A Nasty Pasty President Departs While Slashing and Burning, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Even the mainstream media, like the New York Post.com, are running with the narrative now of Biden as a great big loser, a "lame duck" who was never really a president due to his senility, which was covered up in the open by all around him, until after a disastrous debate performance against Trump, there was panic, and he was dropped from the presidential race under the threat of being removed under the 25th Amendment.
Naturally, there is no dignified exit here, and Biden was put to work frantically signing executive orders, to obstruct Trump. This includes granting temporary deportation protection to almost a million illegals, including 234,000 Salvadorans, 1,900 Sudanese, 104,000 Ukrainians and 600,000 Venezuelans for a period of 18 months. Over that time, they all get work permits, taking jobs from Americans, mainly Black and Hispanic Americans, and some will continue to commit crimes. This order can be revoked but there will be a lengthy legal battle. I think, just as these illegals were allowed in, Trump should move swiftly, faster than the Leftist court actions, to deport them, doing it by night. Soon it will be, out of sight, out of mind.
As for the Biden legacy, unlike the Trump first term, Biden did perform well as an anti-American New World Order man, while Trump did not succeed in achieving any nationalistic goals in the first term, such as building the wall, mainly getting tax cuts for the 1 percent crowd. It will be hard to do worse this time round. Maybe he might get serious after realising that despite the art of the deal and endless compromises with the Left, they still tried to kill him. There can be no art of the deal with those post-truthers, beyond reason.
"President Biden and his aides have spent their final days in office announcing 32 executive actions — on topics from immigration to offshore drilling — aimed at tying up President-elect Donald Trump's administration.
The lame-duck 82-year-old's flurry of late moves to try to make himself a hero to Democrats and obstruct his successor's agenda include:
Deportation protectionGranting Temporary Protected Status to almost 1 million people, meaning they are protected from deportation and entitled to work permits. The action, decreed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Jan. 10, shields 234,000 Salvadorans, 1,900 Sudanese, 104,000 Ukrainians and 600,000 Venezuelans for a period of 18 months.
Trump's appointees at the Department of Homeland Security can move to revoke the TPS designations, but it will likely require a lengthy legal fight.
In late 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Trump's decision to revoke the status for 300,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan — two years after the 45th president issued the order.
Barring off-shore drillingBanning drilling for oil and natural gas off most of America's coastline, done via presidential memorandum on Jan. 6. The massive new off-limits ocean zone is larger than the states of Alaska and Texas combined.
Trump pledged to "unban it immediately," but the president-elect faces a legal hurdle due to the fact that the law Biden used, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, has no clear mechanism for future presidential reversals, meaning Congress may need to repeal Biden's memo themselves.
Senate Democrats can block non-budget reconciliation legislation with the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to overcome.
Commuting death row sentencesAll but clearing out federal death row — using executive clemency powers to commute the death sentences of 37 of 40 men awaiting execution on Dec. 23, sparing at least five child killers, several mass murderers and nine found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates.
Trump sped up federal executions at the end of his first term — overseeing five shortly before Biden took office — and was expected to lift a moratorium that Biden put in effect.
Trump cannot reverse his predecessor's clemencies, but delivered a parting shot on social media: " I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky 'souls' but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!"
Joe's spending spreeSpending down congressionally allocated funds for Ukraine and environmental projects. Biden aides have hastily allocated $74 billion for anti-climate-change projects — leaving just $20 billion within Trump's grasp from the $369 billion in green spending in the Inflation Reduction Act, according to The Guardian. Biden also granted a final $500 million in US weapons to Ukraine on Jan. 9 — after presiding over the passage of $183 billion in aid to resist Russia's invasion.
Trump has said he hopes to end the war before taking office Monday — though that appears unlikely — and has jeered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the "greatest salesman on Earth" while his incoming national security adviser, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), last month criticized Biden's "blank check" strategy to bring peace.
Student loan forgivenessUsing a trio of authorities through the Department of Education on Jan. 13 to forgive $4.23 billion in federally owned student debt for people with disabilities, those who were allegedly defrauded by schools and public-service workers — bringing to $183.6 billion the value of loans he's sought to transfer to taxpayers through a piecemeal initiative after the Supreme Court struck down an earlier plan.
Trump's team reportedly has considered ways to roll back at least some of the relief — with Republicans arguing the write-off is an unfair transfer of resources to the college-educated — though the ultimate outcome may be determined by the courts.
The Supreme Court is poised to hear a case in the coming year on nearly $20 billion in pending debt forgiveness for those allegedly swindled by educators.
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