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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The President of the United States isn’t its absolute ruler; they are the head of the executive branch, i.e. the branch that (clue is in the name) executes the laws passed by the legislative branch (Congress), and then only on the federal level. For example the budget is passed by Congress…

Questions like this remind me of this TV series that I watched a few years ago: en.wikipedia.org/…/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV…

That portrays very well what might (probably would) actually happen if a random ordinary person with no political experience were elected president of a country, and what challenges they would face.

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Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

portrays very well what might actually happen if a random “ordinary person” with no political experience were elected president of a country, and what challenges they would face.

Uh, isn’t that scenario playing out in real time in the US.

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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Trump is hardly an ordinary person, he was a public figure long before becoming president. In the TV series, it’s literally a random history teacher.
  
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Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Is it in English?

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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It is in Ukrainian, which is a language I do not understand. I watched it subtitled to my first language (German), but AFAIK there are also subtitles in English. Not sure where, nor whether there may even be a dub, you will have to look for that yourself.
  
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