zeke5123a
5mo ago
Okay you say the president doesn’t have the power to regulate. Can you show me where in the constitution the SEC has the power to regulate? What branch of the government? Who delegated those powers and are those powers delegable?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
This is just completely wrong historically. There is and has been almost no oversight by Congress. The APA was intended to rein in agencies but that didn’t work.
Structurally agencies could quickly make rules and unless the rules were hopelessly inconsistent with the statutory scheme they were blessed by courts. No check there.
If Congress wanted to upend the rule, both houses would need to pass a bill (frequently with a super majority in the Senate) AND the President would need to sign the bill. That represents a lot of veto points. In contrast, agencies didn’t face those veto points. So there has been a massive growth of regulations over the years because that was easier and indeed those administrations became more of law writers compared to the Congress or President.
The courts have finally started to push back against independent agencies and this is another avenue to do so.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
No. This is ahistoric and not how agencies acted.
Independent agencies were set up to be free of political oversight because the FDR progressives believed in rule by expert. Note that this isn’t a check on the political power under how separation of powers is thought of (where competing branches can check the excess of the other branch), but instead a power base with very little accountability (ie no one to check it).
By eliminating the independent nature of these bureaucrats, we are actually returning power to the three separate branches horizontally and the two separate powers vertically. So instead of limiting separation of powers this actually strengthens it.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Couldn’t you also just reduce the number of pitchers permitted in a nine inning game? Presumably that would require pitchers to simply be less max effort and also pitch more to contact.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Really? Dylan, Hendrix, The Beatles, etc all touched culture. They molded it and it molded them and what was spit out changed the world. You can’t help when you think of Vietnam thinking of the soundtrack to Vietnam.
Today? There is some small commercial stuff. You see people trying to make statements but it comes off less organic and more “we are supposed to stand for something.”
Who is the soundtrack of the 2020s?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I think the Biden zeitgeist re Russia was unbelievably antagonistic and people seemingly viewed Russia almost akin to Goldstein (when something went “wrong” it was due to Russian misinformation).
I view Trump not as a realignment to a Russian U.S. alliance but more towards a reasonable approach to Russia (yes it is a revanchist power, but it isn’t pure evil either)
zeke5123a
5mo ago
What makes a meme funny is in part the truth communicated by it. It is just a form of satire
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Takings has been partially rejuvenated but largely deadwood (eg regulatory takings can be so extreme that my property could lose a massive percentage of value but have no recourse).
zeke5123a
5mo ago
It isn’t just that though I agree with it. The OP seems fundamentally to have bought into a notion that the bureaucrats function as part of the separated of powers. But if the bureaucrats exercised power with zero real oversight of the bureaucrats, then of course there is no separation of powers but really a concentration of power within the bureaucrats.
Rather than tearing down separation of powers Trump is invigorated it by removing the previously unaccountable bureaucracy. The district judges are in my mind lawless traitors.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Really? You don’t understand why you’d want to put an employee who is adverse to you and your plans on admin leave?
Re judges yes it is entirely predictable that the libs would forum shop and get cracked judges to issue TROs. But hopefully most wind down in a few days (and Trump is starting to win some).
Finally killing the current iteration of USAID is not incompatible with spending on foreign aide. Right no the admin thinks USAID is a front to funnel mo ey to lefty causes because it is. Killing that doesn’t mean “and therefore we will keep the funds.”
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Let’s wait for Trump to do something fascist before you know getting upset.
Right now, he is tearing down the fascist aspects of our system (the corrupt bureaucrats who answer to no one and who extract wealth from corporations). In fact, a classical liberal should love the destruction of these shitty statist orgs.
I understand the fear is “but then what comes next.” But that doesn’t justify the status quo ante. Choice is continue down a road to perdition or make a change. Change wins every time.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
No putting people on admin leave is crucial. It is what happens when you think a business is doing crazy shit because you don’t want those people to continue to do crazy shit.
And firing the people who you think are doing crazy shit doesn’t mean you intend to not do anything with the cash. Hell Rubio was instructed to think through things.
Maybe the problem is the judges were listening to the wrong media.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Why don’t you believe the Trump cases stood or fell on the merits, not on political cooperation.
Do you mean political cooperation of Trump? The entire thing was a political op; the fact that Trump’s cooperation wasn’t the end goal doesn’t mean the lawfare wasn’t clearly political in nature.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
This is just incorrect. They do not get directly against the Impoundment Control Act. Take USAID. The appropriation by Congress doesn’t say “spend X dollars on items A through AAA every week.” No there is a broad grant for the president and his delegate to use broad discretion.
Thus the president pausing payments isn’t impounding the money; it is the president figuring out what he wants to do with the broad grant given to him.
The Impoundment Act doesn’t come up until after a long while the president eschews spending anything. Of course with a Republican congress hopefully he can get a simple vote and the money is returned.
Now you might say “then why is he blocked.” The answer is forum shopped handpicked judicial activists have issued TROs where they don’t really need to justify their arguments and they don’t really expect to win on appeal but the hope is that delay favors the bureaucrats which it does.
I think this ultra vires judicial activism should be grounds for impeachment.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Of course the other option was he knew he was guilty and so thought he might be able to get favor with Trump while knowing he wouldn’t get favor to his left.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
These posts are tiresome. Are you going to continue to post each one you can find? It is clear the strategy implemented. It has some pluses and has some minuses. Everyone understands the blunt force approach would be over inclusive but harder to game and faster to implement.
We get it that you don’t like it, but simply posting “here is another thing I don’t like about the freeze” from sources ideologically against the freeze would be akin to me posting “here is another waste of your tax dollars” from the DOGE.
The outcome of the freeze will be measured in the coming years; not days. But will you come back and check to see if there was any more fentanyl in the US in the next year to see if your “chicken little” story comes to fruition? Or are you just finding stories to try to discourage the blunt force approach?
zeke5123a
5mo ago
It’s also why the absurd TROs are so undermining—delay plays to the bureaucracy’s advantage
zeke5123a
5mo ago
I think it probably is a quid pro quo and I think Adams started singing out about immigration probably when he was being investigated
zeke5123a
5mo ago
The DOGE (and Trump more broadly) is fighting a bureaucracy hostile to them. The activists are the people carrying out the orders.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Because you aren’t working with people who want to cut. So every carve out you give will be expanded beyond belief. Half measures rarely work against an entrenched enemy.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
A lot of that is make believe. There are a ton of expiring provisions that will “cost money” to extend but won’t raise or lower current taxes. At the same time, there are some tax relief they want.
zeke5123a
5mo ago
Can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs.
We have a massive problem. 2T deficit p.a. We have an NGO network funded by our own government working against us. And indeed, it is almost certain that any of these stories are being coordinated by current USAID employees (in part why it was absurd for the judge to issue a TRO re thr admin leave). That is, we are paying the American executive to try to undermine the American executive.
No sorry I don’t care about this. Sorry it sucks but we can’t afford it and it needs to be cut. This is the way.
Why would you assume that the current iteration of soccer is the platonic ideal?
Yes whenever you change something you end up giving up somethings. Soccer right now is terrible. I’m sure creating a bit more action would more than offset …positional jockeying for space which just sounds ph so riveting.
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