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Which is a violation of his oath of office, which is ample grounds for impeachment.
Shame that Congress is full of feckless cowards
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"Hey buddy, get in line." - the other 10-15 things he's done that other presidents would have gotten impeached for.
What's crazy is Trump has already been impeached! TWICE!
And found guilty of 34 felonies and (in a civil case) raping a woman.
God damn. I love Star Wars, but why is Star Wars almost a documentary these days? Between this, Obi-Wan’s speech about the fall of the temple, and the events of Attack of the Clones…we just don’t have spaceships.
The political things that happen in Star Wars have happened in our real life history, often more than once. It's not that Star Wars is starting to sound like a documentary, it's just that we're repeating the same stupid, short sighted, errors that those movies took inspiration from.
The fact that even the vast, legendary popularity of Star Wars hasn't helped in that regard kind of makes me question the ability of fiction to make an impact in society's way of thinking, sad as that is to consider
Watching the prequels in the current year made me appreciate just a little bit how... so forward thinking they were. Emperor Palatine didn't become an emperor overnights, you see, he was made into a Chancellor democratically and then he just... played chess against himself to eventually become Emperor.
Granted the modern breed of fash spreading all over the world aren't that horrifically smart, but it's true.
This is how liberty dies!
Isn’t Palpatine just a re-telling of Hitler’s rise to power.
Also storm trooper are just stormtroopers and most of the rest of it is WW2 in space.
I thought I'd heard it (at least the original) was based on the Vietnam war, with the US inspiring the empire.
But Palpatine doesn't really feature until far later, so it may well be a mix.
Edit: https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/ is a start.
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If anything, that might be a low estimate
I dont think theyre cowards per se. I think this is how the "democracy" is intended to work?
Trump looks after oligarchs, oligarchs make donations to campaigns to get senators elected, senators support Trump.
Its not so much that theyre cowards, theyre just serving the people who got them elected, and thats not the voters.
He commits crimes against the constitution every day. Is something going to be done about it?
Probably not. Decades of political rot have come to this.
We need 100 years of McCarthyism against right wing lunatics
The politicians sure as fuck aren’t doing anything. Maybe a post on social media or a 5 second statement on the news. That’s it. Nothing else. They are making money off this and can advance their agendas. They don’t give a fuck about America or its people.
Congress doesn't want to have a record of members approving this, but they have decided that they will let it go forward
As other countries in the world showed in recent years, constitutions are worthless pieces of paper.
And some like Brazil and South Korea showed that constitutions were law
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Not an american but is the famous american "checks and balances" need to be turned off and on again or smt? It doesn't seem to be working.
I'm American and I'm not convinced it was ever turned on. Pretty sure it was theorized and marketed well and all of you believed it as much as we did.
Just part of the elementary school indoctrination.
The real tip off was that we had a song for how great the flag is :)
The "checks and balances" depend on putting ambitious people in different parts of the government, and giving them competing roles. Then, naturally, excesses get curbed because no one part of the government would want to cede too much of its power to the other.
It did not forsee a future where the leaders of the other co-equal branches of government would subjugate themselves to the President's ego.
It's definitely not working now. It got destroyed after 9/11 - Bush was only too happy about the opportunity to make some changes that had already been waiting in a drawer for who knows how many years - and it's honestly a miracle it took so long for someone to exploit its absence to its fullest extent.
But arguably it all went downhill long before Bush.
Checks and balances is working exactly as the founding fathers envisioned.
...by cashing checks and hoarding balances.
The founders were mostly slave/land owning robber barons. Washington was one of the most wealthiest people in the colonies…
Yeah the only reason they didn't want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain's other colony of Canada.
Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.
They ripped the CPU out of the socket, cut traces around the motherboard, stole the ram and paid off the IT staff and management to look the other way.
Apparently, and who would have guessed it, laws only work when people are willing to follow and or enforce them.
Cool. What of it then? I get it, but it doesn’t really mean anything if accountability is optional nowadays.
So the grants must be reinstated.
They’ll just appeal it to the supreme court who will rule that actually it’s totally cool
The absolute least we can do is force them to jump through the hoops. Like, I get that it feels pointless but it's better than just giving up and letting them do whatever they want.
They WANT you to feel like there's no point so that you'll give up. They want you to give up because that's the easiest way for them to win. Why give them the satisfaction? They haven't actually won yet, but even if I can never win I'll won't give up no matter how impossible the victory, and neither should you.
Also it helps build up a solid case if shit goes to civil war, easier to get international aid if the list of things the feds have done is long and itemized. Also helps justify it to the population both within and without such anti trump territory.
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MFW people say the Democrats are “tearing this country apart”
Amazing. I cant wait to see what the consequences are.
I've under taken the arduous trip and located the answer. To save you the trouble, I've drawn a map.
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I wish the media stop addressing him as President for the rest of his term he only cares about his ego and white supremacy. Trump has show something being illegal doesn't matter if you just don't care.
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It would probably be a shorter article to list the amendments he hasn't violated!
I tried to make a post of what that would look like but it wouldnt let me submit it since it was empty.
Incoming Truth Social post....
"This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!"
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Trump, "What do you mean 'ammendment'? Where are you getting this? Nobody has heard of these ammendments you're talking about...."
Ammendment is when u edit a twitter
Trump's violated so many laws and under aged women and got no consequences so why would he stop?
"Wait, I know the 5th Amendment! That's an important one! That's the one that says I don't have to admit to my crimes! I'm the best in the world at that one!"
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"Not my president" because he refuses to be.
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