Today was a pretty bad day for American democracy IMO. The guy below me got downvoted and yea his comment wasn’t the greatest but I directionally agree with him.
Pardons are out of control: Biden starts the day pardoning people he thinks might be caught in the political crossfire (Fauci, Milley, others) and more of his family members. Then Trump follows it up by pardoning close to all the Jan 6 defendants. The ship has sailed on whatever “constraints” pardons supposedly had, although you could argue Trump already made that true 4 years ago.
Ever More Executive Orders: Trump signed ~25 executive orders (and even more “executive actions”—don’t worry about the difference unless you like betting markets). This included withdrawing from WHO and ending birthright citizenship, though the latter is unlikely to stick since it’s probably unconstitutional. I haven’t had time to wade through all the EOs but like the pardons, this seems to be a cancerous growth of executive encroachment on the other branches with no clear end in sight.
Pre$idential $hitcoins: To be fair, the $TRUMP coin happened a few days ago, with $MELANIA following more recently. I’m not sure if people remember this, but it was a genuine scandal when Trump didn’t release his tax returns in 2016. Now, 8 years later, he is at best using his office to scam American citizens. Less charitably he has created a streamlined bribery pipeline. It was a blip in the news cycle.
Today was a pretty bad day for American democracy IMO. The guy below me got downvoted and yea his comment wasn’t the greatest but I directionally agree with him.
Pardons are out of control: Biden starts the day pardoning people he thinks might be caught in the political crossfire (Fauci, Milley, others) and more of his family members. Then Trump follows it up by pardoning close to all the Jan 6 defendants. The ship has sailed on whatever “constraints” pardons supposedly had, although you could argue Trump already made that true 4 years ago.
Ever More Executive Orders: Trump signed ~25 executive orders (and even more “executive actions”—don’t worry about the difference unless you like betting markets). This included withdrawing from WHO and ending birthright citizenship, though the latter is unlikely to stick since it’s probably unconstitutional. I haven’t had time to wade through all the EOs but like the pardons, this seems to be a cancerous growth of executive encroachment on the other branches with no clear end in sight.
Pre$idential $hitcoins: To be fair, the $TRUMP coin happened a few days ago, with $MELANIA following more recently. I’m not sure if people remember this, but it was a genuine scandal when Trump didn’t release his tax returns in 2016. Now, 8 years later, he is at best using his office to scam American citizens. Less charitably he has created a streamlined bribery pipeline. It was a blip in the news cycle.