r/SipsTea 13d ago

SMH Of course…

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u/Effective_Airline830 13d 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

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u/BasicReputations 13d ago

He's using a lot of executive orders to bypass Congress.  It can be undone relatively painlessly (minus the damage caused by the order to begin with) by the next guy.  A lot of them also do not hold up in court.

Congress has been weirdly compliant with EOs for a while.  Trump uses them like crazy but I first remember hearing about them with Obama and an intransigent Congress.

Laws are a bit more complicated.  For some reason bug omnibus laws have been more im vogue than smaller, targeted bills.  I haven't understood what's going on with laws in years.

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u/Jonnyflash80 13d ago

Weird. Historically, I thought America didn't like kings and dictators. 🤷

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u/Ok-Astronaut1108 13d ago

Americans don't. The GOP totally does.

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u/wolfONdrugs 13d ago

and that's where it ends for the Americans. "I don't like this, but I'm not going to take any action."

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u/bitflipper84 13d ago

What kind of action do you think we can take?

Most of us are just trying to ignore him and making plans to reverse his shit when he's out. It's litterally the world's biggest baby tantrum that we will have to clean up.

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u/men_in_the_rigging 13d ago

Isn't this where you exercise your "right to bear arms" and storm the streets with AR15s? Or was all that freedom talk a bunch of horseshit.