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The "Similar Threads" section at the bottom of the page reminded me of this thread I started a few years ago: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/epas-new-coal-pollution-rules-more-death-more-asthma.8078340/ Trump's coal plant rule would've resulted in up to 1400 additional deaths. Maybe...

He's not shutting them down. He's making them clean up after themselves. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.

I make no predictions about whether or not this will withstand legal scrutiny, but I've been around the block with libertarians enough to not trust their prognostications.

I guess he means that it won't be tolerated anymore. https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/ I guess he doesn't support free speech on college campuses anymore.

They're not enforcing federal election laws on Trump. Enforcing federal election laws on him would entail prosecuting him for the campaign finance violation. What they're prosecuting him for is a NY State law that he violated. The federal crime is only an issue because it enables them to upgrade...

I know, right? I don't have a high opinion of many of my fellow American Christians on this subject, but amazingly, there are a few of us with enough discernment to see through the innuendos that the right tosses around.

Not at all. But I'm not going to take the predictions of a libertarian as gospel.

I know. When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. That is - until you run for public office, at which point you can't just do anything.

Yeah, it's just wild how people come to these conclusions. Even if you believe that Biden is guilty of all of the stuff with Ukraine and self-dealing that's been alleged, then the worst you can say is that his time in office is roughly as corrupt as Trump's was before Jan 6. But then you...

The Pecker meeting was in 2015: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-trial-new-york-first-witness-david-pecker/#post-update-b68ac1c8 WSJ broke the story in 2016: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/media/national-enquirer-catch-and-kill-trump-trial/index.html

It's because they're not really comparable. Trump has spent his entire life grifting and cheating people and his time in politics has been no different. The entire "stop the steal" thing was just another of his self-serving cons - a con that got a bunch of his acolytes arrested and one of them...

That's one guy's opinion on the ruling. It shouldn't be surprising that a senior fellow at a libertarian think tank and former FTC lawyer in the Trump administration would find this sort of rule troublesome.

...none that I've presented so far in this thread. The GAO's survey found that it may happen: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-103785 It's also a rather obvious outcome of workers' lack of mobility: if it's harder to get a new job, it's harder to get a new job with a big raise. yes No...

And comforting to those who'd wish to keep their payrolls costs low by suppressing wages. "Direct competitor" can be extremely broad. If your skills apply to only one industry (like many do), then that more-or-less prohibits the employee from moving anywhere. My company, for example, doesn't...

Even assuming you're correct, that doesn't mean that the mere threat of litigation hasn't been sufficient in many cases to obstruct employee movement and have the intended chilling effect.