Shouldn’t have treated these fascist criminals with kid gloves. They shouldn’t have tried to take the high road. There is no high road anymore, thanks to their sinkhole existences.
Fuck em. EO them all to jail.
Things the Executive can do alone:
- Executive order rescinding all Trumps EOs
- Abolish ICE and dissolve DHS. Trump did it with USAID so I don’t want to hear “Congress has to approve it”.
- Instruct the DOJ to prosecute ICE agents and investigate anyone on the Epstein Files.
- Instruct the DOJ to prosecute all Trump Admin officials. (Put Steven Miller in a pillory on the national mall)
- End all govt contracts with Palantir and Elon Musk’s companies.
- Hand Pete Hegeseth and Marco Rubio over to the ICC for boat bombings.
- Stop the White House ballroom and all other vanity projects.
Things they need Congress to do:
- End/Reverse Citizens United
- Expand the Supreme Court
- Impeach all Trump judicial nominees. Especially Emile Bove and Aileen Cannon.
- Expand the House of Representatives.
Truthfully, Trump has done irreparable damage to the US both domestically and internationally. I don’t think most of us will live to see it fully rolled back. The most important thing the next Dem president can do is punish the Trump admin. Show that there are consequences and the rule of law matters.
The most important thing the next Dem president can do is punish the Trump admin
Bingo.
It"s a tale as old as time. If bad behavior isn’t punished, it continues. The single most important thing the next admin can do is make sure there are HARSH punishments for the criminals and traitors in our midst.
Beyond that there needs to be serious pushes to expand the Supreme Court to address its corruption. And a million other things.
But yeah, you’re right. Most of us won’t live to see a full recovery from this. Everyone should remember that when interfacing with their conservative friends/family. If you still have them. I’ve broken ties because I don’t need that kind of filth in my life.
I would vote so hard for any party/candidate with all these items as their primary objective. But most of these sure as hell aren’t going to be on the Democrats’ plan of action.
Democrat manifesto:
“We aren’t Trump!”
Most of these are popular and achievable by someone who has the fucking guts.
I agree, but the Venn diagram of “is a member of the Democratic Party” and “has the fucking guts” is close to two separate circles. Which is why I said what I said.
Right, but that last condition excludes almost all the democrats
We’ll be lucky if we get half of that. We don’t have a two party system - we have a bipolar one party system.
You’re not wrong. I think there’s very achievable goals in that list it’s just whether we get another feckless centrist Dem or someone with some actual balls.
They really will not be able to. He has fired 75-90% of many agencies’ employees. This is going to take decades fix, and every election we lose will extend that.
If they decide to man up and get shit done, then they will get it done.
It is not and never has been a question of whether they can. It’s a question of whether they want to.
Democrats aren’t weak. They actively work towards limp, useless results. They strategically use their power to appear weak and useless, on purpose. They’re sort of like sloth demons.
Not to mention international relations. He’s dumped on other nations so much. It will take a VERY long time to repair those relations, if they ever can be.
I’ve heard so many dumbass red hats crying that the US provided too much to other nations while getting little in return. They’re about to find out what we actually were getting in return. If other nations step up their militaries to fill in gaps where the US is abdicating its lead role, we’ll have less use for our own and can lower recruitment incentives/quotas. If we piss on trade deals with other countries, they’ll work more with China and other world leaders, stripping the US of its influence globally. Worst of all, even if their propagandist of choice have then that info, they are literally too stupid to understand.
They’re about to find out what we actually were getting in return.
This is one of the huge under-analyzed aspects of all this. The US “over” invested in defense and foreign aid, and got virtually all the soft power benefits of a hegemonic power, and by simply setting an upper limit on the worst abuses of imperial overlords, it generally had its allies saying “Thank You” for the privilege, with no particular signs that the bloc was weakening.
If the US is not an accessible market or a reliable guarantor of security, or if (for fuck’s sake) it’s threatening the territorial integrity of its own allies and trading partners, then it’s just China with less cheap shit to sell. Hell, even China doesn’t do the last one (offer not valid in Taiwan).
The executive branch also appoints people to hundreds of positions (with approval of the Senate). Federal judges in particular have lifetime terms per the Constitution. This is absolutely a generational mess.
If there’s a super majority Congress can just impeach them. I’m sure they’ve all done something worthy of it.
If the Dems gain full control of the House and Senate, and if they have the collective will to start a mass impeachment campaign and weather the political fallout, then yes, they could remove a lot of Trump appointees. But given the state of American politics, I am not optimistic about either of those things happening.
Yeah, it’s not at all likely, but it’s possible
There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.
“I hereby rescind any and all executive orders signed by president Donald Trump”
Executive Order of next Democratic president.
Of course that doesn’t fix the generational damage that has been done at a time when we don’t have generations left to fix the earth.
Meanwhile, now it’s China which is starting to do work to slow down carbon emissions
They can’t. Judicial appointments are for life. Laws require another majority in Congress to repeal again.
The place they’d have the most power over is the executive branch. They could rescind executive orders, replace staff, etc.; but “all of Trump’s bullshit” isn’t possible, never has been for any previous president.
For example to support your comment. There is nothing a democratic president could do, to just get rid of the Department of Homeland Security. It was installed by George W Bush. There would be backlash from the executive branch for even attempting, it’d be political suicide. Another thing is trying to end the War on Drugs, started by Reagan. That has been running for over 40+ years now, it’s not going away because that’s another political suicide scenario.
To even get people removed from certain seats of power, is going to require their way of voting and good luck getting everyone on board to do that. Everyone will fight tooth and nail to retain seats.
We’re just going to be stuck with whatever bullshit Asshat-In-Chief did, for a long time until his laws and his judicial appointees just rot off and die before their time.
The SC has ruled that the president is immune to prosecution for any actions done in an official capacity. Now I’m not advocating for the assasination of the entire Supreme Court, but it apparently would be legal, along with a whole host of other unsavory things that could solve many of those issues.
Technically speaking, the 2nd Amendment allows Americans to overthrow their leaders if they become too out of control.
Good luck finding that somebody.
If the next president is a Democrat and has the Senate and House, they still can’t. There’s decades of institutional knowledge that has been terminated - and those people aren’t coming back. Many of them are also Republicans, even after seeing the damage, and they won’t be working to return everything to the way it used to be.
The Trump administration - and don’t fool yourself, he’s a pawn - has months to sabotage the handover of key roles. They’ve spent the last year demonstrating that USA is not a trustworthy partner in trade or defence. Treaties need to be renegotiated and other countries won’t be interested in giving the USA the same consideration that the post-Marshall Plan world would. Democrats in the USA see Trump and his administration; the rest of the world sees that “the majority” of Americans voted for him and his policies, and even now there’s still significant support for him.
It’s unlikely, too, that it will be possible to end DHS for example. There’s too many people in too many high places that have relationships that depend on DHS people for support. PATRIOT act is another example. The dogma that it’s legal for ICE to inspect within the 100(?) mile border zone. These are significant intrusions on basic freedom and privacy but they’re also centralization of power.
That, and the Supreme Court is stacked.
Isn’t one of the desenting opinions from the supreme court literally giving the president such sweeping immunities allows them to assassinate political enemies Scott free?
Not a dissenting (against the majority) opinion; the actual majority opinion of the court.
I think what they’re saying is that the dissent says out loud the part that the majority would prefer to keep quiet. It’s a clear consequence of the “clever jackass 7th-grader” mindset that comes from the Originalist school of jurisprudence.
You can’t run a modern nation-state or withstand a bad actor in power if you insist that it must all be done exactly as set out in 4,500 words by a bunch of 18th-century provincial lawyers writing by committee, and that anything not expressly forbidden is allowed because… “oh well.” SCOTUS abdicating its role as a backstop of liberty and good sense to instead be a bunch of pedants is a piss-poor reason to send your country to hell, yet here we are.
You people still believe there’s gonna be a next president?
Right? Stop relying on the system, America. It’s not working. You’re going to need to actually DO something. Like striking for a week.
Expanding the seats of supreme justices, executive orders to undo Trumps, replace every person Trump assigned, then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.
Put the DOJ onto prosecuting a number of people that were performing illegal activities.
He can also instruct DHS to rake the forest instead of doing much anything else.
…then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.
Honestly, I think we need someone to brazenly and publicly abuse the same loopholes they exploited. Then dare them to close them.
One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.
With the exception of the spending bill, everything that’s been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.
Firing squad?
They’re not going to be able to. Not in a timely manner.
This is why simply voting will just not work. It’s not going to work for one election. It has to work for every election afterwards, which people aren’t caring to understand. Right now, things are being damaged and we’re not exactly holding the people doing the damage as accountable as firm wording makes it sound like.
It’ll take generations to even make America a trustworthy and livable country again. This is what happens, when you stupidly vote and senselessly damn millions of people to be subjected to years of a nightmare circus. All because you could not be bothered to take not even one minute to educate yourself, figure where everyone stands on the issues and weed out what’s truth and what’s false.
There’s no excuse anymore and I will not hear of any. The Democrats aren’t even giving people a convincing argument as to why anyone should vote for them, when they’ve help fund the very people who’ve murdered Americans in broad daylight under the guise of being an immigration department.
We need an Independent president, but people are too scared to even try because they’re eternally locked into the two-party system, even though, both parties have systematically let the people down over and over and over again. When was the last time we had an Independent president? Oh, some 170+ years ago.
Enjoy the hell we’re living in, because millions of you cast us into this and we’re not going to learn a fucking thing from it because we believe in stupid karma systems and unproven entities to clean up our problems.
