Needs to change
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nwhikerThe amount of damage Trump has done since the November election is incalculable.
I'm not talking about fomenting insurrection. I'm talking about everything else.
About abandoning the vaccine/covid effort entirely, so Biden comes in to a total mess.
About the shew of horrific environmental decisions: sales made in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge, mining rights all over the West, spotted owl territory open to logging.
About the number of appointments of people to posts for which they have no qualifications (duh, nobody in Trump's orbit is qualified for anything) but who will not be in place, annoying or dangerous rocks for the Biden administration to have to remove or navigate around
About the pardons.
About the destruction of records.
About... you get the idea.
All of this when his people are refusing help and the normal process of transition is being perverted, ignored, demeaned. Biden is walking into an unknown that Trump folks are making worse on a daily basis.
We seriously need to change the timeline here, or the laws. Clearly when the peaceful transition of power and information is based on tradition and doing what is right, the process can be subverted by a malignant actor. Things now need to be written down, and enacted as laws. Things like no new appointments. No non-emergency executive orders. No major sales of public goods to the lowest bidder. I know that also means no last minute national monument declarations, and that sucks, but the danger of what Trump is doing, and another ill-intentioned president could do, outweighs the good things that a Democratic president could enact.
The other thing that needs to change, and I don't know how that would work with the Constitution, but we need to shorten the time from election to inauguration. Even 1 Jan is too late, but it would be better than the current additional 3 weeks in January to destroy the nation.
I'm not talking about fomenting insurrection. I'm talking about everything else.
About abandoning the vaccine/covid effort entirely, so Biden comes in to a total mess.
About the shew of horrific environmental decisions: sales made in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge, mining rights all over the West, spotted owl territory open to logging.
About the number of appointments of people to posts for which they have no qualifications (duh, nobody in Trump's orbit is qualified for anything) but who will not be in place, annoying or dangerous rocks for the Biden administration to have to remove or navigate around
About the pardons.
About the destruction of records.
About... you get the idea.
All of this when his people are refusing help and the normal process of transition is being perverted, ignored, demeaned. Biden is walking into an unknown that Trump folks are making worse on a daily basis.
We seriously need to change the timeline here, or the laws. Clearly when the peaceful transition of power and information is based on tradition and doing what is right, the process can be subverted by a malignant actor. Things now need to be written down, and enacted as laws. Things like no new appointments. No non-emergency executive orders. No major sales of public goods to the lowest bidder. I know that also means no last minute national monument declarations, and that sucks, but the danger of what Trump is doing, and another ill-intentioned president could do, outweighs the good things that a Democratic president could enact.
The other thing that needs to change, and I don't know how that would work with the Constitution, but we need to shorten the time from election to inauguration. Even 1 Jan is too late, but it would be better than the current additional 3 weeks in January to destroy the nation.
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