So it takes like two weeks to dismantle "checks and balances"? Truly US showed us how to combat corruption and promote good governance. It's a bit hilarious and sad from outside.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Don't be so quick to fold. One of the things we've seen over the past few days that it's easy to overlook is that Trump doesn't have the power to do whatever he wants with executive orders. Look at the spending freeze. They reversed the order already because it was clear that they don't actually have the authority to turn off spending without legislative approval.
Trump and his team don't really seem to know what they're doing. One could argue that they're testing the waters, but that doesn't really hold up. It would make sense to slowly chip away at the changes they're trying to make and erode the balance of power. Instead they've basically challenged the supreme court and the legislation to let go of their own relevance. Some Republican representatives seem willing to do this, but so far the supreme court seems less than willing to make themselves powerless.
Frankly, giving full power to the executive branch would be a stupid move for the Republicans. They've spent all this time gaining power in three branches and securing a hold. It makes much more sense to use that power now than to pull their own teeth out just to appease a single administration.
Trump is pushing his luck. Corporate media seems happy to overstate the inevitably of his efforts succeeding, whether they support them or not, but that's just the money-fueled propaganda machine at work. We're already seeing that he can't actually just do whatever he wants, and the more he tries to the more we're going to see the rest of the system's resilience.
Don't give up hope yet.
I wonder how much of the military will go along with the captain's calls being made in the executive. They must have pissed off a lot of career military types with the appointment of Hegseth.
Everyone in the military takes an oath to defend the constitution and refuse unlawful orders. Trump may very well be headed toward fucking around and finding out if he pushes it.
more like 40 years of republicans
More than half the nation voted for this, ostensibly. Bc of... (checks notes) egg prices, and bc Biden lied about merely having a cold, before finally doing the right thing and stepping down from running again since he was too old to handle it.
Whatever comes, we brought this on ourselves. With our geriatricracy (geriocracy? either way, I have just decided that is a word that needed to have existed, so there, now it does:-) and abuses of the system that finally killed it. Even Rome fell. No nation has ever survived devolving into a mere 2-party system, the only surprise here is how quickly it fell (and even that mostly to those not paying attention to how powerful Faux News had become).
The word you're looking for is "gerontocracy".
Nuh uh, you're so wrong, and something something about your mother. Oh wait, this isn't Reddit, so I can say wow, you're right, and thank you!:-) Sadly, why isn't this word plastered everywhere all over the media - could it perhaps be that the owners of such like how that works in their favor? 😔
How the hell does a private citizen get such power?
He's not a confirmed secretary
He's not even a U.S. citizen.
correction because any misinfo is bad: he is indeed a US citizen (he became one in 2002) however he’s ineligible to run for president, and when he was running his startups was in the country illegally, or working counter to the conditions of his visa or something to that effect
Same way Trump's family did in his first term.
Elon Musk may now be the Führer of the American reich
Fixed that for you.
It looks more and a more that Trump is playing Paul von Hindenburg.
"may"
This is a coup