Anonymous asked:
I'm afraid our hopes are a little too high for the Biden presidency. I mean, in no way it'll be like Trump's but I still feel like we should be cautious. Politics traumatized me like no other.
ghost-of-bobby answered:
First of all: let people enjoy things before spreading anxiety. We’ve all had anxiety for 4 years.
After that:
Nothing will ever be perfect. But already: the white house site has a spanish copy, as well as spanish socials; the website now asks your pronoun preferences. The inauguration itself was racially diverse and even focused an openly bisexual singer singing the anthem. Our LGBTQ provisions are going to be restored post-haste.
His first day he’s signing an order to lift the muslim ban and begin reuniting families divided at the border – which a campaign is gonna drop for tomorrow EE-adjacent btw. I’ll drop a public message about that later tonight.
He’s already been realistic about a 100 day goal to have about half the US vaccinated, he’s installing competent people. He’s got covid relief high on the agenda. The dems are buzzing about getting HR1 put through to avoid most of these nightmares moving forward.
The first few weeks people won’t see much motion. There’s gonna be an impeachment running alongside confirmations some republicans like hawley are being belligerent about. After that, expect a lot of shit to be passed through senate post-haste: gun control, for example, has been rotting on mcconnell’s desk for years, the wage gap bill, all kinds of shit is going to start flying out the door from senate because we flipped that too. 395 bills, just waiting to get moved through. Or replaced by updated ones.
There’s actually very good reason to be excited. Just don’t expect literally everything you want to be addressed, but know things are about to start getting better. And maybe not perfectly, because the senate majority is still *slim*, but that’s all the more reason for you to get excited for midterms *right now* and start figuring out how to help democrats win bigger majorities in both the house and senate in 2 years.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
We have work to do.
And we can be excited for 1 day damnit.
Senate has gaveled in. Ossoff and Warnock will be sworn in. Schumer becomes Majority Leader tonight. Give him and Pelosi in the House bigger majorities in two years. A lot of things will need 60/40. They’re already at work. Heads up, chins up, but keep fighting. It’s not over until we have supermajorities in everything. HR1 is the first step to that if we can get it through NOW.
CDC already reviewing their outlines.
