All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[pErvinalia]

Yebbut Obama called a national emergency once.

12 times, to be precise,

That's even worse!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Grounds for more 'accomplishment' chest thumping:

'It's official: Trump's policies deter EPA staff from enforcing the law'

EPA’s data indicate that it initiated and concluded approximately 1,800 civil judicial enforcement cases in 2018 — fewer than half the number it handled in fiscal 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration. The agency required violators to invest $3.95 billion to control their excessive pollution last year, a far cry from the $21.3 billion in pollution control expenditures that resulted from EPA enforcement in 2011. Similarly, the total amount of administrative and civil penalties that EPA extracted from environmental violators was at its lowest level in the past decade, thus reducing the disincentive for companies to break the law. The same was true with regard to the number of criminal cases opened by the agency in 2018 and the number of defendants charged with federal pollution crimes — all were down to the lowest levels in ten years.

Contributing to those dismal numbers was a dramatic decline in EPA’s facility inspections and plant evaluations. Those activities fell to 10,600 in 2018 — less than 50 percent of the number of plant visits conducted by the agency in 2010.

[JimC]

I suspect that the Republican view that god gave man dominion over the Earth means we can fuck it up if holy profit demands it...

[Cunt]

Remind me again - what's this particular and unremarkable emergency about?

See? It doesn't matter what the 'emergency', it's a simple, boring bureaucratic device to move funding around.

Not only is it not a national emergency, but Trump himself has said there's no need for declaring one.

Exactly.

Bureaucratic device used by many presidents for many occasions. Hell, probably other presidents have used this to declare 'emergencies' thousands of miles outside the US border.

Just a guess, though.

[pErvinalia]

Guessing is all you'll ever do, as that appears to be the limit of your intellectual curiosity.

[Hermit]

Remind me again - what's this particular and unremarkable emergency about?

See? It doesn't matter what the 'emergency', it's a simple, boring bureaucratic device to move funding around.

It matters a lot. Emergency laws are much more than a simple, boring bureaucratic device to move funding around. They enable the executive branch of government to bypass the legislative. In the US that means the president can govern independently from the law. Democratic governments have been replaced by dictatorships using them.

Please familiarise yourself with the concept of separation (or balance) of powers. It is an important one.

[Seabass]

Andrew McCabe: The full 60 Minutes interview (video and transcript)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mcc ... 019-02-17/

[Scot Dutchy]

That is what Trump wants to be a tin pot dictator. He still thinks he is on television with his stupid show.

[Hermit]

Andrew McCabe: The full 60 Minutes interview (video and transcript)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mcc ... 019-02-17/

If you want people to possibly watch a half hour interview, you better provide an executive summary first, mate. Even just copypasting the précis written by CBS will do.

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump is trying to be a real dictator; you criticise him he will take retribution.

Donald Trump talks of 'retribution' after Alec Baldwin sketch on SNL

Parody about ‘faking’ national emergency hits nerve with president, who calls for Saturday Night Live to be investigated

Never mind freedom speech.

[pErvinalia]

Trump is a liberal. [/42]

[Brian Peacock]

"Retribution!"

[Animavore]

What a fragile ego. This so-called "strong arm" politician.

[Tero]

USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!

[Tero]

All these kids grew up to give us the present ignorant county