Literally never seen a branch of government roll over and watch their authority taken away from them like watching the legislative branch today Unreal - ThreadSky

pptsapper.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Literally never seen a branch of government roll over and watch their authority taken away from them like watching the legislative branch today

Unreal

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dajensen.bsky.social•25 days ago

The drafters of the Constitution imagined that Congress would be as powerful as today's UK Parliament, but 535 people in Congress decided to let 9 members of SCOTUS (6 who are blatantly corrupt) and one hopelessly delusional fool do whatever they want and bring shame and mockery on Congress.

tiffanyclay.dev•26 days ago

I have. Although not in my lifetime.

bedwyr.bsky.social•26 days ago

Primary them.

koboldcurrychef.bsky.social•26 days ago

They might as well just redact that whole Article of the Constitution -- and that would be just fine with the new administration.

250 years wasn't a bad run, but this may be all she wrote. If I'm overly pessimistic, I hope to be proven wrong!

stoneandstars.bsky.social•25 days ago

I mean. I have. It’s just that it was in Revenge of the Sith. And listen, I’m all for epic timelines but i really don’t want to have to put my faith in a whiny yet magical 16 year old boy with an unregistered melee weapon to help us get out of this.

captanne.bsky.social•26 days ago

It’s breathtaking. Not in a good way.

sundog11.bsky.social•25 days ago

and it's just getting started. Peeps, seriously, we continue to have a failure of imagination on how bad things can get.

kathleen-nuna.bsky.social•25 days ago

I have no idea why the non maga GOP are staying loyal, he’s going to put his own people in, after he takes total control. They might as well vote with the Dems and stop as much of this as possible. The non maga GOP have all the power right now. Dems need to whip those votes

petervieth.bsky.social•25 days ago

Right now MAGA vs everyone else is kinda like

penguin42.bsky.social•26 days ago

They are making their own jobs obsolete.

chaosos.bsky.social•26 days ago

I mean, this seems like a culmination of the past century of the legislative branch deciding "lol this job is too hard". It's been the fundamental failure in our democracy, the wellspring from which all other problems flow.

milphil.bsky.social•26 days ago

And besides themselves hoping to see the stick get thrown again

johnny68.bsky.social•26 days ago

Is that Canada or the U.K.?

pisseartiste.bsky.social•26 days ago

The United States.

johnny68.bsky.social•25 days ago

You’d never know from this navel gazing lot.

crazyoldlady.bsky.social•26 days ago

We should start calling them the Duma.

libertyogre.bsky.social•26 days ago

Can’t be responsible for anything if you refuse to do your job amirite

welly14.bsky.social•26 days ago

Agreed--I'm so disappointed with my two senators from Minnesota. At least Smith voted no on some nominations. Klobuchar just puts out "disappointed" statements that were crafted by focus groups. They need to lead the fight!

paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social•26 days ago

Called my senators’ offices today and had to bite my tongue not to ask if they were collaborators or just cowards.

grumdholt.bsky.social•26 days ago

We must remember, after the shit hits the fan and they try to say it was all Trump's fault, that they let it happen.
They will lie and say they didn't support Trump. That they were working behind the scenes to stop him. We must hold them as accountable as Trump.

ravenonthill.bsky.social•26 days ago

The Democrats, at least, are fighting but they are in a minority.

malaforethought.bsky.social•25 days ago

Fighting Where? Fighting How? It's going to take bullets to solve this, not strongly-worded condemnations.

ravenonthill.bsky.social•25 days ago

In the courts and legislatures. Bullets are a last resort, and a risky deadly one, aside from the possibility of losing.

If you look at the history of the (First?) Civil War, there were points when the North nearly lost or just gave up and there was backsliding after.

freedomfry.bsky.social•26 days ago

Robert C Byrd about to rise from the grave and administer an ass beating.

ms-anon-e-mouse.bsky.social•26 days ago

That fucking part.

mike-in-the-box.bsky.social•26 days ago

Democratic legislators are issuing outraged statements that properly acknowledge the unprecedented nature of this coup. They're coordinating with local agencies to look for emergency funding solutions. Democratic state attorneys general are suing the fascist regime.

What more could they do?

serioustom.bsky.social•26 days ago

Co equal my ass

captainabraham.bsky.social•26 days ago

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
—Donald Trump

wenleh.bsky.social•26 days ago

Trump defunds the police

Congressional Republicans cheer him on…

solveforgenx.bsky.social•26 days ago

“Hey you can’t do that!”

“Just did”

“Oh, okay”

roninresearch.bsky.social•25 days ago

No...This has been ongoing for at least 50 years. Its so much easier to stay in office by passing laws that read "The Secretary shall" & letting the unelected bureaucrats & the Executive Office of the President define the scope of their powers...

arthurn.bsky.social•22 days ago

Juditial dept. (soon) "Hold my beer!"

memewrangler.bsky.social•26 days ago

"Feckless" and "Milquetoast" don't quite cover it.

ctreese2.bsky.social•25 days ago

Party loyalty circumvents Constitutional separation of powers. It is used not simply as a means of free assembly but as an extra-governmental mechanism that results in what we see now. For people who genuinely think our system needs to be replaced for their agenda.

disastergis.org•25 days ago

I mean, George Washington foretold all of this crap back in 1796! The wikipedia page on it is about on the nose as you can get.

raoul51.bsky.social•26 days ago

The Republicans in the legislative branch are loyal to the felon in the Oval Office so they don't want to even try to exercise authority.

garysnyder.bsky.social•26 days ago

Too real to everyone who saw it coming, and far too real for all of those Americans and others who are being harmed by this failure to act by so many within our government and among our elite class.

bmorgan83.bsky.social•26 days ago

It's been happening for decades. At first it was slow, but has snowballed into what it is today.

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