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I gotta say it's day 8 but Biden is doing so much, so fast, so well, and so good... experiencing some hope, for which there's no longer the slightest muscle memory. He was not the choice of progressives and it is hard to see how the center-right plutocrat wing will not score some points. But it is hard to fault him so far, just the opposite.

Not to reopen old wounds but I can tell you that behind the scenes the message to environmentalists at the start of the Obama admin was a slap in the face; the progressive economists paraded during the transition were sent straight to the basement; culminating in Emanuel's famous literal "fuck you" just in case the message hadn't been clear.

This is not that. It does not look like bones being thrown to "activists" but real expertise actively getting to work on problems in a spirit of teamwork. Like Americans, and the American government, and the civil service, can actually *do* things, and they are *good* at it! After what we've been through it makes me want to cry...

AOC talks with Chris Hayes about Biden's promising start and how much it means - https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1354632846359601157

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I supported Elizabeth, but have seen more than I could ever imagine in Joe’s eight days. I could never imagine EW or Bernie able to move so quickly, with such expertise behind every move. Joe is really doing the people’s business; his hard scrabble upbringing in Scranton, PA. i being revealed

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I was a toss up between Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigige, and Kamala Harris. While I think any one of those three would have been good, I acknowledge that Joe Biden is the right man at the right time. I hope that we move far enough that Harris can win as more or less an incumbent and we get 12 years of this philosophy.

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It’s like the father figure has come home. And he’s cleaning house. Literally and figuratively. Getting everything back in order as best as he can after the kids had a huge, destructive party while he was gone.

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Tricia, I’m still laughing at this brilliant image you’ve brought forth! I love it!

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Frederick, I agree. I have tremendous respect for Warren, Bernie, and now —based on his apparent determination to effect positive change for our nation— Pres. Biden. Go Joe!

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In the best sense, Joe Biden is the country’s ‘elder’

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And to think that many of us (myself included) initially worried that he was too old. Proof positive that there's no substitute for knowing your way around the block!

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It was infuriating to hear Repugs deride Biden for "hiding in his basement." It's an obvious decision for a senior to take proper precautions during a raging pandemic. Which candidate stayed healthy and which one almost croaked himself??

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It was all part of a coordinated plan to make him look old and doddering. Remember that even CNN and MSNBC were breaking out in hives at the prospect of a debate with the Village Idiot, terrified that he'd make a gaffe - especially insulting, when you consider that Trump is incapable of stringing a sentence together.

As far as hiding in his basement is concerned, it's the rightwingers who refuse to wear masks, congregate in large groups, and flout science, who have spread so much misery all over the country, while Trump bungled the Coronavirus disaster - intelligent, eh?

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Word salad is the first item on the Mega-Lardo menu.

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And taking a jog everyday, and choosing the best and delegating the work and overseeing the progress and...WOW!

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All the while ignoring the young guns who criticized him for returning to the status quo. I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle being schooled. Experience is a good thing - remember that!

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Yes! My thoughts exactly. He's an "elder" with the energy of a "younger"!!! When I saw the video of Dr. Jill and Joe riding their bikes and talking with reporters and contrasted that with the fat dude cheating on his golf course, it seemed to me that one was decrepit and the other was energy personified!

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Well said, Ellen. Hopefully "Youngers" becomes common parlance like Elders, as in, Our youngers will save the world.

(NB, red lines still appear when typing Youngers. The same happened in the Boston Globe with seditionists and insurrectionists. But they appear so frequently, now BG's software recognizes them as proper words.)

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Fredrick, You could not have imagined Joe Biden working as quickly and with such excellent political instincts, neither could I. As a fellow Warren supporter I wouldn't rush to compare her talents against Joe's. He selected a strong team and served as VP for eight years. I hope that he will also employ a number of Warren's ideas for structural changes that would provide education and economic opportunities from which many millions of Americans have been barred . Janet Yellen, of course, will be a major source for implementing such change.

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I have to wonder just how many of EW's numerous "plans" are already being used. The Biden team has been working for quite some time and it could be that they quietly worked with her to put those plans in place for an instant rollout. She's a genius at planning and the executive decisions that are being made are sound, thorough and well thought out. Just my two cents.

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Ellen, I'd like to put down at least another two cents on your excellent points!

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Only two cents? Don't shortchange yourself, Ellen. In the immortal words of Ray Charles, "Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands!"

-- "Greenbacks," 1957

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Agree!

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The Biden team has prepared a solid program since Rep. Clyburn delivered the SC primary victory. Sound planning is a nice boost to five decades of experience.

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I'm so thankful to Rep. Clyburn, and Biden ran with it. He salvaged the campaign, as Stacey Abrams delivered Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia. It could have been much different - shudder.

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I am too! Clyburn and quite frankly, Stacey Abrams and LaTosha Brown saved the Democrats. We cannot forget how the black population, especially women, saved us all from the confines of the GOP and Fake45. I sure won’t ever forget.

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Neither will I. I'm really hoping that the tide is turning on racism. Of course, I thought, incorrectly, that we'd turned the corner with Obama's election, but it seemed to have opened the closet door for the evil to ooze out. This time, it feels different, even with the neo-Nazis and QAnon. At least more people are acknowledging the ugly truth, and Black people are engaged in the process and haven't given up.

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I had not seen this segment of Chris Hayes' program, and I'm thrilled that AOC is voicing approval of Biden's environmental proposals. Nice to see the circular firing squad disappearing, at least for now.

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It sure feels like Biden is putting into place a Green New Deal!

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I heard one advisor saying build recharge infrastructure on every highway so u could drive coast to coast this cementing electric car market. New technologies, build new infrastructure, creates more jobs for the market the infrastructure created. Da. That and immigration are responsible for every huge economic expansion in this country.

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Pete Buttigieg said this in his confirmation hearing - chargers pn every highway coast to coast!

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By 2032 the GND will be mainstream orthodoxy, with many critics clamoring for its provisions. Courtesy of the Biden admin's farsighted policies.

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