This is just... wow. He not just harming nearly 2 million people... he is also putting us (Americans) in danger. Not to mention he will probably tax us to build his new resort in Gaza.
This is just... wow. He not just harming nearly 2 million people... he is also putting us (Americans) in danger. Not to mention he will probably tax us to build his new resort in Gaza.
The fact he is still alive along with Mitch is proof there is no god.
The USA used to have checks and balances in place to prevent/punish an abuse of power, but those days are over. The supreme court has granted Trump immunity while congress is happily lining up to fall in line with whatever insanity is being tossed their way. In theory it would only take a handful of Republicans in both the house and senate to put an end to all this, but if Republicans had a sense for empathy, they wouldn't be Republicans in the first place.
Worth reiterating here is that everyone who voted for Trump is either evil or an idiot.
Most of the tariff threats were for show and amounted to nothing, but all the efforts to replace the workforce in federal agencies are very serious. Then there's Musk getting access to a tremendous amount of data of American citizens, and other things to follow. It has only been two weeks, but the direction this is going is abundantly clear: American democracy is supposed to end.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
RolStoppable said: The USA used to have checks and balances in place to prevent/punish an abuse of power, but those days are over. The supreme court has granted Trump immunity while congress is happily lining up to fall in line with whatever insanity is being tossed their way. In theory it would only take a handful of Republicans in both the house and senate to put an end to all this, but if Republicans had a sense for empathy, they wouldn't be Republicans in the first place. |
The US’s checks and balances system was never anything more than a polite fiction. The president has too much power, and it’s impossible for him to be expelled from office because it takes 68 Senators out of 100 to do so. Two of the biggest mistakes were combining the head of state and the head of government into one role, and giving the upper house (the Senate) so much power.
SanAndreasX said: The US’s checks and balances system was never anything more than a polite fiction. The president has too much power, and it’s impossible for him to be expelled from office because it takes 68 Senators out of 100 to do so. Two of the biggest mistakes were combining the head of state and the head of government into one role, and giving the upper house (the Senate) so much power. |
The US president has more power than most European heads of state, but comparatively little if we look at every country in the world. In Argentina or Mexico, for instance, their presidents can do things that even Musk can only dream of, and that's even without getting into authoritarian countries.
Now, of course, SCOTUS is supposedly open to a more maximalist view of executive power, especially in regard to federal agencies and their budget.
Data released on Wednesday by national pollster Angus Reid found that 91% of Canadians want their country to rely less on the US in the future, preferring that option over repairing the US-Canada relationship, though more than half still wanted to try. The opinion survey also noted a big jump in national pride, and found that 90% of Canadians were following this issue closely, mimicking engagement levels not seen since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ban Twitter in Europe already, learn from America! He manipulated his way as King of America through misinformation and bullshit and since then he has tried to worm his way into European countries politics and governments through the spread of lies and misinformation. He is dangerous, he is a threat to democracy, a threat to Europe, his shitty platform already caused violent riots in the UK.
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The US president has more power than most European heads of state, but comparatively little if we look at every country in the world. In Argentina or Mexico, for instance, their presidents can do things that even Musk can only dream of, and that's even without getting into authoritarian countries. Now, of course, SCOTUS is supposedly open to a more maximalist view of executive power, especially in regard to federal agencies and their budget. |
The U.S. president can do literally anything that just 38 people in the entire country are willing to forgive him for, no matter how horrific. And he has 53 of those people backing him up, as long as he does anything short of dissolving Congress and installing a military junta with him as the head of it.
- respected again ❌
- world leader ❌
- anti war president ❌
- destroy federal government ✅
Things are going well.