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When a hereditary monarch is lecturing you on checks and balances you know you fucked up.
When literal royalty have suffered more consequences from the Epstein files than democratically elected politicians
Not just any monarch… the monarch whose predecessor the US revolted against 250 years ago to form such checks and balances. It’s dripping with rich irony. It’s like the US has forgotten its own raison d’être.
Dont use French words that scares them!
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
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)
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.
Like monkeys clapping at a message they don't understand.
The king also called for “unyielding resolve” in “the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people” while standing just feet away from Vice President JD Vance, an ardent isolationist who has boasted of his pride at cutting off all American funding to Kyiv since Trump returned to office.
Sic ‘em, Chuck!
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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