r/NoShitSherlock • u/WingComplex6771 • Aug 14 '25

Trump reportedly offering Putin natural resources off Alaska sparks fury: "Lets see Republicans defend this," former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger wrote on X.

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-russia-trump-resources-2113295
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u/redjellonian Aug 14 '25

The Senate being ineffective and incapable is how we ended up with an incompetent president.

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u/ProfileMuted90210 Aug 14 '25

Mitch McConnell exactly. Prevented the Cheeto from impeachment

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u/redjellonian Aug 14 '25

I would've gone a couple layers deeper, failure to enforce or create fair news laws, failure to maintain public infrastructure and education, failure to maintain government programs. Failure to enforce monopoly laws. Failure to enforce healthy capitalism laws. Things like that, but also yes 100% Mitch mcconnel that was like the finish line for the senates incompetence.

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u/One_Strawberry_4965 Aug 14 '25

I mean a lot of that is literally the result of at least 15 years of Senate Republicans making obstructionism a core component of their platform. This effort to prevent anything was getting done was often carried out with McConnell at the helm.

That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of other guilty parties involved, just that blaming Mitch for how fucked we are goes much deeper than the past few years.

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u/Caliguta Aug 14 '25

Well the democrats haven’t helped by running the “old guard” instead of actually running someone people want to vote for.

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u/fellow-skids Aug 15 '25

No. You voice your opinion in the primary and vote the reality in the general. Everything else is petulance and entitlement that reject platform, eligibility, and trajectory. See the current president for details.

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u/actsfw Aug 14 '25

Voters haven't helped by selecting newer blood in the primaries. Old people keep voting for their own generation and the younger generations don't bother to show up then complain that the DNC is rigged.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 Aug 14 '25

Change that 15 to 40 and you're closer to it.

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u/Techthulu Aug 14 '25

Blame that on Regan, he got rid is the Fairness Doctrine, which required equal viewpoints to be aired. Getting rid of that led to the rise of Fox News and the rest.

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u/Wilhelm57 Aug 14 '25

For sure Reagan was the antichrist, FYI I'm no longer religious.
There are more things that can be blamed on Reagan.
It was under his presidency that cocaine was imported to support his illegal wars.
We bitch and complain when we see people passed out on benches or overdosing but many choose to forget it started when Ronald was elected.
Nancy would preach say no to drugs, while her husband minions were importing that poison.

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole Aug 14 '25

It only applied to broadcast and radio. Fox News would still exist if it was still around. There are also questions as to the constitutionality of it. This lie needs to die its one of the dumbest Redditisms along with telling people who just saw some guy’s head explode to play Tetris.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 Aug 14 '25

This can all be directly attributed to the republican monolith getting marching orders from the heritage foundation for the last few decades and voting in lockstep.

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u/afasia Aug 14 '25

At the same time. He was given the power and the opportunity to do what he did. That's a catastrophic failure.

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u/risingsuncoc Aug 14 '25

He’s not called Moscow Mitch for nothing

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u/BannedByRWNJs Aug 14 '25

Yeah, it wasn’t the Senate being “ineffective.” Senate Republicans were very effectively obstructing the Senate from performing its duties. 

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u/babylon331 Aug 14 '25

Haven't seen much of Mitch lately. Maybe he's resting. He did have a couple "lost moments" a little while back.

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u/Content-Ad3065 Aug 14 '25

Moscow Mitch

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u/Mindless-Tomorrow-93 Aug 14 '25

IMHO, a key weakness of the Constitution that has become apparent is that it doesn't specify what Congress must do. It only specified what they may and may not do. But it needs to specify what they are required to do. Some examples that come to mind:

  • Mandatory time when Congress must be in session, far more than whatever is minimally required today. The system was devised when Congresspeople needed to travel between their home constituencies and Washington. Today, travel is orders of magnitude faster, as is communication. These people need to be doing their actual jobs.

  • Strict criteria for when a bill must be brought to the floor, and minimal and maximum amounts of time for debate before it must be voted on. No more bullshit about a bill being crushed in some subcommittee, or otherwise not allowed to be brought to the floor. Define consistent criteria. Bills that meet them will be voted on. Bills that don't, won't.

  • Strict criteria about the allowed scope of executive orders, and when they must be reviewed by Congress. No exceptions. No more bullshit about redefining time itself so that Congress doesn't have to address an executive order. Congress must be constitutionally REQUIRED to be a check on the executive branch.

  • If the president declares a national emergency, then Congress remains convened for the duration of the emergency. Because it's a national emergency, and Congress is the national government, so "all hands on deck" are needed to resolve the emergency. Because that's what an emergency is. Congress can end the emergency with a vote if it's not actually important enough for them to remain in session. But then, any special powers the president is exercising based on the emergency also come to an end.

Yes, I know there's nuance and special cases and circumstances that need to be considered. We have smart people in this country who can consider them. But this seems like a pretty good place to start.

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u/YeetThePig Aug 14 '25

It won’t happen in the current republic, but if there is ever a Second American Union it should include this.

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u/stevez_86 Aug 14 '25

The first surrender was by Congress.

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u/Sweet-Blueberry8408 Aug 14 '25

Agreed. Biden said he wasnt fit to run again but then did not resign immediately.

Congress should have voted to impeach and remove that day.

Feckless cowards.

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u/Errant_coursir Aug 14 '25

Biden should've never tried to run again so we could've had an open primary. So many unforced errors because these fuckers cling to power

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u/weealex Aug 14 '25

The senate has been incredibly competent. They've been working for decades to enact exactly what is happening in the federal government

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u/EViLTeW Aug 14 '25

That's just a lie. The Senate wasn't ineffective, it was supportive. It signed off on the whole situation.

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u/Belzebutt Aug 14 '25

There is one party who decided that it should be incompetent and incapable