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You may not like the executive action rollercoaster, but it’s the one you’re on. Republicans would torpedo anything like this in Congress unless Democrats can

You may not like the executive action rollercoaster, but it’s the one you’re on. Republicans would torpedo anything like this in Congress unless Democrats can get 60 non-centrist senators (which is not gonna happen). So you can either get this when Democrats are in the white house, or you can just not get it at all.

kfrzcode 2y ago
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- lukev 2y ago
  Unless it’s bloat in the military or corporate welfare , or big-brothering what people do with their bodies.
- Cody-99 2y ago
  You think basic labor regulations is bloat and big brother? Can't tell if you are trolling or not haha.
- panja 2y ago
  No Republicans are not doing this for small government, they're doing it because democrats did it
- plagiarist 2y ago
  That statement doesn't really have a lot of credibility when "States' Rights" is what Republicans turn to only after they fail to legislate something at a federal level.
- Uehreka 2y ago
  If you don’t want the government to prevent noncompetes, then they’re going to happen. Workers lack the collective bargaining abilities to force employers to do away with them.
  - shiroiushi 2y ago
    That's certainly all true, but there's a good argument that it's really the responsibility of Congress and/or the state legislatures to write laws banning non-competes. Having a federal agency do it is basically an ugly hack. Of course, the counter-argument is that Congress and the state legislatures are too broken to write these laws as they should, because they don't really work for the people, but rather the corporations (except, surprisingly, in California where non-competes are non-enforceable), and that this ugly hack is therefore necessary and the only workable solution. But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity?
    - Uehreka 2y ago
      > But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity? We’re already there, we’ve been there for over a decade at this point. It says nothing good about the future of the US, but nothing’s going to change, so in the immediate moment we need to play the hand we’re dealt.
- ActorNightly 2y ago
  Republicans run on the platform of small government, but then what that basically means is deficient spend, line their own pockets, and then let democrats fix the issues, then blame the issues on the democrats. They have demonstrated this twice, and now are the laughing stock of the entire world as the big orange baby is leading the party off a cliff. Democrats are literally the only option left. They may not be optimal, but at least they actually do stuff that matters.
  - kfrzcode 2y ago
    You are inculcated and yet provide no hard evidence to convince me. Invert your position and consider, empathetically, that I feel just as strongly that Trump is the clear only option for this election cycle. What do you immediately feel when trying on that empathetic lens? Disgust? Anger? Emotion? Or can you provide an unbiased, data-driven set of metrics from which you would base a decision?
lolinder 2y ago
Or we nuke the authority of the executive branch to write laws of any sort and force Congress to fix itself. Republicans play exactly the same "we can only get anything done through the presidency" game with their base and would be just as hampered at delivering anything useful if the executive were stripped of its accumulated powers. The growing administrative state created Congressional deadlock, not the other way around—it changed the game and made the optimal move for either party be to hang everything on the presidency, killing compromise. The only path towards breaking the stalemate in Congress is eliminating the ability of either party to deliver anything through the side channels they found in the executive.
colechristensen 2y ago
Clearly, according to the courts and several recent actions including at the Supreme Court, it is not the roller coaster we're on, any longer at least. And I welcome it. The fact that Congress is dysfunctional is a different topic, we shouldn't applaud paving the way to dictatorship because we don't like Congress neglecting its duty.

kfrzcode 2y ago

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lukev 2y ago
Unless it’s bloat in the military or corporate welfare , or big-brothering what people do with their bodies.
Cody-99 2y ago
You think basic labor regulations is bloat and big brother? Can't tell if you are trolling or not haha.
panja 2y ago
No Republicans are not doing this for small government, they're doing it because democrats did it
plagiarist 2y ago
That statement doesn't really have a lot of credibility when "States' Rights" is what Republicans turn to only after they fail to legislate something at a federal level.
Uehreka 2y ago
If you don’t want the government to prevent noncompetes, then they’re going to happen. Workers lack the collective bargaining abilities to force employers to do away with them.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  That's certainly all true, but there's a good argument that it's really the responsibility of Congress and/or the state legislatures to write laws banning non-competes. Having a federal agency do it is basically an ugly hack. Of course, the counter-argument is that Congress and the state legislatures are too broken to write these laws as they should, because they don't really work for the people, but rather the corporations (except, surprisingly, in California where non-competes are non-enforceable), and that this ugly hack is therefore necessary and the only workable solution. But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity?
  - Uehreka 2y ago
    > But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity? We’re already there, we’ve been there for over a decade at this point. It says nothing good about the future of the US, but nothing’s going to change, so in the immediate moment we need to play the hand we’re dealt.
ActorNightly 2y ago
Republicans run on the platform of small government, but then what that basically means is deficient spend, line their own pockets, and then let democrats fix the issues, then blame the issues on the democrats. They have demonstrated this twice, and now are the laughing stock of the entire world as the big orange baby is leading the party off a cliff. Democrats are literally the only option left. They may not be optimal, but at least they actually do stuff that matters.
- kfrzcode 2y ago
  You are inculcated and yet provide no hard evidence to convince me. Invert your position and consider, empathetically, that I feel just as strongly that Trump is the clear only option for this election cycle. What do you immediately feel when trying on that empathetic lens? Disgust? Anger? Emotion? Or can you provide an unbiased, data-driven set of metrics from which you would base a decision?

lolinder 2y ago

Or we nuke the authority of the executive branch to write laws of any sort and force Congress to fix itself. Republicans play exactly the same "we can only get anything done through the presidency" game with their base and would be just as hampered at delivering anything useful if the executive were stripped of its accumulated powers. The growing administrative state created Congressional deadlock, not the other way around—it changed the game and made the optimal move for either party be to hang everything on the presidency, killing compromise. The only path towards breaking the stalemate in Congress is eliminating the ability of either party to deliver anything through the side channels they found in the executive.

colechristensen 2y ago

Clearly, according to the courts and several recent actions including at the Supreme Court, it is not the roller coaster we're on, any longer at least. And I welcome it. The fact that Congress is dysfunctional is a different topic, we shouldn't applaud paving the way to dictatorship because we don't like Congress neglecting its duty.