• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion,

    Deciding that the government had violated grantees’ rights to equal protection, Mehta only ordered a return to the status quo, reinstating seven grants totaling $27.6 million.

    Let’s be clear, that’s $27.6 million out of $7,500 million. 99.6% of the cuts still go through.

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    Not an american but is the famous american “checks and balances” need to be turned off and on again or smt? It doesn’t seem to be working.

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      It’s definitely not working now. It got destroyed after 9/11 - Bush was only too happy about the opportunity to make some changes that had already been waiting in a drawer for who knows how many years - and it’s honestly a miracle it took so long for someone to exploit its absence to its fullest extent.

      But arguably it all went downhill long before Bush.

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      I’m American and I’m not convinced it was ever turned on. Pretty sure it was theorized and marketed well and all of you believed it as much as we did.

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      Checks and balances is working exactly as the founding fathers envisioned.

      …by cashing checks and hoarding balances.

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        The founders were mostly slave/land owning robber barons. Washington was one of the most wealthiest people in the colonies…

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          Yeah the only reason they didn’t want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain’s other colony of Canada.

          Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.

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    Which is a violation of his oath of office, which is ample grounds for impeachment.

    Shame that Congress is full of feckless cowards

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      “Hey buddy, get in line.” - the other 10-15 things he’s done that other presidents would have gotten impeached for.

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          God damn. I love Star Wars, but why is Star Wars almost a documentary these days? Between this, Obi-Wan’s speech about the fall of the temple, and the events of Attack of the Clones…we just don’t have spaceships.

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            Watching the prequels in the current year made me appreciate just a little bit how… so forward thinking they were. Emperor Palatine didn’t become an emperor overnights, you see, he was made into a Chancellor democratically and then he just… played chess against himself to eventually become Emperor.

            Granted the modern breed of fash spreading all over the world aren’t that horrifically smart, but it’s true.

            This is how liberty dies!

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      I dont think theyre cowards per se. I think this is how the “democracy” is intended to work?

      Trump looks after oligarchs, oligarchs make donations to campaigns to get senators elected, senators support Trump.

      Its not so much that theyre cowards, theyre just serving the people who got them elected, and thats not the voters.

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    Trump’s violated so many laws and under aged women and got no consequences so why would he stop?

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    Cool. What of it then? I get it, but it doesn’t really mean anything if accountability is optional nowadays.

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        They’ll just appeal it to the supreme court who will rule that actually it’s totally cool

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          The absolute least we can do is force them to jump through the hoops. Like, I get that it feels pointless but it’s better than just giving up and letting them do whatever they want.

          They WANT you to feel like there’s no point so that you’ll give up. They want you to give up because that’s the easiest way for them to win. Why give them the satisfaction? They haven’t actually won yet, but even if I can never win I’ll won’t give up no matter how impossible the victory, and neither should you.

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            Also it helps build up a solid case if shit goes to civil war, easier to get international aid if the list of things the feds have done is long and itemized. Also helps justify it to the population both within and without such anti trump territory.

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          So we should give up, dig a hole and stick your heads in? I’m not a giving up sort of person. But if that’s your preference, go for it. smh

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    “Wait, I know the 5th Amendment! That’s an important one! That’s the one that says I don’t have to admit to my crimes! I’m the best in the world at that one!”

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    Incoming Truth Social post…

    “This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!”

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    Trump, “What do you mean ‘ammendment’? Where are you getting this? Nobody has heard of these ammendments you’re talking about…”