this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
562 points (93.8% liked)
People Twitter
5967 readers
3314 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
- No bullying or international politcs
- Be excellent to each other.
- Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
More importantly, with how this exact thing happened once 4yrs ago, how did the Democrats do nothing to add checks and balances for the abuses of power he so freely showed he was willing to commit last time? Not one law limiting executive orders, or codifying protections for positions the president chooses. So many additional steps they could have taken to curb the reach of the president, and they instead sat on their hands while the supreme court expanded the powers of the presidency to those damn near an emperor. Nearest we've ever been.
Tell me how that process would have worked? They would propose a law and then what?
How come Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants, but Democrats are stopped by checks and balances?
Republicans control the senate and Congress and even the Supreme Court. I think the Dems have had a limited window where they've had enough control. Not to mention when they have had some control they had members of their party like Sinema and stuff which have controlling votes.
For some reason Republicans march in lock-step whenever they have power, but Democrats sabotage themselves with infighting. It happened when Obama had much larger majorities too - there's always some Lieberman that gets in the way of the Democrat's agenda. This doesn't happen for Republicans, at least not nearly to the same extent. Doesn't that strike you as strange?
This is largely the crux of the divide. On the right they welcome anyone that doesnt oppose then fairly openly, whereas on the left people are so super critical of anyone that mightve been on their side that they push them away.
And so the reason that Lieberman obstructed Obama's agenda was because... the left was too critical of him? The reason Manchin and Sinema obstructed Biden's agenda was because the left was too mean to them?
Libs are right-wing. The dems welcome anyone who upholds the capitalist/imperial order. Politicians are completely united on that front.