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Honestly, I am not sure and tbh most of us will hopefully never have to find out. That said, I can tell you what I did when the raids were happening in Chicagoland. I stayed home and when I did go out, I took papers with. Why? Because there is one sure way to not get oneself in trouble: not being where trouble are. That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with? I won't lie. It is a concern. Look a…

> That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with? It's my understanding she and the other onlookers live there in that city. Unlike the masked bandits airdropped in from elsewhere. Further, IIRC, there was a note on Letters from an American to the effect that the woman had registered herself and had some minimal credentials at least as Constitutional Observer (?) and was there to watch and record t…

> if I were a citizen there I'd be looking for some wider deeper constitutional reforms and restructuring

Yep. It has become more and more obvious that there just isn't any actual mechanism to resolve the executive branch just doing whatever it wants the way things currently stand. As a US citizen, the rest of this term and the term or two after it are going to determine whether I remain in the country or not. How much farther do we slip? Do we realize this is all an awful idea? If the opposition takes power next time, do they use it to actually resolve the underlying issues, or do they just wield that same power against the other side?

If the presidency and congress don't work to fundamentally implement an actual enforceable division of powers over the next decade, even if things don't "get worse" from here, I don't think it's a place that makes sense for me to stick around.

Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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More proof that a nuclear nation can do whatever the hell it wants until the money runs out.

More proof that a nation with "world reserve currency status" can do whatever the hell it wants until the world decides to move to other currencies. Alas, such nation is using violence (abduction+piracy+war), threats and coercion to ensure that never happens.

Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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We're well beyond what a democratic administration following the Trump one can undo, there is a large amount of permanent damage.

Democratic measures against Republicans is always one step forward for every two steps back. It’s not enough and has never been enough because liberals don’t fight a fraction as hard to help people as conservatives do to fuck people over. Every single democratic administration wastes months to years trying some sort of reconciliation path with people who actively hate them and wonder why politics as usual isn’t worki…

> "don’t fight a fraction as hard to help people as conservatives do to [f] people over"

I attribute this more to the relative difficulty to destroy compared with the effort required to create.

It's easier to burn bridges than build them.

It's easier to forfeit external relations saboteurially than to be a decent f person and listen.

They just forfeited 66 very big deals. When they run away like that, they forfeit.

Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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This is fairly routine -- for Democratic executive administrations to unfuck financial / other poor performance / bad health promulgated by prior Republican ones: Republicans since Reagan have prioritized tax cuts as an end in themselves, treating deficit concerns as secondary Democrats have generally accepted the post-1990s norm of PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budgeting more consistently Trump has been remarkable effective…

> His term makes me think maybe we DON'T want Presidents, as they're too powerful and it's too risky a structural design. Or we could go back to actually following Constitutional intent. In that, the executive branch isn't the most powerful at all. Congress is.

I wonder if that idea would support enhancing the Congress with more members + more true-representational (not Gerrymandered) membership, and eliminating the Senate?

I have Zero fundamental understanding of governing, or best-practices for representational government, nor for my own / USA's system. And I wonder wtf should I actually know, in order to fore-arm myself for this upcoming period where the USA must adapt to the perils of this new age.

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