U.S. President Joe Biden this week became a “lame duck,” entering the period between White House administrations traditionally seen as one of waning influence, increasing irrelevance, and menial administrative preparation for the successor.

But it can also be a period of opportunity — relatively unburdened by responsibility and accountability, many lame-duck presidents take advantage of the time to take actions they may not have gotten away with before an election, controversial pardons being one of the most popular.

And as Jessica Berlin, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), said in a post on social media after the election result was called, Biden does have an opportunity to be “the least-lame duck in history.”

“Whatever can go to Ukraine needs to go now,” she added.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      Vance and Johnson are right there behind him though. I don’t know that they’d just watch that happen, and I don’t trust that the propaganda machine that just gave the other branches of government to the republicans wouldn’t also lead to a massacre of any politicians left of (somehow, literally) dick Cheney

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        Luckily, a legal “official act of the president” can work on more than one person.

        I’m not saying it’s a great choice, but it is there.

        Sometimes life gives you shitty choices.

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        The next guy is gonna be all like “here’s a RTX 4050. It’s the greatest graphics card ever! You’ll be able to play at 4k with raytracing at amazing fps. You’ll be able to create AI models like a pro, faster than anyone else. Don’t worry about the price, we’ll put it on credit (for $50,000 over the next 20 years-) it’ll be cheap and amazing! Trust me, only I can save your build.”

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      honestly what he just did is yet another action during his difficult situation tenure which is likely the best thing possible to do before trump comes into office.

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    Biden could resign right now so that Kamala Harris became the first female president of the States.

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    Fuck strike permissions. If Biden had any guts, the USAF would be running sorties on Russian positions in Ukraine before the end of the month.

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          I mean, f22s surely get lost some times, even my iPhone sometimes loses GPS.

          Training mission in Poland, suddenly a dozen mig29ks, tu22m3s and su34s fall out of the sky, maybe they had GPS problems too, no way to tell really.

          Actually, it was probably the single ukrainian f16 in the area, great way to earn a double ace quickly, we all saw him shoot those amraam-ds.

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    Just imagine being president for more than 4 years. Then imagine being dictator for 20+ years. Cray cray.

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    He can deliver some tomahawks and other deep deep strike capabilities. And then the Ukrainians sit on them until Trump takes over. Then they have a bargaining chip… turn open the tap or we will fucking drag you into our conflict kicking and screaming.

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    I’d be fine if we get embroiled in a war with Russia, martial law gets declared and, oops, guess we can’t transfer power.