I’m not from the US so all of this is baffling. In Europe and even South America there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening, and this kind of meddling would seriously result in arrests. However this is happening in the US with these people going completely unchecked. How is that even possible?!
There are all sorts of mechanisms in the USA to stop this from happening as well. However, Trump spent the first term embedding loyalists in the courts and congress, so there really is not much left to stop him. If the people who are there to act as a check on presidential power are in on the game, then who is left to enforce the law?
Prosecution takes a very long time and authoritarians move very quickly. Time is not on our side.
Dude. Time was up on November 6th. I’m not sure who you imagine time is still available for to use in any way whatsoever. We had time between the start of 2021 to the election in 2024, and we squandered it. No time left my friend. It’s the end of time.
I think you misunderstand the phrase as I’m using it.
Time is always on someone’s side. It’s the nimble, the patient, the determined who win. MAGA is more nimble than the institutions that oppose it. It’s been more patient and focused than the opposition which has been constantly chasing after the latest shiny object of the week/month/year rather than anticipating the need for focus and unity. The bad guys are winning and they are not slowing down; we are falling further behind.
again, you’re using the operative “falling” as if we’re still in a process, we aren’t, it’s done, barring the same fucking people who couldn’t be bothered to vote, turning into active effective terrorists or enacting a long term sustained general strike, there is no constitutional power which can any longer be employed to stop trump (and anyone he chooses) doing whatever it is he wants to do. none. zilch. rien. bubkas.
there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening
There are tons of such mechanisms in the United States as well. Unfortunately the mechanisms essentially boil down to laws, policies, and norms. Doing an illegal action does not pull a lever that deposits you in jail. The whole system relies on the people in power choosing to do the right thing. That’s going to be a potential issue in any country with centralized power.
I watched similar thing happen in my own country. It was just one decision (so far) and made with a very comfortable parlamentary majority. The problem was that it was supposed to be unconstitutional according to wast majority of constitutional experts. That turned out to be absolutely no problem for the parlament and the administration.
It’s not even that I am too much against what they decided, but it did change my views on the nature of law. Any law or constitution is just a paper if it isnt enforced and will carry no weight, when it is simply ignored.
It’s a little thing we call “tyranny.”
… as a treat
It’s good to be a king, and that’s what Trump is now. The people in charge of defending us from this took the money instead.
This is like in Latin America when a president wins a CIA backed ‘election’ and then creates a NEW legislative branch of government that has twice the power of the current legislative goverment, it’s a very simple and obvious way to practice ‘legalism’ which is a Fascist principal of doing things that APPEAR legal. But clearly aren’t.
In Europe and even South America there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening,
How naive is you?
The only difference between US and other regimes is that other regimes understand political science and current US regime doesn’t…
Make no mistake, this behavior will have consequences for the US government. People seeing this behavior in such raw condition will rewire the subjects brains going forward.
Big part of being a sovereign is having peasants accept your authority… You don’t fucking piss on their faces en mass and then expect them to obey Lol
It is getting hard for normies to larp “Constitution” online haha
The mechanisms only work if people enforce them.
And the purpose of the executive branch is to enforce the policies created by the other two branches. Sooo. Yeah. A vote for Trump, or no vote at all, was a vote for this
Aren’t they able to veto all financial expenses of the state or so? Then they probably can’t fire people directly, but just decide that a certain role is superfluous, and doesn’t receive funding anymore.
(I’m just guessing, but that’s how I’d do it)
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It doesn’t seem like people are really aware that the coup was successful this time. All the shit we are seeing is just fallout from that.
twice the orange shit was impeached, and the republicans did not remove him from office.
then the orange shit was found guitly of 34 felonies and was let off the hook. technically convicted but no punishment.
the systems, checks and balances that should have prevented this situation were tried, but congress / senate did not hold him accountable and punish him. they figured they would end up with more power and money if they let him do what he wanted and so are letting him.
that’s basically it. unless there’s some sort of miracle (and i really doubt there will be) democracy is over in the united states. you just watched the grand old experiment fail.
So, it isn’t the exact same situation, but just as a reminder: von Papen, the conservative guy who ultimately put Hitler into power, initially thought he’d be savvy and cede only “not that important” posts to Hitler and the NSDAP. After all, a silly, comically insane upstart like Hitler would be easily outmanoeuvred by knowing the law and how statecraft works, right?
Well, the Nazis just used those posts in illegal ways, overstepped their official authority and refused to report to von Papen at all (whom they should at that point have been subservient to) - knowing full well no one was going to stop them anyway. Shortly thereafter, von Papen was out and Hitler was chancellor.
Von Papen managed to live until 1969, and wrote an autobiography that was derided by historians for having a terribly naive lack of understanding politics, lack of principles and being full of vanity.
I’m afraid that my country the US is entering a dictatorship similar to the 1973-85 dictadura in Uruguay. Even about 40 years later, when I (stupidly) left there, I could see the political and social PTSD from it. Along with Uruguayans being “never again with that horror” from there successful transition to one of the strongest democracies in the Americas.
The big difference is, instead of being a “civic-military” dictatorship, the US is beginning a “civic-techbro” dictatorship.
The military will follow along later. Much of the enlisted, non-officer troops are pro-Trump. Even some officers are.
Source: immediate relative who is a sergeant in the US Army. He is horrified by the Trump supporters in his unit.
Because nobody’s punched these little fucks in the face yet
They are a real department. The USDS.
south america has a tradition of government reform and transparency wherein criminals in government are arrested sometimes forcibly. no such tradition exists in the USA
Laws are only a thing if enforced.
The fox is in the hen house so if we want law enforcement we need to make sure it happens ourselves.
The Devil is in the details, and he needs to get the fuck out!
To add to this: The Supreme Court has granted the president immunity from any wrongdoing in addition to pardoning powers.
So Trump or anyone close to him can essentially not be convicted which leads to the massive corruption we’re seeing right now.
