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Cat: I wonder when members of Congress are going to notice the other branches stripping their power away. Dog: The Executive has long cut them out of declaring war and is working on taking control of budgets and funding. Poster: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States Cat: They don't seem to realize their own positions are only powerful as long as they keep their powers. Dog: And now the Supreme Court is just rewriting laws they don't like. Poster: Allowing race to play any part in government decision-making represents a departure from the constitutional rule that applies in almost every other context. Cat: Congresspeople better wake up to how badly they're being mocked by Trump and Roberts. Dog: Like, pretty soon they won't even get insider trading info. Poster: White House Insists Iran War Is Over, Even While Missiles Fly

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I'm not the kind of guy who can quote The Federalist Papers but I'm pretty sure there's a mess of text in there about how the United States government was designed by assholes to keep assholes opposed to one another, thus bringing about stability in a world full of assholes trying to fuck shit up. So, like, the President wants as much power as he can get, right, but then Congress wants as much power as it can get, so the two keep fighting back and forth, and everything remains balanced while normal people get on with their lives. The problem with this system is what we're seeing now: One set of assholes has forgotten that their power relies on this balance and if they become too supine in the face of the other branches, they'll have nothing. At some point the rats that stay aboard the ship get poisoned.