Counterpoint: English language announcers are better because I can understand them

Why do you guys post NFL highlights in Spanish rather than in a language that, you know, the majority of your readers can understand?

He’s my favorite soccer blogger!

Why aren’t people freaking out about the decline in ratings the Premier League has seen the same way they are about a lesser decline in NFL ratings?

Ha your right! My peer reviewer is out of town. Well that’s why I said size and scope. He is on the high end for presidents in the last 50 years and has used them to do much farther reaching things than his presecesors

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Um pretty well in that it makes him the most prolific issuer since Roosevelt and that number you provided is a low estimate since not every memo is recorded

Does that chart include executive memos?

Ok, pretty sure I just proved my original point but do you

But he did set new precedent with his use of executive orders and executive memos (which get left out in counts of executive orders despite there being no difference). Hence his actions are “unprecedented” would you like me to get a dictionary?

I’m wrong that Obama expanded the role of the executive branch through use of executive orders? Huh

I’d say it’s half the impact and content half the fact that many of his executives orders were actually issued as executive memos. There’s no distinction between the two other than executive memos don’t get counted when people want to say “look he had less executive orders than X president!”

RE: The regulatory attorney. I fear *this* will be what Obama’s legacy winds up being (especially if the ACA is gutted/repealed). Every batshit crazy decision trump makes will be caveated in history books with “He was able to do this because Obama consolidated more and more power in the executive branch through…

Has gawker ever considered hiring an actual economist to talk about these things. I like HamNo’s enthusiasm but his poor grasp on economics and finance kind of undermine his points

Says a white man at a mostly white blog run entirely by white people. Funny how “good” white people never seem to see their own privelage

In his weak ass natural