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Can you explain how its nothing? I read the article and it sounds decently substantial. Like I agree there's MUCH more he could do with executive power here but it doesnt seem like a complete nothingburger to me.
Increasing access is liberal speak for doing nothing, or at best ensuring that expensive services are "accessible" if you have enough money.
These are not policies - they are sample policies, as in, "here's what would be nice, now please tell us why we shouldn't have just already done that" and they'll walk it back to some inane non-committment to anything.
This article doesn't have much detail so I'm switching to the WH press release:
This is in response to conversion therapy. Biden could have signed an order declaring it illegal and instructing the FBI to immediately begin investigations into every conversion therapy practice to identify abuse and abusers, with interviews with the victims of the abuse. Instead, he's told agencies to investigate plans to do the thing he has directly in his power but will never do.
TO CONSIDER
AN ACTION PLAN
CHARGED WITH TAKING STEPS
PROMOTE EXPANDED ACCESS
NEW GUIDANCE
I could keep going, but this is the reality: his order is nothing. It does not name specific changes, it does not ban or forbid anything, it does not rescue anyone from peril, it does not prevent that peril from occurring in the future. These are worthless, do-nothing words to pantomime the real actions he is refusing to do. This is can kicking. This is tasking bureaucracy with writing some reports that will be ignored, but the EO will be on his list of accomplishments. This is what the Democrats have done with every single real issue, be it gay marriage, trans rights, healthcare, police violence - the only thing they will ever do is going through the motions of pretending to care and act.
Damn ok.
it sucks
For sure - I'm about to cook dinner but I'll come back in a bit