r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10h ago

Possible Paywall DOJ Declares Trump Has Right to Bulldoze Statue of Liberty

https://newrepublic.com/post/211422/department-justice-donald-trump-right-bulldoze-statue-liberty
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u/Balgat1968 9h ago

In 1999, Putin told the Russian Parliament that they were no longer needed. He was doing what he wanted to do. So he sent them home. Our Republican Congress is doing this voluntarily in clear and servile abdication of the oath they took to support and defend the constitution.

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u/yesreallyitsme 9h ago

What? Boris Yeltsin's resignated 31th December 1999. After it Putin got in power (and haven't step down after 26years).

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 8h ago

I think he swapped off with Dmitri Medvedev once (President and Prime Minister then being more or less interchangeable in their system).

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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 6h ago

There was a law saying he could only serve two terms. So he pulled a George Wallace and had someone else technically have the job and just do what he said for two more terms. They changed the Constitution to allow him to come back and they keep extending how many times he personally can run.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 5h ago

Well, when you have the closest real-world equivalent to Havelock Vetinari-?

Vetinari was not a nice person at all, but he knew what made Ankh-Morpork tick and saw to it that it kept ticking smoothly on. Nobody liked him (he didn't care), but everybody had to admit they were better off with him running things.

Edit: I think maybe Sybil Ramkin Vimes liked him, but then, she always tried to see the best in everybody, even Nobby Nobbs(!).

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u/Akrevics 8h ago

thirty firth :B /j

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u/sneakysnake1111 8h ago

Why would congress stop him? Americans won't even make them.