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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power.

Yeah. Want a minimum wage increase, legal cannabis, childcare, family leave, protecting Roe, protecting democracy itself, pursuing justice for January 6 or Epstein's victims, and the president is conveniently powerless.

Want to ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide and the president is fucking omnipotent.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is de facto incredibly powerful, but he is de jure not. He's only capable of doing those things because the checks and balances failed through the coordinated efforts of hundreds of Republican congressmen. Every heinous act that goes unchecked bears the implicit seal of approval of the entire Republican party. He could do many of the things you claim he's powerless to do, too, but he doesn't want to, and all the mechanisms meant to force him to have failed.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was talking about the previous administration. I don't expect anything good out of this one. And I was a fool to expect anything good out of the last one.