it is worse.
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Brendan Nyhan
Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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WHILE MANY ARE KISSING HIS ASS TO RISE
TO THE TOP OF WHATEVER POSITION THEY DESIRE.
THE REGULAR POPULATION IS HIDING THEIR HEAD IN THE SAND BELIEVING THAT IF THEY DONT SEE IT, IT DOES NOT EXIST.
MANY OF US WILL RESIST UNTIL DEATH.
And if, say, Social Security payments don't come tomorrow, people are really not going to accept it and blame the person at the top.
How would he?
Doing so needs over half of the house and ⅔ of the senate to vote against him. And they're both majority red.
So it would need enough of them GOP members to vote against their king for anything to happen.
Basically, with the recent decision from SCOTUS, the President can do anything they want with their core powers as long as Congress agrees.
It's if enough of Congress are too spineless to do anything about it.
If I was a betting person? I'd swear they were trying to crash everything so they can privative all of it.
8+ requires violence.
I legit work in this field of modernizing govt systems. You CAN'T just walk in, say in two weeks we are going to switch to this new cloud vendor and ta da, we're good.
The ACA with an army of workers took two years to build.
Even Hitler spent time in the slammer.