to borrow from @hurricanexyz.bsky.social, a bunch of people tasked with covering american politics seem to hold this implicit view that executive authority is unlimited except for those limits placed by the constitution
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As it all goes downhill, how low will the media go in it's stenography or with the lack of urgency? Obviously, they are cool with their bosses paying his bribes. So, icoverage will probably get worse
sep 3, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Side note. Nice new profile pic!
sep 3, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
They also seem to question whether The Constitution is… well, constitutional. No wonder they’re so lost.
sep 3, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
A more honest headline would be "congress has surrendered its power of the press to the executive branch without as much as a whimper" But it's CNN. What would one expect.
sep 3, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
In one sense they are right. The House of Representatives is Title I and the Senate Title 2. The Constitution is ordered from most democratic body to least. Hard to believe this was an accident.
sep 3, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It is weird that they are trying to expand their majority in congress while also taking away their powers. I guess they think this executive authority bs isnt going to fly very long (especially when a democrat is elected). And they are just trying to take all of the few government jobs left
sep 3, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
What's really going on of course is that a new (Schmittian) constitutional order is supplanting the old (Madisonian) order
sep 3, 2025, 1:12 pm • 30 2 • view
Trump's power isn't limited by the Constitution because it doesn't come from the Constitution. He cannot lawfully hold office under the Constitution, and he ran quite explicitly on a platform of "I will hold arbitrary power"!
sep 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 26 3 • view
Now, saying any of this out loud serves to highlight how he's a usurper So instead we get headlines like this
sep 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 24 2 • view
thing is, executive power is only limited to the extent to which the Congress and Supreme Court is willing to enforce
sep 3, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The Bush administration brought them to heel quite effectively, and they’ve never recovered.
sep 3, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Sometimes it's odd that they spent time deciding that the squat between monarchy and democratic centralism should be called unitary executive theory. If the GOP had just said we should have a king, the DC press would just start manufacturing consent for it
sep 3, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s like if your city manager decided they were king.
sep 3, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I guess you might humor them with a special chair and a crown of paste? Otherwise you’d show them the door.
sep 3, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Going to post this to every American political thread that's at all unclear about what's going down in your country. The neighbours can see it perfectly well. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
sep 3, 2025, 1:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Except they were hammering the constitutionality of Biden’s order to forgive student debt. Any talk of constitutionality of Trump’s EOs is an afterthought or not even brought up.
sep 3, 2025, 12:59 pm • 14 0 • view
Superheroes and supervillains offer reliable box office cash flows, and the Hero's Journey is the only story these "journalists" can conceive of, so we get the inexorable march to the Imperial Presidency.
sep 3, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
They don’t hold that view when the President is a Democrat
sep 3, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
they report on executive orders as of they were laws
sep 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 5 0 • view
Trump will declare himself King Eternal and they'll run an article titled "In a surprising turn of events, Trump challenges established constitutional norms with novel approach to government."
sep 3, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It a free country, the only powers and authority that the government may have over its citizens are those expressly granted in the constitution. Any statute passed by a legislative body or action by an executive or official is illegal if it doesn't square with constitutional grant of authority.
sep 3, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no "unlimited authority" of an executive. The SCOTUS opinion indicating a qualified but broad immunity was simply incorrect and rendered by a corrupt and seditious conspiratorial majority of bought and paid for justices. Simply making things up on the spot (Calvinball per J. Jackson).
sep 3, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
CNN: "centuries-old." Indeed. 237 years old to be more precise, with the ratification of the Constitution.
sep 3, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. It’s actually the exact opposite. Enumerated powers. And there’s a reason Congress is Art 1. Then again I get the desire by MAGA to make everything “a war”. TJ got that part right.
sep 3, 2025, 4:05 pm • 2 0 • view
The conservatives I thought were smart growing up were very clear about that from 2008-2016, for some reason
sep 3, 2025, 1:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Can’t qwhite recall the details but yeah there was that and some huge outrage about a Tan Suit
sep 3, 2025, 1:04 pm • 5 0 • view
He can destroy the country, but it will be destroyed. No backsies
sep 3, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
“President Trump continues to break federal law while disregarding separation of powers.” Its not a “battle” - it’s a coup.
sep 3, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Boundary pushing = breaking the law. We have learned from Trump that no law is real. Laws are in a quantum superposition where we don’t know if they exist until the probability wave function collapses with an action.
sep 3, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
They say that like it could be considered a good thing. Just a bit of spin.
sep 3, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
😡
sep 4, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
It really feels like CNN has joined NYT and WaPo in the belief that power should be unlimited under republicans and questionable under democrats.
sep 3, 2025, 12:59 pm • 45 2 • view
The editorial biases of these outlets reflect the worldviews of their owners.
sep 3, 2025, 1:02 pm • 19 1 • view
Exactly. It’s not a surprise how they report when you know most news media is owned by the oligarchs.
sep 3, 2025, 1:10 pm • 5 1 • view
I think it’s less that and more cowardice. They are afraid of the possibility that the administration might look in their direction vs hurt someone else.
sep 3, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent point. All three of these outlets did everything in their power to usher Trump into the White House, twice. They also actively sabotaged Hillary Clinton's candidacy and Joe Biden's presidency. They promote their own interests and must simultaneously protect themselves from Trump.
sep 3, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
And they literally *don't know* how it's supposed to work.
sep 3, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
and by 'questionable' we mean 'not really able to be used in any meaningful way' 😡
sep 3, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
CNN is run by right wing billionaire John C Malone. Keep that in mind.
sep 3, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Even those limits are assumed to be fragile, as who can possibly know what the Constitution says until John Roberts tells us.
sep 3, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone should be keeping a chart of how many times headline writers have used the phrase "pushing the boundaries." It's an insidious phrase because sometimes it might be considered admirable. The first Iron Man, for example, was "pushing the boundaries" of endurance racing.
sep 3, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
When Congress is broken to the point where they can't even keep the government funded (much less address any number of serious issues), it's not surprising for people to just accept that the Executive will handle everything--that's how the gov't has been working for decades after all
sep 3, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
And they view even the limits placed by the constitution as negotiable. They're all, "Sure, the constitution says that the President is not allowed to accept bribes, but did the Founders ever consider that one day the President might *really* want to accept some bribes?"
sep 3, 2025, 1:43 pm • 4 0 • view
It's obviously Trump's goal, but I wish anyone had given some thought to what happens if, by some miracle, we get a Democratic Congress next year that asserts all the powers it very clearly, explicitly has under the Constitution.
sep 3, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
“Michael Jordan has eroded the limits of referee power by firing them and replacing them with his cousin. He can now travel as needed”
sep 3, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I dumped CNN after that press junket they tried to call a “town hall” last year, replete with hand-picked MAGA audience members who, like the orange asshole they worship, heckled poor host Kaitlyn Collins instead of actually having a town hall. Fuck CNN for normalizing this fascist bullshit!
sep 3, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Krasnov has played the Moyle on Congress 🍆 and outright purchased the SCROTUS
sep 3, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 3, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
And even where it is explicitly limited by the Constitution, apparently.
sep 3, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Does not the Constitution state the job of the president is to faithfully execute the laws passed ny Congress? Not rewrite or ignore but faithfully execute the will of Congress as set forth in the laws passed by Congress.
sep 3, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Extremists on SCOTUS believe in this unitary executive theory & will let Trump do whatever he wants.
sep 3, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view