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Escort Biden out of the Building, Now!

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Could security just escort Biden and his Administration out of the workplace buildings already? Please, right now. Not a moment to waste. Ideally, it would’ve occurred some time ago. In the corporate world, when a person is fired (especially unceremoniously), it is not uncommon for the sacked to immediately be forced to clean out his desk under supervision, turn in his company badge and computer, have his passwords disabled, and then walked out the front door with an escort. This practice is rather unpleasant, but there is a reason for it.
Big company HR departments even plan their sackings ahead of time to try and mitigate any action an employee might do to harm the company. The process can be a bit dehumanizing or humiliating to many good people, but it is a practice instituted to guard against the malicious in order to protect the company. The company is trying to prevent a case of a vengeful ex-employee sabotaging the company or doing something inappropriate on the way out.
Seeing the behavior of the Biden Administration since the re-election of Trump has convinced me we should institute something like this corporate practice into politics. Instead of protection of a corporation, though, the intention would be to protect the country. Biden has been raking up dubious actions post-Nov. election.
The Peaceful Transfer of Power Yacking
I’ve heard it excessively talked about in the USA: “Our unique peaceful transfer of power.” Well, first, it’s not true. Other countries with election systems peacefully transfer power frequently. In fact, many of those countries transfer that power in a timelier manner and probably have fewer shenanigans during that transfer period. It takes the USA nearly three months, from November until late January. In that time the outgoing administration can do a lot to dump all over the priorities and undermine the incoming administration. Biden’s administration might have set the gold standard in this, although the Obama administration did a great job helping to set up the Muller investigation with the Russian collusion situation, which successfully handicapped Trump’s first term. There are much more effective ways of undermining your opponent than throwing a derailed J6 speech in DC.
Under this system, there is now ample opportunity for political arson by the outgoing administration of the incoming administration. Or at least this system seems to favor the DNC over the GOP during these transition periods. It’s time for institutional reform.
Reform the Presidential Transition Period
This elongated transfer of power might have made sense in the horse and buggy days of travel and before the giant Administrative State, but it’s a new age. I think being straight-jacketed by this old procedure is now much more of a negative than a positive. There is a 1963 law that is linked above, so this establishes the precedent for further legal changes. Serious proposals should be made. Obviously, abbreviating the transition time is priority number one. Perhaps a pause period could be instituted to forestall any significant initiatives like banning oil & gas E&P, putting 12-month stays on illegal immigrant deportations, the mass easing of criminal sentencing, etc. It may be necessary to create the need for an incoming representative to co-sign important actions before those actions take effect. There’s brainstorming that could be done on the reforms.
One might say already that the incoming president can undo what their predecessor did in the post-election lame-duck period. However, it does not appear to be so simple. Legalities get in the way, and it ties up new voted-in policies with lawfare (which the Left is great at). Even if Trump can immediately overturn a Biden lame-duck action, you will have a barrage of third-party lawsuits being filed with ally judges to make legal decisions against the Trump Administration or any future Republican administration. Even if the Left ultimately loses certain battles, it is still effective because it ties up your opponent delaying his agenda. There is bureaucratic inertia too. Also, there are probably all sorts of other underhanded tricks I’m not aware of.

Biden’s “Battle for the Soul of the Nation” Speech, 2022. Wikimedia Commons
With how much the Biden team despises the Trump team, the Trumpers might want to take a bomb-sniffing dog with a clean-sweep security team checking for boobytraps and leftover cocaine bags before moving into the workplace (only joking here).
Sharing ideas about the power transition or already existing proposals is welcome.
Custom Song for a President Biden Departure
Everyone knows that “Hail to the Chief” is the standard music written for the US president. Particularly used when the president enters the room. When ol’ Joe Biden wasn’t up for a function and Jill filled in for him, she apparently had a custom song made for her. Well, in that custom spirit, perhaps there could be a custom song for our dear leader Joe Biden’s departure—”No Joke,” as Biden tends to say. It could start out as something like this…
Whacha say, Ray?…
Hit the road Joe and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Joe and don’t you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Joe and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Joe and don’t you come back no more
We can fill in the rest of the modified lyrics from there.
Published in General
Amen.
I think you are seeking an institutional solution to a failure of character in the elected individuals in charge. the solution will always be to elect better individuals.
James Buchannan says that the integrity of modern politicians is just awful. Caligula agrees.
Nero thinks Newscum is an up and comer.
The whole point of our system is to protect against the fact that the nature of government is such that the people who get elected won’t always be “better individuals”.
Practically, how are you going to shorten the transition period? There are thousands of appointments that need to be made and multitudes of agency transition teams that need to come up to speed. Trump has had the best transition in decades, but he had four years to prepare. We can’t expect that to happen every time.
The best way to improve the transition period would be to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. If there were fewer political appointees to recruit and confirm, it could happen faster. If the government had only its constitutional responsibilities, there would be less riding on the policies leading up to and during the transition. So many problems would be solved or mitigated with a smaller federal government.
We need a “Lame Duck” amendment to the Constitution.
1: The Power to grant Pardons and Commutations shall not be exercised during the period from one month before the day of the Presidential election until the beginning of the next term.
2: No Executive orders shall be issued by the President nor shall any executive agency issue any regulations in the period between the Election and the Inauguration.
3: The outgoing Congress shall not meet nor conduct any business between the election and the beginning of the next Congress. In the event of a national emergency requiring Congressional action, the new Congress shall take office immediately.
No joke.
Indeed. Maybe Trump should keep living outside the White House for a while. Nobody seemed to care much about finding cocaine in the FJB White House, but if any happened to turn up while Trump is in office, I expect it would be “deemed” to be his responsibility, no matter what.
I’ve been thinking something along these lines, also. As Steve mentioned, if the size and scope of government wasn’t so vast, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Regardless of scope of government, we still need the restriction on the Pardon power.
Maybe it would be a good “fine-tuning” to restrict the Pardon power if the President-Elect is of a different party? I realize the Founding Fathers didn’t really put the parties in the Constitution, but it’s recognized in terms of replacing House and Senate members, at the state level anyway.
A certain amount of chaos and self-dealing is inevitable when dealing with humans. The real options are to keep the pardon power or try to repeal by Constitutional amendment, you are playing with the president. They already color outside the lines too often. Obama and Biden are all, “lines? what lines? I’m in charge!” It amazed me how compliant to the judiciary Trump has been, especially in his first administration.
My proposal to limit it from a month prior to the election until after the next inauguration is to ensure political accountability for any pardons or commutations.
If the president is going to pardon his son, make sure he does it when the voters can take it into account, even if the incumbent president isn’t on the ballot.
Yeah, that’s fair.
I’m not sure it’s worth doing, but I wouldn’t be against it.
This might be tougher. What if there is some emergency situation that calls for an EO? How about having all EOs that are issued after election day expire on inauguration day?
Or maybe make any actions temporary until the new Congress convenes. On the other hand, maybe you’ve talked me into it. If we could arrange to have an emergency on the day after election day, maybe California wouldn’t take so long to “count” its votes.
I like the essence of Miffed White Male’s proposal. There’s a good base to work from. However, I’ve come to realize from Reticulator’s comments that Election Reform is required to go along with the lame duck abuse mitigation proposals for a more comprehensive system. There needs to be a deadline for states and localities to get the official results in, in order to expedient the transfer of power. So additional law must be required. Unless there’s another way more clever way to bend incentives.
Fair points. I didn’t say there wouldn’t be challenges. But that’s why these things require discussion to see the pros and cons of things. Plus as you point out the large volume of work to be processed.
Having a short transition time results in less time for the outgoing group to do mischief, yet leaves the incoming group less time to prepare. In addition, there is less time for the Congress to advise and consent.
I’ll add more items to proposals when I have time, but I’ll say right now that whatever time it takes now should be cut in half at least. Aim for inauguration day more like the third Friday of December. Everyone goes home for the Christmas break and then the New Year starts with a new administration. Efficiencies and stream lining procedures will need to be implemented. There will need to be added urgency in hustling things along. Some might complain about the added work pace, but oh well. Plus some of the hearings for sure can be abbreviated.
Run these government meetings more like business meetings with more prep done ahead of time. Also, be more focused in discussion. For example: The chair of the Hegseth proceedings didn’t even know or have on hand the qualifications of the SecDef position when asked. How does a Senate committee not even have the basics covered? Qualifications, Scope of Work, Job description, Resume. Geez, this is basic stuff in the private sector. Senator Warren apparently thought Hegseth had been a General too when she attempted a “gotcha moment”, instead she was laughed at by the room. I would leave off committee members from participating if he or she didn’t have their materials prepped and reviewed prior to a deadline. Late? too bad.
I’m warming to the idea, especially now that there is pressure on Biden to pardon Charles Littlejohn.
I hope there is enough debate about it in Biden’s remaining week in office so that the funding of the administrative state is never discussed without mentioning the name of Charles Littlejohn. The term DOGE should never be used in a paragraph without mentioning Charles Littlejohn. And, yes, the extent of the pardon power of the president should never be discussed without mentioning Charles Littlejohn.
The office of the Presidency is currently too powerful. Require any and all pardons and executive orders to be voted on by Congress before they take effect. If a President wants to pardon his son, fine. Let’s have some Congressional hearings to determine if there is any merit to the idea. If it’s just nepotism, let Congress say, “No, thanks.”
The main problem I see is Trump announcing his plans for various actions he plans to take when he takes office. It gave the deep state ample time to put roadblocks, landmines, and deadfalls in his path to implementing anything.
Good example of a straight up partisan political pardon that would let go a clear criminal. I kinda understand the crookedness in pardons of personal connections or some whale financial person with influence, but this example is just straight up aiding your political allies that hurt the others. Which makes you wonder if the individual illegally releasing protected personal information didn’t act alone.
Yeah, I get the sentiment of not wanting to totally show your hand. But also a candidate should be communicating to voters his actual platform. Maybe not in all the detail, but enough to inform voters correctly. Otherwise the representative government side doesn’t work well
They don’t need time for that. It’s a knee-jerk reflex.
Then why didn’t Harris make her policies and plans known to the public?
Because she’s an airhead, and did not have any policies or plans?
I watched a lot of her YouTube commercials, and they used the word plan (as a noun) a lot. I learned that she doesn’t know what a plan is.