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If this continues, it won’t be easy to track and revert 4 years of EOs. And it will be impossible to undo all the consequences
They’re literally all on the White House site in order.
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Who is "they"? And yes, you can absolutely explain it with desperation, and arrogance and in-fighting on behalf of the non-fascists. The issues on the minds of American issues were mostly things like housing, healthcare; economics. Trump at least pretended to be also angry and willing to do something about it, while saying the Democrats were lukewarm would be flattering them. What is the point of saying "people wante…
No they weren't. There was huge focus on trans and immigration and vaccinationa. Economic is distant third. They have continuing quest to make abortions as illegal as possible, the quest for male supremacy, the climate denial ... This was not hold your nose for economics. This was I don't care about economics, I hate others too much. > What is the point of saying "people wanted this"? To legitimize not fighting it? I…
I'm just not seeing that, e.g.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-...
Nothing to see here. Just a massive conflict of interest from an unelected foreigner exacting power over your government.
I wonder about the purpose of many of these actions. Since they’re done via EOs they can easily be reversed.
Reversing it four years later is just too late.
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This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
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After 2010 midterms he couldn't really do anything, because the GOP did everything they could to obstruct everything, seemingly mostly just as a nihilistic power game. If you will recall, even very simple and uncontroversial appointments were being blocked. It was absolutely ridiculous. I don't especially like the democratic party, but there is no real comparison. Both a forceful push and several punched to the face are assault, but clearly they are not the same or "every bit as guilty".
In the first two years, when he was actually empowered, he mainly focused on the financial crisis and the ACA. Those two were already massive undertakings.
Also Afghanistan was not "Vietnam 2.0". About 280,000 US troops died in Vietnam. About 3,500 coalition troops died in Afghanistan, most of them in the early years. 2020 saw 11 casualties. Comparisons to Vietnam are profoundly unserious. There's a reason Obama stayed in Afghanistan: it was relatively cheap and kept an enemy (Taliban) in check. Now, you can agree or disagree with that, but it's really not as straight-forward as you're presenting it.
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It was a Republican policy! From the 80s.
You mean 'a Republican's (I.E. Mitt Romney) policy'. What a manipulative response. Republics hated it and fought against it.
And Republicans fought against it because the wrong party/person proposed it.
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> The people spoke very clearly [that] they wanted this. > [Nonvoters] were "OK" with whatever others decided. Those are not the same thing! Stop contradicting yourself in order to sanewash Trump.
Not a contradiction at all. And this isn't about "sanewashing" Trump. There is a set of people eligible to vote. There is a set of people who do vote. Anyone in the first set who chooses not be in the second set, is no longer included in statements about What The People Want. You snooze, you lose. The time to say whether you want or don't want a President is in November. You stay quiet then, you don't get to complain…
US is becoming a banana republic
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becoming? past tense is more like it. also Google your own term in Wikipedia to see the history of it.
This extreme cynicism is part of what got us here. People have made this cynicism manifest. They're making the government of their imaginations real.
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becoming? past tense is more like it. also Google your own term in Wikipedia to see the history of it.
This extreme cynicism is part of what got us here. People have made this cynicism manifest. They're making the government of their imaginations real.