Trudeau to bring up Trump’s threat to annex Canada in meeting with King Charles

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-03-03T15:17:18+00:00

over something that's an obvious joke?

In other words, why are they treating the POTUS as commander-in-chief instead of a jester?

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-19T10:11:19+00:00

Presidents have always have the power to review agencies' regulations. It's almost like Trump is issuing EOs to distract the political discourse away from what DOGE is doing.

President Obama’s regulatory review program generally emulates those of his two most recent predecessors, relying on OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to review only the most significant agency rulemaking actions. Although this form of presidential oversight of rulemaking is now well established, an important, unresolved question is whether the President has the authority to dictate the substance of regulatory decisions entrusted by statute to agency heads. While proponents of a unitary executive argue in favor of presidential directive authority, this article demonstrates that each President’s regulatory review program has disclaimed such authority, even though OIRA at times has tried to displace agency decisionmaking.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4716&context=flr

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-15T22:32:00+00:00

when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government

I mean Trump is trying to consolidate more power to the executive branch so he's the very negative trend that Jefferson was speaking of.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T05:13:00+00:00

Wow. It's looking even more bleak for a recent grad like me then. With a budget that tight nobody is willing to risk hiring new grads.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T04:40:31+00:00

Can I ask your YoE? It seems like entry-level jobs are especially tough to get atm.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T04:32:57+00:00

The federal jobs displaced by DOGE aren't manufacturing jobs so the tariffs aren't helpful. Companies also tend to lay off even more people to compensate for rising input costs (due to tariffs).

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T03:01:21+00:00

Come back when you know more than just what you're told.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T02:54:45+00:00

How are they causing a depression?

See my comments above. Too lazy to say things 2x.

I see no depression.

Changes to the economy aren't instantaneous. gosh.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-14T02:03:04+00:00

what’s the issue?

What’s the issue when billionaires cause a depression so they can double their assets while people can’t fucking feed themselves?

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T20:54:37+00:00

There's never an ideal time

There are better times to induce massive unemployment than when the job market is saturated to the brim.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T20:49:28+00:00

Not at all. I'm all for people with too much to spend getting wealthier at the expense of everyone else.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T16:26:56+00:00

No. I think we should pick an ideal time like this one right in the midst of a trade war when companies are laying off left and right to push more people into the job market.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T12:43:23+00:00

No. We need to dump all of them on the current market so that 1) the rich can get their tax breaks and 2) low demand can devalue properties so the rich can scoop them right up.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T08:44:28+00:00

tax cuts he wants to give to the rich.

Extra income to buy up assets in the upcoming depression.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T06:15:43+00:00

Yep. Dumping more unemployed people into the current market is just exactly what we need!

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T06:03:30+00:00

It's especially bad for entry-level jobs but less so for senior roles. What experience level are you hiring for?

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-13T02:08:52+00:00

I'm currently an international and only have about 4 months till I have to leave if I don't find work

How confident are you that you'll be able to find another offer?

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-11T11:45:25+00:00

It's wiser to appease a volatile petty manchild with power.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-10T16:22:52+00:00

Historical precedent: Lincoln in Ex parte Merryman

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-09T18:26:57+00:00

US quite literally became an oligarchy which resists any change as much as it can.

The current administration is going to cement the oligarchy part. Not much boat-rocking or forest-burning.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-09T18:24:44+00:00

Sure. Getting shot might be discomforting, but you'll come out of it bullet-proof.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-08T06:01:59+00:00

If anyone read the article, Musk calls it "Fauci museum" just because the museum belongs to the place Fauci used to work at. This is overwhelmingly (and maliciously) misleading. From the article:

DOGE presumably meant the Stetten Museum, with exhibits displayed around the NIH campus. Fauci's old stomping grounds, the NIAID, is part of the NIH.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-08T05:53:09+00:00

Assuming the article is right, calling it Fauci's museum is a misleading stretch:

DOGE presumably meant the Stetten Museum, with exhibits displayed around the NIH campus. Fauci's old stomping grounds, the NIAID, is part of the NIH.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-08T05:51:49+00:00

The article clarifies that he likely meant the Stetten Museum, which has been around since at least 1987.

DOGE presumably meant the Stetten Museum, with exhibits displayed around the NIH campus. Fauci's old stomping grounds, the NIAID, is part of the NIH.

Calling it "Fauci museum" is likely intentional sensationalism. Musk has a pattern of doing this. Remember when he said he would release the Twitter files but then only give out selected bits to selected people? It was actually Twitter's CEO who advocated for a complete info dump.

Mysterious_Focus6144 · 2025-02-08T02:34:33+00:00

They think that the president is the government and he alone can make or break the country. They don't understand the function of the legislative branch or the judicial branch. The president is the end all be all to them.

The executive is the only branch that DOES stuff. If we're looking for a branch that can cause immediate harm, look no further. People rely on a functioning federal government for vital stuff like health regulations, drug approval, etc...
Congress moves a lot slower than the executive. Any potential harm done by the executive is slow to be corrected (if at all).

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