Click mouse, lose record of who surveilled house
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Garland is Mueller 2.0.
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Respect is earned not given. Maybe we should guide our behavior using a metric other than blindly obeying laws. Perhaps we should do what Victor & MLK saidâŚ
Or we could go further back in time for insight from a labor activist who was railroaded by the âjusticeâ system and executed. This man, August Spies, was legally killed because the laws in 1887 were more concerned with protecting the privileges of the capitalists than protecting the rights of all working people. IMO, August had a stronger desire to achieve a civil society than did those people who enforced the law and put a noose around his neck.
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Worse because he has an extra 2+ years of data to operate from and has apparently learned nothing in that time. He is the idiot who wonât where a mask still but religiously washes down his takeout boxes.
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Our only hope is theyâre being smart politically and waiting until after the mid terms.
Right now the base has nothing. Most seem disengaged. If you started going after Trumpâs people that would motivate them bigly.
But yeah waaf and going to get stomped in the midterms and no one will face any consequences
That is a part of the problem right? There isnât widespread outcry against this bullshit? Dem normies are off fucking and brunching and celebrating victory while the country burns. If there was widespread protest against the current trajectory you might see a different tune from these bums. Instead they realize they can go on doing what they always do, serve the corporate masters, with little to no personal consequence. Sure some of them may lose the next election but their personal wealth is going to be fucking sweet!
LOLed at âliberal revoltâ
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American Constitutional Society, sir.
Unfortunately itâs a lot like the broader Democratic Party and pretty feckless afaict.
got some more where that came from for youâŚ
When you step back and put this into context, the idea of engaging Republicans at all is completely fucking insane.
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This is great to see. Probably makes no bill a real possibility, maybe even a favorite, but at least go down swinging.
Next they should link the debt ceiling to a vote on HR-1. If we are gonna burn lets at least take the market down with it.
I donât even care about that at this point.
But do fucking something.
Democrats need to be able to say âYou gave us a trifecta, and hereâs what we did for you:â and be able to list easily understood things that actually made your standard low info voterâs life better.
The spring 2021 vaccine rollout ainât gonna cut it in fall of 2022. Nobody cares about a January 6 commission. Do infrastructure, do something about student debt and current education costs, make weed legal nationwide, etc.
Fucking prove that you still deserve to be in charge.
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Nuance.
âHere one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in âthe lawâ as something above the state and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible.
It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not. Remarks like âThey canât run me in; I havenât done anything wrongâ, or âThey canât do that; itâs against the lawâ, are part of the atmosphere of England. The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as anyone else. One sees it in prison-books like Wilfred Macartneyâs Walls Have Mouths or Jim Phelanâs Jail Journey, in the solemn idiocies that take places at the trials of conscientious objectors, in letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a âmiscarriage of British justiceâ. Everyone believes in his heart that the law can be, ought to be, and, on the whole, will be impartially administered. The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law, there is only power, has never taken root. Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory.
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect that democracy is âjust the same asâ or âjust as bad asâ totalitarianism never take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct,national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the caster oil?
The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig,whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe,is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape.â
â George Orwell, Why I Write
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LOL, wat? And the right respects it?
How many laws did Trump break in 4 years in office? How did the right feel about that? Iâm pretty sure whatever it was, respect for the law wasnât it.
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Didnât someone die on the âwasnât a coupâ hill itt?
It was keed. I donât read that guys postâs anymore lol.
Canât wait to hear all the sincere outrage from Trump supporters about Biden being too nice to Putin.
Also, just lol, the coverup continues:
https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1405113725879730184?s=21
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Either they lied to us and manipulated us about Trump for 4 years to get our votes, donations, etc. or they are letting one of the most blatant criminals ever off the hookâŚ. either way they are out! Bring on the Marjorie Taylor Greene eraâŚ
Itâs not an either/or, both of those can be true. They all benefit greatly from the systems in place, canât have things fundamentally change