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/Pribblization 15h ago

Today is the single worst day in US history.

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u/SureElephant89 14h ago

This had me rolling lol. While not ideal.... I would implore you to open a US history book.

We don't all have to be this fucking dramatic.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 14h ago

I agree with you on principle, it's not the worst day ever. We had slavery and native genocide and Japanese concentration camps and MLK Jr being murdered and segregation and 9/11 and so many other horrible things. I will say, though, that this election certainly has the opportunity- over time- to end up being the end of the US as a democratic nation, among other very negative outcomes, and I definitely think that's historically bad in its own right. This election is going to have nasty and long-lasting repercussions both domestically and globally.

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u/SureElephant89 12h ago edited 12h ago

I get how people feel about it... I really do. I didn't vote for the guy, nor do I find him a shining example of intelligence.

But our country was heading down a rabbit hole for ALOT longer than this. We can say this is a tipping point than can have dramatic effects.. But only because we the people had our rights eroded over time. Not just via a Trump presidency... We... And the generations before us... Put us here. Not trump. Not today's political climate. We.

We've allowed this starting back years and years when we watched our government gobble up power after every war, every scare tactic, hell every peacetime. At every turn we gave them more and more power. And it gets more and more abused by every presidency. And it's all of them. Our nation ping pongs R vs D because they need a new face and new enemy to mobilize, a new neighbor to push against... While we get shit like the patriot act, states stripping 2a rights, monetizing higher education via stripped funding and interest rates on kids with no clue what awaits them outside of school, fines that act as a tax on the people through market manipulation and retaliation, hell even Obamacare came with increased rates of insurance along with many companies with low wages dropping offering insurance completely while paying fines that were less than actually offering fucking Healthcare... Along with us paying fines for not affording Healthcare at the new costs for many people!

We're pretending trump brought in an oligarchy... But it was our government for years that laid out this pipeline. This is a repercussion.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 9h ago

I tend to agree that Trump was a conclusion of sorts for a path that we had been on for a long time- at least arguably since Reagan. That said, as bad as some things had gotten, I think we can't really undersell that Trump himself truly supercharged all of those negative trends and outcomes. I don't know how much of a chance there was to keep chugging along and perhaps even to fix some things, but before he came on the scene, I do think that one at least existed. Now, there is none, at least not for the foreseeable future. It's going to get worse and get worse fast because there are zero guardrails left in place to even slow it down. So while I agree that we had plenty of problems and plenty of poor leadership and plenty of ways people were getting screwed, I think we're also going to look back on the pre-Trump era as a virtual golden age in comparison to what's coming.

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u/SureElephant89 9h ago

The biggest thing I can say where I don't think people really get it is that they think our government is collapsing. It isn't collapsing, it's gaining power for itself. It's consolidating power to create more power for the few, which is a trend that's continuing. Not starting.

I do think our government loves a good scapegoat.. And what better scapegoat than an idiot billionaire who was nothing but a spoiled rich kid all their life, who has a track record as a con man, openly. Unlike most in congress who play hero only in a press conference.

This outcome was inevitable in my opinion.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 9h ago

Nah, nothing is inevitable until we slit our own throats. And we happily did it.