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AmericaUnderSiege

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3. We keep running into this paradox of executive power.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 12:33 AM

Mar 2025

If you can use executive power to help people when you have it, you must do it. But that comes with the knowledge that evil people will undo what you've done.

Even if this was a legal administration, which obviously it's not, I don't think the office of the Presidency is compatible anymore with a free and prosperous democracy. If it takes a genius like Barack Obama to make it work, it's unworkable.

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Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries [View all] BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 OP

I'm surprised that there's still something left on the chopping block, especially a vaccine program progree Mar 2025 #1

They really do want another pandemic sooner rather than later. Fucking science-illiterate dumbfucks. Karasu Mar 2025 #2

We keep running into this paradox of executive power. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #3