Submitted 4 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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:
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.
the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent
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.
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 social contract.
Because he literally has all the levers of power and the Supreme Court and they’re all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs and Trump blows them just like bubba
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
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.
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.
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.
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
Because hes a fascist and pro fascists will love him no matter what because fascists are fucking morons.
He’s a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.
You’ve heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.
If you have serious money and can’t find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what’s actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.
Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it’s all reaching a tipping point. I’ve heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it’s gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it’s in the stars.
Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.
Useful Idiots Ideology Money Blackmail
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber
He has blackmail on them. We call it the Epstein files. That’s why most of it isn’t released.
Guess what, the constitution of the People’s Republic of China also has freedom of speech… see how that turns out in practice…
A constitution just a piece of paper.
It’s like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.
For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people action/inaction to hold the government accountable.
It sounds like you’re getting your information from purely 1-sided sources. Look for news sources that cover the perspective of both sides. I’m not saying this as a Trump supporter.
Because when he is coherent he hates the right people.
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn’t matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He’s also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they’re getting everything they dreamed of and more.
Checks and balances have broken down at the federal level.
That’s how democracy works
The will of the people is greater than the laws as written
The people voted for Trump, a Republican congress, and by extension a Republican Supreme Court
It’s working as intended
30% of US adults voted for trump.
Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.
A disgustingly low percentage of the US population votes in non-presidential elections. The right-wing has spent the better part of the last century stacking the deck at every level of government. The invention of the internet makes it harder for them to maintain this though (much easier to find out who/what you’re voting for)
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
I wish we could keep Trump out of every single community.
The USA was run by the Jesuit Order, since one of the founders (Carrol) and his family were Jesuits. They served the Black Pope.
Your tinfoil hat is too tight.
Because trump is largely irrelevant.
His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.
His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.
AshMan85@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Corruption
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
They’re benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they’re going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.