Lame-Duck Fear-Porn…It’s Everywhere!

It might just be possible that you are as tired of hearing this bullshit as I am. Almost daily, it seems, we see items in the news that declare outgoing lame-duck president Joe Biden is enacting this order of that initiative to hobble the agenda of the incoming Trump 2.0 administration.

Evidently, one of two things is happening here. One, the mainstream media narrative crafters never showed up to or were always stoned for civics classes. Or two, the neo-Bolshevik spinners of the Clinton-Obama-Biden regime are working overtime to make the public believe something that simply isn’t true.

Where presidential executive orders are concerned, a lame-duck president cannot enact executive orders that are inherently irreversible by an incoming president.

Executive orders, directives from the POTUS, are legally binding but can be revoked, modified, or replaced by subsequent executive orders from a new president. This is because executive power resides in the office of the President, not in an individual president after they leave office.

While a lame-duck president can issue executive orders, these are subject to the same legal scrutiny and practical limitations as any other executive action. They can be challenged in court, and their implementation might very well depend on the cooperation of the federal agencies, which can shift with a new administration.

Congress can also affect the longevity of executive orders by passing legislation that contradicts or nullifies them, subject to the president's veto power or lack thereof if there's enough support to override a veto.

Historical examples show that new presidents often review and sometimes reverse executive orders of their predecessors. For example, Biden reversed almost all of President Trump's executive orders shortly after taking office. Trump did the same with Obama's orders.

Through the federal rulemaking process, a president can influence regulations managed by federal agencies. However, these can be changed by subsequent administrations, though this might involve expediting the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment period.

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This applies to one fear-porn item floating around the usual suspect partisan media outlets—you know, the ones that are choke-full of asinine clickbait articles and ads— that reads:

“President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to restrict offshore oil and gas drilling in his final days in office, a move that would placate the environmentalist lobby and potentially obstruct President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to unleash the US energy sector...

“Biden’s reportedly forthcoming order would permanently ban new lease sales for oil and gas drilling in certain regions of the outer continental shelf…Some elected Democrats and many well-funded green groups have pushed Biden to implement permanent environmental policies in the waning days of his presidency to fluster Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda…”

So, when you read or hear bullshit like that, remember your civics class in understanding that all agencies, departments, and commissions in the federal government fall under the Executive Branch and that the Executive Branch is under the control of the White House, not the other way around.

That means, when a president with a working knowledge of the US Constitution and an actual set of balls—and not transgender balls either—takes office, he is the ultimate executive authority, not the Deep State bureaucracy of the agencies, departments, and commissions, and the myriad assholes of K Street.

That’s important to remember this to fight the fear-porn that’s coming out of the mainstream media as we head towards January 20th.

Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

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