| ▲ | bdangubic 11 hours ago |
| what is the US exactly currently if not dictatorship? is there a single
thing “President” cannot do right now and if so who would be stopping him? so perhaps on paper US is not dictatorship much like Russia and China are not… We spend decades trying to fight these regimes and lost so much that now we are worse than them :) |
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| ▲ | chocoboaus3 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The supreme court did just stop him for the moment putting the national guard into chicago |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | bookmark this for a few days and then come back to it… the story is “… for now” :-) | |
| ▲ | jibal 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "rare setback" | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | it is not a setback, they have to play a little game now and again to entertain the masses. scotus as it was before doesn’t exist anymore and won’t for decades, it now just rubberstamps | | |
| ▲ | jibal 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I quoted the media. The main point in this context is the "rare" part. I'm well aware of the nature of the GOP operatives on the SCOTUS. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch all voted in Trump's favor. That Beerhead, Ms. IDreamOfGilead, and "Citizens United/I hate the VRA/worst chief justice since Taney" voted to temporarily uphold the stay actually surprised me (Bart O' said he would have given Trump more leeway) but yes, it's theater. |
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| ▲ | nothrabannosir 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now Stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot someone :) Have political enemies executed Get his face on Mount Rushmore Disband congress Disband the Supreme Court Keep Jimmy Kimmel off air Get Jon Stuart to shut up Get James comey indicted Get a national holiday named after him Etc. Even when we focus on things he tried to do, there is a lot he couldn’t. Let alone when you look at things he didn’t try to do. |
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| ▲ | bdangubic 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | we are 11 months in, please be patient while the process is taking place, be right with you with your list :) lots of these are of course also just a distraction to discuss at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner vs you know, other things | | |
| ▲ | nothrabannosir 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | You said "right now". If you want to change to "will be able to do in the near future, before the end of his second term", that's a (slightly?) different list. But it's also a different comment. You said "anything", in the context of dictatorship. I only used items in this list which IMO you can reasonably say Putin, an actual dictator, can do. Right now. Except the first one! Because that was a joke, a reference to something he himself said he could do. If you want to change to "anything which has backroom deal importance, not just bread and games for the masses, but the real things, if you know you know", that's a (slightly) different list. But, it's also a different comment. |
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| ▲ | h33t-l4x0r 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Well he did get Ellen Degeneris to self-deport | |
| ▲ | exasperaited an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | He has functionally neutered Congress. It is almost completely meaningless and it is operating without an independent Speaker. I think he could succeed in principle re: Mount Rushmore, to be honest. I think eventually people will cave in and agree to do it, and then they will just pray to cholesterol that they can wait it out. |
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| ▲ | billy99k 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | hattmall 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's pretty clear he can barely do anything policy wise. Limited tariffs and immigration / border stuff is pretty much all that he is getting done. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And killing so many sailors in South American waters. | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | you don’t need policy, policy is what his predecessors were doing and are now going “wait, we could have done whatever the F we wanted??! damn!!” :) |
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