If this shitcircus was only affecting the US i wouldn't care, but it's not.
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It's time to purge the Supreme Court. It's clear that they don't give a shIt about the law or the constitution. They are the activist judges the Republicans always whined about.
Establishment dems are not up to it even if they could win now and they cannot. We need muscular populists that can build and run a political machine, new leadership across the board.
The problem is, I believe, that a large portion of the US population likes the current cruelty and revenge based regime. They are seething with resentment at being made to feel stupid by the "intellectual elites", backwards by the "progressives", ignorant by the "woke", etc and eat up the "you are right to hate those people who make you feel bad" message the christofascists are feeding them.
People are mad and know they are being screwed if not by whom. The right is misdirecting their anger, while the Democrats do not even try to direct it playing the currents the right set.
With real leadership, it would make public opinion. It would Channel the anger towards its actual sources.
By allowing these Democrats to be the opposition we have surrendered the field and waste our efforts on doomed strategies.
People want reform, if we do not give it to them, the right will.
They give them the illusion of change. They tell them that they are changing things but they're actually taking things to their absurd extreme. We're going to publish the democrats by selecting a theocratic autocrat is the same mistake that Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan made. How did that turn out for them? That's the future of the US.
We already knew continually selling the party as we are better than the other guys while constantly ratcheting to the right was not enough to win elections.
The right is offering Solutions and we know the voters do not know any better. We are not, that we is everybody not supporting the right wing.
It is not a new phenomena that voters have been seduced to the dark side and led into alternate realities. Not just the right wing either. The Democratic sheep are just as responsible for what is happening due to my effort mentioned arguments.
They knew what we were facing and they refused to change. Now the political monster they declined to stop will destroy them, if Democrats were stealing elections for decades systematically, they would have to be punished.
Any assurances they have gotten from Republican power Brokers that that is just performative mean nothing.
I predict indictments will come down this time of the year in 2027 on the Democrats for bogus election rigging charges.
It isn't the people who refuse to change. Given understanding and choice most people would choose socialism (not the bullshit socialist boogieman sold by the rich and powerful but actual socialism) over 0.1% of people owning everything and everyone else barely surviving. The people need to tear down the system, to take back all the money that has been stolen by the 0.1% and to rebuild the society to benefit the workers, not the wealthy. I read that if wealth were distributed evenly in the US that every person would have half a million dollars of personal wealth.
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No one actually feels this way naturally, this is all propaganda made up by the conservatives. False grievances combined with forty years of hate radio has taught a large part of the population to hate everyone but their supposed "in" group.
You don't think that the red hats are seeting with resentment at being made to feel stupid by the "intellectual elites"? Why do they complain about the "intellectual elites" then? Why do they complain about the "woke" or the "progressive"? They are seething with resentment about being told that their intolerant, backwards, racist beliefs are bad. That's why they love the cruelty. They love Trump because he's spiteful and cruel. I watched a video where Jennie Gage, a former Mormon, white supremacist, Trumper said, "I loved Trump because he was mean."
Let's be clear, I am not going to blame a large portion of the population for being lied to. I listened to years of Rush Limbaugh (not willingly) so I know where their made-up grievances come from. I have watched countless hours of Fox News, I see how they spin information.
Simply put, propaganda works. They are using the best of psychological to manipulate people. Do I hate it? Yes I do.
They have indoctrinated so many people I know and loved and turned them into haters who parrot their garbage without any critical thought.
Let’s be clear, I am not going to blame a large portion of the population for being lied to.
I'm not blaming them for being lied to. I'm blaming them for not doing the absolute minimum critical thinking to realize that they are being lied to. We've all heard the lies. Tens of millions of people listened to those lies, thought about them critically, and came to the conculsion that they were weapons grade bullshit.
Completely agree. There was a reason conservatives threw a shit fit two decades ago when high schoolers were going to be taught critical thinking skills. They fought tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.
Critical thinking skills and the skills of forming your own opinion and defending it with facts and logic should be taught in grade school. Instead most students are not introduced this until college.
Now you know why the right hates colleges so much and are so desperate to have their ideology taught as factual. They can't have anyone using critical thinking skills otherwise their house of cards will fall down.
Completely agree.
People put out these ideas, but I rarely see who or how they’d like them to be implemented. Who would you want to initiate the purge? Any democrat president fine?
I'd be fine with that. After all, as per SCOTUS it's currently legal for presidents to do just about anything they want and be legally immune from prosecution. I assume this includes dropping traitor judges into black sites. Maybe the new SCOTUS won't make stupid rulings like giving presidents the power of monarchs, and some reasonable laws can be (re-)enacted.
Expanding the court is the generally anticipated way to do that
There are several examples from antiquity that show that the people will solve the problem of the government doesn't.
The vast majority of the time, the replacement ends up being worse. It's tricky business overthrowing a government, and the ones that end up on top are usually the most bloodthirsty and least ethical.
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This is tyranny. Literal and explicit, without exaggeration.
Understand that and act accordingly.
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The Supreme Court is a joke but the clowns are not really funny, more like sad and pathetic.
As it does not really matter what happens as long as "our side" wins, republican voters won't give a fuck. Also does not help that they are a bunch of stupid bigots that will cheer on this "decision".
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When the alien anthropologists find the burnt out husk of our world in the (not so far) future and try to figure out what the hell happened, I hope they find Sotomayor's writings and realize not everyone was batshit crazy.
Did they just erase the 14th Amendment and made it null and void? https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv I get it now. It says no State and not no federal. Federal is not a State.
"Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
I am not a lawyer so don't take this as legal advice. However it seems to me that the Supreme Court really doesn't give a shit about the law, the Constitution, or our rights.
I mean the decision to give presidents immunity from the law made that glaringly obvious
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They gutted the 14th when they allowed Trump to run. They also used it to justify corporate personhood. Facists don’t really uphold anything ever except their own corruption and bigotry.
Didn't the 14th Amendment also bind the federal government to the Bill of Rights at least? One ammendment did anyway but it was implemented oddly by the courts.
The "Bill of Rights" is just a fancy name for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. As such, they are inherently a binding part of the Constitution. No other amendment is required to make them valid.
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Can't wait until the people start fighting back violently.
Make America Gestapo Again
It passed with 66.6% of supreme court judges voting in favour.