United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

[Rocinante]

I want to give every child three nuclear missiles

 

[mrttao]

I want to give every child three nuclear missiles

Just like the founding fathers intended!

 

[DarthOne]

https://cdn.videy.co/ki2dd3MW.mp4

"Biden screws up South Korean president's name among another 2 minutes of unrecognizable speech while running away from American problems"

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I mean...we can either have Biden's nonsense ok Kamala's giggles...I'm torn.

 

[Blasterbot]

I mean...we can either have Biden's nonsense ok Kamala's giggles...I'm torn.

at this point Kamala is likely a slightly more competent but slightly more malicious actor. your call on if that is better or worse.

 

[sillygoose]

at this point Kamala is likely a slightly more competent but slightly more malicious actor. your call on if that is better or worse.

Less demented sure, but I'm not sure she's more competent.

 

[Cherico]

Less demented sure, but I'm not sure she's more competent.

A multiplication of zero is still zero.

 

[DarthOne]

Automobile 'kill switch' law to spy on and control Americans

Automobile 'kill switch' law to spy on and control Americans

President Joe Biden recently signed a law mandating (persondating?) that all new vehicles sold after 2026 must be equipped with electronic

www.americanthinker.com

By Eric Utter

President Joe Biden recently signed a law mandating (persondating?) that all new vehicles sold after 2026 must be equipped with electronic "kill switches." These switches could conceivably be used by government officials — or hackers — to seize control of one's car without permission or oversight.

Oddly enough, the law was essentially hidden inside of the administration's LGBTQ-friendly $1.2-trillion infrastructure bill that was passed late last year.

The "kill switch law" would potentially allow law enforcement to shut one's car off remotely, and also to track the car's metrics, location, and possibly even passenger load. The mandate was included under the pretext of helping to cut down on drunk driving while also preventing high-speed chases from occurring.

Such backdoor kill switches work through cars being continuously connected to wireless networks. Many, if not most, new cars (and virtually all electric cars) already come standard with wireless capability. Indeed, General Motors pioneered in-car (internet) connectivity more than a decade ago.

It is possible that the law could be challenged or repealed by a future federal government, as privacy issues with the mandate are glaring and obvious.

Former U.S. rep. Bob Barr wrote an opinion piece, published in the Daily Caller last November, in which he stated that "kill switches" are a "privacy disaster in the making" and noted that the law is "disturbingly short on details."

He added: "What we do know is that the 'safety' device must 'passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.' Everything about this mandatory measure should set off red flares."

Indeed. If and when this law is enacted, why shouldn't the federal government seek the same control over bicycles, skateboards, scooters, snowmobiles, PWCs, etc.? And what about our refrigerators? Should similar technology be mandated going forward so that they won't allow us to get more than, say, 48 ounces of beer from them in a 24-hour period? Should they only allow us to open refrigerators a certain number of times per day for each person residing in our households...in order to prevent obesity? Etc., etc. Where does this end?

It ends in a society indistinguishable from those in a dystopian novel such as Darkness at Noon and 1984.

And this Brave New World will contain only feckless, craven robot-people, afraid of freedom, effectively remote-controlled by their government masters.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Automobile 'kill switch' law to spy on and control Americans

Automobile 'kill switch' law to spy on and control Americans

President Joe Biden recently signed a law mandating (persondating?) that all new vehicles sold after 2026 must be equipped with electronic

www.americanthinker.com

I suspect this will make old-timer cars even more popular than they already are. Also, there's gonna be mechanics with "extra" service at every corner in demorat-ruled shitholes. You just know that the gangs will either import cars or juryrig them.

 

[Cherico]

this control freak bullshit is getting real old also you have just put in a massive security risk into every new car in america that can be exploited by any hacker so its fucking stupid on that front too.

 

[Rocinante]

Less demented sure, but I'm not sure she's more competent.

a wet dish towel is more competent than Biden. It's a really low bar. Just by having a somewhat functional brain, she's more competent than Biden.

But again. Low bar. There's more brain activity in your average house plant.

 

[sillygoose]

a wet dish towel is more competent than Biden. It's a really low bar. Just by having a somewhat functional brain, she's more competent than Biden.

But again. Low bar. There's more brain activity in your average house plant.

Functional brain? Have you heard her give a speech?

 

[Bacle]

Functional brain? Have you heard her give a speech?

Look, underestimating Kamala is a mistake.

She's like Natassi Daala, really.

Sure she was a joke of an Imperial Admiral to start, but she ended up head of the New Republic.

 

[Rocinante]

Functional brain? Have you heard her give a speech?

Like I said, low bar. She's 10x more functional than president house plant, who is literally not all there anymore.

 

[Typhonis]

this control freak bullshit is getting real old also you have just put in a massive security risk into every new car in america that can be exploited by any hacker so its fucking stupid on that front too.

Hmmm I wonder if that law can be struck down given the security risk it offers? Because all it takes is someone hacking government vehicles and well...

 

[DarthOne]

Hmmm I wonder if that law can be struck down given the security risk it offers? Because all it takes is someone hacking government vehicles and well...

Maybe, or maybe they'll just mandate that the government vehicles have better security than what we plebs get. Or that they'll just get excluded from the kill switch.

I suspect this will make old-timer cars even more popular than they already are. Also, there's gonna be mechanics with "extra" service at every corner in demorat-ruled shitholes. You just know that the gangs will either import cars or juryrig them.

Assuming that the Federal government doesn't make buying or keeping older cars wrapped up behind so much red tape that it's even possible.

 

[DarthOne]

18 Senators Call to Defund Biden Disinformation Board

18 Senators Call to Defund Biden Disinformation Board

townhall.com

Before the Biden administration put a pause on its Disinformation Governance Board, 18 Republican senators called to defund it.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) was joined by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and 16 other Republican colleagues in a joint letter expressing their opposition of the anti-free speech board to the Department of Homeland Security.

They urged that any funding for the board is to be prohibited in the FY 2023 appropriations bill.

“The federal government should never be in the business of regulating speech or being the arbiter of truth,” adding “This is the latest attempt to engage in that slippery slope should be defunded.”

The lawmakers expressed their concern that the disinformation board puts American’s First Amendment rights at risk, saying “A fine line exists between tackling disinformation and government censorship.”

The senators doubted the board’s promise to “protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties,” while criticizing the lack of transparency of the board.

“The board currently lacks any guiding policy, mission statement, or charter,” adding “they also said that the board existed for several months “without having one documented meeting.”

The senators include: Sens. Johnson and Rob Portman were joined on the letter by Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), John Kennedy (R-La.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah).

ONLY 18?!? Oh Lord, we're in more trouble than I thought....

 

[DarthOne]

Two women fight over the last of the baby formula on the shelves at a Target in Massachusetts.

 

[DarthOne]

5th Circuit Slaps Down Joe Biden's SEC, Liberals Promptly Lose Their Minds

5th Circuit Slaps Down Joe Biden's SEC, Liberals Promptly Lose Their Minds

redstate.com

“Everything I don’t like is a threat to democracy” has become the new slogan of the Democrat Party, and it was put on display again this week after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals slapped down Joe Biden’s SEC.

In a ruling that restored constitutional protections and left Democrats screaming bloody murder, the court found that the SEC does not have the power to internally decide to seize assets from those they feel have committed a crime.

John P. Collins
@prof_jpc

This seems like a pretty consequential decision https://ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-61007-CV0.pdf…

Some might be asking how the SEC ever gained such power in the first place, where an internal, administrative judge can unilaterally steal people’s property. After all, doesn’t the Seventh Amendment guarantee the right to a jury trial? The legislature that delegated such power is mostly to blame, and the SEC has taken that raw power to extremes over the years.

Yet, what strikes me the most is the reaction to this ruling. Here are a few examples of the meltdown that occurred in one Twitter exchange.

Don Moynihan
@donmoyn

This is truly radical stuff that will meaningfully affect people’s ability to collectively act to protect their economic security and will get a fraction of the attention as the woke libs narrative. How do we respond to extremism when most people can’t see it?

Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
· May 18
The 5th Circuit just dismantled the SEC's power to enforce securities law. This decision is beyond radical. It is nihilistic. twitter.com/prof_jpc/statu…

For context, a professor at Georgetown University is quote-tweeting a supposed legal expert, decrying how radical it is that a court told an administrative agency they can’t violate the rights of individual citizens. You almost have to admire the guy’s word salad of describing it as violating the “people’s ability to collectively act to protect their economic security.” It would have been easier for him to say he supports an all-powerful, completely unconstitutional administrative state–because that’s exactly what he supports.

And that’s the bigger story here. The Democrat Party does not care one iota about individual rights. They see government as a bludgeon to be used in whatever way they please. If that means violating the Fourth and Seventh Amendments, then they are perfectly fine with that–as long as it serves their end goal. That’s not just true at the SEC. It’s true in every single bloated, inefficient government bureaucracy.

What the 5th Circuit did here is so important because it lays the groundwork for the Supreme Court to fully gut the administrative state and return the power to the people. If Congress wants to do something, they should be made to pass laws, not rely on unelected bureaucrats to do their bidding with no accountability. Never mind the massive taxpayer-funded financial expenditure that is represented. The consternation over a court deciding that people do indeed have rights is astonishing to witness.

 

[Cherico]

People have a right to a trial and I am fucking tired and fed up with all of this bullshit.