This might be pushing it........
With Biden, a Cat Will Be Living in the White House for the First Time in a Decade
We already knew President-elect Joe Biden would be taking dogs back to the White House. But that’s not all. Now comes word that Biden will be taking a cat with him as well. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, confirmed to CBS Sunday Morning that they will be getting a cat when they move into the White House. The future first lady had already hinted that she was thinking of taking a cat with her to the White House. “Well, I’d love to get a cat,” she said in an interview earlier this year. “I love having animals around the house.”
It would mark the first time a president has a cat in the White House since George W. Bush had India, who was nicknamed Willie. But his two Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, got most of the attention. India died shortly before Bush left the White House in January 2009. Bill Clinton’s Socks was by far the most popular White House feline in recent memory. Socks even got fan mail, which led to complaints from a Republican lawmaker, who questioned the use of government resources to answer the mail. He later laughed it off as a mistake and blamed a staff aide for coming up with the idea. Barack Obama had two Portuguese water dogs, Bo and Sunny while President Donald Trump is believed to be the first president since James Polk in 1849 to not have a pet in office. Only three other presidents didn’t have some sort of pet at the White House.
The Bidens had already said that Champ and Major, their two german shepherds, will be moving into the White House. He even used it as a campaign slogan: “Let’s put dogs back in the White House.” And there was a campaign called Dog Lovers for Joe with its own website and a tagline that got some traction: “Choose your humans wisely.” Major will be the first rescue dog to live in the White House.: With Biden, a cat will be living in the White House for the first time in a decade.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
And yet, has existed forever with or without the supportive millions.
Almost always unreported and attention to ignored, largely.
All of a sudden it's fashion to rise up against activities that have going on forever - domestically and foreign.
Historically commonplace derived from the white American power hold.
The standard, historically, among very white cultures and their collective world view.
Clearly, you're not capable to grasp that you [and others like you] are part of the greater problem and causes.
Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced the advisers who he hopes can guide the United States back to solid economic footing: Yellen, Tanden, Rouse: Biden Formally Unveils Economic Team : Biden Transition Updates : NPR
Neera Tanden. She is wonderful.
As I understand she enjoys twitter.https://twitter.com/neeratanden
^ Top notch people. But anything, even a monkey, would be better than the trump crime family and their associates.
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Fuck off Jeff. I'm not in America you fucking moron.
For decades these relics of slavery have slowly lost interest and support. The republicans are the ones who, since Obama took office and they took control of the purse strings, have been fueling division by blaming the economic damage wreaked by their sponsors on "immigrants".
The bald orange loser took it up several notches, to the point where white supremacist groups can march in major cities and the supposed President of the United States effectively cheers them on.
You're so busy trying to find big words to make yourself sound clever (and failing dismally, you waffling wanker) that you can't even see the fucking obvious.
No thanks.
It's me not you...I can do better.
No I want you to show proof of 70 million people cheering for the police to shoot black people but I will never see that proof will I because as usual you spew this idiotic BS and then just slip away with an insult or two. Come on Harry either back up your BS or retract it.
Marc E. Elias - Nevada Court issues order in DISMISSED election case. "Petitioner has cited no law that grants this Court the broad power to invalidate an entire county’s election."
Trump and his allies are 1-40 In post election litigation.: https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...59585230770183
23 Facts About Kamala Harris That Everyone Should Know
She was the first person of color to be elected district attorney of San Francisco.
Her mother was a doctor whose work advanced breast cancer research.
Harris is the first HBCU grad to be elected vice president.
She was born in Oakland on Oct. 20, 1964, making her the first person born after the 1950s to be elected vice president.
She is only the second Black woman to be an American senator.
Harris, when she was California attorney general–elect, refused to defend California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in the state.
She also officiated the wedding of the couple who filed to overturn Prop 8.
Harris stated that during the rollout of President Donald Trump's 2017 travel ban, colloquially referred to as the "Muslim ban," she was so frustrated by the lack of information that she called then–secretary of homeland security John Kelly at his home.
She served on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
As senator, Harris sponsored a bill that would have made lynching a hate crime.
She is both the first Black person and the first woman to become attorney general of California.
In high school, Harris's friend told her she was being molested by her stepfather. Harris told her mother, and her friend proceeded to come live with them.
She is the first Asian American person to be elected vice president.
She was president of her law school's chapter of the Black Law Students Association.
In 2013, Harris was one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. Nancy Pelosi wrote the article.
Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, will be the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president.
Harris was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
She is the first Black person to be elected vice president.
With Alaska's Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Harris introduced a bill that would prohibit companies from including sexual harassment in nondisclosure contracts with their employees.
She was the first South Asian American senator in US history.
When Harris was California attorney general, she created an LGBTQ hate crimes unit.
She is the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States.
And, as of January 2021, Harris will be the highest-ranking woman in US political history.: Kamala Harris Facts That Everyone Should Know
- Biden wins Georgia for the third time……
Election Night Reporting
- Marc E. Elias: Pennsylvania Supreme Court DENIES Congressmen Kelly's application to stay his prior losing effort to block certification of election results (including his own).
Trump and his allies are 1-41 in post-election litigation.: https://mobile.twitter.com/marceelia...65482079383565
- Marc E. Elias: Wisconsin Supreme Court DENIES Republican petition to bring an original action in the state Supreme Court challenging the certification of the 2020 election results.
Trump and his allies are now 1-42 in post election litigation.: https://mobile.twitter.com/marceelia...33220684574721
- Joe Biden asks Anthony Fauci, the federal coronavirus expert, to become his chief medical adviser: COVID: Joe Biden names Anthony Fauci chief medical adviser on pandemic
- Zients, Murthy tapped to head up Biden’s Covid-19 response
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped two close allies to oversee his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Transition co-chair and former Obama administration official Jeff Zients is set to serve as the White House’s Covid-19 coordinator and Vivek Murthy, the former U.S. surgeon general under Obama, will return to that role, but with a broader portfolio that will include acting as the top medical expert and public face of the effort.
Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, will also take a key role in the administration’s response, focused on health disparities.
Biden’s team plans to roll out these and other health care personnel announcements as soon as this weekend.
Adults: Zients, Murthy tapped to head up Biden’s Covid-19 response - POLITICO
Edit – just for fun
Popular vote
Biden – 81,029,173 votes
Loser – 74,122,605 votes
Difference – 6,906,568
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- Marc E. Elias: Minnesota Supreme Court DISMISSES Republican lawsuit seeking to delay the certification of the election.
Trump and his allies are 1-43 in post-election litigation.: https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...72437507747847
- Marc E. Elias: Nevada court DISMISSES with prejudice Trump Election Contest!
Trump and his allies are now 1-44 in post election litigation.: https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...87849133912065
- Marc Elias : Wisconsin Supreme Court DENIES application by conservative group to invalidate results of the election.
Trump and his allies have now lost 45 post election cases and won 1. : https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...99006292959232
- Marc E. Elias: Arizona Court DENIES Election Contest.
Court: "Plaintiff has not proven that the Biden/Harris ticket did not receive the highest number of votes."
Trump and his allies have now lost 46 post-election lawsuits.: https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...08491237482496
- The top candidates Biden is considering for key energy and climate roles
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has urged President-elect Joe Biden to nominate Mary Nichols, chair of California's air pollution regulator, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Bloomberg reports.
Why it matters: The reported push by Schumer could boost Nichol's chances of leading an agency that will play a pivotal role in Biden's vow to enact aggressive new climate policies — especially because the plan is likely to rest heavily on executive actions.
Where it stands: The EPA gig is just one of several important outstanding selections. The New York Times has a nice rundown of names in contention for other energy- and climate-related jobs.
Here's just a few...
- Mustafa Santiago Ali, a former EPA official, is in contention to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He's currently an exec with the National Wildlife Federation.
- Ali A. Zaidi, a top New York State energy official who also served in the Obama administration, "is widely considered the front-runner for the role of domestic climate change coordinator," the NYT reports.
- The NYT and E&E News both report that former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is a possibility for the White House climate coordinator role, while E&E also lists Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee as an option.
- Michael Connor, an alum of the Obama and Clinton administrations, is among the options for Interior Secretary, per the NYT. He's a citizen of the Taos Pueblo, and the piece notes there's strong interest in nominating a Native American to lead Interior for the first time.
- Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress, also "remains a contender" for Interior, the NYT reports.
More adults: The top candidates Biden is considering for key energy and climate roles - Axios
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A good idea (???)
Biden on what he would do if he disagrees with Kamala:
"I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign."
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/...widget%3DTweet
It is over now...
California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for President-elect Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla's formal approval of Mr. Biden's win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors to 279, according to a tally from The Associated Press. That's just over the 270 threshold for victory.
These steps in the election are often ignored formalities. But the hidden mechanics of electing a U.S. president have drawn new scrutiny this year as President Trump continues to deny Mr. Biden's victory and pursues increasingly specious legal strategies aimed at overturning the results before they are finalized.
Although it's been apparent for weeks that Mr. Biden won the presidential election, his accrual of more than 270 electors is a key step toward the White House, said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University.
"It is a legal milestone and the first milestone that has that status," Foley said. "Everything prior to that was premised on what we call projections."
The electors named Friday will meet December 14, along with counterparts in each state, to formally vote for the next president. Most states have laws binding their electors to the winner of the popular vote in their state, measures that were upheld by a Supreme Court decision this year. There have been no suggestions that any of Mr. Biden's pledged electors would contemplate not voting for him.
Results of the Electoral College vote are due to be received, and typically approved, by Congress on January 6. Although lawmakers can object to accepting the electors' votes, it would be almost impossible for Mr. Biden to be blocked at that point.
The Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate would both vote separately to resolve any disputes. One already has arisen from Pennsylvania, where 75 Republican lawmakers signed a statement on Friday urging Congress to block the state's electoral votes from being cast for Mr. Biden. But the state's Republican U.S. senator, Pat Toomey, said soon after that he would not be objecting to Pennsylvania's slate of electors, underscoring the difficulty in trying to change the election results through Congress.
"As a practical matter, we know that Joe Biden is going to be inaugurated on January 20," Foley said.
That was clear in the days after the election, when the count of mail ballots gradually showed that Mr. Biden had won victories in enough states to win the Electoral College. It became even more apparent in late November, when every swing state won by Mr. Biden certified him as the winner of its elections and appointed his electors to the Electoral College. Mr. Trump has fruitlessly tried to stop those states from certifying Mr. Biden as the winner and appointing electors for the former vice president.
He made no such effort in deeply Democratic California, the most populous state in the nation. Three more states won by Mr. Biden — Colorado, Hawaii and New Jersey — have not yet certified their results. When they do, Mr. Biden will have 306 Electoral College votes to Trump's 232.
Mr. Trump and his allies have brought at least 50 legal cases trying to overturn the results in the swing states Mr. Biden won — mainly Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. More than 30 have been rejected or dropped, according to an AP tally.
Mr. Trump and his allies have also raised the far-fetched notion that Republican state legislatures in those states could appoint a rival set of electors pledged to Mr. Trump.
But state Republican leaders have rejected that approach, and it would likely be futile in any case. According to federal law, both chambers of Congress would need to vote to accept a competing slate of electors. If they don't, the electors appointed by the states' governors — all pledged to Mr. Biden in these cases — must be used.
The last remaining move to block the election would be the quixotic effort to vote down the electors in Congress.
This tactic has been tried — a handful of congressional Democrats in 2000, 2004 and 2016 objected to officially making both George W. Bush and Mr. Trump president. But the numbers were not enough to block the two men from taking office.
Biden officially secures Electoral College majority after California certifies votes - CBS News
7,059,780
The number above is how many more votes Biden received over the loser.
US election results 2020: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to win presidency | US news | The Guardian - Biden vote lead over Trump widens to 7 million – Raw Story
- Kamala Harris announces new staff picks, marking first time women will hold top 3 spots in VP’s office
On Thursday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris added three women to her roster of top aides, marking the first time in history that the top three positions in the U.S. vice president’s office will be held by women.
Harris, who is the first woman, Black American and South Asian American to be elected VP, announced on Twitter that she was appointing Tina Flournoy as her chief of staff, Rohini Kosoglu as her domestic policy advisor and Nancy McEldowney as her national security advisor. Harris’ appointment of three women to top aide positions follows the announcement that Harris and President-elect Joe Biden will also have an all-female communications team, which ties in with Biden’s commitment to “building an administration that looks like America.”: Kamala Harris appoints all women to top 3 spots in VP office - https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/sta...01828218785793
- Biden administration on track to be most LGBTQ-inclusive in U.S. history
President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly vowed to make LGBTQ rights a priority in his administration. But he won’t be working alone: The former vice president has already tapped LGBTQ appointees for several key roles and gay rights advocates are hopeful that more will be named, including the first out Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate. There’s also a push, should an opening become available, for him to nominate the first openly LGBTQ justice to the Supreme Court.
The Biden-Harris transition team has promoted the president-elect's “commitment to building an administration that looks like America.”
On Sunday, Karine Jean-Pierre, an out lesbian and chief of staff for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, was announced as deputy press secretary, and Pili Tobar, an immigration rights advocate and former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was named deputy White House communications director. Tobar, a lesbian, also worked as a communications director for the Biden campaign.
In November, Carlos Elizondo, who is gay and was Biden’s social secretary when Biden was vice president, was named White House social secretary.: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...story-n1250010
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