The lunatic owns the guardrails

Like most non-Americans, I'm amazed at how easily US democracy is being dismantled and how enthusiastically the army / law enforcement are 'following orders'. No one who can make a difference seems to be challenging anything. It's like they've just been waiting for this moment.

I was hoping Biden would put more guardrails and speed bumps in place during his term! Clarence Thomas wrote law (not his job) while Biden was still in power. This is where the guardrails were eliminated

John Roberts happened. Let's see if he appeals the appeals court decision that tariffs are illegal. We are watching Mr. Roberts. We want to know what you think of billionaires who want to be trillionaires on the backs of American people.

Squeaker Mike Johnson says “hold my beer.”

He removed them, sorta reverse engineered it

ask PUTIN...he seems to know everything NOW

If you find out let us know. 😃

The Heritage Foundation spent 30 years crafting a “ workaround “

That's what I keep thinking! All I can figure is he put a few key people in place during his first term. Makes me wonder, how many of his ball less underlings are also on the Epstein list. They cheated, in my opinion, he didn't win. Elon is deep in this somewhere.

The guardrails have always been citizens of integrity. There are none in the GOP.

The legislative branch didn't do their job; the judicial branch is struggling esp with the Supreme Court compromised. The 4th estate is corrupted and owned by the oligarchs.

The right wing/GOP has spent the last 60+ years tearing down those guardrails. 1) Get control of a plurality of states. 2) Get control of the courts, particularly SCOTUS. 3) Get control of the rest of the federal govt. They’ll still be the true threat after Trump is gone.

Exactly❗

They just ignored them as no real enforcement of the law is expected.

GREAT QUESTION‼️‼️‼️

It didn't just happen. It was the execution of a long-term plan starting with destroying education and critical thinking, the theft of the presidency by Jeb and the Supremes, Mitch McConnell stealing the Supremes and blocking impeachments, campaign financing for the rich. Steps to losing a democracy

Chickenshit repugnants and a corrupt scotus gave them away

Guardrails require regular maintenance. The GOP fascists have been eroding them for decades.

MAGAT SCOTUS 😡

He got rid of them when he first took office, and the GOP is on his side, so he gets away with it

Weak links

Part of the American dream…they were never real

When they went to simple majority instead of 2/3 majority. No compromise. No deals.

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The Oligarchs have richly funded the GQP & Project 2025. They want to RULE us as their slaves. To that end, Democracy must be extinguished. Healthcare, the Social Safety nets, Labor Unions, Fair Wages & all personal liberties are to be shut down…completely! We, The People say “Hell No”!

We need to know who these Funkers 😈are! They need much more exposure! Instead of Project 2025 and The heritage Foundation we need names, titles, history, etc! Make their faces real to all! 🔥🔥🔥

They weren't maintained.

Remember when he said he's getting rid of medians? You know those metal bent things that are Wiggly? They're also called guardrails

The people that are supposed to enforce those guardrails are actively helping him destroy them

The other fuckers are in on it, too!

Bought and paid for SCOTUS is what happened! 🤬🤬

Now that’s a great . Let’s ask our politicians and the Supreme Court’

A complicit majority

Never scumbag! Never bow to a corrupt con man!👺

The fascist GOP keeps giving the fat old orange one passes.

They were bought out.

Or threatened!

They sold them

ITS CALLED, the Constitution, and it still works. It's called State Governors, and their ability to act against the National Executive Branch. We need TO IMPROVE IT, in many ways. Noone THOUGHT a President would be so crazy, to RELEASE, 1500 PEDOPHILES, AND KILLERS. I detest Donald Trump.

We do have guard rails in place, the judicial system is working.... hard. Fucking Supreme Court and this administration grinding all laws into the ground and congress refusing to stand up to the regime. We will revamp system when Dems take control and we will fight for control if need be.

Two words: Mitch McConnell. He brought us Citizens United (Congress is in the pocket of special interests) and ensured SCOTUS was largely pro-fascist crazies.

Excellent question, how on earth did it get so fkd up that if Trump was to force people to have all lights out at 7.0clock, yes a Complete black out, not one safety mechanism in place to overthrow.

He stole them too

Mike Johnson doesn’t give a shit about guard rails. He would rather protect a pedophile then worry about anybody else. Mike Johnson is truly a religious piece of shit.

Checks and balances, kids… checks and balances, my ass.

Trump in collusion with SCOTUS ET AL DISMANTLED THEM, Ably. Assisted by TRA/GOP & helped by Dems complicit inaction! UR USA is NO MORE A DEMOCRACY than RUSSIA/CHINA ETC..

Exactly!I have always had some bit of confidence in "checks and balances" and it damned sure didn't prevent anything this time around. The combo of lots of complicit, corrupt people in all branches made a catastrophe for the US

WTF happened to all the tax money millions of citizens gave the Government to maintain stable, functioning and responsive institutions. All that money was for nothing ? Bad enough this country cannot keep our kids from being hunted down and massacred in their schools and churches. Where's the $$$ ?

The guardrails are centuries old, when the cure for measles was raw goat milk and the secret to longevity was quicksilver. ppl buy a new phone every 2ys and update any app immediately. But this constitution from ancient times MUST hold the ultimate truth... lol, dumbfcks....🦝

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It requires a functional Congress that keeps their oaths of office, not one where the party in power is aiding and abetting the crimes and abuses by a corrupt and dictatorial administration.

That's what a militia is for. The national guard is federalized. So it's up to us to form a militia and protect our community . Because the government is obviously gone feral.

The GOP turning fascist is what happened.

Right?!

We need MUCH BETTER guardrails. And money out of politics! And new laws

People

Well LETS SEE. DO THEY HAVE ENOUGH EYELINER and LIPSTICK. 5,000 dollars TIES Shiny teeth gel. Go on TV, look PURRTY, PRIORITY

#PedoPrez fired them.

Project 2025?

They were built by white guys with no fore cite like most things they do . Nuclear weapons, combustion engines, invent then keep tweaking for the future. Don’t build without way to rid of waste. Don’t build w/o remembering u didn’t create the Earth … I are a temp visitor.

It was all just American arrogant bullshit about how great a democracy, how great their constitution, how great their freedoms all are….

We must Resist!! I saw an awesome piece on Velahi and he said we all throw a wrench in the tyrants wheel with our resistance! Big or small as long as we don’t sit idly by!

There were only two. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

SUPERB answer ! 😻

Simple: SCOTUS and GOP

The Democrats better put in some Fail-Safe new guard rails if they win. #dnc

You gotta know the wrong guys lined up to help destroy the guardrails

Fucking insanity happening🙄

All the con men figured a way around it

There were none. Joke’s on you. When a convicted felon and rapist is even allowed to run for president of your COUNTRY…. There aren’t any.

They would be there if it were Obama. Bet🤬

SCOTUS dismantled them 🤬🤬

Great question!!

Heritage and MAGA happened.

And Russia's long game.

Celebrating Trump as a Russian asset since 1987.

I've been asking that for months.

SCOTUS is an inside job🤬

Good question. Answer: Banana republicans

Two of the guardrails, the GOP Senate & the GOP House all vote with him. For 10 years already! SCOTUS also bought by GOP. A chunk of our judicial system has been bought by the GOP. News media all bought by the GOP.

The ENTIRE Constitution was based on HONORABLE men being the ones who took up the responsibility of governing our county. There were no real safety checks built into the Constitution to deal with the unprecedented treasonous actions by a rogue "president", let alone an entire rogue political party.

Let 's begin with Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and many in-between, finishing off with 6 members of the SC and a sickening excuse for a senator, Mitch McConnell. He could have ended this, but power consumed him. If only the rumors of the ill health of the sociopath in the Oval Office were true...

Would have been nice if they had been enshrined in LAW instead of "we hope you don't do that".

They were ignored and so were Trump's actions. Chickens in Congress. Garland too - he should have arrested Orange Felon on Jan 6th.

Ask the 90 million who didn't vote. The most important guardrail the founders installed into the Constitution was A well-informed and fully engaged populace. Government is a reflection of the will of the people.

They were slowly taken down in the last few decades.

Scotus traitors fucked us. Third branch of shit.

Those guardrails are sitting on their fat asses in Congress/Senate waiting for the next stock market report from the 🍊💩

Guardrails???? Now that's pretty funny.

They got hijacked.

We were operating in a honor system, you know the constitution but now that was replaced by the Mafia bylaws.

They systematically hijacked the guardrails. McConnell is responsible for the hijacking of SCOTUS, MAGA is responsible for the hijacking of Congress (of course, the Republican members of Congress COULD do the right thing, but they are complicit.)

The Supreme Court and the Republican Party. MAGA DIPSHITS

Patriot Act was a big one (which was extended by Obama for no reason). Trickle down economics. They've removed so many rights and Democrats never put them back. Can't list them all off the top of my head but this has been a plan for at least 4 decades.

They rigged the elections and gained power over time to do this. We needed to see and stop it sooner. STOP their access to voting machines and voting laws that protect voters. THAT is what we need to do NOW! Protect voting. What happened in NY where no votes were cast for Harris in a Dem area?

Want answers to that question? Make the call to your Senator or Representative ask them the same question!

Exactly! Don't you guys have some sort of constitution or something 🤔

Indeed, finish the job.

The Dems (Chuck) should've never let the Budget pass in February. Once that passed, he knew he could get away with anything. Of course, there is the fact that he should've been in prison before the election. It's all like I'm living in a simulated world.

Decades of Russian influence and fragile masculinity

Hah, thinking of a past Malaysia prime minister who absconded with the country's ENTIRE TREASURY.

it was always a lie

I guess the ones that wrote the constitution did not foresee the greedy weak republicons.

Republicans have been removing those for decades. Why most of the removal has been over the last eight years

none of your coward elected members had the guts or the patriotism to enforce them

Citizens United bought them. #EndCitizensUnited #SeditionHasConsequences #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

That's what I would like to know.

The Electoral College sure didn't help!

The Supreme Court flushed them down the toilet.

They don't work if the government is in on the hijack.

The Republican party happened.

Fear of Trump.

Turns out it was bullshit

It is called the corrupt conservative right-wing and the very scared cowardice of the regular Republicans.

#scotusiscorrupt

They highjacked the guardrails first.

His "advisors" and henchmen removed them before they began dismantling the govt.

Exactly. Cue Project 2025

They only work without a complicit Congress.

..and Supreme Court

I was gonna say don't forget the Legislative branch, but they've also highjackedpretty much every state a local office to some degree.

Also, Congress. Now Trump is working on hijacking blue cities, he’ll probably work on hijacking blue states before long.

The guardrail turned out to be traitors.

He merit hired all his cult followers that only care about pleasing him instead of following the laws that some swore an oath to protect !! They should all be removed and criminally charged just for lying while taking the oath of office !!!

their all on the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE thanks to CHUMP !🤬

👹 They're still there- Just not Being Enforced! Quelle Surprise 👺

Those guardrails were people who stopped Trump from doing stupid things. This 2nd term, those guardrails were not there, being replaced by Trump minions, henchmen, and idiot sycophants!

You put a padlock on your storage unit, not to keep the thieves out. You put it on to keep honest people honest. The guard rails were meant to prevent a "street level flooding" not a hurricane level storm surge. The guardrails stop instances of corruption not generational corruption.

You can't really fault the founders for the failure of the "guardrails". What the Republican Party has done is insidious, and Democrats aren't blameless. Through the years, the GOP and Democrats have worked to weaken laws to benefit them.

Think of these minor acts of corruption as rainwater flowing through a culvert beneath a highway. The culvert can handle a normal rainstorm. What it can't handle is a persistent flow of floodwater, especially if people spent generations swapping out the clay around the culvert with sand. Get it?

It's worse now, because we have AI. All they had to do was spend enough time feeding all our laws and information into a database then let AI find the weaknesses and design methods to overcome the guardrails. Only reason they haven't succeeded yet, is because AI can't account for the human factor.

"Gentlemens agreements" only work if the parties are all gentlemen.

Yt men gleefully lifted them as they became less powerful with the full support of maga whom they are destroying.

Some billionaires removed them by writing a check.

Mitch?

The republican party happened

They were bought by big corporations and handed to the GOP.

They were taken down buy the corrupt senate.. and the projet 2025 fuckers.

1/2 I’ve always heard that everyone can be bought & had a price!I just thought that when it came to really important things like our Democracy there would be real men & women who would stand firm against all Tyranny! I was wrong & hope every Traitor burns in Hell!🔥

2/2 Every member of the Heritage Foundation needs to become very well known on social media!We need to let America know who these people are, why they want to destroy our country, and why they couldn’t care less how many lives are lost along the way! Let’s educate the masses! And fight fight fight!💪🏻

The Supreme Court gave him immunity!!!

Uhhhh they were ummmm a lie???

They never really existed..

Republicans have been chipping away at it for 30 years, and Christofascists saw this as their last best opportunity - a completely corruptible Pres - we all let Putins puppet in, and broligarchs funded it as a great bet.

www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-girls-...

Mere #norms, and he ain’t normal

The supreme Court road them into hell

Congress.

The GOP support of the dismantling of our Democracy....

And selling us out to russia. Traitor. Guillotine time.

Foreign and domestic.

The guardrails are still in place but they can simply be ignored if your entire party is corrupt and lets you freely run amok. In fact, a lot of them will gleefully join in with the Felon of the United States in his shenanigans. The Founders did not foresee half of the elected officials going rogue.

Republicans removed them.

The brain-dead right-wing pimps controlling the formerly Supreme Court are what happened.

You are very correct in using the word "formerly"!!

Guardrails= Rule of law . No rule of law, no guard rails.

Citizens United

They didn't anticipate an actual TEAM of perverts.

Thank Mitch the bitch McConnell for the removal of most of them. That’s why he stole 3 Supreme Court seats.

They all have more money in their pockets.

This X 💯!!!!

The Supreme Court happened.

Trump happened and SCOTUS handed him the crown. Throw in a corrupt an cowardly GOP and there you have it folks: the perfect storm against democracy.

Christian nationalists playing the long game and corporations and their billionaire owners refusing to pay taxes.

Those "guardrails" acquiesced and rebranded as... collaborators.

Another reason to move to another country!

The Republicans can stop all of this at any time. They're choosing not to.

I’ve asked the same.

What happened? There is a majority on the US Supreme Court that evidently believes, as do a slim majority in both houses of Congress, Trump (who was “elected” by an even slimmer majority) has the right to rip the US Constitution to shreds.

Corrupted, bribed, scared and blackmailed away.

It’s called Epstein

Yeah, about that… they spent decades finding loopholes…

@GOP

Those guards are busy covering their rear ends. Pointing the finger only works when there is someone they don't like available to point at.

Trump installed the lowest life on the Supreme Court to give himself free rein!

The guardrails like rubles??

Republicans gave them away

Why did congress just hand over their powers to him? (They want America to be a Christian Nationalist country & are "in on it"). Will the judiciary hold? We can only hope. But we must be prepared if they don't. We, the people are the country's last defense.

Yeah I would like to know that too. Obviously there are none.

Those guardrails depended on a courageous, effective pro-democracy opposition. On a related topic, fire Schumer and Jeffries and replace them with real fighters. Now.

Republicans happened.

Exactly! The Supreme Court screwed up everything when the Roberts and ignorant cronies (total 6 of 3 justices) gave immunity and almost absolute power to the president. Making the presidency practically a monarchy. 🤬

We need a serious overhaul when we take back control. Especially all laws before the year 00. Let’s start with all laws from the 1800s that are worthless now. It’s about the only good that comes from this, is to fill those holes and lesson learned about the rich and right wing nuts taking control.