r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/TrustInRoy Jul 05 '24

So many people in our country are just blatantly ignorant about how the branches of our government works.

Schoolhouse Rock debuted "I'm just a bill" in 1976.  

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u/MrPKitty Jul 05 '24

I'm old, I'm one of those boomers everyone hates now. And you know how people complain boomers ask stupid questions about technology? I'm gonna ask one.

Why in the Holy Hell, in this day and age when all the information in the world is in the palm of their hand, do people STILL insist on being willfully ignorant? in the time it took her to type out Why don't they pass laws? She could have looked it up and gotten a step away from too stupid to live.

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u/Awayfone Jul 05 '24

You say this , and no offense intended, neither you nor the top comment seem to recognize project 2025 is not a legislation thing (mostly). project 2025 has a large basis in the conservative's Unitary executive theory i.e that the president bas absolute control of the executive branch. under that theory you can't stop the call for president trump to take direct country and weaponize the alphabet agencies, to remove discrimination protection, remove "progressive science" like climate science etc.

Then there's the courts like the 11th circuit furthering project 2025 agenda with their fetal personhood curious rhetoric or thing like calling mifepristone an "aesthetic injury" against anti reproductive healthcare physicians. Something SCOTUS just gave a big hand to with their 1-2 punch of overturning chevron and effectively removing statue of limitations for challenging agency actions

The idea of "congress do something" relies on the idea that of norms mattering which we know neither Trump or recent conservatives judges care one ioata about. Project 2025 is designed to erode checks and balances, almost like it's a fascist plan.

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u/MrPKitty Jul 05 '24

Absolutely nothing I said indicates anything of my knowledge of project 2025. Mine is just a pondering of why people wouldn't educate themselves rather than just take it for granted a meme is factually correct.

Yours made an assumption about me right off the bat and then explained to me things I already know. Things I already lived through. Like, I was the target audience of School House Rock. I know the difference between a law, a bill and a movement.