfortunate happens.
well, had it been a BLM protest, they would identify the man from his personal effects ... once they got them from the morgue.
No, there was and is serious concern about trump's connections to putin.
No, there wasn't. Anyone in the know was aware it was just a domestic political stunt to smear Trump. If there were real concerns we would have seen a MUCH different response.
Missing from this perspective is the fact that yesterday's 'rebellion' was performed in pursuit of a hopeless delusion, in service of anti-democratic goals, initiated and primed by the President.
Do you consider Antifa an insurrection? Was that Redifa ?
M4A definitely has some tricky waters to navigate. Honestly, I think it's sort of screwed, the people who really really hate things called socialism were willing to swallow the idea of "TrumpCare" or whatever but now that Trump's successfully set up Biden as some sort of election thief that ship has sailed. Plus even if Biden were theoretically interested in ramming a plan through still have to contend with a few of his fellow Democrats and we'd probably end up with another Obamacare.I would love a national overhaul of the police system but that'd be pretty hard to pull off, all the red states will be crying about their states rights all the way to court. I guess withholding highway funding could maybe work, but in terms of actually achieving meaningful police reform it's probably best pursued at the local level. I mean sure Minneapolis didn't completely defund but at least they managed to shift 8 mil off the police force, which is something.
It would be nice if Breyer would retire. I feel like after what happened with Ginsburg he'll probably feel pressured enough to do so. Thomas probably isn't going to retire if he can help it. Personally I don't like the SCOTUS much in the first place, but it's here to stay. The best we can hope for is Biden actually goes ahead and expands it but I doubt that's happening.
If there's one thing that characterized the BLM protests of the past 6 months, its how the cops mowed everyone down and they were quickly snuffed out.
Highway funding has worked to push states several times, for example raising the drinking age. Training could be done by whatever entity but meet certain benchmarks from the state level, like say, teachers and nurses.It won't. Nine has been a good number that spread vacancies pretty well across presidential terms, until the turtle cum-sock played that bullshit with Merrick Garland.
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the reduced Middle East presence. We'll probably get a watered-down Obamacare update.
Biden MIGHT try some big show about tearing down the wall and defunding ICE, but I'm not sure. That seems really risky, politically. Most likely it would be some moderate action.
Also, will there be different factions in the Biden White House? You gotta think that some of Harris' people are looking at Biden as almost a lame duck.
Judging from your sniveling excuses and apologia for an attempted armed insurrection against the US government, you have lost whatever little sense you used to have.
Honestly, I doubt it. Now that the corporate Dems have their epic centrist victory they're going to try and hold strong so they can shove as many leftists out of the party as possible (while probably keeping AOC around for optics). The Democratic primaries have already shown that the party is remarkably united when it feels the need to be.
Highway funding has worked to push states several times, for example raising the drinking age. Training could be done by whatever entity but meet certain benchmarks from the state level, like say, teachers and nurses.
It won't. Nine has been a good number that spread vacancies pretty well across presidential terms, until the turtle cum-sock played that bullshit with Merrick Garland.
Quick question- Which is worse? Rioting and smashing the Capitol and attacking politicians or rioting and smashing a local small business and attacking your neighbors?If you think the former is worse than the latter, that shows deep down whether or not you truly are an authoritarian.
Oh I don't think it will be ideologically driven, just more personal camps. Biden's people vs. Harris. Biden people have to know the clock is ticking and the Harris loyalists from the getgo will definitely be trying to knock them off.
