Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President. Yay.

Biden goes on to sign seventeen executive orders. We shall go over them and then we’ll talk about what they have in common.

Finally, we can expect the hard hitting questioning of the Biden administration by the press. Tough queries like this one:

Sigh…it’s going to be a long four years.

 

Let the Disaster Begin

Let’s go over a bunch of these executive orders Biden signed on Wednesday. All the talk of unity was just thrown into the garbage heap.

Gender

The first is a sex or gender discrimination order. It states:

Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love. Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports. Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes. People should be able to access healthcare and secure a roof over their heads without being subjected to sex discrimination.  All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.

What does this mean:

• Boys can walk into girls’ restrooms.
• Biological males can compete in girls’ or women’s sports.
• People who are hired based on their gender (strippers, Hooters girls) and change their gender, they cannot be fired.

 

Who wins here: men. Well, men who think or call themselves women. Women lose.

 

Paris Climate Accord

Biden signed another order that would lead the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord. This is another disaster. Some of the problems with the accord are as follows:

•  Requires the United States to lower our CO2 standards while developing do not need to lower their standards within the length of the accord.
• Developing countries include China.
• The United States must give money to the developing countries.
• This will raise the cost of energy like gas and electricity in the United States.
• This could cost a family of four, between taxes and energy costs, an additional $20K a year.
• This will cost jobs because energy companies are going to be so regulated, layoffs will occur.

 

Heritage Foundation Senior Advisor Mike Howell, who wrote:

That will be cheered by environmental alarmists and those who envision a world with the United States subservient to international organizations as their preferred model. 

The Paris agreement was—and always has been—a sham. And it’s an expensive sham for Americans, projected to cost 400,000 jobs, an average income loss of more than $20,000 for families of four, and a $2.5 trillion hit to the nation’s gross domestic product.

Who wins here: China. They are the already the greatest CO2 polluters in the world by a lot. The United States, on the other hand, has dropped its CO2 levels in the last ten years.

Keystone XL Pipeline

• Biden also axed the Keystone XL pipeline, an energy project that was beneficial for the United States and quickly triggered negative reactions from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said that he was “disappointed.”

 

There are major issues with doing this:

• 65,000 people are working on this program. Gone.
• We achieved energy independence last year. Gone.
• Prepare for gas and energy prices to go up. $5 a gallon for gas anyone?
• Here we go, back to depending on OPEC and Russia for oil.

 

Winners: oil producers in the Middle East and Russia.

 

Patriotism Sucks

Biden also canceled the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which sought to undue damage in from propaganda like The New York Times’ flawed “1619 Project” and to promote patriotism.

Victor Davis Hanson, who was on the commission, wrote the following about it:

The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the historical challenges to these founding documents, and the need for civic renewal. The 16-member commission was diverse in the widest sense of the word. It included historians, lawyers, academics, scholars, authors, former elected officials, and former public servants.

Whether because the report was issued by a Donald Trump-appointed commission, or because the conclusions questioned the controversial and flawed New York Times-sponsored 1619 Project, the Left almost immediately criticized it.

We are going to go over this. I have read the 1619 Project, which even I know is mostly crap, but have not read the 1776 Commission Report. This is going to be a different podcast.

Welcome Terrorists!

Biden issued an executive order to end the Trump “Muslim ban”. This wasn’t actually a Muslim ban. It was a terrorist ban that included non-Muslim countries like Venezuela and North Korea.

Winners: Terrorists.

Immigration

He signed a bunch of executive orders on immigration:

• Ended the travel ban.
• Stopped construction of the border wall.
• Stopped deportations except for the most violent of criminals.
• Stopped immigration enforcement within the United States.
• Provided protections for DACA recipients.
• Allowed non-citizens to be counted in the census.

 

Winners: Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

What’s with this Guy and Masks?

CNN noted that Biden also launched a 100-day mask mandate that requires people to wear masks on federal property, which is something that Biden appeared to violate last night while at the Lincoln Memorial.

WHO

Biden also stopped the U.S. from withdrawing from the World Health Organization after the Trump administration moved to leave the WHO last year following its highly controversial handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Extensions

Biden also extended a pause on student loan payments and extended a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until at least March 31.

Ethics Pledge? Really?

CNN added that Biden also signed a Executive Order that “requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge barring them from acting in personal interest and requiring them to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice.” The order comes as Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is under federal criminal investigation over his business dealings.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-17-executive-orders-first-day-in-office-controversial-actions

 

So, What About This?

Police officers in Portland, Oregon, made eight arrests on Jan. 20 as agitators smashed windows and vandalized the offices of the state’s Democratic Party during rioting that took place just hours after the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

At least 150 people, some of whom were seen carrying the flag of the far-left, anarcho-communist group Antifa, gathered and participated in events “punctuated by violence and destruction” that began about two hours after Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

The crowd, mainly dressed in Antifa’s characteristic black, first gathered at Revolution Hall in southeast Portland, where they were met by police officers on bikes. They then marched to the Democratic Party headquarters and began smashing windows, applying graffiti, and later moving dumpsters in the street, lighting the contents of one on fire, police said in a statement.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/portland-police-arrest-8-after-agitators-smash-windows-of-democratic-party-hq_3665340.html

 

The Cancel Culture Continues

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-students-petition-for-trump-allied-graduates-to-lose-degrees