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Always was.

Yeah we in the rest of the world call that a "dictatorship" m'dudes.

It was a lot easier to believe the illusion before the Orange Don.

i think it's so funny how americans think they live in a democracy

Not just any 'ol democracy, but the bestest one ever!!1!!

And validated as just fine by the unelected supreme court.

Good times.

It would be incredible and one hell of a historic moment if the Orange Pedophile's reign, which has exposed all our system's flaws, actually resulted in us plugging those holes and updating our political machine to prevent this all from happening again.

But the bottom line is that would require voter action and Americans are dogshit stupid.

Well they haven’t found fraud yet, have they? They need to be replaced with people who will find “fraud”, who will get the necessary votes, and disregard votes where there were “illegal immigrants” ….. you can tell because they speak Spanish

Easy, they're conservatives/regressives.

Plenty of people near him have a spine. They just aren't your friends

So he'd have to overturn the 22nd amendment.

Let's say he does.

Plot twist: Obama runs against him.

Probably how it's working out for Russian citizens.

We're a pretty stupid and servile society of people. I don't see that going well for us going forward.

Time to buy that popcorn stock.

That will save my 401k!

lets dont see, and get up off the couch to do what it takes to remove him

This right here is the final straw.

LOL.

I'll believe that when I see the majority of americans stand up and fight back in any meaningful way.

I would be so happy for my cynicism to be proven wrong - to see Trump, his lackeys and his puppeteers stopped.

But I don't expect that to happen.

The whole US government needs term limits.

Either won't stop it or actively encourage it.

Unfortunately, appointed by the president so firing them may be legit. Another power grab and the foundation for a fixed election but legit

Assuming Congress was willing to use their authority, the check against this is they must be approved by the senate.

There needs to be a quorum of 4 to do anything, so they already couldn’t legally

There’s no mechanism for temporary or acting commissioners, but that has been a common Drump strategy to circumvent Congress. Just declare an acting one, then when the confirmation period expires, declare a new acting one

JFC, you are so behind the times. The fact that you are getting upvotes is scary. Obviously, many people don't know that American life as they know it, was effectively destroyed a week ago.

Remember the other day, when there was all that talk about Birthright Citizenship being BARELY upheld by SCOTUS? A case that was so obvious that it NEVER should have been brought, to say nothing making it all the way to the SCOTUS, where it inexplicably had 4 votes against it?

That vote was a red herring, a distraction. The important case, the one that got 10% of the coverage of Birthright Citizenship, was the one that struck down the independence of nearly EVERY independent agency (over 2 dozen) that regulates EVERYTHING in our country. Now the president can fire anybody, in any agency, for any reason. ALL government regulation is now in the hands of Donald Trump.

That means pharmaceuticals, food, air, water, transportation safety, roads, buildings, mail, workplace safety, etc. literally EVERYTHING in this country that requires regulations to remain safe, are up to Donald Trump. So if the meat industry wants to pay off Donald Trump to loosen safety standards, he'll take the bribe, and let them write their own rules, and we'll be eating horsemeat and dogmeat labelled as beef, and it will be perfectly legal, so don't bother to sue.

BTW, the ONLY agency that SCOTUS protected was the Federal Reserve, which was the one agency Trump really wanted to get his hands on. But the Sociopathic Oligarchs who make these decisions were smart enough to keep the MONEY out of Trump's hands. They WANT him to fuck up everything else, and make our lives miserable, but they aren't going to let him fuck up THEIR money.

Didn't the supreme court just give him power to fire certain people he couldn't before?

Civil disobedience is probably one of the best tools of resistance at this point. If he's doing blatantly antidemocratic stuff, his orders no longer carry democratic legitimacy and should not be followed. They only have weight if people obey. Sure, he might send someone to remove them from office forcibly, but it would contribute to cracks in his image of power.