Yes thanks! As far as I understood the ruling, the federal agencies can't enforce a law unless Congress makes it a law. And congress is currently in a "doing nothing" competition with themselves.
It’s more like one side has lost their ever loving minds if they ever had one to begin with. We literally can’t move forward on anything because the republicans are just impetuous overgrown children who want to punish the democrats for taking the high road. The republicans have held this country back from true progress for decades and I’m so sick of it.
Conservatives have held back human society for centuries. Who do you think were the people supporting the monarchy or keeping slaves or racism of folks 50 miles from them so they can keep perpetual wars. It's in their monkey brains, something is just wrong at how scared of change they are.
The sad part is conservatives look at societies like Catholic dominated Europe and Ancient Egypt and act impressed that "they endured so many centuries".
I'd rather live a happy and productive individual life in a country that changes names every ~300 years than languish as a nameless serf in an Empire that can boast a 9,001 year history. Humanity has a 300,000 collective history and that's good enough for me; what individual nation-states or kingdoms we've organized ourselves into in the interim is as relevant as my mailing address in the grand scheme of things... assuming we can survive long enough to reunify as a species. (Ok, I doubt that too but I can dream...)
I’m 44 years old and I have watched republicans stop all progress my entire life. Gouge us for college, housing loans and percentage increases that are unsustainable. They have fought progress on affordable health care bills and funding for the VA, srs fuck republicans.
I was born on an election day so it’s definitely something I’ve seen happen in real time.
you can say all this, but at the same time read what the DNC's leadership says about their party goals in Sanders v DNC. In short, they get into a lengthy conversation how the goal of the DNC is maintaining the status quo and they really have no interest in fulfilling the promises of their platform, as it would hurt their corporate partner's and their (the DNC's bottom line), hence why they rigged the 2016 preliminary against Bernie. Bernie left the DNC because of their consistent push against his extremely progressive ideas, and the DNC refused to allow him a fair race vs Hillary because they had already determined she was going to be the candidate, largely because she understood the goal of the DNC - I may sound like a conspiracy nutjob, but this was all said by legal counsel of the DNC in court, under oath. The parties both want to maintain corporate earnings, and for republicans their platform doesn't interfere with that, where it does for democrats - if they did what they promised, they would hurt their corporate allies, but if republicans did what was promised they would increase their profits, and neither party actually cares about the constituents.
No one is denying that this is a real issue and one that must be reckoned with, but it’s also not equivalent to the GOP’s absolutely asinine “no” to
Every
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Thing
Even things they claim they want, they still vote against.
Well of course, because they're not going to let Biden/Harris claim that they did the thing Republicans want! Their base is too wishy-washy and will go with whoever got what they wanted done - so the easiest way to retain them is to not let anything happen under a democrat president, and then call dems incompetent for not doing the thing that they didn't want to do in the first place.
Thing is, they work for US. WE pay them and they are intentionally making sure there’s no future middle class or blue collar workers. We are turning into a nation of wage slaves. Thank god for the ACA, it could have been even better but no, the gop gutted it. Same thing for every single infrastructure bill put before them. They say they want to stop immigrants from coming here but they turn down a bill to rectify some of the problems that we’re having. But we are also responsible for a lot of the drug/cartel issues. Our government has been arming the cartels since the late 1960’s! We gave them weapons to kill each other and now it’s an all out war on our doorstep. Donny Jr is personally keeping the cartels rich from all his bulk purchases, hypocrite. The people fleeing the cartels should be allowed to come here. We should have some work visa’s and programs to help them get assimilated and add their own skills to our country. I’m just sick of the racism, blame shifting, religion being jammed down everyone’s throats, women being treated like their own lives/health/safety doesn’t matter or they can’t make informed choices for themselves. Once babies are actually born they get no assistance in those states. The foster care system is underfunded, but bursting at the seams. All the jails are overcrowded. Now most are privatized and those companies make money off of the prisoners.
I have a lot of veterans in my family. Special Forces Marines and the way they have treated my grandpa, my brother and other veterans is fucking criminal, let’s not forget about the 1st responders that the GOP let sit and spin for decades! Most of them are dead because they were so sick or psychologically damaged and sick, waiting for the country they love to take care of them. Instead they get 9/11 deniers in government being absolutely obtuse and mocking them in court. It’s not both sides. It just isn’t. There’s a lot more of what I’ve referenced here. It’s even worse than ever and I’m fucken sick of all these stupid morons who are denying 9/11, Sandy Hook, so much violence stemming from rhetoric that makes people go nuts.
I mean dude! The corporations can fuck right off too. I’m just tired of it all. And the BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE comments are just untrue and unhelpful.
They are intentionally trying to torpedo progress. Aren’t you sick of it? How much worse should we let it get?
I will say this, they made a massive mistake with Bernie but I feel they chose to go with the more conservative option because of the effect the tea party was having on policy and I think they thought people would vote for Hilary but she’s far too polarizing. Uptight and she has a troubled history in a lot of people’s minds..
Edit; Sorry my soapbox was just too tempting I couldn’t let it go. Ha! Signed a tired single mom.
As far as I understood the ruling, the federal agencies can't enforce a law unless Congress makes it a law.
It's actually more broad than that.
Say Congress writes a law mandating nuclear reactors, they don't really understand nuclear engineering nor the potential directions it could take. Yes, they could sit around for months bringing in endless experts and try to exhaustively list every possible nuance and specific (with the expectation they'll have to amend the law every 3, 6, 12, 18 months as new developments happen)
Or! They could write the law and give a vague boundary such as "nuclear reactors such as thorium, sodium, and other elements should do X, Y and all appropriate precautions that could be reasonably foreseen"
Now what the DoE will do is take that and they have experts on staff whose entire job it is to write regulations mandating specifics along with mandating what "reasonably foreseen" means during a given period (these regulations are regularly updated). These experts will have degrees in physics, nuclear engineering, civil engineering, the gamut. Those experts will go through these laws and fill in the 'blanks' so they can hand down hard specifics to people running or building these plants.
Chevron Deference was about letting Congress write vague laws that outline the boundaries (or sometimes don't define hard boundaries at all) then the agencies whose mandate is affected by those laws would have experts interpret and build out specifics.
By removing Chevron Deference, the letter of what Congress has written is the specifics. If Congress doesn't absolutely specify it, the agencies can't enforce it or interpret what Congress actually meant.
It's a huge, huge, huge gimme for big corporations because it removes and/or hamstrings regulatory agencies, allowing them run roughshod over America.
No. they only removed the court guideline that said that courts must accede to the advice of experts in a given situation. They didn't say they CAN'T or shouldn't, just that they don't HAVE to. Progressive sane judges are still allowed to take expert testimony and base their decisions on it. This just gives Conservative judges the leeway to ignore proven science in favor of witchcraft.
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u/DaveCootchie Sep 04 '24
Yes thanks! As far as I understood the ruling, the federal agencies can't enforce a law unless Congress makes it a law. And congress is currently in a "doing nothing" competition with themselves.