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Laying out the charges clearly and concisely. alito and thomas have been corrupted, and should be removed. They purposefully withheld disclosures of lavish gifts from billionaires with matters before the court. They accepted gifts from people, failed to recuse themselves from cases those people were involved with, and ruled in their favor, benefiting both them and their benefactors financially. This establishes a clear quid-pro-quo. They are corrupt, remove them.
Because they don't expect anything to happen.
Seriously the "do nothing congress" was miles better than our current one.
the "do nothing congress" was miles better
This sentiment is wrong. Making some effort to correct course should be a bare minimum. Accepting the broken system as irreversibly corrupt and doing nothing about it is objectively worse than using the institutions as they are intended. Even if these impeachments go nowhere, let it excite voters to turn out.
If you show up and vote for the party that actually wants to accomplish something, here is an example of what can be done. If you want to see checks and balances in action, vote for the party that is willing to make it happen.
With all the talk of the corruption of the most powerful court in the country, here is what the process looks like to fix it.
Conversely, if you just want to lie down and allow the court to continue to tear down the other "co-equal" branches of government, and regress our rights in an overtly corrupt way, then go ahead and sit back down. Do what you seem to prefer our elected leaders do: Shut up and fuck off. Find another place to commiserate with other self defeated losers.
I think you're misunderstanding the comment you replied to.
The "do nothing congress" was a specific Congress back in the 40s — not a Congress that literally does nothing.
The do nothing Congress passed 906 bills. I believe the current congress has passed something like 68 three-quarters of the way through. That's the comparison the commenter was making.
You are correct, that was my sentiment. The do nothing congress was lauded as one of the laziest congresses, to the point they got the name. But now our current congress does even less than that but doesn't get the ridicule.
Oof. Y'all are correct about the misunderstanding. I apologize for the heated response. Being wrong kinda takes the fire out of my indignation and now I just feel foolish. Thanks for the lesson, y'all
Eh no worries, I get where you were coming from
What a fantastic dialogue. If only every conversation could be like this. We would have not only the Republic we want, but the world we want.
Thank you all for being lights in the darkness.
Love when elected officials don't show up why is it the chairs are almost always all empty
To be fair they should just work most of their time from home on zoom and stay in their own states so they can be closer to their constituents. Going to DC is great and necessary but with modern technology they should be way closer to their constituents than they are. That's just my opinion though and what do I know.
It's actually even simpler. The whole building has wired feeds of the floor. So you can work from your office in the building or nearby, watch everything, and only come to the floor to vote.
I agree with the idea, but I highly doubt this is why they are not there in practice. I could be wrong as this is just purely speculative on my part, but I don't have a lot of faith in most US politicians.
Because we're living through the collapse of the American empire where the majority of politicians are blatantly corrupt and no longer care about hiding it.
Nah, we're about to see the beginning of the American empire.
This did not age well
Careful, if trump gets into office you might legally see his unlimited power
He could have you killed for that comment.
At what point does his vice president throw him off a walkway on the Death Star?
If the vice president kills him, and they become the president. Was it an official act making them immune?
Incapacitate the president, invoke 25th, then proceed with immunity
Edit: NOT LIKE THAT
One club with a wrench... "I hear by invoke the 25th" next club, ahem, that was an official act.
They weren't president when they did it, so no. But the new president could just pardon himself if the GOP approved of the assassination, since the 6 SCROTUS's would say it's legal to do so.
"I will make it legal." -Future VP becoming President
SCROTUS: "It benefits the GOP regime, so we'll allow it."
In the classical sense of the word imperialism there's already been a lot of the American Empire.