The DOJ? What are you talking about? This is the judicial branch, you know one of the three coequal branches of government. It just ruled that the power to set tariffs is not in fact a power of the executive branch.

You said the DoJ, which is part of the executive. The judicial branch just ruled on a matter of law. That's what they do.

Also the power of the purse has always been with congress, the constitution is very clear on that.

Finally the notion that the US is stripping power from the executive is honestly farcical. The exact opposite has been happening for decades now.

If you are a US voter then the reason for the current political situation is becoming very clear to me right now.

You know what after digging more into the subject I can say that you are effectively right. So thank you for taking the time and commenting on that. I still think it should be a tool a US president can have. Congress is not fast enough to put pressure and removing it as much as the executive branch can do. I think that this and similar economic tools are critical just seeing how thing are unfolding and how the future is going to look like.

For DOJ ya I meant the judicial branch.

Well kudos for admitting your error, it's rare enough these days.

Here's the thing, the executive does have the power to enact tariffs in emergencies, but if you actually want to change industrial policy it's a long term project that takes probably minimum 10 years of sustained consistent policy. Not the whims of an administration.

There's a great case to be made for fixing the balance of trade. Randomly applying tariffs is not achieving it, it's just a grift for kick backs.

That's Kavanaugh for you.

This sounds like something I would have done with sed

This sounds like something my AI agent would say

I think we should lock them all in a room filled with CO2 and methane and then ask them if they still think they're not harmful.

Yes scientists made a mistake by calling something what it us. Definitely not the morons who don't understand the difference between weather and climate.

"It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now."

Steal from the rest of society? Would you cop yourself on. Governments levy taxes and use that tax money to fund things that they think will benefit society. A la carte funding of the bits you think are worth funding is not a workable proposal. The Irish government funds lots of things I don't agree with but characterising that as theft is ludicrous.

None of these 2000 artists will create anything close to a single piece of art having any sort of effect on society. I can guarantee it.

I worked in "culture" for a while when I was younger. 90% of it is just disguised unemployment benefits for those that consider it a dirty word barely good enough for the hoi polloi.

You can't guarantee it. Maybe you think you can but you can't.

Not a single person in the world took any of them "seriously."

They're blockbuster movies about a comic book.

Hah. People absolutely took them seriously and still do. They are pitched as if they're serious important art about issues. People discussed it like it was King Lear.

I mean, one actor took their role so seriously they locked themselves up in hotel room for a month in isolation to prepare for their role as Joker. Many people in film took it seriously.

Just because a piece is fictional or imaginative doesn't mean it can't be taken seriously

You're conflating an actor taking their role seriously to a viewer taking fiction seriously.

Film critics, viewers, media writers, online video essayists, etc all took the films very seriously

They’re good entertainment, not a documentary haha

Yeah the 62196-2 connector is standard in Europe. It's not legal to sell cars with a nacs connector and hasn't been for a long time.