Donald Trump and US politics
" That is exactly the point of the executive branch, though. Sometimes you need an entity that can issue decisions without deliberation; when even small amounts of hesitation and delay are disastrous. I don't think what the executive branch currently does (aside from explicitly the decision to enact a military action) needs that kind of immediacy, though. And anyone paying attention should be worried by executive power growth year-after-year since... FDR. If outright power-stripping isn't on the table, I'm on board for replacing the "head" of the executive branch with a set of 3 people and requiring quorum votes for any action. Still a million times faster than going through a full Congressional vote or through the judicial process of a small amount of people poring over every detail before making any decision, but prevents "madman" situations. tl;dr bring back the triumverate Last edited by pneuma#0134 on Jul 31, 2017, 8:00:16 PM
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Oh Donny....
at least he keeps things interesting I dont see any any key!
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" I watched this on c-span the other day and it gives really good insight on what went on at that meeting. https://www.c-span.org/video/?431852-1/william-browder-overturning-magnitsky-act-putins-top-priority Last edited by SnowCrash#1157 on Jul 31, 2017, 11:27:31 PM
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Trumps lawyer regarding the aforementioned statement from Donny Junior
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 GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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The idea of a triad executive is a bad one. The executive branch is not and should not be a deliberative body, considering only the proposals put before it; it is not supposed to haves its ideas challenged internally.
When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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" We need all the various modes of authority for different tasks. - One person, small groups, larger groups, everyone... - Unanimity, supermajority, quorum... - Assigned permanently, elected repeatedly, elected with term limits, selected randomly... - Checked by another mode of authority... (Or the hidden option of not needing authority for the task in the first place, such as a market solution.) The executive branch is controlled by one person acting by unanimity, elected with term limits, with a few checks from the judicial and legislative branches. That is great assuming that the executive branch only gets assigned exactly the tasks that need that solution. That is not the case currently -- our task-bucketing was imperfect. It should be obvious to everyone that the act of reverting all predecessors' executive orders and instituting your own back and forth is a sign that we are not using the right system for the right tasks. The scope of those executive orders is also wildly shifting. It should also be obvious that putting a world-killing button in the hands of one person is a catastrophe waiting to happen, for exactly the same reasons that a command economy controlled by one person's decisions is a historical catastrophe that continues to be repeated. It's extremely hard to get this right and nobody should expect to know this answer a priori. There aren't great proofs on who best solves what task, especially when the tasks at hand are being created daily as new technology is created, or as various resources are discovered or exhausted. That being said, historical results are important and experimentation is important. We so easily fall into the trap of forgetting how urgently important it is to continue to experiment -- we bleed for a revolution, institute a system, maybe make minor changes here and there, but mostly sit around and wait for it to fall over. I'm not saying "tear it all down". When we find systemic incorrectness, we should start talking about how to re-assign those tasks instead of doubling down on a system that isn't the right fit. |
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BB Mooch
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current white house theme song, with all the firings and such
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_DNrKVrQ8 I dont see any any key!
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