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He commits crimes against the constitution every day. Is something going to be done about it?
Congress doesn’t want to have a record of members approving this, but they have decided that they will let it go forward
Probably not. Decades of political rot have come to this.
We need 100 years of McCarthyism against right wing lunatics
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.
“Wait, I know the 5th Amendment! That’s an important one! That’s the one that says I don’t have to admit to my crimes! I’m the best in the world at that one!”
You talking about 5th element the movie right?
“It’s my favorite Bible verse!”
Probably the most concise summary of modern Christianity we’re ever going to get.
About time a judge dug into his tweets.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
Who’s going to do anything about it? He’s the king.
Nah, fuck that defeatist bullshit.
What are you going to do about it? Because right now no one is.
Trumps violates the constitution daily by his very existence
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.
I like that, by “must” do you mean still optional?
And when they aren’t?
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.
So we should give up, dig a hole and stick your heads in? I’m not a giving up sort of person. But if that’s your preference, go for it. smh
If you have even a few hours of spare time, read the Communist Manifesto and Lenin’s “What is to be done”. The latter one is a bit harsh and not entirely agreeable, but proposes effective techniques of class warfare.
Almost half of young adults (historically, this is the demographic that will be effecting the revolution) in the US agree that socialism is good, it’s just that almost nobody is willing to do anything to achieve it because they feel alone and disconnected. Build the connections, build the communities. Join the PSL or any other socialist/communist/anarchist org near you.
More practically, learn how to operate & purchase a weapon. It might be needed in the coming years, even if just for self-defense. If history is anything to go by, the fascists who gain power are not going to stop at the current level of violence.
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.
Such a pathetic little spiteful coward of a man.
That thing isn’t a man. It’s an orange ghoul.
You can expect this behavior from an orange ghoul. Calling him a man insinuates that he is supposed to be better than this- which makes it worse.
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.
Supreme Court: Uno Reverse card.
Amazing. I cant wait to see what the consequences are.
OK you like surprises and magic. Right?
Its 6am, I’m a guy and just woke up. I got my own bed and my age is between 20 and 60. What am I holding? The answer may surprise you. Or maybe not.
Pastrami on rye with a little mustard, not the good mustard the occasion doesn’t call for it
Yeah hold the Good pasta!
What the fuck hahahah
Nope!
Wait but how do you know what my guess is??
Keep on keepin’ on, bud 😂
Oh I miss read your reply. No, I was holding my elbow!
I’ve under taken the arduous trip and located the answer. To save you the trouble, I’ve drawn a map.
Incoming Truth Social post…
“This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!”
Rick Scott.
“Not my president” because he refuses to be.
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.
