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Episode 781: Biden is Out, Harris is in, and More Project 2025
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Project 2025. - Section: Department of Health and Human Services
Who wrote this (from wikipedia)
Written by: Roger Thomas Severino (born 1974/1975)[1] is an American attorney who served as the director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 2017 to 2021. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor on health policy, including abortion, to Project 2025.[2]
In March 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Severino as Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.[8][9][10] He left the position on January 15, 2021.[11]
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Goal #1: Protecting Life, Conscience, and Bodily Integrity. The Secretary should pursue a robust agenda to protect the fundamental right to life, protect conscience rights, and uphold bodily integrity rooted in biological realities, not ideology. From the moment of conception, every human being possesses inherent dignity and worth, and our humanity does not depend on our age, stage of development, race, or abilities. The Secretary must ensure that all HHS programs and activities are rooted in a deep respect for innocent human life from day one until natural death: Abortion and euthanasia are not health care.
A robust respect for the sacred rights of conscience, both at HHS and among governments and institutions funded by it, increases choices for patients and program beneficiaries and furthers pluralism and tolerance. The Secretary must protect Americans’ civil rights by ensuring that HHS programs and activities follow the letter and spirit of religious freedom and conscience-protection laws.
Radical actors inside and outside government are promoting harmful identity politics that replaces biological sex with subjective notions of “gender identity” and bases a person’s worth on his or her race, sex, or other identities. This destructive dogma, under the guise of “equity,” threatens American’s fundamental liberties as well as the health and well-being of children and adults alike. The next Secretary must ensure that HHS programs protect children’s minds and bodies and that HHS programs respect parents
From Section - OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY (EERE)
Who wrote this (from wikipedia)
Bernard L. McNamee (born 1967) is a government official who served as Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2018 to 2020.[2] McNamee was confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on December 6, 2018. He previously served in various state and federal legal and policy positions and practiced energy law in the private sector.
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Under the Biden Administration, EERE’s mission is “to accelerate the research, development, demonstration, and deployment of technologies and solutions to equitably transition America to netzero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050” and
“ensure [that] the clean energy economy benefits all Americans.
Needed Reforms
End the focus on climate change and green subsidies. Under the Biden Administration, EERE is a conduit for taxpayer dollars to fund progressive policies, including decarbonization of the economy and renewable resources. EERE has focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions to the exclusion of other statutorily defined requirements such as energy security and cost. For example, EERE’s five programmatic priorities during the Biden Administration are all focused on decarbonization of the electricity sector, the industrial sector, transportation, buildings, and the
agricultural sector.
Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. Pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 as amended, the agency is required to set and periodically tighten energy and/or water efficiency standards for nearly all kinds of commercial and household appliances, including air conditioners, furnaces, water heaters, stoves, clothes washers and dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers, light bulbs, and showerheads. Current law and regulations reduce consumer choice, drive up costs for consumer appliances, and emphasize energy efficiency to the exclusion of other important factors such as cycle time and reparability.
New Policies
Eliminate EERE. The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all of DOE’s applied energy programs, including those in EERE (with the possible exception of those that are related to basic science for new energy technology). Taxpayer dollars should not be used to subsidize preferred businesses and energy resources, thereby distorting the market and undermining energy reliability.
Reduce EERE funding. If EERE cannot be eliminated, then the Administration should engage with Congress and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on EERE’s budget.
Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. The next Administration should work with Congress to modify or repeal the law mandating energy efficiency standards. Before (or in lieu of ) repealing the law, there are steps the agency can take to refocus on the consumer by giving
full force to the provisions already in the law that serve to limit regulatory overreach and protect against excessively stringent standards.
Comments
A_Tower99
I do want to push back on the gender affirming surgeries. There are some minors getting surgeries that can be considered “gender affirming” but they’re breast implants. Minors can get them, I want to say at like 16 yrs old, as long as they have parental permission. No one talks about that bc the right wants to talk and think about peepees and such.
A_Tower99
I was initially devastated by Biden dropping out. Not bc I’m a big Biden fanboy, he’s a good man and a great president. What I was worried about and still am bc the right is trying to make hay out of this, is how voters may see dems as chaotic and disorganized. It’s been a long time issue for us that we don’t appeal to moderate or centrist voters bc of how we appear to be all over the place. That’s what worries me the most is that we look like a mess. All my concerns are pragmatic and practical, and w bias minimized as I can get it. That concern has been abated quite a bit over these like 2 weeks or something but we still have an eternity of 90+ days left to go.
TreeHuggerPestControl.com
I was at a drinking establishment here in the Urban North, and all the POC were totally excited about Harris. So Don't despair just yet.
La Mair ica
Perhaps, but generally we should have been wanting to win the minority vote in rural areas. We aren't, not in my neck of the woods anyway. And of the young people I know, my children's friends and whatnot. Their political awakenings came in this current era, four years of hearing their parents and their friends spout nonsense from the right. My kids have maybe one friend between them who holds anything other than traditional right wing views. The kids who are now old enough to vote for the first time, of the small sample group I work with, they're all voting trump, regardless of race or religion. As the only out trans woman in town, people seem compulsively drawn to tell me they are voting red this year.
Alex
Rural areas were never going for the Dems anyway….
La Mair ica
I'm making the huge assumption that you don't live in the rural South. The black people and the Mexican people I know are voting for Trump. Because "I think he's going to be best for the country" I'm sorry but at least from my myopic little rural vantage point the average American around here knows absolutely nothing about the platorms of either party and have enough internalized shame/ self doubt/ people pleasing or whatever else to think that the Cheeto man is the way forwards. Its a big leap but if what I've seen in Arkansas expands out, then 30 million is a drop in the bucket.
Asymetra
0% self-awareness. 100% self-own
Jay Voigt
Tom, I think the number of garbage people who are inspired by the shitty, racist, misogynist garbage human stuff is more like 30 million than 70 million.
Coma Ecliptic
"How are you going to uphold American values if you have a mixed up family", says... (checks notes)... A WHITE DUDE WITH THE LAST NAME "FUENTES". Just zero self-awareness 😂
