# Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277 "2016-09-30T11:21:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/3295 "2016-10-22T23:12:01Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> How the _hell_ could that possibly work?

By creating a new Federal regulation which has, within itself, the text of the two it replaces, plus the text of the new regulation they wanted to pass anyway.

Which gives a really nifty tool for political brinkmanship: “That regulation you need to do this function? Give me this new language, or I won’t support it.”

It’s the kind of shit people come up with when they honestly believe that an inactive government is a good thing, and that any government action is definitionally bad and freedom-limiting.

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