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MFW people say the Democrats are “tearing this country apart”
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It would probably be a shorter article to list the amendments he hasn't violated!
I tried to make a post of what that would look like but it wouldnt let me submit it since it was empty.
I wish the media stop addressing him as President for the rest of his term he only cares about his ego and white supremacy. Trump has show something being illegal doesn't matter if you just don't care.
Or even better: so called President Trump or "President" Trump
He commits crimes against the constitution every day. Is something going to be done about it?
Probably not. Decades of political rot have come to this.
We need 100 years of McCarthyism against right wing lunatics
Congress doesn't want to have a record of members approving this, but they have decided that they will let it go forward
The politicians sure as fuck aren’t doing anything. Maybe a post on social media or a 5 second statement on the news. That’s it. Nothing else. They are making money off this and can advance their agendas. They don’t give a fuck about America or its people.
As other countries in the world showed in recent years, constitutions are worthless pieces of paper.
And some like Brazil and South Korea showed that constitutions were law
They're only about at worthless as the citizens though.
315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion,
Deciding that the government had violated grantees’ rights to equal protection, Mehta only ordered a return to the status quo, reinstating seven grants totaling $27.6 million.
Let's be clear, that's $27.6 million out of $7,500 million. 99.6% of the cuts still go through.
Yeah, from the article, it sounds like only a few organizations were in the lawsuit. They're the only ones the judge ordered restored.
Which is a violation of his oath of office, which is ample grounds for impeachment.
Shame that Congress is full of feckless cowards
"Hey buddy, get in line." - the other 10-15 things he's done that other presidents would have gotten impeached for.
What's crazy is Trump has already been impeached! TWICE!
And found guilty of 34 felonies and (in a civil case) raping a woman.
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I dont think theyre cowards per se. I think this is how the "democracy" is intended to work?
Trump looks after oligarchs, oligarchs make donations to campaigns to get senators elected, senators support Trump.
Its not so much that theyre cowards, theyre just serving the people who got them elected, and thats not the voters.
Not an american but is the famous american "checks and balances" need to be turned off and on again or smt? It doesn't seem to be working.
They ripped the CPU out of the socket, cut traces around the motherboard, stole the ram and paid off the IT staff and management to look the other way.
Apparently, and who would have guessed it, laws only work when people are willing to follow and or enforce them.
The "checks and balances" depend on putting ambitious people in different parts of the government, and giving them competing roles. Then, naturally, excesses get curbed because no one part of the government would want to cede too much of its power to the other.
It did not forsee a future where the leaders of the other co-equal branches of government would subjugate themselves to the President's ego.
I'm American and I'm not convinced it was ever turned on. Pretty sure it was theorized and marketed well and all of you believed it as much as we did.
Just part of the elementary school indoctrination.
The real tip off was that we had a song for how great the flag is :)
The checks and balances are working mostly as intended. The purpose of the system is:
- Protect the oligarchy from external threats, should any anti-oligarch politician slip by all the various election disenfranchisement techniques,
- Moderate any conflicts between factions of the oligarchy to stabilize the dictatorship of the capital.
As far as I can tell,
- Billionaires are making more billions every day while the rest struggle to get by,
- Almost all dem politicians and their wealthy neoliberal donors are doing alright despite a literal fascist party being in power.
Besides, even when someone like Mamdani gets elected, they can't effect any meaningful change because they are "checked" by the pro-capitalist legislature and "balanced" by the corrupt judiciary.
It doesn't need a reboot, it needs a complete realignment of who's in charge.
It's definitely not working now. It got destroyed after 9/11 - Bush was only too happy about the opportunity to make some changes that had already been waiting in a drawer for who knows how many years - and it's honestly a miracle it took so long for someone to exploit its absence to its fullest extent.
But arguably it all went downhill long before Bush.
Checks and balances is working exactly as the founding fathers envisioned.
...by cashing checks and hoarding balances.
The founders were mostly slave/land owning robber barons. Washington was one of the most wealthiest people in the colonies…
Yeah the only reason they didn't want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain's other colony of Canada.
Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.
Amazing. I cant wait to see what the consequences are.
I've under taken the arduous trip and located the answer. To save you the trouble, I've drawn a map.
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Cool. What of it then? I get it, but it doesn’t really mean anything if accountability is optional nowadays.
So the grants must be reinstated.
They’ll just appeal it to the supreme court who will rule that actually it’s totally cool
The absolute least we can do is force them to jump through the hoops. Like, I get that it feels pointless but it's better than just giving up and letting them do whatever they want.
They WANT you to feel like there's no point so that you'll give up. They want you to give up because that's the easiest way for them to win. Why give them the satisfaction? They haven't actually won yet, but even if I can never win I'll won't give up no matter how impossible the victory, and neither should you.
Also it helps build up a solid case if shit goes to civil war, easier to get international aid if the list of things the feds have done is long and itemized. Also helps justify it to the population both within and without such anti trump territory.
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Incoming Truth Social post....
"This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!"
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Trump's violated so many laws and under aged women and got no consequences so why would he stop?
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