Comment by bdangubic

Comment by bdangubic 13 hours ago

17 replies

what is the US exactly currently if not dictatorship? is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now and if so who would be stopping him? so perhaps on paper US is not dictatorship much like Russia and China are not… We spend decades trying to fight these regimes and lost so much that now we are worse than them :)

nothrabannosir 10 hours ago

> is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now

Stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot someone :)

Have political enemies executed

Get his face on Mount Rushmore

Disband congress

Disband the Supreme Court

Keep Jimmy Kimmel off air

Get Jon Stuart to shut up

Get James comey indicted

Get a national holiday named after him

Etc.

Even when we focus on things he tried to do, there is a lot he couldn’t. Let alone when you look at things he didn’t try to do.

  • bdangubic 10 hours ago

    we are 11 months in, please be patient while the process is taking place, be right with you with your list :)

    lots of these are of course also just a distraction to discuss at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner vs you know, other things

    • nothrabannosir 10 hours ago

      You said "right now". If you want to change to "will be able to do in the near future, before the end of his second term", that's a (slightly?) different list. But it's also a different comment.

      You said "anything", in the context of dictatorship. I only used items in this list which IMO you can reasonably say Putin, an actual dictator, can do. Right now. Except the first one! Because that was a joke, a reference to something he himself said he could do.

      If you want to change to "anything which has backroom deal importance, not just bread and games for the masses, but the real things, if you know you know", that's a (slightly) different list.

      But, it's also a different comment.

  • h33t-l4x0r 5 hours ago

    Well he did get Ellen Degeneris to self-deport

  • exasperaited 3 hours ago

    He has functionally neutered Congress. It is almost completely meaningless and it is operating without an independent Speaker.

    I think he could succeed in principle re: Mount Rushmore, to be honest. I think eventually people will cave in and agree to do it, and then they will just pray to cholesterol that they can wait it out.

chocoboaus3 12 hours ago

The supreme court did just stop him for the moment putting the national guard into chicago

  • bdangubic 11 hours ago

    bookmark this for a few days and then come back to it… the story is “… for now” :-)

  • jibal 10 hours ago

    "rare setback"

    • bdangubic 10 hours ago

      it is not a setback, they have to play a little game now and again to entertain the masses. scotus as it was before doesn’t exist anymore and won’t for decades, it now just rubberstamps

      • jibal 9 hours ago

        I quoted the media. The main point in this context is the "rare" part. I'm well aware of the nature of the GOP operatives on the SCOTUS. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch all voted in Trump's favor. That Beerhead, Ms. IDreamOfGilead, and "Citizens United/I hate the VRA/worst chief justice since Taney" voted to temporarily uphold the stay actually surprised me (Bart O' said he would have given Trump more leeway) but yes, it's theater.

billy99k 10 hours ago

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  • bdangubic 10 hours ago

    I hope you are just trying to be funny cause if you are it is good

    • consz 9 hours ago

      Not even believable conspiracy slop for 2023, let alone in almost 2026.

hattmall 11 hours ago

It's pretty clear he can barely do anything policy wise. Limited tariffs and immigration / border stuff is pretty much all that he is getting done.

  • JKCalhoun 9 hours ago

    And killing so many sailors in South American waters.

  • bdangubic 10 hours ago

    you don’t need policy, policy is what his predecessors were doing and are now going “wait, we could have done whatever the F we wanted??! damn!!” :)