Bốn Phương: 50 ĐIỀU ĐÃ TỐT HƠN RỒI TỪ CHÍNH QUYỀN MỚI (Jennifer Rubin

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50 ĐIỀU ĐÃ TỐT HƠN RỒI TỪ CHÍNH QUYỀN MỚI (Jennifer Rubin - Washington Post Columnist)

50 ĐIỀU ĐÃ TỐT HƠN RỒI TỪ CHÍNH QUYỀN MỚI

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50 ĐIỀU ĐÃ TỐT HƠN RỒI TỪ CHÍNH QUYỀN MỚI

Jennifer Rubin,

Washington Post Columnist

Lien Nguyen dịch

Feb 3, 2021

Tổng thống Biden chưa hoàn tất tuần lễ đầu tiên của nhiệm kỳ tổng thống, nhưng đã có 50 điều để ăn mừng. Chúng ta hãy lần lượt đếm:

1. Bạn có thể phớt lờ Twitter

2. Phòng họp báo chí của Tòa Bạch Ốc không còn là một cơn ác mộng toàn lời dối trá độc hại

3. Bây giờ chúng ta không còn phải đương đầu với chủ nghĩa khủng bố nội địa của người da trắng thượng tôn

4. Chúng ta không còn phải trả tiền cho những chuyến đi chơi gôn

5. Không còn người thân của tổng thống trong chính phủ

6. Tiến trình của những phiên điều trần là tỉnh táo và nghiêm túc

7. Những người được đề cử có phẩm chất và năng lực đã được lựa chọn cho những vị trí quan trọng

8. Chúng ta có một đệ nhất phu nhân gắn bó với công chúng

9. Chúng ta đã không nghe thấy một lời nào từ những người con của tổng thống

10. Chúng ta hiện đang cứng rắn đối với những vụ vi phạm nhân quyền của người Nga

11. Chúng ta nhận được những bản phúc trình tóm lược bình thường, tường thuật lại những cuộc đàm thoại lành mạnh giữa tổng thống và những nhà lãnh đạo nước ngoài

12. Triết lý của Tòa Bạch Ốc là “hứa ít hơn và làm nhiều hơn,” chứ không phải kiểu ngược lại

13. Tiếp thu sự cư xử thân thiện, hòa đồng; tống tiễn thái độ ăn hiếp, bắt nạt

14. Bạn cảm thấy điềm tĩnh hơn sau khi nghe tổng thống nói

15. Những ai biết kiểm tra mức độ thực hư của một sự việc gì đó thì không phải làm việc quá sức

16. Những nghệ sĩ có phẩm chất muốn biểu diễn cho Tòa Bạch Ốc

17. Chúng ta đã được xem những hồ sơ thuế của tổng thống

18. Tổng thống có thể nói rõ ràng những chi tiết về chính sách, thậm chí mạch lạc

19. Điều tồi tệ nhất mà báo chí có thể đưa tin là chiếc đồng hồ đeo tay của tổng thống

20. Chúng ta có một đội ngũ nhân viên Tòa Bạch Ốc giống như nước Mỹ

21. Chúng ta có một kế hoạch covid-19 cho toàn quốc

22. Giám đốc Viện Dị Ứng và Bệnh Truyền Nhiễm Quốc Gia Anthony S. Fauci đã được thoát vòng kiềm chế, nom hạnh phúc và thậm chí trông trẻ hơn

23. Fauci, chứ không phải tổng thống, tóm tắt về khoa học của covid-19 và hiệu quả của những vaccines

24. Mang khẩu trang và giữ khoảng cách xã hội trong Tòa Bạch Ốc

25. Tòa Bạch Ốc có những sáng kiến và những đề nghị về chính sách, chứ không phải để lại tất cả cho Quốc Hội

26. Chính quyền mới cam kết sẽ tiết lộ thông tin, chứ không che đậy, chẳng hạn như về vụ sát hại ký giả Jamal Khashoggi

27. Lệnh cấm người Hồi giáo đã biến mất

28. Chính những thành viên Cộng Hòa, chứ không phải thành viên Dân Chủ, đã gây ra sự hỗn loạn

29. Cố vấn an ninh quốc gia không bị sa thải vì nói dối với FBI

30. Không có những thuộc cấp nịnh hót tổng thống theo kiểu liên bang Sô Viết

31. Tổng thống đảm nhận những cuộc họp tình báo gặp mặt trực tiếp, trên căn bản mỗi ngày

32. Tổng thống không quan tâm đến màu sắc của chuyên cơ Air Force One

33. Chúng ta có một tổng thống thân thiện với Hiến Pháp

34. Những hãng truyền thông đưa tin tức có thật nhận được xếp hạng cao, những hãng khác thì bị xuống hạng

35. [Bức tranh chân dung] của tổng thống Andrew Jackson không còn được treo ở Phòng Bầu Dục, mà là [bức tranh chân dung] của Benjamin Franklin

36. Đài Tiếng Nói Hoa Kỳ (Voice of America) đã được trở lại trong tay những nhà báo chân chính

37. Chúng ta nhận được rất nhiều kiểu hình chế (memes) về thượng nghị sĩ Bernie Sanders (Độc Lập-Vermont), nhưng không phải tấm hình chế về độ lớn của đám đông (crowd size) trong ngày lễ nhậm chức

38. Chúng ta quay trở lại với hiệp định khí hậu Paris và Tổ Chức Y Tế Thế Giới

39. Thay vì điều hành chính phủ như một doanh nghiệp [phá sản], chính quyền mới sẽ cố gắng điều hành chính phủ một cách thành thạo

40. Chúng ta có một tổng thống là người không nghĩ rằng nghĩa vụ quân sự chỉ dành cho "những kẻ đần độn" và là người không gởi "tình yêu" của mình cho những người tấn công cơ quan thực thi luật pháp

41. Người được đề cử bộ trưởng tài chánh có lời của bản nhạc Hamilton dành riêng cho bà ấy

42. Amanda Gorman là một cái tên rất nổi tiếng

43. Hơn 2/3 người Mỹ tán thành cách xử lý và đối phó với covid-19 của Tòa Bạch Ốc.

44. Không còn sự kiện "thời gian hành pháp," được miễn làm việc, trong những khu vực sinh hoạt của tổng thống

45. Chúng ta có một tổng thống đều đặn đi nhà thờ, “người đã dành cả cuộc đời đắm mình trong những nghi lễ và thực hành của Cơ-đốc-giáo.”

46. Chúng ta có những đệ nhất chó cưng (first dogs)

47. Phu quân của phó tổng thống không dạy học ở một trường cấm học sinh LGBTQ

48. Tòa Bạch Ốc thực thi Đạo Luật Hatch một cách nghiêm túc

49. Chính quyền mới muốn càng nhiều người bỏ phiếu càng tốt

50. Tổng thống sẽ nói chuyện với những nước đồng minh của chúng ta nhiều hơn là nói chuyện với tổng thống Vladimir Putin của nước Nga

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COCONINODEMOCRATS.ORG

50 Things That Are Better Already

Posted on January 25, 2021

Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist

https://coconinodemocrats.org/50-things-that-are-better-already/2021/01/25/

President Biden has not completed his first week in office, but already there is much to celebrate. Let’s count the ways:

1. You can ignore Twitter

2. The White House briefing room is not an Orwellian nightmare of lies

3. We are now confronting white domestic terrorism

4. We are not paying for golf trips

5. There are no presidential relatives in government

6. The tenor of hearings is sober and serious

7. Qualified and knowledgeable nominees have been selected for senior spots

8. We have a first lady who engages with the public

9. We have not heard a word from presidential children

10. We are now tough on Russian human rights abuses

11. We get normal readouts of sane conversations between the president and foreign leaders

12. The White House philosophy is to underpromise and overdeliver, not the other way around

13. Manners are in, bullying is out

14. You feel calmer after hearing the president

15. Fact-checkers are not overworked

16. Quality entertainers want to perform for the White House

17. We have seen the president’s tax records

18. The president is able to articulate policy details, coherently even

19. The worst the press can come up with is the president’s watch

20. We have a White House staff that looks like America

21. We have a national covid-19 plan

22. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony S. Fauci is liberated, sounds happy and even looks younger

23. Fauci, not the president, briefs on the science of covid-19 and efficacy of vaccines

24. Masks and social distancing in the White House

25. The White House has policy initiatives and proposals, not merely leaving it all to Congress

26. The administration is committed to releasing information, not covering it up, on the slaughter of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

27. The Muslim ban is gone

28. It is the Republicans not the Democrats who are in disarray

29. The national security adviser has not been fired for lying to the FBI

30. No Soviet-style fawning over the president by his subordinates

31. The president takes daily, in-person intelligence briefings

32. The president does not care about Air Force One colors

33. We have a president familiar with the Constitution

34. Real cable news outlets get high ratings, others not so much

35. President Andrew Jackson is out of the Oval Office, Benjamin Franklin is in

36. Voice of America is back in the hands of actual journalists

37. We get memes about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), not crowd size

38. We are back in the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization

39. Instead of running it like a [bankrupt] business, the new administration will try running government competently

40. We have a president who doesn’t think military service is for “suckers” and who doesn’t send his “love” to people assaulting law enforcement

41. The secretary of treasury nominee has her own Hamilton lyrics

42. Amanda Gorman is a household name

43. More than two-thirds of Americans approve of the White House covid-19 approach.

44. No more work-free “executive time” in the presidential living quarters

45. We have a churchgoing president “who has spent a lifetime steeped in Christian rituals and practices.”

46. We have first dogs

47. The vice president’s spouse does not teach at a school that bars LGBTQ students

48. The White House takes the Hatch Act seriously

49. The administration wants as many people as possible to vote

50. The president will talk more to our allies than to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Posted in Latest News, Talking Points and tagged Biden.

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50 ĐIỀU ĐÃ TỐT HƠN RỒI TỪ CHÍNH QUYỀN MỚI (Jennifer Rubin - Washington Post Columnist)

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