This is why normal people in the news communities don’t take anyone from Poltiics and Political Memes seriously
There’s so many levels of wrong here that I don’t even know where to start, but 1.1k of you clearly couldn’t see any of those issues.
I think I’ll roll with the least important one being the F-35 is a pos export product designed exclusively by Lockheed Martin to be sold to anyone at exorbitant prices to print money.
EDIT:
Here’s an even bigger clue for you dense morons:
Remember when we found out we live in a country where all our military members, past and present, broke their oaths to protect our Constitution and that, as a nation, we don’t give a shit if traitors sell us out?
Home of the brave, my asshole.
Lots of futility in this thread and I sure get that. But this time IS slightly different. Trump’s invincibility aura is gone, and the cuts are now making him bleed. The East Wing. The piggy comment. MTG flipping. Epstein files. Redistricting. Republicans are suddenly trying to put air between themselves and Trump, get MAGA to turn on Trump. The time for schadenfreude is nigh.
I’m sorry, but after everything we’ve seen over the last decade, this comment is WAY too optimistic.
Republican senators had the golden opportunity to rid their party of Trump at the tail end of his first term after he lost an election and incited an insurrection.
They didn’t.
The only hope I can see is that they recognize that at this point he could literally keel over dead any day and they may be planning their exit strategy. But I’m pretty sure that’s just “slide Vance in” and they don’t really need to do that until Trump is actually dead.
I’m sure they’re concerned about the mid-terms but I don’t think their strategy for improving their image before then is getting rid of Trump. I think they have other plans for that. They’ve hitched their wagon to him. And he owns the hearts and minds of every racist, sexist, ignorant piece of shit in this country. And there’s A LOT of those motherfuckers out there. That’s valuable to their party.
Give it two months they will all suck his balls and dick again and ask for afters. As long as you hate the same people it’s water under the bridge 🌉
Donny 2 Inches is ruling by proclamation now,
But…but hunter biden’s laptop…using dad for business in Ukraine…
We got him boys. Pack it up. For the first time in a life of unchecked blatant corruption he will experience consequences. Yup. This is the one that does it. All that other treason was foreplay. Yessir; good day’s work. We can all finally heal.
You kind of have to take a step back and just be impressed for a minute.
For this man with all his fuckups and perceived incompetence, he’s done an amazing job of installing yes men and cronies at every avenue that could have enforced any consequences for his actions. Can you imagine what it would be like to see someone apply a similar energy to actually improving our country.
Donny 2 Inches did NOTHING, which is the only positive thing he’s good at. His owners and handlers handed a list of names to him and he just delegated all the appointments. Almost none have been confirmed by Congress, btw. Just like he has lawyers clean up for him, he doesn’t actually DO anything in the courtroom.
Oh, it’s bad because China… No problem if this were Israel though. But they already get everything for free.
Sigh. Whatever. It’s no worse than anything else he’s done. I don’t know how to be angry anymore. I just want them all to stop breathing as soon as possible.
SURELY THERE IS A CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PROCESS FOR THE EXPORT OF ARMS. SURELY A CHECK OR BALANCS EXISTS. REFUSING THE SALE OF F35S TO CHINA THROUGH SAUDI WILL HAVE BIPARTICIAN SUPPORT.
The AECA contains procedures for congressional joint resolutions of disapproval concerning notified FMS and DCS transactions. Section 36(b)(1) of the AECA prohibits the U.S. government from issuing an LOA if Congress “enacts a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed sale.”
GOOD GOOD WAIT
Congress has never successfully blocked a proposed arms sale via a joint resolution of disapproval.
WAIT
The President has the authority to waive the AECA statutory review periods
Clown government
source https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31675#_Toc193291696
Super solid post. References cited from the government itself. Depressing that it’s on this topic though. Damn.
The liberalist faith in law is a huge blind spot. The system is corrupt. It’s been corrupt for a while now, but it’s unmissable obvious now, and it disturbs me how many people are still saying strange things like how the constitution will stop this, the judges will stop this, the police will stop this. Corruption is systemic, not individualistic. The corrupt system isn’t coming to save people from the corrupt system!
If you aren’t already, organize locally with others to perform real political action through our worker power. Even if your local area has to build from scratch - the sooner we as citizens develop political power, the more lives are saved.
Burger republic.
“A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.”
“A borgor republic is a country with an economy of the best type of capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the job creators. Typically, a borgor republic has a 100% meritocratic society, usually a lot of lazy welfare queens looking for handouts and a ruling class of brilliant, innovative job creators and democratically elected politicians selflessly carrying out the will of the people.”
Everything Trump has done from day one has been treason. For some reason the self appointed patriots don’t mind.
America is in its Zuma era.
South Africa arms deal that landed Zuma in court
Spoiler warning: the country has still not recovered.
Blatant is the key word. They are so high on their own narrative that they don’t even try to hide their corruption anymore. After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.
After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.
Who’s this “we”? You can’t use a corrupt system to solve the corrupt system, the corruption involves the legal system (remember who is designing and passing the laws!) and the law enforcement officers. So if you want to have the power to lock them away, you’re going to have to organize with fellow citizens to develop worker power outside of the state.
I could be wrong and I admit that I don’t have as a firm grasp of US politics as I’d like, but I really cannot see a situation where anyone is going to be able to control Trump to the point that which they might be able to get him from front of a jury. I can’t see that happening without some level of conflict. He’s already talking about a third term, the only way that doesn’t happen is a rebellion, or him having a heart attack or something.
It’s still a huge jump to actually succeed in a third term. Maybe I’m naive but even in the face of blatant flouting the law, I can’t see that happening
But at least as importantly, Trump is nearing the end of his life. Supreme Court has already covered him with blanket immunity: treason is fine as long as it’s official business, corruption is fine, violating the constitution is fine, personal enrichment by exploiting the government is fine. He’s probably out of the reach of justice, except for the voice of history.
But all the minions holding themselves above the law to do evil are only protected because of Trump. They can’t buy a pardon from an ethical president, and even Republicans can be ethical. Their time for running amuck is coming to the end. There’s still every chance they will face justice for their crimes.
And even where they’re not actual crimes, I’m sure Republicans will rediscover their “ethics” when it’s a Democrat President who could act similarly. They will actually help restore order, for fear of leopards eating their faces
The current regime will collapse, one way or another, sooner or later. Then we’ll get them all in front of judge and/or jury and it’ll all be slam dunk thanks to the material they themselves provided.
Of course I’m hoping this all happens before any of them dies of old age.
Their goal is to make sure that when they go down there is no one left to hold them accountable. They’re making sure everyone else goes down before them. This regime will never be held accountable, Trump should be in jail right now and the government and the courts all decided that would be unfair to the poor orange billionaire who never emotionally matured beyond a whiny spoiled child who is bitter that the other kids don’t like him and is determined to make them pay instead of learning how to get along and share his toys.
I don’t have your faith.
Nothing in the last decade has given any indication that the US has the ability or inclination to deal with this.
Cowardly delayed until he got re-elected, but the USA came this close 🤏 to jailing Trump, and even so, he is a felon now. That’s not nothing.
But please don’t call my glass-not-completely-empty attitude “faith”
The American system has the president be the ultimate authority. In order to face any kind of justice someone would have to deny that authority.
He is in effect a dictator, as bad as in Russia or North Korea, someone would have to have the balls and the executive authority to be able to hold him to account. Right now he is the president, the ultimate executive authority. Someone somewhere would have to control enough firepower to be able to overcome that executive authority.
Who is going to challenge the ultimate authority in the universe, and have the power to haul him in front of the jury that isn’t rigged, and have that jury actually capable of rendering a verdict?
How does any of the above happen, when the president of the United States may as well be the god emperor of all human activity?
But didn’t we all say the same things the first time around? Dead to say, but nothing stuck then, and nothing will stick now.
America has concentrated far too much power in the presidency if this is something trump can just decide to do
The Patriot Act of 2001 destroyed checks and balances.
I opposed the Patriot Act because of the lack of checks and balances built into the legislation. Congress was being asked to give the executive enormous authority and then to step back and trust the executive to implement it responsibly.
The Patriot Act, to me, represented unchecked executive power. Congress was giving authorities to law enforcement that they had long requested, even before 9/11, and was agreeing to do so with minimal oversight built into the system.
I recommend to read all they have to say about it.
That said, the whole thing was already prepared and waiting in a drawer for something like 9/11 to happen. The USA was very much Not OK even before that.
No Congress abdicated its duty and so did the Supreme Court. If they were doing their jobs Sit like this wouldn’t happen.
To be fair Supreme Court was taken over by Republicans because the constitution is shit and with partisan SP there was no one to make sure Congress or the President follow the law.
The very fact that Supreme Court justices are politically appointed, for life no less, is so beyond retarded I don’t see how it was ever intended to be a check or balance in the system. How was this ever a good idea?
That’s why I said that US constitution is shit. Modern constitutions solve this in a different way, actually separating the judicial branch. It’s normal that the first constitution didn’t get it right. What’s insane is that US system was never reformed. In other countries people celebrate constitutions that are just historical documents. In Poland for example “Constitution day” celebrates constitution from 1791 that was used only for couple of years. It would never occur to anyone to actually try to use this constitution today. Yet that’s exactly what US is doing. They can’t comprehend that some documents can be placed in a museum and still be respected.
The answer is relatively simple, the supreme court just kinda gave itself a shit tonne of power early on and nobody stopped them. Also the states were meant to work as a check on federal power as well, if this shit happened pre-1910s there’s a solid chance the president would’ve been shot or otherwise DC would be under siege from Maryland and/or Virginia.
Even if, the courts are there to punish, not prevent. The damage would already have been done.
No, constitutional tribunals decide if new laws are constitutional or not. They can throw away a law even before it’s enacted or applied anywhere. They very much do prevent things.
I mean they don’t physically keep you from committing illegal acts. It’s just words until you’ve done something.
I mean, yes, but if US had a truly independent judicial branch it would be a totally different country today. They only have politicians committing crimes on a daily basis because the system deteriorated over time. Real checks and balances are meant to prevent that.
I barely know anything about the US presidency, but I could’ve sworn the presidency doesn’t have this power.
No?
Not legally
Narrator: They Did
this is treason
Add it to the pile…
Yeah, the meme assumes the US is a country of laws for those in power. Common mistake.
Not the first time he acted traitorously and it certainly won’t be the last.
Good thing is, they’re doing it all out in the open. Everything is documented. They might have impunity on their side now, but not forever.
Yep. Now we’re totally going to pursue this, aren’t we. Right?
Who is “we”? The corrupt government? The corrupt legal framework? The only way to fight a corrupt system like this is to develop political power outside of the system - we must all organize with fellow citizens to wield collective worker power.
Of course you guys are.
They’ll get right on it after they’ve done the insurrection treason stuff…and then the traitory stolen top secret documents stuff that were kept in an unlocked ticket next to a fax machine!Ha, just kidding. It’ll all wait until he dies, and then maaaaybeee someone will look into it. And mayyybee a few of the lower echelon of his cronies miiiight get a slap on the wrist about it. Possibly a few fines.
By that time he’ll have sold off even more high tech secrets for more buildings in places where hardly anyone will visit.
How’s that independence working out
