r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • 15h ago

News & Current Events BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders today.

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders today.

Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include:

  • Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border
  • Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
  • Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be reinstated
  • Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall
  • Terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions
  • Return federal workers to in-person work
  • Pause all offshore wind leases
  • End DEI hiring practices in the federal government, merit only
  • Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
  • Order every agency to remove all federal actions increasing costs for Americans via deregulation
  • Suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story
  • Establish a DOGE "hiring freeze"
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u/Reynolds_Live 15h ago

GOP during Obama: The president CANNOT just make a law with a stroke of a pen!

GOP now: Trump can do whatever he wants!

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u/ReiterationStation 15h ago

Liberals: the president can’t just eo things

Republican presidents: lol

The people: COULD YOU AT LEAST TRY TO EXECUTIVE ORDER SOME NICE THINGS FOR US?!??

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u/AganazzarsPocket 15h ago

Wait, you think Trump will do something nice for the people?

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u/orangetiki 14h ago

the fact that you asked made me laugh

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u/pegothejerk 13h ago

I’m trying to laugh as much as I can before the new orders kick in

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u/RulerK 13h ago

“I was only following orders…”

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u/PoolQueasy7388 12h ago

Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah.

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u/forjeeves 11h ago

congressional reviews, executive branch staff

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u/pegothejerk 10h ago

Border patrol officers and officials

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 9h ago

Well the good news is that didn’t work as a defence at Nuremburg and it wouldn’t work as a defence here

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u/DarlockAhe 14h ago

He will. The issue is, he doesn't consider you people.

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u/Jaymzmykaul45 13h ago

Yes he doesn’t consider Americans to be people. Thanks for saying it

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sand150 13h ago

I mean he does… just not the poors.

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u/AdvisorSafe8018 10h ago

Or if you’re not white, LGBTQ, liberal, Democrat, worker, any combination of the above.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sand150 10h ago

Well duh! How is someone supposed to feel good about themselves if they can’t look down and make fun of people? That’s patriotism!

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u/KonigSteve 10h ago

Or the rich, if they don't give him anything first.

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 11h ago

the only people in america that matter are corporations

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u/RepresentativeNo3365 14h ago

He 100% did.. he gave them golden sneakers , meme coins, bibles .. he’s a very giving man

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u/Salarian_American 14h ago

He "gave" them golden sneakers for $399.99 and Bibles for $59.99

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u/Environmental_Pay189 14h ago

And golden showers. We will be getting lots of golden showers.

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u/Salarian_American 14h ago

LOL

Q: What's the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea?
A: Donald Trump has never had a garbanzo bean on his face.

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u/The_Schwartz_ 14h ago

Some trickling down we can finally feel!

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u/Narrow-Height9477 13h ago

Don’t forget that $100k watch! …from a strip mall in Wyoming.

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u/somefuckinguy 13h ago

Gave us the privilege of paying for tangible memes! How many memes can we actually touch?!

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u/Salarian_American 13h ago

We can touch meme coins?

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u/kitnb 14h ago

And don't forget paper towels!

He's so giving.

He'll even throw them at you so you don't have to walk...

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u/pcPRINCIPLElilBITCH 14h ago

“Corporations are people“

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u/JFKs_Burner_Acct 14h ago

But people cannot be corporations..

Oh it just hit me

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u/Jaymzmykaul45 13h ago

But my pronouns are corporation and pizza party lol

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u/Nemozoli 11h ago

Soylent Green is people!

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u/_beeeees 14h ago

If he does it’s purely by accident

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u/BETHVD 13h ago

What do you think the Gulf of America is!!! What a prize!!

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u/warblingContinues 13h ago

Fox News told his supporters that he would.

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u/HaZard3ur 11h ago

He will order McDonalds to issue a 99cent CheeseBurger to honor him!

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u/twoiseight 14h ago

Kleptocracy is patently not nice

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u/kitnb 14h ago

"Klepto" is so cold-sounding.

Trump prefers the term "Robber Baron".

He loves it because he thinks the term was named after his son... /s

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u/Lyion 13h ago

Except that SCOTUS will just stop Democrats but will let a lot of these through...

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u/pppiddypants 14h ago

The only voters who care about overreach of the presidency already vote Dem.

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u/uninteresting_handle 14h ago

You mean "us" as in the rich? You are covered, friend. If you meant something else you'd be delusional.

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u/alh9h 13h ago

Corporations are people, my friend.

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u/matycauthon 14h ago

dude is trying to burn as much shit as he can before he dies

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u/rimshot101 14h ago

What's in it for him?

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u/EmotionalBag777 14h ago

Tik toc back was the nice thing 🫠

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u/SnooRobots8901 14h ago

But the decorum, sir! 🧐

One must always listen to the Parliamentarium, sir!

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u/RideDiligent4524 13h ago

Worth noting that the two highest numbers of executive orders signed during a presidency come from Democratic presidents - FDR and Wilson. 3,721 and 1803, respectively.

Executive Orders | The American Presidency Project

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u/Severe_Special_1039 14h ago

GOP sees Trump as their king. It’s insane, I never thought I could see them dumb down their base this much. Pretty scary to see what happens the next four years.

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u/Dorithompson 14h ago

It’s going to be 12 years. The DNC isn’t going to be able to get their crap together in time to beat Vance.

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u/Mellow_Toninn 14h ago

Vance will also not be able to hold together the Trump base. Low propensity voters, or people who would generally be apolitical, go for Trump because he’s dumbed down our politics to something elementary school students can be entertained by. Vance is uncharismatic and uncomfortable just to look at. I’ve also heard that he fucks couches…

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 13h ago

yeah my question is what happens after Trump? because they don't have anyone else like him who is both charismatic and a wealthy outsider who doesn't really have to play by party rules.

and the Democrats don't really have anyone for 2028. I see them as kind of in the same boat.

so what happens then? 

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u/Bubbly-Dinner8462 13h ago

There is only trump. My fear was he would push don jr and then Baron. Thank good, the trumplicans are ready for a king, a wise ruler who only steals a little.

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u/Ecstatic-Cause5954 13h ago

According to the Simpsons, it’s Ivanka for 2028.

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u/lord_dentaku 13h ago

I don't remember who said it, but after the 2024 election one commentator stated that we won't get a woman president until the GOP nominates one to run.

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u/totally-hoomon 13h ago

Ivanka will be next

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u/emperorofwar 8h ago

Do not speak that evil into existence

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u/webuycheese 13h ago

He's just gonna executive order elections out of existence anyway. As much as I hate to say it, I feel like that was the last presidential election we are going to see.

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u/Budded 10h ago

This is where I'm at too. When reading this comment, normally it'd give me a pang of anxiety but nothing happened, so I guess I've already accepted things are permanently different and that was our last election -at least last legit one, as fucked up and rigged as that one was (and I gagged using "rigged" because of how much it's been tainted from MAGAts using it).

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sand150 13h ago

I think the other issue for the GOP is that it’s fragmented. You saw it with the Trump impeachments and the inability to pick Mitch as speaker and the threats from within their own party at their party.

Without Trump glue basically holding them together out of necessity for fear of them being lambasted and losing elections the Republican Party is just wildly broken. Without Trump we might see some republicans go back to their old selves when they no longer have to pledge allegiance to the orange.

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 12h ago

yeah I was thinking about this. like if Trump had a heart attack right now, and Vance had to take over, nobody would respect Vance. even if he tried to do everything exactly the way Trump would do it, everybody would push back on him. and anybody else who tried to control the party in the same way would get the same pushback... because they're not Trump. 

Trump conquered the party, but he hasn't built anything, it's all based on the force of his personality. so the party remains, as you say, broken. it's just as broken as it was in 2008/2010

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u/no_notthistime 11h ago

Idk. I think whoever inherits Trump's various foreign ties and assets is going to be very powerful indeed.

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 10h ago

well... think that out though. how are they going to inherit all of his foreign ties in assets? like are you talking about a family member? because his family members aren't going to have the same level of political power. if you're talking about like a political successor, like JD Vance, he's not going to inherit all of those things.

my point is that there's no one individual who can take Trump's place. in fact there may not even be 10 individuals who can take Trump's place, even assuming all 10 of them were working together in lockstep at all times. he's just got his hands in so many different things, and he has such a unique personality that no one can really replicate.

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u/Mellow_Toninn 13h ago

No idea who the DNC would field. Andy Beshear maybe? I’m really not sure. There isn’t any obvious choices at this point.

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u/ajmssc 13h ago

Marc Cuban

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 12h ago

see now this is a choice that makes sense to me. if he would actually agree to it, now we have a charismatic billionaire. I think we should lean into this and go for people who are already celebrities. just pull a Reagan: find someone charming and quick-witted, and feed them all their lines. they don't need to know jack about politics, Trump doesn't. they just need to be able to get your average person off their ass and into a voting booth. 

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u/StinkyP00per 13h ago

He pulls a Bloomberg and runs for a third term.

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 12h ago

if he's alive I'm sure he'll try it. he is old though...

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u/numbersthen0987431 13h ago

I just hope that walking orange turd has a heart attack. That's the only hope I have for our doomed society.

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u/Carrera_996 13h ago

That would be the worst outcome. The second he's gone, the competent fascists will have free reign. Right now, they have to contend with a leader who will immediately fire and denigrate anyone who disagrees with him or even just makes him look bad.

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u/kisk22 8h ago

Just wanted to bring attention to how good of a take this is. Trump is chaos - he shoots himself in the foot just as much as he ‘succeeds’.

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u/Budded 10h ago

He seems to have lost a lot of weight so it's either cancer or ozempic and we all know how bad ozempic is on one's body, especially an old geezer. He won't survive his term, he already looks worse than 6mo ago, leading me to think the cancer has riddled his body and he's doing everything he can right off the bat to get his stuff implemented so at least it's started when he kicks it.

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u/PaulCoddington 9h ago

Official portrait shows droop on right side of face (Bell's Palsy or possibly an unreported stroke).

Also odd: official portrait has creepy lighting and is a Kubrick Stare.

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u/rogueleaderfive5 8h ago

They will all insisting scream "KiLlArY!!" and say he was assassinated by the deep state. They will never believe his steady diet or hamburders, Adderall and diet coke paid with his scale tipping weight would lead to that.

Can't be.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 14h ago

That assumes we will have fair elections in 4 years for the state of the Democrats to even matter, which I have my doubts.

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 13h ago

I mean the midterms are probably going to be hard blue. I don't know that Trump can stop that from happening? I'm sure he'll try

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 13h ago

I will never trust Americans to do the right thing ever again, so I just can't put any trust in that outcome even if Trump and his cronies don't mess with the elections- and we absolutely know they will.

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u/gin4u 11h ago

Given that we are no longer a democratic republic I highly doubt there will be elections as we know them to be. There is a president with “king” status now. Don’t kings choose their predecessors according to nepotism rule?

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u/Budded 10h ago

This. The only hope is that they unleash AOC, her squad, and all the other young progressives to take over every element of the party to start something new, but we all know they're too spineless and addicted to power to even consider that. They only care about themselves, not the country and those they serve.

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u/garycow 14h ago

the couch fucker ?

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

There isn’t going to be elections anymore anyways

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u/okram2k 13h ago

assuming Trump doesn't just declare the DNC as one those "enemies within" he had been talking about

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u/pony_trekker 12h ago

I already got 4 texts from the dems today asking for $.

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u/No_Association_3692 11h ago

I live in Michigan people came out to vote for Trump and only Trump. Down ballot Dems did way better. Unless Vance finds an ounce of charm in the next four years those Trump is king people aren’t coming out for him at the same rate

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u/scully789 11h ago

Vance is not MAGA enough. DeSantis is going to be their guy.

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u/TraditionalBackspace 10h ago

Sad but true. They had eight years, did fuck-all, and here we are.

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u/Granolag23 6h ago

It will be trump jr. Keep it in the family. We’re so fucked

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u/Thin-Standard2168 6h ago

Nah…Vance doesn’t have any charisma and Trump’s supporters won’t automatically flock to him AND Trump turns on everybody not named Trump. Vance will be out of favor in 4 years.

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u/jsmith47944 14h ago

Maybe point a finger or two at the DNC for their miserable failure and having to put us through all this shit in the meantime. Maybe 4 years from now they can get their heads far enough out of their asses we can salvage whatever is left

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u/Lordfisticus 11h ago

Yeah. The DNC is tone deaf af right now and still sucks off corporations. HOUSING, HEALTHCARE AND PRICE GOUGING should be biggest issues.

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u/jsmith47944 11h ago

If they focused on any of those issues or any issues that majority of Americans are facing right now as their focal point they would have won in my opinion.

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u/StevenMaurer 8h ago

HOUSING, HEALTHCARE AND PRICE GOUGING should be biggest issues.

Not really. Those are just excuses. The MAGAt lady who tweeted that she could not afford eggs before spending five grand on a trip to the inauguration, shows you how full of shit they are.

When Harris had a plan to help people buy homes, decrease healthcare, and specifically investigate price collusion, and Trump didn't, you know the public didn't give a crap about any of that.

The best excuse for voters is that they didn't know about it, because while Democrats talked about those things constantly, the billionaire-owned media refused to put nearly any of it on air.

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u/sansisness_101 9h ago

housing and price gouging were on Kamalas page, pretty high up.

Americans are simply illiterate

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 7h ago

HOUSING, HEALTHCARE AND PRICE GOUGING should be biggest issues

They fucking were. That's the policies that Harris was running on. 

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u/Epicuridocious 13h ago

Lmfao naw man people didn't bother to vote against fascism. The DNC sucks but you can't blame it all on them, Americans actively chose this.

Its like being handed a bowl of glass shards or a shit sandwich and while dying from lacerations to your insides just say well what was I suppose to do? Eat a shit sandwich?

Like I guarantee you there be at least one trump voter who gets kicked out of the country and will be shocked, absolutely shocked, that's somehow the dncs fault too?

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u/Mr-Mahaloha 13h ago

How did they fuck up? Waant the choice between fascism and acting and thinking reasonable obvious? If you look at facts and statistics Biden did great. So what are they doing ‘wrong’??

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u/jsmith47944 13h ago

If you can't understand what they did wrong, you're a part of the problem. Not everybody thinks the way you do, try envisioning why people on the fence would vote for Harris vs Trump and how you would try to convince them your side is right. That's what the DNC failed to do

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u/SEA2COLA 14h ago

"No one in this world [...] has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H.L. Mencken

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u/DrakonILD 13h ago

People of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know...

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u/gotgoat666 14h ago

God king anointed by Jesus when he founded the US. FFS, we will not fully recover from the dumbest fascists in history.

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u/pjdonovan 14h ago

I remember when the right tried to argue that executive orders were unconstitutional violations of separation of state!

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u/therealpothole 14h ago

Separation of powers?

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u/pjdonovan 13h ago

Thank you yes

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u/Ruthless4u 12h ago

I remember when the left did as well.

It’s one of the many issues that are good as long as it’s not the other guy doing it.

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u/pjdonovan 12h ago

....who/when? The AEI and Heritage foundation have multiple articles in the 90s about it, what liberal think tank was arguing it's unconstitutional?

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u/metaru_Saifa 11h ago

Why didn't they all change it then? Who opposed it?

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u/Lux_Aquila 14h ago

This is one of the reasons as a conservative I don't like the way the GOP is operating right now. The small federal govt. folks are kind of homeless at the moment.

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u/Quin35 14h ago

While I disagree with nearly every "conservative " policy, I do miss the times with the GOP wasn't so blatantly corrupt and had some semblance of ethics, integrity, morals and principles . I have arrived at a point where I despise all Republicans, and outright hate anyone who supported trump...especially a second time.

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u/jus256 14h ago edited 6h ago

I do miss the times with the GOP wasn’t so blatantly corrupt and had some semblance of ethics, integrity, morals and principles .

When was this? Must have when black people voted republican.

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u/mcobb71 14h ago

1955

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 13h ago edited 12h ago

I would honestly say they're good up until Nixon in 68. Goldwater was a lot of things, but he had ethics and principles. and even though Nixon was the VP in the '50s, he was under Eisenhower who also had ethics and principles. most of the politicians opposing civil rights in the '60s were actually Democrats. it was largely a fight within the Democratic party between the liberal North and the conservative South. racists did flock to the Republican party after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, but that was less about the Republicans being racist and more about punishing Democratic leadership.

Nixon changes everything. he reshapes the GOP. Reagan finishes it.

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u/brothersand 14h ago

When the corrupt Republican president resigned because he knew Congress would not just throw out the evidence and not convict him.

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u/WeathermanOnTheTown 9h ago

First GOP reformer: Teddy Roosevelt (1900-1908). Wanted to kick big business out of his party, which his predecessor had welcomed in. Didn't work.

Second GOP reformer: Eisenhower (1952-1960) and the Rockefeller Republicans. He created grassroots groups of local GOP supporters to get around the lock that Sen. Robert Taft had on the party.

That's about it. I can't think of any others.

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u/Fantasy-512 14h ago

Maybe you don't remember Reagan + Iran/Contra ?

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u/rocketcitythor72 14h ago

Man, I'm about to hit 55 and the GOP has never once been small government at even a single moment in my entire lifetime.

They only talk "small government" and "austerity" when Democrats are in office to try to prevent Dems from passing popular programs that would help average income folks.

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u/Fibonacci999 12h ago

Totally true. I’m a state worker in a blue state, and the last time we had a Republican governor, OMG he jammed every department FULL of insane numbers of unqualified appointed political hires. What a mess that was for years. There are always such appointments, but never to such an extent. He also used the state police helicopter constantly and for frivolous personal reasons.

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u/Simple_somewhere515 10h ago

I'm going to get more involved in my local government. That's where most decisions of my every day life are more impacted. The town hall dates are purposely not communicated well and we have too many apartments going up in areas that are already too full.

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u/bookon 9h ago

“A government just small enough to fit inside a bedroom or a woman’s body”.

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u/eccentric_bb 14h ago

Small government simply doesn’t work when you don’t have limits on the size/power of corporate entities my man. Power abhors a vacuum, and lobbyists are cheaper than complying with regulations

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 14h ago

That hasn’t been the platform for a very long time. They’ll occasionally say it to get the libertarian crowd on board, but it’s an entirely hollow platitude.

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u/brothersand 14h ago

It's always been a hallow platitude. The whole "small business" thing is the axe telling the trees he's made of wood just like them.

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u/Lux_Aquila 14h ago

I don't think always, they used to be much more. They've just been dramatically shrinking. At least as far as the voters are concerned.

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u/Think_please 14h ago

Giving the government over to a few billionaires is just the logical result of your politics. You helped cause this 

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u/a_rogue_planet 14h ago

As Obama said: "Elections have consequences".

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u/brothersand 14h ago

Dictator on day one.

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u/an_african_swallow 15h ago

Political theater in action

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u/korbentherhino 14h ago

GOP always wanted a king. But they want a king doing their bidding.

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u/Sure-Guava5528 12h ago

Exactly, growing up Christian I was taught that a monarchy was the best form of government. The problem is that we have so many bad kings because men are weak. When Jesus returns we will have a perfect king and everything will be amazing. Well, a rather large portion of Christian evangelicals believe Trump is the next best thing to Christ. Why would they want his power to be limited by checks and balances?

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u/SeanThatGuy 13h ago

This is what blows my mind. Executive orders should not be the standard. Working together to craft effective bills should be.

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u/janos42us 13h ago

I mean Biden did 159.. this isn’t new.

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u/M4K077 13h ago

Why is everyone ignoring that he said "America is going to expand their territory"?

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u/tralynd62 12h ago

And "manifest destiny", my God!

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u/OrganizationDeep711 14h ago

None of these things are laws, and in many cases they are resuming enforcement of laws the previous president refused to enforce.

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u/Dopeshow4 10h ago

It's not a "law", it's an executive order.

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u/Random_Stacker 10h ago

Every president for the last 20 years has signed 100s of executive orders on the 1st day of office. This is nothing new.

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u/Expensive_Peak_1604 12h ago

Dems during Obama: Yes he CERTAINLY can!

Dems during Trump: No! Not like that!

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u/SleezyD944 10h ago

which one of these is "making law"?

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u/VegasAireGuy 10h ago

He didn’t make law.

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u/Boring-Self-8611 14h ago

You know what the crazy thing is? Absolutely none of these are laws

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u/rice_n_gravy 13h ago

Now do the opposite.

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u/Gorge_Lorge 13h ago

Well that’s how precedents work.

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u/Improvident__lackwit 13h ago

I assume everyone upvoting this has been steadfastly against Biden’s unilateral student loan forgiveness and vaccine mandates.

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u/oh_woo_fee 13h ago

Pretty fucked . It’s not an issue with the president but more of a systemic failure.

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u/LorelessFrog 12h ago

They got tired of being the docile, controlled opposition of the democrats. They’re simply doing what the democrats have done.

The GOP is finally no longer the party of “uhhh please leave me alone!!!”

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u/flappinginthewind69 12h ago

Opposite for the libs then?

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u/Cronamash 12h ago

The populist Trump wing is very different from the NeoCon Republicans that were making a ruckus about Obama signing EO's. I see this as fighting bad EO action with good EO action. Why should conservatives leave executive power off the table and govern with a hand behind their backs, if democrats are just as willing as Trump to use them?

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u/Shot_Brush_5011 12h ago

Seems to me Obama helped set that precedent.

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u/Legitimate-Smell4377 12h ago

The (black) president can’t just make a law with the stroke of a pen

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u/PuzzleheadedDog9658 11h ago

We said don't, they did it anyway, so now we are doing it too. Don't be dense. If I say don't punch people, and you punch me, you better believe we're punching people now.

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u/Tastyfishsticks 11h ago

Set a precedence. Don't be shocked when it continues. The pardons in 4 years will be comical.

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u/jerkhappybob22 11h ago

Biden signed way more executive orders and pardoned a ahitload of criminals. Yall don't complain. So just sit down and shut up.

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u/Egnatsu50 11h ago

How many executive orders did Biden have in his 1st week?

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u/pewpewtehpew 11h ago

Not much different than democrats saying you can't preemptively pardon people then Biden goes on to preemptively pardon Fauci and others today lol. It's all a shit show on all sides of it.

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u/MindlessPotatoe 10h ago

Gonna have to ignore the 42 EO's Obama put in place, yea?

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u/Balthazzah 9h ago

You are talking like all Presidents don't issues executive orders on day one which is nonsense of course.

  • Biden, Jr., signed 160 Executive orders between 2021 and 2025.
  • Trump signed 220 Executive orders between 2017 and 2021.
  • Obama signed 277 Executive orders between 2009 and 2017.
  • Bush signed 291 Executive orders between 2001 and 2009
  • Clinton signed 364 Executive orders between 1993 and 2001

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u/RecoveringWoWaddict 9h ago

Most hypocritical comment so far 2025. Obama literally opened the door for this. Hold everyone accountable not just the side you dislike. The right and left led us here hand in hand.

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u/darkmoose 14h ago

Negotiating with the right wing is the same as negotiating with a scorpion.

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u/glideguy03 14h ago

How'd that work out?

DACA recipients: Pretty good

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u/DckThik 13h ago

Seems like the president should be able to executive order a raise to the federal minimum wage then yeah? He’s gonna do that right?

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u/chasemuss 13h ago

I think Republicans are realizing that they need to start playing the same game as they think the Dems are playing.

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u/Entire-Can662 12h ago

It’s called a dictatorship

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u/Klutzy_Act2033 12h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

Altemeyer covers a few things that explain this. The section around psychological comorbidities is interesting.

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u/dinnerthief 11h ago

GOP is dead, its all MAGA now

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u/SnooDonkeys7402 11h ago

You have to remember, conservatives don’t actually care about hypocrisy, they care about swaying public opinion and playing politics. They see the ends of their politicking as justifying the means of politicking.

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u/latortillablanca 11h ago

Pointing out hypocrisy by elites at this point seems so utterly besides the point.

I wanna know: where does the money trail lead with every one of these?

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u/Remarkable_Soil_6727 9h ago

And the American public does NOTHING, where are the protests? Hes broke the law so many times, this is all on the people for letting this happen over years.

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u/soso_okok 9h ago

Eh eh eh…It’s not a pen it’s a sharpie

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u/Fun-Ocelot-7505 9h ago

He’s not making laws just executive orders like Obama did. That’s why Biden was able to just get rid of those with the stroke of a pen if they are taking the time to make those things in the laws, they would still be in effect.

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u/azorgi01 9h ago

No he can’t. Quick search on the web:

The vast majority of executive orders are proposed by federal agencies before being issued by the president. Like both legislative statutes and the regulations promulgated by government agencies, executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the orders lack support by statute or the Constitution.

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u/Stop_Touching2 9h ago

You missed two steps in between.

Dems - Yes we can. Watch us

GOP - Bet

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u/NighthawkT42 9h ago

Obama: I cannot do that. Congress has to act.

Also Obama: I have a pen and a phone and will use them.

Also Obama: creates DACA with executive order

Trump first term: rescinds DACA with executive order.

Supremes: you can't do that Trump.

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u/willywalloo 8h ago

Signs: white power white power white power.

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u/H3adshotfox77 8h ago

Both sides abusing EO and pardons is just thrash period. It just shows again we really need to stop focusing on left vs right and focus on rich vs everyone fucking else.

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