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How do you know #UnitedStates #Democracy is nearly destroyed and in #coma?

The same guy who empowered #Trump is the only guy that can smack Trump down.
#SCOTUS
#Roberts

One man controls the entire #Republican agenda and it's Justice Roberts.

#Democrats vs #Republicans
#election2026
#2026election

RememberUsAlways hat dies geteilt

Let's be sure to repeat the motherfucker's name at every opportunity. #JohnRoberts is a despicable #Cunt who knew that granting immunity to the raping felon would open the floodgates to fascism. The piece of shit and his #CorruptSCOTUS are to blame for every single act of criminality the felon and his gang of rancid #GOP cunts commit. #JohnRoberts #TrumpFellater #PutinPuppet
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wrong branch of government.

It's Congress, not the courts, that have the power to smack Trump down.

And really it undermines democracy to get that wrong.
The #119Congress lights are on but no one is home.

Pay attention to Republican corporate tax cuts? Your entire premise falls apart if Congress is a wet paper towel.

Nice try though.
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The Senate only functions to place Judges and Congress can't even pass a budget.

The only check on executive power now are the courts, the final check and balance.

I'm surprised you missed this. Normally, your pro MAGA nonsense has an edge.
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No not at all.

If we elected a wet paper towel that's what we get. Yay democracy.

The premise doesn't fall apart. We get what we vote for, so this is what we got.

It's how the system works. We should probably stop reelecting morons, but we do reelect morons, so I guess we like this.
Fear drives the electorate and Republicans continue to use fear as a method of Governance.

Fear can depress the entire electorate if a criminal administration is allowed to control all the process.
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Right. But that doesn't change anything here.

We elect morons, and the reason we elect them is kind of secondary to the fact that we are, indeed, electing morons.

Personally I'm a lot more frustrated with the democratic representatives we reelected who are complicit with this administration. But that's the group we voted for, so this is what we get.
You have to acknowledge gerrymandering as the reason "morons" are in "safe districts" and no longer fear the people who roll over every cycle or donate large sums of shadow corporate money through Citizens United.

Morons, describing a systemic problem, is a more fit discussion.
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people like to point to gerrymandering, but that explanation doesn't hold when Senate elections aren't subject to gerrymandering.

No, we choose these people. The representatives that fail us constantly get support from voters who campaign for them. Just everyday voters do actually elect these people.

Any day of the week congresspeople could act against the administration. They are empowered to do so. But we go out and vote for people who decide, meh, this is fine

We voters vest these folks with that authority, and that's how they use it, so here we are.

But maybe if we stopped letting them shift the blame to the courts we might someday demand that they use that authority differently.
Disagree.

Roberts is just another puppet of trump/Project 2025.

They may give him a bit more string than the other puppets, but he still remains a puppet that will do their bidding - through hook or crook.

Roberts will not save us.
He's a big part of the reason we are where we are now.
You just confirmed my point.

Why Democracy is in a coma.

Roberts is not going to save anyone. He will follow the law according to how he sees it and has joined Democrats in major decisions.
"Many top legal experts believe a full-blown constitutional showdown between President Trump and the courts is already here. Others are confident there's still room to avoid one.

But most agree that the administration's battle with U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg — who last weekend ordered a temporary halt to the administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members — is a significant escalation."
#SCOTUS
#Roberts
#Johnroberts
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis
there's no crisis, though. The system was set up with solutions to exactly these sorts of disputes.

It's not even unusual for presidents to defy court orders. It's just that it normally doesn't get so much public attention, so you only see it happening if you take time to read the dockets directly.

So, the courts will do exactly what they're supposed to do: issue opinions on cases brought before them. That's it. Job done.

The rest just comes down to the people we elect to Congress. If we elected people who judge it to be acceptable, that's the end of the story. No crisis, just the democratic process at work.
Systemic problems in the process exist so vetting quality candidates is now so out of reach because of unlimited shadow donations and Gerrymandering.
again, there is no gerrymandering in senatorial elections, and yet the Senate is generally in agreement with the House on the big topics.

No, truth is that the general population is behind this stuff. So we get what we want, as intended.
First of all, there are many types of Gerrymandering, even racial Gerrymandering.

Second, the idea that no Gerrymandering happens in Senate races is nonsense.

U.S. senators and presidential electors are elected at large from States, U.S. representatives from congressional districts of about equal size. Within States, representatives are elected to legislatures from a structure of districts totally unrelated to the federal senate and congressional districts.
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senators are elected by regions that don't have the option of being manipulated between elections. To say that there is gerrymandering in the Senate is to use a definition of gerrymandering so expansive that it loses all meaning.

If all elections are gerrymandered, then there's really no meaning to the word anymore. It no longer represents manipulation for the sake of power, it becomes just, you know, voting.

So no, for any practical definition of the word, there is no gerrymandering in the Senate.

So the theory that this is caused by gerrymandering is scientifically rejected by the outcome from the body that has no gerrymandering.

It makes for a dramatic story, but it just doesn't match reality. And it makes it easier to point fingers at Boogeyman instead of facing the reality that the unwashed masses around us have to be convinced over to your personal preferences if you want to make progress.

It does no good to cling to those conspiracy theories, Even if they support a simpler world.