• RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
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    18 hours ago

    Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.

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      3 hours ago

      While shitting on democrats is fun, even if they 100% were all against it, it would make no difference. The American people made sure to give republicans a majority in all chambers, so what dems do is a small piece of trivia. Have the day you voted for!

    • Triasha@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.

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      11 hours ago

      Democrats really can’t do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he’s defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.

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      15 hours ago

      it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses

      the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

      that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible

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        it didn’t surrender anything

        It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that’s Congress’ job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is

        These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.

        Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain “temporary powers” during an “emergency” - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.

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        17 hours ago

        you elected turnip

        Canadians don’t even vote for the Prime Minister of Canada. How would they have voted for the president of the US?

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          4 hours ago

          Says Americans did it for me, regardless democrats can’t do anything meaningful without the majority in a situation where Republicans are completely against any cooperation

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      14 hours ago

      8 Ds in the house has died this year alone. and no R has died as of yet. Ds dont have contigency replacements like the Rs do, they often do get rid of thier own most of the time before it gets worst.