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  • Xi became president for life almost a decade ago, Putin ignored term limits in like 2008. Musk is failing to do what they have done, and he doesn't even express any real power over the president given he hid his role from the courts and left the white house with a black eye.

  • I don't think that has ever been true, really. Nor should it be, Laissez Faire is a trainwreck waiting to happen, probably literally and figuratively.

    Textbooks will tell you that the USA, and other countries like China and Russia, are a regulated "Market System" which in some markets teeters on strict Oligopoly.

  • They also created the famine by decentralizing agriculture and planning, but at least that sort of people learned their lesson from it and didn't repeat the exact same blunder in China years later, right?

  • Do any of your replies ever have anything to do with the comment above them?

    Heres some takes you can feel free to publicly disagree with:

    Dictatorships are an offense to humanity and the largest threat to our future.

    All people deserve opportunity for happiness and prosperity regardless of socioeconomic or ethnic background.

    We should tax the rich such that billionaires don't exist.

    Reform should be the only goal of incarceration, which means providing the needs of inmates to accomplish that. Private Prisons should not exist.

  • No, they don't have to be present at all and when they are present then they have the option to vote Yea, Nay, or Abstain. I'm saying if only 50 people in the house vote total and 26 of them vote yea then depending on the nature of the vote it can pass.

  • Laws pass through congress almost every day, on the 23rd this month the senate passed 13 bills including one that removed the requirement for Alaskan Native Villages to convey land in trust to the state while conducting business. We need a congress even if we don't like the budget bill, the really bad stuff gets filibustered anyways.

    Aid must go through congress, arming our allies like Ukraine must go through congress, limiting state's powers must go through congress. Even fucking USPS distribution centers and offices go through congress.

    Even if you hold the impeachment trial with no consequences, it comes off to the general public, who a plurality voted for Trump or majority voted for Trump or stayed home, as being unfair and heavily biased so it won't gain any votes in the midterms either.

    • doing their sworn duty to get paid to talk a lot, pass no laws, and not remove the perpetrator
    • showing the people they still care and are trying to get paid to talk a lot, pass no laws, and not remove the perpetrator
    • paper trail of accusations, arguments, etc which exist whether or not they get paid to talk a lot, pass no laws, and not remove the perpetrator
    • VOTES - you get to see how everyone voted on whether or not to get paid to talk a lot, pass no laws, and not remove the perpetrator, which helps generally with ads during election time, and specifically when it comes time to hold sedition trials on all these Nazi collaborators after the GOP are reduced to an extreme minority of congress.
  • I have full faith that if the DNC had the votes to remove trump, which is 67 senators and a house majority, then they would go through with this impeachment trial.

    They have 47 Senators with caucus. This was never going to accomplish anything, and I'm glad we're saving this for later.

  • On the topic of Impeachment, yes, it means fuck all to primary these congressmen over not holding a silly ritual with no real consequences.

    Ditto for anything that requires a constitutional amendment or defeating filibuster like undoing citizens united or passing medical for all. We need to Remove the GOP, not just get better DNC.

  • I mean, an Impeachment trial without any possibility of removal seems pretty pointless, yeah. It takes 67 Senators to remove. The DNC with caucus have 47. They probably don't even have enough votes to pass a simple majority purely symbolic impeachment, much less removal from office.

  • TBH they're representing my interests pretty well in this case. An impeachment trial would have just been a huge waste of time unless 20 Republican Senators joined the 47 DNC caucus to remove Trump and I can tell you right now with a 99.9% certainty that wasn't going to happen.