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Turin_C3PO

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13. Not true.

Reply to beachbumbob (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 24, 2020, 10:15 AM

Nov 2020

Biden can get a lot done at the executive area. He can reverse all of Trump’s executive orders and issue some of his own. All our departments will have competent people staffing them. Barr, Miller, DeVos, DeJoy, and many more will be gone.

No need to be pessimistic, we have too much work to do.

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Build Back Better Has To Mean Permanence, Not Just Restoration [View all] ancianita Nov 2020 OP

What is permanence? AnnaLee Nov 2020 #1

It's not academic. I mean permanence as 'hard war" unity that disables the weaponizing ancianita Nov 2020 #3

without a democratic senate, nothing can be done. BTW, what ever is built can be dismantled by the beachbumbob Nov 2020 #2

Nothing? ancianita Nov 2020 #4

last time I look, the 2020 election outcome outside of Biden was pretty miserable for democrats beachbumbob Nov 2020 #5

I hear you. ancianita Nov 2020 #6

I don;t consider Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennyslvannia as ever being redstates to begin with beachbumbob Nov 2020 #8

Fine. I just think they're called "battlegrounds" for a reason. And so my count. ancianita Nov 2020 #14

Not true. Turin_C3PO Nov 2020 #13

the way it will go., GOP will file lawsuit to overturn Biden;s EOs, the courts will uphold the beachbumbob Nov 2020 #15

What are EO's? ancianita Nov 2020 #18

executive orders beachbumbob Nov 2020 #20

Ah, thanks. Forgot. ancianita Nov 2020 #21

What do you mean by 78% and 22%? I'm looking at 51% and 47%. lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #7

those claims made my head spin too, like where did those numbers come from? beachbumbob Nov 2020 #9

Probably including Turin_C3PO Nov 2020 #10

Yes, it does. ancianita Nov 2020 #12

They come from the 79,921,082 Democrats who are 51.0% of the total votes, and because of that, ancianita Nov 2020 #19

Okay. My frame is the general population of America and not just the electorate. ancianita Nov 2020 #11

you are way too optimistic on the orientation of the non-voting American public beachbumbob Nov 2020 #16

Nope, you're way too pessimistic, stuck in the doubt zone. Count new voters. ancianita Nov 2020 #17

I am realist, otherwise how do explain the sweeping losses of democrats in senate and beachbumbob Nov 2020 #22

Me, too. What you call realism, I add a pessimistic optimism to. ancianita Nov 2020 #26

Trump will leave office by resignation and will receive a blanket pardon MineralMan Nov 2020 #23

I know. But your last sentence means more than you say. ancianita Nov 2020 #24

See my new OP: MineralMan Nov 2020 #25

Thanks for your link. I read you loud and clear. ancianita Nov 2020 #27