Quickly becoming his go to play. It's how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There's probably more that I'm unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago

i thought liberal democracies had mechanisms to stop this from happening!

[-] dickJohnson@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago

They do, it's called "voting". Unfortunately, this "liberal democracy" (which it hasn't been a true-democracy in over a century) has a large portion of voters that refuse to execute their civil duty as a citizen of a city-state.

Essentially, people want all the benefits of living in a society without putting forth the work required to maintain it. Cracks eventually start to show, corruption leaks in, and that's how fascism begins to grow in the cellar of Democracy's home. That's how we've gotten where we are.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

But does this type of EO have legal backing?

[-] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

It's kind of a case by case basis is my understanding. The president does have pretty broad emergency powers but the courts can block any individual one if they feel it's overstepping.

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Building "freedom cities" for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:

Freedom Cities will be built on federal land that is undeveloped and not part of any of our country’s magnificent national parks or other natural treasures.

Which I assume means they'll be built on your parks?

(for anyone scrolling past like, "wtf are freedom cities" - it's feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here's one to start.)

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

Almost like they're fully comforatble with reckless corruption.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

They are fully comfortable with reckless profits. Corruption is just the price to pay.

[-] Beetle@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

Profit

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

I guess domestic demand is high because we certainly can’t export them.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

'emergency' is a word that means the executive does what they want

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Have to urgently circumvent Congress.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Maybe because the dumb fuck instituted tariffs that makes lumber prohibitively expensive? I don't know. Nothing makes any fucking sense anymore.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Perhaps to mitigate the repercussions from tariffs on lumber from Canada. We saw a bailout for farmers impacted by his previous tariffs, the administration may actually believe the national forests can save Trump from the consequences of his actions.

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

The MDF furniture must flow

[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?

Replacing timber we previously got from Canada before the screaming from the industries that use lumber that is now tariffed gets too loud.

I don't know enough about those industries to know if it'll work, though.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

I don't think we have the sawmill capacity.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Millions of prisoners with hand tools can do that job.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

and its the forests timber is not even good quality too.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

probably something to distract the masses, from all the federal cuts, and tariffs from the news,

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

gotta find some work to do for the chauvinist american workers

this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025

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