It’s only a matter of time before DOGE proposes replacing the judicial branch, up to and including the supreme court, with Grok.
He can “float” it all he wants. That doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.
only if we make it a problem
Ah yes, let’s eliminate one branch of the government leaving the other two free to do fuck all… Meanwhile the DNC… come join us in the sticks for a nice cozy town hall so we can explain how we’re going to give away the country so Nancy Pelosi can continue to insider trade.
the senate old guard-DEMS probably would join the GOP before they lower themselves. and 10+ of them are known DINOS anyways.
I mean I honestly don’t understand why Congressman even exist anymore. I mean they’ve ceded all over their Authority and power to the executive branch. Mike Johnson should resign and relieve the taxpayers of the burden of his salary.
The executive needs a network of underlings to manage 300 million people.
I mean I honestly don’t understand why Congressman even exist anymore.
To represent their local bourgeois landlords and business tyrants, as a means of coordinating graft across a country as large and diverse as the United States.
Abolish the federal government. Let the Untied States be 55 new countries
Thank whatever goddess exists that I live in California. I’m sure I’d be okay.
I, for one, look forward to the upcoming Warring States period in the US.
so…the un-united states?
The Untied States
lysdexics hate you.
i have sexdaily, i mean dyslexia
But with the same president though. Or else what’s the point of the whole thing.
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Oh so literally just the third reich not even a remix
I heard a few times that there is this saying in English that the tree of democracy needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants or something like that. Isn’t it about time for that? They do seem to be tearing down democracy.
That is from Thomas Jefferson:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” https://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2074
Republicans do seem to be all about the founding fathers, so I guess they’re just trying to make it possible to follow his guidance by proactively providing some tyrants.
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I would be more curious to see which liberal patriots are ready to open a vein.
Lots of edgy onliners want to be the guy who gets to shoot a fascist. Much harder to find a liberal willing to stick their necks out and die from return fire.
Meanwhile, you’ve got rank upon rank of Afghan/Iraq War veteran coming home broke and humiliated and steeped in blood, fully pilled on the MAGA message thanks to the brainrot coursing through military media. They’re filling up local police departments and spilling over into elected offices and bubbling up in all sorts of extractive industries. Few of them seem shy about killing or dying. All of them think they are the Patriots and its those liberal middle-managers who are the Tyrants.
To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat—and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.
-upton sinclair
At which point there are no federal laws and the country dissolves into feudal fiefdoms.
Don’t Peter Thiel and all the other amphetamine tech bros want to make cyberpunk tech cities with no laws except those of the controlling corporations on Federal land so they can test out like mind control chips and shit?
Like EPCOT but for real this time
thiel has his special compunds where he can live rest of his days with his so, and probably a harem of men in NZ.
About a month or so ago
The Free State of Colorado is going to be surrounded by fundies.
Shhh. Nothing is in Colorado. It is a boring place.
Shush Greenie. It’s a Billionaire’s playground and there’s so many of them knocking around that you can’t throw a rock without hitting three of 'em.
The fucking Reichwingers are pulling off a Third Reich move.
Turd Reich is coming.
Now, if I was a state, I would say “well, guess you don’t get income taxes from our citizens cause you got no judges backing it up.”
And then Trump’s Team America World Police come and disappear the entire Colorado government with the US military to back them up.
Hey, remember in the musical RENT when that character said “times are shitty, but I’m pretty sure they can’t get worse” AND IT WAS 1996
I’d give my left nut to go back to 1996
I would do just about anything, really.
First the judicial, and then the legislative.
Go ahead Mike. Rubberstamp your own pink slip.
It’s amazing that they’re not seeing it coming. They’ll lose all their power and prestige
They already have.
No. People like Johnson will get “advisory” positions after congress has been dissolved. They will lack for nothing. Why be a weak government official who has to do stupid shit like running for re-election, when you can be part of the nobility and the King’s court? Maybe Johnson or Taylor-Green will get their own little fiefdom where they can treat the peasants however they want? The power trip fantasies are truly endless in Trump’s wondrous America.
…for about a 100 people give or take.
Nah, anyone who looks like they have a little power will die in our night of long knives. It’s not possible to be sycophantic enough, you need to look weak enough. And you need to have backed the right leader, but Trump’s not looking like he’s got a real grip on the reins and I don’t think they even know who will be.
Yup, it’s the start of the new ruling class. Only ring kissers allowed.
Yep…
They’ve successfully gotten Congress’ balls in hand, next step is the Judiciary’s…
I fear the US will not even closely resemble any level of democracy by the end of the next 2-4yrs.
77M morons handed them the reins. They’re riding hell-for-leather over the cliff.
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If it makes you feel better, that’s the way it is in most countries. The US is actually the oddball letting unelected bureaucrats run a portion of the executive branch. In Canada for example, we don’t even vote for our prime minister, and they hold absolute executive power with only symbolic cheques and balances (whom they appoint and dismiss) which a federal judge just confirmed during a hearing on proroguing our parliament. So, as bad as it seems, it could be worse. We aren’t even allowed to share non canadian news unless the platform has an exclusive agreement with the news outlet to compensate them.
Trump may sound like a dictator, but at least he actually CAN be removed and was voted in. Our last prime minister threw a tantrum and had to have people convince him to step down, because there was no other legal way to remove him, and anyone who tried he just kicked out of cabinet.
The fact that you can see that things are messed up means you have more freedom than you may think. Most Canadians think things are fine here, while we have the highest number of Canadians ever going to food banks, and a billionaire just took over as PM without an election, and is currently polling to win the election he called because well he’s a billionaire in a poor country and can just buy the victory.
The biggest argument so far against Trump “you voted for a billionaire and you thought he cared about you” is a valid one, and yet we’re doing it here like lemmings.
All I can say is I hope the world changes fast.
Trump may sound like a dictator, but at least he actually CAN be removed and was voted in.
Trump has spoken numerous times about elections not being fair, after all his stunts this year I don’t think we can possibly expect fair elections or even elections.
I think that applies everywhere tbh. I don’t think the people have power anymore at all.
When billionaires are your leaders, you aren’t in control period.
I started out thinking you were full of shit, but wasn’t sure until
took over as PM without an election,
Now tell me how much I don’t want proportional representation.
Basically there’s no executive branch. Voters elect parliament and parliament elects government ministers (equivalent to the Cabinet) and the PM, similar to how the US Congress elects a speaker and committee chairs.
Which is why that guy is full of shit. Trying to position Carney as being an unelected dictator totally overlooks our entire system of government. And indeed he was elected, as leader. He doesn’t have a seat in parliament but one of the first things he did was call an election which wasn’t officially required until October.
In the Ontario provincial election that just happened the Liberal leader failed to win her seat and has so far regained the leadership while not being in parliament. It happens.
He is an unelected dictator, and the point is that our system is flawed. He was not voted in, he was elected by a select few Canadians to run a party that has avoided confidence votes for months meaning they’ve avoided accountability to Canadians which a Supreme Court justice confirmed as problematic.
Like to say that he represents Canadians would be an absolute lie. He has absolute power, and yet has not faced a general election.
The justice even confirmed that PMs have no accountability even internally, as we saw with the Wilson Raybould crisis, we scandal, green slush fund, etc.
This guy bought himself the PM seat, and is now PM. How is that in anyway democratic?
Also to bring up whataboutisms just proves you have no serious dispute.
Also proportional representation is actually ridiculously stupid. What makes more sense is a ranked ballot first past the post.
It sounds like you just don’t like parliamentary systems? If voters don’t like the party leader, they still have recourse to select other MPs in the upcoming election in a month, right?
As a lifelong student of politics, I think there are trade-offs to presidential vs parliamentary systems. As an American experiencing political gridlock in the US Congress across decades, there have been times I have been envious of the notion of having a legislative and executive branch work together rather than in diametric opposition.
Edit: Also, while I believe Carney is friends with billionaires, his net worth is around $7 million. For someone who spent so much time in investment banking, to my American eyes that doesn’t seem extravagant. Compare to former presidential candidates Mitt Romney, net worth of $186 million.
I love the parliamentary system, but done properly, there is proper accountability. For example, the King serving for life means your check and balance has no need for political affiliation. Unlike the GG who holds that power in Canada who is appointed on the recommendation of the PM, which no recommendation has never been rejected by a monarch in modern history, ergo according to Canadian law means the PM selects their boss (confirmed by Justice Crampton). They choose and fire the AG and their recommendations are always approved by convention in Canada (confirmed by the investigation into the Wilson Raybould case), and they are able to escape accountability by proroguing parliament until other problems take precedent to not be held accountable in the house (currently what we’re seeing with the Trump nonsense overtaking the green slush fund debate that every single opposition party was working together to hold them accountable for for the first time in almost a decade or more, which started in the fall and is still unresolved half a year later).
In the UK, judges have ruled on PM decisions, there is a precedent there. The King holds actual power. The House of Lords are a functional upper house with actual authority.
It’s not like that here. Our systems are mostly superficial at best, and retirement plans for plutocrats at worst.
I do stand corrected on Carneys net worth, which also raises another question of, if he’s good with money and knows what he’s doing, why isn’t he more rich? If you only have that much money as an investment banker, and after leaving as CEO of one of the largest companies in Canada, you’re lying about your money, have it hidden somewhere else, or you owe a ton of money to people and are flat out broke. All of those should scare you as much as the concept of him being a multibillionaire, which there are no credible sources on, but I’d be more inclined to believe.
A good investment banker has no money, and their money is in, investments, in offshore accounts, that we would never know about.
My two cents. Totally all over the place on that one, sorry for the written spew.
166M morons handed them the reins, not 77M. Over 89M proud Americans didn’t vote. They share the blame.
In 10 years people will be saying I didn’t vote for Trump and using that phrase like a shield. Over half the US adult population made this happen.
Exactly. I can count on conservatives being gullible morons and voting red no matter what, but we need to count on the other third of the country opening their goddamned ears and eyes. Apathy and disinterest had no place in this election.
That’s why they made sure they owned the media, that way they control the narrative. Conservatives learned after Watergate that the media has the actual power, so we got Fox News.
No one gave a shit about Watergate until the media started reporting about it and educated the public instead of just glossing over the event. You don’t need to be competent or popular if the majority of the public never hears about your stupidity and shitty decisions.
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My friend, that’s not how the electoral college works. Most of those potential votes did not matter at all. Please don’t go around victim blaming carelessly. It’s not cool.
The electoral college doesn’t work like you apparently think it works either. Those votes definitely did matter, don’t go around spreading apathetic fascism apologetics.
Texas had a 61% voter turnout with Trump only winning with 56% of the vote meaning that of all eligible voters only 34% voted for trump. So yes, even the voters in Texas who said my vote doesn’t matter because the state is going red anyway were wrong it only went red because all of them stayed home
I know of one person who did not vote. She is 85. Cant get around by herself and recently moved in with her higly MAGA daughter. When she lived with me she would just tell me to fill out her ballot for her. I never did but would mail it for her if she did complete one herself. My mom would not have shown her the same respect. I also have a buddy who does some work with me every so often. He doesnt have cable, the internet or a smart phone. His wife and kids are medicaid eligable. I spoke with him several times. He has not time or energy outside of work, work, family, and a cold Tecate. I’m not sure of everyones story but we got here through manipulation from the merchants. This is a class war that most dont even realize we are in. Yeah there are a lot of straight up nazi’s, a ton of just stupid people…but for the most part people just wanna scrape by and have a little at the end of the day.
2-4 years is highly optimistic
We should be measuring in months, or even weeks.
77M morons handed them the reins
What does that make the other 270 million?
i doubt children can vote, and many arnt eligble for other reasons.
75 million are unwilling participants.
195 million are effectively as moronic as Trump voters.
Abstinent + non-trump voters if my math is correct
When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat.
George Carlin
Splash Zone.
That’s Canada
Sure sure but let’s not get too “American exceptionalism here” . Plenty of other countries are fucked up in somewhat different ways, too. That’s reality.
That guy has such a punchable face.
America as a country is fucked beyond repair at this point. That’s OK. Now that the rest of the world sees the truth behind this fascist empire, no one’s going to give a Nazi salute fuck about them.
The world will happily go on without Trump.
Fuck Trumps America.
You’re from Canada I presume? Fascist countries only work via loot economies, since nothing else can stabilize their regime (true for Nazi Germany, true for Italy, true for the Roman Empire). To get loot, you need someone who has stuff to loot. Preferably close by for quick looting. Preferably weak.
Can you think of any country that would make for an excellent fat cow ready to have its wealth and labor extracted?
I’m going to assume you’re referring to Ukraine as Trump wants 1/2 their mineral and raw materials?
Oh no, wait, it’s Greenland right because he wants to continue to provide them security.
Oh hold up. I think you’re referring to Gaza so he can make it the Israeli Mar a lardo.
No wait wait wait, I think I’m still wrong. He wants to take Panama because they owe him.
Shoot. So many countries. Are you referring to Mexico because: Fentanyl? No it must be Canada because we are also heavy into letting fentanyl in and that’s why he’s giving us tariffs right?
And if you think their northern neighbour is going to let them roll over us on tanks and insulin to over throw us, I think you underestimate the hatred we have for the current ignorant regime.
Well I see a lot of twitter outrage from Canadians, but not any trench digging and fortification building. I guess “elbows up” means “let’s just hope this all blows over”. Your hatred of the current US regime won’t stop Abrams tanks.
How’d that work out for Poland?
It’s unfortunate, but an aggressive shitty neighbor is your problem, even if you don’t want to deal with them.
