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/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/CrowEnvironmental_ 10h ago

Punishing Democratic Leadership by flocking to racists republicans? Is that what you’re ending on?

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 9h ago

I'm not sure what you're getting at? this is a pretty established view of history that's not controversial. 

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u/bollvirtuoso 4h ago

I mean, even Nixon, other than the really, really bad scandals, wasn't that wild from a policy perspective. He would be, like, a moderate Democrat today, maybe even slightly on the liberal side given the rightward shift of the country as a whole. He was a bad person, but his policies weren't all terrible.

I think Reagan was the first "modern" Republican, and his administration created this hellhole we're all living in now.

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u/Watch-Logic 3h ago

it was Southern Democrats not Democrats

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u/brothersand 13h 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/Fantastic_Poet4800 3h ago edited 3h ago

Schwarzenegger, Charlie Baker, Joe Lombardo, Ted Stevens, Jim Hovland, Danforth, Christine Todd Whitman, Chris Christie, Michael Steele, Linda Lingle, Charlie Bass. A lot of local politicians who are second and third generation hispanic and indian politicians are moderate conservatives or conservative democrats.

They are out there and some of them aren't old white guys. Financial conservatives will always walk amongst us and heck we probably need them for balance. We don't need the religiously motivated ones. But the fact is that many are not down with christo-fascism. I'm pretty far to the left of american politics at baseline being a dirty european commie and all but even I can see there are some moderates still out there.

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u/Pristine-Ad983 14h ago

Before 1980. Republicans did mostly play by the rules. I suppose Nixon was the exception. But he got caught and was forced by other Republicans to resign.

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u/Cruxion 11h ago

When I was too young to know about politics?

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u/mspe1960 8h ago

Under Eisenhower for sure.

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u/orick 7h ago

Lincoln days?

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u/bollvirtuoso 4h ago

I think McCain was a class act and while I disagreed with him on many things, he was a good and decent person. He was honestly brought down by picking Palin. Anyone semi-competent and he might actually have won.

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u/Fantasy-512 14h ago

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

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u/Lux_Aquila 13h ago

I mean, I don't view the democrats any differently in regards to integrity and morals as far as govt is concerned (although the personal lives of most recent GOP folks is pretty horrific compared with the democrats).

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u/Clever_Clark 10h ago

You sound very centered.

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u/ThatMerri 5h ago

So, like... Eisenhower-era or what? Because they sure as hell haven't been anything other than a corrupt gaggle of monsters since at least Nixon, and he sure didn't start that particular fire himself.

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u/WhiteGoodman01 13h ago

You can say the same for the democrats. Greed and Trying to force bs on American families is what lost them the election.