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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.
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.
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Amen.
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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.
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James Buchannan says that the integrity of modern politicians is just awful. Caligula agrees.
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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”.
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