Several White House officials revealed to NBC News that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly “worried” over Canada regarding its ability to defend its borders, with one official saying that Trump’s concern stems from his “vision of ‘solidifying’ the Western Hemisphere,” the outlet reported Sunday.

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    I fucking hate my president, but the whole government is complicit.

    Supreme Court? Nah, team fascist.

    Congress? Nah, team fascist.

    Where the fuck are the SEPARATION OF POWERS and CHECKS AND BALANCES we learned about in civics class?

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      Turns out checks and balances don’t mean shit if no one actually defends them.

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        If congress, supreme court, and executive are majority same party — there’s no power left to check or balance.

        If we had ranked choice voting, we might not be in this mess. Everything devolving into a two-party system has led us to this.

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        If your country survives this, you are due a serious overhaul of your supposed checks and balances and, more generally, of your political system. Too much assumes common decency, which the rest of your political and economix systems have been working hard to eliminate.

        Electoral college? Hyper powerful president? That stuff needs to go.

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      You forgot the Democrats, are also on team fascist. Other than a few they are on board being the complicit corporate owned opposition.

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        I didn’t mention Republicans either. I mentioned Congress as a whole.

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          You can always tell that someone wants to engage in a good faith debate when they can’t even be bothered to actually read what you wrote.

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          Congress is currently led by… Republicans Supreme Court is currently majority… Republicans President is… Republican

          The Democrats that should be loudly opposing in every stage of government for the most part aren’t.

          I am agreeing with your point but there should be another side but they are paid by the fascist donors to be complicit.

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      Reagan with relaxing corporate oversight and then Bush with the Patriot act and lastly Trump packing the Supreme Court really made a fascist’s utopia out of a system that barely had any accountability to start with.

      Not to mention Citizen’s United.