Why Executive Orders Banning Thanksgiving are Executive Bullshit

Rule 1 of effective leadership: never EVER give an order you can’t or won’t enforce.

In 2015, John Kerry journeyed to war-torn Iraq, which was facing a full-blown ISIS-crisis thanks to the bungling of post-war efforts coming from everyone in American foreign policy.

If you were cynical or paying attention, you might imagine that such bungling actually was on purpose, in service of the forever war that enriches the political class and their friends in the defense industry.

Rather than being ashamed, of y’know, helping to utterly destroy an entire country to the point that it was marauded by warlords and religious zealots, Kerry got behind the podium and confidently spewed pompous promises about how the US would totally help Iraq to regain stability.

Hearing that stability in the region was an actual American goal might be surprising to hear if you were say, an Iraqi who had watched their country devolve into a Mad Max hellscape over the decade previous.

One intrepid Iraqi reporter asked John Kerry something along the lines of “Are you serious about your promises?”

Kerry responded, “Well, yes of course. I’m very serious. I’m up here talking, aren’t I?”