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Trump and NFL boycott

theprestige said:
Yes, really. Did you actually read the link? Do you not understand the separation of powers?

The tax code is law. The president can propose any changes to the law he wants, just like Rachel Maddow can. And just like Rachel Maddow, he has no power to enact any of this proposals.
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When Rachel Maddow sends a proposal to the Senate and it's treated with the same authority as one sent to them by the President, you might have a point, until then you just keep on spinning your semantics.

No one is saying that he can click his fingers and write it into law all by himself, they are saying that with the weight of the office he has the power to tell the people that write the laws to do things, and then expect them to be done, especially when like now the same party holds both houses and the Executive.

It's funny how you and others on the Right blamed Obama for Legislation you didn't like during his term, but now it's all "Trump doesn't have the power to do anything." I guess since Obama didn't have any power over Healthcare then the ACA isn't his, not the Environmental regulations and laws, and so forth.
 
PhantomWolf said:
When Rachel Maddow sends a proposal to the Senate and it's treated with the same authority as one sent to them by the President, you might have a point, until then you just keep on spinning your semantics.
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Both of us are in a semantics argument. We are both arguing over meaning.
 
theprestige said:
The President has no more power to change the tax code than Rachel Maddow does.
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That would imply that any Presidential candidate campaigning on a tax reform platform is a freaking liar and ought to be laughed out of town?

That is an obviously ridiculous idea.

As if Reagan never lowered taxes.
 
Why can't the gladiators NFL players just entertain me! I'm not here to hear the plight of the slaves athletes that are forced to compete in a nation that regards them as unworthy of equal rights. I'm not going to admit that Rome America isn't the bastion of egalitarian delights I want to imagine it to be so I can justify not caring about the lepers victims of police brutality. How can they even complain when the gladiators that survive players get all that money, endorsements and sex?

Get out there and fight play!
 
Just scrap the anthem at non-political events altogether. Or go whole hog, and mandate the pledge of allegiance, including its theocratic clause, "under God." The latter is best done while face-recognition software scans the crowd for dirtbag liberal holdouts for later imprisonment, with a direct feed to the NRA, Fox News, and GOP party headquarters, the Good Lord's only remaining TruPatriots not tainted by factual reasoning. Good news is, since these are not enemy combatants, just enemies, maybe they qualify for some nice down time away from the rule of law on Guantanamo. Torture of liberals for sport! Now that's something to sing for.
 
Travis's and Hlafordlaes's posts (787 and 788, just above), being inspired to satire by the antics of Conservatives, are why such dystopic fiction as The Handmaid's Tale and much else resonates. It's just to easy to look forward in time and imagine the potential for frightful policy such fervent people could implement if the opportunity arose for them.

While they moan on about the Gubmint coming to take their guns which are ostensibly required to rise up against a tyrannical gubmint, that same lot could mindlessly permit a Fascistic power structure to set itself up. They're already eminently satisfied with a kleptocracy.
 
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theprestige said:
The President has no more power to change the tax code than Rachel Maddow does.
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Yes, nuance and semantics are important to examine in President Trump's latest assault on free speech.

Meanwhile, kneeling football players are ruining the world:
theprestige said:
Think about it a little more, and you might not find it funny at all. They aren't doing enough to make the world a better place, and they're doing too much to make the world a worse place. The mix of criticism rightly expresses this sad situation.
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Apropos to nothing, I saw a webcomic this morning.

A man is out walking with his daughter.
"Your shoelace is untied Daddy."
"Oops." The man kneels to tie his shoelace.
A man dressed entirely in clothes that look like the American flag bursts into the scene. "Stop disrespecting our flag!!!!"
 
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