I don’t understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?
Because Congress is letting him.
And the citizens are letting Congress do it.
At this point, the citizens have lost all power. They elected people based on their promises, which they haven’t upheld. We have no mechanism to remove corrupt officials except violence
The French will shut down their entire country if politicians try to increase the retirement age. Americans witness the collapse of democracy and do nothing.
We need to bring back the old “France Surrenders” meme and replace it with “Americans”.
Oh, they have upheld their promises - Project 2025’s agenda was in the open well in advance. Too many people actively voted for that - i can only guess at their reasons, but racism and hatred come to mind. And too many people stayed home when they shouldn’t have, closing their eyes to what was happening.
It was very in the open, but Trump said he didn’t know anything about it, so the sycophants believed him.
It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.
Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
Talk about a short-sighted admin.
Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.
If you don’t get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won’t get rid of them anymore.
Trump literally controls the national guard. Good fucking luck…
Yeah it’s too late. All the delusional gun-slinging second-amendment-spoiting idiots can think they can overthrow a government somehow.
The last chance to stop this was 13th of July last year.
Gun nuts simply don’t talk that way, let alone believe it. You do not have a cute talking point, you have a fabricated talking point. You have a picture of gun owners that only exists in liberal echo chambers. I invite you to hop on YouTube and see what we actually discuss and believe. Warning: It’ll probably be as boring as paste to most.
If we’re going by what the utterly fringe, utterly unserious nuts talk about? I can find fruitcakes spouting any nonsense you like, any topic. Give me a few minutes with a search engine.
What we can do is defend our families, neighbors and ourselves when ICE comes knocking. The fact that so many of us have guns is a massive deterrent. Notice ICE isn’t raiding places where people are well armed?
Think the cops and fascists (I repeat myself) are bad now? How do you think they would act if they knew they could kick down any door with no danger to themselves? You might notice how well fucking behaved they are when citizens are openly armed at a protest. Suddenly they just want everything peaceable. Aww, aren’t they sweet?
Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn’t to say they won’t change that definition).
Every fucking day these pieces of shit show us new and creative ways of destroying this country.
And everyday, they are getting away with it…
I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.
