This political system along with the electoral college and gerrymandering of districts has given the gop a stranglehold on this nation. The gop ideology has never been popular yet those mofos keep winning elections.

Rules are made to benefit the ones making them..... its a corrupt system. Also presidential election are fraud, it should always be the popular vote.... none of this north vs south bullshit from the 1900's.

On this 4th of July a look back through history doesn't hurt. let's remember Edward R. Murrow. His words have never been more needed. Ever wonder why both Dems and Repubs call Bernie a communist?

It's the oldest trick in the Republican tool kit

It's a false equivalency because the GOP just ignores the Parlimentarian and uses 50 votes whenever it f#cking wants. Like for this bill.

Democrats could have ignored the parliamentarian too. Republicans had the parliamentarian fired when they didn’t like their rulings back in 2001. Democrats knew they could do this, but chose not to because they don’t really care about making our lives better.

😔😡

We The People must rise up and physically remove from our government, the bully on his quest to become a dictator. We can’t stand idly by, hoping someone will step up. We must pick a leader that will help us organize, plan, remove and incarcerate! ASAP! Otherwise, we may as well move to Russia.

I think a general strike will help consolidate and invite like minded peeler and a main leader will naturally emerge. The best leader is one who believes, and yet doesn’t look for leadership themselves.

We had that chance twice in 2020 when he was impeached and nothing happened. We had our last chance in 2024, but we all know what happened. Will we have another chance??? I sincerely doubt it.

It’s up to We The People to make that chance happen now!

Donald Sutherland's laugh at the end of the Hunger Games as he lives just long enough to see Katniss has figured it out.

Who will lead us??? Please, please someone step up and lead us to victory over this horrible, corrupt authoritarian regime. Is it AOC, Indivisible, fifty 50, ??

I’ve asked them all to help. Either my message is not getting to them or We The People are not ready yet. I’ll keep asking though. Maybe you can ask them as well?

I have and I will even more. I believe someone will step up in the coming weeks as fallout from this regime keeps hitting folks harder. What other horrible things do they have in the pipeline for us? 70% of America rejects dump and his regime. We need leadership and organization to stop this.

Agreed!

It's time, my Loved-Ones... #declarationofindependence

Kind of on the nose there when “the people” are just white rich men.

I think it is important to recognize that you are indeed correct for pointing this out. I also think it is important that we recognize that this context no longer applies as the many amendments to the constitution have recognized that "We the people..." includes every individual governed.

Well said. It's "We, The People" not, "We, The Oligarchy"... It also isn't, "We, The Citizens". "WE" MEANS ALL...Even those they would k1ll and cage. However, there remains the fact that We are many and They are FEW ✊️

Accept that the ERA was never ratified… and we see how regressive laws and decisions have been since its passing.

I wasn't talking about the ERA. Also, I think you mean "Except...". There are other amendments to the constitution that have already been ratified that support my response which rejects the notion that "We, the People" no longer is restricted to rich, white men. Yes, there are many laws regressing.

As we saw in Roe, the ERA is a critical amendment….

Why do you keep bringing up the ERA? I'm not talking about that as I've already said. It is not relevant to my point...so it is really odd that you keep pushing on it. I don't get it.

Apparently “we the people” and any other amendments DO NOT cover women’s rights. This the necessity for the ERA. If you don’t understand that, I can’t help you there.

Thank you for fixing that. Of course I understand that, and that has no bearing on validity of my comment. While there needs to be more protections guaranteed for minority groups, that is a discussion unrelated to what I actually said.

The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. Roe - right to choose, back to the states, and gone in 13 states, 7 before 18 wks. No Fault Divorce? like Roe, at the provide of the states, and we see it’s being attacked. VRA - reduced to ashes… Shall I continue?

No need, I'm not arguing against a strawman of my comment. I never mentioned anything to the contrary regarding women's rights.

Reps know how to game the system better than Dems.

We need an actual leader. One that leads from the front, doesn’t need an official title but does it for the love of his/her country. There are literally millions of us screaming what to do and expecting someone else to do it. That someone is us

Organisation is the true weakness of any movement as it grows. Then there is a tipping point. The question is; how long before the tip?

I expected more momentum following No Kings protests. 13 million of us showed up which was amazing but no next steps. Indivisible is great but we need more direction

Protest movements need to be continuous, not just one off events. See: South Korea and Serbia.

Gene Sharp has devised the definitive strategies to bring about peaceful revolution.

I believe it will be soon. Virtually my entire country is rooting for you.

Thank you. We need the support

Remember that the wealthiest people in the country set this system up to ensure that they always remained the wealthiest people in the country

THE FACT THAT THERE IS A CONVICTED FELON OCCUPYING THE WHITE HOUSE IS ANOTHER SYSTEMIC FAILURE. THE FOUNDERS COULD NOT IMAGINE.

Yep. It’s those who want to control us while ignoring the Constitution.

This country is fucked up and always has been. It's not a shining beacon on a hill and it's not exceptional in any way. I've lived in three countries and this is the worst by far

Doing something wrong has always been easier than doing something right.

It's called criminal! 😡

We should stop worrying about this illusion that America needs to be great and try and strive for not bad.

And a system that allows one man, his sharpie and less than 50% of the electorate to totally upend 250 years of progress

I have always thought that this is minority rule. The Republicans appeal to only about a third of the electorate. Knowing that, the GOP has rigged the system, in both the federal government and many states, so that they remain in power no matter how few people support them.

It is minority rule. When the EC allows the 2nd place finisher in the popular vote to become president, when one party can rig the rules in the senate to control legislation-it is a perversion of the will of the people.

We should start a system where the population votes on every important piece of legislation.

The Inflation Reduction reduction Act wasn't passed with 60 Senate votes. It resulted in record high inflation and annual deficits of $1.5 trillion.

Anyone who says 2020s brought "record high inflation" never lived through the 1970s.

Yeah. The south finally won

Letting people keep what they earned isn’t a “transfer” of wealth. If we are being accurate 50 votes prevented the largest transfer of wealth from the rich to the government, who the poor then hope would trickle down to them.

Nobody is envious of America's political system right now. It's too democratic for Putin and Kim Jong Un but it's way too authoritarian for the rest of the world.

We've known that for decades. Applies to our financial system, too.

We either need a new system or just a new country to live in....

Ah, America, where any semblance of democracy has been condemned to a slow, painful death

Without a doubt whatsoever!

Over the years under McConnell it seemed like every pro dem vote required 60 and all the pro GOP votes needed 51 and he was the one who decided it. More simply stated "Heads we win tails you lose".

And a state that is a net drain depending on other states tax contribution has the same political weight as a state having a gdp of a European country.

Anyone ever notice that the repugnants get their shit done in spite of the filibuster, yet the dems always use the filibuster as an excuse to fail to deliver what they promised, then ask for more donations?

Yea Decorum and norms,

Fixed it

This would be such a banger of a shirt. I’d buy it.

I'd like it with real barbed wire. LOL

Only if it’s one shirt that’s wrapped around Trumpy.

exactly. I'd buy a bunch for the entire GOP!

a historically non-confrontational Democratic Party

They have failed us, for sure. Our Party should have had some FIGHT and some prescience, knowing what Republicans are capable of!

True. SCOTUS retroactively nullified the Constitution in favor of serial autocracy/dictatorship on July 1, 2024, simultaneously nullifying the fed gov’s authority to govern, dissolving the Union. This fascist dictatorship is cosplaying constitutionality while weaponizing v We the People. #NQNQ247

Today we mourn the death of our country, America!

Welp...maybe the "we have to burn it all down" folks were right?🤷🏽‍♀️ Maybe this had to happen to escape an abusive ass backwards way of running a country...

That is WRONG! Congress needs to enact a bill to change this. If Republicans vote it down, it will be voted on again when Democrats win the house and it will pass.

I feel like the 60 votes only hurts Democrats. Everything Republicans want, they seem to pass with 50.

Because the only thing they're interested in is cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans

I guess that’s why nothing ever passed, Jon. You needed 51 votes. See the flaw in your strategy?

Obviously.

That is by design. It's no accident. The super rich have been slowly but steadily eroding the system to benefit themselves.

Yeah no shit ugh

Tao Te Ching 58 If a government is unobtrusive, the people become whole. If a government is repressive, the people become treacherous. Good fortune has its roots in disaster, and disaster lurks with good fortune. Who knows why these things happen, or when this cycle will end?

Blaming the system and not the ppl who run it = something Berniebots do

They’re criminals.

Thats why it was cloaked as a budget bill

Right! Only about half of it is budget, the rest is all cuts to benefits and personal rights and expanding power to trump so he can do whatever he wants while limiting the legal system. It doesn't require 1000 pages for some tax cuts.....

It's all a scam

As the "leader"of our great nation is selling fucking aftershave. I've never been so ashamed.😕

The Senate makes their own rules including 60 votes for cloture. The voters elect every senator. Can't get more democracy than that. It's something seriously wrong with the candidates and those who vote for them and write their teleprompter.

That’s actually not true. More democracy than that would be “proportional representation” in the senate for the states instead of equal representation. New Jersey, Wyoming and other small populace states shouldn’t have two senators, that’s the inequality of the senate. Small states and slave

owning states fought for the “equality of votes” provision in the institution of the senate. Republicans have abused that loophole for decades and continue to today.

Close one loophole and create another.

The senate is the opposite of democracy. Wyoming has two senators representing 590,169 people. California has two senators representing 39,663,800 people. Voters in Wyoming get 67 times more say in this “democracy” than voters in California. That’s not actually democracy.

Senate protects small states from the tyranny of the majority, per Alexis de Toqueville. The House protected majority rule. Both Houses needed to pass anything. It's a balance of protection.

It’s not balanced, the senate is so lopsided that it’s destroying the structural integrity of the entire system. The states that are benefited have become tyrannical themselves and are domestic abusers on a national scale.

Yep. I've said for years that Burning Man should be moved to WY and extended to thirty days. Party, register, vote in November and go home. If the extraction industry can buy senators, why not the world's fourth largest economy?

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When we vote give a majority contol coming in they set the rules, its time to end majority coming in vote rule !

The “ system” is broken and the old, white men who hold our political offices are way past their expiration dates💙🔥🍿

And, I believe, Medicaid was enacted in the mid-60s with 70 Senators voting in favor. So 70 votes to pass it, and 50 to dismantle it. Make it makes sense. Criminals.

One of many reasons the GOP will never get rid of the filibuster. All they care about are further enriching the wealthy and appointing far right judges, and they can do that all the time with 51 votes. Only the Dems get f*cked by the filibuster.

If republicans worked as hard to pass good legislation benefitting the masses, as they do working the system, we’d be in a better place. They are good at turning over rocks to find little known or used laws. They work the rules to our detriment. Dems keep bringing that knife to a gunfight.

Things should need at least a number of congressmen and congresswoman that represent a majority of the people.

Really something how Republicans always focus on taking away rights that have already been granted. Now they are openly dehumanizing immigrants to justify their cruelty. I fear what comes next. Real confrontation.

Russell Vought and others believe the administrative state has nullified the laws and produced a post-Constitutional Order, which gives the ideological rationale for Republicans to do as they please.

Fucked up and so wrong.

Dems are too nice when in charge is the reason

It's not effecrtive in it's current form

There's something seriously wrong with your entire political system right from the top to the bottom. From federal to state.

I’m sure it’s messed up at the municipal level too… I mean you can even go down as far as the HOAs in the USA…

That's what I had meant. I just forgot to say that. Like I said the entire political system right from top to bottom as rotten to the core. It is corrupt as corrupt can get.

At the same time, some of the most egregious parts of this bill were cut because they required 60 votes. Maybe they should all require 60, but it was the Dems who got rid of the filibuster for budget reconciliation.

And they think it is a democracy. The US has never been a democracy.

The GOP strophe fillabuster to make sure only 50 votes were need they cheated and cried foul when Democrats wanted to do that What goes around comes around

In a system that already worked for the rich. It just wasn’t enough for them. They want it all at the expense the people. In most cases, without the people, they wouldn’t even be billionaires. So we have yet to see how this will work out. Mass rebellion is next.

It's almost as though the system was designed to be manipulated- except for the electoral college (kidding.)

It's been broken for so long. I've ranted about the corruption of the system for years & how it would end the US. Unfortunately, politicians of both parties haven't cared as long as they lined their pockets & become multi-millionaires. Pelosi wouldn't even give up stock trading. They're all owned.

Was that Schumer's decision? I've seen people say he had to agree to 50 votes (vs. 60) but I'm not sure if that's true. Who made that rule?

Someone told me it goes back to a couple of months ago when he agreed to cloture when he said he wouldn't. So that's why 50 instead of 60 votes were required To avoid government shutdown. I was thinking back then bring it on!!

huh, interesting. I wish people would talk about this more. It sure seems like Schumer was responsible for this. I don't remember this outcome being discussed back then. But IMO Schumer is lying weasel who is always Vichy AF.

I remember because one of my senators voted with him. There were 8 democratic senators total. I was so upset! Now he's retiring and I'm glad because there's some things he's voted on that have upset me and I've messaged him about my concerns too.

I found it! I still don't completely understand how this minutia of the government works but Schumer did indeed sell us out. omg. People should know about this. So corrupt. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Sorry first sc was incomplete. It's there in the 2nd one.

He is such an idiot.

oh thanks for explaining it. I saw someone say he was responsible for the 50 vote thing but it didn't get attention. So basically Schumer & the 8 Dems screwed us. (In a way that won't easily be connected to them.) So many of them are so Vichy. IDK why more people don't care about that. They should.

WHY ARE WE ALLOWING TREASON ON A DAILY BASIS TO CONTINUE? WHY ARE WE ALLOWING TRUMP ELON THE SUPREME COURT & THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO COMMIT TREASON ON A DAILY BASIS ? WHY IS THIS SUCH A HARD THING FOR OUR REPS TO SAY?? THEY ARE COMMITING TREASON!!! ARREST THEM ALL NOW!! NOW GOD DAMN IT!!!

Sometimes who societies go insane.

Mob insanity doesn't effect all , there are those who still see reality as it is . but it's not insanity really , it's uneducated being conned by the second greatest conman in history.

I’m talking about systems not individuals.

That’s what happens when you allow Congress to police themselves.

Exactly, like everything else in this country, the laws are always for wealthy people

Yeah! Seriously, this has got to change! 🧌

One can argue, it is no longer a political system. It is more accurately described as a CRIME system!

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Sarah Kendzior said it best, calling them an international (autocratic) crime syndicate disguised as a government.

There is something seriously wrong with citizens voting for their congress to do this to them ...

Time for some things to change...

That votes can pass 100% on party lines seems wrong too.

The Senate needs to go the way of the House of Lords.

Land of the fee, home of the grave

Reconciliation bills only require 51 votes. They are budgetary. Probably you can thank Mitch.

The "system" is broken.

and to confirm lifetime judicial appointments…

The Radicals (republicans) don’t follow the rules. This was an illegal bill under reconciliation. It increases the deficit beyond 10 years. But they just make up BS and push it through. (Recently they redefined the definition of a day to let the fascist keep his tariff toy)

What are ya gonna do arrest them? There are no rules. The people with the power make it up as they go along.

It's called "cheating". That's the only way Republicans can get their way...

Absolutely!

Don’t get me started on gerrymandering, the electoral system and corporation funding!!! Completely corrupt shitshow

Convenient

Thanks in part to the hubris of Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin

We have a lot that needs fixing.

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in Congress the inmates make their own rules. including their own oversight. no checks no balances.

Damn right! That needs fixing. ASAP!

The majority of SCOTUS judges were appointed by presidents that lost the popular vote. The system was setup to protect the interests of white property owners.

Constitutional failure.

We passed the ACA through reconciliation.

the way I c trump is buying his time until Jesus or the devil decid his number is up plus he's still holding a beef over the fact he didn't win the 2nd election & now he's throwing a 2-yr-old act but 2-yr-old get put in corners & he's no different

it insures minority rule how else would republicans have ever been able to do anything? i don't care what side who was on before the southern strategy, the true republicans(rich assholes) have always been the same since $100,000 was a ton of money if you're not filthy rich you're not a republican

F*cked Up 😡

You know what would make this a wonderful 4th?

My wife asked if that would fix everything. Sadly now no, it won't. He may have led the cult, and if he died it went away with him, now? No. This bill is the foundation for destroying the rule of law in the US. Whoever takes over after trump will use it for the same purposes.

And Vance and Speaker Mike are next in line.

But they're not as popular as Trump 🤷‍♀️ If the billionaires who brought him to power would somehow die of greed or so. Well,that could make a difference.

but they are less skilled than the Rapist Felon who’s been preparing for decades. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_...

Looks frightening. And true. The ties to organized crime is obvious, especially in this regime.

Yeah. So I don't expect Herr OrangeTrumpenfuhrer to live much longer. I'll take some small comfort in seeing his children deported or arrested, along with Musk, but I'd rather no one was suffering because of this idiot and his Christian nationalist handlers at Heritage.

Christian nationalists and Christians are NOT the same thing. 💩 is not equal to ✝️

Quite, but I'm not sure if you're telling me that because you think that's what I said, or for the sake of clarity for other readers? Fwiw I think actual Christianity is extremely rare in the US. Evangelical megachurches seem to have all the influence. And they ain't Christian.

Totally agree. Jesus would not recognize these MAGAt Nationalists or Fundamentalists. This is the same as the church "elders" who had him crucified two thousand years ago. BTW, did Jesus come out against gays? Or did he say MYOB.

USGOV is set up for corruption & failure. We self sabotage allowing career criminals, low IQ & metal disorders to be on a ballot. Once a republicon is in they are free to crime. Political procedures are corrupt & oaths are a stunt DT rigged 3 f-ing elections 3 SCOTUS on the take for decades now 6

The GOP just sold you, your kids, and your grandkids' futures to billionaires and funded concentration camps I cannot in good conscience participate in this government, and so will be changing my tax status to exempt, going on strike, and attending protests instead, because my integrity demands it

I'm thinking about changing to exempt seriously. I almost did it on my last temporary job. Think I'll go back and change it now in my account

That's a Mitch Mcconnell

The Senate is an abomination created by the founders to ensure minority rule and made worse by the minority.

how the fuck are they allowed to change the rules based on how they want it to work for them? and how the fuck is it only the gop taking advantage of that? what the fuck have the dems been doing these past 15 years?

yep

I hate incomplete sentences.

That's not law; that's how the Senate has CHOSEN to operate.

They have slowly been chipping away at this for probably 50 years. 😢

We can thank GOP hack John Roberts and the rest of the corrupt judges on the Supreme Court!

My thoughts entirely during this past farce of a vote

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True.There's a war going on. Trump enablers are exploring the vulnerabilities of the system. No point to think, there will ever be fair elections. The billionaire, racists, criminals, have justices that will maintain the situation, until Americans realise, they are war prisoners. It is a Coup.

Democrats should have used the nuclear option. I knew Rep would first chance they got! They need to play hardball and screw rules!!

We are long overdue for a new constitution -- one that actually protects democracy rather than constantly thwarting it. Throw the Slaver's Constitution into the dustbin of history.

I’m sure Trump and his cronies would love to write their own constitution…

The US Senate is inherently racist. Full stop.

Which is why there is nothing to celebrate today.

world. world history.

INDEED

It took 50yrs of propaganda, tax cuts and deregulation giving corporations control to fulfill part of Mussolini's definition of fascism. "Corporate control of gov with a dictator"

LBJ explained this 60 fucking years ago "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

We need to change this shit up! We need to clean house and kill all the rats!

Time for a new one.

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It is almost like the rich where the ones that designed the system.😞

The wealthy have certainly invested well where it counts.

We could have abolished the filibuster but we didn’t…bc…reasons…

Jon our democracy is gone. Hopefully one day a new constitution will be more effective.

No one should pay taxes like the 1% especially because republicans have eliminated so many IRS and they can’t get us all.

Courts really fought student debt relief, too. On the other hand, if it's something like ending birthright citizenship, they just shrug and say yeah, screw it, it's only the constitution, who cares?

AMEN TO THAT! And I think DEMOCRACY is least suited to stand against FASCISM and OLD DICTATORS, especially with a "supreme" Frankencourt that granted a CONVICTED FELON, LEGAL IMMUNITY...

Money talks and Corruption walks

But, it was only because of that 60 vote threshold thing that some of the worst parts of the bill were taken out of it

This tells me that Democratic leadership has badly misplayed its hand. Even my NYC Auntie said Schumer must go. FFS, he gloated about changing the name of the bill that ensured our destruction. Well done, Beavis, now sit the fuck down.

You can thank DEMOCRATS' penchant for not wanting to upset the STATUS QUO for the flaws we now see coming out to haunt us...There was a time when they had CONTROL of House,Senate and Presidency and THEY REFUSED TO USE IT TO CREATE "A MORE PERFECT UNION" and left it to Republican fascists to mold.

Here's another fun thought for you "fighting" Democrats: What happens in Jan 2029 when the Democratic Candidate wins in a Landslide and President/Fuhrer Trump says: "Fuck your Landslide I am not leaving, declares National Emergency and with SCOTUS sanction ENDS DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA? IT WILL HAPPEN!

Fingers crossed that I'll be around to see his demise.

Agreed.

I’m sure the feeling is mutual.

One day that ass-clown will meet his end. And he will burn in fiery hell forever. And the world will be a happier place without him.

The system is dead. We are on our own. Plan accordingly. I'm not joking.

The probability of any large group of people being divided 50/50 is insane. U.S. democracy is not representative.

The laws are written by the wealthy, for the wealthy.

This is a trick

I need to update my chart. Remind me when the bill comes due for the national debt it’s going to be the Republicans that pay for it right?

WTF..!!!!

A political system that allows a convicted felon to run for office (and win) has something seriously wrong with it.

Depends. Who's in charge.

Weird how we used none of the mechanisms available when we had the power to stop this.

1. eliminate the electoral college 2. tax churches 3. set term limits for SCOTUS 4. set term limits for Senators 5. require testing prior to running for office 6. eliminate free healthcare for life for Legislators, cabinet members and fascist in chief.

7. Outlaw the Republican Party, which is a criminal conspiracy.

6. Legistrate free health care for all. Punto e basta.

I've been waiting for #1 since I learned about it in 7th grade. 3 & 5 are definitely the top choices for me. I pretty much agree with all!

Agreed

Yeah RepubliCONS!

If humans ever take control of our country let's set 2/3 majority for every vote by the Senate. Over the years we've weakened the 2/3 majority to get things done. Let's set it in stone so we force compromise and cooperation.

Not my fault. Fix it

Well, 60 votes are no longer required for anything, after the precedent that was set. Let's see if Democrats will take advantage when they are in the majority.

An excellent observation. Thank you. 🎩

The party of death and suffering. Time to take them down.

Another billionaire welfare program.

Rigged!

There’s something SERIOUSLY WRONG with Americans 😡 You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

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Agreed. And it’s shameful.

That is just the beginning of it. There is a nazi wannabe dick-tator & all his morons in power. Not 1 of them has the backbone to go against the dump. So because they are neutered PABs the entire country suffers & tries to stop the cancer that is the 🍊🐖chump.

And, totally fucked up!!🤬

Dude! Wait until I tell you about this thing called the Electoral College !

When an 18th c. Constitution rooted in 17th c. ideals collides with 21st c. capitalism, boy howdy it blowed up real good!

The US Senate is a corrupt and undemocratic failed institution. Every single Senator should look at the trash legislation they just passed, the incompetent nominees they have approved, the lack of oversight they have provided and be ashamed of themselves.

I’m mean, that’s the scam. And we fall for it every time. They don’t work for us. None of them. We want what’s fair? We need to take it.

Sure it’s rigged. But who fell asleep at the wheel? #reapingwhatmagasows #stillnorealfight

REPUBLICAN TRAITORS

Nearly all the Owners and Funders want it that way, though. But, yeah, concentrating that much power in so few hands is a recipe for corruption.

It won't be long until people understand the transfer is up and out. Trump is making deals around the world. So are the tech bros. If Bessent isn't then he is stupider than he sounds. Countries don't want what America is offering. Trump is bankrupting America

Guess who rigged it that way? Go on, guess. You get three tries.

How much is enough? Why have so much money you could never spend it all when you simply use % of it to help so many in such suffering? And not even feel the nick it made to your wealth? I’m not naive, I want ed to believe the greedy, racist, hateful and violent were a small % . Sadly I was wrong.

As if they would even follow what they passed. Stop stressing yourself. We are in feudalism.

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Or ONE senator to change the rules ie: Lindsey Graham thehill.com/homenews/sen...

All federal policy flows from the states When states corrupt representation through the math cheat of gerrymandering - that corruption flows throughout the system It’s a computational math cheat using readily available data Gerrymandering is simple and fixable election fraud

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Yup.

Our political system is as broken as our Supreme Court. Felon47 now owns the 3 branches of government.

How to fix it: The inability of Herbert Hoover to deal with the Great Depression was the main issue surrounding the 1932 election, with his overwhelming unpopularity causing his Republican Party to lose 101 seats to Roosevelt's Democratic Party. I think we can do better💙

It seems almost quaint to think, that America’s founders were not able to even imagine, that a purely evil rogue like Trump could ever reach the presidency, much less to do it twice!

No. Its' been rigged up just fine friend.

Republicans are only happy when they win and they make everything about left vs right.

They just change the rules to suit them. And then Dems just say "duh...OK"

You can blame @schumer.senate.gov for this. The last time he was majority leader, Ds could have (easily, because Rs would have joined) abandoned cloture, but tradition. Oh, and DC could also have been a state (and maybe PR also). But tradition.

And the answer isn't to get rid of the filibuster either. The filibuster is the only thing from stopping the Republicans from doing anything they want.

That’s the purported rationalization, but it hasn’t really done the job, has it?

Well abortion and gay marriage weren't banned on the first day of Congress so you tell me.

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Senate and House have different rules unique to each (((sigh)))

One word: OBSCENE.

That’s what I said & what is democratic about holding the vote open till you get the results you want