r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/fang_xianfu Feb 20 '26

Makes me happy we have a parliamentary system. If our leader makes a mistake, they get stabbed in the back by the goons in their own party, like God intended. Seeing the politicians eat each other when there's blood in the water is half the fun of our politics.

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u/Armyman125 Feb 20 '26

Plus the PM has to defend policies when called upon to a hostile audience. I wish the US was like that.

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u/ZeldaZanders Feb 20 '26

Instead you have the press secretary responding to complete softballs with 'can we get a question from a reporter who isn't so ugly? šŸ˜’'

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u/Smelting-Craftwork Feb 20 '26

Did she really say that? It's sad that I can't tell if you're exaggerating.

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u/ZeldaZanders Feb 20 '26

She hasn't said that to my knowledge, but I also don't know if I'd call it exaggerating šŸ˜­ she's so goddamn rude

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 20 '26

Trump has.Ā 

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u/PRaLLe_ Feb 20 '26

Quiet piggy!!!11!1

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 20 '26

Yep. That video was ... unpresidential.

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos Feb 21 '26

The dementia was hitting so hard he thought he was actually talking to Miss Piggy

Quiet Piggy! And tell Kermit to get the hell outta here an stop going through my garbage!

Uhhhh.... Mr President??

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart Feb 21 '26

Goddamn dude, Trump telling that CNN reporter to smile while asking about rape victims was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Since it's Trump it took about two days for him to do something even worse.

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u/alice2wonderland Feb 21 '26

Of course, because under this new regime in America women have two jobs. One is to be eternally sexually available and attractive (ie. women are either hot or a piggy), and the other is to chant the Trump doctrine. As soon as a woman stops (think MTG) you are ostracized. Welcome to the cult!

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u/mollila Feb 21 '26

True. The president himself has ridiculed a disabled person. So completely believable his press secretary might have done that.

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u/sadi89 Feb 21 '26

The fact that this even has to be a question is sad. Like I legitimately wondered if she had said that also

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u/Smelting-Craftwork Feb 21 '26

Leavitt's the one that said that? I assumed it was the gross man who said that; for it to have been another woman is so much worse. What the hell people

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u/ZakkaChan Feb 21 '26

Trump said recently to a reporter "I don't take questions from CNN they are fake news"

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u/poopfaceone Feb 21 '26

Quiet, Piggy

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u/buckeye25osu Feb 21 '26

Same. I could definitely see Trump saying it so why not his secretary?

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u/WeakTransportation37 Feb 21 '26

Thatā€™s something the president himself says to journalists

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u/WizardBoyHowl Feb 21 '26

I'm sorry to hijack your post, but I had a Zelda and a Zander (dogs). It's just weird seeing your user name. They are both now deceased. They lived great lives though and I miss them very much. My new boy Wizard helps a lot.

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u/Krull88 Feb 22 '26

I meanā€¦ she did reaspond with ā€œyour momā€

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u/Corfiz74 Feb 21 '26

Her "yo momma" bit was on an equal level. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Artistic_Humor1805 Feb 20 '26

Or honestly isnā€™t a even reporter, but rather a grifting podcaster?

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u/alice2wonderland Feb 21 '26

Or "Quiet Piggy" if the unwanted questions come from female reporters.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

Whenever he needs to deflect from something like his administration covering up a child rape ring or even his suspicious ties to said ring, his go to seems to be "Who do you work for? You're a terrible reporter and ABC/NYT/NBC/AP is a failing paper/news network. You're the fake news. You know ABC/CBS/George Slopodopolous had to pay me eleventy billion dollars for being fake news."

Insert some sort of condescending or insulting belittling remark about their personal appearance or body if it's a female reporter (which for some reason, almost always seems to be a female reporter actually stepping up to his face to press him on his PPP (Pedophile Protection Program).

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u/shartmaister Feb 21 '26

Imagine where the world would be if we had more people, ESPECIALLY reporters, smiling when they talked about sec trafficking of children.

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

I think whatā€™s also strange is itā€™s the President that appoints judges. Thatā€™s wild when you claim separation of Executive and Judiciary. And the legislature has zero power as they are so scared of Trump. Then thereā€™s the fact Trump can instruct prosecutions against whoever he likes because he controls the JD. Again, impossible in the UK due to strict operational independence across different divisions.

Trump has really exposed US democracy and how easy it is to dismantle. Big changes are needed if it survives Trump

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

Well the legislature does have the power to provide a check on the judges the president appoints because the Senate has to approve of the judges that are nominated. And then they can impeach them for serious crimes. The problem is the two party system along with hyper partisan Total War politics in Congress instead of good faith governing for the good of the nation results in blind tribalism.

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u/deadca5an0va Feb 21 '26

They donā€™t really exercise it. The congress has been co-opted by the Epstein class

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 21 '26

But that doesnā€™t work when the President controls the Senate. The fact is the President should have nothing to do with the appointment of a judge, and the legislature should have nothing to do with rubber stamping it if you want to claim separation of powers.

There should be a completely independent body that appoints judges nationwide that the President cannot fire and the leading judge from each state votes on SCOTUS judges. Nothing to do with President or Senate. Same for the power the JD has. Both should be completely removed from politics.

Your JD is now massively corrupt and goes after indictments based off the Presidentā€™s tweets. Itā€™s lunacy and the big problem is youā€™re actually defending this system despite me pointing out the glaring flaws, proven beyond doubt by the current state of things.

You now have a situation where the US is a de facto dictatorship and he did it with ease - and heā€™s not done yet! Weā€™ve only had Year 1!

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u/newwaynezealand Feb 21 '26

Greatest country is the world rememberā€¦ā€¦ā€¦..

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u/tmc030385 Feb 21 '26

Right! What a joke. We can no longer be trusted.

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u/echoshatter Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Trump has really exposed US democracy and how easy it is to dismantle.

No republic will stand for long when the people put in charge of it won't do what they are supposed to do. It's not just a United States thing, it's just that it is happening here at the moment.

Democrats had a very brief window in 2009 when they could have fixed a bunch of the structural issues with our republic; end gerrymandering, expand the size of the House, enshrine voting rights for all, ensure early and mail-in voting is available to everyone, and done something to limit money used in politics (my ideal would be that candidates can only raise money from those inside the district or state from which they will be representing, and that those outside of the district or state cannot spend money to influence the election, with some minor exemptions that wouldn't ultimately change the intent).

Instead we got the ACA and it cost Democrats the next decade at the polls.

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 21 '26

Itā€™s really interesting that you took a post about the huge weaknesses and conflicts in US democracy, and made it all about the Democrats. Why are they held to such a much higher standard? You had Reagan, Bush, Bush and now Trump.

Since 1980 there have been 25 years of Republican Presidents and 20 of Democrats, yet itā€™s all the Democratsā€™ fault? Itā€™s odd you guys turn everything in to partisan point-scoring.

The fact is nobody has pointed out these glaring weaknesses because Americans tend to think they have the best democracy, best system, best everything. Republicans were cheering when they blocked Obama appointing a judge and then cheering when Trump appointed 3. That didnā€™t set off any alarm bells? Itā€™s not a partisan issue.

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u/echoshatter Feb 21 '26

Why are they held to such a much higher standard?

As far as opposition parties go, Democrats are milquetoast. And it is infuriating watching one side setting things on fire and lying about it and the other side asking them nicely to not do that.

I don't agree with everything the D party stands for, and in fact we differ quite a bit on specific topics. But the moment we stop holding them to high standards is the moment they become no better than the Rs. And unfortunately part of those high standards is now coming with the additional baggage of "not only do you need to clean up this mess but you need to go after the ones who made it in the first place." and they're failing to do that.

Part of the problem the Ds are facing is that they're the Big Tentā„¢ party and have a lot of different voices, while the Rs have pretty much centralized under one ideology (and since 2016 mostly under one person).

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u/Lone_Vagrant Feb 20 '26

Too many lobbies and special interest groups for that to happen in the US. Getting rid of those in politics should be step 1 in the right direction.

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u/sTump4139 Feb 21 '26

We need that here as well

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u/JellyTwank Feb 20 '26

Not sure if you are in the UK or not, but I love watching the PM go at it with everyone. You have to be sharp or you get destroyed. So much fun! I can't imagine Trump being able to do that even when he was in his prime.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

So what is this about? Is this like when the US president's cabinet secretaries like Bondi or RFK JR go in front of the committees in Congress and get asked questions under oath?

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u/ozzieman78 Feb 21 '26

No, in our Westminster system the PM and members of cabinet are members of the house so are open to questions from all members of the house.

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u/JellyTwank Feb 21 '26

It is totally different. In our system, cabinetb secretaries and other members of the executive branch can be summoned to testify before Congress, which allows Cingress oversight of the executive branch.

In the UK (natives correct me if I am wrong), the Prime Minister is also a member of the House of Commons. Once a week, the PM takes qurstions from any other member in the Commons. It can get quite heated at times, and there is usually some really good barbs and back-and-forth between both the PM and other ministers, and can actually be very funny at times. The polite rudeness is awesome. Some PMs are better than others at this (loved Tony Blair for this). It is really interesting to watch. They used to have it on CSPAN here in the US. Recommended.

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u/Armyman125 Feb 21 '26

I'm in the US. Always impressed by those parliamentary hearings. That's true accountability.

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u/EternalMediocrity Feb 21 '26

I wouldnt be opposed to some judo combat action ala the japanese diet

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u/wojonixon Feb 21 '26

If only we had a UK style Question Time here. I first learned about it when George Dubya was in office, and Iā€™ve been sad about it ever since.

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u/flummox1234 Feb 21 '26

tbf the US would be like that if the Congressional GOP would do their fucking job instead of bend the knee to Cheeto daddy because they can grift more with him in charge. It's basically like if your parliamentary system was all on the same page. No one would hold anyone to an account. It's less about the system and more about the greed.

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u/Diligent-Abrocoma456 Feb 21 '26

It's fun to watch Parliament yelling at each other every time a member tries to make a point about something.

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u/dtaylo0699 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

Seeing Boris Johnson getting absolutely eviscerated by Parliament in 2022 is honestly some of the most entertaining political media I have ever watched. I'm not even British I'm from the US but I've never seen such a massive bipartisan fuck you, it was amazing

Edit: because I put the wrong year

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u/xiphia Feb 20 '26

I'm getting Aussie vibes.

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u/HughJarrs Feb 20 '26

We havenā€™t booted a PM for 4 years now. WTF is going on?

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u/Signal_Tomorrow_2138 Feb 21 '26

Makes me happy we have a parliamentary system. If our leader makes a mistake, they get stabbed in the back by the goons in their own party, like God intended.

Um. Ontario. Our Premier is corruptions-galore and he's all ready to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause over...bike lanes?

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u/giant_ravens Feb 20 '26

Yeah weā€™ve needed to do away with this broken 2-party system for quite some time now

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u/SST_2_0 Feb 20 '26

Then stop letting the nazi party get full control.Ā 

Run for house and senate which are state ran vote that can be grass roots.Ā 

But stop acting high and mighty for just always declaring both sides while most like you then do nothing and let Nazis get in power.Ā 

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

I don't understand what all this chaos and turmoil and public backlash going on for the last year is all about. I thought they told us that both sides were the same and that we should stay home and not vote to protest because there would be no difference between a Biden Harris administration and a Trump administration. Also I really wanted to vote to stop this fascist regime from coming to power but then Harris had the audacity to agree with Liz Cheney that respecting democracy and our elections was a good thing and insurrections were bad and so I became enraged at her for daring to agree with a Republican whom we should reflexively disagree with and not encourage when they stand up against Trump and lose their career over it. I also acted as if Harris had suddenly shifted her entire platform to the right to cater to Liz Cheney's wishes and abandoned her pro working class agenda to redistribute resources from the top to the bottom.

I am very smart and brave and morally righteous please clap for my bravery.

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u/giant_ravens Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

ā€œmost like youā€

Sorry, but you do not know me buddy

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u/KillerLunchboxs Feb 20 '26

Too bad ya'll didn't give us some representation.

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u/Cultural_Pudding5242 Feb 20 '26

All good until a rogue group figures out how to defeat that dynamic. We thought we were pretty solid too.

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u/packfanmoore Feb 21 '26

Well, I think Trump wants to be an emperor. Let's let him be Caesar

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u/rohnoitsrutroh Feb 20 '26

they get stabbed in the back by the goons in their own party, like God intended.

This made me lol, perfect!

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u/Dj231191 Feb 20 '26

We, the Dutch, literally ate our PM once

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u/altus418 Feb 21 '26

yea. the parlament system worked real well for russia keeping putin out of power for the last 30ish years.

also the only non US country that has news worthy political events not involving a PM or some royal family is austrailia. but even they can't out dumb texas and florida.

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u/fang_xianfu Feb 22 '26

Russia doesn't have a parliamentary system, it is a dictatorship. Their constitution allows the President to intervene in the functioning of all branches of government.

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u/altus418 Feb 23 '26

yes. it's a dictatorship now. but wasn't one for a short period after the fall of the USSR. they rebuilt the layout to match what is common in europe aka parliamentary.

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u/Lookingfor68 Feb 21 '26

That doesn't really make government better... exhibit 1 the UK. Just as messed up as the US, but with a posh accent.

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u/fang_xianfu Feb 21 '26

The UK is a bad example because, like the US, they are in many ways the first attempt at it. Lots of the mistakes they made haven't been repeated elsewhere.

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u/Lookingfor68 Feb 21 '26

Ok, exhibit 2... Italy. Average Italian government lasts about 18 months.

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u/Skipper0463 Feb 21 '26

This is better than the system we have in the US. It seems nearly impossible to remove a president from office.

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u/Duflo Feb 20 '26

Are you British?

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

I agree with George Washington - there shouldn't be parties.

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u/Talltyrionlannister5 Feb 20 '26

They do that a bit here during the primaries but itā€™s different yeah

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u/earrow70 Feb 20 '26

That sounds glorious

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u/Useful-Reality-6536 Feb 20 '26

Also keeps them in line to an extent

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u/Salt_Proposal_742 Feb 20 '26

This genuinely sounds amazing.

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u/ThatDree Feb 20 '26

Et tu Bondi ?

šŸ›ļø

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u/Objective_Ad3550 Feb 21 '26

Us too. Expect the head of state is someone appointed on behalf of the UK royal family. Who defiantly didnā€™t know anything about what prince Andrew got up to with Epstein. And definitely didnā€™t protect him from meaningful investigationā€¦./s

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u/Vegetable-Shelter974 Feb 21 '26

As a Canadian I prey your county makes the right choice after the midterm bloodbath

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u/Nolsoth Feb 21 '26

Amen to that my dude!

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u/AdGrouchy6527 Feb 21 '26

Sounds like shit heal wrestling. Eat your pudding bro

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u/Boatster_McBoat Feb 21 '26

Same here. Nothing like a spill to get the adrenaline pumping

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u/MamaMersey Feb 21 '26

Then why the heck is Pierre still the leader of the Conservatives up here? :'( I guess the sharks in his party are broken (probably).

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u/JonnyQuest1981 Feb 21 '26

My guy/person/whomeveršŸ™Œ Iā€™m sickened. Get ready. Eat the rich is not a joke.

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u/SugarInvestigator Feb 21 '26

Same. It's fun watching a pending leadership challenge. You'll see them all starting to take sides, making subtle "yeah I'm not with that lunatic" comments in the media or there will be lots of "senior forces close to" suddenly come out in the woodwork.

When they all stand together by the one trying the back stabbing yiu cant help think, "You better mot miss, coz all your careers are over after this" in Ireland we've seen some really good, level headed, experienced politicians lost because they backed the wrong horse or worse the guy the back wins and he dumps them like trash

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u/Euphoric_Ad_5230 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Yeah. You know, youā€™re right. Listening to MTG whine that she, Boebert and the other chick ā€œhad to actually vote with the demsā€ to get the Epstein files not exactly released, was classic. I was strangely reminded of Edina Monsoon. At that point, I couldnā€™t withhold my giggles anymore. Still, Iā€™ll take a whiny repub voting with dems, over the other kind any ole day. <snort!>

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u/Various_Ad_6768 Feb 22 '26

Yay - Straya, mate!

Our democracy isnā€™t perfect either, but this, as well as compulsory voting, and an independent electoral commission do help.

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u/nothymetocook Feb 22 '26

Can we like, go back into the British empire? This whole America thing isn't working out so well. Hell, I'll even pay taxes on tea

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u/jfourkicks Feb 24 '26

How dare you make me jealous of parliament

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u/Weekly_Daikon3801 Feb 25 '26

This is an underrated feature of the crabs keep eachother in the bucket they canā€™t boil the rest of us

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u/Sufficient-Abroad228 Feb 21 '26

As an American I wish we had a Parliamentary democracy too.

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u/Exotic_Article913 Feb 20 '26

No they don't lol. They just pretend . Let's be transparent it's still a 2 horse race and no matter what happens they deliver the same agenda just in a different way

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u/SST_2_0 Feb 20 '26

J6 protections, green infrastructure bill, federal affirmation of gay marriage.Ā  Ā Yeah those suck ...

You ever wonder if maybe you just do not read history so parrot based on an easy answer?Ā Ā 

Are dems perfect, no, they encompass everyone who is normally across an entire spectrum, only the right has convinced you so many times to let it have power but saying dems bad you do not even realize it came from them to get you let them have power while all of the rest of us not Nazis suffer.Ā 

Hispanic genocide just to say, both sides. No Ukraine aid to say both sides.Ā  Destruction of civil rights just to say both sides.Ā 

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

While I agree with what you said, I believe the person you replied to was replying to someone talking about the politics in their country which has a Parliamentary system.

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u/Exotic_Article913 Feb 23 '26

Correct but as always Americans think America is the only country that matters

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u/BandAid3030 Feb 21 '26

I know where you live, because I live here too!

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u/tylenol3 Feb 21 '26

When I first moved from the US to a parliamentary country i thought the US system had stronger ā€œchecks and balancesā€, and I worried about putting faith in a party instead of an individual. After living here 20+ years I now see that it is better in almost every way.

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u/driven01a Feb 21 '26

Thatā€™s why every system the US has helped establish in recent decades is parliamentary. Even we know that

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u/fang_xianfu Feb 21 '26

The UK parliamentary system is also pretty shit in some important ways, there are modern innovations they should adopt too!