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by citruspi 499 days ago
> Things are moving ridiculously fast for government to the point I suspect there was alot of desire to get rid of all this stuff before, but people were unable to do so.

Assuming "was alot of desire" is meant as "widespread support," not just "the President really desired it," that is an absolutely ridiculous interpretation. Fast does not mean strong consensus.

The government has also moved _ridiculously fast_ to

- pardon/commute the vast majority of J6 defendants including those convicted of violence towards law enforcement

- freeze federal aid across the board

- blame the recent aviation crash on DEI

- rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

- revoke birthright citizenship

Does that mean that there "was alot of desire" to do those things? Absolutely not. It just means that those are things that the President has done unilaterally via executive orders or press release.

To be clear I'm not advocating for or against the govt.

But the idea that the government moving "ridiculously fast" is because there "was alot of desire" is a massive stretch. They are moving fast because they are steamrolling everyone in their path (allies included), and in their desire to "get shit done" they are implementing changes that are riddled with errors, and in some cases, even flat out illegal.