On the one hand, it’s like “real nice system we have here”. On the other hand I don’t think it matters what system we have if one part of it is 100% dedicated to dishonesty, bad faith, corruption, authoritarianism, etc. At some point it will just boil down to who has the guns and who is willing to shoot who.
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The tipping point was 2016 and these ding-dongs are still asking “are we on the road to fascism?” almost a decade later.
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The system that you have sucks for two reasons:
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Directly electing a President gives too much power to an individual. In our system, if the leader of a party is out of control, the solution is very simple: the party room votes him out of office and off the front bench entirely and he disappears into the nether regions of the back bench, never to be heard from again. The GOP genuinely wanted to get rid of Trump when he first appeared, so Trump would never have been a factor in the Australian system, even if the populace had been loony enough to support him.
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The so called “checks and balances” of your system actually just mystify who is in control of the country. Is it Congress, or the President? There has never been a satisfactory answer to this in the history of the United States. The answer “both, in some weird sort of power-sharing thing” just creates uncertainty. In a Parliamentary system, the responsibility for both legislative and executive mishaps is squarely at the feet of the guys holding a majority in the House. Those are the guys in charge, those are the guys getting the guillotine if things go wrong.
I will admit though, I am not entirely sure why your judiciary became so politicised and ours has not. It would be an interesting topic for a podcast ep or something.
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Made legal by Trump’s first impeachment acquittal. Idiots.
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I get what you’re saying but this is not as clear cut as you make it out to be IMO. “The GOP genuinely wanted to get rid of Trump when he first appeared”
some did, some didn’t, some probably weren’t sure what they wanted. They had some points where they could have terminated his presidency or handcuffed it, but they didn’t
It’s not clear to me he would have lost a party-style vote of no confidence at any point early on
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Yeah most of the GOP field in 2016 didn’t like Trump but they liked that he was attacking their primary opponents and were more critical of each other. They were seemingly afraid of being the only ones to appear to take Trump serious and not be in on the joke or something.
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Has anyone heard Stephen Miller talk? No one likes that guy and only guys with swastika tattoos would be willing to put up with him for his policies.
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It was a 50 year concerted effort in response to cases like Brown v. Board starting in the 50s, and the conservatives got some lucky bounces and then, when close, refused to allow a replacement for Ginsburg. They basically organized with the political side of the GOP, and people like Scalia, Roberts, and Thomas moved directly from jobs with a Republican administration to judgeships.
- They are constantly in an election which massively ramps up partisanship
One of my Senators, who just won his seat last November, has sent me at least 5 fundraising emails asking me to donate to his campaign. His next election is over 5 years away.
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The GOP has spent decades committing itself to owning the courts and it’s worked. Big ups to the Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell. They’ve correctly understood that this is the easiest branch of govt for a minoritarian party to take control of. Meanwhile the left gaslights itself into believing that this shit doesn’t matter.
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Part of that is also the GOP shrieking that any judge that rules in a way they don’t like is a radical leftist trying to legislate from the bench.
So apparently it’s SOP for the VP to have SS protection for 6 months after leaving office. Biden extended it to 18 months. Trump canceled that part. I think it’s just Trump being petty in this situation.
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i agree, but how the fuck are we in a position where that guy has a double digit percent chance of being the vice president?
The Secret Service thing pissed me off, but I think it’s kinda fine as long as the same is done for anyone in the Trump administration. Taxpayers don’t need to pay for kamala’s book tour, and I don’t think we should have a special class of people (other than ex presidents) who get armed security teams for free.
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Yea this is the kinda stuff liberals need to stop getting angry about. If 6 months is standard, don’t blow a gasket when it ends after 6 months. If she had lifetime security, it’s a different story. And who knows. She may have asked Biden to extend it knowing she was going to be on a tour.
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Next president should give every person a SS detail except Trump
Why wold you ever assume the same rules will apply?
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