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tbf it's not hard to convince hayseed chucklefuck trumplings that regulations which exist to protect them are a bad thing because they cost money. we had condo buildings collapsing and people dying WITH regulations.
when bridges start collapsing left and right, they'll blame drag queens and the maga trumpistan patriots will lap it up like hogs at the trough
we had condo buildings collapsing and people dying WITH regulations.
Further proof that regulations don't work! The Invisible ~~Sky Daddy~~ Hand shalt self-correct! All is right with the world! Praise be unto The Market, may its blessed Line forever Go Up.
Now, let us prey.
Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.
This is ridiculous how difficult it is to get this law through. Clearly it must be something good. I am 100% behind it.
The problem is that it isn't a law, it's a regulation.
On the one hand, the Republicans are definitely playing politics by attacking the ability of agencies to come up with regulations. But on the other, it really is just another example of how various parts of the US government have been ceding or delegating their responsibilities around willy-nilly in ways that weren't constitutionally intended. Congress hasn't made a declaration of war since 1942, despite all the wars the US has entered into since then. The Supreme Court was never even intended to decide the constitutionality of laws, that's something they declared for themselves and everyone's just gone along with it since then. The debt ceiling limit is just plain incoherent, Congress allocates money so a budget they pass should automatically override previous legislation (like the debt ceiling limit).
I don't know what the US should do to resolve all this, but it's getting to be quite the mess.
I don’t know what the US should do to resolve all this, but it’s getting to be quite the mess.
it really is just another example of how various parts of the US government have been ceding or delegating their responsibilities around willy-nilly
This is the big one. Congress has been delegating their power to the Executive for decades. Rather than meaningful law, they tell the Executive to make regulations that don't stand the test of time. Congress needs to pass laws again, instead of delegating large swaths of their power.
I can see it being difficult to keep up with the law-writing given how much more complicated the world is now than when Congress was first established. To keep things working properly there should really be a whole lot more congressmen, Congress hasn't been expanded in a long time and representation is starting to get pretty wonky as a result.
When you get right down to it, I think the root of the problem is just that the American system of governance is just too old. It was one of the first big democracies so it was built without any prior experience of what worked well and what didn't, and the patches it's had since it was established have been too minor and are too difficult to apply for it to keep up with things. But a large swath of the American public have been indoctrinated that American democracy is the "greatest in the world" and that the US constitution is a sacred document, so major changes are nigh on impossible even if American politics wasn't in such a dysfunctionally divided state.
All in all, I'm glad not to be in their shoes right now. Though my own country (Canada) is having some political problems of its own these days they feel more resolvable than all this.
2025 is off to a good start.
........is it?
Dumpster fire speedrun any%
I was surprised that it wasn't the fifth circuit, then my shock faded: the sixth administers Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as Michigan.
The very first thing I checked for is which circuit it was, too, haha...
Of course the Loper Bright decision is going to be used to prevent federal agencies with helping improving anything. Judges be like "You can't rein in this corporate abuse because there's an app for it, bro. Totally different!"
its so scary to me what they are doing when they have not even been seated yet.
Does anyone know where President Muskrat stands on NN? Maybe there might be some silver lining there in that whole shit show :(
He has never been pro-net neutrality.
He is willing to throttle traffic that he doesn't like, which is explicitly anti-net-neutrality.
Sir Lord President Muskovitch owns an ISP, so he's on the side of whatever makes him more money, which is always going to not be the one that you're on.
Link that isn't behind a damn paywall.
Lol I edited the post just after posting to add in a paywall bypass link already, your instance might be having a federation delay
