So… What do these dumbasses think is happening with the weather and the eventual outcome of all of this? Are these clowns really that delusional thattheey think oil and gas is just going to be in definetly available??
Uh, the capitalists don’t give a fuck what happens next quarter; what makes you think they’ll care about what happens next quarter-century? Profit is the god we’re forced to worship, and we have bound and trussed earth’s biosphere for that altar.
Who are these capitalists you’re referring to? I understand, that conservative politicians and their sponsors are among them. However, there are many regular people with no personal interest in business. They will suffer and their children will suffer. Yet they are still willing to elect someone like Trump.
Some of them know and just don’t care because they’re getting paid now and who cares about tomorrow? That’s someone else’s problem. The evangelicals among them think that 1) god gave them explicit permission to have “dominion” (do whatever the fuck they want to) and 2) it doesn’t matter anyway because they’re going to be in heaven when the shit hits the fan.
They don’t care. They’ll be sucking their benefactors dicks in the doomsday bunkers the obscenely rich have been building in secret, safe from the consequences of their actions.
Pro tip:maybe don’t try to ride roughshod over people whose entire ideological basis is the phrase “you can’t tell me what to do”. Do conservatives not even understand themselves anymore?
If the vote fails (as it likely would) then we can see which politicians are our enemies and need to be replaced. The failed vote could be used as a rallying cry to motivate voters and spark protests and generate momentum for reform.
Exactly! AOC and other so-called Progressives are allowed to speak out against the dominant political line and act like they’re anti-establishment, but they don’t have to actually humiliate any other members of the Party by putting them to a vote.
That’s harder, obviously. They need the Speaker to call for impeachment proceedings, which isn’t happening without drastic measures.
He also is only one man. He has an address. He has friends and family. He has business interests and donors and a whole host of private interests. He has investments and properties and associates.
Those are all legitimate targets. There are millions of people that would move on AOCs command. She could call on all her supporters to make McCarthy’s life a living hell. He’s just one man. He can be defeated by the masses.
While I appreciate your forthrightness about the need to kill the speaker of the house, I don’t think that is going to go over well with the people I’d need it to go over well with
I said we should make his life a living hell! That doesn’t imply I want him dead.
Okay, so to clarify: I want protesters to surround his house so he can never sleep again. I want them to follow him wherever he goes. I want them to go after his friends and family and business associates and donors. Beyond directly targeting people, there’s also boycotts and strikes which could be used to target his investments. Disruptive and nonviolent direct action would also be part of it.
Mass mobilization on as many fronts as possible to hurt McCarthy in every way imaginable, but it needs to be a living hell or else he’ll just be replaced with another demon.
I’ll have to disagree on going after friends, family, and acquaintances. Go after him, his political funders and handlers, his businesses, and business affiliates if necessary. But leave the innocent bystanders out of it.
I don’t think “stochastic” means what you think it means.
Your deliberate attempt to misconstrue a clear call to nonviolent action into something that you can screech about or even claim as a threat is laughable. Honestly, if this is the best straw man the Right’s geniuses can come up with, it’s no wonder they’ve lost the new culture war.
I don’t engage with people who equate “disagreement” with “ignorance” simply because they lack the humility/imagination to consider they may be wrong. Have a good one.
Friend, if you were simply disagreeing, we might have a conversation. You’re not. You’re deliberately twisting a call for non-violent protest into a conspiracy to murder the Speaker of the House of Representatives. That is not simple disagreement. That is disengenuously creating a strawman in a way meant to frighten the person opposing you into silence. It’s a typical tactic used by those who know they’ve lost the argument but whose egos won’t let them acknowledge it.
There are millions of people that would move on AOCs command.
I’m sorry what? Agreeing with her, voting for her, campaigning for her: none of that is anything like the coordinated, multi-pronged and likely months long harassment campaign you’re talking about.
Maybe they wouldn’t be willing to physically show up at a sit-in or something, but those people are still willing to participate in smaller ways and that still counts.
While I agree on the point that dems should be trying to reach disaffected voters in red states and that these Republicans who would vote against ethics for tc justices should be replaced. I don't see this doing that if they couldn't already with how corrupt the republican party openly is now.
No one cares about one do-nothing party doing more than another do-nothing party.
And you know what? They also did some really bad shit too. Breaking the railroad strike was unforgivable to a lot of voters, me included, because it shows me Democrats are not actually on the side of organized labor. They’re all talk.
If they can’t bother to see reality then that’s on them.
Democrats victim blaming the masses is another reason they don’t show up to vote. I voted. My state still went to hell with fascist culture war bullshit and the Democrats didn’t stop it.
What are democrats supposed to kidnap them and force them to vote? I could agree that dems need to be much better at messaging but they can't force people to pay attention to what's happening.
I already told you; if the vote fails (as it likely would) then it could be used as a rallying cry to motivate voters and spark protests and generate momentum for reform. People don’t care about voting because Democrats always lose. If AOC told her supporters to make McCarthy’s life a living hell and forced him to hold a vote, nonvoters would see Democrats are willing to play hardball and act!
If people aren't paying attention to how openly corrupt the republican party as a whole is, this vote won't do much to change that. There's playing hardball and then there's giving your opponents an easy W.
These people aren’t watching the news. What they need is to see Tiktok videos of people screaming at McCarthy and making him cry.
But you know what? Let’s say you’re right! Have you really thought about what that means? If America is too divided to impeach corrupt Justices and too divided to oust fascists from the government? If the only solution is to have a filibuster proof supermajority?
That means America is doomed, nothing will ever get better, and we’ll just circle the drain until we all fucking die. Cool!
You're just making that realization... we've been in this place since Republicans first blocked trumps impeachment solely on political grounds. Hell at least since Obamas last Supreme Court pick was blocked.
Now you’re contradicting yourself. Is your stance basically “nothing works so we shouldn’t try anything”?
That just seems like a reason to try everything. No matter how risky, trying is better than not trying because we’re fucked anyway. If America is doomed, then AOC should be using her platform to actually prepare for that instead of wasting time playing House.
If you can't already hear thomas boasting "I just beat a Democrat led witchhunt..." I don't know what to tell you. And the republican base would eat that up. It's would be a very easy win for Republicans.
Who fucking cares? America is doomed no matter what, it’s an easy win for Republicans no matter what happens.
They’re going to kill me. I’m trans. Clock is ticking before they either put me in a conversion therapy camp or just take away my access to hormones, but either way I’m fucking dead. What the fuck are Democrats doing about that? NOTHING!
Impeachment had no impact on voters, if anything, quite the opposite, which is why we have a Republican run House of Representatives right now and the balance of power in the Senate hasn’t changed.
We need a 2/3rds majority in the House and Senate to start making massive changes.
How can you say impeachment had no impact when Trump literally lost? The fact that the House was lost 2 years after that was because voters saw that Democrats are worthless do-nothing losers that refuse to do anything when they win.
We need a 2/3rds majority in the House and Senate to start making massive changes.
If that’s true then I should just kill myself now because it will never happenfor the rest of my miserable life
It's not an excuse when it's describing the reality of the situation. Dems can't call a vote here and if they could somehow force a vote it would get voted down just by numbers. Republicans don't care they are openly corrupt.
Impeachment starts in the House, which is currently run by Republicans. So that’s a non-starter unless you want to impeach Kagan, Sotomayor or Brown-Jackson.
You need a majority vote in the house and the Republican majority will NEVER vote to impeach a Republican Supreme Court justice when there’s a Democratic President. Will never happen.
This is the same political body who needed 15 votes to decide who their own leader was.
In the House, the Left is in the minority, the entire Democratic body could mobilize against McCarthy and he wouldn’t give two shits, because as far as he’s concerned, they’re already against him. They’re the minority, he doesn’t have to care.
Guy from Georgia here… Nah, killing themselves through roasting is perfectly fine as long as they still get to hurt brown people. Selling your soul out to corporations who will rape the environment and destroy the lives of your children and grandchildren is a far second place to making brown people suffer.
Gorsuch is really weird. He’s always gonna be theirs but he’s gonna side with us in really weird ways sometimes. I don’t think he’ll ever be Alito levels.
Bush is only moderate now that we have fascists and terrorist as a segment of the party. I wish we could stop acting like Republicans were ever reasonable. At least in recent history.
Here’s what I don’t get. So this doctor raped like 100 something grown men. And they were wrestlers. Aren’t they supposed to be tough? And nobody kicked his ass? He deserved a good ass kicking, for starters.
So blaming rape victims is never a good start, but here we go.
These were very young men in high pressure enviroment. Teenagers, mostly. Maybe 18/19, but not mature adults. They had no support network, as even the coaches turned a blind eye to it as you can see with Jim jordan who they reached out to get help from. This happened basically as the Internet was first starting, in the 80s/90s, so no social media to reach out to.
The “doctor” used sport exams as cover for his sexual assaults. These young men thought it was just them not “being tough” about part of their sport. They didn’t know he did this to a hundred other men.
They probally did know, that even if they did come forward, victim blaming assholes would say it was their fault for not “kicking his ass.” That they would be shamed for being weak about not only being raped, but by not “being manly” about it.
So yeah, like most sexual assualt, the rapist targeted young, vulnerable people unsure of themselves who he knew had no support network. Then, like now, he knew people would blame them as much as possible, and people continue to help rapists by doing so.
I’m not blaming them. Nobody is at fault over what was done to them other than the person who did it and the dickhead who covered it up. I’m just surprised that he managed to do that to so many men and nobody did anything about it. And these were people who likely got scholarships for being tough. Gym Jordan wouldn’t be able to cover up a doctor with a broken jaw and gouged out eyeballs.
"Unions make people lazy" "Unions make people less creative, less likely to work to fix problems" "Unions make employees fight with each other" "Unions mean we'll earn less money"
The propaganda I've heard from older generations is really incredible. We're still actively unionizing lol
There is some truth to that. Unions typically focus on seniority above all else so there is no advantage to being objectively better at the job, just don't be so bad you are fired and you are fine. They also insist that if you want to move to management you start at the bottom thus ensuring that someone who might want to change tracks is worse off and in turn there is no reason to try.
Unions are not all bad, but they deserve a lot of criticism as well.
Why is less productivity a horrible thing? Why is wanting a good wage for just showing up and doing your normal job a bad thing? Why is having no interest in moving into management so atrocious?
It's way past time to start questioning American work culture. I shouldn't be expected to be operating at the razor's edge of my ability to keep up with everything constantly and forever for the rest of my life. I just want to punch a clock, do my job, and also be able to afford my mortgage for having done that and nothing more.
More productivity means that you produce more wealth. If you are less productive you are worth less. (Stop saying the rich take the wealth, that is what unions claim they are preventing).
It is a logical fallacy to read what I wrong as saying there is something wrong with not wanting to go onto management . I said there is something wrong with stopping someone who does want to go into management. Those are very different things.
If you want to stay where you are, I have no problem with that. However if you turn your wish to not improve into holding back someone else who does that is wrong ' (improve here as defined by the other person's values and what they think would improve them)
Here's a crazy radical idea: Wealth does not improve people beyond a certain point. Leisure time and lack of stress improve people. The American culture of work yourself to death to accumulate is killing us and it's killing the world. It's time to stop.
Work, make enough money to provide, have plenty of leisure time to relax and spend with your family. Those are the lives we should be striving for.
So the trump lawyer syndicate is advising clients to perjure themselves to help the boss, and sensible independent lawyers are saying fuck that, do you really want to go to jail for decades for that shyster who doesn’t care about you and won’t even pay your bills?
Lol worst crime family ever and everyone saw this coming. Where’s my tiny violin?
Funny how their "small government" would be preventing "states rights" they whine so much about. They should just come out and say what they demonstrate with their actions, they dont care about any one except themselves.
The “small government” “states’ rights” type have always been disingenuous about that. Remember the Fugitive Slave Act? Same thing. States’ rights to have slavery, no states’ rights to refuse to be complicit in slavery.
Descendents? These motherfuckers will make US suffer. Climate change is happening much much faster than they’ve calculated even with their most bleak estimates.
Voters would die in line of heat stroke for 12 hours while people wouldn’t be able to provide them with water legally. We’ve already seen it in some states where they’ve outlawed handing out food/water to people in line.
People said the same shit about the trump indictments right after all that shit happened with the election interference. Justice is a slow and methodical process and I’m tired of explaining it to dipshits like you who want to post a cool comment on some random social media site like you’re calling them out on something new. Can you please shut the fuck up and open a book next time? Thanks.
Can you explain it to dipshits like me? As I read the Constitution, impeachment is the only remedy to remove a Federal judge, and success requires a supermajority of the Senate.
The Exceptions Clause states "In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." (emphasis mine)
Congress can regulate SCOTUS. In point of fact, Congress can define what cases the court has jurisdiction over with the exception of "Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In those cases, SCOTUS has final say per the Constitution, but in all other cases, Congress could assign final appellate authority to a lower court.
A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.
The aide — described as “Trump Employee 4” in public court filings but identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras — held the title of director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago. He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony” and detailed the alleged effort to tamper with evidence related to the investigation of the handling of classified information stored at Trump’s Florida home, the new submission said.
I’m still not holding my breath until I see Trump facing actual consequences, but he sure does look to be screwed.
the point of having a justice system is other than for it to be used on “lesser” folk.
This has always been the case. See citations with fines = poor tax. Or, public defenders. Or, the SCoTUS having been saturated in corruption for decades now — if ever there were a moment it wasn’t, in fact. Or, any one of the myriad ways the justice system is anything but
It doesn’t matter if he suddenly suicides by double-tap and a 17 story swan dive. This country’s a hair’s breadth from full-on, unfettered fascism, and then our oh-so precious Democracy™ will be well & truly fucked. We should all, worldwide, be thinking of what we do at that point, not crossing fingers Drumpf gets his just desserts. (Though that would certainly be refreshing, yes.)
Poor person wrongs a poor person = whatever, let the police figure it out and maybe they’ll randomly get justice, the rich don’t care
Poor person wrongs a rich person = they’re fucked and buried by the justice system
Rich person wrongs a poor person = slap on the wrist, and only because the poor person wasted a lot of money to get there
Rich person wrongs multiple rich people = Justice actually gets served because the rich pour all of their resources to get them there (see Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, etc.)
Hell, the rich will even put up with some other rich person’s bullshit, as long as they are useful in some other capacity. This is Trump, but Trump has outlived his usefulness, so he’s getting thrown to the wolves.
They already have environmentally isolated safe places. They will ride this all the way until we all die and they get to tell the next generation of humanity it wasn’t their policies that did this.
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