Republicans make it super clear: they believe that nominees to the Courts should only be approved when the president & senate are the same party. They emptied out judicatory over President Obama’s last 6 years, and promised to continue to do so for 4 more years if Clinton won.
Republicans then jammed unqualified, young extremists into the Courts for their 4 years of President Trump & Republican senate. This destroys the legitimacy of the Courts, and is against spirit of Constitution, but legal.
Now Republicans & Mainstream Media are bullying Democrats to just allow Republicans to perpetually pack the Courts with these right-wing lunatics, as if rolling over and playing dead would give some legitimacy back to this hyper-partisan and undemocratic branch of the government.
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If not for fact that they are hateful antisemites I would almost feel bad for the army of trolls that follow/attack me just because my last name (no relation, at all) happens to match name of a banking family in their centuries outdated deranged antisemitic conspiracy theories 😎
Media reporting President Trump/Republican Leadership undermining US Postal Service to win the election. Reality is much worse...
President Trump/Republican Leadership undermining US Postal Service to maybe help win the election, but definitely kill seniors/veterans/rural folks.
Crushing US Postal Service will not just make prescriptions late for seniors/veterans/rural folks, but other necessary supplies in pandemic where we don't want people at risk making unnecessary trips to stores. Also, it fucks with small business who use USPS to ship their goods.
Further: assume Republicans actually kill US Postal Service, private companies (for a hefty surcharge) will make the urban & suburban stops, but no private company is going to cover rural stops. They will simply have no way to get anything, even for a cost, delivered to them.
On March 11 President gave a disastrous Oval Office address, NBA cancelled the season, Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson announced they were positive for COVID-19: next day many people stopped going anywhere. While ordinances & elite cues mattered, what mattered most: people were scared.
22 million would lose their job in next few weeks as people continued to be scared to do things. This was not really the choice of local/state politicians, this was The People. Every day that we cannot get economy going, short-term furloughs become permanent job losses.
Everyone wants US to go back to work: save jobs, get children to school, enjoy life again. But, The People shut down the economy, and The People are not going to get it going again until it is safe. If the government solves the health issue, The People will kick-start the economy
Republican governing ideology: unchecked authoritarian president, White Supremacy, high tariffs combined with massive government subsidies to chosen industry & companies, MAGA Paramilitary inciting violence as pretext to terrorize opposition, cruelty, corruption, incompetence.
Republican governing ideology is much closer to fascism than conservatism already, as it continues to evolve further in that direction every day.
We are so caught up in what President Trump & Republican leadership do to US every day, we don’t have the time or energy to ask this important question: what is the likely set of outcomes in 4 years for US if Trump maintains power? Delusional to assume we are functioning republic
President Trump is the globalist elite that his supporters claim to hate. Trump's father was a ruthless businessman, and passed $400+ million onto Trump (cheating the US out of $500 million taxes along the way): Trump mainly squandered his inheritance in decadence & bad business.
Trump saved enough of his inherited wealth by working the system with his elite friends: cheating on taxes, sweetheart deals from governments, swindling hard-working contractors, customers, and shareholders. But, never being held accountable for his string of white collar crimes.
Now President, his top priorities (1) securing inter-generational wealth by massive tax cuts on rich (2) de-regulating things rich people do to prey on The People: predatory actions of banks, pollution, breaking up workers rights (3) undermining prosecution of white collar crime.
@jmpfaff A core function of the Union is common defense in times of crisis (war, natural disaster, plague) we used shared resources to protect wherever needs it: absurd for each state to stockpile materiel for this type of event when federal government can do so cheaper & more efficiently
NY is under-attack by this outbreak, acute illness is outstripping ICU capacity, NY needs protective gear, tests, ventilators ASAP, but for weeks now federal government has been shorting NY, while sending way more than necessary to Republican states. Breaks core function of Union
President Trump keeps yelling at Democratic states: this is your fault, you should buy more materiel, take care of your citizens. Not only is that the function of the federal government, but states send most of their money to federal government, they don't have the cash ...