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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Why don’t you start by reading the comment that I replied to ?

    Actually, I’ll paste it here. They said “Who the hell says the president can rename things via executive order? Surely that’s not iterated as a power of the office.

    … to which I replied to point out that other presidents have used the same power, and then went on to explain that the issue isn’t the use of an executive order, but rather the lack of any reasonable justification beyond petty vindictiveness.

    If you want to be angry, be angry at trump, not random people on the internet


  • It turns out that it was nothing more than norms and decorum in politics that was holding your country together. When someone comes along and takes a dump on those unwritten rules, they find they can get away with a lot of stuff that nobody thought should be possible .

    The first time he learned which civil servants stopped him. This time he’s firing then all before they can.



  • It was an example of a president using executive power to rename a geographical feature, because the previous post was suggesting that such action is unheard of. It’s not. Having said that, when Obama did it, it was in response to about 35 years of petitions and requests, and not the actions of a weak minded manchild craving for attention


  • Aug. 30, 2015 President Obama announced on Sunday that Mount McKinley was being renamed Denali, using his executive power to restore an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance to the tallest mountain in North America.

    You mean like that ?

    Edit: I’m in no way endorsing what trump did, which I think was a petty vindictive move on his part, I’m just pointing out that he’s far from the first to have used an executive order to rename geographical features. If anyone thinks I’m being pro trump, just take a look at my post history.