politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
At this point the problem isn't him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He's a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.
I've been saying for a while until we get rid of Peter Thiel and the other Epstein class members things won't get better. Trump is a symptom not the problem. It'll be cathartic setting him gone but it won't fix things.
You won’t get rid of those people under the current system. You will need a revolution before the capitalist owner class is touchable.
It doesn't have to be that way, it's totally their choice.
They’re obviously not going to choose to peacefully give up power.
Like I said, their choice.
When this is over, we have to purge MAGA from our government and our society, and reconfigure our country so that the wealthy understand that they keep their fortunes at the pleasure of the Citizens, and that fortune is required to serve the Citizens. The moment their priority shifts to increasing profit at the expense of the Citizens, their entire fortune is confiscated, their corporations nationalized, and they are imprisoned.
We do not work for them, they work for us.
He is a problem. But he's the face of a bigger problem. But he's still a problem.
The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”
We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.
The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”
The whole system needs an overhaul. There's no way to trust the system anymore
I mean when he still has 44% approval ratings, half of America or more is to blame.
It's just insane.
NYT has his aggregate approval/disapproval is 38%/59%. CNN has him at 35%/63%.
So maybe 5% difference from 6 years ago.
I've seen polls as low as 32%. He's going to drop below 30% soon.
That's hardly the point, though. It's fucking absurd and an absolute indictment of our entire society that it's even in double digits!
Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the 'lEtS m00vE fOWrd' phase.
Let's have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace
Exactly, he's a symptom of the disease. There's always gonna be some crazy old man yelling racist sexist things, that's never gonna change, dementia will keep producing that. The choice is whether we make that person POTUS or not
I think calling him sundowning is attributing his malice instead to old age.
He's a line-upping old pedo. He has "insider trading syndrome" which on the surface appears like dementia...
It's both. It's always been both. Since even 2016 he's been a mentally deteriorating sociopath.