When Joe Biden was president, the Republic correctly complained that he often abused his powers when doing things like cancelling student debts. They also complained correctly when the federal government put their efforts into national and local governments. GOPs traditionally prefer “federalism.”
Was the GOP’s complaints that the president surpassed his constitutional authority a current complaint that the president had separated his constitutional authority while pursuing the Democratic objectives? Perhaps this can answer the question:
President Trump and his new Transportation Secretary, Sean P. Duffy, sounded like they were being pulled on the plug of New York City’s six-week-old crowd pricing program.
Duffy, who works less than a month later, wrote to the governor of New York on Wednesday that “I concluded” that federal law had enacted it.
Trump’s explanation was not very complicated. He pressed the caplock button and invited authority as “king.”
“Manhattan, congestion prices are dead,” the president wrote on social media, saving everything in New York. I’ll live a long life as a king! ”
Longtime readers know I’m not the biggest fan of President Trump. But in this case, I praise him for his sincerity. In the past, merchants have raked me over coal to claim that Trump has an authoritarian tendency. I’m glad that we have to discuss it now. I can simply quote from the President’s own statement.
New York’s congestion pricing plan reduced traffic congestion and the rice was poorly designed compared to congestion pricing in large cities in sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-city. If the court upholds Trump’s decision (this is not at all certain)
I’ve noticed recent trends in American politics/policy making. Politics is increasingly like a kind of performance art. Therefore, trolling is no longer just a technique used in subject situations, but also a part of the policy making process. Donald Trump is a master of the arts of trolling, but this trend has been ruled out to the local level.
A few miles from where I live is the famous surfing town of Huntington Beach. (By the way, California suburbs are big – HBB has 200,000 residents.) Huntington Beach recently decided to place a plate outside the city library. In the expansion, they decided to use submails to protect platelets.
Councillor Gracie van der Mark, who submitted the updated design, also said the council raised an extra $1,000 to pay for the installation of spotlights to protect platelets from vandalism.
You may wonder why cities assume that taxpayer members need to be repaid from the outer plate to the library. See if you can guess why the city council was nervous.
Public policy as trolling.
Poem A quick follow-up of my previous posts. Niall Ferguson has been saying this recently (replying to JD Vance):
I have been saying for over 11 years in the last three years that if President Trump was re-elected in 2020, there would not have been a war. Expression. He also supported the president’s previous call to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine. So I’m not really qualified as a globalist. In fact, I agree with all five points you do. Certainly, I praised your Munich speech. . . . However, I cannot understand the logic of starting this difficult negotiation simply by granting Russia so many important points.
Those of us who understood Trump from the start are not surprised by what we see. Trump praised Putin, even when he was campaigning in 2016. It’s a shame many intellectuals didn’t take his comments seriously.
