Fast end to fakery

After only 9 days in office, Trump’s old trick is already obvious.

= = = = = Reprint from 2019:

Faker Trump has pulled his favorite fake trick again. He wrote a fake “executive order” designed to provide political ammunition for the enemies of populism without actually changing anything.

His previous fake “order” encouraging religious freedom told federal agencies to think about religious freedom while they continue exterminating believers.

The new fake “order” encourages federal agencies to think about free speech on campus while they continue censoring free speech on campus.

Neither order requires ANY changes in rules or budgets. The new one pretends to “withhold” federal funding from colleges that violate free speech, but EXCLUDES all ACTUAL federal funding from the rule.

And the enemies are obligingly responding.

Headline:

Universities Spooked by Trump Order on Free Speech

Part of the article states the simple truth:

“Universities already have to comply with numerous federal regulations — such as laws barring discrimination based on race or gender — to receive federal research funding, Ben-Porath adds. Complying with the new order could be as simple as filling out a little more paperwork, she says.”

Yup. Just another document.

But the “spooked” universities are already mobilizing to guarantee that populists are tortured even more painfully than before:

“It is also troubling that in his remarks the president sought to drive a wedge between students and faculty, casting his executive order as a ‘clear message to the professors’ that their funding was now at risk while also raising the specters of ‘political indoctrination’ and ‘coercion.’”

In fact most of the indoctrination and coercion comes from administrators in league with SJW students, not faculty. The indoctrinators know that they can count on the black-robed demons to cancel the “order”, so they will immediately create hundreds of test cases.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

All of Trump’s orders in the first term were carefully written to be meaningless. Some were guaranteed to be canceled by black-robed demons, others were phrased to give the bureaucrats only a suggestion, not an order.

Now we’re seeing the first category already, as several of his new orders were canceled by the blackrobes.

Trump didn’t invent this game. Congress has been playing it forever. One party will write and pass a “law” in one house, knowing in advance that the other house will immediately turn it down, or the president will immediately veto it. The bill-writing party gains funds from its partisan suckers and creates a splendid counterforce in the media and politicians of the “other” party. The writers can say:

Look! We tried to do the right thing, but the Horrible Alien Other Party ruined it! We need more money so we can defeat the Horrible Alien Other Party and control all parts of the government!

When the writing party GAINS the control it wanted, it lays back and does nothing, because now there’s no need to create a fake dispute.