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The headline made it sound sort of bad, but reading this and the WSJ article, it makes you wonder why it wasn’t done sooner.
by eksemplar 8y ago
The headline made it sound sort of bad, but reading this and the WSJ article, it makes you wonder why it wasn’t done sooner.
- Tim_Norton 8y agoBecause Trump is scary!
- jrnichols 8y agoThat's what I've been gathering too. Trump signed a few bills recently, and while they weren't his administration's bill in the first place, that hasn't stopped the media (and definitely social media) from trash talking Trump constantly. It's almost as if people that hate Trump with the ferocity that they do are incapable of reporting anything positive and just saying "Ok, this was a good thing."
- tartuffe78 8y agoSomeone I worked with once told me that putting anything he does in a good light risks "normalizing his behavior". Shows how polarized these times are.
- ceejayoz 8y ago> Trump signed a few bills recently, and while they weren't his administration's bill in the first place This is a bizarre statement. If he's signing the bill, his administration - and him specifically - is explicitly endorsing it. That's the whole point of the thing.
- jrnichols 8y agoI don't think it's a bizarre statement to note that a few of the bills that he has signed did not originate with the Trump administration itself.
- ceejayoz 8y agoHe is responsible for what he signs, regardless of origination. He has the option to not sign if he objects to one; it's entirely fair to criticize him for signing a particular bill into law even if it originated somewhere else.
- collyw 8y ago>It's almost as if people that hate Trump with the ferocity that they do are incapable of reporting anything positive and just saying "Ok, this was a good thing." Have a look at places like r/politics on Reddit. People were seriously arguing with me that his nasty tweets were more serious than the possibility of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
- ceejayoz 8y agoThe possibility of North Korean nuclear disarmament is pretty close to zero - especially after Bolton started spouting off about a Libya-style ending for Kim Jong-Un. The chances of Trump tweets ramping up tension to the point where a mistake gets made and North Korea shells some South Koreans seems higher. It's not like they've needed much provocation to do that in the past.
- collyw 8y agoTrump derangement syndrome here as well. I thought this place was a bit more grown up.
- nil_pointer 8y agoThat place is ferociously biased, consistently
- gnopgnip 8y agoBecause it will make some goods much more expensive for everyone in the US. This can have unintended consequences.
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