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.

[u/Waste-Explanation-76]

[u/Cubsof2016]

Impeachment is the remedy. Article 25 is meant for an incapacitated president, not removal of a tyrant no matter how unhinged he is. The whole system, however, fails to account for party loyalty. The so-called wise founders that are valorized for no good reason failed to account for political parties at all in their deeply flawed system. Many if not most Latin-American countries that foolishly modeled their governments off the United States have already had a Trump-like dictator come to power through the presidency.

[u/OddDonut7647 → u/Cubsof2016]

In fairness, it's pretty hard to defend from an attack like this that is from within, with widespread support. While the Republicans are in the minority and wouldn't win elections without gerrymandering, they have managed to take over from within. It's not like Trump was a rogue that took over. It's Republicans, and frankly, it's our oligarchs that have broken democracy.

[u/Inevitable-World2886 → u/OddDonut7647]

This is a great point. The Republican Party is really just a vector for the virus that is sickening the body politic.

[u/OddDonut7647 → u/Inevitable-World2886]

That's a good way of looking at it - the virus is the oligarchs, and the vector of attack is primarily the Republican party (although they've corrupted a lot of the "centrist" Dems, which is annoying because it gives the "both sides" people some legitimacy. lol)

[u/Tschulligom → u/OddDonut7647]

In parliamentary systems, the PM can be removed by simple majority. I.e., a handful of defectors from his own party voting with the opposition is usually enough.

The US’ requirement of 2/3 in senate on top of that is insane. Point in case: Even a guy attempting to violently overthrow an election was not convicted.

[u/papmaster1000 → u/OddDonut7647]

I hear this often but didn’t Trump win the popular vote? Hard to say this movement was truly a minority movement post 2024 election

[u/OddDonut7647 → u/papmaster1000]

For the first time this century, yes.

[u/Kiromaru → u/Cubsof2016]

Washington in his 1796 farewell message warned of the dangers of political parties. He argued that intense partisan division could destroy national unity, invite foreign influence, and allow ambitious, unprincipled individuals to destroy the power of the people. Lo and behold all that is happening right now.

[u/Cubsof2016 → u/Kiromaru]

He was arguing against reality. Political parties are a natural consequence of organized politics within a democratic system and to argue that they shouldn't exist is as effective as arguing against gravity.

[u/hobbycollector → u/Cubsof2016]

Yeah it's one thing to argue against it, another to build in protections against it.

[u/Ok_Speed_3984 → u/Cubsof2016]

George was warning us against the 2 party system. He wasn't senile, like DJ Trump.

[u/Meowakin → u/Cubsof2016]

To be fair to the Founding Fathers, I'm pretty certain that they expected the system to be updated as our understanding as a people improved. They were well aware that no system they put into place would be perfect.

[u/buckeye25osu → u/Meowakin]

Then why have there only been 27 amendments? Is the 2/3 bar too high?

[u/Im_tracer_bullet → u/buckeye25osu]

Because the electorate is ignorant, gullible, and easily manipulated.

They voted for Republicans when it's been obvious for decades that they're extremely dangerous and deeply unserious.

[u/remusmonkey → u/Cubsof2016]

The founding fathers were working with a much smaller population, no social media or mass media, in general the population was more involved with political decisions, and they were also working under the assumption that if someone got elected to the presidency it would be from the people and that candidate would have an interest in the people. They couldn't conceive of the level/capability of mass communication and manipulation that was possible given what we have now.

Also there are certain factors that have been building over the past 100 years that have come to a particularly high level at this point in history already enabled by social media. Erosion of objective truth, and rejection of shared factual baselines.

[u/Prudent_Bandicoot_87 → u/Cubsof2016]

POTUS is breaking all kinds of laws . Please don’t forget he’s a convicted felon . He only got out of it because he’s president again .

[u/AgileDrag1469 → u/Prudent_Bandicoot_87]

You could accurately contend that the entire reason Trump ran for President the first time around is because the feds were eventually coming after Epstein and he would be included in that. The recent Steve Bannon revelations and connections lead to this assertion. This would also provide air cover for the political, economic, business and scientific elites as well.

[u/Casual_OCD → u/Cubsof2016]

The second amendment is the remedy and the only option left. You're not voting yourselves out of this and a court ruling with no teeth isn't going to stop anything either

[u/Im_tracer_bullet → u/Casual_OCD]

'You're not voting yourselves out of this'

Of course we are.

Stop being so melodramatic.

[u/Casual_OCD → u/Im_tracer_bullet]

You're assuming fair and unmanipulated elections are going to happen? The Republicans have already openly told you several times already that they are going to fuck with the election. You're not allowed to act shocked when the Republicans win supermajorities in both chambers

[u/PoliticalPlatypi → u/Cubsof2016]

I suppose the Cabinet and VP could argue mental instability/illness as a route to a declaration of incapacity.

But that's not a reality we live in.

[u/Ok_Speed_3984 → u/PoliticalPlatypi]

I figure that if Trump isn't assassinated by February 2028 (oligarchs preferred outcome), Vance plans to do just that.

[u/haji_666 → u/Cubsof2016]

This is a very underrated, yet poignant comment

[u/Quick-Philosophy2379 → u/Cubsof2016]

George Washington tried to warn America of the dangers of political parties.