That's one of the most frustrating parts about all this, so few people are rational, so few people have standards or honor.
That post seems to be missing.
dream_weasel 1 point 3 months ago
Surely there are fewer psychopaths with good reflexes than the there are current psychopaths?
TwodogsFighting 0 points 3 months ago
Their explosive collar should just be activated.
orbituary 29 points 3 months ago
In other administrations, too. The definition of truth belongs to the majority holder.
If the opposition to the GOP do not get a majority, and really a super-majority is what's truly needed... If that doesn't happen, there's no salvation for the United States.
I'd argue that it's been gone for a while, but I simply cannot give up yet.
Fedizen 20 points 3 months ago
For there to be a real path out of this they need to be willing to strike a stake into the heart of the republican vampire party:
- Fully reform the supreme court with sane people who will overturn citizens united.
(Personally I would add every goddamn american citizen to the supreme court because its a lifetime appointment and the public would be way better the corrupt nutjobs currently running the asylum)
Additionally like 3 of the following:
- Commit to passing some real ass electoral reforms to enforce the 14th ammendment.
- Commit to reforming the way congressional districts are drawn or eliminate them entirely with proportional voting mandates
- Bring DC and Puerto Rico in as states. Threaten to offer cuba statehood and reparations if republicans invade it based on some kind of generational grudge held by rich casino owner's grandparents.
- ensure the electoral college is handled on a proportional basis, if not eliminated entirely.
And then looking to the future:
- address the corruption stemming from the billionaire classes
- use billionaire money to directly pay reparations to people placed in camps by trump admin
- prosecute ice agents involved in murders.
- ensure all tech companies remotely linked to social media, search, surveillance or data collection are run as non profit utilities under laws similar to those we require for power companies.
jdr 1 point 3 months ago
What do you think Citizens United did? Overturning it would have very little effect. The things you don't like about money in politics, super PACs, corporate person hood existed before that case and are heavily entrenched.
Otherwise I totally agree, having PR not be a state is a disgrace, and having DC controlled by the federal government and without full representation is a farce.
Fedizen 3 points 3 months ago
Citizens united is the largest of a series of court cases that skewed power to the ultra wealthy. The mention of that is a starting point but beyond that it would allow more strict regulation of how corporations can spend their money.
Realistically there's over a dozen supreme court cases that need to be overturned and if you want an idea what those are at this point I highly recommend a podcast like 5-4
Serinus -6 points 3 months ago
Unpopular opinion — The electoral college and Senate can stay as-is. At a glance it might seem weird to give votes to land, but on the other hand you shouldn't want every state between Utah and the Mississippi to become the country's public dumping ground.
Yeah, there are problems, but the other reforms might be enough. Overturning Citizens United, cleansing the Supreme Court of RV bribes and corruption, eliminating gerrymandering, and proportional elections should cover enough that we don't need to eliminate Nebraska's votes.
Fedizen 3 points 3 months ago
I actually didn't mention removing the senate, so if you want my opinion on the senate it's this: the senate and house should be rolled into a single electoral body that would essentially have a shape similar to the electoral college.
Though I think expanding the size of both the house and senate would increase the number of people it had to bribe to block laws so I would also be in favor of expanding the senate to 5 per state and making those elections proportional and ending the idea of celebrity senators.
It would be better to eliminate the senate but realistically I think the only way to do that would be to implement a national initiative process first that bypasses state legislatures from voting on constitutional amendments because there is no world where small state legislatures in enough small states would give up federal power.
Nonconfrontational 1 point 3 months ago
Either way you're fucked. Both parties want to continue burning fossil fuels and both parties are blatently beholden to Israel's suicidal assault on the world.
themaninblack 6 points 3 months ago
It’s similar to a question that doctors will ask you in the emergency department: “who is the president?”
Alongside questions like “what year is it?”
LifeInMultipleChoice 22 points 3 months ago
Yeah, if the members of congress had any principles none of them would have ever voted in any members who couldn't answer basic questions in the cabinet positions.
This guy seems to think he's Göring in the movie version of Nuremberg. No matter what he admits to, can't say that Hitler was wrong, so he would do it again.
Lemmyoutofhere 5 points 3 months ago
Well, it is the US.
Mantzy81 84 points 3 months ago
Didn't even respond with the usual "Joe Biden was confirmed as the winner". Just refusing to answer is an even bigger piss-baby thing to do. It's a great and simple question to see if you'll put loyalty to one man above truth, and shows how much integrity you have in one simple question.
tanisnikana 31 points 3 months ago
Yeah, ‘16 and ‘24 aren’t really contested in Trump’s mind because Trump won those (maybe; lawsuits are pending, etc) but the ‘20 election is contentious for fascist fucks everywhere.
Piatro 34 points 3 months ago
Yeah but from an interviewing perspective it's a win-win. Either the guy answers the question for those elections more clearly, showing that he only has a problem answering the one about 2020 and therefore clearly doing it because of the orange man, or he still refuses and he looks like he can't answer simple questions.
pelespirit 18 points 3 months ago
He didn't win the popular vote in 2016, which is hilarious.
Tollana1234567 3 points 3 months ago
because they know they cheated in 2020, and still lost, projection all around.
Treczoks 8 points 3 months ago
Not necessarily. A president can pardon someone who was legally convicted. He can't bottle a pardon for later.
So if after Trump the big cleanup will come, they all will have to face consequences, until some idiot later president will pardon them.
BarneyPiccolo 8 points 3 months ago
Of course they can. Nixon wasn't convicted, or even charged, yet Ford pardoned him.
wolfpack86 5 points 3 months ago
Vietnam draft dodgers were pardoned without charges or convictions.
Cethin 4 points 3 months ago
You can totally pardon someone for something they haven't been convicted of. For example, Biden did this for him, his family, and others when he left office.
I assume there must be a mechanism that could be created to remove pardons though? If someone like Trump just pardons everyone for doing crimes for him, there must be a way to say they were corrupt, and they don't offer protections.
bigbangdangler 34 points 3 months ago
These people are disconnected from reality and need real psychological help. In the meantime, this behavior is not acceptable for anyone in any kind of official position. Hell, this amount of deflection wouldn't even be acceptable if he were trying to be a fucking barista.
No offense at all meant to baristas. You have likely worked harder than this clown ever will.
bleustenns 2 points 3 months ago
I'd actually like to disagree that they're disconnected from reality. This is about as realistic as things can get in politics.. :(
SpaceNoodle 31 points 3 months ago
Pathetic. My last shit had more integrity, and I have diarrhea.
northernlights 28 points 3 months ago
Love the questioning. I was hoping for a dismissive "ok we'll call you back".
yuki_gassen 25 points 3 months ago
"I'm not gonna engage in the theater"
Proceeds to make it more and more theatrical with every word
Tollana1234567 3 points 3 months ago
he prefers broadway dramas.
zergtoshi 1 point 3 months ago
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killea 19 points 3 months ago
This man should have been taken away in a straight jacket.
Edit: also, the whole Jon Ossoff questioning is here, at 1:46:05. Good to hear in it's entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BYMPKDB3g
zergtoshi 3 points 3 months ago
For convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BYMPKDB3g&t=1h46m5s
betanumerus 16 points 3 months ago
Disqualified.
Nonconfrontational 7 points 3 months ago
Wishful thinking. Have you seen the Brett Kavanagh job interview lol?
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WanderWisley 11 points 3 months ago
You would have gotten a better lie from a 5 year old who ate all the chocolate chip cookies.
thethrilloftime69 3 points 3 months ago
Why do guys like this get confirmed anyway? Are all words meaningless?
BarneyPiccolo 2 points 3 months ago
Yes, it should. The MAGA-style McCarthy hearings finally ended when one defendant hollered
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
It resonated with both the government, and the American people, and it ended McCarthy's power instantly.
I'm not sure it's possible to stop MAGA in its tracks with one sentence, but statements like this, strong challenges that make EVERY newscast, go a long ways in giving struggling MAGAs a strong dose of second-hand cringe. The first step in converting them will be making them embarrassed to be associated with those MAGA losers, and a constant stream of clips like this will do that.
We need a lot more condescending "Bless your hearts" from Democrats, until the MAGAs feel like retards, and run away.
trainsrkool 1 point 3 months ago
"do you know how little that narrows it down?"
alexquiniou 1 point 3 months ago
I didn't know that Jude Law was a senator.
Alfredolin -1 points 3 months ago
No transcript/no subtitle = can't watch this now.
Nonconfrontational -16 points 3 months ago
This isn't news. This happens literally all the time lol.
Nonconfrontational 4 points 3 months ago
But the Dow is over 50,000!
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If I answered a question like that in an interview for a job at McDonalds, I'd be laughed right the fuck out of the room. This should be instantly disqualifying, but in this admin, brazen dishonesty and cronyism is a must have.
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