The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military
That’s not it. The thing is that they refused acknowledging that partisanship would evolve. They preferred to hold on to the illusion that everybody involved in office would always be altruistic and solely work for the greater good, which was laughably naive even then (as many people pointed out to them).
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That part is really up to the voters hence the federalist papers and the whole “masses are asses” thing…
i mean it’s a mathematical certainty that FPTP systems will eventually result in only 2 parties.
so it really is not up to the voters…
The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military
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The United States didn’t start keeping a large standing Army until after WWII!
Take a look at this from Statista for most of our history the US would build up the military for a war and then strip it back to almost nothing as soon as the fighting was over.
The original guys didn’t fuck it up we allowed Congress to break it!
Well, yeah…the military is actually a welfare/jobs program. It also served a key role in culling excess boomer population before they started needing to get jobs.
the military is actually a welfare/jobs program.
And everything that implies aside, it’s a really good one. Coming out of the military with a decent MOS or G.I. Bill is one of the few paths to real class mobility left for a lot of people. That’s by design I’m sure.
Oh for sure, on all points. It’s a real good jobs program, it’s one of the few vessels for class mobility left, and it’s entirely that way by design.
Can’t have everyone getting free college. Just the ones that work for us for a few years, breathe in one or more toxic chemicals, and come out the other side brainwashed by being spoonfed nationalist propaganda the whole time. Assuming you didn’t start sucking that koolaid tit in highschool from the junior ROTC.
Coming out of the military with a decent MOS or G.I. Bill is one of the few paths to real class mobility left for a lot of people.
For now. They have already screwed over a huge chunk of people who were enrolled in loan forgiveness for federal service and continually screw vets over with the intentionally horrible VA system. I’d not count on the GI Bill surviving Trump.
It wasn’t intending on having an army at all, they thought a standing army would lead to tyranny so they came up with the 2nd amendment instead so a militia could be called as needed
Which tbh was really short sighted as well. Every nation needs an army to hold onto their self determination. And it needs to be well funded. Such has been proved repeatedly throughout history
Or nukes, either one, my friend.
Fair enough
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.
so…the un-united states?
The Untied States
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i have sexdaily, i mean dyslexia
I, for one, look forward to the upcoming Warring States period in the US.
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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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.
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.
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
Yes, but they are also counting my sister in a deep blue state who chose to go to work instead of going to vote, as one of those millions of people who are to blame for this.
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
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.
Splash Zone.
That’s Canada
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
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.
Oh so literally just the third reich not even a remix
We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
SCOTUS: “Overruled”
Co-equal branches bitches
Come enforce your ruling
- presidential butt buddies.
Let me introduce you to the Marshall of the Supreme Court.
They can, and will, deputize as many as they need.
Unless, of course, this is all part of the plan and the Supreme Court is, in fact, complicit anyway.
The fucking Reichwingers are pulling off a Third Reich move.
Turd Reich is coming.
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.
He can “float” it all he wants. That doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.
It’s only a matter of time before DOGE proposes replacing the judicial branch, up to and including the supreme court, with Grok.
A security clusterfuck involving the Secretary of Defense, the VP, and a list of other high level executive branch personnel is spilling all over the news. Even conservative news outlets are calling for heads to roll.
Mike Johnson thinks this is a good time to consider dismantling the Justice branch.
Nothing will happen. They’ll all just fall in line.
That guy has such a punchable face.
guns
And ships.
