Unit2Sucks said:
BearGoggles said:
Words have meanings. Show your work and provide specific definitions and then explain how it applies to Trump specifically, and not other presidents.
What non-authoritarian meanings would BearGoggles ascribe to Trump's latest tweets?
"Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China"
Please don't waste your breath noting that his words are just proclamations and don't yet have the force of law - that argument is essentially saying that words don't have meanings when spoken by the President. But please do tell us why you think statements like this aren't the mark of an authoritarian leader.
They are stupid tweets - like most of Trump's are. You keep asserting that I'm a Trump apologist, but that is far from the truth. I think he's a buffoon and didn't/won't vote for him. That being said, I think what he wrote is largely (but not completely) harmless. Many presidents and politicians make aspirational statements ("buy american" or or "hope and change") that imply but don't actually undertake action. Trump's use of the word "order" is stupid - but did he actually order it? Do you believe that he will actually order it?
How is what Trump said materially different from Obama holding a workers summit and saying that companies "need to pay" higher wages?
You are so consumed with Trump derangement syndrome that you're now conflating tweets with executive orders. Trump is playing you like a fiddle and you are being consumed by a constant state of faux outrage. Keep swinging at the windmills.
In the meantime, there are things Trump is actually considering doing - revoking birthright citizenship by executive order - that would be authoritarian. And I'll be the first to say so (if he does it). That is the difference between you and me - I'll call balls and strikes regardless of the pitcher.
You, on the other hand, have convinced yourself that Trump is "worse." And you refuse to acknowledge that Obama's abuse of executive orders (DACA and modifications of Obamacare laws/deadlines) paved the way for every borderline EO that Trump has issued (or might issue). Unless I'm mistaken, you have never criticized Obama for any of that which makes you a partisan/hypocrite because you only object when you oppose the policy. Feel free to correct me on that by telling me you think the Obama EO's were equally wrong and authoritarian to Trump's.