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King Charles draws cheers and applause with reference to ‘checks and balances’ on the power of the president in address to Congress (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by [M] to c/news@lemmings.world
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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Congress applauding this is such a great little microcosm. You know whose job it is to make sure those checks and balanced get enforced? So don't applaud like you're the audience at a show you play no part in, like you're a crowd at a concert making your support for the matter heard because its all you can do. If you like checks and balances so much, you may have to actually do your job rather than just looking brave long enough for your campaign team to clip the c-span footage into a tiktok

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Exactly.

    For the last ~40 years, Congress has abdicated it's JOB.

    Congress is supposed to be doing the things the president now does, because then they don't have to take the heat and can get reelected.

    500 criminals (ok, one or two may not be)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The checks and balances is based on who is in the office performing the particular check and/or balance, and in most cases by far it is the Republicans themselves who are in the position of doing the checks and balances, because the US constitution is so naive and antiquated that it doesn't consider partisanship, but assumes that everyone would consider their office first and political affiliation last.

    So no, they can't do those checks and balances because they are not in a position to do so.

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