Uh, not this year.

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.

But not just anyone.... The court said he couldn't fire that guy from the fed, cause that's clearly the only important thing that the president needs oversight on /s. Despite the fact that he's destroying the economy other ways. It's all fucking ridiculous

Was there always a lack of repercussions to illegal actions or were administrations playing nice for the most part?

I'm guessing like with other actions some federal judge will ask to reinstate them when it's far too late

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.

Democracy requires public commitment, but people will always choose what benefits them in the shortest expanse at the cost of long term benefits.

When the ancient greeks who layed the groundwork can pinpoint the cycle to a fault, isn't that a sign of a system that is dubious at best in its performance?

To be fair, a democracy is normally a system where the people elect a smaller group of representives to make decisions for them.

I don't think any country has implemented a full direct democracy where the entire population votes on everything.

they saw midterms were going to crucify gop and trump, so they had to act quick.

Just a reminder billionaires and private equity bought the voting machine companies like Dominion. All of them.

They can count???

They don't count as politicians because they don't count the voters. They are something else.

It's okay, the states do that part. I don't know what exactly a federal election commissioner does, but the states still run their own elections.

Terminating them is still blatantly corrupt and alarming, and no one should be okay with it, but this isn't a deathblow to the democratic process. Still cast your votes in November.

They will definitely pretend to count the votes.

Depends on what state you're in.

"there's tons of election fraud and these people didn't find it so they need to be fired"

You need to use your imagination a bit more buddy.

Don't worry, he'll replace them with his cronies soon enough

Yeah that's for countries that don't respect democracy, not.... Oh nevermind.

I'm not sure the last time I saw the phrase international observers offhand (I am sure it's happened but just missed it) but they are definitely needed in that country. They seem to be degrading themselves to third world, in function if not by cold war meaning.

The whole US government needs term limits.

I think the nation as a whole should be divided up into four regional blocs, each with their own judiciary, executive, legislative, military branches, and a regional president. They submit personnel to the national body, including National Justices. This keeps any single territory, person, or party from dominating the ideology of the national court.

What I am thinking, is something like...

• 3 executive justices, chosen by the executive without presidential input.
• 3 judiciary justices, required to have served a long time as a judge.
• 3 legislative justices, chosen by the elected representatives.
• 3 military justices, chosen by rank and file soldiers by popular election.
• 1 presidential justice. When the president who picked the justice leaves office, so does their pick.

If we have 4 regions, and including the National President's single justice...

• 53 national justices, total.

0000

Also, add in...

• 10 year term limit total, that can't be renewed nor extended. Presidential justices also are subjected to this restriction.

• An age limit of 60. A justice has to have a sound mind, and reasonably modern understanding of the nation's people and a grasp of technology.

• Elimination of the shadow docket, and limits on the amount of vacation time that justices can have in a year. We want them to do their job.

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.

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

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.

Americans really aren’t paying attention. They (Supreme Court) just ruled the pedophile in chief can fire anybody now. Irregardless if it’s supposed to be an independent branch. You are all cooked

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

Or maybe he thinks he can nominate Jared and Ivanka as Democrats.

Shh. Harris wants people to go on tour with when she tries for the presidency again in 2028.