A) the Supreme Court decided the president is above the law
B) that destroyed any chance to "use the Constitution" as it dramatically undermined what few checks and balances there were
C) MAGA congresspeople willingly gave up their own power to him
D) now riots are coming
What came before that:
Under Obama II, Mitch McConnell succeeded in preventing liberal justices to be confirmed in the Senate, leaving a notorious psychopath/narcissistic sociopath to fill 3 conservative justices in a single term, despite being one of the least popular presidents of all time.
I still rage thinking about this...
Obama: Scalia dies in the beginning of the election year and Mitch McFuck says "it's too close to the election, we need to let the people decide."
Trump: Ginsberg dies WHILE MAIL IN VOTING IS HAPPENING and Mitch McFuck rams through a nomination...
God I hate that piece of shit. They got two justices by having no fucking morals whatsoever and playing double standards. Not to mention Obama calling their bluff. They tried this "Obama just wants a far left judge he'd never pick someone respected like Garland." So he picks Garland and they pull this it's too late bullshit...
Corruption
They're benefiting from the grift. Everyday people either think they're going to be graced by him, or fucking hate his guts.
I had an old coworker who had given MAGA organizations her life's savings. She was working well past her planned retirement and wound up getting a head injury when a patient bopped her on the head three times. She shouldn't have been put in the position to work high acuity psychiatry in her 70s. She was going to retire destitute but after that nobody could deny she just wasn't safe to work anymore. And to the day she retired she kept saying trump was going to reward her any day now. I know somebody here is gonna talk shit but aside from being too damn naïve she was such a kind soul. And I've only ever worked psych as a nurse but she'd done all kinds of things like oncology and wound care so if I had a patient with a medical problem or who needed an IV placed she had my back. She'd rant to the high heavens about the lizard people but damn if she didn't know her lab values and meds back to front. I hope those grifters rot in hell.
the masks are off, the US imperial machine no longer feels the need to manufacture consent
What you are seeing is the unmasked version of US politics. This is what US politics has always been, but it's always been a lot more covert. The political parties do not have any issue with what he is doing, they only have an issue that he is so blatant with it.
Because congress is filled with old rotten pussies
That was what the election was for.
When someone votes for a person like Trump, they are voting to not hold him accountable and to continue doing worse and worse things and to do away with guardrails, rules, rights, and all those other niceties of the socio-politico contract.
This is what every MAGA sounds like the moment their token gets spent or the chickens come home to roost for them (and emphatically not a goddamn fucking minute sooner or st any point prior) and they receive the same consequences they wanted and voted for others ("but not meeeee") to be treated with by Trump's regime
Because the constitutional methods for fixing a rogue presidency lie with the legislature. The legislature is complicit.
Unfortunately the Constitution is toothless when bad actors control anything more than like 40% of the government.
Nazis voted for nazis
Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.
Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.
His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it's just criminals all the way down.
democratically elected
I mean he wasn't even eligible to run according to the constitution so it's hard to keep a straight face while calling the US a democracy
He's a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.
You've heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.
If you have serious money and can't find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what's actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.
Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it's all reaching a tipping point. I've heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it's in the stars.
Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.
Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber
Checks and balances have broken down at the federal level.
Because he literally has all the levers of power and the Supreme Court and they’re all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs and Trump blows them just like bubba. The constitution hasn’t really been real since the patriot act and citizens united became law
Because the usa never had any accountability policies agsinst american presidents
Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have
Edit: Y'all, accountability ≠ jail or death. The US Legislature and Supreme Court have reined in presidential power for literally the entire existence of the US. Even during the first Trump Admin this happened. What's happening now is a total abdication of the separation of powers
Oh yeah? Give me an real concrete example of a president getting hold accountable in the usa. By accountability I don't just mean impeachement but real consequences like jail
Respectfully, I think this is a naive myth.
Ask yourself this: if Bernie won and began executing his agenda with the brash disregard for criticism of Trump, do you think he could do it and people would say the same things we say about Trump? Or do you think we would see the collective power of congress the supreme Court the state governments and the corporate world come down on him in 100 different ways?
I think the more honest truth is that there are people with power who like what Trump is doing, and the people who don't like what he's doing don't have power.
There's no simple answer, but if you look up how cults are made and operate you'll get an idea.
Because hes a fascist and pro fascists will love him no matter what because fascists are fucking morons.
Because, in my opinion, Trump has 70 years of organized crime surrounding him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump has organized violent militias to protect him.
Because, in my opinion, Trump uses the NSA as a personnel filing system for blackmailing and extorting people.
Because, in my opinion, we are all hoping that he just dies without having a civil war over his tiny teeny tiny hands.
Guess what, the constitution of the People's Republic of China also has freedom of speech... see how that turns out in practice...
A constitution just a piece of paper.
It's like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.
For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people collective action/inaction to hold the government accountable.
Because of the illusion of democracy..
Pride. Simple answer. Public image, foot hold, etc... ass holes trying to hold onto wealth they don't deserve. Public kindness is protecting them. If they admit he's wrong, they're wrong, and that's an admission of guilt. They'll die before we experience them changing. All we can do is fight back loudly and quietly.
Edit: I was drunk when I said this I and don't know what I was saying.
He has blackmail on them. We call it the Epstein files. That's why most of it isn't released.
Because the republicans are full of low intelligence sycophants whose only goal in life is power over others. All they want to do is grift and hurt.
does thing
"hey the constitution says you cant!"
continues to do thing
hey the constitution says you cant!"
continues to do thing
hey the constitution says you cant!"
continues to do thing
hey the constitution says you cant!"
continues to do thing
Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.
When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That's why they'd quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.
Because enough of the people who would be responsible for stopping this senile psychopath see him as THEIR senile psychopath and they're more interested in seeing the people they don't like get hurt than they are in preserving the rule of law or the constitution. The rest could try to send a message by pushing for articles of impeachment, but the message it sends is entirely wrong if and when he's just fully acquitted by his ruling party.
This incidentally is a big part of why the mid-term election is going to be so important. If his shitstick cronies get thrown the fuck out then maybe something useful will actually get done about him.
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
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