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Conservatives: Obama is acting like a dictator!

Media: Fact check -- He's issued fewer executive orders than the last four presidents.

Conservatives: This is a clear example of left wing bias! Look at how many executive orders he's issued in the last ten minutes. That's a 2000 percent increase.

Media: Um...

Conservatives: Scoreboard!

 

Just curious, do you consider "the Russians are interfering with our election " rhetoric ?

 

Trump's a racist.

He barely hides his contempt for the whole human race.

He's Daniel Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

That's who Trump is and has long been. He is simply finding an America that appreciates his position without any of the side dishes of bullshit.

 

"Raw number of executive orders" is a spectacularly shitty way of measuring executive power expansion.

 

It doesn't even have to be spin, anymore.

Conservatives: There are no American flags or anything remotely resembling the flag at the Democratic National Convention.

Media: Yes, there were, on both counts. Here are eleventy billion pictures of American flags and clothing and signage resembling the flag at the Democratic National Convention.

Conservatives: No, there were none. And, in fact, the DNC ordered people not to bring flags because Democrats are so offended by them.

Media: Here are more pictures of American flags and clothing and signage resembling the flag at the Democratic National Convention.

Conservatives:

 

I would think families of 150,000 US soldiers who would have been sent to die in Iraq for fake WMDs are quite happy most of that adventure is done.

 

Agree on both counts. Don't wanna release your tax returns? Don't run for high office. And I'd bet folding money that Trump's tax returns would be "interesting" in an "embarrassing" way ...

What? How do you keep track of how old you are in lawyer years?

 

Good Lord. President A could issue eleventy billion executive orders and President B could issue one, and President B could be light years further along the dictator path. It ain't the quantity of the executive orders, it's the content.

 

Awfully nice of the slave owners to allow the slaves to sleep on the ground. After all, they could have made them sleep standing up.

 

If you want to make an argument that Obama hasn't wielded more authority than previous Presidents, that's cool.

But, to point to the number of executive orders vs. the scope of them is completely disingenuous.

It's similar to deciding which Congress is more or less productive based solely on the number of bills they passed.

I think we need some more advanced metrics here.

 

Obama: I want to restore the moral basis to counter terrorism
Conservatives: Obama convicted and put to death al -Awalki without due process
Liberals : There was adequate justification. Trust us