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Comment by mcherm

8 hours ago

Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress.

The Supreme Court has blessed this new form of government, declaring that the President is immune to all laws, but retaining for themselves the right to reverse any tweet on the "shadow docket".

It’s funny that you say that tweets are US policy when the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs.

  • The tariffs were in all sense US policy until they got struck down. There is nothing inconsistent here

  • In the intervening 6-12 months, they were policy. Since then he's tweet^H^H^H^H^Htruthedsome new tarriff policies that are currently in effect.