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[0bleak]

There have always been people that have been upset about presidents issuing executive orders, but they become bigger issues when they unlawful and/or aren't part of their remit.
Look at how many Franklin Roosevelt wrote during his years between 1933-1945:

Executive Orders | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

 

[yyaldrin]

ah okay, i thought it was something very unique to trump but according to that list it's very common

 

[IdleRich]

i don't understand why no other american president decided to just write presidential decrees everyday?

I think I saw when Johnson was in power and Trump the first time, while there are some things that truly bind them, a lot of things that stopped people in the past were basically conventions and toothless bodies reproving them. When they realised that they just started pissing all over those conventions - and now Trump us back and doing the same thing on steroids.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think I saw when Johnson was in power and Trump the first time, while there are some things that truly bind them, a lot of things that stopped people in the past were basically conventions and toothless bodies reproving them. When they realised that they just started pissing all over those conventions - and now Trump us back and doing the same thing on steroids.

Surely you're not old enough to remember the Johnson administration? That was the 60s, wasn't it?

 

[IdleRich]

Boris Johnson.
Both sides of the pond. Same shit different cunt - now there's a lovely image.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Boris Johnson.
Both sides of the pond. Same shit different cunt - now there's a lovely image.

Yes, I know. It was a feeble attempt at humour.

 

[IdleRich]

I know

 

[Clinamenic]

i don't understand why no other american president decided to just write presidential decrees everyday?

From my limited understanding, I think the executive orders are mainly non-binding roadmap-like declarations, often used to lay out a unifying vision for how the executive branch should approach regulating a particular industry. As I understand, they don't always carry much weight beyond whatever soft power/buy-in the administration already has with federal agencies.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Thinking about it, what we're seeing is like a third red scare, but focused on perceived woke sensibilities instead of perceived communist leanings. Of course, the left just had its own version of this too. Scary pendulum.

If there's nothing actually to any of this woke stuff then why is anybody bothered about this? The culture war is real just like the Cold War was real, and calling them "scares" is status signalling in that they can only be unreal to those with the considerable means to avoid them. Y'know, the kind of people who might just "bump into" the King of Bhutan.

 

[Clinamenic]

If there's nothing actually to any of this woke stuff then why is anybody bothered about this? The culture war is real just like the Cold War was real, and calling them "scares" is status signalling in that they can only be unreal to those with the considerable means to avoid them. Y'know, the kind of people who might just "bump into" the King of Bhutan.

Well I actually think the woke / social justice identity politics stuff definitely had its detrimental excesses, and that what we're seeing now is something of an over-corrective. To me, both sides have their kernels of legitimacy, and both sides have their loud opportunists exploiting and driving swings in the Overton window. The "scare" part to me does point to the excess part of the phenomenon, but I don't mean to write off the entirety of these drastic cultural swings as superfluous.

 

[Clinamenic]

e.g. cancel culture was its own scare, just from the opposite cultural angle. It had some legitimacy, in that it brought a lot of scrutiny to certain kinds of predatory behaviors, but it also had a lot of collateral damage, and I think this collateral damage is what MAGA is the hyper-corrective to, to a large extent (again, with its own excesses).

 

[wg-]

Seeing as this has become a different type of thread why so many plane crashes recently?

 

[Clinamenic]

e.g. cancel culture was its own scare, just from the opposite cultural angle. It had some legitimacy, in that it brought a lot of scrutiny to certain kinds of predatory behaviors, but it also had a lot of collateral damage, and I think this collateral damage is what MAGA is the hyper-corrective to, to a large extent (again, with its own excesses).

Arguably the "scare" part refers to a sort of afterimage of a rapidly shifting overton window, i.e. a certain subpopulation whose ideology has been tolerated by the mainstream, until it suddenly isn't.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Seeing as this has become a different type of thread why so many plane crashes recently?

Because paying a sufficient number of quality assurance engineers to make sure your planes aren't garbage is wasteful and inefficient (I.e. it means less profit to pay out to shareholders).

And besides, the cool kids these days like to move fast and break things.

 

[Mr. Tea]

CEO Jim McNerney, who joined Boeing in 2005, had last helmed 3M, where management as he saw it had “overvalued experience and undervalued leadership” before he purged the veterans into early retirement. “Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving the company.

Twilight of the phenomenally talented assholes

Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of knowledge that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property,...

www.metafilter.com

 

[0bleak]

There's a severe shortage of air traffic controllers, has been for years. Probably not a good idea to have people constantly working overtime in one of the most stressful jobs in order to make up for it.
Can't say for sure if it contributed to it as he was also very unhealthy, but had an uncle that was atc, constantly working, died young in his late 30s from a heart attack.

Other than that, probably just coincidence that, in his second day in office, Trump had just fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration 2. Fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee 3. Froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers 4. Fired 100 top FAA security officers.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Other than that, probably just coincidence that, in his second day in office, Trump had just fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration 2. Fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee 3. Froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers 4. Fired 100 top FAA security officers.

Yes, definitely a coincidence, but a symbolic one. This kind of thing is surely only going to happen more often with an administration in charge that thinks safety is for faggy commie libtards.

It's also not a great sign that the man many people are calling the real president makes cars that are so shoddily built they break if you close the doors too hard.

 

[luka]

Lauren Boebert’s complicated private life got even more interesting Tuesday, after it was reported that the 38-year-old congresswoman got into a taxi with fellow right-wing firebrand Kid Rock, 54, at 2:30 a.m. on the night of the inauguration.

TMZ had previously revealed that the two enthusiastic advocates of President Donald Trump and the Second Amendment were partying together at one of the inaugural bashes, with a source saying: “Lauren was totally transfixed by the rock star, yapping away, doing a little dance, and clapping like she was front row at his concert—basically giving Kid Rock all the hype he needed.”

Now it seems they were keen to keep the conversation going into the even smaller hours, the New York Post reports.

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They may, of course, just have been comparing notes on the hospitality business. Boebert is the former owner of Colorado bar Shooters, where customers were encouraged to bring their guns, and Kid Rock is the proprietor of Kid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk and Rock & Roll Steakhouse in Nashville, Tennessee

 

[Mr. Tea]

Boebert is the former owner of Colorado bar Shooters, where customers were encouraged to bring their guns, and Kid Rock is the proprietor of Kid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk and Rock & Roll Steakhouse in Nashville, Tennessee

It's like someone asked ChatGPT to summarise American culture in one sentence.

 

[0bleak]

It's like someone asked ChatGPT to summarise American culture in one sentence.

White Trump voters more like.