If we survive, the Constitution is going to need a major overhaul. The judiciary and the legislative branches need to have their own enforcement arms.
Why the fuck are Americans calling their officials czars now? Russia really got their claws in.
It's an intended insult.
Trump taps a border czar. What's a czar and how do they work?
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5189264/trump-border-czar-political-czar-history
You can kiss American democracy goodbye.
It's gone. Whether our society is ready to accept it or not.
Those of us who were repeating ad nauseum that the last 2 elections were really, really important were not fucking around.
Our quality of life is set to decline for the remainder of our lives.
Sad to say that's right.
Once this administration defies the courts democracy will be over in the US.
It won't be a one off either, he will then begin doing whatever he wants. Congress will not stop him.
They already have multiple times now, no?
They have, already defied multiple rulings and continue to defy more. It’s crazy to me how few people seem to realize this. Even in this thread.
One example: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293132/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis-court-rulings
Edit: The fact that major outlets keep phrasing it as a hypothetical isn’t helping.
I believe most of those were based on intentionally misreading of the orders from my understanding. The recent one with sending people to El Salvador was more much blatant. Especially as people within the whitehouse are blatantly poking at the judge. For instance, yhey are retweeting the el salvador president "joking" and saying "Oppsie, too late" (they were ordered to turn the planes around before they got there)
It's going to matter what the courts do from here out. They have the power to sanctuation. If Marshalls don't enforce said sanctions, they have the power to deputize others to enforce for them if the courts are willing to do so
When the option with the most 'votes' was to abstain from voting, is it still a democracy?
Isn't this an example of that, right here, right now?
There are words and there are actions, but we're not far off
So many innocents are going to die in the coming years. I wish I could warn them, but most of them seem to not care at all...
They're on board with it because they think it will only happen to "those people" and will be appalled when it happens to themselves or at least their neighbors and friends and families.
Three Co-Equal Branches of government. Seems like the other two branches need to wake up.
Congress is categorically useless, and the ultimate judicial authority in the country - and a disturbing proportion of lower courts besides that - have been completely co-opted. And nobody anywhere who has actual power to push back is actually pushing back. I don’t think even a military coup in either direction would help things at this point. I think the US is headed for breakup and balkanization. This goose is cooked, imo.
See you guys on the other side, I guess.
Yeah my money is on a Soviet style break up, I doubt there will be much fighting during. I also doubt there will be a Russia analogue since there isn't really an equivalent state maybe the great planes could unify but they don't really have the population to be warmongers.
Judges hate this one trick...
Even though it's correct, what is this AI slob?
