• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would be much less bothered by governemt shutdowns if it shut down the entire governemt instead of just the parts that I like.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    of course. they blame the democrats for everything.

    They even blame the democrats for republicans giving handjobs in crowded theaters.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Republicans are literally the people who shoot a pregnant mother in the head, and with gun still in hand, smoke fresh from barrel ask…

    “Why did Obama do this?”

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    1 year ago

    The American government weirds me out. Why have an executive President when he can’t do shit. Why these deadlocks can happen if a party holds a majority? In my cuntry, the party with the most seats will run the government. By dint of having a majority, any bills proposed by it will almost always pass. Should a bill to fund the country fails, the ruling party in effect lost a motion of no confidence and the opposition can force a snap general elections.

    • WorldWideLem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The President can do plenty, they just can’t do everything and that’s a good thing. Trump did a lot of damage in his short time in office, but he could have done a lot more without the balance of power between branches of government in the US system.

      That said, right now the gridlock is because the House of Representatives has a Republican majority. They’re the ruling party in that house, and you need that house to do a lot of things. They’re the party with “the most seats” while the Democrats have the slimmest of majorities in the Senate.