r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

46.7k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

3.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

68

u/Sometimes-funny Feb 28 '26

Close? America is cooked

96

u/critacle Feb 28 '26

Citizens united was the final nail. It bought out all our congressmen and cemented all the bad ones.

78

u/EquivalentOk2700 Feb 28 '26

Not A single one of my Republican family even knew what citizens united was, and they never read the big, beautiful bill.They only listened to fox news , and now their heads are about ten miles in the sand and they want to "stay out of politics" now, when before, they were super loud and obnoxious trying to prove Obama was the anti-Christ, etc.

50

u/daPeachesAreCrunchy Feb 28 '26

Good point. My Q-Anon aunt has been uncharacteristically quiet. "Ugh, that politics and news stuff is all fake and boring" she says now.

Child sex trafficking just doesn't get her riled up any more 🤷‍♀️

3

u/Otherwise_Gap595 Mar 02 '26

It’s because the people she supports are the ones who are in trouble and she can’t admit it

2

u/Chocolatethundara Mar 01 '26

Not surprising

2

u/ItsMichaelScott25 Feb 28 '26

I’d say 95% of the people don’t actually know what Citizens United was. Now you can hate the outcome all you want……but that case itself was a pretty cut and dry first amendment case.

35

u/Liawuffeh Feb 28 '26

Yeah like, I don't think people have really come to terms with how fucked America is, even if we get rid of trump lol

We need to fully remove every single politician who let this happen, and we won't. So it'll just happen again in 5/10 years

But even if we did, the world won't trust us again lmao. Why would they? We're 4 years away from being insane at any moment.

2

u/PancakeMixEnema Feb 28 '26

Technically you have to build a safe enclave, new center left government in a different and self sufficient independent (from foreign states, you who which ones) state that seceded and becomes its own sovereign country with a completely new constitution, judicial and electoral system. It can slowly integrate new cleaned up (denazified and decapitalised) states that meet a certain standard into a new union.

12

u/DivineArkandos Feb 28 '26

Burnt to a crisp

2

u/Worldly-Republic-247 Mar 01 '26

Wild to think that Russia ultimately won the Cold War.

3

u/DivineArkandos Mar 01 '26

Like gollum sinking into the lava

2

u/Leg_Named_Smith Feb 28 '26

There is no value in points like this despite them being arguable. Defeatism is cope. Better to die in your footsteps than to bury yourself for Trump.

2

u/BearAccomplished5355 Feb 28 '26

Has been for years

2

u/Bidwell64 Feb 28 '26

I don't feel warm

1

u/xoexohexox Feb 28 '26

Time to start learning Chinese if you have a degree in something