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The president isn’t a king.
by stanleykm 2y ago
The president isn’t a king.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoYou and I would like to think that, but he's been given carte blanche by the people who should be his checks and balances and the supreme court has made anything he does in the course of his duties legal.
- dylan604 2y agoIn what ways is a president restricted from acting like a king when the other two bodies of government meant to act as a check and balance have capitulated any of those checks and essentially give carte blanche to the president?
- outside1234 2y agoIt is a good question. Hopefully we get an answer before we are all bankrupt. No idea why the markets aren't in freefall at this point.
- hatthew 2y agoI guess the markets think we'll get an answer before a full collapse
- Marsymars 2y agoWhere would you park your money rather than US equities?
- icedchai 2y agoI'm skeptical that billionaires will tank the very thing from which all their wealth is derived, at least not long term. We will continue to see tremendous short term volatility.
- dylan604 2y ago> at least not long term. But this is the very thing. In every single financial crisis, the uber wealthy accumulate even more at the expense of everyone else that is loosing everything.
- outside1234 2y agoYes - they have the resources to buy the crashing things at a discount.
- psytrancefan 2y agoThis is all the Curtis Yarvin influence. There is that period in US history that the president was acting more like a king, Taft to FDR. They were doing much more executive orders then that we have been use to the past 80 years. It all is quite unsettling. Then the fact it is Trump doing this is just something else all together too. I am a bit worried how the country is going to deal with this level of change. We aren't even 3 weeks in.
- seattle_spring 2y agoSurprised Yarvin hasn't been mentioned much on HN since this all started. The last few weeks have been a transparent implementation of his plans.