I hate the takes that are like, "our system sucks it doesn't have any checks on Presidential power at all." Yes it does! They're call the federal Legislature and Judiciary. Take a civics class dummy.
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Our system was designed with firm checks on presidential power, but today those checks have largely failed.
aug 2, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
It's like if you said, "I hate how this apartment doesn't have an air conditioner." Okay, you do, I saw it walking in. It's just your roommates voted to set the temperature to 97 degrees.
aug 2, 2025, 8:00 pm • 172 8 • view
Ppl im being a bit glib
aug 2, 2025, 8:07 pm • 82 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
On the internet? Sounds risky.
aug 2, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Those rely on decent ppl being in them
aug 2, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
but then like , that would be a totally reasonable thing to exclaim sarcastically in frustration
aug 2, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
But then they are looking for a hammer to smash the thing because we all hate that its 97 degrees, they hate it too, but they dont want to change it.
aug 2, 2025, 8:02 pm • 6 0 • view
We thought it would make sense to give votes per bedroom, but then one of the roommates got married and had 3 kids and suddenly it's not seeming like they're being properly represented anymore
aug 2, 2025, 8:06 pm • 4 0 • view
True in the past.
aug 2, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
What organization of authorized armed individuals are available to remove someone from the white house? he and his administration are largely ignoring the other two branches when it does not match their goals.
aug 2, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you write this in the 70s?
aug 2, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, but neither of those limit the power of a Republican predident.
aug 2, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Your analogy would be accurate if it read: it has an air conditioner, it just happens to be broken...or more accurartely...it has an air conditioner but some right wing oligarchs paid the landlord to break it.
aug 2, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Those in power CAN do it, in fact I have seen some of them do it. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't. Unless it affects them personally, because of course they do.
aug 3, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
So far, Trump has defied judicial orders, and violated several constitutional clauses, and gotten away with it. He uses threats of financial, and judicial retribution on those who oppose his criminal activity. If he isn't stopped, he will, without a doubt, attempt to do away with the constitution.
aug 2, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you been living under a rock ?
aug 2, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately institutions aren't self-enforcing even though it feels like they should be.
aug 2, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Our system sucks, it is biased towards destructive factionalism and it has no checks against the influence of wealth. It's also tainted by compromises made to allow for human bondage at the founding of the nation. Come up with some snarky idiotic responses to that.
aug 2, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a lot of problems with America’s system of government but no system no matter how clever can stand up to most of the people in positions of power burning it down and the rest refusing to check the arsonists.
aug 2, 2025, 8:04 pm • 15 0 • view
If we had workers councils we’d be in the same spot if the counselors supported the President. At the end of the day our 50+1% of countrymen are stupid, evil, and corrupt and there’s no democratic system of government on earth that can fix that.
aug 2, 2025, 8:04 pm • 10 0 • view
But they aren’t effective.
aug 2, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Theoretically. I mean, does Superman have the power of flight if he never uses it?
aug 2, 2025, 8:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It all operates on a gentlemen's handshake of don't be a dick. You really can't legislate out someone colluding to ruin things.
aug 2, 2025, 8:14 pm • 7 0 • view
#pedopotus
aug 2, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
*ahem*
aug 2, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
people in this thread wondering why chess doesn't have rules against flipping the table and starting a fight
aug 2, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 8:00 pm • 20 0 • view
We are all rich; we just have to, you know, manifest it. I mean, the money is there, just not in your account.
aug 3, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly
aug 3, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 3, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
also allegedly the constitution but you can understand the confusion
aug 2, 2025, 7:59 pm • 7 0 • view
But, like brakes, if they don’t work then we really don’t have any.
aug 3, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, but unfortunately the same oligarchs who backed King Felon have also bought-and-paid for those in the Legislature and Judiciary. The mammon that controls our system is what sucks. BIG time.
aug 3, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
i did but i also took history and learned the founders didn't think the system of checks and balances could work if there were factions (parties). then they immediately formed the first parties.
aug 2, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
This poster not a dummy. He failed to add that most of checks and balances don't exist any more. The prez is anti constitution. The majority in Congress bow to Prez no matter how evil. The Supreme Court makes incredulous unconstitutional decisions the Prez wants. In this era no checks or balances
aug 2, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
You just added information that guess against their snide 'tAkE a ClAsS' remark at the end.
aug 2, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
??
aug 2, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
You literally corrected the poster then attributed that change to them. How is that hard to understand
aug 3, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view