# Your advice to Biden? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013 "2021-01-20T19:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/21 "2021-01-22T03:25:47Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Yep, go big. DELIVER! Then you’ll see the tides turn. > [@elbows](#): > > Please be daring and forward and audacious! If not now, WHEN? > [@MustangSal](#): > > Ignore the calls for bold action, Trump listened to calls for bold action. It didn’t work out. Listen to everybody. But don’t try to please everybody. That’s impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/22 "2021-01-22T17:20:16Z")
> [@Lantern2](#): > > Make Covid vaccination your no1,2 and 3 priorities. Tens of thousands of lives are at stake. The medical tools are ready, all that is needed is money, organization and energy and a new Federal administration is ideally suited to provide all three in the first 100 days during its honeymoon period. Early signs don’t look promising. Biden says he wants 100 million vaccinations in 100 days. They should aim for two or three times that number and massively invest in the health facilities needed to make that happen. For context NYC vaccinated 5 million people against smallpox in two weeks in 1947. ^This. Not only is it urgently needed in its own right, but executing this massive effort and getting the virus under control will: - Be a huge boost to every sector of the economy - Demonstrate that only the federal government truly has the reach and the muscle to execute a job this big - Empirically prove what a collossal fuck-up Trump was ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/23 "2021-01-22T17:42:06Z")
My advice: - **Prioritize effectiveness over bipartisanship** : Offer bipartisanship as a gift where the opportunity presents itself (especially where it might help a moderate senator or congressman who doesn’t cause too many headaches bring home some bacon to his/her constituents) but being bipartisan shouldn’t be a top priority. - In that vein, **don’t be afraid to ditch the filibuster**. The Senate is broken, and Mitch McConnell broke it. I am personally concerned at the increasing degree to which presidents have come to rely on executive orders, but that is a symptom of legislative obstruction. Biden must take opportunities where they exist. - **Tune out the noise**. Don’t get sucked into biting back at critics; just put your head down and get work done. Take some lessons from former California governor Jerry Brown, who took over California with a Dem legislature after polarizing Republican politics had devastated California. He governed from the center left, often angering some progressive Dems, but it was the right move. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/24 "2021-01-24T03:47:04Z")
- Consider Republicans to be your enemies, because that’s how they view you. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/25 "2021-01-24T14:01:34Z")
Begin the process for a peaceful dissolution of the US, akin to the split up of Czechoslovakia. If red states try to secede, let them, try to get them to take their share of the national debt. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/26 "2021-01-24T14:09:07Z")
If McConnell begins obstructing everything, Biden needs to do everything in his power to go around him, run over him, whatever it takes that’s within the law. If his appointments begin getting blocked, ask Schumer to force a floor vote. Do this for all appointments, cabinet members, judges, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/27 "2021-01-24T14:18:05Z")
On McConnell, he and his wife’s corruption is kind of an open secret. He uses his position to funnel lots of federal contracts to Kentucky donors. I would investigate the shit out of him or use the threat of investigation to get him to comply with my agenda. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/28 "2021-01-24T20:53:21Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Immediately sign an executive order making marijuana and psychedelics fully legal, full stop, everywhere. So you’re for Presidents overruling laws by presidential fiat. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-advice-to-biden/931013/29 "2021-01-24T20:59:38Z")
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