New poll just dropped showing him down by 3 in Iowa(!) I hope he never gets another good night's sleep as long as he lives.
I don't want to rock the boat or anything, but does anybody else think that maybe we need just a tiny bit of judicial reform? It seems to me like there's an awful lot of people doing an awful lot of criming and our judicial system is apparently not that interested about stopping them until after the next election. And there's always a next election.
So far.
Just pack the goddamn court. There's ONE conservative justice on the Supreme Court who was appointed by a president who came to power having received more votes than his opponent, and that's Clarence Thomas, the man whose loyalties can be bought with a luxury vacation and whose wife aided and abetted insurrectionist traitors.
The ENTIRE conservative wing of the Supreme Court is illegitimate. Every single one of them. And you know what? Thanks to the GOP, it only takes 50 votes to approve a supreme court justice. It used to be sixty, but they changed the rules so they could more conveniently destroy America.
That's . . . not what cute means.
What does it mean when the highest court in your ostensible democracy is this obviously compromised?
I mean morally it's obvious. Their judgements are invalid. Useless. Feel free to ignore anything they say if you can get away with it. But unless we're down for anarchy, what means do we have to deal with this? Legally the president can pack the court. So long as he can get the senate to go along. But he doesn't seem to want to, and there are no viable alternatives to the president we have. Not yet, anyway.
So here we are. A 'democracy' with a supreme court that's openly compromised, if not outright corrupt. Nobody's running on a 'maybe the supreme court shouldn't be filled with 18th century ideologues and grifters' platform. Nobody's talking about upside down flags and RVs on the major networks.
So what do?
Before you criticize anybody, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Eminent domain the final mile and be done with it. These companies have no business holding our national infrastructure hostage.
What kind of world do we live in when a fundamentalist authoritarian lunatic can't even successfully crowdfund his human trafficking operation?
How dare you disrespect Gurney Halleck like that?
I have a lot of trouble understanding how the NTSB (or whoever's ostensibly in charge of vetting tech like this) is allowing these not-quite self driving cars on the road. The technology doesn't seem mature enough to be safe yet, and as far as I can tell, nobody seems to have the authority or be willing to use that authority to make manufacturers step back until they can prove their systems can be integrated safely into traffic.
Remember that time when we elected a literal idiot to be president and a million Americans died because of how fucking stupid he was?