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If I answered a question like that in an interview for a job at McDonalds, I'd be laughed right the fuck out of the room. This should be instantly disqualifying, but in this admin, brazen dishonesty and cronyism is a must have.
It’s similar to a question that doctors will ask you in the emergency department: “who is the president?”
Alongside questions like “what year is it?”
The very fact that he is so rude and not forthright, is because he knows it doesn't matter. This is all formality. His position has been filled, by himself.
That's one of the most frustrating parts about all this, so few people are rational, so few people have standards or honor.
It should be allowed to demand a duel if someone dissembles and refuses to answer questions in situations like this.
That would just put psychopaths with good reflexes in charge even more than they already are.
Their explosive collar should just be activated.
In other administrations, too. The definition of truth belongs to the majority holder.
If the opposition to the GOP do not get a majority, and really a super-majority is what's truly needed... If that doesn't happen, there's no salvation for the United States.
I'd argue that it's been gone for a while, but I simply cannot give up yet.
For there to be a real path out of this they need to be willing to strike a stake into the heart of the republican vampire party:
(Personally I would add every goddamn american citizen to the supreme court because its a lifetime appointment and the public would be way better the corrupt nutjobs currently running the asylum)
Additionally like 3 of the following:
And then looking to the future:
This is great. I wrote a platform in 2016 that included a lot of this, but I realize now that I should update my stance on these things to accommodate the new landscape.
What do you think Citizens United did? Overturning it would have very little effect. The things you don't like about money in politics, super PACs, corporate person hood existed before that case and are heavily entrenched.
Otherwise I totally agree, having PR not be a state is a disgrace, and having DC controlled by the federal government and without full representation is a farce.
Citizens united is the largest of a series of court cases that skewed power to the ultra wealthy. The mention of that is a starting point but beyond that it would allow more strict regulation of how corporations can spend their money.
Realistically there's over a dozen supreme court cases that need to be overturned and if you want an idea what those are at this point I highly recommend a podcast like 5-4
Unpopular opinion — The electoral college and Senate can stay as-is. At a glance it might seem weird to give votes to land, but on the other hand you shouldn't want every state between Utah and the Mississippi to become the country's public dumping ground.
Yeah, there are problems, but the other reforms might be enough. Overturning Citizens United, cleansing the Supreme Court of RV bribes and corruption, eliminating gerrymandering, and proportional elections should cover enough that we don't need to eliminate Nebraska's votes.
I actually didn't mention removing the senate, so if you want my opinion on the senate it's this: the senate and house should be rolled into a single electoral body that would essentially have a shape similar to the electoral college.
Though I think expanding the size of both the house and senate would increase the number of people it had to bribe to block laws so I would also be in favor of expanding the senate to 5 per state and making those elections proportional and ending the idea of celebrity senators.
It would be better to eliminate the senate but realistically I think the only way to do that would be to implement a national initiative process first that bypasses state legislatures from voting on constitutional amendments because there is no world where small state legislatures in enough small states would give up federal power.
Either way you're fucked. Both parties want to continue burning fossil fuels and both parties are blatently beholden to Israel's suicidal assault on the world.