• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      it didn’t surrender anything

      It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that’s Congress’ job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is

      These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.

      Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain “temporary powers” during an “emergency” - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.

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      8 months ago

      you elected turnip

      Canadians don’t even vote for the Prime Minister of Canada. How would they have voted for the president of the US?

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        8 months ago

        Says Americans did it for me, regardless democrats can’t do anything meaningful without the majority in a situation where Republicans are completely against any cooperation