TheStormofWar
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And China's refiners are already talking with Canada. Good job, *** hat.
Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics
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This one really is mind-boggling. This has to be a cash grab to provide more handouts to the rich, right? Why do this, it just makes no sense whatsoever, especially taken with the ridiculous diatribe against the organization where musk calls them an extreme-leftist marxist criminal organization. What the actual ****? @Bucknutz do you support this? Can you explain it?
www.cbsnews.com
Musk says Trump administration is on verge of shutting down USAID
Elon Musk, the administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO, says the administration is on the verge of shutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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One could argue that this shows legal crossings are subject to more scrutiny/risk, accounting for why 90% of seizures occur in these places. This leads me to believe these people are actually the worst smugglers.
I assume drones and GPS, water drops and other methods that are hard to stop are being used. China has worked to stop some chemicals from being sold. It has helped some, but the drug trafficers moved a lot of manufacturing to India.
Made the news here. Trump and his buddy Musk ****ing around with other countries like they're playing risk, I think its gonna back fire hugely. We have an election coming in the next few months the right and the far right have been parroting Trumps nonsense for months, in the last week I've sensed a pivot, I reckon their polling is coming back that Trump is about as popular as arse cancer.
Cant sue the king!!!!!!
Al-O-Meter
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It is not "random stuff". As has been said all along, Trump uses the threat of tariffs mostly for negotiation. This is what I wrote last year:
From Mexico, he wants a wall. He's thinking 10,000 Mexican soldiers can help him quickly make a wall, and that is what he got.
From Canada, I'm thinking he's not happy with the Trans-Mountain pipeline that will allow Canada to pipe our Alberta oil to Canada's west coast for loading on to tankers bound for places that aren't the United States. I don't think Canada is going to give that up, but we'll see.
Are you ****ing kidding? The Chinese are deliberately flooding the west with drugs and precursors for drugs. Almost all precursors for DDs are now imported to Australia, during the Covid border closures drugs didn't disappear but the purity and availability nose dived as did the associated drug related health and anti-social behaviours. It was a night and day difference, after about 6 moths of closed borders ours instances of violence at the hospital halved and continued to to remain at historically low numbers until the borders re-opened. Once the borders re-opened our stats gradually increased until they returned to pre-pandemic numbers.
**** the Chinese they're a pack of *****.
Why do you think Canada built this pipeline? It wasn’t because they trust the US.
Who eroded that trust starting in 2016? Through COVID, and throughout Biden’s term?
You morons don’t account for externalities out of our control. Like telling us to **** off and doing business with China.
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Al-O-Meter
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Because Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline which Canada made clear they preferred.
Canada almost built the pipeline to their ports earlier, after Obama also shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, but Trump stepped in to save our oil in Alberta.
COMMENTARY || How Donald Trump killed the Energy East pipeline
www.ualberta.ca
Then Trump lost, and Biden did everything wrong like he always does, and now Trump is trying to put the Genie back in the bottle with tariffs.
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MAGA world is trying to make hay over their discovery of Executive Order 10973, signed by JFK in Nov., 1961. They believe it means Trump has the authority to erase USAID via an E.O. That may not be the case.
View: https://x.com/steveondrugs/status/1886383629800231232
www.justsecurity.org
The 1998 statute also transfers only certain functions of USAID to the State Department, and in essence requires USAID to handle all other pre-existing USAID functions described in the Foreign Assistance Act. This means that, at a minimum, Congress asserted a role for itself in such transfers of functions as well as early as 1998.
Also in the 1998 Act, Congress gave the president a near-term, time-limited opportunity to reorganize these departments (22 USC 6601). Specifically, the Act provides, among other things, that within “60 days after October 21, 1998,” the president may, in a “reorganization plan and report” to be provided to Congress:
View: https://x.com/steveondrugs/status/1886383629800231232
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
www.justsecurity.org
Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?
No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
The 1998 statute also transfers only certain functions of USAID to the State Department, and in essence requires USAID to handle all other pre-existing USAID functions described in the Foreign Assistance Act. This means that, at a minimum, Congress asserted a role for itself in such transfers of functions as well as early as 1998.
Also in the 1998 Act, Congress gave the president a near-term, time-limited opportunity to reorganize these departments (22 USC 6601). Specifically, the Act provides, among other things, that within “60 days after October 21, 1998,” the president may, in a “reorganization plan and report” to be provided to Congress:
President Bill Clinton submitted the statutorily-envisioned report to Congress on Dec. 30, 1998, within Congress’ specified 60-day window. In that report, the Clinton administration explicitly chose to retain the independence of USAID as its own agency (while providing for certain forms of coordination and resource sharing). It stated:
Congress provided the president the opportunity to modify or revise that plan (6601(e)) until the effective date of the reorganization plan, which the 1998 Act specified as no later than April 1, 1999 with respect to some USAID functions, and Oct. 1, 1999, with respect to the opportunity for abolition of the agency (6601(g)(2)). No prospective modification or reorganization authority was granted to the president beyond those effective dates.
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Having a real President sure makes a difference. Thank goodness the adults are back in charge.
View: https://x.com/RobProvince/status/1886531267945984110?t=-AnD7BobIno2MZtX_m1rfQ&s=19
View: https://x.com/RobProvince/status/1886531267945984110?t=-AnD7BobIno2MZtX_m1rfQ&s=19
Because Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline which Canada made clear they preferred.
Canada almost built the pipeline to their ports earlier, after Obama also shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, but Trump stepped in to save our oil in Alberta.
COMMENTARY || How Donald Trump killed the Energy East pipeline
Then Trump lost, and Biden did everything wrong like he always does, and now Trump is trying to put the Genie back in the bottle with tariffs.
Biden FTW!
Happy to hear he helped Canada realize they can’t rely on the US. We’re a ****** partner and their wise foresight will serve them well in dealing with Trumps bad-faith attacks on their economy.
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MAGA world is trying to make hay over their discovery of Executive Order 10973, signed by JFK in Nov., 1961. They believe it means Trump has the authority to erase USAID via an E.O. That may not be the case.
View: https://x.com/steveondrugs/status/1886383629800231232
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?
No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:
The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
The 1998 statute also transfers only certain functions of USAID to the State Department, and in essence requires USAID to handle all other pre-existing USAID functions described in the Foreign Assistance Act. This means that, at a minimum, Congress asserted a role for itself in such transfers of functions as well as early as 1998.
Also in the 1998 Act, Congress gave the president a near-term, time-limited opportunity to reorganize these departments (22 USC 6601). Specifically, the Act provides, among other things, that within “60 days after October 21, 1998,” the president may, in a “reorganization plan and report” to be provided to Congress:
President Bill Clinton submitted the statutorily-envisioned report to Congress on Dec. 30, 1998, within Congress’ specified 60-day window. In that report, the Clinton administration explicitly chose to retain the independence of USAID as its own agency (while providing for certain forms of coordination and resource sharing). It stated:
Congress provided the president the opportunity to modify or revise that plan (6601(e)) until the effective date of the reorganization plan, which the 1998 Act specified as no later than April 1, 1999 with respect to some USAID functions, and Oct. 1, 1999, with respect to the opportunity for abolition of the agency (6601(g)(2)). No prospective modification or reorganization authority was granted to the president beyond those effective dates.
If Trump has proved one thing in his first few weeks in office it is that he doesn't give 2 ****s about the rule of law. It is meaningless when his plan is to create the first American Dictatorship. Keeping their eyes on the prize means ignoring all of this stuff. No way they can get it done the way they want if they go through normal channels. That is far too slow and encourages too much scrutiny. If they learned anything from the Nazis it is to avoid or better yet destroy scrutiny of their actions.
PJF
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Would you guys chill the hell out. He's cutting wasteful spending. Can you literally not see that?