ive gone from thinking of the trump administration doing lots of legally questionable things as a deliberate strategy to push the limits of executive power or to see what sticks, to suspecting that they just dont have any idea how the presidency or anything else works
dems and libs see it as deliberate lawlessness or cruelty or whatever but no! the people calling the shots probably dont even know what the laws are! sure people are occasionally getting hurt and laws broken but that's just baked in when you let a five year old drive a car
Left is reeling from USAID being slashed, universities being attacked for the first time ever, illegals being deported, new policies to encourage shipbuilding, etc etc etc as Trump is inside their OODA loop, and your take is "they have no idea how anything works" ? You don't have to like him, but I think the efficacy of his 2nd term as compared to his first is proof that he and his team absolutely understand
@eigenrobot may I? say you got an intelligence report, on inauguration, about china invading Taiwan in 2027. List the things you’d do differently
@eigenrobot We're being ruled by people who failed civics class. It's undignified.
@eigenrobot I think cruelty is a big part of it. It's not just incompetence. Imagine instead breaking the laws because you don't know them out of compassion. Entirely different strategies.
No one's ever going to be truly competent in government because government is designed to be incompetent. That protects the status quo which prefers open borders and out-of-control spending. Too many people focus on set-backs on the things that are hard to accomplish, like deporting migrants who have obviously fake asylum claims, and ignore the things that already worked and are now forgotten—like a near total shut down on the border just by being so very tough on the people who are hardest to deport.
Actually, no, I think that you think that the president has far fewer Powers than he actually does But the office holds most of the power Which is why you need a check and a balance It's not that the legislature and the court is intended to hold power over citizens The legislature is meant to reflect the citizens desires And the court is there to make sure that the things that are enacted by the legislature reflect the Constitution and that the executive branch follows the law But the executive branch has a lot of latitude And this was done intentionally because without it you have death by committee And especially because most legislative actions are really done by staffers who have no accountability to voters and there's almost no transparency Without a single executive that runs the military branch and has control over how the country is actually administered, we wouldn't be a country. We would be a fiefdom beholden to every small town Congressional member who thinks that they want to be king That's why all of us vote for president because he speaks for all of us
@eigenrobot That was my conclusion pretty quickly into the whole Canada and Greenland thing. 😭
@eigenrobot donald trump is the scapegoat we need for free trade / capitalism to come back into vogue among liberal elites x.com/modeledbehavio…
@eigenrobot donald trump is the scapegoat we need for free trade / capitalism to come back into vogue among liberal elites x.com/modeledbehavio…
@eigenrobot Nothing the Trump Administration has done is “legally questionable”. It’s applying the Constitution as written to the 21st Century. Hope this helps!
@eigenrobot Considering the alternative, I'd rather throw dice in the alley with Trump.
@eigenrobot The presidency does not "work" in some particular way. It's always been about what an administration could get away with. Power is about who decides the exception. "Liberalism" is like jazz — it's the music that happens between the notes.
You may be too young to recall many, many Obama administration actions that were rejected by a unanimous Supreme Court. The difference is the rulings came years after the actions, and the media didn't hype everything to eleven. Also, the Biden Administration understood that, due to the structure of the Court system, failing to enforce the law is practically unreviewable. But trying to undo those actions at the scale required, going through normal processes, is impossible.