Reap What You Sow: Trump's Second Term Failures Pt 1

The caveat this time for me would be, yeah, we really need to vote and we really need to vote against Trump's policies, because if this guy is allowed to continue doing the things that he's been doing unchecked by the legislative branch, and that's really what's going on here.

I mean, we have a separation of powers.

We have the judicial, the legislative and the executive.

And for those of you who didn't take civics or cut class that day, that's our checks and balances in our system.

And the way it's supposed to work is that when we have a president like Trump, and this doesn't matter if it's conservative or liberal or whatever, if a president is doing stuff that is unconstitutional, the legislative branch is supposed to check him.

If they can't agree, then the Supreme Court is supposed to decide.

But that's not what's been happening here.

What's been happening is the legislative has been out to lunch.

Because the legislative branch, the Senate and the House are both controlled by not just Republicans, but MAGA Republicans.

And they're just absent.

So when Trump says he's going to issue tariffs, well, that's not even in the executive branch's jurisdiction.

So if the legislative wanted to stop him, they could stop him.

They could just say, hey, you're out of your lane.

Like you're in our jurisdiction right now.

Yeah.

But the reason why Trump has been able to do these things via executive orders is because he knows that the legislative branch isn't going to even attempt to stop him.

The same thing with the war in Iran.

Yeah.

I mean, the Constitution gives the power to declare war that that belongs to the legislative branch.

Now, I know there's been wars that we fought where Congress did not declare war like Vietnam.

But it's not something that is supposed to become the norm.

There are certain things that the commander in chief can do.

And then he's got sort of like a limited amount of time to act without getting congressional approval.

And Trump is long since past that deadline, long since past that deadline.

And once again, the legislative branch is not asserting their power.