daily stories coming from the US are pretty crazy, FBI being used as a tool to try and revert something from under the previous administration. Feels like whatever balances and checks that should be in place to stop an autocracy are missing
I’m only partial joking. The check and balances in the country won’t work if half the population wants to replace democracy with theocracy.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...
Majority of the other things people are freaking out about were done via Executive Order, and therefore can be undone by Executive Order.
Smart people have been warning about that for nearly two decades. Now that some people happen to not like what's being undone, it's suddenly a crisis.
News at 11...
The story is written with a specific slant on purpose. "House Republicans Block..." then later admits Republicans control the House which means this is working exactly as intended. Again, you just aren't happy with the results.
Vote in the midterms if you're so upset. Otherwise, business as usual.
It's like we're standing on the street watching a building burn down and you're saying "look the sprinklers are on, this is how it's supposed to happen". No one is stupid enough to say what you're saying and actually believe it. So clearly you're just lying.
It looks like this entire nonsense is heavily going to hurt the wallets of more than half of the population. So why would they be so keen to vote for a theocracy?
Although at this stage I also wouldn't put it past the clowns in power to actively tamper with elections to get the results they want.
In practice, the president is threatening to remove any Republican member of congress who crosses him by supporting a primary challenger.
Democracy is scary stuff to some people.
Their progressive policies were adopted after Fortune 500 and major institutions had changed theirs.
Whether it be climate change or gay marriage, established companies like Goldman Sachs and Amazon were there first and the Democrats followed because they desperately align themselves with the status-quo regardless of where it is.
Just scroll through the Google News result for "Democrats". People scratch their heads because they assume they're supposed to be oppositional as opposed to institutional.
Once you understand they're the party of establishment, status quo and hegemony, there's literally no more confusion on their motivations or lack of action.
You mean like Biden enforcing our border laws?
(This should not be taken as accepting your premise)
That said, laws generally permit some leeway to the executive to set spending priorities/focus. It can be pretty limited since Congress tends to specify what department and sometimes program money must be spent on, but it still it allows for things like deciding you're going to prosecute more drug dealers even though they're long shot cases rather than easier to win fraud causes. This is done at all levels of government.
Shifting spending priorities as the law allows, though, is rather different from actively breaking the law.
Back the Blue apparently includes demonizing their daily effort to process asylees, rescue families in danger, and arrest gang-affiliated criminals, all while forgetting that crossing the border illegally is a civil offense akin to a speeding ticket. But now that we are a physical threat to their safety, we supposedly have a secure border.
More-importantly, it's nowhere close to "normal" try-to-reverts, where one President tries to replace an equally "soft" policy put in place by another President.
Here the newly-installed crooks are trying to deny a hard "money shall be spent on X" law passed by Congress, which is an unconstitutional attempt to seize the "power of the purse".
Same legal-vibes as if Trump declared people on his Friends List were exempt from taxes.
I'll pencil that in for April. After all, the president can direct who is and is not prosecuted..
This hasn’t happened already?
Related outcome, but different in mechanics/constitutionality.
[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-hamstrung-irs-is-a-gift...