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It is. But laws without enforcement are meaningless, and nobody's willing to enforce them. So they'll do whatever the fuck they want until or unless someone makes them stop.

I have always found it a fitting metaphor for the entire US political system that the judiciary is controlled by nine people - who are appointed for life and essentially make decisions without any checks and balances.

The Supreme Court has no enforcement arm whatsoever and relies solely on the other two branches to enforce their rulings. What could possibly go wrong?

The system only works if people believe in it. Disegarding the rule of law works both ways and this might bite them in the ass IF any Democrat finds the spine to do what has to be done.

The thing is there is no revenue from tariffs. The government isn't a business. When you pay taxes or tariffs, that money does not go sit into an account waiting to be spent. The Congress might allocate a budget for certain departments, but it has nothing to do with how much is sitting in an account. The government literally creates money as it needs it and destroys money in order to keep the value of the money stable.

What will absolutely be happening is that spineless partisans in the Congress will approve unlimited printing of money. For his fascist pets projects which will crash the value of the dollar harder than it already was. Mark, my words, they're already commenting how the value of the dollar has crashed to levels not seen since 1973. They are literally going to crash it all the way down to great depression levels in order to put on theater.of them pretending to help their pet morons. While only screwing everyone including their pet morons over.

Why the fuck would congress give up the only remaining power they have permanently to Trump?

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Why the fuck would congress give up the only remaining power

While I’ve asked that same question many times, they keep doing it.

However in this case it looks like Congress doing its job requires passing some sort of budget to reopen the government. If they let Trump usurp their power to fund WIC, that takes off some of the pressure and they don’t have to cave to Democrats

The Manchurian Idiot

Why would the Roman Senate allow their emperors to do the same?

Short sighted personal interests, mostly.

Because when the king speaks you obey.

If you delegate power to the president, it's one less thing for your constituents to complain about, and then you can spend more time fundraising for the next election

Also bypassing laws through executive order and ignoring court decisions.

Straight up dictatorship.

Hate to break it to you, but the GOP has been openly voting against those very things for at least a decade.

A good reminder that the president wasn't supposed to have that power in the first place. This is tyranny -- not the potential for it, the actuality of it.

Everything he does is because of some declared emergency. It's ridiculous and hilarious at this point.

Tarrifs - an economic emergency (with every single country with which a tarriff is levied)

Deploying the National Guard - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

Literally blowing up 4 vessels (so far) in international waters and killing civilians - a recently declared "non-international armed conflict (niac)" with the gang tren de aragua. Basically saying the country is currently at war. Also declaring gangs as international terrorists gives them the ability to indiscriminately do whatever they want according to them.

Arresting immigrants without warrants, forgoing due process and deporting to wherever the fuck they want - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

Dismantling or destroying any organizations they just simply don't like and arresting and killing, if necessary, their members - recently released NSPM-7 which basically declares anyone having just about anything to do with anything even remotely left leaning as a domestic terrorist. This includes anything "anti-American, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality" which can pretty much apply to anyone ever.

Why would they want to fix it? They can write blank checks with our taxes now

Politics at work:

• if Dems do nothing, it’s de facto accepted that they can do this in the future and Dems cannot object
• if Dems fight back, they’re fighting against “nutrition programme for low income moms” imagine the optics.