I canāt wait for that day either but wishful thinking that heāll actually leave at the end of his term. The only way heās leaving is in a body bag or by force. Heās made it clear that heās going to run for an unconstitutional 3rd term. We may never rid our senate of this orange menace.
I am hopeful that in the next few months, before he leaves office, a majority of American voters will understand how important it is to marginalize those hateful, greedy elements of our society and leave them seething on the fringe in future elections. May we never have another situation where all branched of our government are held by such dangerous people.
Some Democrats are playing the system for personal gain as well.
It's not just the voting system, but the entire legal system that needs more than just an update.
(And that's not just in the USA. As the first modern democracy much of your design was copied by many other countries, and while that might have been perfectly good at the time, we can all see that our societal operating system is serious need of an upgrade.)
We have made the Federal government way too powerful. Something like 1-4 - 1/3rd of the national income gets filtered through one city. People line up at the trough to get a taste. Then they lobby to get a piece, or to get regulation cut their way or against their competitor.
The founding fathers knew this could be an issue and empowered the states to prevent federalism. The parties don't matter.
We would be better off getting the feds out of everything except defense and a national court. Throw all social programs down to the states. States can't print money and have to balance budgets. It is also harder to lobby 50 individual states. Undoubtably it will still go one, but it would certainly deter it.
IDK. You could be right. Or maybe not? I'm in Europe. Not a big fan of the EU, but I do believe that we stand stronger together. You know the saying, 'divide and conquer'. Individual states will not have the same kind of power as large corporations / some individual billionaires.
It might even be easier to sway local/state politicians than federal ones. (edit: but yes, lobbyists will first focus on the highest political level)
IDK how, but money (edit: commercial lobbying?) needs to be taken out of the political power equation.
Thank u so much for this! Iāve been screaming my head off. This is the 1st Iāve heard of anyone else saying the same thing .If Trump get gets away with cheating to win the midterms, itās all over. Most āChristiansā wouldnāt recognize Jesus if they passed him at the border.
I mean, trump seems like an embaressment to the popular idea of the anti-christ; because trump is too stupid, and blatantly corrupt. Trump would basically be a failed anti-christ; stacked onto all his other failures.
This is the part that a lot of people seem to be missing and I agree šÆ. He is just the figure head being told what to do while much more powerful people control the strings and will still be there once heās gone. To repair this damage would be to completely rebuild the us government.
You do realize that the GOP is the Blue and the Dems are they Greys in that war, yes? I am not saying the political parties haven't been a problem since... John Adams.
The REAL culprit in USAs "problems" are the 9 old men sitting on a bench. (yes there's now women but the tally is like 99% men in the total count). Those 9 people have held the USA back Soooooo many times. 9was fine when population was like a million. We've grown a bit since then. More Justices for more justice.
Did you gloss over that I don't like either party? Did the dems stop taking corporate money when they shifted their policies to be more inclusive and betray the Dixiecrats? No. Did the GOP become "better" when they enacted the Southern Strategy? Hell no.
My point was that BOTH parties are corrupt.
Two parties is a HUGE problem and a parliamentary system would go a long way to helping USA fix itself.
Thatās why I wrote āpeopleā not āpartiesā. Team sports time is long over. The US has a significant bloc of voters that will support some pretty unsupportable stuff.
The Supremes are a problem, yes. But you had a significant bloc of people elect Mitch McConnell who held up the vote to GET that majority. And they were super cool with him doing it too.
The root problem is that bloc. They support Fox News, institutionalized racism and destroying any social support that they, themselves, donāt need.
George Carlin said, āWhere do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out.ā
I would not agree with his speaking in absolutes like that but his general premise of people supporting this nonsense over and over again is legitimate
I just hope there'll be a huge reckoning through our justice system after he leaves office (assuming he doesn't leave it feet first), but I'm not holding my breath. Many ordinary Americans seem to have lost their sense of right and wrong. More's the pity.
I've lost faith in my fellow Americans. We have proven that we cannot be trusted. People voted this man in twice, some people voted for him 3 freaking times!
What do we do with the huge number of Americans that supported him and is policies and actions.? Who think calling women reporters and elected officials, piggy, stupid, nasty and disgusting is acceptable behavior? People who think āYes we are just going to bomb your country unless you do as we sayā that it is good foreign policy and relations?
Trump is just a manifestation of a deeper problem in America, he is the flowering of seeds sown long ago.
Trump's absence won't fix anything until the people who lifted and supported him are in the same boat and even then it will take decades to repair the international damage he's caused.
I guess the next rapist, pedo, felon, grifter who comes to power, destroys institutions and landmarks, shits on the constitution and uses his office to make himself billions richer.Ā
It was āoverā once, and then a bunch of fools went and voted for a felonious, rapist, Insurrectionist again because they love America and Jesus so much?
We can lose Trump at any time, but we cannot lose the Congress members who use him as a figurehead, the Senate members who refuse to protect American infrastructure, the department of justice members who agree with whatever he does, the voting system riggers, the Russian controllers, and the corporate owners who are collecting multi-million dollar kickbacks and bribes.
Trump is a tyrant. Democracy means nothing to him, he won't leave office unless it's in a body bag. Although with his health, hopefully it won't matter.
Bunker at the White House is being built, they gutted the military of Americans with morals and put in place their YES men. They have easily a 3rd of the country behind them. Itās looking like a South American country in the 80-90s with the chosen one becoming a dictator.
Whether Trump dies or leaves office, America remains diminished in the eyes of the world. If your people can elect Bozo the Evil Clown TWICE, the world needs to find a way to avoid America as much as possible. America will not recover from this debacle. The world is creating interconnects that leave America out.
Go bomb an ocean. Go bomb yourself. Preferably bomb the evil regime of Israel. Just stop bombing and threatening the rest of us.
He will have to be forced out of his position. Heās going to do everything in his power to not leave office. And he will have a bunch of his brainwashed followers to help him
Trump is where he is because certain very wealthy people saw, in 2015, someone who is so amoral, and obsessed with acquiring everyone else's wealth for his own, that they could give him the riches he wanted in exchange for enormous back-room power. Once Trump is gone, those people still exist. They will need to be rooted out and destroyed, one way or another.
kinda tough decision but i dont want him to push daisies just yett. i'd want him to live a long life and see the whole world crap on him. after the words "worst president" escapes everyones lips, then i grant him leave to be manure.
Brother Trump going is a given, there'll be no celebration, just broken promises and a deep international crisis if it hasn't escalated to war before that.
Trump was hired as actor for the powers behind his throne. (He was great on the Apprentice!) When he is gone, they will hire another actor, another puppet, and we will still be vulnerable.
This is foolish. The present fascist regime doesn't begin and end with trump. Roughly half the country voted for him...twice!! The base American culture is white supremacist settler-colonialism.Ā Until we do away with that, nothing will significantly change.
Trump isn't the cause, he is only a symptom. It will be very nice when he is gone, but his administration, the people behind project 2025, these people are the ones who need to go as well. This will not end with Trump.
The more I see the orange creature helplessly asleep the more giddy I get! Itās almost over!! When it happens- LOL š The Pooplicans will pull the same move as McConnell if the turd passes
I am not sure we can last that long before it is all destroyed. International friends have expressed alarm at how fast our country is falling and feel enough Americans either don't care or not working hard enough to prevent it.
This makes me think of my mother. She's 69, rarely posts anything on Facebook, and stays away from talking politics most of the time. For years I had no idea whether she was a Trumper or not (I wish more people were like that lol). One day she posts a meme about waking up and not seeing news that Trump died, it was hilarious but I thought maybe she was hacked because she rarely posts anything. When I found out it was really her, I almost peed my pants.
You guys lose your
Minds b/c you lost . Canāt wait to see how bad your temper tantrum will be when you lose the mid terms new flash ā¦ itās not your right to win the election. Get a clue no one wants what the Dems aka gangster are selling
"hang in there" they say... Ya know the US population should be actively doing something to have him removed... Not just saying "wait until later" because based on trumps rhetoric, later will not come, he wants to become permanent ruler of the US...
I get it, Trump did not live up to what he said, but neither have any other presidents, not even the founding fathersā¦so all of a sudden itās time for a revolution? Lol, where were yall the past 200 years?
BOTH parties play the system for personal gain. How many former presidents are middle class? How many politicians are middle class? They all end up $$$$ in the end. We need to get rid of them all and start over
Unfortunately he is not the cause of the corruption merely the result and the fact he's openly stealing while destroying the white house and Constitution, severing NATO and all of our allies doesn't give me much hope going forward even without him at the helm. There needs to be a lot of trials and everyone held accountable for their part either passive or aggressively in helping him accomplish what he has because the safties definitely failed. We also need to rework the supreme court and changes implemented immediately with prison terms handed out then we can start working through the politicians, I would say both parties but they've been working as one for a long time. That's the only way corruption could reach this level.
Actually sitting at a desktop computer, but it's unsurprising a braindead MAGAt would jump to the conclusion that everyone's on their phone. Stay stupid, it's helping!
lol, not so sure about that. Perhaps here in Reddit, sure. But there is a huge cross section of the U.S. (donāt really care about any other countryās opinion on American business) that are in support of Trump. But we labored under Biden and Bush Sr and managed to come out largely unscathed, pretty sure we will again in 2028.
Trump leaving office won't trigger everything going back to normal. There will be a lot of damage to undo and, let's face it, even if the Dems control both the legislative and executive branches, it will take decades. Another self-serving moron will come into office during that time and either slow down the repairs or redo some of the damage. Trump leaving office won't be anything to celebrate, the house is still in ashes.
I'm saving a bottle of champagne for a different headline related to Trump.
Oh wow, you totally dropped a real zinger there buddy. Super proud of ya lil fella. I'd say it's time for chocolate milk, but that just got recalled too.
This shows the level of ignorance amongst the people who think that matter. Politicians do not care about you or your thoughts. Does not mater what politicians you are talking about. IGNORANCE IS THE WEAPON THEY USE. Don't be IGNORANT. Otherwise you are part of the problem
Iām not as optimistic. Until they full denounce him, he will still hold a major influence on the next round of candidates. They will each try to out do the next person to get his attention. Policies, plans, will not be needed. Just whomever he feels should be his successorā¦and then he say he needs a third term. SMH
And yet the Dems STILL cannot put forth a candidate that is not a far left clown and the reason why most of America still will not vote Dem. Get your act together and stop the bs that you really dont believe in. You only say this bs as it flies in the face of anything Trump says. Forget Trump and grow up.
This isn't just going to end the day he is gone you know. The damage he has caused will take a loooong time to fix, if ever.
China has come out of this unscathed, since they literally had to just sit back and watch with popcorn, Russia is still perpetually grinding down because thats a feature of their country at this point anyway, and most of europe is trying to become more self sufficient in defense and probably failing at it.
There is only one winner in the whole world out of all of this, its a tiny little country in the middle east whose name begins with an 'I' and ends with 'L', I think you can work out which one it is.
Everyone:
Why did all the Presidents donate money to the same place
..what does this country...have on us? Why would they have health care...free college....ETC. AND our country is struggling.? I want to understand.
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u/DotAccomplished5484 3h ago
Yesterday would have been 10 years too late.