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by stanleykm 499 days ago
The president isn’t a king.
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In what ways is a president restricted from acting like a king when the other two bodies of government meant to act as a check and balance have capitulated any of those checks and essentially give carte blanche to the president?
It is a good question. Hopefully we get an answer before we are all bankrupt.

No idea why the markets aren't in freefall at this point.

I guess the markets think we'll get an answer before a full collapse
I'm skeptical that billionaires will tank the very thing from which all their wealth is derived, at least not long term. We will continue to see tremendous short term volatility.
> at least not long term.

But this is the very thing. In every single financial crisis, the uber wealthy accumulate even more at the expense of everyone else that is loosing everything.

Yes - they have the resources to buy the crashing things at a discount.
Where would you park your money rather than US equities?
You and I would like to think that, but he's been given carte blanche by the people who should be his checks and balances and the supreme court has made anything he does in the course of his duties legal.
This is all the Curtis Yarvin influence. There is that period in US history that the president was acting more like a king, Taft to FDR. They were doing much more executive orders then that we have been use to the past 80 years.

It all is quite unsettling. Then the fact it is Trump doing this is just something else all together too.

I am a bit worried how the country is going to deal with this level of change. We aren't even 3 weeks in.

Surprised Yarvin hasn't been mentioned much on HN since this all started. The last few weeks have been a transparent implementation of his plans.