Political Discussion and Commentary

Republicans became so partisan the whole system fell apart.

They built a propaganda machine to protect themselves from a Nixon scandal ever happening again, and let it run for three generations.

The results are what we see today.

Republicans took over the court by refusing to appoint Obama's pick and then putting in cronies.

Because the members of our governing bodies are feckless cowards who are terrified of losing their seats by doing anything that slightly stinks of basic ethics.

Because, amd I will say this yet again,

Trump is not the problem.

He is the symptom. If it wasn't him, it would be anybody. He isn't in charge, he isn't calling the shots. The system that enabled his rise will exist after he has a stroke. It won't matter.

He's the distraction. The carnival clown to keep people from watching The Steves too closely (and the rest of the good ol' boys club).

Trump is the result of decades of effort by right wing, authoritarian, racists, and fascist groups all working together to advance their goals. They play the long game and do not give up. They want minority rule, they do not want democracy.

Alot of this started back in the 50's with de-segregation. Check out a documentary called Bad Faith. It lays out how an organization named Council For National Policy (parent org of the Heritage Foundation, by the way) realized they could control alot of voters by controlling pastors and churches. Before Trump was elected, he agreed to play ball, and they put their support behind him. This is why so many religious people follow trump, its because their pastor supports trump.

This is just one example, but there are alot of organizations like this dedicated to evil causes.

Now imagine all these groups working together, across international boarders. If they win, they get to impose their crazy ideals and robbing the American tax payer at the same time.

Because everyone in power across the globe realizes with 100% certainty that WW3 will start in less than 5 years. When that happens there will be a global redrawing of maps and an unprecedented volume of wealth will flow upwards to the .01%.

The closer you are to power, the closer you are to the spoils of the biggest internationally coordinated heist in human history. So while everyone realizes exactly who and what he is, they are all willing to play ball and let him be Caesar because they know that their careers will last longer than his and when the bombs start falling THEY will be among the chosen to form the next generation of leaders. All of maga are in increasingly distant orbits from the nucleus but as long as your group can push yourselfs above the next group at minimum you're not at the bottom.

It's not a race to the top if everyone locks arms and declares themselves part of the top. Fiefdoms will be carved out for oligarchs. City States will be awarded to top donars. Above the law will become an official status for those wealthy enough to purchase a literal get out of jail free card.

Ultimately this will end as all empires, more war. More revolutions. The America I die in will not contain 50 states. In a hundred years the former USA will have been balkenized and exist as a fractured mess of poverty and resource wars with one or two walled in Dubais scattered amongst the rubble.

History will be unable to distinguish the trajectory of the USSR from the USA and we will exist in the social memory as examples of hubris and failure for a hundred generations.

Sweet dreams all.

Because all the leaders of this country are in corporate pockets or too gutless to do anything and regular people don't have enough time to do anything because they're too busy scrambling to make ends meet.

He makes billionaires money.

This will get buried but he isn't. What he is doing is everything he can to appear that way. Think about it. He carefully picked a country whose leader no one would cry over if he kidnapped him. It was a quick strike with a few helicopters. The rest is just posturing. This is a shell of a man desperate for people to stop laughing at him. In a wider sense Republicans can't seem to get people to love them so they can only get their rocks off by trying to scare the most amount of people possible. Let's get back to getting those Epstein files released and not being distracted.

Because anyone in a position to stop him is complicit or a coward

It's on us to gather our communities and force him into an execution

Everyone that can do anything about it makes far too much money by doing nothing at all. Plus social media can manipulate the masses to agree with them doing nothing as the best course of action. So in that environment, Trump is free to do whatever the fuck he wants, and is.

Because we are a failed society.

He's the end result of years of "corporations are people" and "money is free speech" and "celebrities are so smart", he was inevitable. He's always been greedy, and this makes him even more eager to step and fetch it.

A working government that's not for sale would never allow him past the primary. I mean, a working-for-the-people government.

Because the only people that have the authority to stop him either suck his balls for pleasure or have no balls of their own.

Presidents have been afforded enormous unilateral authority dating back to the turn of the 20th century. Particularly post-FDR and during the eternal State of Exception that was the Cold War, they accrued massive bureaucracies for a perpetual war-time footing. They gained significant influence over trade and travel via immigration and customs in an era of industrialized transport. And they operated as a choke point for legislation, via the Veto Pen, which made them critically important when lobbyists were bribing policymakers.

Trump is the apex of this consolidation of authority within the executive branch through what is known as Unitary Executive Theory.

Since the Reagan administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has embraced a stronger unitary executive, which has been championed primarily by its conservative justices, the Federalist Society, and the Heritage Foundation.

By clearing the way of obstructionist judicial authority and hobbling the legislature with aggressive use of the filibuster and other neutralizing tactics, the Presidency has effectively hijacked all the levers of power at the national level.

Add in the privatization of the bureaucracy - first through the Military Industrial Complex, the outsourcing of fiscal policy to the regulatory captured Federal Reserve, and the public-private partnership of the international surveillance/police state - and you invest the President and his cronies with millions of workers, trillions of dollars in capital and spending power, and endless latitude in setting administrative policies.

Trump's tactless deployment of these powers has soured the public on the personage in charge. But the public still doesn't seem to understand how the Presidency - as an institution - has been able to legally wield all this power precisely because the courts and legislature have surrendered it to the office voluntarily.

Once he's gone, the next guy will have all the same tools. The only question is how they're used.

Come on, he doesn't do everything he wants, like bang his daughter.

Because our owners want it this way.

Because a majority of the federal government are helping him, protecting him, or declining to hold him accountable. The rest are powerless to stop him.

Same reason Putin does.

You Americans are official half orcs now too.

Want others to think differently, then do something about it. Otherwise you're just like the Russians but with a fancy outfit and a more capable military.

He doesn't do everything he wants, but what he does do, he does because people in key positions obey him. Why they do that is the more critical question, and for many, it probably comes down to some combination of agreeing with his aims, hoping to profit from it and fear of consequences for disobedience.

For some, it's probably an attempt to do damage control: If they can stay in his good graces, they might be able to dissuade him from the worst excesses. If they refuse his orders, they'll get replaced with a yes-man that'll eagerly lick the rim for a chance to profit from the whole disaster.

For some, it's a belief that they have to obey orders, out of naivety, complacency or a misplaced sense of duty: If Congress has conferred on him the right to give orders. Whether the orders are legal or not is for the court to figure out, so until the court intervenes or Congress strips his right to give orders, the orders are legitimate and I'm obligated to cary them out.

To stand up against illegal orders takes a lot of guts, and for most people it will be a fairly simple matter of "Do I put my life and livelihood on the line? Would I even achieve anything?" The people who would have to defy him are those high up in positions of power, so as long as those people continue to convert his demented demands into orders, the rest will fall in line.

The rich folks have tricked a bunch of really stupid people into fighting against their own interests... it's quite remarkable.

Actually he has failed on so many issues. They call him TACO for a reason. But like any narcissist sociopath, he just keeps trying other approaches... If he actually did everything he wanted to, we'd have had nuclear war already.

Because there’s no laws for the wealthy in our colonialist power structure

Because nobody stops him?

Because it's what Putin wants him to do?

Because nobody stops him?

Because the usa has the biggest bad influence in the world and military

Part of it is that a good 1/3 the US (give or take) thinks most criticism of him is complete hysteria. To paraphrase, “Trump could save a baby and get roasted for it, something something Bernie Sanders.”

And that’s because the US news environment is completely shattered and dystopic. Even talking to family directly, you mostly can’t undo years of immersion.

To be fair, there are a lot of lefty tabloids an influencers that… are kind of hysterical. Or at least present their feeds that way for money.

Anyway, my point is this distortion turns straight up illegal action into a “debate,” not a violation. It gives Trump political capital and the Republicans under his thumb cover to keep shifting to Overton Window.

I dunno if you’re in the US, but this is why Epstein is such a thing: conservatives hammered and hammered pedo cabals for years, and all of a sudden, we get a certified one. It’s very “dangerous” as it’s like the only controversy that could break through all that.