Submitted 2 days ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Guess what, the constitution of the People’s Republic of China also has freedom of speech… see how that turns out in practice…
A constitution just a piece of paper.
It’s like paper money, it only has value if people believe it has value.
For the rule of law, that means those in positions of power, the 3 branches of government, the military, and ultimately, the people action/inaction to hold the government accountable.
Because hes a fascist and pro fascists will love him no matter what because fascists are fucking morons.
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
Because he must serve 2 years so when they hit him with the 25th, Ol’ Couchfucker McGuyliner can reign 2 years and then run two more times.
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn’t matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He’s also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they’re getting everything they dreamed of and more.
That’s how democracy works
The will of the people is greater than the laws as written
The people voted for Trump, a Republican congress, and by extension a Republican Supreme Court
It’s working as intended
30% of US adults voted for trump.
Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.
Release the Epstein files in their entirety!
Because trump is largely irrelevant.
His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.
His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.
Nazis. And the pedophiles that run the US will protect the pedophile in the White House.
It sounds like you’re getting your information from purely 1-sided sources. Look for news sources that cover the perspective of both sides. I’m not saying this as a Trump supporter.
A disgustingly low percentage of the US population votes in non-presidential elections. The right-wing has spent the better part of the last century stacking the deck at every level of government. The invention of the internet makes it harder for them to maintain this though (much easier to find out who/what you’re voting for)
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
The USA was run by the Jesuit Order, since one of the founders (Carrol) and his family were Jesuits. They served the Black Pope.
Your tinfoil hat is too tight.
Pride. Simple answer.
I wish we could keep Trump out of every single community.
Randelung@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“If you don’t, someone else will.” But that only works when the population is so divided that they don’t trust the average replacement to hold your standards. And then of course be proven that the next person actually doesn’t hold the same standards.