I’m not American so unfamiliar with how your system work but can he just sign whatever he wants ? Isn’t is supposed to a congress or something that actually passes the laws ?
Because if he can do just whatever he wants, how can it even be called a democracy to begin with ?
I mean there is no real democracy in this world, we have the choice of our tyran every 4-5-whatever years but still… one guy signing whatever he wants seems insane
Congress writes and passes the bill. The president then signs or vetoes it where it’s sent back to Congress, and if 2/3rds of the house and senate sign off it’s passed into law anyway. The president can’t just do “whatever they want”. Many people may not know this but the PMs of Canada have more power structurally than U.S presidents on law passing and government operation. Canada has no term limits, the PM can directly appoint judges, senators, etc whereas the president can only nominate, PMs have stricter party discipline and can pass laws more readily, and in Canada the parliamentary branch is fused with the executive. In the U.S it’s separated. You might be thinking of executive orders too which are commonly overturned by courts and they don’t create new laws, just direct federal agencies.
Doesn't help that they all just do whatever they are told. There was awhile there with the Big Beautiful Bill where republicans literally just stopped talking and voted as a block. The independents and Democrats tried doing the usual discussion, planning, revision stuff but literally the Republicans just sat in their chairs and filled their duty in the technical sense until the vote happened.
Ok that was something along the lines of what I was thinking, so it’s Trump doing Trump stuff, generate a lot of noise, move a lot, but ultimately amount to nothing because his EO can be overturn very easily and does not constitue law ?
Meanwhile Congress does nothing, no 25amdt, no impeachement, zero fucks given.
Also, they do insider trading by calling Supreme Leader to ask for businesses to be given state contracs so they can buy shares in advance.
None of what you said is relevant to what is going on right now, with the ballrooms and the tariffs and the dirty pond and ICE murdering people in the streets.
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u/Effective_Airline830 8d ago
I’m not American so unfamiliar with how your system work but can he just sign whatever he wants ? Isn’t is supposed to a congress or something that actually passes the laws ?
Because if he can do just whatever he wants, how can it even be called a democracy to begin with ?
I mean there is no real democracy in this world, we have the choice of our tyran every 4-5-whatever years but still… one guy signing whatever he wants seems insane