It really is like he thinks an executive order is a magic spell. - ThreadSky

tkingfisher.com • 40 days ago

It really is like he thinks an executive order is a magic spell.

He thinks they're magic spells. Someone has told him he can do this, and now it's how he intends to do everything. Just an endless string of decrees handed down from on-high.

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li0ness.bsky.social•40 days ago

and lo the toddler waved his crayon and did decree that his family shall have chocolate pudding for dinner each night

frillsquid.bsky.social•40 days ago

can't wait for the executive order that says everybody has to like him and be his friend

russet-burbank.bsky.social•40 days ago

They print shit onto placements and just have him scribble on it.

colbosch.bsky.social•40 days ago

It's got this vibe of Sovereign Citizenry to it all. But I keep thinking that if he had won as a Democrat he'd be pushing all sorts of crazy tankie orders. "American English is hereby replaced with Maoist Standard. The name of the continent is pronounced 'Ameri-ka-ka-ka now.'"

lizamazel.bsky.social•40 days ago

fawning journalists "thoughtfully" engaging how/whether/when to levitate the Pentagon and how much is this going to cost

slowwatermovement.bsky.social•40 days ago

what if they are spells but he ran out of mana years ago and hasn’t noticed. keep him away from bubbly blue potions.

jmcport.bsky.social•40 days ago

He even starts his social media posts with I HEREBY DECLARE … Might as well be Abracadabra.

tkingfisher.com•40 days ago

Does anybody else remember how Bush would, like, comment out lines in bills about how he intended to actually enforce them, regardless of what the bill said? And we old people were like “How dare you! That’s not how it works!”

tkingfisher.com•40 days ago

SIGNING STATEMENTS! That’s what I was trying to remember.

teko.bsky.social•40 days ago

Oh man, I totally forgot about Bush’s signing statement fetish.

elderkat.bsky.social•40 days ago

I hated that guy. Both of them actually.

lonelysandperson.bsky.social•40 days ago

Gawwwwd, the line-item veto. As if you can just sign certain bits and it's just fine that you fundamentally changed the law.

tyrotcm.bsky.social•40 days ago

I hadn't heard that. Do you have an example? I'm curious.

ashmcgonigal.com•40 days ago

Congress passed a law banning torture and in signing it Bush noted it was unconstitutional for Congress to impede the executive branch like that.

tyrotcm.bsky.social•40 days ago

😬

asparecora.bsky.social•40 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement W wasn't the only one to use them but he LOVED them.

dis-sos.bsky.social•40 days ago

ruling like a king I guess. Sign decrees, let the peasants feel the iron fist of their overlord

sethanikeem.bsky.social•40 days ago

Watching this play out is surreal in the worst possible way

dystopos.bsky.social•40 days ago

It works because he’s filled the administration with mindless walking brooms carrying buckets.

But that can lead to unforeseen consequences…

semperbufo.bsky.social•40 days ago

It's not like there's ANY literature or cinema suggesting that sometimes magic spells backfire or go awry and they're really dangerous and get out of hand and end up screwing the one who cast them, right?

…right? 🤨

(Yes, yes, I know—that bunch doesn't know literature or cinema.)

dystopos.bsky.social•40 days ago

The idea of creating a strategic national reserve of crypto, a type of currency whose importance is invisible to people who aren’t red-pilled enough, is also making Hans Christian Andersen sigh.

claynotmarble.bsky.social•40 days ago

I see what you did there...Fantasia is the perfect reference...

evaine.bsky.social•40 days ago

They allow him to feel like the king he wants to be.

arfisk.bsky.social•40 days ago

ORDERNUM EXECUTA!

wintercatto.bsky.social•40 days ago

Expecto Patronus. Err, Putin

jennifed.bsky.social•40 days ago

AND he's going to sell books with collections of his EO's- organized by week, I guess, based on how many he's racked up so far.
More EO's, more books, more $$$.
Pens used to sign are available for $$$, too! $45.47
Nifty folders they come to him in? Yes! $147.45 with limited availability.

claynotmarble.bsky.social•40 days ago

Stop giving him ideas.

dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social•40 days ago

"Magic spell" sounds too nice - "authoritarian decree" is maybe better. I don't know why anyone is accepting them as anything other than toilet paper

gritmonger.bsky.social•40 days ago

"And this order says you're a good boy and not a dirty, dirty criminal. Not a dirty bird. A smooth boy with good hair, sir, granted by the Almighty."

"Oooh that's a big one!"

mazianni.carterhaugh.net•40 days ago

I think he believes it works like any business where he's the CEO. The CEO says, "Do this thing," and people go do that thing. Details are for them to figure out.

womzilla.bsky.social•40 days ago

I mean, this was pretty much the ruling ethos the first time. If it's part of the US government, it should answer directly, unquestioningly, and solely to him, for his benefit.

mazianni.carterhaugh.net•40 days ago

Funny how running a business is more like running an absolute monarchy than running a democracy.

russet-burbank.bsky.social•40 days ago

But businesses are FREEDOM

claynotmarble.bsky.social•40 days ago

And this dickhead ran the businesses that he owned into the ground 6 times & then turned the keys to his kingdom over to Russian oligarchs. Look what he's getting ready to do for Russia this time...

amagicianofsorts.bsky.social•40 days ago

That person? Grima Wormton--I mean Stephen Miller.

asofel.bsky.social•40 days ago

Narcissists don’t need spells… they expect the world to bend to their will because of their sheer greatness

claynotmarble.bsky.social•40 days ago

They're also extremely insecure and hate being laughed at.

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