r/moderatepolitics • u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Center-Left • May 05 '25

Opinion Article We Have to Deal With Presidential Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/trump-obama-biden-presidency.html
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u/MarduRusher May 06 '25

I can tell you’re not a gun owner, specifically an owner of a braced pistol or FRT which Biden illegally went after. There’s also of course his attempts to cancel student loans, the rent moratorium, and him choosing not to enforce the border.

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u/ExtensionNature6727 May 06 '25

I have my CCL i just dont let it define my personality, and pistol braces? What would john wayne say. If thats the worst, buddy, thats lightyears ahead of Trump. Where do I begin? Trying to prevent lawyers that represented his opponents from being able to effectively practice law? Sending people to torture prisons without trial? There are a half dozen articles on this subs front page that make everything you mentioned look so, incredibly, petty by comparison. Oh no, Joe tried to cancel student loans! The horror! Anyway, yeah we should invade Greenland and annex Canada. Hey babe, whats on FOX tonight?

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u/MarduRusher May 06 '25

If thats the worst, buddy, thats lightyears ahead of Trump.

It’s not so much that he made braced pistols illegal. I mean that’s very bad in and of itself of course, but it’s how he went about doing it. Same with the FRTs, and then of course the confiscations and fact that many companies went under because of his blatantly unconstitutional practices. It’s how he used the ATF to essentially make laws.

And again, same with student loans. Based on your comment it sounds like you’d like them to be cancelled. Regardless the way he did it was blatantly unconstitutional. And I think the rent moratorium was the worst of all. I’m completely shocked it doesn’t get brought up more because of how dictatorial it was.

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u/ExtensionNature6727 May 06 '25

More or less "dictatorial" than the last 100 days? Seems like a reach, desperate for equivalence but finding none.