Also looking in from the outside, it seems obvious to me that the ‘plan’ is to manufacture sufficient crises and push people just enough that Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act and “indefinitely delay” the midterms and future elections.
What I really don’t get is, this one man seems to have total unchecked power? Americans go on and on about being ‘free’, not having a king, but their president has more power than any UK prime minister or modern king has ever had, and it goes completely unchecked. Recently in the UK, both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss (our UK-equivalent populist grifters) were ousted from the government for overreaching and lying, but there’s nothing to deal with Trump? How the heck has the US gotten in this situation? You would’ve expected the democrats to put checks in place to stop this, given Trump’s insurrection.
Yeah the amount of power they’ve handed to the president is just absolutely fucking bonkers. Like, how did they think that’d be a good idea? For all their crowing about democracy, a lot of them sure do seem like they want anything but a democracy
Lots of “unwritten rules” that most presidents have followed historically. Just takes one person who doesn’t give a fuck about the rules to break the whole system wide open.
dictators are distressingly popular. nobody likes checks and balances when they’re holding your guy back from giving the bad guys a well-deserved beating.
Also looking in from the outside, it seems obvious to me that the ‘plan’ is to manufacture sufficient crises and push people just enough that Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act and “indefinitely delay” the midterms and future elections.
What I really don’t get is, this one man seems to have total unchecked power? Americans go on and on about being ‘free’, not having a king, but their president has more power than any UK prime minister or modern king has ever had, and it goes completely unchecked. Recently in the UK, both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss (our UK-equivalent populist grifters) were ousted from the government for overreaching and lying, but there’s nothing to deal with Trump? How the heck has the US gotten in this situation? You would’ve expected the democrats to put checks in place to stop this, given Trump’s insurrection.
I just. don’t. get it.
Republicans in Congress could begin impeachment proceedings and put a stop to this at any point. They are choosing not to. It’s not just Trump.
He has total power because the GOP is a cult and the Republicans in the other branches of government choose to let him have unchecked power.
Yeah the amount of power they’ve handed to the president is just absolutely fucking bonkers. Like, how did they think that’d be a good idea? For all their crowing about democracy, a lot of them sure do seem like they want anything but a democracy
Lots of “unwritten rules” that most presidents have followed historically. Just takes one person who doesn’t give a fuck about the rules to break the whole system wide open.
Normally in a democracy you’d expect the voters to keep the politicians from violating those unwritten rules, but Americans gonna American.
dictators are distressingly popular. nobody likes checks and balances when they’re holding your guy back from giving the bad guys a well-deserved beating.
And the prevalence of guillotine-posting here shows that that attitude transcends political affiliation.
Guillotine is the check against this shit.