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https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1888021014585688435
But I think the sports agencies and such should determine that, not the president.
But does that insulate the president from impeachment? There is the notion that you can't (or, at least, shouldn't) enforce the law by breaking the law.
The courts don't make laws at all. They interpret laws to determine if they are valid and if they apply to individual cases. Congress makes the laws and the executive branch enforces those laws.
That's a dubious piece of hyperbole, but even if we assume it to be true, there's an easy answer - because the Supreme Court, the body representing the judicial branch of government, chose to allow him to. They didn't have to. They could have - and, needless to say, absolutely should have - ruled against him, and if they had, Trump couldn't have done anything about it, just as Biden couldn't do anything about them ruling in Trump's favor. Like Congress, the Supreme Court has a number of ways to check Trump's power, and also like Congress, they're refusing to use them.
And yet he wasn't able to freeze funds. The courts stopped him.
Okay, there's a lot of wildly incorrect stuff being posted here. No, the president is not a king
I would have thought that it's pretty self evident that laws which affect the citizens of an entire country should be made by a group rather than an individual.
I guess you're talking about a referendum. I have no issue with the idea that those should be used sparingly, and they mostly are. The Brexit thing was a dumpster fire - whatever side of that debate people are on, it was not a decision arrived at by a well educated and informed population who knew and understood all the issues involved. Which is why you have a government.
But you have a government, not a king or emperor. Were you happy with the last 4 years of Biden as an "elected king"? That worked well, did it? You need some checks and balances and that's why you have a government.
But they still have to go through the process and allow parliament to debate things before anything becomes law. I can see that your system is more efficient but the trade-off is the President can do things unilaterally which doesn't feel right in a democracy.
I don’t really understand all this executive order stuff. Why can a US President unilaterally decide policy, impose tariffs, pardon people, decide about DEI policies, halt refugee programmes etc.
Q: “Are you saying this crash was somehow caused as the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?”
TRUMP: “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a much higher standard than anybody else. And there are things where you have to go by brainpower. You have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it. These are various, very powerful tests that we put to use. And they were terminated by Biden. And Biden went by a standard that seeks the exact opposite. So we don’t know. But we do know that you had two planes at the same level. You had a helicopter and a plane. That shouldn’t have happened. And, we’ll see. We’re going to look into that, and we’re going to see. But certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest. We want somebody that’s psychologically superior. And that’s what we’re going to have.”
Defense officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR that the instructor pilot, now believed to be Chief Warrant Officer Eaves, had 1,000 hours of flight time, which is considered experienced. The co-pilot, whose name is being withheld, had 500 hours, which is considered normal.
https://twitter.com/defense_civil25/status/1885302329404010957
The outlet again spoke with insiders that said the Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk helicopter was not on its approved route and flying higher than it should have been.
Approval had been given for the helicopter to fly no higher than 200 feet along the east side of the Potomac River, where it would have avoided the passenger jet.
The pilot of the helicopter confirmed sight of the American Airlines flight and was told to stick to their predetermined route and go behind the plane.
Sources said the pilot did not stick to the path however and was a half-mile off course as well as being at an altitude above 300 feet.
A senior Army official told The Times that the pilot of the Black Hawk had flown the route before and was well aware of the tight altitude restrictions and routes.
As the jet approached the runway, those onboard had asked air traffic control to change their runway, according to an FAA report.
The plane, a Bombardier CRJ700, had been cleared to touch down on Runway 1, the main airport thoroughfare, but the controller then asked the pilot to land on Runway 33.
https://twitter.com/DrPhil/status/1883669382242644069
Those two pictures clearly have nothing to do with each other. You're presenting them like one is how a globe represents the paths of eclipse and the other is how it's presented on a flat earth, but those maps very clearly, to anyone who looks closely, aren't displaying the same paths as each other. Those aren't the same eclipse paths displayed two different ways. Those are two entirely different maps with two sets of entirely different paths. There's no point comparing those pictures except to fool people too lazy to look at the details.
Show a like for like comparison of the paths and it will be worth looking at.
why don't the other shadow paths exhibit this behavior?
If this was expected inherent geometry then we should see the eclipses all move vertically like that, moving Northward or Southward at a rapid pace.
Because not all eclipses happen under the same conditions. That seems almost so obvious it's not worth saying.
And of course some of the other shadows do look similar. That's quite clearly not the only one with a heavy north south direction.
Solar Eclipse Path Comparison
It is of interest that on the globe the paths of the Solar Eclipse look rather odd:
Source
On the Flat Earth map the paths appear to be symmetrical arcs:
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock (p.113)
“ Fig. 36.—Central eclipses for the first two decades of the twentieth century. Oppolzer.
Future eclipses.—An eclipse map of a different kind is shown in Fig. 36, which represents the shadow paths of [pg. 114] all the central eclipses of the sun, visible during the period 1900-1918 A. D., in those parts of the earth north of the south temperate zone. Each continuous black line shows the path of the shadow in a total eclipse, from its beginning, at sunrise, at the western end of the line to its end, sunset, at the eastern end, the little circle near the middle of the line showing the place at which the eclipse was total at noon. The broken lines represent similar data for the annular eclipses. This map is one of a series prepared by the Austrian astronomer, Oppolzer, showing the path of every such eclipse from the year 1200 B. C. [pg. 115] to 2160 A. D., a period of more than three thousand years. ”
