Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.
This is such dumb move though. Even if you don’t care about climate this is an opportunity for US to put itself as a leader in a new field, which no matter what US will do, will be desirable by other countries (especially ones that need to purchase oil). By doing this, he is essentially giving all that edge to China.
Honestly, looking from the outside on US politics I have a hard time remembering a presidential candidate, besides Bernie Sanders, that seem to care for the average people living in the US.
We’ve all seen the memes about Jimmy Carter looking for other presidents in heaven. If you wanted to generalize that any sitting president is automatically the current worst person in the world you wouldn’t be wrong half the time, but there’s a little more nuance to the awfulness. Trump is actively running the country poorly with intent to harm, which is going to be quite a lot worse than the guy from Scranton whose life work was to buy time for a doomed and destructive status quo. Although the “steer into the iceberg” theory always has its adherents, I’m not confident that leads to acceptable outcomes.
This is such dumb move though. Even if you don’t care about climate this is an opportunity for US to put itself as a leader in a new field, which no matter what US will do, will be desirable by other countries (especially ones that need to purchase oil). By doing this, he is essentially giving all that edge to China.
You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the well-being of the country is of any concern to him?
Honestly, looking from the outside on US politics I have a hard time remembering a presidential candidate, besides Bernie Sanders, that seem to care for the average people living in the US.
We’ve all seen the memes about Jimmy Carter looking for other presidents in heaven. If you wanted to generalize that any sitting president is automatically the current worst person in the world you wouldn’t be wrong half the time, but there’s a little more nuance to the awfulness. Trump is actively running the country poorly with intent to harm, which is going to be quite a lot worse than the guy from Scranton whose life work was to buy time for a doomed and destructive status quo. Although the “steer into the iceberg” theory always has its adherents, I’m not confident that leads to acceptable outcomes.