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fishonjazz said:
... override Congressional oversight on restrictions such as the ability to fire the heads of independent agencies. Trump's new executive order grants him power over various agencies such as The Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Civics lesson: There are three branches of the American government. There is the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. There is no fourth Independent Branch. That is something lefties made up. The FCC, FTC, and SEC are all in the Executive Branch, not the fictional Independent Branch. Democrats are just mad the duly elected Chief Executive is purging their lefty apparatchiks from Executive Branch agencies.
 
fishonjazz said:
Overreach anyone?

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could make him the most powerful president in history by using an obscure Constitutional theory to enact his vision of presidential authority. The new order seeks to 'reign in independent agencies' by seizing various departments that normally act in accordance with Congress and bringing them under control of the executive branch in the White House.

The order also states that the president and attorney general will interpret the law, leaving Trump free from Congressional and judicial oversight. Observers suggest that Trump is using unitary executive theory which grants the president a wide swath of authority.

The unitary executive theory also claims the president has robust powers to override Congressional oversight on restrictions such as the ability to fire the heads of independent agencies. Trump's new executive order grants him power over various agencies such as The Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Trump has signed scores of executive directives in the past three weeks, many of which have and will been challenged in the courts as potentially unconstitutional. This latest EO will likely be no exception.
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He is absolutely after the FTC and the SEC. With full control over those he could roll back a century of consumer and worker protections, and allow business to run rough-shod over everyone in the pursuit of greater and greater wealth for the top 1%.
 
fishonjazz said:

The six-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, showed 44% of respondents approved of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 45% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 24-26. Trump's approval rating stood at 47% in a January 20-21 poll conducted in the hours after the Republican's return to the White House.

The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen more substantially, to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% right after he took office.
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The issue is, can this be turned into any kind of resistance. Will they show this at the polls in the mid-terms. This will really show where the country wants to go. I don't have a ton of faith it will make any difference. We will be fully a shambles by the end of the next 4 years of full on dictatorial oppression. Hopefully a better administration can help rebuild after that. But that will be a monumental task. I am not certain we will ever recover from this.
 
LogGrad98 said:
He is absolutely after the FTC and the SEC.
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He won a free and fair election to become the Chief Executive over agencies in the executive branch such as the FTC and SEC. It was becoming the US President that he was after, and he accomplished it. Regardless of how those in the FTC and SEC feel about it, Trump is their boss.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
Dude. I know you can read. Musk said "If we can't do this, then we'll have that". It is not the same as saying "We have that", but it is saying we are in danger of becoming that if you lot get your way.
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Yeah, I can read. Musk said our federal agencies are an unelected 4th branch of government.
 
LogGrad98 said:
He is absolutely after the FTC and the SEC. With full control over those he could roll back a century of consumer and worker protections, and allow business to run rough-shod over everyone in the pursuit of greater and greater wealth for the top 1%.
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As was obviously the plan all along.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Anyway, that is how the left has been acting in regards to things that are outside of the dangers brewing on the right. They have been so focused on the "SJW" trees (I say that only as a catch-all and to point out how half of the entire country feels about it) that they cannot see the forest of all that was brewing in a way they could adjust to address. The problem is both sides are using their version of "cancel culture" to attack the other, and we are still waiting for one side to be the adult in the room, and I had hoped the left would see this and react appropriately, instead they were content calling the other side rubes and idiots and backwards-thinking fanatics, instead of trying some kind of outreach and inclusivity. And in the process they missed their chance to maybe win over the hearts and minds they needed to unseat the Orange Jesus-King of the right.
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I'm honestly not sure what this is referring to. What actions specifically do you think they took that were an example of them being too focused on the "SJW" trees? For that matter, what do you mean by SJW trees?

I ask because there were a lot of issues that I think would be considered "SJW" adjacent that the democrats careened to the right on during Biden's tenure. For example, they adopted the republicans immigration plan, they supported the crackdown on campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, they did a complete 180 on police reform. Each of these were done in part to "reach across the aisle" and attract more moderate voters.

LogGrad98 said:
So I stand by my assessment. They were so convinced they had the moral high-ground they failed to realize the only way to get someone with them there on that high ground is to reach out and pull them up, instead of continually knocking them down at every turn. And that people who are continually knocked down will inevitably latch onto the one guy promising they won't get kicked around any more. And that is exactly what has happened. That is why the left were so smug in their acceptance of Harris that they failed to see that she was a terrible candidate and leaned into the fact that at least they were morally correct that electing a woman was just as good as electing a man! And in that, they failed to see that it wasn't her woman-ness that derailed the campaign, or her blackness, although those both played a part since we now see that a good half of our country still harbor full on sexist and racist views, no, it was her utter lack of preparedness and ability to reach out and bring people together, when really she had spent a good chunk of her political career at the spear's tip of the SJW movement, or at least that was how she came across to those she actually needed to reach.
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I do agree that Democrats have largely come across as out of touch and elitist, but I'm unsure what you're referring to when you say they were "continually knocking them down." Who's them? How were they knocking them down?

The "left" was not smug in their acceptance of Harris. The establishment wing of the democratic party may have been, but the left was very skeptical. Also, I don't think the democrats chose Harris out of some concern for making the morally correct choice in selecting a black woman as their candidate. They made that choice because they had painted themselves into a corner and had no other choice available. They should have supported a primary to select a candidate to replace Biden on the ticket. The reason they didn't do this wasn't out of some SJW concern or anything like that - there clearly was no masterplan to have Harris as a candidate - it was purely based on the establishment wing refusing to cede any control over the party.
 
Zombie said:
I'm honestly not sure what this is referring to. What actions specifically do you think they took that were an example of them being too focused on the "SJW" trees? For that matter, what do you mean by SJW trees?

I ask because there were a lot of issues that I think would be considered "SJW" adjacent that the democrats careened to the right on during Biden's tenure. For example, they adopted the republicans immigration plan, they supported the crackdown on campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, they did a complete 180 on police reform. Each of these were done in part to "reach across the aisle" and attract more moderate voters.



I do agree that Democrats have largely come across as out of touch and elitist, but I'm unsure what you're referring to when you say they were "continually knocking them down." Who's them? How were they knocking them down?

The "left" was not smug in their acceptance of Harris. The establishment wing of the democratic party may have been, but the left was very skeptical. Also, I don't think the democrats chose Harris out of some concern for making the morally correct choice in selecting a black woman as their candidate. They made that choice because they had painted themselves into a corner and had no other choice available. They should have supported a primary to select a candidate to replace Biden on the ticket. The reason they didn't do this wasn't out of some SJW concern or anything like that - there clearly was no masterplan to have Harris as a candidate - it was purely based on the establishment wing refusing to cede any control over the party.
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Boy, if there ever was a time for a shift to center for Dems or a new Centrist third party with good backing, now is the time. There won't be another opportunity like this for a generation.
 
TheStormofWar said:
Boy, if there ever was a time for a shift to center for Dems or a new Centrist third party with good backing, now is the time. There won't be another opportunity like this for a generation.
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But…they did shift to the center, and it was a disaster!

I think the real issue here is that the perception of the Democratic Party among most of the public and the reality of the Democratic Party are separated by a vast ocean of misinformation and ignorance. Some of which is their own fault, to be fair (their comms are terrible).
 

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If you look at this poll and your first thought is that democrats are too woke and that’s why they’re unpopular, then maybe politics isn’t for you.


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THIS is the problem with the Democratic Party. They are completely out of touch with their own base. How the hell is a move to the center supposed to win them elections when they don’t even have the support of their own members.
 
Zombie said:

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If you look at this poll and your first thought is that democrats are too woke and that’s why they’re unpopular, then maybe politics isn’t for you.


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THIS is the problem with the Democratic Party. They are completely out of touch with their own base. How the hell is a move to the center supposed to win them elections when they don’t even have the support of their own members.
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When was the poll taken? If it was truly in Feb, then it is the reflection of the actions the democrats have taken in response to Trump attacking American. Did they have the support of their base before the election? And no one said they were "too woke", but what they leaned on was a moral superiority that manifested itself in their SJW actions, and thumbing their noses at everyone else, hence they lost those in the middle who could not vote for a party they felt was not representative of their portion of America, the swing voters, as they say. And they could not vote for a candidate with no clue what she was doing and no way to stand against Trump. I fully agree lack of communication was a big issue, as the only democrat, almost literally, giving any kind of party platform during the election was Mayor Pete, who really probably should have been the candidate all along. They screwed the pooch in not shifting their rhetoric to be more encompassing of the swing voters, and even more so, so what, screwed several pooches, in selecting an unelectable candidate. Then after all was said and done they have sat on their hands, with only really Bernie willing to speak out against the atrocities Trump is committing against the american people right now. So yes, their approval rating right now is in the toilet, as it should be. No one should be surprised Trump has a better approval rating, as that is the way it rolls with cults and cult leaders. They follow that leader to cups of poisoned kool-aid and back. Well maybe not back, but to the kool-aid anyway. The democrats need to get together pretty damn fast and start putting together a national platform that gives them a better response to Trump's ongoing coup and provides for better communications that are inclusive of those who can make a difference for them, the swing voters. Emulating the right doesn't appeal to the swing voters, it just makes them look desperate to be equally as repulsive to them. They need to shore up their base and bring over some of those more in the middle in all this, or all will be lost within the first 90 days. Clock is ticking.
 
Zombie said:
If you look at this poll and your first thought is that democrats are too woke and that’s why they’re unpopular, then maybe politics isn’t for you.
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My first thought upon looking at that poll was: LOL. It is a Quinnipiac poll.

Quinnipiac runs push polls for pay. The only thing you can learn from a Quinnipiac poll is the motivation of whomever is paying them for the poll. If you look at the internals at how the poll questions are formed, you'll see their result is all but premeditated.
 
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I started listening to it today.
 
Dems vs. GOP - Last 50
YearsPresidency held: Dem - 22 years, GOP - 28yrs
Stock Market Return: Dem - 992%, GOP - 109%
Total Jobs Created: Dem- 42 million, GOP - 24 million
Income Growth: Dem - 2.2%, GOP - 0.6%
GDP: Dem - 4.1%, GOP - 2.7%
 
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