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Trump administration 2024-2028

Jarnhamar said:
It's wishful thinking believing congress or the Supreme Court is going to reign Trump in. He's just doing what he wants leaving is detractors to look at each other and yell that's not allowed.
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Trump produces bewildering policies on a daily basis. Congress can't match the WH decision cycle even with one party holding both chambers and a Senate supermajority. Instead of just wish-casting, does anyone have even a short list of 3 things Congress ought to be doing - preferably 3 things that could be negotiated with Congress as it is currently constituted, that wouldn't be DOA because of poison pill legislative provisions that both parties customarily try to sneak into every bill?

USSC can only deal with cases brought before it, aren't going to take up cases brought by people without standing, and are going to stick pretty much to the constitution as written, not as imagined. That means the executive has quite a bit of leeway. So, again, what is it that ought to be reigned in that would be relevant and likely to succeed if brought before the USSC?

The fact the current budgeting stand-off ("shutdown") isn't dominating news should be a clue that the WH is maintaining a tempo that is going to require opponents to pick only a very few really well-chosen battles. The Democratic/NeverTrumpNeoCon strategy of picking every possible fight isn't working well. But for some groups other than those two, what would be a couple of useful ones?

[Add: to be remotely practical, CoAs should probably not be at odds with latitude taken by or granted to previous administrations.]
 
Jarnhamar said:
I'll believe the US will do something about Trump when they stop withholding the Epstein files.
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Oh my, how I hope those are released. As I've explained a couple of times, if there was anything in there that could really burn Trump, it would already have made it to open air. So that just leaves other people being protected, and obviously a lot of people need to learn the lesson I just mentioned. Quiet common sense ain't doing it; massive damage to a few unfortunates always seems to be the only path.
 
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PrairieFella said:
That is some evil shit by the US government right there. They have money for a bloody ballroom, but can't keep up the poor afloat with food they rely on.
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"They". Aren't some of the costs of Trump's Versailles being paid by donation?
 
Remius said:
Sponsors? Yes. Donations indicate altruism. This is anything but if you believe that…
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Oh, no doubt. But people aren't going hungry due to changes in government policy because people privately choose where to spend their money. Money being wholly fungible, at least those donations amount to some tiny, tiny fraction of US government resources not being spent on the project. Some might see that as a good thing.

Apparently some noses are out of joint down there in part because sometimes they have to hold functions in tents. Why can't they be more frugal with official buildings, like Canada, one wonders?
 
Brad Sallows said:
Oh, no doubt. But people aren't going hungry due to changes in government policy because people privately choose where to spend their money. Money being wholly fungible, at least those donations amount to some tiny, tiny fraction of US government resources not being spent on the project. Some might see that as a good thing.

Apparently some noses are out of joint down there in part because sometimes they have to hold functions in tents. Why can't they be more frugal with official buildings, like Canada, one wonders?
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I didn’t argue that. It’s their building. Wreck it for all I care.

I don’t buy the “donations” bit. We all know what it really is. Everything there is transactional.
 
Remius said:
I don’t buy the “donations” bit. We all know what it really is. Everything there is transactional.
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That kind of donating isn't geographically limited to "there". It isn't as if political donations are altruistic.
 
Altair said:
I get the weird sense that @QV isn't debating in good faith here.

For example, he says a bunch of stuff that Canada shouldn't do, boycotts, but doesn't say what Canada should do. It's almost like he wants Canada to do....nothing. I wonder who in this cross border relationship this helps?
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Thought it's been pretty clear from the get go. Export O&G, more pipes south, east and west. Develop all other resources for export markets. No counter tariffs. Drop all policy that make it harder to do business in Canada, make it much easier and more profitable. Eliminate interprovincial trade barriers. Do absolutely effing not insult the American leadership (which is easy to do with 47). No ads in US that counters their administration. Don't boo foreign anthems. Don't engage in foreign policy that is likely ultimately meaningless but will rile up the Americans (recognize Palestinian state). Don't create symbolic wedges in a-political topics for political reasons. Make and follow through on principled commitments to international agreements like NATO. I don't know... pretty standard stuff for being serious and trying to prosper while engaging in difficult diplomacy.
 
In the newest crazy shit to come out of the White House social media - unlicenced HALO:CE x ICE posters!

For those of the more baby boomerish persuasion here that may not be familiar with the HALO games, the Flood is a parasitic hivemind, much like the Borg.

Thats a neat thing to compare migrants when saying they must be destroyed.

The fuck is going on?

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dapaterson said:
As of Sunday US food programs to support low income households (many of who work full time - it's an indirect labor subsidy from the US feds to large employers) have no funding.

Imagine if the GoC announced a program to buy surplus from Canadian farmers to donate to US SNAP recipients - "Our complaints are with POTUS, not the people".
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I believeVenezuela once donated home heating oil to the Eastern US during a prolonged cold snap.
Nobody objected, nobody said thank you either.
 
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