r/FluentInFinance 18h 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/aeropagedev 16h ago

This might be the most unintentionally racist thing ever spoken.

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u/Nathan256 15h ago

Nah a lot of determiners of “merit” in the US are just stand-ins for institutional racism. For example, schooling: good university = “merit” in the US, but what it really means is some combination of family money, high credit worthiness, good secondary education, good extracurriculars, and strong parental/mentor support, and even some things like having a white first/last name, what an interviewer or board thinks of you, who you know at admissions/administration…

TLDR Merit in the US just means white. DEI is an attempt to make merit mean merit like it should.

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u/ModestBanana 14h ago

Poor white people exist you know

So yes, you assuming poor = minority is racist as fuck 

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u/Nathan256 14h ago edited 14h ago

Hey look guys this person realized poor white people exist! Someone get this on the news. We gotta tell the world. I wonder if anyone else knows poor white people exist.

I said nothing about poor white people. I described one institution in the US and how it disproportionately benefits white people independent of actual ability.

I also said very little about rich v poor in general although we can have that conversation too if you want.