Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.
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I struggle to think of a time when the US effectively held wealthy people responsible for running roughshod over our country. We flubbed it after the civil war we flubbed it for nixon we flubbed it for bankers in 2008 and we flubbed it for trump when we could've stopped this. i don't have much hope
I was thinking about the South African model, but I wonder if the U.S. let the Confederates off too easy the first time around. I’m torn between forgiveness and firing squads.
Heritage foundation is raging against #RankedChoiceVoting. This is a very good time to fight for that in our local and state pre-election times. If states can adopt it, chances are we can enact it federally. It’s imperative. Popular vote representation is the only way to safeguard real democracy.
When this is over the billionaire backers and companies who support him should have the assets stripped and use their money to fix the mess. #TaxTheRich
President Biden, especially early in his term, should have been addressing the nation every week about the economy, the rule of law, and the role and tone of public discourse.
Absolutely. I think it’s helpful to imagine how we’re going to deal with the end of all this even when we’re not yet in the middle. There cannot be a let’s just all put it past us kind of thing. This cannot happen again.
All the US needs is the majority of Republicans tried in The Hague. This is happening because they repeatedly abuse their influence in the legal and political systems without any pushback.
Put some of these fools in prison for life and no US politician would dare try it anything for 50-100 years.
All over the place. Usually made up of gullible college students, has-beens from the 60s, and fringe elements for the LBGT community. Most of whom are well meaning, but their message always gets hijacked by that same fringe radical element. Soon to be a historical footnote
We not asking you to keep them in the Netherlands. We just need them sent to trial there to scare the shit out of anyone else in the US who might try it.
As the protests yesterday showed we actually don’t want them in office, but the legal and political systems here are loyal to class over justice.
After four years of legal dithering and delays Trump was still able to get back in the White House. More committees and lunch meetings are not what is called for in this situation.
I worked on the documentary" Long Night's Journey into Day" about Apartheid and you are 100 per cent correct . There will have to be culpability, transparency and admission of serious wrong doing, for us to heal as a country there will need to be a Truth and Reconciliation commission
The United States ends here. What will be left is a broken, dilapidated husk of what once was. We can elect another President, but the world will not forget what the American people have done.
To set things straight the first order of business will be to apologize to the globe and re-recognize the Gulf of Mexico as the true name of that body of water.
I think also if you get the numbers in the state legislatures you need a Constitutional Convention through a Convention of States (not Congressional Proposal) to amend the constitution to ensure another president doesn't abuses their powers as Trump is doing.
Trump is deliberately destroying the economy! It is intentional! Read about ‘Project Russia’ - it's aligned with all the destruction Trump and his regime are doing. It's the overall master plan. He is doing this for Putin to create a new world order. It's described in 'Project Russia' https://bit.ly/4jhvi1A
Whenever people mention "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" I feel obligated to point out that the concept comes from South Africa, where people were compelled to tell the truth and if they didn't they would be prosecuted for their crimes. Let's start with the prosecutions, shall we?
And provide lots of good paying jobs for those who are willing to go for the jugular all the way. Rat out every republican you know. They are all complicit. They are all guilty.
Anyone wondering why there are fences going up around the White House?
Population of the entire world is:
8,191,988,453 billion
Fences around the white house likely wont help trump & 2025 spineless republicans due to approx ...
8,191 988 billion
brand NEW, very pissed off trump ENEMIES.
Seems like if this is ever going to end the leaders and collaborators are going to have to be hanging in the Piazza with their dicks in their mouths before anyone will be able to set up a commission
Fuck Trump… the world waits with an unbridled George Constanza kind of Heinz Ketchup anticipation for the McDonald’s and KFC karma to do their job and save the world from … Trump..!!
Trump can ‘go after’ everyone who didn’t "cow down" to his moronic rants but health Karma can’t be stopped.
Said after Covid, and J6th, and so many other times I forget. The problem is ppl are too divided and distracted to hold these people to account. Maybe that changes this time. Maybe it doesn’t. But if it does change this time, one thing I do know is it won’t be a commission that hold them to account…
That's quaint.Several Supreme Court Judges committed perjury at their confirmation hearing,
Trump stole classified documents put them in a bathroom,Trump tried a coup. America can’t seem to hold rich men accountable. America can’t handle Truth or Reconciliation. Denial is why we are here.
lol. This country doesn’t do “reflection.” Certainly not “remorse.” And MOST certainly not “restitution.”
They are so petty about even mild criticism that they re-elected the dumbest, cruelest, most obvious conmen in human history. All because they felt they personally has something to gain.
We also need to criminalize lying by public officials and candidates for public office on matters pertaining to the public interest. If we had done it ten years ago we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Agreed. And that answer must include complicit Republicans, Fox (Faux) News, (especially Hannity), Peter Thiel, and everyone involved in Project 2025.
It’ll be interesting to see how many R’s stick with Trump now that their constituents are going broke.
I'm thinking more a Nuremburg-style tribunal, honestly. We passed "truth and reconciliation" territory when the administration started selling slaves to El Salvador.
Should there be real elections. Should the Dems win. Who of them will have the balls to treat these officials to the same lovely things they have conflicted on others?
Punishment is never gonna happen under the present legal system even if the wrongdoing is proved. They are so rich and powerful, they will keep on creating legal hurdles until they die.
Don't need another commission. Need courts that aren't afraid to enforce their decisions and who will follow the Constitution rather than skirt around it. Screw another commission.
They're going to need to redesign the whole rules system around electing a POTUS & take it away from being dependent on honourable people largely voluntarily obeying those rules, such as divesting from business interests. The rules have to become laws
Nothing will change and there will be zero accountability for the republican scum.
Justice system is a joke, especially when you have the funds to appeal and delay.
Yes. Amend the constitution, expand the supreme court and get money out of politics. And as a bonus, tax the fk out of the rich to pay for the damage they've done to this country.
The Usa will need a 2nd Republic with a new Constitution, away with presidential democracy to proper parliamentarian democracy, and they need a one person one vote election system, not this ridiculous electoral college any more.
I want any and all associated with Trump and the fascist Republican Party to be banned from holding ANY public office land sitting on any board for life. Anyone who materially supported these people, donors and official members of the Party, to be disenfranchised for a minimum of 10 years. Prison!
There will be no accounting, at least internally. 77 million people had a decade to figure out Trump was nothing but bad news on an open-book test, and still failed.
As for reconciliation? Please. They voted for cruelty, they're gonna get it in spades. Cut them loose, move on without them.
Yes and unlike SA it should include children.
And make provision which SA didn’t - a small Indian woman stood up and said:
“I am guilty of doing nothing.”
They didn’t know what to do with her…
Truth and Reconciliation? Oh, no, no, no. Arrests. Lots of arrests, starting with Fat Boy and his Couch Potato. Rubio, of course. And so many others. All getting long (the evidence is incontrovertible) long prison terms.
These stupid fuckers all need to be in chains in the dock to answer for this lawless administration. From tariffs to El Salvador…they need to pay with everything they have…including their freedom. That asshole had better hope he’s never out of power again! Fuck!
This was years in the making. Our economic structure cannot survive if we rely on the middle class to lift the rest. And by middle, I refer to the 99%. This is a vast gap in wealth between the two groups. And an honest discussion and policy change is needed.
This sounds like a great job for a bunch of traumatized women who can sleuth the likes of which you've never seen. Just ask every asshole that's been doxed on social media for being a scum.
The collaborators and enablers is the cult called the Republican Party! They will own the pain inflicted on the American people and the world. The Trump name will become like Benedict Arnold.
Yes- in particular, members of Congress/cabinet who stood to gain by a collapse of the US financials assets. For instance, anyone who might be very long US bonds or short equities.
Because he managed to keep delaying all the trials until the Supreme Court forced them to be dropped. And because the Senate GOP voted "no" on impeachment.
And a serious penalty phase. Let's not forget that part, please. It needs to be a serious deterrent for the people who will come along behind him who are just like him.
I think it's kind of interesting how we all try to imagine the end, because we really have no understanding whatsoever of the *middle*... which is much much scarier to contemplate.
Maybe I won’t survive to see this happen but every GOP House & Senate representative needs to be sent in front of the courts for not upholding their duty to protect our democracy.
I was just thinking this today. We need the full story of all the accountable people who contributed to and allowed this to happen, going back ten years to the start of this.
The entire administration, Republican party, and a good number of Dems.
Then the courts. The media, mainstream and otherwise.
The billionaires and corporations. The the thinktanks, foundations, academies and societies.
It'll be cleaning the Augean Stables, but necessary.
If we'd had a Truth & Reconciliation process after the civil rights era to address historic & lingering white supremacy, we might not be where we are now. So many people last year might not have been willing to follow such an incompetent fool running on flaming racism.
I'd agree if it meant the commission had to do with the indigenous people or black people in the US. However, the majority of people involved in what is suggested are white. Perhaps focus on a functioning legal system and constitution that didn't allow this to happen.
It would possibly be useful to have Esther Perel, be part of the dialogue of what criteria to define Truth & Reconciliation means in this context.
I think this, because her expertise is on Conflict...which is essentially what's occurring.
Congress! Do they have the balls to do the right thing & stop the insanity and what appears to be the purposeful destruction of financial markets around the world. All for the desire to give tax cuts to the rich. Crazy sht? How can Congress shirk their responsibility at this dire moment in history!
Wishful thinking when Americans cant even agree there was a Native American genocide or they killed 2M civilians in Vietnam. How about start with something small like ‘Stole Hawaii from the Hawaiians’ and go from there.
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The Jan 6th Committee.
AG Garland dragged his feet and Trump pushed the trials back until it was too late to hold him accountable.
SCOTUS also helped too.
And the Daughters of MAGA will form, selling false history and erecting statues to MAGA “heroes”, waiting for the chance to rise again. And again.
"Wir haben es nicht gewusst".
President Biden, especially early in his term, should have been addressing the nation every week about the economy, the rule of law, and the role and tone of public discourse.
Put some of these fools in prison for life and no US politician would dare try it anything for 50-100 years.
We, the democratic, value based world, have to watch and learn.
Far right, far left.. they are all dangerous. We need a strong middle. And the US needs to get rid of their money based politics.
In general far left, far right...everything where you extreme it never works out. Not in the US, not in Europe...nowhere..
As the protests yesterday showed we actually don’t want them in office, but the legal and political systems here are loyal to class over justice.
Why do I get the feeling that V For Vendetta will be the roadmap for resistance...
We The Losers ..
The whole Trump admin should be locked in a room with Doom Guy. But no weapons; melee only.
Gordon Freeman/John-117 2028!
I want DeMAGAfication to be like the Nuremberg Trials, with gallows and all. Everyone in ICE who hassled innocent immigrants ought to go.
am not partial to ‘wishful thinking’!
Traitors get the firing squad.
Population of the entire world is:
8,191,988,453 billion
Fences around the white house likely wont help trump & 2025 spineless republicans due to approx ...
8,191 988 billion
brand NEW, very pissed off trump ENEMIES.
Trump can ‘go after’ everyone who didn’t "cow down" to his moronic rants but health Karma can’t be stopped.
Trump stole classified documents put them in a bathroom,Trump tried a coup. America can’t seem to hold rich men accountable. America can’t handle Truth or Reconciliation. Denial is why we are here.
They are so petty about even mild criticism that they re-elected the dumbest, cruelest, most obvious conmen in human history. All because they felt they personally has something to gain.
Dems quickly forget this energy once the protests subside. Make it clear they are being held accountable.
It's not a tit-for-tat equation; in this case it's about the illegal abuse of due process.
And in all other cases it may well be about other law-breaking.
And that's not a political.
It’ll be interesting to see how many R’s stick with Trump now that their constituents are going broke.
Did you know that there is a city of nuremberg in the United States?
Nuremberg in Pennsylvania, located in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties.
These fuckers have to pay.
Reject fascism!
Revolution is now!
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The problem is that too many elites have too much impunity and a whole hell of a lot of them need to get thrown in a fucking hole for a long time
Yeah just look at how well all that time and money spent on the J6 committee turned things around for us.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Talk about it.
Investigate.
Talk more.
And here we are!
Woohoo! This ride is fun let’s do it again!
We are so fucked!
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Assuming we the people don't decide to re-enact the French Revolution before then.
Burner phones will be destroyed and chat logs never stored because they're using improper channels of communication.
Only the fringe insiders will leave a trail around the outer bubble.
Justice system is a joke, especially when you have the funds to appeal and delay.
They need to do away with their districting as well. Proportional representation would work.
I'm not American btw.
mutli seat constituencies
no corporate and limited individual political contributions
Media regulation (outlaw bias)
As for reconciliation? Please. They voted for cruelty, they're gonna get it in spades. Cut them loose, move on without them.
Step one: get the couple of handfuls of billionaires who have bent our society to enriching them to betray themselves.
They will never let this happen.
And make provision which SA didn’t - a small Indian woman stood up and said:
“I am guilty of doing nothing.”
They didn’t know what to do with her…
This hydra isn't led by the public clowns.
I am sure Europe and Japan will be more than happy to return the favor and help organize the Mar-a-Lago trials...
“Truth and Reconciliation” does not apply here.
That’s worked so well in the past!
• Occupied by alien armies.
• Worthless currency.
• Widespread despair.
We keep trying to imagine the future to figure out the guaranteed path to victory. It doesn’t exist.
We have to figure it out as we go (the process).
Something has to be done so it will be. No negativity. Let's do it.
They didn't care re Sen Joe McCarthy... & bypassed the 1950s-60s civil rights
Domestic terrorism has been hiding WHITE in front of us.
Then the courts. The media, mainstream and otherwise.
The billionaires and corporations. The the thinktanks, foundations, academies and societies.
It'll be cleaning the Augean Stables, but necessary.
Nice to think there will be justice, but it won't happen to those that created all of this
Yes, we need a T & R process.
I think this, because her expertise is on Conflict...which is essentially what's occurring.
Now, where do these unbiased
people come from.
I'm not sure there are any left.