Why arent Americans on the street right now? Isnt this one of those situations of use it or lose it (in terms of rights)?
Mostly because I’m trying to survive and get to the next day. I do not have the financial or social safety net required to do so. Really it’s the latter that is the problem. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted a year. It wasn’t a quick one and done kind of thing. As a society we are much less socially connected than we were in the past and we don’t really have other people to rely on.
I agree with what you are saying, by not marching in the streets I am part of the problem. I don’t know man, shit is fucked. I’m doing what I can but it’s not much.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up like one of the White Rose. It hasn’t even been a century since then, smh.
Fuck
Look i understand individual situations. But its hard for me to belive that between 300M Americans no one has a sunday off.
Someone already tried to off Trump. What more do you want out of us?
Personally, I want everyone to get off their ass, pay attention, and vote in every election.
We should not be deciding who leads with a gun.
That’s my point. A single day isn’t likely going to do anything.
One day is still better than 0 days. What you are saying is: we tried nothing and nothing worked.
Right now they are thinking that people dont care. A massive protest would say to them that you are paying attention, and you dont like it. Also, would embolden the democrats into taking action.
Americans have strong feelings about creeping fascism and like to bitch on social media but that’s about the extent of it. They’re too downtrodden and distracted to do much else. In France if they raise tuition 2% the whole country takes to the streets, riots ensue, cars are burnt. In the US, jaw dropping acts of fascism, cronyism, and corruption happen daily and beyond rage posting it’s mostly crickets. At least there is protesting at the RNC.
I only get two weeks paid leave a year. Can’t afford to miss work because I need my house more. Live in a reddest of red states where my votes never mean anything. Legitimately I have never voted for anyone that has won.
Don’t stop voting.
I don’t want to be murdered by bugaloo boys or whatever
What a nonsense decision, it should be appealed at the very least
Edit a lot has happened so let’s bring some context to this: Hilary Clinton was derided as unfit for presidency because she had a secure server in her private space for emails, some of which were classified.
Meanwhile, Trump literally had boxes of classified documents in a bathroom. Republicans are duplicitous, hypocritical and should not be expected to operate on good faith.
Or if they’re not, then they should show some objectivity and apply the same standards everywhere. What a bunch of clowns
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Buttery males
It will be appealed… assuming Trump doesn’t win and tear the justice department to shreds.
some of which were classified.
But not properly marked as such per DOD regulations when sent to her.
To paraphrase margery tyrell, “He doesn’t care about the consequences because he doesn’t intend to suffer them.”
Trump has fallen ass backwards into a perpetual get out of jail free card. Is it any wonder he acts with impunity when events time after time prove that he is effectively immune from all but the most trivial inconveniences?
I’ve never been more glad to be child free.
I know a couple who’s having a kid in 4 weeks. Lovely people, but by the gods the worst fucking time to be born. I feel bad for their kid.
Thier kid won’t even care who Trump was. Same as any kid in the 80’s caring who Reagan was.
I’m an '80s kid and definitely care about Regan and his impact. He was president for a large chunk of my childhood. I remember some of the later times he was on the news. His impact has forever changed American politics.
You were a 70’s kid if you even knew who Reagan was at the time.
I was born in 81 and definitely knew who Reagan was growing up. I distinctly remember his TV address after challenger exploded.
We sat around, even when I was young, watching the news every night with my family whilst eating. I can tell you I remember some things from the end of his presidency. Right after it, when the Berlin came down, I remember watching the news about it as we were actually at my grandparent’s house for dinner that night. On the other hand, I don’t remember the challenger explosion even though I was in gradeschool at the time. Maybe I’ve just forgotten about it as an adult now in my 40s.
We also had mock elections in gradeschool with the actual presidential candidates. I did misunderstand it and my parents refused to believe, as I did, that I had actually voted and found it hilarious.
Biden needs to use his new powers the Supreme court has given him.
I’m sorry those powers are reserved for Trump.
He doesn’t get them
He should jail the Supreme court members and appoint his own, then he’d have them.
Unfortunately, i don’t think jail strips them of their titles or power. You would have to go further.
They can rule from solitary? That’s news to me…
Have you seen political favor jail? Its a resort that lets you out on weekends for good behavior. If you think they would go to gitmo, then at that point they are dead anyway.
That’s the point, why would he send them to a jail where they could possibly rule from?
In the immunity case, when all the other judges were writing opinions about that case, Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion about a totally different case, this one. He was signaling her to dismiss the case.
I’m so sick of these corrupt motherfuckers
Holy fuck.
Quite honestly, something like this has been pretty obviously coming from the get go. Cannon has consistently made no effort to hide the fact that she’s bought and paid for and was presiding over the case in bad faith.
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Because the Nazis are trying to steal the country and there have been 0 consequences for Thomas while he’s actively taking bribes and encouraging this bullshit.
In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.
“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon wrote.
So she wants a judge to say an investigator can be appointed to gather information to take to a judge?
This is obviously just some Sneeches bullshit. You could just as well argue before it can be brought to a judge, an investigation needs to be done to gather evidence.
So I guess more like chicken and egg.
Honestly, I’m surprised she didn’t just say it was legal because he was still the president since the election was a fraud and the president can do things like that.
They can’t say that because of terms limits.
Oh, this is going to go over well.
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Germany, 1933, calling.
History repeating itself like a carbon copy.
It’s not supposed to happen this fast. There are supposed to be centuries and several generations in between until humanity forgets the atrocities and repeats their mistakes. It’s like, as soon as eyewitness’ are getting scarce the world acts like it never happened.
The fascists never forgot, nor did they ever stop, they’re just not afraid again.
We’re speed-running the Roman Empire RTS game, and we are killing it.
What’s the Rubicon in this era?
November 5th.
This is probably the best answer. If he crosses Nov 5th with a win the Republic is fucked.
I’m going with Covid
Rubicon is the river Ceaser crossed as the no return point before taking over Rome. COVID was not that point for America.
Source? Loss of faith in institutions. An election of incompetent candidates. People literally sacrificing themselves for political ideology. Toilet Paper hoarding shows the greed inherent in the system. Price gouging. Supply chains revealed the fragility of the capitalist economy. Inflation begins and indicates the new normal. The dissipation of pollution during COVID added solar radiation to latent heat increasing climate warming. 2020 was the Rubicon. Climate change will increasingly exacerbate the global economy leading to a destabilization of governments and civil unrest and wars. Am I missing something; was it when the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup?
If you’re going to edit a comment after I replied to you, I’m not even going to bother entertaining reading your edit. Be a normal person.
…for what?
B.s. - Hitler went to prison.
Very interesting timing.
Reminder: in the presidential immunity case, SCOTUS ruled that an “official act” is immune, and only SCOTUS can decide what an “official act” is.
Obviously, this fascist SCOTUS would rule that anything Trump does is official, and anything Biden does is unofficial.
But…if Biden were to take some sort of action that caused a new composition of the court…the new SCOTUS could then rule that action, and any other by Biden, as official.
I think it might be time for Biden to take action.
Yeah, but that would require real huge steel balls and the best the dems can do is a couple dried peas.
Biden is a neoliberal. They are not exactly known for “taking action”. When conservatives make things worse, nothing will fundamentally change under a neoliberal. It’s almost like it’s a neoloberal slogan or something.
Well wouldn’t SCOTUS not accept the changes until they deem them valid? (which they won’t)
There are certain actions Biden could take which would make them no longer be SCOTUS judges. They would be replaced by new judges friendly to Biden.
That Canon lady whom I’m not about to call a judge, and Harlan Crow’s man friend said it’s because Special Counsel Jack Smith was never confirmed as an attorney, where as all other historical Special Counsels were.
So they see him as an unconstitutional representative of the “Administrative State”… Because the rightwing in America are hard line constitutionalists (who still bend shit), they want to destroy the “administrative state” eg. Public Servants, eg. All the stuff that makes up a modern functioning nation.
It goes along with their “defund the government” and “defund the tax system” goals, and their goal to defund all revenue streams of the commons (via privatisation), and “getting rid of red tape” (eg. Public protections).
In the minds of conservatives there should be a basic criminal justice system, and nothing else. That’s what they see as government.
Of course when they get into power it’s all embezzlement and golden handshakes with corporate friends… So there’s the facade they believe in and then what actually happens when they get into office, as there always is in politics.
…now with Project 2025, this pattern may never end.
You know, I’m beginning to think this judge Cannon isn’t impartial.
Ah, the sweet sound of corruption. What a nice gift from someone appointed by Trump to a powerful and well-paid position. I can hear Anastacia singing on the judges’ radio: “I paid my dues.”
Fuck this timeline.
