• Bananigans@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      This is getting reposted everywhere even though people in the comments are constantly giving the correct information on why this happened. Just giving you a heads-up so you’re not to quick to tie your vote to someone else’s willful misunderstanding of the separation of powers.

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      There were funds appropriated for a portion of the wall in 2019 by Trump with the requirement that construction is completed by the end of 2023. Biden asked congress to reappropriate the funds, as he does not have the power to do so, and congress refused. His hands are mostly tied here from what I understand.

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          Yeah, instead it would be a good idea for Biden to give Congress an ACTUAL reason to impeach him, ensuring that either Cheeto Mussolini or Little Rhonda show up and install a fascist state.

          It’s 20 miles of a 2000-mile border. I’ll take “keep defeat of the impending fascist takeover on the table” over “concrete case for impeaching Sleepy Joe”

          It’s a good goddamn thing some of you aren’t in charge of literally anything.

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        Sounds like bs to me. He had to waive laws to do this. And if he didn’t do this what would happen? Would he get in trouble with the super president?

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          Sounds like you a passionate about the topic, do some more reading do you can understand.

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            So you can’t tell me what’s forcing the president to do this? What repercussions he’d face and from where?

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              Don’t be lazy, if you care so much look it up. The other poster already explained it for you and you chose not to believe it.

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              This fucking guy thinks the president is a king 😂

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              “President” is not “King”

              Money is controlled by Republican Congress.

              Republican Congress is not controlled by Democrat President.

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          Not defending it, since I’m not familiar enough with the topic, but he waived protections provided the laws - not the laws themselves, which must be within his power if he’s done it.

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            Cool. You feel better now that you’ve joined late and got a meaningless jab in? Got that dopamine hit?

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        hahahahahahaha “the man in charge of the country and the political party in power have no say! they have to do the incredibly evil thing! the money couldn’t just sit there and not get used, that would be a worse sin than putting up barbed wire and machine gun nests”