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I’m not sure which article I read, I can’t find the quote… but the punchline was Biden won in terms of policy points; Trump won in terms of looking sharp and mentally acute.

The very deeply unfortunate fact is that the majority of voters will likely not fact check the debate. They’ll just walk away thinking Trump is the better candidate based on that performance.

Biden better fucking come hard as fuck in September.

Leeloo style.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965175/

All you had to do was tell me he sells his own supplements…

Aw damnit… I hate when that happens…

He had a funny one basically saying that if he did show us his shirtless chest, we’d get to see how closely he resembled Baron Harkonnen.

I never considered there might be a lifetime limit to my benefit…

That’s why he loves Putin so much!!! They have the same first name!!!

It’ll be I interesting going forward. I’ve been on Wegovy since October, and have lost about 50lbs or ~15% of my body weight. I wonder if my insurance will continue to pay for if it can help me get all the way down to a healthy weight…

As I understand it, these drugs are more or less designed to be taken forever or you’re likely to gain the weight back. What good is all this doing if I have to cease the medication if I can get to a “healthy weight”?

How is this an emergency? The dealing with emergencies here (personal interpretation) would be for national security emergencies or natural disasters to allocate resources. An individual citizen’s lack of access to a medical procedure, while tragic, fails to rise to that level.

The key bit you quoted has to do with deciding how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. Also remember that this is at the federal level, not the state level. So he can issue an executive order to keep the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies from enforcing any anti-IVF laws, similar to how they’ve directed the DEA to not pursue marijuana charges in states where recreational use has been legalized. hHe cannot simply write a law into existence, which is what would be needed for what you’re asking.

https://guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec/orders#:~:text=An%20executive%20order%20is%20not,declared%20unconstitutional%20by%20the%20court).

Unfortunately, this is something only Congress can fix, and I’m not holding my breath.

But like I said… he can’t. There’s no “doomed to fail” about it… it’s outside his executive powers. He can’t dictate law.

Whether or not he could is largely irrelevant. Executive orders can be completely undone by the next administration. Plus I’d wager this is out of scope for an executive order. Executive orders generally have to do with operations issues with the federal government.

He can issue an executive order to limit the number of immigrants can cross the US-Mexico border per day because that’s an operational issue for an agency within the executive branch. He can’t say, “Everyone can have access to IVF”. Essentially, he’d be saying that individual states can’t make illegal, IVF procedures. That’s a legislative policy issue, and would be up to congress to pass a law that would force the states to fall in line.

That’s my understanding at least. I’m sure I’ve mucked something up in that explanation, but would wager that the overall gist of it is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

Cool. It’s been helpful, but hot damn… if you don’t pay for it occasionally if you eat the wrong thing…