r/politics • u/tetaniclemur • 5d ago

No Paywall Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure America’s Bulk-Power System

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-a-national-emergency-to-secure-americas-bulk-power-system/
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u/MasemJ 5d ago

"When everything is a national emergency, nothing is"

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u/PaxEthenica 5d ago

Yes, & no. While I'm certain that there are a couple dozen chicken-shit nothings on the list, a number of them were decelared by previous administrations about things that actually matter to the stability of the country, & the wellbeing of the citizenry. However, & you knew there was going to be a 'however;' since Reagan we've lived in an age of neoliberal paralysis. The state has the capacity - IE: laws on the books - to take care of a lot of the things that are more important than bombing brown people, but to do it properly would require raising taxes/redirecting money away from the non-representative elite that control the economy.

So, while you are right, again, that nothing is an emergency... you're wrong, horrifically so as a moral human being, (you are a good person to not try to understand the motivations) that there are no chronic emergencies in the USA.