if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
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you cannot rebuild american society with this supreme court. you cannot rebuild american society while billionaires pour money into politics. you cannot rebuild by meeting segregationists half way.
That plus the post Civil War era Reconstruction here but without Johnson cutting it off at the knees and setting up Jim Crow. The rot has to be fully removed before healing can begin
Without really big measures the world knows that at any point another Trump-like guy might be less than 4 years away from being elected, possibly much faster. Not really a basis for long-term partnerships
Imprison Musk, Sacks and Thiel. Denaturalize and deport Bhattacharya and Dhillon. Purge Russian and Chinese influences from government and businesses. And kill Citizens United.
He's probably thinking of anti-Communist beliefs that were held during the Cold War era. I get it... I don't really like it and it's kind of the wrong message since it's more extremist shit like this alt-Right bullshit that's near neo-Nazi shit we need to get rid of in general, but I get it.
May I suggest also to add the revolutionary process of Portugal.The lesson here, with the group of nine, is the armed forces stopped both extremes. We do have our own “trumpers, but not as bad as literal neonazis.
Maybe think of something original instead of just referring to something from history. It's lazy. That's what my sigh was about. Assume it's "misinformed". Lol it's clearly not.
But that could only happen even to the extent it did, with TOTAL military defeat of the Nazis. This time around, in the US, it may be a lot messier, not a clear cut regime change either way.
Hint: West Germany didn't *really* denazify, they just agreed to not talk about it in public as much anymore. Old saying from the time: Bundeswehr: same officers in new uniforms; NVA: new officers in the old uniforms.
I think we’re far closer to Mussolini Italy than Germany. A fast acceleration, a complete and irrefutable collapse and the rebuilding of fascism will be a future we *will* have to take seriously
Fascism got us here and more than likely a lot of folks will believe a different and more organized flavor will get us out—not true, but its some rust you can’t recover from, you must buffer that shit off
It's also tremendously illuminating on the ways it didn't go far enough and how we could avoid those mistakes. Operation paperclip and the absorbition of elements of nazi military leadership to help fight the cold war is a mistake we can't afford to repeat
The bigger problem is the biological one. Conservative brains have not evolved to prevent their amygdalas from overreacting to perceived threats. The lizard brain part is in the driver’s seat, where fear, anger and suspicion meet.
We had the chance to reduce those genetics after the Civil War.
There’s nothing genetic about political leanings. Instead we have to address the conditions and rhetoric that take advantage of people’s fear and scarcity response.
Isn’t that kind of putting the cart in front of the horse? Because so far we have mostly historical cases of either a relatively swift end by outside force (e.g. Germany) or 40 years of rule (e.g. Spain).
I believe in the goodness of the American people which both sides of the boomer ruling class have exploited and taken advantage over the past 30-40 yrs. I have always hoped we would come thru this with a renewed determination to build a new type of future not this old one.
The thing is that basically everybody with any expertise in Germany was a member of the Nazi Party. You had to be to hold any position with any influence. Doesn’t mean they were hardcore Nazis. So denazification didn’t go after everybody, so lots of Nazis still held power.
And these folks had varying degrees of sympathy with Nazi ideas. That’s hard to sort out. The other model would be kicking everybody with any affiliation with the party out of any position with influence. There is a good example of that in Iraq.
We tried full de-ba’athification and it…did not go well. Slightly different situations from what we might be facing. Happy to support taxing billionaires into oblivion and jailing a lot of the current admin. But purging the entire GOP may prove counterproductive.
Agreed. Get big money lobbyists/super PACs out. Tax high earners proportionately and appropriately. End this veneration of money that leads to the willful neglect of people.
Good luck with that attempt.
It's a money worshipping cult - ongoing for thousands of years.
You need to end the Neolithic Revolution. And offer something more attractive.
We need an alternative at least. This is destroying the planet.
You cannot rebuild American society while giving the military a blank check to cause death and destruction around the world and giving Israel everything they need to continue genociding Palestinians
We must come to terms with the reality that violence and oppression against women is alive and well, and even supported. So many of the administration have a known history of abuse, sexual assault, etc. and are now aiming to reduce women’s rights. We judge other countries when ours is also guilty.
Everybody is talking about the stock market because there's a nice red number to focus on. But the same damage is being done everywhere, it's just not as easy to put a number on.
The recent election of the Wisconsin supreme court justice proves $ in elections can be soundly defeated. Just one vote flipped on the supreme court will change a ruling. Segregationists, much to their chagrin, can be replaced.
I still do not the absolute immunity of the POTUS. Presidents were not supposed to be rulers without bounds, and currently the checks and balances seem badly off balance.
You need to stop the bleeding before any of this may happen. That’s all I want at this point. A constitutional amendment against Citizens United would be great eventually, but we are in triage not treatment.
you may disagree, but the same judges and constitution that we demand Trump respects, we also should respect when they rule that the executive has the authority. The people will also have their say come the mid terms. there is no constitutional crisis. I wish everyone would stop the fear mongering
Exactly. People need to go to jail. People need to be stripped of power & not allowed to return to it.
After the ‘08 recession, one of the biggest mistakes was allowing the same people who created it to get positions in govt or biz to influence future economics! No one faced personal consequences!
Spot on. Anyone involved in the blatant lawlessness and subservience to our enemies needs to go to prison..but not 4 years down the road.
The trust the world had in the United States is gone. Forever. It will take decades, or longer, for the US to be a beneficial mover and shaker on the world stage
Has to start with the earliest successor to Donald, though... and it better not be J.D. Vance or another crony like him, or else we're just going to kiss that opportunity goodbye early on!
Yes. As hard as trumps cruelty and insane policies are going to hurt MAGAots, I can’t imagine that that they’d want to keep going with the destruction of their way of life, and our country. But… I was wrong before. And the lack of awareness and intelligence from his base is mind boggling. We’ll see.
And we need MAJOR reform of our institutions, i.e.
1) End the filibuster
2) End money in politics
3) End gerrymandering
4) Restore the Voting Rights Act
5) End the electoral college
And if we're really serious, abolish the Senate and set up a parliamentary system.
True, but considering how we weren't always the best ourselves, I'd honestly be okay with that. Need some humility and shit like that in our lifetimes, anyway.
Agreed. I think they should all be sent to an El Salvadoran jail, just to make the point. When their lawyers ask how long, tell them we don't know how to get them back.
at the very fucking minimum, barred from running for ANY local, state, or federal government ever. No ability to serve in any position of power or authority. Never again should MAGA set foot in or have a voice in ANY official position.
we do not want it back the way it was. that way was broken for most people. it worked ok for some, and really well for a tiny few. the rest of us got crumbs from the people who we voted in to see to our interests. repeal citizens united is the first order of business when the cheeto is in the bin
A good start would be to nationalize all of Musk's american assets then do the same with Rupert Murdoch then strip both of them of the US citizenship & ship them back to where they came from.
Sure all of that except you cannot strip people of their wealth without proof of their ill gotten gains we can not afford to break our own supreme laws in order to charge someone and taking their wealth otherwise is robbery just like they're doing which is a crime called fruit of the poisonous tree.
When we get our country back, yes they all need to be tried and punished. We will be back in the streets to demand justice if they don't. It's not good enough for representatives to get voted out and to go away, we must demand them to be arrested as co conspirators, traitors etc. and be indicted.
The federal government needs to be smaller with less power. No more pardons. The Supreme Court and Congress should have age and term limits, and body increased to dilute power. Only Congress should decide on war and economics. Government Departments leads should voted in every 4 years by the people
Begin with JdV and All of the public servants on that Houthi small group SIGNAL chat! They Know that Negligent Disregard for American Lives and National Security is ILLEGAL.
The majority of Americans would rather the country die rather than face up to what they have done to it. America is cooked. I'm already over it. One can mourn only so long.
Naa we're just going to have to fight. History is full of people who defeated an enormous, repressive empire. The US itself, at a time when its domestic manufacturing capacity was lightyears beyond what it is now, was defeated by Vietnam and, effectively, China and Korea. More recently, Afghanistan.
Nope. Which gets us back to @fleerultra.bsky.social 's point about no more half measures. We should have eradicated this political disease after the Civil War in the US, and after WWII globally, but we hated communism and loved money more than we loved democracy.
This is the inevitable way forward for the USA & that it didn't happen 20 or so years ago has ALOT to do with where we are now. The genocidal human stain on the planet.
Prison, stripped of wealth, and a few special cases need to be liberated from their miserable lives, cremated, and ashes sent to space where they can not be worshipped or celebrated ever again.
Which is exactly what will not happen without violence. Democracies always resulted from people taking power by force, sometimes without peacefully (GDR...), but often with a lot of bloodshed. It basically comes down to how much force those in power are ready to use.
I don’t see why Special Courts could not be set up to strip his collaborators of their wealth to make reparations that could be used to rebuild the institutions and lives they have helped destroy. And no messing about. Accounts frozen, property taken, make them all pay and pay big.
it starts - it doesn’t end, but it starts - with packing the courts from bottom to top; enacting massive, confiscatory taxation on wealth above $100mm; and going completely scorched earth on crypto and Silicon Valley generally, banning the former and breaking the latter on the wheel.
The last time this should have happened was in 2008, and Obama and Dems didn’t punish a soul. Which to me, helped lead us to Trump. Maybe Dems will learn their lesson this time. But don’t hold your breath. Dems are just as useless.
If you're incentive isn't making the world a better place and helping your fellow man is kind of the reason why there shouldn't be billionaires in the first place just my thinking
Yes! But $ to spend on making the world a better place have to be generated. Why not “graciously” let the ones who are or have become really rich pay a significant amount in taxes on $ over a certain amount. This was the case in the 50’ & 60’s and helped grow social services & the middle class.
I think we actually are saying the same thing. Severe taxing would prob limit billionaires while keeping the millionaires striving for more. The more they make, the more America can spend doing good. That’s ideal in my book.
Raise the top marginal rates back up to Eisenhower levels — 90-95%. Do away with all rich people loopholes like carried interest or lower rates for cap gains. Same high rates on all estates excluding family farms over $50M. Institute Warren wealth taxes on high net worth individuals.
A lot of people need to be removed from the office they were appointed to...complicit in destruction of rule of law, government, and destruction of constitution....terrorism
We’ll need at least a 1 time tax or forced divestment for anyone with a net worth over $1B. Split up the largest 25-50 companies. Implement annual auditing of the top 1%. A comprehensive readjustment is necessary.
The entire Republican congress in both Houses should be imprisoned for life for their role of malfeasance in supporting Trump's treasonous crimes against America. They are the ones who refuse to impeachment & imprison Trump by aiding & abetting our enemy Putin & Russian government. #TheEnemyWithin
Agree 100%. Status quo is broken - and political system, economy & society need to be fundamentally changed if we are to avoid technocratic dictatorship.
Yes, we need to start by telling any serious candidates that they need to immediately decline pac $.
Booker, the very next day after his 25 hr speech, voted for the arms sale to Îśŕåęľ.
His speech, commendable. & we can't let perfect be the enemy of good enough rn, but we demand actual change.
I say decline pac $ now because it's going to take time to remove Citizens United.
So just like we're primarying 🟥 who are kowtowing to Felon47, we need to put pressure on establishment 🔵 who will never fully support the things working class Americans demand because they continue to work for pac$.
Unfortunately we have no opposition party. The dems would be more than happy to hold up literal resurrected hitler over ever conceding anything to the left
Unfortunately if the world does not trust USA post Trump, all institutions will be affected. For example universities could fall off a cliff. World sports events? If there's no trust?
That's why the successor has to come from someone that isn't Trump affiliated whatsoever in order to help regain trust in the U.S.A. going forward. If his successor is J.D. Vance or another Republican crony like him, might as well kiss that hope goodbye right here and now!
Not if it only 1-2 terms before we get Pres Vance or Pres Rubio. That’s the same kind of instability that the rest of the world is rejecting now. The Republicans need to be completely reformed to remove their MAGA elements & get X-o fascism out of their ranks for good.
Yes, but how do you ensure that? If the Dems remain the same useless lot we have now with no real policy initiatives & this pointless incrementalist attitude towards “progress”, we’ll be back here again after 1-2 terms. People have short memories, as we saw last year.
Oh, absolutely, I'm not denying that notion! I say it's high time the new blood takes over things already, for one thing. After that, I think AOC is probably the best bet to get shit together for the U.S.A., especially since she had the guts to ask Trump voters that also voted for her earlier on.
Agreed. But none of that will happen. And I'm not sure we can ever earn back the world's trust. We put this maniac in the White House TWICE. We could elect another Obama in 2028, and they would always wonder if we might lose our minds again 4 years later. Treaties, shared intelligence, etc.--gone.
Its going to be a "long" road back, our deficit, national security ruined the fabric we are bruised. China diversified their portfolio around the world, while we showed aggression by setting up military bases and intervention that brought in immigrants. Trump cry me a river.... You're a scam!
I need blue hairs in the federal government cutting off every dollar to right wing tech billionaires. I need melanoma deported. I need everyone even remotely involved with the. El Salvador’s stuff literally shipped to The Hague.
I was actually thinking that if something approaching a Nuremberg trial process happens to the members of this admin and those carrying out its unlawful orders, maybe let’s send them to the Temple of Doom and lower them into the fire pit.
And a lot of changes to the limits of Presidential power!! The Supreme Court needs to get off of the politics the way they have since Trump became President the first time. Their giving license to do anything he wants without punishment was their worst mistake EVER!!!
The Roberts Court gave us Trump with it's Citizens United decision and then the Presidential Immunity decision. That's the origin of our current problem.
We are tearing things down, why not rulings? We will also need to tear down Citizen's United. Something along the lines of 1st amendment (any amendments) applied to humans not companies, trusts, entities with hate speech and threatening language not protected.
We need to do a lot of Spring cleaning and breaking things before we can put everything back together in a way that works for modern American society going forward.
The Fairness Doctrine was in place from 1949 until Ronald Reagan decided in 1985 that it was not necessary because he didn't like the bad press he was getting. Clearly this is NOT a 1st Amendment issue. The Fairness Doctrine was an anti-propaganda measure that benefited Americans.
The problem with this is someone needs to then decides what sides get represented. You have to be very careful NOT to make a very minority opinion sound large because you must broadcast it...one could say that helped get us here.
It is on-going since the Neolithic Revolution. 12,000 years. Same "shit" (corruption) happened on other, separated continents.
Regardless of the political, civic ideology.
You’re right. But when Trumpolini is gone, not all of those things will happen, sadly. The rich are like the common cold or herpes - they’ll never be eradicated.
it's a fine line between justice and revenge
but ... we can't repeat the mistake of Reconstruction when America cut too much slack for those who tried to destroy the nation.
Believe me, many of us are far past the line of slack for many of these motherfuckers. In fact, I'd argue the Nuremburg trials helped set the modern-day standard of what should be done to those fuckers going forward...
Every geriatric (sorry I'm bit of one so I can rightly comment) - needs to be gone - GONE
They need to have younger people run and hand off the remaining 2020's and into the 2030's to qualified, educated, engaged reps that will know how to outreach and re-boot efforts to gain voters
You do realize that all these “fixes” are because of the insane President and his triple play with Congress and the courts? We had a soaring economy, a huge infastructure agreement and Ukraine was holding its own. Under Harris wages were to go up. We “fix things” by taking power away from Trump.
Reddit has gone full MAGA and they have an agenda to push. They censor anything remotely critical of the regime now. I don’t miss that cesspool at all.
Yea I got an automated ban too for saying the Russian ships that are cutting internet cables should be sunk as it is an act of war. Which is a reply to another message that said the same thing. And I got banned automatically for 'promoting violence'... They can go to hell.
Darling, the US has NEVER had the world's trust, your shithole country enslaved our economies, colonized our resources and coup our governments whenever we were getting what we wanted.
Your system is diabolical, nobody should trust the US.
And so, so much legislation will be needed to not only codify “norms”, but also a slew of protections across all of civil service to guard against dunderheaded sociopathy going forward
Your country has capital punishment. Many of the people involved have earned execution for treason and crimea against humanity. Prison and stripping of wealth is all well and good, but cut the head off the snake.
We can institute very high personal taxes over a certain dollar amount and we can set a very high corporate tax rate with almost no exceptions or loopholes for any large businesses. This is real income for America…not pretend tariff “checks”or saving a pittance by ending school lunch programs.
Hearing Obama saying “we’re looking forward not back” and all the W Bush war criminals scurrying around happily in the background
Interesting how they don’t associate incentives-to-consequences for ppl in their class. Only the poors have to be punished to teach them not to steal a loaf of bread.
But illegal invasion, causing millions of refugees and 100s of 1000s of deaths, staggeringly fraudulent finance schemes leading to a 100 year crash in 08; no one going to jail for these things was a signal to the rich that there’s no risk for awful behavior. We’re reaping the unsurprising results
When this happens there can be no bygones be bygones crap like after the civil war. Doing that along with allowing other bad elements into the US after WW2 is want got us here now.
And we should move into their several houses , especially the ones they are only at two weeks of the year. C'mon locals, do us a solid and give up some addresses.
Well if you look at the past record of Democratic Administrations in this regard you will see a very strong lack of commitment to RULE OF LAW and PUNISHING THE GUILTY FOR THEIR CRIMES ...
Mostly we just see them being let off the hook because Dimocrats are cowards....
Exactly, we can't just go halfway with this. We can't settle. We can't stop until we get EVERYTHING we want from National Healthcare, a livable minimum wage, a cap on wealth, obviously rescind every act king shit for brains has done. WE GO ALL THE WAY OR NOTHING AT ALL.
the only way forward that leads to still having a country that can even *try* to live up to some notion of liberty and justice is Reconstruction — and not stopping it early this time
I'd more argue the MAGA movement shit should be that myself. At least the Republican Party has roots with Abraham Lincoln, who's considered one of the best Presidents of the U.S.A. by comparison. The problem is this Republican Party lost those roots entirely since then.
The parties switched after the oligarchs needed to counter FDR's socialism.
They partnered with the Southern Democrats that FDR's party left in the cold, and pulled in corrupt evangelicals to deploy the "Southern Strategy" to become what they are today.
Yeah, pretty much. That's why the view points of both parties shifted to become what they are now (at least to an extent), as well as why things feel as fucked as they are now. 😔
Remove the money & things will improve mostly on their own. Oligarchy is the problem. Take that money & pay down the debt, build housing & infrastructure, universal healthcare, & reduce poverty everywhere in this country.
His goal was to tear down all the good Biden did for this Country, it his plan to end the tariffs then rehire all those he fired and take credit for the result
Preferably amendments that help secure what the Founding Fathers deemed as quantifiable to our certain unalienable rights that among these relate to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (which gay and trans rights definitely count for people's own pursuit of happiness).
Yes! I keep hoping to get engaged with a constitutional scholar or group thereof where different things can be hashed out to be added in a clear, concise way so we avoid things like "originalism", too. There's things that should be simple, like get rid of the slavery exception for incarcerated
people, and the ERA. More detailed items like you note, plus things like a constitutional right to belong to a union (pulled from social democracies like Sweden), etc. We need to ensure that the focus is on the people's rights.
What can I say? I'm someone that paid attention in school, despite other students' attempts to ruin it for me alongside life in general later on. (History was a favorite subject also, by the way. Kind of explains why I'm also into sports history as well as general history.)
IF we take The People's Power back, we must do a first days 'shock and awe' removal to a single, remote location of every bad actor even peripheral to this regime. No due process.
My proposal is that after any given president completes their term, they are immediately led into either a jet that flies straight to the Hague, or an active human-sized blender and I don't particularly which.
x1000! Our unwillingness to do the work BEFORE this shitshow means there is tons more to do. It will take decades. And there is going to be some draconian "seeming" shit to fix all this. Like curtailment of some press "freedom". I hate to even type that. But truth must rule over lies. Ugh.
The “ financial experts” urging calm have no understanding about how financial markets work & what moves them up & down. The worst depression of all time has just begun. The multitude of deranged and destructive fascist Trump actions have not had time to show the immense harm that they will bring.
I’d add that that includes all assets - property, businesses, overseas accounts.. the prisons are the non-cushy kind, there would be no access to social media, fox news…, no sympathetic interviews, & scrubbing toilets for the rest of their lives.. the ppl who ‚just’ benefited get manual labor jobs.
The cancer is inoperable - to remove the malignance is to kill the patient. Fortunately, the patient here is the USA, which is one of the most destructive human entities ever created. The USA as it exists must end for us to have anything better. Our rulers will no abide real reforms.
Congress needs to be put back in charge (and reformed) for any change to be credible over the long term. Nobody will trust us as long as the president can wake up one morning and decide to do a Brexit.
theyll have to roll back the unitary president theory both sides have been working towards for the last 50 years. Well need to strengthen administrative organizations and the law so courts cant gut them again.
You need a second house as a check on the Executive and Congress.
Better to change how Senators qualify instead. Age limits, income limits, minimum experience levels, no outside interests (that last one should apply to ALL that serve in any of the three branches of Government)…
No you do not. The entire purpose of the Senate is to undermine popular representation through the House and keep the power concentrated in the hands of a few.
Most western democracies have unicameral legislatures and are more robust against Executive abuses than the USA.
Listen, if you want to get rid of the Great Compromise, more power to you. In practice, it would require a Constitutional amendment, way heavier lifting than admitting two more states.
I say do away with automatic 2 Senators. You make a deadline — say 15 yrs — any state whose population is more than 15% below the median state pop only gets ONE Senator. Just like the census, you get to add a Senator every 10 yrs if you grow. This does away with tiny states having too much power.
We need to outlaw the republican party, the kkk, the proud boy’s and all the other racist organizations.
Every last republican needs to do time for not defending the constitution. Then be barred from office for life.
It's an interesting question. The project 2025 conspirators. Yarvin, Thiel & others - if project 2025 works they become Gods of the new techno-feudal America. If it fails & goes back to liberal democracy do they just carry on enjoying their billions or do they go to Federal Prison for insurrection?
We can't just change the legal institutions; the moral rot in American culture which led to this moment must be cleansed as well. We need to regulate social media, destroy Fox, and do for social progressivism and democratic values what the education system already does for American nationalism.
A lot of dem politicians are gonna need to lose their jobs for this to happen.
Very few dem party leaders understand the necessity of enforcing the law and imposing consequences on the people responsible for the unabashed criminality in the gop over the last decade.
Absolutely. I've never been shy about locking up street thugs, cops, or white collar criminals. But the sentences for white collar crime (including stealing elections) should be equal to addicting neighborhoods. Less than a decade is far too little.
Change the laws.
The people, sure, but also the institutions: it’s clear the presidency must have meaningful constraints, and the erosion of checks and balances leaves the entire system ripe for abuse and totally unpredictable.
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His arguments are childish
If you retort with actual facts he first pokes holes in it versus looking at the data
It was just reduced to embers that have smoldered and dominated American politics ever since. The Confederacy lost the war and won the peace.
for 80 years they have been siegheiling in their basements all the while the news kept hammering away on "foreigners bad migration no1 problem"
We had the chance to reduce those genetics after the Civil War.
I’m curious to see how much this influenced the conservative mindset.
It's a money worshipping cult - ongoing for thousands of years.
You need to end the Neolithic Revolution. And offer something more attractive.
We need an alternative at least. This is destroying the planet.
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=UZFF0pN9a6OAmnug
After the ‘08 recession, one of the biggest mistakes was allowing the same people who created it to get positions in govt or biz to influence future economics! No one faced personal consequences!
The trust the world had in the United States is gone. Forever. It will take decades, or longer, for the US to be a beneficial mover and shaker on the world stage
1) End the filibuster
2) End money in politics
3) End gerrymandering
4) Restore the Voting Rights Act
5) End the electoral college
And if we're really serious, abolish the Senate and set up a parliamentary system.
Had y’all listened to me we would have literally stopped a global recession.
#DefundThePolice
#KeepYourPromises
#WarCrimesInGaza
What institutions are you going to build,
that anybody should trust you
I think you’re f*cked
A lot of heads must fall, literally, for anyone outside the USA to trust you again.
Two times, holy shit, two times.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0OVCpyn0bgCStNd8rRMZMB3W2WuG6iGmyRJKpph79U/edit?tab=t.0
Lessons must be made of the orchestrators.
Yes, really - we will - along with a DoJ that is strong, confident, aggressive and yet does it by the book
It needs to start from 2016 events and who helped Trump then where that help broke the law or violated the constitution
Now let's take control, damit!
Those who never fought for civil rights can’t understand, or simply they’ve never known ruthlessness, greed and corruption at-scale.
Got news for you people - it's ALL political. That's why it's called politics.
FFS!
I'd rather be over prepared - than caught with my pants down while on the shitter. This article is a must read (I'm not the writer). Maybe - we can get enough people involved - so Trump becomes hesitant. If he blinks, we'll have more time to become organized. https://medium.com/@aletheisthenes/on-april-20th-2025-the-united-states-will-cross-the-point-of-no-return-0aecac04cfc3
Go after monopolies like the old days.
I don’t think this country will be able to for decades.. our courts are so cumbersome
Booker, the very next day after his 25 hr speech, voted for the arms sale to Îśŕåęľ.
His speech, commendable. & we can't let perfect be the enemy of good enough rn, but we demand actual change.
So just like we're primarying 🟥 who are kowtowing to Felon47, we need to put pressure on establishment 🔵 who will never fully support the things working class Americans demand because they continue to work for pac$.
And then after Trump 1.0 as we watched his 2016 Russian election interference crimes run out the clock without being investigated?
Same Democratic Party as now.
Imagine it happening
Literally
Guillotines are the cure
Regardless of the political, civic ideology.
but ... we can't repeat the mistake of Reconstruction when America cut too much slack for those who tried to destroy the nation.
And even with any "special help," it's not like Trump got a mandate...
They need to have younger people run and hand off the remaining 2020's and into the 2030's to qualified, educated, engaged reps that will know how to outreach and re-boot efforts to gain voters
He’s throwing generalizations out there - and when I brought up facts he railed back into me
Don’t have time for people like this anymore
Look at his replies to others
Your system is diabolical, nobody should trust the US.
“They ought not be prosecuted so the nation can heal”
Interesting how they don’t associate incentives-to-consequences for ppl in their class. Only the poors have to be punished to teach them not to steal a loaf of bread.
Also, a bunch of "American institutions" belong in the gutter if you want the world to trust you
Mostly we just see them being let off the hook because Dimocrats are cowards....
They partnered with the Southern Democrats that FDR's party left in the cold, and pulled in corrupt evangelicals to deploy the "Southern Strategy" to become what they are today.
They are in no way the party of Lincoln.
https://Generalstrikeus.com
Better to change how Senators qualify instead. Age limits, income limits, minimum experience levels, no outside interests (that last one should apply to ALL that serve in any of the three branches of Government)…
Most western democracies have unicameral legislatures and are more robust against Executive abuses than the USA.
Every last republican needs to do time for not defending the constitution. Then be barred from office for life.
Very few dem party leaders understand the necessity of enforcing the law and imposing consequences on the people responsible for the unabashed criminality in the gop over the last decade.
Change the laws.