U.S. Politics

(I feel bad how angry my last post was but man, I was there when we had a functioning fourth estate, I knew some BRILLIANT, fair and balanced journalists who were there to just shine a light on the grime and get the truth out and educate their communities and the absolute botched surgery that the industry has become drives me insane. We had good journalism IN OUR LIFETIMES and we flushed it into the sewer.)
 
I can't even pretend to care about the White House, but it chaps my ass that any other president doing this would be excoriated by the right in this country, but Donnie gets what he wants. And you know it's going to go over budget and tax payers are going to get stuck with the bill somehow, some way.
 
The Republican playbook is working, though. 'Flood the zone.' There's literally so much horrible shit every single day that you can't even muster up the energy to be enraged about all of it at once, let alone actually try to DO anything about almost any of it. You get a giant once-per-month-ish protest that the government doesn't give a shit about and lookie-look.. more horrendous misery happening the following day.
 
The point of the protests is not so much to stop anything, but to organize, show our numbers, and remind politicians (particularly Democrats) that we're still fighting.

I was surprised by how angry the White House thing made me. Who the fuck does he think he is? (Rhetorical.) That house belongs to the people, not Donald fucking Trump.
 
Yeah.
I don’t personally give a fuck about the White House, but *America* does, and also it does NOT belong to that festering pustule.
 
As a Canadian who has watched the official residence of the Prime Minister slowly fester and die over the last 30 years it is important to keep an eye on these things before they become official disasters.

24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of the Prime Minister, and it has become so dilapidated over the last 30 years that no Prime Minister has lived in it for a decade now. Is it being renovated and brought up to snuff? Nope. No party, or leader, has had the balls to just spend the money and fix it up. Now the question is should it be torn down and a new residence built. The answer is yes, but still no one wants to be held accountable for spending the money. So our Prime Minister can't live in the official residence (for a decade now) and there is no sign that will change anytime soon.

Does the average Canadian care? Probably not, but it is a bit of a national embarrassment and a warning to others to not take your official residence for granted.

Hopefully the next Democratic president will spend the money and just tear down any and all Trump buildings regardless of any faux outrage. Because the stuff he is doing to the official residence is an eyesore at best, and a terrible lasting legacy at worst.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
The point of the protests is not so much to stop anything, but to organize, show our numbers, and remind politicians (particularly Democrats) that we're still fighting.
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Democrats don't care who is fighting because Democrats aren't fighting. Republicans don't care who's still fighting because they have all the power and a president whose response is 'can't we just shoot protesters?'
Protests meant a lot more (although I still don't think as much as people hope) when we lived in a world where everyone pretended that the people mattered. That fake decorum that used to exist forced politicians to act when they were unpopular, or else risk giving the game away by outright saying 'we don't care what you think.'

We don't live in that world anymore.

TheSameIdiot said:
I was surprised by how angry the White House thing made me. Who the fuck does he think he is? (Rhetorical.) That house belongs to the people, not Donald fucking Trump.
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The path we're on leads to the entire country belonging to Donald fucking Trump. So it's no surprise that, to him, the White House is 'his.' I don't expect he plans for it to ever leave his family's hands ever again.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
The point of the protests is not so much to stop anything, but to organize, show our numbers, and remind politicians (particularly Democrats) that we're still fighting.

I was surprised by how angry the White House thing made me. Who the fuck does he think he is? (Rhetorical.) That house belongs to the people, not Donald fucking Trump.
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My only hope is that Trump used the cheapest and shittiest contractors or couldn't get good ones because they knew he wasn't going to pay them and the whole thing collapses the first time all the country's shittiest people are gathered in there.
 
This could've worked in the tariff thread, but I thought I'd keep it here given the political nature of the commentary.

For those wondering why the Supreme Court might rule against Trump on tariffs and the Federal Reserve, well:
Why would a dictator prefer a dual state to an overtly authoritarian regime? In Fraenkel’s telling, the normative state served the Nazis’ aims by maintaining an illusion of normalcy, especially in economics. Similarly, an American president with authoritarian ambitions would be more likely to realize them if people thought their lives wouldn’t be affected. The Republican wing of the Supreme Court has a self-interest in a dual state as well; without the illusion of the normative state, the justices’ are revealed to be pawns, not power brokers. Their authority would evaporate because it is based on the perception of the rule of law.
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Full piece here.
 
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