Having said my piece about 2016, we have a chance to right the ship. Expand our hold on the Senate, keep the House and straighten this Court out.
If we really want it, it will happen.
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Correction–untouchable corporations!!!
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I am sure Mitch is annoyed by the mosquito that is tfg, but it is a small price to pay for all those judicial seats.
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Please don’t take this as dogging on your comment but, up until Trump most Americans of voting age hadn’t experienced ultimate worst in electing a person totally unfit to hold any public office. Someone whose views were extreme, the set the conditions of allowing the very worst America has to offer the chance to 'eff the majority of Americans over. Add into the mix the total incompetence of FGP, and I just hope we all have learned this very hard lesson. Voting matters, voting matters each and every election.
Only we can save ourselves.
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On the contrary, we agree 100%.
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Let the internecine fighting begin!
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That’s an improvement.
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The uncovered part of the story. Corruption, both “legal corruption” and “illegal corruption” tends to be much more widespread at the state legislative level of government than in the federal government, owing, no doubt to the lower levels of oversight in the former. But of course, the Justices would never sully themselves by considering the practicalities and realities of the real world.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/program/corruption-study
When we think of political corruption here in the United States a lot of our focus is on what’s happening at the federal level. Or, we associate corruption with other countries like Russian oligarchs or police accepting bribes in Latin America.
But as Oguzhan Dincer will tell you, corruption may actually be more prevalent here in the U.S. at the state and local level, even though it grabs fewer headlines compared to national issues. Oz is an associate professor or economics at Illinois State University and Director of the Institute for Corruption Studies. We spoke with him about his research, measuring legal and illegal corruption in the United States.
State legislators are perceived to be more corrupt than the members of the executive branches in a number of states. In almost half of the states, legislative branches score 3 or higher in illegal corruption. In ten states, illegal corruption in state legislatures is perceived to be “very common.”
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Unfortunately, the majority of this country’s citizens are not getting what we deserve and vote for.
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The courts are there to keep the common folk in line.
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TFG has “border wall personality disorder”.
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Times like this, you regret that dueling has long since been outlawed. A real man, hearing the shit from Drumpf about his wife that Cruz and McConnell have heard, would have demanded satisfaction with pistols or steel. But of course, who ever said Cruz or McConnell were “real men”?
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We have to save us…and if someone can make the case that it’s impossible, then we are, basically, hobbyists in a very large, internet-based POW camp.
Otherwise: it’s Roe…Roe…Roe your boat, on Roevember 2022
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Degenerate homunculi.
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Thanks to Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema.
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And they’ve made it very clear, to their credit, that given the power they want to use it to put ‘those’ people in their place. In this case, by ‘those’ people they mean non-republicans.
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Coco Chow??
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I understand the appeal of someone like Sanders to the young. What was tragic was the schism between two camps of Democrats in 2016.
And in so doing it was as if twin fire-hoses were turned on, fratricidally…extinguishing a chunk of momentum we needed in 2016.
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To frame this as a theory of an all-powerful state legislature gives way too much credit to the GOP SCOTUS gang. It’s a theory of an all-powerful GOP-majority state legislature. And to be more specific, an all-powerful GOP-majority state legislature in a state that tends blue in the Electoral College.
In the event state legislatures turn blue in states that vote red, these bozos will be tripping over their robes and dropping their gavels to reverse things.
The “constitutional theory” behind this is “Only the GOP wins elections.”
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