re: Obama's advice to Trump: Don't use executive orders too much

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I'd be interested to know what news shows and newspapers you were reading back then.

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None. And the only thing he knows of EO's is what he can find with a google search. Thus the reason he can't quickly explain the EO he supposedly had a big problem with in 74. He has to go back, and re-google that EO, and try to mish mush the words to make it sound like his own. Expect a bunch of poor grammar and incoherent babble.

From 2014

By issuing his directives as "memoranda" rather than executive orders, Obama has downplayed the extent of his executive actions

President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.

When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman battled the "Do Nothing Congress" almost seven decades ago, according to a USA TODAY review of presidential documents.

He's used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration.
Obama has issued 195 executive orders as of Tuesday. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda — all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders.
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He's used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration.
Obama has issued 195 executive orders as of Tuesday. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda — all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders.

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That's because Obama's EOs ARE substantially different. Your assertion to the opposite is wrong. Your stupid link on Nixon Shock = 'nothing much happened.' That's why no one remembers Nixon Shock. I was an adult an paying attention long before Nixon and I don't remember anyone blaming the Carter disaster of an economy on 'Nixon Shock'. Do you recall that rejoinder in the 70s?

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Really? You don't think ending Bretton-Woods unilaterally through executive fiat was significant?

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I don't remember anyone blaming the Carter disaster of an economy on 'Nixon Shock'.

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Of course you don't, that would run counter to the narrative that everything was rosy until Carter came along...

The 1973–75 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the general post-World War II economic boom. It differed from many previous recessions as being a stagflation, where high unemployment coincided with high inflation.

Among the causes were the 1973 oil crisis and the fall of the Bretton Woods system after the Nixon Shock.[2] The emergence of newly industrialized countries increased competition in the metal industry, triggering a steel crisis, where industrial core areas in North America and Europe were forced to re-structure.[citation needed] The 1973–74 stock market crash made the recession evident.

The recession in the United States lasted from November 1973 (the Richard Nixon presidency) to March 1975 (the Gerald Ford presidency),[3] although its effects on the US were felt through the Jimmy Carter presidency until the mid-term of Ronald Reagan's first term as president, characterized by low economic growth. Although the economy was expanding from 1975 to the first recession of the early 1980s, which began in January 1980, inflation remained extremely high until the early years of the 1980s.

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Don't Zach up the thread, Zach.

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And also the first president to be in power through the true social media age blah, blah, Yeah, social media was around under Bush, blah, if they were president today with social media, blah, fricking blah, blah, blah, Social Media, blah, blah...

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And if you disagree with this than holy frick you truly are lost.

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Kids today.

The only reason you hear more dissent today is because of social media. Every Tom dick and Harry has a voice they didn't have even 10 years ago. The same reason the world is seen as more violent today, despite that being entirely false. You just see it more... Why? Social. Media.

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You don't think ending Bretton-Woods unilaterally through executive fiat was significant?

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No and your link = indeterminate.

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Of course you don't, that would run counter to the narrative that everything was rosy until Carter came along...

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The economy under Nixon was up and down but it was utopia compared to Carter.

There is nothing in Nixon EOs that could cause the massive interest rate increases and inflation we got with Carter.

Now, answer my question. When did you read about Nixon Shock used as an excuse for Carter during Carter's administration? The media was 100% behind Carter. They would have trumpeted it.

Pot, meet kettle