They do, it’s called “voting”. Unfortunately, this “liberal democracy” (which it hasn’t been a true-democracy in over a century) has a large portion of voters that refuse to execute their civil duty as a citizen of a city-state.
Essentially, people want all the benefits of living in a society without putting forth the work required to maintain it. Cracks eventually start to show, corruption leaks in, and that’s how fascism begins to grow in the cellar of Democracy’s home. That’s how we’ve gotten where we are.
It’s kind of a case by case basis is my understanding. The president does have pretty broad emergency powers but the courts can block any individual one if they feel it’s overstepping.
Quickly becoming his go to play. It’s how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There’s probably more that I’m unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy
Building “freedom cities” for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:
Freedom Cities will be built on federal land that is undeveloped and not part of any of our country’s magnificent national parks or other natural treasures.
Which I assume means they’ll be built on your parks?
(for anyone scrolling past like, “wtf are freedom cities” - it’s feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here’s one to start.)
Perhaps to mitigate the repercussions from tariffs on lumber from Canada. We saw a bailout for farmers impacted by his previous tariffs, the administration may actually believe the national forests can save Trump from the consequences of his actions.
Everything else aside… What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?
Have to urgently circumvent Congress.
Nothing. The “emergency order” is entirely so he doesn’t have to go through Congress to do it.
i thought liberal democracies had mechanisms to stop this from happening!
They do, it’s called “voting”. Unfortunately, this “liberal democracy” (which it hasn’t been a true-democracy in over a century) has a large portion of voters that refuse to execute their civil duty as a citizen of a city-state.
Essentially, people want all the benefits of living in a society without putting forth the work required to maintain it. Cracks eventually start to show, corruption leaks in, and that’s how fascism begins to grow in the cellar of Democracy’s home. That’s how we’ve gotten where we are.
“I can do anything I want if it’s an emergency!”
Dang i wonder if we can find example of emergency powers eroding democracy in the past now…
Of course I’ll resign as dictator after the emergency is over, fellow Romans! This is the way it’s always been done!
Not from a jedi…
“And I get to say when it’s an emergency!”
But does this type of EO have legal backing?
It’s kind of a case by case basis is my understanding. The president does have pretty broad emergency powers but the courts can block any individual one if they feel it’s overstepping.
Quickly becoming his go to play. It’s how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There’s probably more that I’m unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy
Replacing timber we previously got from Canada before the screaming from the industries that use lumber that is now tariffed gets too loud.
I don’t know enough about those industries to know if it’ll work, though.
I don’t think we have the sawmill capacity.
and its the forests timber is not even good quality too.
probably something to distract the masses, from all the federal cuts, and tariffs from the news,
Maybe because the dumb fuck instituted tariffs that makes lumber prohibitively expensive? I don’t know. Nothing makes any fucking sense anymore.
Building “freedom cities” for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:
Which I assume means they’ll be built on your parks?
(for anyone scrolling past like, “wtf are freedom cities” - it’s feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here’s one to start.)
gotta find some work to do for the chauvinist american workers
Almost like they’re fully comforatble with reckless corruption.
They are fully comfortable with reckless profits. Corruption is just the price to pay.
Perhaps to mitigate the repercussions from tariffs on lumber from Canada. We saw a bailout for farmers impacted by his previous tariffs, the administration may actually believe the national forests can save Trump from the consequences of his actions.
Profit
I guess domestic demand is high because we certainly can’t export them.
The MDF furniture must flow
‘emergency’ is a word that means the executive does what they want