January 23, 2021: Epitaph for the Trump Presidency

 

1/23/21: President Biden and the new First Lady will reportedly share a bedroom in the White House. 

Rejected-President Trump and the former First Lady did not. This may explain why the last president was always so cranky.

President Biden and the First Lady.

 

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“So it’s just one of those things that is chilling when you see it happen.” 

Dr. Anthony Fauci

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Say what you want, regarding your preference in presidents. But you cannot logically say, “All politicians are alike.” 

If nothing else, some are left-handed. Hahahahahahahaha, this left-handed blogger amuses himself. 

(Obama was left-handed.)

 

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WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN several significant changes with Mr. Biden taking over for Reject Don. U.S. policy in regard to refugees will be reformed. In the last year of the Obama presidency, 100,000 individuals qualified for admittance to this country under refugee status. The Trump administration slashed that to 15,000 by 2020. People who might qualify under the Biden administration: 

Reporters who have criticized Putin or Chinese communist leadership. 

Kurds facing attack in Syria (after Trump deserted them, despite the fact they played a vital role in defeating ISIS). 

Afghans who aided U.S. forces in the fight against the Taliban.

 

In other moves, of which this blogger approves: the Biden administration will restore ties with the Palestinians. This blogger is sympathetic to both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian debates. 

It also seems wise, that Mr. Biden has already talked with Mr. Putin. They have agreed to extend the New Start Treaty, which would have expired on February 5, had Trump gained a second term. That treaty limits both sides to 1,550 nuclear warheads, which should be enough, if war ever erupts, to wipe out an impressive percentage of humanity. 

Biden has also announced that the federal government will award no more contracts to for-profit prisons. Their safety record is abominable.

 

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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI makes it clear that he expects the Biden administration to handle the threat of COVID-19 differently. He’s clearly relieved. Appearing on Rachel Maddow’s show, on MSNBC, he’s blunt but polite. Under Trump, he explains, you had “a situation where science was distorted and/or rejected.”

 

He explained further:

 

I didn’t want to be at odds with the president because I have a lot of respect for the office of the presidency, but there was conflict at different levels with different people and different organizations and a lot of pressure being put on to do things that just are not compatible with the science.

 

…It’s a real aberrancy. This is my seventh administration, Rachel, and I’ve been advising administrations and presidents on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, people with different ideologies, and even with differences in ideology, there never was this real affront on science. So it really was an aberrancy that I haven’t seen in almost 40 years that I’ve been doing this. So it’s just one of those things that is chilling when you see it happen.

 

That might be the epitaph for the Trump presidency.