Isn't he democratically elected winning both the electoral college and the popular vote? Democracy is not a guarantee that you will get the best or most qualified leader, just the most popular.
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They have to uphold the constitution and the rule of law!
Do you think they just get elected and then do whatever they want? That's not the US, not until this idiocy.
It's even worse when they downplay it and act like nothing's wrong.
Where's the 2A crowd now?
Cheering on the ever encroaching fascism as it happens in real time.
a lot of people myself believe that democrats at this point are as much part of the problem, they do what the lobbyist and ultrarich want and totally ignore the voters.
so why fight half the country to only replace trump with a scum like schumer ?
if dnc was worth voting for then trump would never got elected. instead we have gotten lesser evil junk from them for 3 election in a row, the lesser evil that shamelessly funded a genocide when people have been struggling to buy groceries.
Even if we accept that voting third party is futile we then need to accept that the democratic party leadership needs to be completely purged. But any criticism of the leadership then gets met with "why do you support Trump?".
From over 100 years ago. Humans never really seem to change all that much.
There are lots of threads that make up this tapestry of shit.
- Aipac
- Citizens United v. FEC
- Corporatism
- Regulatory Capture
- High campaign cost
- 2 party system
- Military Industrial Complex
But it seems we could cut (or at least weaken) them all at once by banning lobbying.
Put your money where your mouth is, Letterman. You’re worth almost a half billion, so what are you risking other that being just another rich guy telling others to do the heavy lifting while you stay nice and safe?
Sad to say that in a fascist regime, even speaking up like this puts a target on Letterman's back. Trump is thin-skinned and petty.
Moving the average at "something is wrong" towards "let's do something about it" is a step in the right direction.
Unfortunately it will take popular people being targeted with severe injustice to raise the ire of the public at large. If high profile wealth wants to play it safe the masses will suffer much greater losses before change can be effected.
And just what is it exactly that you are risking here just calling it down online on a forum?
What is it you hope to achieve here in a world of updoots voters and influencers?
You’re playing the exact same game.
You don’t know what we’ve done. I can’t doxx myself to tell you what my family will likely be dealing with thanks to political action. Suffice to say we’ll probably be single income in short order, at least for a while, thanks to actual risk taken.
That’s not at all true. Totally different circumstances and stakes. They’re saying that this guy has a massive fortune that could go toward this directly. They’re not saying “What are you doing other than speaking up?” as if it just stops there and Letterperson needs to “get in the streets” or something.
Think about it like this. If it’s true that he could spend $250M and still not feel a dent, imagine what he could fund. Independent media. Thousands of artists. Political canvassers. Twitch streamers. Progressive software companies. So many ideas. That’s what they’re talking about, not whether or not he shows up at the local DSA.
You believe he's doing nothing because why? He said this, and he has resources. I assume he's acting as well.
Agreed. As is his followers. Followers also have power to act. This is why I don’t get why people call down these messages. It just seems like the wrong fight to pick here. It’s infighting and it’s helping no one. It needs to stop.
I bet these are just russian bots they talk about controlling the media and shit stirring. Watch how they don’t respond to you now that you called it out. It’s the same on Reddit only on there you and I would be banned by now.
Noted. But he also has supporters who are also rich who could also do this. So I don’t see why making a statement was wrong. It just seems like the wrong fight to pick and useless. This. This is the infighting the right use against the left all the time and you’re ensuring it is successful. You’re not here to help anyone.
The Republican Party dies as soon as that happens. Every Republican knows it. That's why they will fight to keep it from happening and grift the situation as long as they can.
Fascism does not outlive the guy at its center. It can't. Anybody who could step up to take control would have been a threat to the old leader's position. The leader, therefore, has to make sure his people are loyal to him personally, and that tends to select for people who aren't very competent and are incapable of fermenting the same sort of faux populist up swell.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
That moment when even they admit if the dems did this; reps would go wild.
Presidency isn’t a business that closes once the term is up. It’s a turn in the game. They kept forgetting that until the plane happened.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
Keep dreaming.
The republicans realized it yesterday when he took the plane. That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
I'll believe that when they do something about him
That was the nail in the coffin of their party.
Thing is, I heard that multiple times during his first term.
I'm not saying you are wrong, maybe you are right. But I'm not so easily convinced after all the shit he consistently gets away with. There were people on their covid death beds who were still anti-mask/vax and pro-Trump.
If people are still stubbornly holding onto their beliefs as they directly face their own mortality more or less because of them, its hard to imagine a bribe being the red line.
"...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win." - Richard Rahl
Idk if we should be listening to crystal meth Santa clause.
LET 👏 HIM 👏 COOK 👏
Honestly US has too many retarded people for democracy.
Let's not resort to ableist language just to try to make a point, please.
Osho said it best.
Garbage in, garbage out.
We've got a mass media that exists to pump everyone's brains full of Fear, Uncertainty, and Distraction.
From local "If it bleeds, it leads" news coverage to shopping aisles full of celebrity gossip and fad diet magazines to damned near every radio channel in America being operated by two companies that are owned by white supremacist families... we're all living in a soup of ignorance and hate. We have been since we were born.
Is it any surprise more people are angry at Muslim migrants than local mega-churches? That foreign governments are more vilified than domestic lobbying firms? That the homosexual agenda is scarier than climate change?
Whining about "the people" seems short-sighted when you're living in the shadow of the Big Racist Propaganda Machine.
The sad part is how many otherwise nice people it's turned into total hateful monsters, and there's no way they'll be brought back. We will be a full on dictatorship soon and they don't care as long as the gays and Trans are gone.
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