neonchaos

Malfeasance and abuse of power is a feature, not a bug. There is no accountability, for any elected office holder. There’s the dog and pony show when someone does something deemed too egregious for the voter base to stomach, where the perpetrator will step down to spend time with their family as they quietly reflect on the “damage” they’ve done, but that’s smoke and mirrors for them being offered a private sector role where any connections they made while holding the reigns of power can be utilized to get tax payer dollars for the company that funds them, or help lobby for ever less restrictive legislation that will allow the company to dump toxic waste into the municipal drinking water then charge those effected to clean it up, all while doing everything they can to reduce the chance they ever have to pay taxes. Accountability isn’t something that applies to the suits in Washington. Laura Bush and Ted Kennedy both killed people, if it had been you or I doing that we’d still be serving time, but for them the qualifying question of “was the victim someone of power, status, or influence?” was asked before the ball even got rolling on the judicial process. Those in power are all above the law, every single one of them, and it’s because of that there is no cognition that these office holders are public servants. They kowtow to the biggest donor, not the public that actually goes to the voting booth. So long as McDonald’s, Bayer, Nestle, Verizon/AT&T-Time-Warner-AOL-Atari-Discovery-Paramount-Skydance-Chuck E. Cheese (whatever other fuckin’ company decides to buy that behemoth)/T-Mobile, Cargill, Dow, DuPont, Pfizer, Disney, Moderna, United Health/Aetna/Cigna, CVS, ExxonMobil, Haliburton, Lockheed, Boeing, and the Duck Dynasty crew (just to name a few) get to throw unlimited money at candidates promising favorable legislation on their behalf, there will be no accountability for the corruption and incompetence that permeates the halls of power. JD Vance said the right things to Peter Thiel and Thiel cut a check to have a talking head in a position of power that could further his [Thiel’s] goals. Until the public gets their shit together and crowd funds a candidate that can’t be bought no matter the cost or threat to family/business interests, we’ll continue to have one shit stain candidate after another, promising a brighter tomorrow to the public, while working feverishly to ensure the shares waiting for them from their sponsor company reach maximum value upon their leaving office or retiring.

The claim will be that it’s the Dems fault, so they’ll be derided by the gov’t media as society collapses; and much the way an abusive partner blames their victim, it’ll be people being shot in the streets in droves, drones with hellfire missiles being ordered to fire on urban centers, and the administration will just have whatever blonde talking head they choose come out and say “this could have all been avoided but the Dems were allowed to exist for too long and this is what happened. See what they made us do?”

I think even that is being generous. With how eager this court has been to genuflect to him, I’d expect the ruling to be something more akin to “On clear reading, all government power and authority is derived from the Executive exclusively, including that which is graciously and magnanimously extended to all other branches of government.”

This! There will be no more elections, no more representation, just plutocrats fucking the poor to extract more wealth and power, until there is no more clean water or air and then voluntary slavery to the faceless multinational in charge of your region can be instituted to grant limited access to few remaining clean food and water they’ve stockpiled. Trump is a cancer and has been ignored and enabled at every turn. There is no future that includes a free voice of dissent for any, but especially of you can’t afford the toll.

He doesn’t just want to be a dictator, he is actively taking steps to entrench and enshrine himself as one; and our feckless SCrOTUS and Congress are only too happy to do whatever is necessary to further this agenda. For those that support him, the math is simple: “Being in his favor may yield rewards.” For those that oppose him the math is still simple, “He’s going to leave office eventually, then it’ll ‘our turn’ and we’ll be able to rule an authoritarian state with absolute power and a fully functioning surveillance network.” The American Experiment has failed…miserably. The US and indeed the rest of the world need to stop pretending that this is suddenly going to end, or cooler heads will prevail. The US is a threat to global stability, peace, and prosperity. Any state, government, monarch, or political body that hasn’t accepted that this is the new reality is deluding themselves. This is the new normal and we only become more fascist, draconian, and totalitarian as the days go by. President Thunder Thighs still has 3+ more years left in his Constitutionally mandated term, and it’s only taken him 9 months to dismantle everything resembling functional representative democracy. By the time his term is “up” there will be one party rule, lifetime appointments to office, the dissolution of all other branches of governments, and the complete closure of borders (publicly to keep undesirables out, but functionally to prevent brain drain and keep everyone in). Everyday he and his cronies find some new way to assume more power, and there is no check or balance to combat that. While many will say “it’s defeatist” or “don’t give up”, we’re watching in real time as the mechanisms for voicing and acting on dissent are being dismantled or criminalized. They come back harder after every set back and it’s only a matter of time before even this comment becomes a crime against the state.

Christianity - A doomsday cult so committed to fulfilling prophecy that they’ll kill all of us for the chance to prove their interpretation of God has a bigger dick than every other deity ever conceived. /s

By Tuberville’s logic, “Hitler was one of the most influential people in Poland”

If only. My fondest wish is that this kind of brinkmanship further stresses the already weak systems and further drives the most disillusioned to complete despondency and we usher in a complete and total collapse of the country. I’m further hoping that the knock-on effect of having the world’s biggest economy go tits up is enough to strain and stress the other capitalist states and help usher in something new. While the revolution won’t be bloodless or televised, the hope is that when the dust settles we’re finally in a place to deliver on the promise of a better future.