• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Congress applauding this is such a great little microcosm. You know whose job it is to make sure those checks and balanced get enforced? So don’t applaud like you’re the audience at a show you play no part in, like you’re a crowd at a concert making your support for the matter heard because its all you can do. If you like checks and balances so much, you may have to actually do your job rather than just looking brave long enough for your campaign team to clip the c-span footage into a tiktok

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Exactly.

      For the last ~40 years, Congress has abdicated it’s JOB.

      Congress is supposed to be doing the things the president now does, because then they don’t have to take the heat and can get reelected.

      500 criminals (ok, one or two may not be)

    • Rothe@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      The checks and balances is based on who is in the office performing the particular check and/or balance, and in most cases by far it is the Republicans themselves who are in the position of doing the checks and balances, because the US constitution is so naive and antiquated that it doesn’t consider partisanship, but assumes that everyone would consider their office first and political affiliation last.

      So no, they can’t do those checks and balances because they are not in a position to do so.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 months ago

    The king also called for “unyielding resolve” in “the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people” while standing just feet away from Vice President JD Vance, an ardent isolationist who has boasted of his pride at cutting off all American funding to Kyiv since Trump returned to office.

    Sic ‘em, Chuck!