This is so alarming. Doesn’t have authorization. Does it. It gets pulled back. It is destroyed. History is gone. No other repercussions?!
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Now imagine how Iran is feeling right about now.
The power of the US president has been growing year after year. In the past sometimes it was constrained by laws, but those laws have been changed over the last 250 years. Other times it was constrained by customs and precedent, but Trump has ignored those. So, now Americans are realizing what it's like to be ruled by a mad king.
In one possible future, Americans agree this can never be allowed to happen again, and the constitution is dramatically changed.
But, the more likely future is that there's squabbling over changes to the constitution or laws and nothing happens until there's either a civil war or an invasion or something to finally put an end to the American experiment.
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Ohhh. Make them remediate back to the original form.
...using the same products, tools and methods. It's like if you're cursed with owning an historic building in the UK, you're stuck doing any renos with 19th century artisans using hand tools.
It's gonna be great, guys.
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Hope he destroys the rest of the building. It’s a symbol of oppression.
Looool leave it half done and then have the next president set it on fire
Next president ROFL!
I think there should be no next president, America needs to stay single for a while
Beter: conclude that going alone hasn't worked. The experiment failed. Back to being English it is.
Welcome home chaps!
The largest protest in US history, 8 million people, was the No Kings protest last weekend.
That would be extremely ironic
It's "No KingS". They're allowed to have one.
An Elvis impersonator came to our rally..... said there's only room for one king.
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We really just need to work on ourselves.
Honestly we are going to need a whole new constitution
You're going to need to clean the ketchup stains off of this one.
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Think we should use one of the systems originally proposed but they didn't go with. Like a plural executive system where two or three separately elected individuals comprise a Presidential committee.
This was favored by founders worried about a new monarchy being formed via the Unitary Executive system. Sounds familiar.
If some weird genie wish suddenly granted me the ability to rewrite the American constitution from the ground up, I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.
After that, a lot depends on the details of the genie wish. If I can impose whatever changes I wanted I'd probably go further - a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step, perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do with the duties split between them. Strict term limits might also be good, though I'd want to study that issue a bit more - there are some upsides to having very experienced politicians in government along with the obvious downsides we're seeing.
The Supreme Court needs reform, maybe give the judges a fixed term so that they don't end up stuck with random health conditions determining who gets to appoint who and for how long. More broadly, we're seeing a lot of flaws in the judicial branch and law enforcement that need correcting. Maybe have multiple Department of Justices with separate leadership to keep each other in check? Tricky.
Or just put an AI in charge of it all and see what happens.
I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.
If I understand your comment correctly what you are describing is how Congress was originally setup! It was broken by the Re-Apportionment Act of 1912. No need to re-write the Constitution it's "just" a Federal Law.
a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step
The President only has as much power as they do because Congress has been steadily handing it over since the 1940s.
perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do
We weren't far away from the spirit of that but we broke it in 1804 with the passage of the 12th Amendment.
The Supreme Court needs reform...
It's really not SCOTUS that needs reformed it's actually our Constitution. It was simply never meant for the environment in which it now exists, it's unfit for purpose. The easiest way to explain is that the US Constitution wasn't meant to control an all powerful central authority, it was meant to prevent one. SCOTUS twisted that shortly after the Civil War and now here we are trying to manage ourselves by looking at a mirror reflection of our guiding document.
Stupid.
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I refuse to believe this man won't drop dead someday
He'll die, but will the next ruler be elected or appointed? That's the big question.
Or will he seize power in a coup? Or simply be the only person left alive after all the bombs stop exploding?
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leave it half done
This is exactly why the "war powers act" also fails. Because it lets the president start a war if he pinky-swears to ask congress for authorization later.
But no congress is ever going so say "no" at that point since it would be potentially dangerous and wildly unpopular to do so.
Same here - I'll bet stupid money that at least 25% of democrats even vote to allow it to continue rather than be responsible for a gaping hole in the ground.
It truly is easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
This congress will probably ok it anyway.
But the thing is, that’s the way it should be. If they approve fine whatever. But the president can’t just do random shit.
Or I guess now a days he can… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Trump ignores judge, with no consequences ... as is tradition.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.
Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, concluded that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims because “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.”
Seems this judge hasn't heard of the "try and stop me" statute.
could he prosecute the contractors if they continue a work that is illegal?
Judges don't bring charges, prosecutors do. Presumably, the authority with jurisdiction over work on the White House would be the Trump DOJ.
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Oh shit, Trump is going to come unglued about this. This is his favorite thing. He talks about the ballroom at Iran briefings because it's all he can think about
Of course it's his favorite thing. He's been using the project as a way to get "donations" from companies and people he did favors for. The same with his inauguration ceremony, which was pretty shit but also garnered hundreds of millions in donations. All of that money is going straight in Trumps pocket.
He’ll be all like “We got rogue judges!!”
Well - fortunately for him he also loves throwing insane rants about "woke" this and that. So he'll have that...
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Just started another forever war in the Middle East…time to build a ballroom.
400 million? Wasn't it 300, up from 200?
The levels beneath the ballroom is conspiratorially much more interesting.
Oh the tantrum we're about to see. That ballroom was Trump's favorite soother.
About time. This decision should have came down before demo started.
Impossible. Trump and his enablers just started this illegal demolition without asking. You know, because there's no consequences...
Have come
Guys. Guys. Step back...Mike Johnson needs room to demonstrate his ball-licking techniques. He'll have President Trump's Epstein Ballroom built faster than he can deny any knowledge of ever hearing about it.
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