It's not even American Revolution stuff, this is English Revolution stuff. - ThreadSky

aacooper.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It's not even American Revolution stuff, this is English Revolution stuff.

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

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transits00.bsky.social•1 day ago

I love history. I hope Trump 2.0 ends like Charles II.

jasiglar.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Surely you mean Charles I?

transits00.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Surely, I did. Fat fingers and all. We can leave it, I like to remind myself I'm fallible. Humbles ya. ;)

stevob5.bsky.social•1 day ago

Taxation without accountability.

swmark78.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or in this case representation if the supposed representative bodies no long have a function.

jjsingh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Regardless, it‘s the stuff of revolutions. And anyone who thinks we can’t have one must not have learned anything from those of us who said Trump couldn’t be elected again, or that what we‘re seeing was impossible in America. It’s possible. So is a new revolution.

theknuttel.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Lol trump gonna dissolve congress or something dumb like that

davemc5192.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Look at his volumes of EO’s, his edicts by tweet, his speeches. He’s not interested in laws or Congress or Courts

Then look at lstnite, he thinks he’s The Emperor, who rules by fiat. & the Courts, Congress & SCOTUS are clearing the way for him to do it, cheering him on

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•1 day ago

SHIP MONEY

whistlefey.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Even worse, this is *Magna Carta* stuff. "No scutage or aid is to be imposed in our kingdom except by the common counsel of our kingdom..."

snowmein.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It might convince them if we call it MAGA Carta.

robertcruickshank.com•1 day ago

Yep - the English Civil War was in part fought over these very questions. The leaders of the American Revolution came from that tradition and just assumed the legislature would always jealously guard its power of the purse.

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Ship Money Summer is coming.

jolemon.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Have often thought of James II when hearing of the Trump/DOGE doings the last few weeks

mktimber.bsky.social•21 hours ago

French Revolution

darthhippy.bsky.social•1 day ago

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

deportelon.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They literally dabble in Jacobitism.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets?srsltid=AfmBOora16YqJNyY3dR8tfkc34LvGBIpFJI2YjrhUZcb_rN4cOSGNu59

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