Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Ironbite4

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Hey so yeah, this isn't actually a thing. No matter who occupies the office, it will be changed. And no, you can't just declare something a national monument and expect it to be so.

Ironbite-so Trump's having a normal one after Tuesday's ball kicking.
 

Pocket

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“It will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people in order to build something in a slightly different shape.” For instance, he suggested a future White House occupant could decide: “Let's not have an oval anymore, let’s make it square.”
So, fun fact: The only reason the Oval Office is oval is because it used to be in that curved bit above the columns in the very center of the building, and when Taft oversaw the expansion of the West Wing (initially started under Teddy Roosevelt), he wanted his new office to be a copy of the old one. The West Wing was completely rebuilt during the Hoover administration after it was damaged in a fire, and the current location of the Oval Office is in a corner where it would look pretty dumb if the entire East and West Wings weren't cropped out of nearly all photos of the place.

Oh yeah, and this sent me down quite the rabbit hole where I learned, among other things, that the entire White House has been gutted and rebuilt essentially from scratch at least twice, most recently within my parents' lifetime, so the idea that there's anything sacrosanct about its current incarnation is ridiculous.
 

KidTDragon

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I hope he does send it to Congress, just because it would be a fun way to see how many Republicans are still willing to play his stupid games now that they've been handed their pink slips.
 

Pocket

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Since when did Congress have to sign off on his executive orders anyway? I thought the whole reason he used them for everything was so he wouldn't have to ask anyone's permission.
 

Ungnome

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Since when did Congress have to sign off on his executive orders anyway? I thought the whole reason he used them for everything was so he wouldn't have to ask anyone's permission.
Congress can pass bills to kill any executive order they want unless said order falls under rights given to the President by the US Constitution. Granted, the antiquities act grants the president unilateral rights to designate federal land a national monument except in Wyoming and Alaska. It can still be undone by Congress, though.
 

Pocket

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I was talking about the part where he was taking the executive order to be "ratified". It wouldn't be the first time (or the hundredth) that Trump has announced his intention to do something that's Not A Thing, but usually he does that to bypass the limits on his powers.
 

NovaSaber

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Why does he constantly take "this can't get any stupider" as a challenge?

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(Yes, this is real.)
 

Ironbite4

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Oh it does get stupider. He was supposed to announce Dana White as the pick for Press Secretary. Dana White....who works for DoD.


Ironbite-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH his brain is fried.
 

Pocket

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Darn. I kind of liked the idea of Trump's entire Press Corps just being replaced with retired prize fighters whose job is to physically assault reporters instead of answering their questions. Because there's a point where things become so cartoonishly dystopian that it's more entertaining than depressing, you know? And the more severely Trump antagonizes the press, the more chance we have of actually getting some brutally honest reporting for a change instead of constantly glazing him.
 


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