United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

[Jormungandr]

So, not exactly Biden but still Democrat related...

Uh, every Democrat staff member has quit in Nevada.

The reason? Socialists won every seat. Socialists.

 

[Cherico]

So, not exactly Biden but still Democrat related...

Uh, every Democrat staff member has quit in Nevada.

The reason? Socialists won every seat. Socialists.

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wow knowing Nevadans that garentees a red wave.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

So, not exactly Biden but still Democrat related...

Uh, every Democrat staff member has quit in Nevada.

The reason? Socialists won every seat. Socialists.

Just to clarify: that's the Nevada Democratic Party staff, which is all of like, six people, after a socialist coalition won all five internal party leadership positions. It's not the actual Democratic legislators in Nevada.

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wow knowing Nevadans that garentees a red wave.

The current split in the Nevada state legislature is 12-9 Democratic majority in the senate, 26-16 Democratic majority in the assembly. This is a socialist sweep of the *party* leadership, not the legislature.

 

[Cherico]

Just to clarify: that's the Nevada Democratic Party staff, which is all of like, six people, after a socialist coalition won all five internal party leadership positions. It's not the actual Democratic legislators in Nevada.



The current split in the Nevada state legislature is 12-9 Democratic majority in the senate, 26-16 Democratic majority in the assembly. This is a socialist sweep of the *party* leadership, not the legislature.

Yes and that sweep makes way for the loss of the legislature.

Getting rid of your most qualified people is not a good idea.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Yes and that sweep makes way for the loss of the legislature.

Getting rid of your most qualified people is not a good idea.

How qualified they are or aren't is. . . debatable. The departing staff is pretty much entirely Harry Reid's people, and now that he's retired . . . obviously their actual skills haven't changed, but so much of party leadership is networking, and their networks are *old*.

 

[strunkenwhite]

wow knowing Nevadans that g[uara]ntees a red wave.

One way or another

 

[Husky_Khan]

Some extra details on the January 25th Executive Order titled: “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform"

Tucked inside Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” is a clause that repeals an Obama-era policy that prohibited federally funded reassignment surgery. This was followed up by memos from both Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough specifically stating that surgery is now an added benefit.

“This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members,” Austin wrote.

In a VA email to employees, McDonough echoed: “Perform an assessment of the necessary steps to eliminate the exclusion of ‘gender alteration’ (gender affirmation surgery) in the medical benefits package.”

Transgender surgery is now free for military, thanks to Biden executive order

Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

[Zachowon]

So...
Medically necessary.
Alroght not that bad.
They still can't be on antidepressants

 

[LindyAF]

So...
Medically necessary.
Alroght not that bad.
They still can't be on antidepressants

"All medically-necessary" is just the spin way of saying "any and all." None of it is actually medically necessary, so there is no line to draw a distinction here.

 

[Zachowon]

"All medically-necessary" is just the spin way of saying "any and all." None of it is actually medically necessary, so there is no line to draw a distinction here.

Well, Anti depressants are common in the Transition afaik, and that is literally not been allowed for a long time, as you cant be on them and do anything in the military without having strict rulings.

 

[LindyAF]

Well, Anti depressants are common in the Transition afaik, and that is literally not been allowed for a long time, as you cant be on them and do anything in the military without having strict rulings.

Yeah, okay, they the GAE military is now going to be paying to give some of its soldiers fake manboobs or an (infection prone) wound they'll be keeping open forever, but they're going to draw the line at antidepressants.

 

[Zachowon]

Yeah, okay, they our military is now going to be paying to give some of its soldiers fake manboobs or an (infection prone) wound they'll be keeping open forever, but they're going to draw the line at antidepressants.

They have drawn the line at Qnri depressants.
It means a lot of what Trans people need, count as Antidepressents...

 

[LindyAF]

They have drawn the line at Qnri depressants.
It means a lot of what Trans people need, count as Antidepressents...

Per the article, they were already paying for hormones and surgeries even when the President was trying to ban them from the military.
Like, okay, they might not be paying for antidepressants (yet) but what's the point of this cope?

 

[LindyAF]

lmao @ that article and literally everyone in it

some treatments costing upward of $200,000

Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,”

“Perform an assessment of the necessary steps to eliminate the exclusion of ‘gender alteration’ (gender affirmation surgery) in the medical benefits package.”

Online charts by the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery show a plethora of elective surgeries for both men and women that add up to $100,000-$200,000. Although Biden stated in his order that the cost of treating transgender troops would have minimal impact on healthcare costs, that is not borne out by a 2019 USA Today investigation. The news analysis revealed that the Pentagon spent $8 million to treat just 1,500 transgender military officials, which included hormone treatments and some surgeries.

A federal study revealed that more than 15,000 service members and 134,000 veterans identify as transgender.

Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, is an Afghanistan veteran and sits on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. He supports transgender individuals serving in the military and said he served with people with diverse backgrounds. But he disputes that the public should pay for surgical intervention.

“I’m compassionate toward those individuals who want to undergo an elective surgery of this nature,"

"I sit on the committee that should debate these issues.”

“By 2019, the Defense Department announced that it had redirected funds from salaries, equipment, and trainings for 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 hormone prescriptions, and a whopping 161 surgeries (ranging from hysterectomies and breast augmentation to 'male reproductive' construction),”

currently reads like anyone in a war zone can suddenly take leave to undergo reassignment surgery

mentally ill gay retard military of MIGR empire run by MIGRs with MIGR "loyal opposition"

 

[Zachowon]

Per the article, they were already paying for hormones and surgeries even when the President was trying to ban them from the military.
Like, okay, they might not be paying for antidepressants (yet) but what's the point of this cope?

Basically, they will be doing very little, and not changing much in the current military, as the Anti depressants rule, as well as they will be going to behavioral health more then anyone else

lmao @ that article and literally everyone in it












mentally ill gay retard military of MIGR empire run by MIGRs with MIGR "loyal opposition"

You obviously have never been in the military.
Because unless they are actively on hormones and going through the rise and fall of emotions and physical issues, you dont really notice.
Nothing is going to change in the military.
They won't make a loyal military, because out of a million something f soldier, 15k which is a VERY high estimate and most likely very few are important jobs, is still miniscule amount.
They will also never stay in very long.

But hey, what do I know. I'm just an intel guy in the Army.

 

[LindyAF]

Basically, they will be doing very little, and not changing much in the current military, as the Anti depressants rule, as well as they will be going to behavioral health more then anyone else

Yeeah, that's why they're going to be including "gender affirmation surgery" in the medical benefits package. Do you know what that means? That's the newspeak term for some mental case paying to have their bits loped off and replaced with a cyst.

You obviously have never been in the military.

Yeah, I sure as shit haven't. Why would I want to help kill some group of stupid weird desert people on the other side of the planet on behalf of another group of stupid weird desert people on the other side of the planet? Our people's enemies are already here.

But hey, what do I know. I'm just an intel guy in the Army.

See, that's the issue. I think you're absurdly loyal to an idealization of the institution you're in, because you've got to believe in what you do, when it's at best half-dead and has been hijacked by the same cancer as most other institutions have been. I agree with you that this is not some impending massive shift, that 15k people is a small fraction of the military and, even scaling that 8 mil up to that number, 80 million would be a small fraction of the military budget. But you can't paint something with shit and not expect rot to set in eventually. And the little things add up, this is not the first and it won't be the last.

And lastly, they don't really need any sort of large shift- The military marched kids into school at bayonet point on the orders of the government back in the 60s. It's already loyal. Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of based enlisted and low-level officers, but everything that requires congressional approval and above can be assumed totally rotted.

 

[Zachowon]

Yeeah, that's why they're going to be including "gender affirmation surgery" in the medical benefits package. Do you know what that means? That's the newspeak term for some mental case paying to have their bits loped off and replaced with a cyst.



Yeah, I sure as shit haven't. Why would I want to help kill some group of stupid weird desert people on the other side of the planet on behalf of another group of stupid weird desert people on the other side of the planet? Our people's enemies are already here.



See, that's the issue. I think you're absurdly loyal to an idealization of the institution you're in, because you've got to believe in what you do, when it's at best half-dead and has been hijacked by the same cancer as most other institutions have been. I agree with you that this is not some impending massive shift, that 15k people is a small fraction of the military and, even scaling that 8 mil up to that number, 80 million would be a small fraction of the military budget. But you can't paint something with shit and not expect rot to set in eventually. And the little things add up, this is not the first and it won't be the last.

And lastly, they don't really need any sort of large shift- The military marched kids into school at bayonet point on the orders of the government back in the 60s. It's already loyal. Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of based enlisted and low-level officers, but everything that requires congressional approval and above can be assumed totally rotted.

And everyone lower level can tell someone to fuck off because they are legally allowed to. Especially if we deem the order unconstitutional. Of course you wouldn't know that.

 

[Wargamer08]

And everyone lower level can tell someone to fuck off because they are legally allowed to. Especially if we deem the order unconstitutional. Of course you wouldn't know that.

A much, much, much less popular war with an Asian country was fought almost to its conclusion despite heavy unwillingness from draftees. I’m very sceptical of any sort of mass revolt from the slowly boiling frog of western militaries. All of them have continually accepted massive social engineering efforts to the detriment of their effectiveness.

By no means am I just calling out the US military on this. Western powers in general have been playing silly political games with their armed forces to little pushback. I hardly expect one more indignity to be the point of rebellion.

 

[LindyAF]

And everyone lower level can tell someone to fuck off because they are legally allowed to. Especially if we deem the order unconstitutional. Of course you wouldn't know that.

You already mentioned it earlier, actually, but it's not like the military having a rule that says "you can actually disobey order but only if they tell you to do something bad" is that hard to guess. It's not going to matter. That sort of rule would matter if it's an order that guy giving it wouldn't want to guys 2,3, or 4 steps up to know about. It means an officer can't order a subordinate to strip or game end. If you think an order is unconstitutional, but your commanding officer doesn't, and his doesn't, etc. all the way up to the top- how do you think the JAG court is going to rule?

As I mentioned earlier- the military marched White teenagers into school at bayonet point in the name of fighting racism and because the government told them to. You think the Army's gotten less pozzed since then? If that military didn't tell them to fuck off then, why should we think the military as it is today would tell anyone to fuck off now?

If that gripe isn't to your taste (in which case, weak), as Wargamer points out, the global American empire has waged unpopular wars. It's also waged wars based on lies, and unpopular wars based on lies. What it hasn't done in the last 70 years is fought a declared war. How many lower level guys told anyone to fuck off? If they did, how'd that go for them?

 

[Zachowon]

A much, much, much less popular war with an Asian country was fought almost to its conclusion despite heavy unwillingness from draftees. I’m very sceptical of any sort of mass revolt from the slowly boiling frog of western militaries. All of them have continually accepted massive social engineering efforts to the detriment of their effectiveness.

By no means am I just calling out the US military on this. Western powers in general have been playing silly political games with their armed forces to little pushback. I hardly expect one more indignity to be the point of rebellion.

The diffrence being, today's military is only voluntary, so a lot diffrent attitude then draftees.

Look, I am going off experience. Sorry if yqll doubt