Joe Biden isn't going to take away your burgers
CNN
It's just a ludicrous rumor cooked up by American conservative politicians (and their media confederates), who have proven themselves less and less interested in engaging on policy questions on the merits, instead trying to distract with make-believe culture war claims that have no bearing on leadership and legislation-- from "cancel culture" to "wokeness" to, now, red meat, writes Jill Filipovic.
There's a bizarre rumor going around in right-wing circles -- and being spread by Fox News and Republican members of Congress -- that President Biden is scheming to come into your kitchen and pry the cold, dead beef out of your hands. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado claimed that Democrats "want to limit us to about four pounds [of beef] a year," a falsity echoed on Fox by host Jesse Watters, who said, "That adds up to a burger a month. That's it."President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his first-year agenda – particularly on the border and birthright citizenship – hoping history will be on his side when the inevitable legal challenges make their way to the Supreme Court.
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