Also he has literally no reason to pay her and will never face a single consequence for it.

Counterpoint: gorillas are swole AF .

Say hi to Dr Mike for me.

A large part of that working class is fully captive to the corporate media narratives, and voted for Trump last November. They support this.

America is beyond any possible satire.

Not to mention they say “embedded” as if these goons are dodging sniper fire and mortars in Fallujah. Dude probably got his photo op and then walked over to Erewon for a $19 smoothie.

It is a distraction, but I don’t think it’s on purpose. These are just toxic people that eventually turned on each other.

Put the two together. Deleting people’s records makes them illegal. He now gets to deport illegals without oversight. The rest will be surveilled to keep them in line.

I don’t really believe Trump has the wherewithal to even hold all this in his head at this point. It’s the P2025 ghouls driving this and Trump just gave them all of his authority.

Just make primaries mandatory. Banning consecutive terms is not going to accomplish anything worthwhile. The good things it does are more than matched by the bad, plus it’s a literal limit being placed on democratic choice.

Americans are still searching for simple answers in the form of rules. 'If only we had this rule, then Trump wouldn’t have happened. '. Trump or someone like him was the inevitable result of festering sicknesses in American culture. There are no rules you can come up with that can protect you from that without addressing root causes.

Congrats guys you found a way to make a dating app with an even more skewed sex ratio.

The theoretical argument is that any justice system no matter how well thought out and well intentioned, will eventually result in edge cases where justice fails to be done. Especially when implemented on a large scale. There are already appeals, and those can fail too. Plenty of examples of people actually being railroaded.

You can just accept that , or you turn to democracy to try alleviate the most egregious cases. Thats what the pardon is for - no process, no more appeals. Just the president, the people’s highest representative, and a pen.

It sometimes works (as in, is probably a net benefit) when the person wielding this power fears the people and will pay (at least) a political price for misusing it. Pardoning someone he knows is a complete of the power. Enriching himself by essentially selling pardons throws the whole thing into the world of comedy. Any talk of the theoretical merits of it is laughable.

You can argue that this was inevitable. Maybe you’re right. But that was the intent, and it’s failure is another symptom of the American democracy degenerating towards failure. Trump won’t pay a price for this. Even on conservative forums where they hangwring about “not getting why he’s doing this” (as they stare straight at the naked corruption), none of them will change their votes. Nobody is interested in holding him accountable.

This democratic failure has widespread consequences. The open corruption of the pardons process is actually one of the smaller symptoms of it.

True, but it prescribes rule by one party (the party of the proletariat) alone. In any possible practice this rule can only be held by a party that claims to represent the proletariat, a claim that may or may not be true at any given time.

It’s not “just democracy” when it explicitly prescribes a one party state.

mandates the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party

The democratic part is only within the ruling party, the one that claims to represent the proletariat.

The CCP’s authoritarianism stems in part from their attempt to implement the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The concept itself is pretty weird.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat

My cirulean flag is that I want more flag types.

You’re not really disagreeing. AOC is perceived as the face of the democratic party and it’s true. She’s at least offering consistent resistance while the feckless leadership of the party does nothing but line their pockets and ensure 100 percent unconditional support of Israel to the determient of all else.

I don’t even disagree with your conclusions necessary, if it’s impossible to dislodge Pelosi and Schumer. But building a party from scratch is really fucking hard. Hijacking one might be easier.

Aren’t you a pedophile or am I thinking of someone else?

They just need to invest in H2Flow.

The voters are the problem dude. Congress can take back this power any time they want. They won’t because their constituents don’t know how anything works, and they know that most of them won’t even take an electoral hit for their inaction on this.

There is no rule you can put in place in a democracy that can protect voters from themselves.

Idk I think that only works against worms. Dr Mike here looks like he swallowed a python whole.

Probably, and I’ll denounce and blame them for this just the same. My moral compass is that copyright shouldn’t exist to begin with.

Cool but that issue is not in play here. That is not even close to a mainstream position and none of the actual players in this are working towards that outcome. Taking one side of this on that basis is silly.