The weak a$$ senators and representatives that vote for whatever he tells them to.

It was ever thus, the institutions don’t protect us - it always comes down to the people - it was obvious what project 2025 was going to do

I used this just now because it's so right on. Thanks!

The corrupt SCOTUS 6 led by rotten Roberts happened.

Citizens United Killed Them!

MAGA voted to remove the guardrails so their cult leader could rule the country as a dictator.

First term: instil doubt and erode Second term: dismantle and refirect Every Trump term: lie, twist and corrupt

Driving a car describes my politics: too far right? In the ditch. Too far left? Head-on collision. Stay in your lane to make progress, pass the slow traffic ahead in a passing lane, even when you see the oncoming traffic in that lane. Can be scary! Guard rails keep errant cars out of deadly ravines.

Reagan. Reagan happened.

... treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Corporate America.

They were an illusion. Just because something hasn’t happened before is no reason not to formulate strict laws prohibiting the reckless machinations of a tyrant. Remember when said a U.S. President couldn’t be found guilty? It was because of a memo - not a law! SCOTUS agreed. But no law.

THEY ARE STILL THERE BUT THE GOP REFUSES TO ENFORCE THEM SO TRUMP KEEPS WINNING WINNING WINNING I CALL SHAME SHAME SHAME

The Supreme Court overruled them.

Ppl voted republican.

They didn’t reckon on republicans handing over the legislative branch along with a deeply corrupt Supreme Court. Mitch McConnell & Project 2025 are the chief architects for the near death of our Nation.🤨 Wakey wakey USA🇺🇸

#ReleaseEpsteinTrumpFiles

It's called corrupt Congress. Corrupt Supreme Court. Never punishing corruption, or perjury & letting it fester. Lazy ass Democrats as well. Some of them are corrupt too.

Weak Rs

No protection for a treasonous party

John Robert's gave trumpf immunity. trumpf thinks he is now king. Republicans won't stand up to trumpf for fear of their past deeds becoming public. Encourage everyone to register to vote. Make sure they actually vote on election day. Make it fun. Conga line dances to the polls.

Judicial is owned

The judicial courts did nothing! They aren't judges they are cowards!

Money

Ask the Democrats

A combination of voter apathy and decades of a specific team working to either remove the guardrails or control them.

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that was term 1 No guardrails in term 2. None of those f-ers have the balls (even the Chief of Staff) to push back or say NO.

There should never have been a term 2. No other democracy would have allowed Trump to stand for any office after Jan 6. The rest of the free world, the remainder of the free world, is shaking its head.

I know. Frowning.

THIS, exactly this!

He was impeached immediately after Jan 6th but the Senate acquitted him allowing him to run again. A grand jury indicted him for Jan 6, he appealed claiming presidential immunity and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor. Project 2025 authors needed him in office to accomplish their goals.

Yep.

Millions of Americans wonder the same thing and hold responsible ALL NINE MEMBERS OF THE EXTREME COURT, who unanimously put the monster back in the ballot of several states that had excluded him as ineligible pursuant to the 14th Amendment!

2/ All nine essentially voided part of the Constitution, which is absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Court to do! The only means of doing that is through the amendment process, which is how Prohibition was repealed. ALL NINE MUST PAY FOR WHAT THEY DID TO US IN THEIR LAWLESS RULING!

Do you think ultimately, one day, they might be held to account?

It’s difficult to say but there’s precedent: Nazi jurists were among those tried and executed at Nuremberg. The three liberals all owe America an abject apology for what they did.

2/ The Extreme Six should be executed, for this and for all their other ideologically Nazi decisions, their blatant personal corruption, and their naked, contemptuous perjury for the purpose of getting their nominations confirmed. Every word they said in that process was a lie.

Yes the comparison of the Nuremberg trials hadn't escaped me.

What happened ? Those "guardrails" were never guarantees. They were only promises that relied on the good faith & integrity of elected officials, and the committement of The People to protect real democracy. Break either one of those connections and the Constitution falls apart.

They all quit or were fired

Follow the money...

Reagan started dismantling back then

Stuck up the lunatics ass of course

🤬Supreme Court Judges with leader Roberts

They need to be dragged out.

That was USA 2024. USA 2025 ☠️💩⚫️

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Two words: Leonard Leo

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Thanks to Mitch McConnell, guardrails were only there for Democrats.

ARREST TRUMP NOW ! ARREST THE SUPREME COURT NOW! ARREST THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE HOUSE & SENATE NOW!! THEY HAVE PROVEN BEYOND ANY DOUBT TO BE TREASONOIUS TO THE CONSTITUTION & THE PEOPLE!! THIS IS WHAT MUST BE DONE NOW ! CALL YOUR REP, TELL THEM IT'S TIME TO GET THE MILITARY INVOLVED !!

Republicans happened

mitch mcconnell happened. And merric garland happened. And the perjured supreme court happened.

The rich white male must have ate the guardrails. He suddenly doesn't want to share.

John Roberts and his SCOTUS

The fucking Supreme Court, that's what happened.

Democrats decided prosecuting republicans would be mean back in the 1980s. We did everything but put a bullet in their heads to not let those guardrails slip but they just knew that one day republicans would find a moral center. Just like Jeffries today, "we will work with republicans".

The definitive answer.

Those guardrails require people with morals and integrity.

It depended on people with integrity, a sense of duty, and honoring an oath taken.

1/2 Kamala Harris: what I did not predict, was the capitulation youtube.com/shorts/vICdc...

2/2

When Congress can be threatened and blackmailed, the whole system collapses. The biggest issue is the amount of money allowed in your electoral system. It needs to be reduced a thousand times over. In Canada, maximum personal donations are only $1200 or so per person, per year. No more…

Turns out there were no real guardrails.

Turn out, they were just guidelines.

The mistake was not to give the Judiciary access to independent methods of enforcement. Dragging people into court , for contempt or enforcing rulings etc.

They didn't hold against the giant train wreck of American politicians bought by the oligarchy.

Abdication of responsibility

A DOJ‑unsealed indictment revealed that right‑wing influencer Benny Johnson—was involved, in a scheme funded by Russian agents to spread pro‑Russia, anti‑democracy messaging. — Benny Johnson is a right-wing podcaster. Benny himself announced that The Benny Show is live from the WHITE HOUSE. WTF 😳

They were made of wood decades ago and are rotting out today.

I'll tell you what happened.They let israel take over our country!

Super wealthy conspired for 40 years to resist multiculturalism. They knew it would lead to taxation policies for societal well being. They used people’s religion/hate after Obama got elected. Placed people in SCOTUS and Congress. Resisted in quiet. Bought a weak opposition party. This is result.

They never fucking existed.

Clear warnings were given that the Orange Turd would remove all guardrails this round. Don't act surprised. He was busy stacking the court system and ensuring that those around him only blindly comply and forfeit any working brain cells.

You can thank John Roberts and the corrupt Supreme Court who have been bought off by billionaires!

Putin knows the guardrails too and the rest is $$ laundering and Epstein history.

Oh ya those well the guard rails are basically the honor system of which this govt does not have no honor just shame.

Greed Over People

They only work when everyone isn’t either a literal nazi or giant pussy.

His flying monkeys got elected into congress and stole scotus seats.

SCOTUS

Those people who touted that in 2015 were the first to kiss the ring

Merrick Garland.

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Newt Gingrich, corruption, gerrymandering, appointing partisan judges, Mitch McConnel, big$ in campaign donations, allowing lawmakers to invest with insider knowledge, Party loyalty instead of representing the state. Most members participate in some way. The people become suspect of government=Trump

My theory? Foreign powers set up Epstein & Trump to take men with the potential for power to the island; ply them with drugs, booze & girls, and get footage of them compromised. Now they own them. All of them.

Any man who has voted against the people's interests needs to be investigated for crimes against children.

It laid down in the hands of establishment democrats, and let it happen. Thanks Merrick Garland!

Did someone just mention the right to bear arms?

like putin pawns

They spent years planning this, recrutting loyalists cohorts apologists enablers and appeasers, extremists bigots conspiracy theorists nutjobs seditionists religious zealots and evangelic bigots. Maticulously meetings in the dark and getting big money to back their treasonous behaviour and plans

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What the fuck happened to all the assholes who swore our guardrails would protect us, and belittled me as an 'alarmist' for suggesting otherwise? 😠

Ask scumtus. They gave him full immunity as he demanded bcs „otherwise he wouldn’t be able to do his job!“ Now we know what he meant. The 6 nazis on there knew this beforehand, of course. They are complicit. imo. Who knows, maybe they are in those files, too? 🤷‍♀️

What Happened?....Faux News Being Allowed To Pump A Steady Stream Of Lies Into American Homes Is What Happened....

Republicans.

(They were pretend)

The GOP.

Everyone capitulated. 🤬

We elected a kleptocracy into being.

Lmfao. Remember when Biden was president and all of the accusations against him were actually plans for Trumps presidency. Good times. I miss Sleepy Joe.

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Exactly where are they……?

Ask the pro-lifers who fall on their knees at the mention of DJT's name.

Someone bought them to keep them from doing their job.

There aren’t any when you have the SC we have

RIGHT! WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?!!

The primary guardrail is the electorate, who voted for a man who’d already tried to overthrow the gov once-and to salt our wounded democracy, they gave a big majority to congress who promptly abdicated.

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The election was rigged. Too much evidence pointing toward that to believe the election was fair. He got less than 25% of the actual vote. Same with Congress.

If you have proof that 75% of ballots were not accurately counted, so would everyone else.

25% was my "estimation". Just a guess on his real support. I live in Ohio and less than half of the people i know support trump. In Ohio. And i agree. It would be a massive undertaking. Powerful pedophiles really didn't want to go to prison. So they rigged it.

But did they support Harris? There are people saying a DOGE character won a an election hacking contest-still not proof. If we get majorities in 2016, a committee can review the circumstantial evidence. imo the DNC needs to assume a big % of reg dems will not vote for whoever the nominee is.

Elon himself even admitted that he rigged the election. He posted this in early July, then deleted it about 10 mins later.

Not enough - but certainly enough for a serious investigation.

This website is very interesting. I sense that more will come out after trump is gone. electiontruthalliance.org

Not enough? Admission to a crime is literally all a jury needs.

Only if he were arrested and plead guilty. A post, quickly deleted, requires the prosecution prove the admission was accurate.

Some people can't be helped. This is an admission to a crime. Two crimes. I've never seen this one. Two tiered justice..... Not for long.

Yeah, I saw this post shared on YouTube just a couple of days after he had posted and deleted. Musk still thinks he can get away with anything but I have a feeling this will come back to bite him. Hard.

I see pod casts, Substack, YouTube channels on that subject with compelling arguments but no evidence. I do see polls though and they supported the outcome. The ability to systemically change votes would be an enormous undertaking-at that time-and keeping it secret would be even larger.

I forget where i saw it, but i read a lengthy article on the statistics of the election, the tabulators used and Elon's starlink connection. The simple electronics that were probably used to hack into the signal being sent to the starlink satellites. Plus my vote was never counted. I live in Ohio. 🤷🏼

I don’t think it’s simple because it would have to be by congressional dist too.

I think a lot of people fall into the "Egyptian pyramid trap". Where we as a species think something is just too out of reach to be done. You have a literal supercomputer in your pocket. You don't think someone could rig an election? I'm not saying I'm 100% correct. But i won't admit to wrong either

This is Ethan. bsky.app/profile/deni...

What number of ballots were rejected and what % were dems? This would not be hard for authorities to compile and yet we don’t have it. It’s still all supposition. Is it worthy of investigation-imo YES, but this gov won’t do it. States could though.

Elon admitted to it on X when he and Trump were going at it over the Big Shit Bill. Trump said Elon was going to do it during his campaign for President and Elon admitted to it.

Check out election truth alliance. Some counties have. Some Republican run states are not allowing them to look at it. It’s definitely getting more attention though.

They have a BlueSky page as well. @electiontruthalliance.org

One of the videos they deleted. youtu.be/bl4Aiscu6hk

Elon and his minions rigged the election. He has a kid from Harvard who won a ballot hacking competition at a Berkeley on his team and part of DOGE. Look it up-BallotProof. They’ve deleted some of the information but you can still find some online.

How do we prevent this in 2026.

That’s the question. I’m not very tech savvy but we need some of these tech people on our team. They can tell us how.

Our congress people and the DNC do need tech savvy staff people as well as excellent lawyers and public policy people.

We also need a law that any person caught tampering with any ballots, election machines or other election related devices or conspiring with individuals involved in election interference go to prison for life. They cannot be pardoned by any President or court if found guilty.

I believe purposefully promulgating misinformation should be considered election interference, along with raffling prized for voter registration.

They need a Congress to enforce them. Nobody predicted the Coup rather it was being enacted. My Country has been stolen from me and my fellow Citizens. I want it all back!

They were merely suggestions.

They were trashed by Congress and SCOTUS decades ago to protect… A DOJ memo The presidential office Norms and institutions Belief in honest elections No one is above the law Trust in the judicial system Politicians and SCOTUS want the BELIEF in safeguards, without actually having any.

They were "handshake" guardrails. Would have been terrific if they had been made into law.

the GOP has turned a blind eye?

1. The biggest most important guardrail the founders installed into the constitution was A well-informed, and engaged populace. In this country most people can't even name the three branches of government. And far fewer can tell you their powers and limitations. Then there's the 90mil that didn't

2. vote. In short, we the people have failed and only we the people can fix it. And we only do that by becoming informed. Not just of who is who and what they support, but how our government actually works and stay engaged

People aren't calling their legislators enough.

John Roberts and a GOP appointed Supreme Court happened. Corporations can buy elections thanks to Citizens United. Many Americans have lost the ability to critically think and the dumbing down of America that started w J Springer kept growing. This led to a me-first society w no empathy for others

Ayatollah Alito and minions of the Supreme Corrupt crowned him King El Douchbag.

Supreme court: gop control. And all the people that didn't vote trump didn't bother to vote for Congress, either, the other guardrail.

We made the mistake of assuming the American people would never support a deliberate liar, a criminal, a sexual assaulter, a person of such vile character with a lifelong history of racism, misogyny and fraud. We assumed the American people were better than that.🤷🏻‍♂️🚩

Ask the Party of Satan. Especially its voters.

We took it for granted.

Corrupt insurrectionist supreme court

You should research Mitch McConnell and project 2025 if you don’t know the answer to this!

The Supreme Court laid down our rights so a pedophile can steal the federal reserve.

They are all still there, what you failed to realise is they are there for the non white insurrections.

Congress has been asleep at the wheel.

tRump sycophants in the House, Senate and the DOJ, is what happened

What happened? People voted for the felon and traitor....along with republican extremists for the House and Senate.

Trump appointed all loyalists to top positions, stacked the courts,and all Republicans fell in line. Once again, he's following Putin's playbook and nothing will change until 2026 midterms. Our only hope is to flip the house and fight him and his administration until 2028.

Cowards is what happened

Apparently guardrails, laws and norms are all not the same thing.

He systematically eliminated them. Stay by step. It's what banana republic dictators do. Pay attention to

They bought the guardrails is what happened.

One was missed when SC Justices was not arrested for taking bribes.

Mitch McConnell, Aileen Cannon, the regime court.

👏Pithy explanation.

Merrick Garland can be added to that list as well. The Dems desperation to treat trump with kid gloves for fear of the right wing media has betrayed us all.

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Thanks for clarifying Public Enemies vs Public Defenders. 😂

The problem is so many people see Garland as a public enemy.

Essentially too many people are confused period.

When he is actually just helpless?

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That site has viruses. Be aware, people.

The New Republic does not have viruses but you do. Goodbye.

Look out for that website.

Don’t believe everything you read.

So don't believe this respected attorney. Harry P. Litman is an American lawyer, law professor, and political commentator. He is a former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General. I know he uses big words you may not understand and reading is hard. I get it.

Insults, very popular with gaslighters.

Then it's even more depressing that he was outsmarted at every step by Trump and his lawyers.

Sigh. Did you even read the article?

Yes.

That site has viruses.

I guess they were wishful thinking, just like world peace and the American Dream.

Sorry to inform you but the guardrails were a facade for Americans to believe your democracy would last forever.

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Ends up, they were more like suggestions

Bought and Paid for Supreme Court Justices handed him the wrecking ball to smash them out of existence.

Maybe the Democrats could point that out to the people they always call "their colleagues on the other side of the aisle". Point to them & demand they defend their votes, their actions, their silence while this lawless WH criminal syndicate destroys our country, economy, democracy, our health,

The guardrails themselves became corrupt. We are on our own.

Project 2025 is all about systematically removing the guardrails

Even their foresight that lasted 250 years, couldn't foresee the monster that the morons in this country have thrust upon us just because they hate black women so much...

The Republicans stacked SCOTUS and then became the majority in Congress and there went the guardrails.

They exist, but must be “activated” by legal proceedings or Congress. That requires people with power to step out the depths of their clinical denial to take a very important step — Admitting there is a constitutional crisis, and that an entire political party has run over the guardrails.

The GOP quietly and systematically removed them little by little over 50 years to gain back power and money after Nixon. Alone each item nothing. Combined, an opus of undermining democracy and equality.

They were conspirators.

They’re up Republicans’ behinds. 🙄

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A compliant and complicit Congress and Supreme Court.

The guard rails are fucking lunatics, too.

The repubes

They put people with the same philosophy and ideology in all branches of government so separation of powers is just superficial.. and they merely pass the ball around.

It’s hard to believe that nothing and no one is stopping the derailment of our country.

The Federalist Society bought them all.

Turns out that they don't work if more than half the gov is in a colluding in a conspiracy to overthrow the gov. Took them a long long time to set this up.

If they were all in place no politicians could grift their positions. VOTE.

Where the hell is our military? What happened to the oath?

America got back with her abusive, cheating, lying ex.

They don't work when one party supports fascism and the end of any guardrails,....

The Robert’s court decided to become the “Bid for our vote” court.

At a guess, the guardrails only function when people vote.

The Dems were asleep at the wheel😡

They got voted out. Lol It's like everyone failed civics class.

Why have guardrails if it's so easy for a lunatic to override them? Isn't it possible to create safeguards outside the reach of federal government, or wannabe despots? If not, why not?

Yep. I was asking myself this question in 2016.

Ask chief justice Roberts

The guard rails are in on it.

That is sooo 2022!

Read this Urge blue state govs to act accordingly. Find essay on substack. First 2/3 sobering history lesson; last segment uplifting & empowering.

Eroded slowly and step by step by hater GOP

Nearly 50 years of GOP psyops on the base and decades of GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression to get us exactly here. That's what happened to the 'guardrails'.

They identified them last time and set about installing people that would throw the levers his way..

Maybe they were never real

They WERE real. The system of government was created to ensure "NO MORE KINGS" and functioned in his 1st term. But he figured out how to get his way and appointed only those who wouldn't stand in his way. It took time, but he was able to assemble/sway loyalists in all 3 branches of government.

So the benchmarks didn’t work. America never wants to admit that

They didn’t work because not enough people took it seriously. Americans became too complacent and too comfortable, thinking a fascist takeover would never happen here. Well, it’s obvious that it can when people get lazy and don’t vote.

We are seeing the danger of that same scenario in Canada as well.

Democracy and freedom should never be the taken for granted, and as Obama said in a recent video, we have to continue to fight for democracy every day. It’s never promised.

That's why we Democrats are disillusioned with our own party. In those 4 Biden years, we expected that something would be done about the system's weaknesses. We also expected that something would be done about trump. He shouldn't have been allowed to run for office, he should be in prison.

Absolutely. There are 100 reasons why it happened but 0️⃣ excuses. On some level, it was paralysis by analysis. Dems didn't organize or move fast enough for fear of losing in court, or the Senate Floor. Plus, they were operating under the old system, where a strongly worded letter would have worked.

I believe there is a lot of blindness in America now NOT to see reality. Politician actions are not even being measured by their own laws or codes of conduct. The capitulation is the hardest to understand.

I totally agree. I expected on day one of the Biden administration for trump to have been charged with treason for inciting an attempted coup. That happens pretty quickly in other countries, like S Korea and Brazil.

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Are our guardrails real here in Canada, or are they based on the ethics of good people not to do sh*tty things? I can't find a firm answer to that.

Democracy is founded on continual vigilance. Many Americans seem to have 2 dangerous misconceptions: (1) that they are uniquely somehow freer than any other country (2) that it's somehow effortless and the US constitution will do all the hard work for them. I think this complacency led to Trump

I think the blinders of American exceptionalism led to ignorance and an arrogance that still prevents the American culture of self reflection.

Yes! If you’re brainwashed into believing that you are THE BEST, then you believe you’ve nothing to learn from anyone else, nothing to work towards, & anyone who says something needs improving isn’t a patriot.

Yeah lack of humility is a dangerous weakness. Pride before a fall. Don't all empires fail this way?

Personally, I feel our very different political system of a constitutional parliamentary monarchy has been tried and tested throughout history in various countries and proven it can survive. For one thing, having the buffer zone of a Governor General is different. No system is fail proof though.

Oligarchs.

Americans voted against that.😕

It is not just one person trumpets mainly just their marketing guy because that’s what he does if he’s still alive. He hasn’t been around for a couple of days so who knows?

The guardrails were warped and used to create a kill shoot. They’re killing anything that doesn’t serve their agenda.

They’re betting the entire farm on democrats not being brave enough to utilize these newly anointed powers against them whenever they either wrestle back power or prove that MAGA is cheating to hold onto power again. We need someone brave enough to Nuremberg them ALL

😵‍💫🤬

We handed the power over the guardsrails to anti-American fascists.

They were never tested under these exacting conditions.

Release the epstein files!!!

They're in the Epstein Files.

I have been asking since Jan. 20th!

Short answer: A very Corrupt and Complicit Republican Party.

They never existed. It was all a pipe dream.

The actual guardrails are us, a well-informed public. Trump supporters have failed their in their duties as patriotic Americans

The SCOTUS has been slowly destroying the garden rails then the GOP Senate majority leader Moscow Mitch didn't convict for the insurrection.

Yeah, wasn’t that what the NRA was supposed to be for. Where are all the tough guys and their guns standing up to the government takeover of our cities and communities? Or is it just a Russian money laundering operation funding republicans?

Project 2025 happened.

The Supreme Court empowered tyranny.

SCOTUS!

MAGA corruption/ignorant citizenry!

It has definitely been a group effort

Our country was founded on racism and it will be destroyed by that same racism.

The United States Senate. Not very complicated, actually.

It turns out it was just one of Bobby Ewing's dreams.

I just drove on a local road where all the guard rails were broken off and the support posts were gone. Like that? oh Neglect!

The Founders considered this aberration while creating the U.S. Constitution, thinking that if one section of the federal co-equal triad failed, the other two would protect our democracy. They couldn’t have imagined 40% of America’s electorate - via mass media propaganda could destroy their vision.

There is No Enforcement and The Military is behaving like chicken shit.

This guy 👇