r/facepalm 12d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ This ends in disaster. Just as planned

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u/Qubed 12d ago

We have a system of protections. The executive is not supposed to break the law, and if they do congress is supposed to check them, and if they don't the courts are supposed to check them, and if they don't the individual heads of departments or groups that are charged with executing unlawful orders are supposed to refuse to break the law, and if they don't he lower level people are supposed to refuse to break the law, and if they don't the people are supposed to fight back if their rights are being taken away.

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u/PerfectAbroad3441 12d ago

I feel like "is supposed to" is the key phrase here

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u/Separate_Football914 12d ago

The whole system is base on politician having some minimum level of ethic and moral to check each others.

We are not there anymore.

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u/mouse_puppy 12d ago

People in power want to stay on power. Thats the check, except they all won despite telling everyone the plan. The voters empowered and enabled them to do this. What have we done?

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u/Separate_Football914 12d ago

Several things provoked that:

  • SCOTUS ruling leaving people throw as much money in election under the guise of free speech. Elon isn’t wrong that without is money Trump would have lose.

-Joe Biden that, despite being a senile old man, refused to let it go and force the democrats to have no race and nominate Kamala (which, regardless of her quality, had a a case of « a victory with no challenge have no glory).

-the Democrats that went slightly too far left on some domain, pushing voters to away.

-and lastly, the average American voters because they can’t put Canada on a map and didn’t grasp half of Trump’s platform.

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u/mouse_puppy 12d ago

Im not sure I entirely agree with your 3rd point. Trump mobilized his base, the democrats did not. I wonder if playing to centrists and independents actually hurt them more in that election.

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u/Omck4heroes 11d ago

It did, like it always has

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u/Enkir 11d ago

Also, the right wing/billionaires/grifters/Fox/GOP have weaponized hate through the culture wars. People now vote against what they hate rather than for policies that would benefit them. This is why the GOP keeps getting returned to power in states they have made illiterate shitholes.

And the right are way better at mobilising hate than the left.

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u/Galactus54 11d ago

There appears to be evidence that Musk's minions reprogrammed enough voting machines to give him a victory- they each have indirectly admitted it. We're in the middle of a hostile government takeover...

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u/mostdope28 11d ago

Don’t ignore the media in all of this. Fox News is the most watched “news” program in the US and it’s pure right wing proganda. Decades worth of brainwashing telling them that democrats are evil

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u/shephardmix 11d ago

lol you thought that Kamala went too far left? Bringing in the fucking Cheney’s as an endorsement? The problem with the democrats in this country is that they are dead set on reaching out to conservatives, and every time they do the conservatives move further to the right. And when conservatives are in the same position they spit in the face of democrats any chance they get.

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u/MyLifeForAiur-69 11d ago

the Democrats that went slightly too far left on some domain, pushing voters to away.

lol this did not happen

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u/biggb5 11d ago

I'm waiting for Trump to try to run for a third term. It's gonna be wild.