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Ask HN: How do you filter the Pres-elect's gish gallop?

by MontgomeryPy on 1/8/25, 4:33 PM with 4 comments

• by gwbrooks on 1/8/25, 5:21 PM

  With the exception of things that can be done within the Executive Branch by EO (which isn't much and isn't lasting), the president-elect's rhetoric is communicative and not prescriptive. He's trying to set an agenda but lacks (like all presidents) a lot of power to make it happen beyond the bully pulpit.

  Nothing relatively large and permanent happens until Congress makes a law or SCOTUS makes a ruling.

• by AnimalMuppet on 1/8/25, 5:50 PM

  I don't have the energy for the constant statements. He can spew more than I have time or energy, and now he has people who can spew for him.

  (Digression: Has anyone else noticed that there's a distinct pattern to how Trump communicates? Anything he doesn't like gets two negative adjectives attached - not one, not three, but almost always two. And his people have started writing the same way - even his lawyers in legal briefs!)

  Anyway, I try to ignore it. I need to ignore it much more than I do. Too much hyperventilating outrage, too little substance. I can't be bothered to care anymore.

  Note well: I'm going to be forced to care about what he does. But if the first term was anything to go by, that won't match the rhetoric.

• by coding123 on 1/8/25, 4:47 PM

  Everything Trump says is important so I would listen carefully. We're lucky the new president knows where he is too.