Roger A. Shrubber
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says who?...There absolutely has to be.
says who?...There absolutely has to be.
If insurrectionists are allowed to go unpunished, it’s the beginning of the end of your republic.says who?...
That is the dilemma I am watching. I fully agree. If the republic cannot mount the correct immune response, your neighbor to the south is gonna become a problem.If insurrectionists are allowed to go unpunished, it’s the beginning of the end of your republic.
Funny, I thought he would have achieved all this way back befor he got elected. If it were not for the virus it might be a much different country by now.I want to make it clear that i hope i am wrong, but shit has gone so fucking wrong over the last 5 or 6 years that it is hard to believe in justice and fairness anymore. trump and other scumbags like him have learned how to play the system, how to avoid accountability, how to drag things out when it suits their purposes, how to use their influence to get on the dockets of sympathetic judges.
Behavior that would have gotten a senator or a congress person severely censured if not outright kicked out of the party and out of office are now common place. the republicans learned they can win if they appeal to the lowest of common denominators, the uneducated poor, the extremists, the right wing fringe. of course, once they start to appeal to that segment of the population, they started to get candidates from that segment, like boebert and greene, ignorant bigots with loud mouths. now they're stuck with them, and can't get rid of them without losing a significant portion of their voter base. so now people have become desensitized to their fuckery, and just shrug it off as more republican whackiness....or they buy into it with their last dollar. either one is bad. It makes it hard to find an impartial jury. one fucking trumptard on his jury and the trial is fucked. how many hung juries and retrials will it take till people lose interest? how many till trump dies of old age spending other people's money?
How strong was the foundation when a subnormal moron can bring it all crashing down? It was festering cesspit, Trump just opened the valve. Biden isn't perfect, so they are going to vote for a bunch of proven corrupt traitors with no ideas or plan to help the country, who will destroy their democracy and country at lightspeed. If Trump ran again, how many tens of millions of votes would he get? Even if he was under indictment, fuck he could run from his prison cell for child rape and still win FFS. The people cannot be saved from their own folly, Putin is the right leader for such people and they will have their version soon enough. If it wasn't for covid and being the worst person in the fucking world, he would be POTUS today and we would be screwed.If insurrectionists are allowed to go unpunished, it’s the beginning of the end of your republic.
We are rooting for you guys for many reasons but some are admittedly selfish.That is the dilemma I am watching. I fully agree. If the republic cannot mount the correct immune response, your neighbor to the south is gonna become a problem.
Any democratic system is prone to this. The element of faith in the electorate attached to the process is an Achilles heel.How strong was the foundation when a subnormal moron can bring it all crashing down? It was festering cesspit, Trump just opened the valve. Biden isn't perfect, so they are going to vote for a bunch of proven corrupt traitors with no ideas or plan to help the country, who will destroy their democracy and country at lightspeed. If Trump ran again, how many tens of millions of votes would he get? Even if he was under indictment, fuck he could run from his prison cell for child rape and still win FFS. The people cannot be saved from their own folly, Putin is the right leader for such people and they will have their version soon enough. If it wasn't for covid and being the worst person in the fucking world, he would be POTUS today and we would be screwed.
The vast majority of people have always believed absurdities, look at religion. I think what we are seeing is what happens when the tower of Babel of mass religions is torn down and a million demigods empowered by the internet and media take their place. Bigotry and fear are the two biggest factors that impede human progress and the flourishing of a liberal democratic society. Bigotry and fear equal power all too often and people can be manipulated by conditioning and tribalism to fuck themselves and unfortunately do.Any democratic system is prone to this. The element of faith in the electorate attached to the process is an Achilles heel.
And here I thought we had a separation of church and state.The element of faith in the electorate attached to the process is an Achilles heel.
We also have a right to keep&bear arms.And here I thought we had a separation of church and state.
Shit.
it's only scarier by a little bit, and they're usually intertwined, somehow...We also have a right to keep&bear arms.
Neither ends up to be what it looks like on paper. The church/state thing is scarier.
Theyre only intertwined because damned dominionists. I was deeply dismayed at how tightly 2A correlated with the red hat crowd. Not whom I’d want championing that.it's only scarier by a little bit, and they're usually intertwined, somehow...
We’re hampered by the fact that the Founders simply couldn’t imagine a two-party system in which one party was committed to the destruction of the other party, and equally committed to capturing the government and legislating itself into permanent power. As a result, we never put into place the laws and penalties such a situation requires.Any democratic system is prone to this. The element of faith in the electorate attached to the process is an Achilles heel.
I know just what you need to over this. Take two hours of Metheny, Mitchell, Pastorius and Brecker and call me in the morning.. . . . . . . . Sheesh…barely awake 2 hours, and I’m already at why voter suppression is both super-effective, super-not-okay and super-popular with “conservatives”… good morning, y’all!
This *all* ‘began* in the ‘70s: the sudden pushback against war & military exceptionalism, Jim Crow culture & racist laws, monolithic religion, superficial social constructs of belief and behavior that marked the end of the ‘60s was terrifying for the general run of the populace, especially the ‘white’ contingent - those who had an implanted aversion to seeing place citizens as people, much less citizens. Mainstream religions were in a frenzy as church attendance dropped, the newly-Republican Dixiecrats were itching to crack the whip, military enlistment was at a low point, as people in general started getting more say in things.I want to make it clear that i hope i am wrong, but shit has gone so fucking wrong over the last 5 or 6 years that it is hard to believe in justice and fairness anymore. trump and other scumbags like him have learned how to play the system, how to avoid accountability, how to drag things out when it suits their purposes, how to use their influence to get on the dockets of sympathetic judges.
Behavior that would have gotten a senator or a congress person severely censured if not outright kicked out of the party and out of office are now common place. the republicans learned they can win if they appeal to the lowest of common denominators, the uneducated poor, the extremists, the right wing fringe. of course, once they start to appeal to that segment of the population, they started to get candidates from that segment, like boebert and greene, ignorant bigots with loud mouths. now they're stuck with them, and can't get rid of them without losing a significant portion of their voter base. so now people have become desensitized to their fuckery, and just shrug it off as more republican whackiness....or they buy into it with their last dollar. either one is bad. It makes it hard to find an impartial jury. one fucking trumptard on his jury and the trial is fucked. how many hung juries and retrials will it take till people lose interest? how many till trump dies of old age spending other people's money?