I have a great and real fear that Trump will try to declare some sort of imagined "national emergency" declare martial law and suspend the power of the Congress. Then what do we do?
I wonder if it would be worth also taking the route of conventional constitution, which is what Gavin Newsome is trying to do with gun control? It's never succeeded, but it is another way to get citizens to organize and put pressure on both their state officials and federal ones. The problem with trying to get this in Congress is that too many congress-critters and their staffs make millions off the current system. It's the only reason some of them are in office.
while the gods know how much we need this bill to fly, i would be more than pleasantly shocked if such a bill passed… with all the politicians ‘cashing in’ and all…
and would bet my bank account that the good ol filibuster will rear itself once again to best serve murikkka and the good ol MAGA/GOP/tRUMP shit show…
Ah, the Democrats. Yet again fighting last year’s war. The rest of the world has commoditized lulz and views and they’re just now getting the moxie to move against the Koch brothers. Give us another campfire song while you’re at it.
"Personal attack?" The truth hurts, doesn't it, idiot? Your ASSumptions that I'm a member of 'the party faithful'--whatever that shaggy and useless terminally-online 'leftist' crap is supposed to mean) is as incorrect as your ASSessment of my legit criticism of you. Your post is cheap cynicism, classic terminally-online adolescent posturing, and embarrassing errors (there haven't been two Koch brothers for years now, dear....get with the program.) You have no point but your own solipsistic, asinine, juvenile, budget nihilism, and you're furious that I expose and anatomize it--and you.
Have a nice day, turd--and find another site to pollute with your excremental effluvia while you're at it? This one actually has mostly decent humans, in which category you most certainly do not qualify.
Make getting rid of CU part of the Democratic brand!
By the time all this shit is over, nobody, anywhere in America is going to feel safe identifying as a politically active billionaire. Bill Burr's righteous rant the other day is getting plenty of attention, as it should...
Not just the house Dems. It’s the voting Dems who REALLY want it gone. No one should be able to “buy” an election. Think where we would be now if GWB had not been elected? The Federalist Society is writing laws and policies that are meant to destroy the middle class. That’s nothing compared to what they want to happen to the poor. History repeats itself. We have seen this happen for hundreds of years all over the world. This planet belongs to ALL of us. We can protect it with respect for all who inhabit it.
The money spent to kill innocent populations can actually be used for food, housing, healthcare and education for everyone.
The bill will be introduced and it will fail. The bill will be introduced again and it will fail again. And again. And again. And then, one fine day, it will pass. That's how it works for bills which are good for everyone except the moneyed interests. Never give up!
This essay is the third in a series. In my first piece, The Republic at Risk: Why Compromise
Matters, I argued that America is tearing itself apart by treating compromise as betrayal rather
than as the glue of a diverse republic. In my second, A Path Back to Trust: A Citizen’s Roadmap,
I showed how ordinary people can begin rebuilding civic trust in daily life.
Now, I want to expose how special interests have learned to exploit our division for profit — and
why primary elections remain the one place where citizens can still take power back.
https://mdfroemke.substack.com/p/bought-and-paid-for
We should have done this when it happened or as quickly there after as we could .
Sadly our leaders did not seem to care .
I have a great and real fear that Trump will try to declare some sort of imagined "national emergency" declare martial law and suspend the power of the Congress. Then what do we do?
…and very likely in response to today’s protests.
Happy / Sad. I was saving up to buy it next time...
I wonder if it would be worth also taking the route of conventional constitution, which is what Gavin Newsome is trying to do with gun control? It's never succeeded, but it is another way to get citizens to organize and put pressure on both their state officials and federal ones. The problem with trying to get this in Congress is that too many congress-critters and their staffs make millions off the current system. It's the only reason some of them are in office.
while the gods know how much we need this bill to fly, i would be more than pleasantly shocked if such a bill passed… with all the politicians ‘cashing in’ and all…
and would bet my bank account that the good ol filibuster will rear itself once again to best serve murikkka and the good ol MAGA/GOP/tRUMP shit show…
Ah, the Democrats. Yet again fighting last year’s war. The rest of the world has commoditized lulz and views and they’re just now getting the moxie to move against the Koch brothers. Give us another campfire song while you’re at it.
What a cheap little terminally online moron you are.
Doomer shit and edgelord-wannabe cliches are so tired, dear.
Take the fucking L.
A personal attack from the party faithful doesn’t much argue against my point, does it? Have a nice day.
"Personal attack?" The truth hurts, doesn't it, idiot? Your ASSumptions that I'm a member of 'the party faithful'--whatever that shaggy and useless terminally-online 'leftist' crap is supposed to mean) is as incorrect as your ASSessment of my legit criticism of you. Your post is cheap cynicism, classic terminally-online adolescent posturing, and embarrassing errors (there haven't been two Koch brothers for years now, dear....get with the program.) You have no point but your own solipsistic, asinine, juvenile, budget nihilism, and you're furious that I expose and anatomize it--and you.
Have a nice day, turd--and find another site to pollute with your excremental effluvia while you're at it? This one actually has mostly decent humans, in which category you most certainly do not qualify.
Schooled and blocked. Buh-BYE!
Make getting rid of CU part of the Democratic brand!
By the time all this shit is over, nobody, anywhere in America is going to feel safe identifying as a politically active billionaire. Bill Burr's righteous rant the other day is getting plenty of attention, as it should...
Thank you for listing the members co-sponsoring the amendment. I'm going to write mine and ask him to get on board. (Mullin CA-15)
it’ll never pass because practically the entire senate is on the take from corporate america.
money talks.
and greed is never enough!
Voting is speech, and should not be infringed.
Money is not speech.
Do it!
Past time to end Citizen’s United
If Corporations are people they could be required to die as 76 years like a natural person.
Not just the house Dems. It’s the voting Dems who REALLY want it gone. No one should be able to “buy” an election. Think where we would be now if GWB had not been elected? The Federalist Society is writing laws and policies that are meant to destroy the middle class. That’s nothing compared to what they want to happen to the poor. History repeats itself. We have seen this happen for hundreds of years all over the world. This planet belongs to ALL of us. We can protect it with respect for all who inhabit it.
The money spent to kill innocent populations can actually be used for food, housing, healthcare and education for everyone.
The bill will be introduced and it will fail. The bill will be introduced again and it will fail again. And again. And again. And then, one fine day, it will pass. That's how it works for bills which are good for everyone except the moneyed interests. Never give up!