I'm all for fighting Trump's vanity projects for legal reasons, but one other reason is to wound his ego. Trump's attitude to the American people is one big f. u., and by denying him his vanity projects, we are giving it back to him. He hates to see himself as the loser he actually is.
Trump's ego is his Achille's heel. His vanity projects (in addition to his sidekick, Natalie "Blinky" Harp) is how he self-soothes himself when reality goes head-on against his cognitive dissonance on the public stage and crashes. (Ie Lying his way to and throughout HIS War against Iran). Going head-to-head legally against Trump's vanity projects pops his delusional balloon that he can do ANYTHING. As Trump continues to lose, more people realize what E Jean Carroll realized in court: This guy is just "a phantom". He's an illusion whose only "power" consists of incompetent enablers surrounding him. The pulling of the curtain to reveal "the wizard" in all of his smallness in the Wizard of Oz is a perfect metaphor.
"Thus, when Congress has assigned a function to an institution, the president cannot take over that function simply by controlling the people who administer it."
Hopefully this logic applies to all the "independent agencies" that the Supreme Court has given Trump complete hiring and firing authority over. Not to mention Cabinet departments like Education.
Let's talk about why he is doing these things the way he is doing them: to wound the national psyche. Attacks on our identity are the most hurtful, and national icons--even those which we will never visit but that we have known for a lifetime through pictures and stories--serve to give us a collective national identity. Little by little, Trump is chipping away at that to control and oppress Americans.
I have never been to the White House or Kennedy Center, but it is my right that they exist intact for the purpose for which they were created. It is also my right that future generations have the chance to witness and enjoy them. The law is clear on all of this: Congress must okay big projects, and the Kennedy Center was created in memorium to one man. If Donald wants one of those, he is welcome to die today.
I'm all for fighting Trump's vanity projects for legal reasons, but one other reason is to wound his ego. Trump's attitude to the American people is one big f. u., and by denying him his vanity projects, we are giving it back to him. He hates to see himself as the loser he actually is.
Couldn't agree more, especially the wounding of his ego.
Trump's ego is his Achille's heel. His vanity projects (in addition to his sidekick, Natalie "Blinky" Harp) is how he self-soothes himself when reality goes head-on against his cognitive dissonance on the public stage and crashes. (Ie Lying his way to and throughout HIS War against Iran). Going head-to-head legally against Trump's vanity projects pops his delusional balloon that he can do ANYTHING. As Trump continues to lose, more people realize what E Jean Carroll realized in court: This guy is just "a phantom". He's an illusion whose only "power" consists of incompetent enablers surrounding him. The pulling of the curtain to reveal "the wizard" in all of his smallness in the Wizard of Oz is a perfect metaphor.
"Thus, when Congress has assigned a function to an institution, the president cannot take over that function simply by controlling the people who administer it."
Hopefully this logic applies to all the "independent agencies" that the Supreme Court has given Trump complete hiring and firing authority over. Not to mention Cabinet departments like Education.
Let's talk about why he is doing these things the way he is doing them: to wound the national psyche. Attacks on our identity are the most hurtful, and national icons--even those which we will never visit but that we have known for a lifetime through pictures and stories--serve to give us a collective national identity. Little by little, Trump is chipping away at that to control and oppress Americans.
I have never been to the White House or Kennedy Center, but it is my right that they exist intact for the purpose for which they were created. It is also my right that future generations have the chance to witness and enjoy them. The law is clear on all of this: Congress must okay big projects, and the Kennedy Center was created in memorium to one man. If Donald wants one of those, he is welcome to die today.