Few people will show up. Things are still abstract and few people are directly affected by four weeks of the authoritarian ramp up. But give it time.
ModestMeme
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The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…
You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.
How was Biden going to cancel an act of Congress?
Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.
MAGA will blame this on Democrats.
MAGA will find this to be funny.
I was addressing those who say they won’t vote for the “lesser of two evils” as an excuse for pissing away their vote… but thanks
This is too abstract for most Americans to understand. But talk about it as much as you can; to friends, family, coworkers, anyone. As things get worse and the coup resorts to physical enforcement against resistance, people may start to get a clue.
And while I’m here, a hardy “fuck you” to: Trump voters, non-voters, $hill Stein voters! Oh sure, Harris was far from idealized perfection… But lesser of two evils is often all you can hope for in this world. Maybe start voting in the small elections -not just the big national ones- if you want experienced, alternative candidates to work their way up.
Trump wants US to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere
They chose to run a losing campaign? Whatever dude… Enjoy the fascism. If you get a chance to ever vote again, maybe think it through a little better.
Trump wants US to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere
You are absolutely wrong. The Democrats were the best case scenario for Gaza and Trump just proved that. You can cry all you want about imperfections with the Democrats but the perfect candidate and the perfect scenario simply does not exist and will not exist. Ever. Do you want to change the Democrats? Then fucking vote in every election, ESPECIALLY the local ones, not just the big ticket ones.
Trump wants US to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere
Yet there won’t be much protesting going in the US….
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A%7E%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.
Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.
I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!