A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law
B) that destroyed any chance to “use the Constitution” as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were
C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him
D) now riots are coming
What came before that:
- Several members of the US SC have been compromised (Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and possibly others) by having been photographed/filmed at sexually explicit events with minors.
- In the case of Kavanaugh this was even dangled in front of his eyes at his confirmation hearing to make sure he understood he was to walk the line or else.
- Cases were brought in front of the SC to make sure they could rule on “Presidential immunity”
- Even though this empowered Joe Biden to unprecedented levels of presidential impunity, he choose to do nothing with it and let the the his AG continue his slow work on trying get anything to stick on Trump, or attempt to push.
- Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
I still rage thinking about this…
Obama: Scalia dies in the beginning of the election year and Mitch McFuck says “it’s too close to the election, we need to let the people decide.”
Trump: Ginsberg dies WHILE MAIL IN VOTING IS HAPPENING and Mitch McFuck rams through a nomination…
God I hate that piece of shit. They got two justices by having no fucking morals whatsoever and playing double standards. Not to mention Obama calling their bluff. They tried this “Obama just wants a far left judge he’d never pick someone respected like Garland.” So he picks Garland and they pull this it’s too late bullshit…
And then your party appointed an attorney general who did absolutely nothing.
It’s “my party” as in: I hold my nose, disgusted at the fact they’re the only viable option until we change the voting system, but am fully aware they’re 90% shit and do dumbass fucking things like “make the same person Republicans wanted as a justice be an attorney general responsible for holding Trump accountable.”
Doesn’t change the fact that Mitch McFuck is a piece of shit that has no standards other than “whatever gets me more power.”
If you keep holding your nose and supporting them they have no motivation to change. This tells them they can do whatever they want because you’ll keep coming back for more. That’s how Democrats have gone from the party of Jimmy Carter to ‘what genocide?’
Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.
Whack people in the face with big wads of cash for long enough, and they numb out.
…and I’m generously assuming nothing more sinister was in play.
I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.
Was it good tho
I dont know… The movies made it seem great, but yeah, its movies.
That was what the election was for.
When someone votes for a person like Trump, they are voting to not hold him accountable and to continue doing worse and worse things and to do away with guardrails, rules, rights, and all those other niceties of the socio-politico contract.
This is what every MAGA sounds like the moment their token gets spent or the chickens come home to roost for them (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking minute sooner or st any point prior) and they receive the same consequences they wanted and voted for others (“but not meeeee”) to be treated with by Trump’s regime
Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents
Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have
Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death. The US Legislature and Supreme Court have reined in presidential power for literally the entire existence of the US. Even during the first Trump Admin this happened. What’s happening now is a total abdication of the separation of powers
Oh yeah? Give me an real concrete example of a president getting hold accountable in the usa. By accountability I don’t just mean impeachement but real consequences like jail
Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death.
Some for of punishment is required when you do the level of bullshit he has done.
No argument here. My response was to the idea that the US has never had any form of accountability for presidents, which is just not true.
Because the constitutional methods for fixing a rogue presidency lie with the legislature. The legislature is complicit.
Unfortunately the Constitution is toothless when bad actors control anything more than like 40% of the government.
Corruption
They’re benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they’re going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.
I had an old coworker who had given MAGA organizations her life’s savings. She was working well past her planned retirement and wound up getting a head injury when a patient bopped her on the head three times. She shouldn’t have been put in the position to work high acuity psychiatry in her 70s. She was going to retire destitute but after that nobody could deny she just wasn’t safe to work anymore. And to the day she retired she kept saying trump was going to reward her any day now. I know somebody here is gonna talk shit but aside from being too damn naïve she was such a kind soul. And I’ve only ever worked psych as a nurse but she’d done all kinds of things like oncology and wound care so if I had a patient with a medical problem or who needed an IV placed she had my back. She’d rant to the high heavens about the lizard people but damn if she didn’t know her lab values and meds back to front. I hope those grifters rot in hell.
What you are seeing is the unmasked version of US politics. This is what US politics has always been, but it’s always been a lot more covert. The political parties do not have any issue with what he is doing, they only have an issue that he is so blatant with it.
This is what US politics has always been
sounds like donald quack is the missing piece that unites them all. The plot is similar to HP book when Voldemort goes back to power
the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent
Nazis voted for nazis
Because he’s a meat puppet for the world’s oligarchy who want him for different reasons (1) remove restrictions to global illegal transactions (2) magnify climate change denialism (3) destroy science and education (4) advance ultraconservatism, plutocracy and theocracy (5) destroy progressivism and social justice (6) give a lot of freedom to the oligarchy (7) destroy the Western world’s influence to realize Dugin’s idea of Russian New World Order.
It is important to realize that what is happening in the US is not because of any single person.
The orange baboon is but a sympthom, not the disease. I like how some YT video put it: the disassembly of the rule of law is being done by a rare and fragile coalition of multiple small but powerful private groupings on the one hand and the clueless masses on the other.
Yeah, it’s a very long game played by ultraconservatives wanting to “beat the devil”, notably Roy Cohn (fucking dead) and others like him in Heritage Foundation wanting to see Supply Side Jesus.
- He is in to pockets of the wealthy
- This is a coup by the wealthy to takeover the government
- No one in government will stop him because this is exactly what they want.
- Money
- Money
You forgot 6: Money
And 7. They’re fucking immature assholes (in both senses)
Because the red team literally doesnt care. Their team is winning, nanannanabooboo. The blue team wabts the red team to think they’re cool or whatever, and pointing out the insanity gets them called crybabies, so they dont do it.
Everyone is 12
There’s no simple answer, but if you look up how cults are made and operate you’ll get an idea.
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I’m not interested in one person’s story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
I’ve been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically “how minds change”) podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.
Because congress is filled with old rotten pussies
Because, in my opinion, Trump has 70 years of organized crime surrounding him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump has organized violent militias to protect him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump uses the NSA as a personnel filing system for blackmailing and extorting people.
Because, in my opinion, we are all hoping that he just dies without having a civil war over his tiny teeny tiny hands.
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