because he used Executive Orders A LOT. And the GOP / Trump used to complain about Emperor Obama, he wasn't even close to Emperor Trump.
It will be interesting to see how fast Biden can undo Trump's Executive Over Reach
I personally am hoping he jumps on the following ASAP.
VOX Biden can do 3 things on day one to unwind Trump’s war on reproductive health
The quote below is exactly what I have been saying for years... Who knew a "Sister" and me would agree on something... :-) Let's put children first, improve sex education, improve birth control, reduce abortions and ensure children only go home with capable adults.
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Being pro life, in our politics, means that you want to make abortion a crime. Being pro choice means you are against that. Those are political definitions, within which there is huge room to believe different things. In our politics, if you are against jailing a girl who has had an abortion, you are an advocate of abortion, or a supporter of abortion, and you are pro choice. I actually don't think that is true, but that's the way our politics plays out. That's what happens when complex issues get polticized. If we could get the issue out of the political arena, I think we could deal with the issues surrounding abortion much more effectively in ways that would be far less divisive. Among other things, it would give one less issue for evil actors to exploit.
--Hiram
It is a complicated topic, that is for sure...
The biggest challenge is that the religious right resists educating children and making high quality long acting reversible contraceptives readily available and free. And they insist that a fertilized ovum equals a baby...
And the Left refuses to admit that a fetus is a "baby on live support".
That's because the issue has been simplified by our politics, to ve used as a cudgel with which to beat the other side. People get frozen in their positions. The deal waiting to be made is to make abortion legal everywhere, with reasonable resttriction in excange for ending as a political issues. That's the deal made every wher else in the world. Do your want to make it here?
--Hiram
I am pretty flexible...
Unfortunately people who believe a human life starts at conception are not very of supportive of taking that human life of "life support" just because it is inconvenient for the woman...
Politics, particularly single issue politics, can force people to be inflexible. That ultimately is a choice, but it is a choice with consequences. Single issue politics was a factor in the election of a bankrupt whose incompetence was a contributing factor in the deaths of a quarter of a million Americans. As Kurt Vonnegut might say, "So it goes".
--HIram
More than one pro lifer has told me those quarter million deaths were a small price to pay to ensure a pro life majority on the Supreme Court. It is a choice.
--Hiram
Well from their perspective it is a wonderful trade off.
250,000 infirm / old people to save ~600,000 babies per year.
Well from their perspective it is a wonderful trade off.
I am very conscious of that And it's an argument with slipperiest slope imaginable. It's an argument that they are perfectly comfortable with, no matter how high the number goes. It's also an argument that can be used to support evil on the greatest scale imaginable.
--Hiram
I am not sure saving fetuses from being killed in their Mother's womb would necessarily be considered "evil"... However it is an interesting logic.
It would be interesting to to know how many people would have died under a different President's watch... My guess the number would have still been high...
Us Americans are just so darned stubborn and capable of denial.
It would be interesting to to know how many people would have died under a different President's watch..
A lot of it depends on how aggressive another president would have been in the early stages. Trump did make a basic mistake in thinking that if he closed down travel to China only, that would solve the problem. As I have said a lot, he mistook a biological threat for a geographical or political threat. He also made a mistake in trusting the Chinese in the early stages. That was just weird. Nobody trusts the Chinese on such matters.
Trump clearly understood the extreme nature of the threat. That was clear from his contemporaneous interviews with Woodward. Had he acted on what he told Woodward, I am sure the potential would have been for a far more effective response.
Trump did a lot wrong, the vast majority of which was inexcusable. He seems to feel no need to do what's right as he is currently demonstrating in his refusal to acknowledge his defeat. Failing to cooperate with the incoming Biden administration on virus matters borders on the criminal.
--Hiram
That is true
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