it’s crazy it took 248 years for a president to realize he can do anything illegal and it doesn’t really matter too much. you can sort of just do whatever, it’s chill
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No. Not took 248 years for politicians to devolve into moral less slop , the media to become unable to even comment on the obvious, and all the other systems to fail. Nixon tried a mere fraction of the fuckery and had to resign. Trump were he in Nixon's day would be crucified.
These days, we give lethal injections which, 83% of the time, give you pulmonary edema. (You drown in your own lung fluid while you're incapacitated from doing about it).
Not only that. There is an entire army of dweebs who will come out of the wood works to explain why it's actually impossible for the president to even think about doing good stuff
george w. bush was president during my high school & early 20s; he also did not seem to care about the rule of law. it turns out nefarious people only care about the rule of law when some party actually enforces the rule of law & punishes them. we have lived in a corrup nation for a long time.
The buck stops with us. There are laws, and votes, and elected officials. But when all those fail, the final barrier is the people. We decide. Do we have the will to rise up. Are we capable of sacrifice, possibly with our lives, to stop him - or do we give up our freedoms and let him remain.
They are going at breakneck speeds to put their people in place, and filter the chain of command with loyalist. DOJ and military. They are also working on creating private mercenary groups. Every day that goes by means that much more blood will be spent to stop them.
Other Presidents did not have one branch of the government wiling to interpret laws in its favor and one branch of government made up almost entirely of invertebrates.
I think he just found the loophole perfect storm: having control of both bodies of Congress and the Supreme Court in your pocket. Also you have to be completely devoid of human decency and ethics.
If you mean you’re constantly waiting for a horrific monster to burst out of someone, discarding them as they are of no more use and the monster’s only purpose is destroying more people until only the monsters are left….I agree.
I mean, it was, from the beginning, based on restraint from the person holding the office. GW didn't want to become King, and everyone after him kept that sentiment alive. Until this turd. He wants to be King, and sit on a golden throne and have everyone fawn over him.
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#DOGE is how he will do it.
https://www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
These days, we give lethal injections which, 83% of the time, give you pulmonary edema. (You drown in your own lung fluid while you're incapacitated from doing about it).
https://ccrjustice.org/home/blog/2015/11/17/911-decade-and-decline-us-democracy
Justices still have them, but you can pay to have them removed