Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations signed in his name via autopen, the House Oversight Committee has asserted.
I said up front that I don’t really agree with the way this is being handled, nor do I think this is being done in good faith.
What I’m saying is that, unlike with the rest of the Trump admin’s policies, they actually have the kernel of a legitimate point to make on this one. Further, if people don’t want this sort of thing to happen again, the parties simply need to avoid electing people who are mentally unfit. Trump is also clearly mentally unfit, and his orders should also be overturned and ignored going forward.
This isn’t support for the Trump administration or their bad faith efforts. This is me saying that if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. It should not be surprising that the dementia-president’s orders are being questioned.
I will not be made to respect liberal norms and clutch pearls when Trump acts like a bull in a china shop, I really couldn’t care less about American legal precedent and overturning previous presidential decisions, it’s entirely pointless to care about
agreed. redshirt made an entirely reasonable point that if someone’s brains are leaking out their ears, they shouldn’t be signing executive orders.
the actual solution here isn’t to take one miniscule measure at a time like disallowing autopen above a certain age, it’s to overhaul the entire political machine and culture so that miserable, senile old fucks aren’t in decision making positions in the first place. obviously this GOP tactic is bad faith because they’ve got their own senile fuck on the throne now, but redshirt isn’t incorrect.
The problem is that Trump is possibly even more senile. This is not at all in good faith and you can safely just not support this
I said up front that I don’t really agree with the way this is being handled, nor do I think this is being done in good faith.
What I’m saying is that, unlike with the rest of the Trump admin’s policies, they actually have the kernel of a legitimate point to make on this one. Further, if people don’t want this sort of thing to happen again, the parties simply need to avoid electing people who are mentally unfit. Trump is also clearly mentally unfit, and his orders should also be overturned and ignored going forward.
This isn’t support for the Trump administration or their bad faith efforts. This is me saying that if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. It should not be surprising that the dementia-president’s orders are being questioned.
oh no hexbear user #537 jokingly “supported” the GOP policy
that changes something surely
It’s good to correct errors and that user clearly was not joking
I will not be made to respect liberal norms and clutch pearls when Trump acts like a bull in a china shop, I really couldn’t care less about American legal precedent and overturning previous presidential decisions, it’s entirely pointless to care about
agreed. redshirt made an entirely reasonable point that if someone’s brains are leaking out their ears, they shouldn’t be signing executive orders.
the actual solution here isn’t to take one miniscule measure at a time like disallowing autopen above a certain age, it’s to overhaul the entire political machine and culture so that miserable, senile old fucks aren’t in decision making positions in the first place. obviously this GOP tactic is bad faith because they’ve got their own senile fuck on the throne now, but redshirt isn’t incorrect.