zeke5123a
5mo ago
I obviously see Europeans more aligned with China — both believe in authoritarianism. Seems to me the biggest difference is China isn’t as weak as Europe.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Can you name one accomplishment or intelligent thing the big Euro leaders have achieved or done in the last decade? I can’t.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Have you ever stepped back and thought “maybe Trump and Vance think the Ukraine situation is foolish without the Putin factor?”
Maybe they think the European leaders are ridiculous without the Putin factor? After all, the Euro leadership is full of very serious people who also happen to be complete and utter morons of the highest order.
I welcome uncoupling America from such people.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I’m not sure Scott is capturing self interest. For example, the rich liberal wants taxes to raise. That is against the rich liberals pecuniary self interests but perhaps the liberal gets other benefits from raising taxes (eg status). Also, ideally for the rich person is to argue for raising taxes writ large while giving a special carve out to preclude them from being taxed. That’s the home run! See the SALT deduction as an example.
Moreover they aren’t merely voting for higher taxes. They are voting for higher taxes and more government control. The overall package might favor them from a pecuniary perspective.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I agree with that. But I think about Springfield Ohio. Let’s say all of the Haitians shares the political values. I still think it would be a tragedy for Springfield where over a few years the entire cultural fabric changed.
In short, I’m okay with some immigration but what I don’t want is to change in a fundamental way the culture. Part of that is politics but not only.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Those are political beliefs but I think there is more to being American than simply political beliefs
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Not law but yes the president can tell Elon do X and therefore Elon can do X. That is, when the president acts it need not be via a bureaucratic action to have constitutional heft.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
There is a strong preference ton of render any passage irrelevant. You can see this in Heller where the opening clause was heavily debated as surplusage or meaningful.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Good post. I think on balance the status quo ante belief is correct when looking at the difference between the civil rights act and the eventual 14th. However, I don’t think the status quo argument is unimpeachable and treating it as such reminds me a bit about Obamacare.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Why does it need to be an EO? If Trump called up Kash tomorrow would that change your mind?
Or what about DoT where Duffy supported it?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
You are assuming the president didn’t sign off on this. Trump and Elon said they talk daily. If Trump told Elon he should do this then does that change your mind?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
You and I continue to go down this silly path where you ascribe to me the belief that I think laws should be broken and I’m saying the laws aren’t really law because they violate the constitution.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Sure you can say those things. It doesn’t make it true. Again you are suggesting that the OPM (an executive department within the WH) can’t get employee emails?
Are you sure they have zero authority?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Why should the executive not be able to look up employee PI like emails.
Just like my CEO can look at my email and give it to anyone they damn want to in their company why can’t the president do the same?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I’ve seen it in my space. Someone started private and then went public sector. Used that to get a major promotion which made him after five years attractive for a larger gov position. He then parlayed that into even a more lucrative financial position in the private sector.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
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Part of the deal is going back and forth from government to industry and then to government. It is why the private sector pay is pretty good.
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A couple making 380k combined with strong benefits and time off…isn’t a bad living.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I do think it is reasonable to question whether gay men ought to be able to use surrogates. It is one thing to adopt where a kid wasn’t going to have any family. It is another to intentionally set up a situation where a kid will not have a mom.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
There are tons of statutes that are ignored and there are of course test cases to in fact test them.
And this again isn’t a trump position in adopting. The unitary executive is an august position.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Because you are assuming that he had the kid merely for optics.
It would be like saying “I think Person X is a sociopath. He did something that generally would not be sociopathic but because I think X is a sociopath he must be doing it to hide his sociopathy.”
Well sure if you already assume the sociopathy. I’m more willing to suggest that maybe your initial assessment might be off.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I guess? But at the same time it is at least evidence that he is less the way some people feared.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Let’s say congress passed a statute saying that it was illegal to practice Hinduism.
It is a statute but clearly isn’t law as it facially violates the Constitution.
And if a dem does it, the answer is it depends. If Congress passes a law saying “you can’t spend money to censor” and the Dem president clearly violates the statute and the first amendment to censor then I’d be upset.
But if they do something that has a pretty strong constitutional basis? No I won’t be upset.
This just seems like an insane takeaway. Russia couldn’t capture Ukraine. What makes you think Russia is thinking “and now I can take back say Poland.”
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