The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.

And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…

It’s so much more than the EC. The EC was really the best solution that they could come up with to elect a single person to run the Executive in a time where it was hard to hold statewide elections, much less a nationwide one. Senators were appointed directly by a State’s legislature, and the President by electors appointed by the legislatures. This meant that the only Federal office that was directly voted on was Congress, making elections easier and much more local.

As long as elections were hyper-local, settling them based on a simple plurality of votes was practical, because it was also hard to coordinate nationally. The Founders did not want the same type of party-driven system they left in England. However, the big mistake was in keeping the FPTP voting after they switched to popular elections for Senate and the Presidency. That, coupled with better nationwide communication, directly contributed to out two-party system, and how backwards it is.

The two-party system directly contributed to America’s sliding into fascism, when the only alternative to fascism is itself too drunk on campaign cash to let new blood into the system. But the primary issue is how throughly Trumpism has infiltrated the Republican Party, where they willingly give up their checks on the Executive and let him break laws with impunity. The Founders explicitly distributed power because they thought ambitious people would not give up power willingly. Today’s Republicans are proving they were wrong.

Sorry, WaPo links will always be totally ignored by me until Jeff Bezos sells the thing to someone who cares about an independant press.

He’s such a stupid mother fucker.

In this case, quite literally. He has had at least 14 documented children with multiple women, and there are rumors of plenty of others.

This is the first I’ve heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?

Still, though, there are all those Jan 6’ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it’s certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.

I was wondering what the mistake was, then clicked the link and saw a big picture of Andrew Cuomo. Ah, now I get it.

NYC’s unofficial motto may as well be “He may be a crook, but at least he’s our crook!”

“The new Israeli state of Palestine will be a perfect place to build Trump Hotel Gaza”

Yeah, but he’ll just nominate someone more shitty. Like Steven Seagal…

First, it was the Idiocracy movie that started out as parody and became a documentary over time. Now, the Barbie movie is becoming reality right before our eyes. The Kens are in charge, and they are all dumb as posts.

“We can’t pick a side, they both look kinda brown”

Hmm, there are Republican Senators with a spine after all…

This guy is missing a key point here, although he almost gets there:

Crypto PACs have raised over $260 million, making crypto the sixth largest Super PAC, dwarfing any other industry-supported Super PAC (all the others are related to a particular party or candidate). But those donations came from just 50 individuals. That’s not a movement. It’s a small elevator lobby.

Those 50 individuals aren’t necessarily the smartest people, or the most effective political leaders. They ran the right software at the right time, and now have system-breaking amounts of money. (When Bitcoin first came out, you got 50 BTC for finding a block, and could still do it on the hardware in your basement. That wasn’t even worth 10 cents back then, but is $5 million at today’s prices. And you find blocks every 10 minutes…)

And in the campaign finance infrastructure that Republicans enabled after Citizen’s United, this gives these 50 people (and their spare horde of BTC) an unduly large influence on our politics.

This is going to impact any Crypto legislation going forward. Anything that doesn’t directly benefit those 50 people will be at a severe disadvantage. And guess what? Our President is doing the job as a side-gig, he makes most of his money selling shitcoins.

There is simply going to be no way to address Crypto regulations until Campaign Finance is addressed. Because until it is, the cryptobros will just keep shoveling money into our elections to get the outcomes they want.

Still, the NFL has learned the art of the deal, when it comes to dealing with the 47th president. Gratitude, flattery, and praise are the key ingredients to the not-so-secret sauce.

It also wouldn’t hurt to name the new stadium after him.

Eww.

Because even his idiotic voters wouldn’t intentionally drive up their power bill.

I wouldnt be so sure about that. They do shit like this all the time:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-red-light-district/202404/the-cruel-practice-of-rolling-coal

When it comes to harassing liberals, no price is too small

And to think, in an alternate universe, Trump is ruining the Buffalo Bills instead of the country. What do you think they’re drinking when they tailgate, Donnie? It ain’t Budweiser…

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bankers-fraud-trial-buffalo-bills-nfl-c4cfa0af0247cf70f436341a2fa64dd0

This leave out the most egregious thing they are doing: installing Starlink backdoors all over government.

At best, Elon and his team are making sure that he has unfettered access to all the data for his AI shenanigans. But where is the data being held? How do we know Elon’s backdoor has not, itself, been backdoored?

At worst, he is actively selling it all to foreign powers.

There is zero accountability, so we really dont know…

Isn’t it obvious? He’s not taking on any additional load at all.

The administration may not be able to fully cancel executive agencies that were established by Congress, but they can assign their duties to someone who would have no problem ignoring them. So instead of being killed outright, they die a slow death due to benign neglect.

Well, duh, but they will do everything they can to stack the deck. AOC isn’t running for this, in exchange for keeping out they will let her run for Chuck’s Senate seat.

Aside from the Chosen Candidate, everyone else who is running is just running for the name recognition, the ability to live large for a while on campaign cash, and then back out and support the Chosen Candidate when asked to.

You realize our only other choice will be Gavin, right?

If Donald Trump remains President beyond Jan 2029, he won’t need to be elected to do it.