Another day another coup
SOMEBODY! ANYBODY!
I believe in nonviolence, in debate, in figuring shit out w/o resorting to what #Trump did #Jan6. I don’t want to abandon my values. Where are the MOTHERFUCKING SAFEGUARDS the aspirationally pacific founders put into place to avert this shite?
Right…SCOTUS
#SCOTUS allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators
Trump admin fired 3 Democratic members of the #CPSC as part of its effort to consolidate #power.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-now-2025-07-23/
@Nonilex 18th century checks and balances are no match for 21st century corruption and partisanship.
The Constitution doesn't mention political parties, except for the amendment to make the VP some partisan sidekick instead of the presidential candidate who took second place.
We could have a better government, but not without changing the system we've inherited.
Right, the Constitution doesn't mention political parties, we voters chose that. And we can change our mind at any point. But so long as we keep voting for this, we're going to keep getting this.
We don't need to change the system we've inherited. The system is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, recognizing what we're voting for and respecting our votes.
What we need to do is we need to stop voting for crap and then being surprised when we get crap. We need to stop reelecting the same representatives who keep doing things that aren't great.
So long as we keep voting for the same representatives nothing's going to change. So let's stop voting for those same representatives.
It's up to us.
I'm all for ranked choice voting, I think that would do a world of good.
Other than that, though, we did vote for this, and it's the votes for congresspeople that matter more than president.
The president is only doing what the representatives that we voted for have enabled. We keep reelecting representatives that enable bad things and then they spend their time pointing fingers to escape accountability for what they themselves are doing.
That's why it's so important put the focus on our votes for Congress and not let them distract by pointing fingers elsewhere.
Until we stop reelecting bad congresspeople who keep promoting the same bad policies we're just going to keep getting the same bad policies.
@volkris @Nonilex 2024 Turnout:
- 78M Trump
- 75M Harris
- 90M Ass-Sitters
The people not voting for crap are already in the majority, and the crap that the rest elect is getting worse and worse.
How about:
- voting is a federal holiday
- mandatory voting or be fined
- ranked choice voting
We could have a functioning democracy, if we want one. We don't have to live this way.