Following the constitutionally designed balance of powers is a good thing, even when some line items appear in the budget which I personally disagree with.

This is what’s known as “compromise,” or otherwise “being a fucking adult.”

Yeah it's called pork.

One man's pork is another man's bacon. That's why it's in the budget. Everything in the budget had someone advocating for it, whether you agree with them or not.

That's part of living in a society. As a child, you may have run into situations where you had to accept something you didn't think was perfect in order to get something you really wanted. This is like the big kid version of that! It's so complicated and so important to do at scale that we actually create these very elaborate systems called "governments" to manage the process. What we found over time was that these big systems could be captured by people who didn't want to compromise, so we invented "Constitutions" that constrain the system, regardless of who is currently operating it.

Right now, you're saying that your personal assessment of what's pork and what's not justifies weakening the system that keeps all of us safe from our government.

lol @ civilized people in 2025 falling for the “authoritarianism in exchange for quality of life promises” trick.