Which is a violation of his oath of office, which is ample grounds for impeachment.
Shame that Congress is full of feckless cowards
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.
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.
I like that, by “must” do you mean still optional?
And when they aren’t?
315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion,
Deciding that the government had violated grantees’ rights to equal protection, Mehta only ordered a return to the status quo, reinstating seven grants totaling $27.6 million.
Let’s be clear, that’s $27.6 million out of $7,500 million. 99.6% of the cuts still go through.
Yeah, from the article, it sounds like only a few organizations were in the lawsuit. They’re the only ones the judge ordered restored.
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.
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.
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.
The checks and balances are working mostly as intended. The purpose of the system is:
- Protect the oligarchy from external threats, should any anti-oligarch politician slip by all the various election disenfranchisement techniques,
- Moderate any conflicts between factions of the oligarchy to stabilize the dictatorship of the capital.
As far as I can tell,
- Billionaires are making more billions every day while the rest struggle to get by,
- Almost all dem politicians and their wealthy neoliberal donors are doing alright despite a literal fascist party being in power.
Besides, even when someone like Mamdani gets elected, they can’t effect any meaningful change because they are “checked” by the pro-capitalist legislature and “balanced” by the corrupt judiciary.
It doesn’t need a reboot, it needs a complete realignment of who’s in charge.
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
Congress doesn’t want to have a record of members approving this, but they have decided that they will let it go forward
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.
Incoming Truth Social post…
“This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!”
Rick Scott.
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.
Or even better: so called President Trump or “President” Trump
Trump’s violated so many laws and under aged women and got no consequences so why would he stop?
MFW people say the Democrats are “tearing this country apart”
Such a pathetic little spiteful coward of a man.
That thing isn’t a man. It’s an orange ghoul.
You can expect this behavior from an orange ghoul. Calling him a man insinuates that he is supposed to be better than this- which makes it worse.
Who’s going to do anything about it? He’s the king.
Nah, fuck that defeatist bullshit.
Trumps violates the constitution daily by his very existence
