Depends on whether or not it acquires a supermajority when being voted on.

jesse what the hell are you talking about (but unironically)

Damn, it’s fucked enough that even the neoliberal thinktanks are starting to get spook.

The divide at that point becomes a class one, where the quality varies intensely by how rich each individual town is.

The pain comes when a struggling town can barely fund its own schools and the assistance coming from the top down to keep the lights on gets cut.

The Saab Aerospace marketing team just looks on at this exchange in dismay.

This “use executive orders to bluff until people treat them like actual laws” strategy is starting to get really annoying.

I believe Robespierre had lead a period of time known as the “reign of good times and normal vibes” where they all formed committees to talk out and mediate the the problems of the system they lived under.

That’s the same thing they’d say to a cancer patient.

The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.

The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.

The whole point is to remove the legal backing of the orders such that anyone who isn’t already not complying out of a sense of morals but is enough of a mook to stop because “it’s law” also stops complying.

The whole game is to bluff people into complying with any shit they want preemptively because there’s no way in hell they’d get such policies through official channels.

History books are written at a state level actually, you can thank the lost-causers for that one.