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no_hypocrisy

(52,842 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 06:23 AM Aug 19

Seminal issue with TSF's EO's (or any President's EO's): [View all]

The term "Emergency".

It's more subjective than objective.

In other words, there is no defined legal standard for what is universally recognized as an emergency.

Pre-Trump, it was easily recognized and understood with multiple deaths, terror in the streets, property damage, "carnage" (to use his term), homes destroyed, societal and social mayhem, riots, no modicum of safety.

Now, "Emergency" is an emergency because it's proclaimed.

Akin to me pronouncing it's an emergency if I can't find my checkbook. It doesn't affect anyone but me, but it's an emergency and Life stops until I find it, and maybe not even then.

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