Murmuring a small good riddance.
Like MAGA...which now and forever stands for
"My Ass Got Arrested..."
and those poor Q people, and Proud Boys...er Bois...er whatever, who were waiting yesterday during the swearing in.
"Wait for it...it is coming...he has a plan...you'll see...wait for it..."
"Hey...we've been duped...conned...nothing happened...and he didn't pardon any of us for Jan. 6th, either..."
Yeah.
The Tiger King is feeling pretty disillusioned, too.
And this guy...
Who said he was expecting thousands of supporters to show up at the Capitol in NYC...then found himself alone.
SAD.
Although, yesterday was the official
Breaking of a New Day
at noon...in our nation's Capitol...
This...the night before...was when I cried.
A Memorial to the 400,000+ Americans who have died from Covid. But so much more. The feeling that decency and decorum were returning to the White House. That the ADULTS were back and it was going to be okay.
It was going to be okay.
I watched the inauguration yesterday with the same lump in my throat and proud of my country.
And a loving family surrounding the newly inaugurated President...a true outpouring of genuine love not seen here in 4 years...
And our new President Biden...amidst a day of pomp and circumstance make time to sign 17 Executive Orders...
- An executive order requiring that people wear masks, and keep their distance from each other, on federal property.
- The launch of a “100 Days Masking Challenge” to encourage Americans to wear masks.
- The reversal of Trump’s decision to remove the US from the World Health Organization.
- An executive order that creates the position of Covid-19 response coordinator and restores the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, a team in charge of pandemic response, within the National Security Council.
- Calls to Congress to extend Covid-19 aid, and requests to various departments to extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums and pause payments for federal loans.
- An “instrument” that will allow the US to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate change within 30 days.
- An executive order reversing actions Trump took that Biden’s agencies judge to have been harmful to the environment, public health, or the national interest, and asking agencies to revise these standards to tackle climate change.
- An executive order with the aim of “embedding equity across federal policymaking and rooting out systemic racism and other barriers to opportunity from federal programs and institutions.” This order will also disband the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission.
- An executive order reversing a Trump administration order that excluded undocumented immigrants from the Census.
- A memorandum directing officials to “preserve and fortify” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
- An executive action repealing two proclamations, informally known as the “Muslim ban.” that restricted entry into the US from majority-Muslim countries.
- An executive order revoking Trump’s “harsh and extreme immigration enforcement” and directing agencies to set immigration policies more “in line” with the Biden administration’s “values and priorities.”
- A proclamation that will pause the construction of the border wall with Mexico and determine how to best divert those funds elsewhere.
- A memorandum to extend a designation allowing Liberians who have been in the US for a long time to stay.
- An executive order directing the government to interpret the Civil Rights Act as prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, not just race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
- An executive order enacting new ethics rules for government officials.
- An executive order reversing “regulatory process executive orders” enacted by the Trump administration.
Pretty impressive for someone who hasn't even passed a full day as
President.
This morning he would wake and begin again by passing 10
EO's specific to getting us up and running...fighting Covid.
I watched last night and listened to a new press secretary...and the first briefing...and no lies.
It was wonderful.
I know as the 4 years go on..I will not always agree with what he says or does.
But, I will always know that what he is doing is in the best interest of this Nation.
And that will be enough for me.
We are going to be okay....
