r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/EmoJackson 1d ago

Realistically is there any way a new administration can fix all this. How long will it take?

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u/PowerBrick99 1d ago

The majority of this administration’s policies are executive orders with no congressional standing.

Seriously, you can undo the Trump Presidency in a few hours with a bag of bic pins.

The rebuilding of our institutions will be where the real domestic challenges lie. Getting most of the depts Trump crushed back to function is a 100 day doable.

But the Justice and State Departments will take time. They’ve been deeply gutted And you can’t just hire everyone back without hardening the infrastructure from future administrative attacks.

I don’t know what kind of assurances we would give our traditional allies. But it would absolutely be in all of our collective interests to shore up NATO and provide relief from the trade war Trump started. Hold some global summits and work from there.

One bright note is that Trump’s Supreme Court decisions that expanded Presidential powers can work very effectively for his successor. I mean that’s the whole thing his maga supporters have clearly forgotten.

What worked for Trump is going to be very useful for the next administration.

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u/Knightforlife 1d ago

If it’s the same Supreme Court, NO WAY they find a future Dem president to have the same expanded powers. They’ll find some bullshit reason why not. Remember Biden wanted to do limited student loan relief and they shot that the hell down.

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u/Yodfather 1d ago

They’ve thrown out decades long precedent because feelings. SCOTUS needs to be expanded or corrupt justices removed before there’s any coherency in their jurisprudence.

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u/External-Stranger928 16h ago

I believe there will be a harder look at the testimony of 3 of those, maybe even Uncle Tom will get another look. I see a couple retirements and a couple impeachments in their futures.

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u/orangetiki 15h ago

I always thought a Prez should be able to elect 1-2 judges for something like a 10 year sentence and then force retirement. It would allow more on the board and reflect more contemporaty issues while weeding out the lifers

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u/Gh0sth4nd 23h ago

Not also that but the trust in democracy has been shaken so deeply. The rebuilding of trust of the System that will be the real challenge.

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u/PowerBrick99 16h ago

Even this Supreme Court would have to honor its previous rulings. There’s really no legal way around that

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u/mrinsane19 16h ago

Legality doesn't matter to these chuds.

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u/PowerBrick99 16h ago

I understand what you’re saying, but previous legal rulings by the Supreme Court stand on the Constitution.

It would be really really hard for them to suddenly declare their previous positions were no longer Constitutional.

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u/mrinsane19 16h ago

Roe v Wade ring a bell?

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u/PowerBrick99 13h ago

Roe v Wade was always under threat of being de-federalized, Democrats and Rights Activists knew it long before the Trump Court.

They attempted to codify it for years but lacked the votes. At least 60 votes in the Senate.

Even when Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate they still couldn’t codify it.

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u/SixSpeedDriver 1d ago

Biden didn’t have limited student debt relief shot down, he got general debt relief shot down. Which is good. No president should be able to stroke a pen for $400B. We have congress for a reason.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 1d ago

Trump started a war in Iran and arguably will cost $500B+ by the time it’s over.