Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?

mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have

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  • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jail? No, never. We do kill them occasionally.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Edit: Y’all, accountability ≠ jail or death.

    Some for of punishment is required when you do the level of bullshit he has done.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Respectfully, I think this is a naive myth.

  Ask yourself this: if Bernie won and began executing his agenda with the brash disregard for criticism of Trump, do you think he could do it and people would say the same things we say about Trump? Or do you think we would see the collective power of congress the supreme Court the state governments and the corporate world come down on him in 100 different ways?

  I think the more honest truth is that there are people with power who like what Trump is doing, and the people who don’t like what he’s doing don’t have power.

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