David could answer these questions simply by saying this: when it comes to the filthy rich corporate criminal elite members of the ruling class which would include Trump, the rule of law does not apply to them. This isn’t something that Trump caused because it has been this way for a very long time, Trump just made it worse and he exploited the situation and was able to become dictator of the United States.
In the United States, the White House, the federal courts and Congress is held to the lowest standards of morality and legality. The only people further above the law than they are are the billionaires and the corporations.
David can’t say what I just said because if he told the complete and total truth corporate would remove him from the Internet somehow. YouTube would shadow ban him and other platforms would deboost him.
Corporate media which also includes social media squelches free speech.
There are criminals on the Supreme Court with the worst one being Clarence Thomas and his crimes include insurrection and bribery. We shouldn’t have to pack the court. We should hold these criminals on the Supreme Court accountable by throwing them in prison for the rest of their stinking lives.
The overarching problem is nothing holds Congress, the courts in the White House accountable and this is because these entities do not work for the American people. Our government works for billionaires. We can talk about how horrible Trump is but he’s merely a foot soldier for corporate, same as Congress and same as the courts.
Writing from outside of your country, luckily. Trying to take a broader and longer view. I see several things happening and colliding, several "experiments" if you will.
EXPERIMENT 1:
There is the experiment with a flawed version of democracy. Flawed because it NEVER was "representative democracy" and was set up quite deliberately to be NON-representative. I do not mean for this comment to be anti-American. It is not so much a "comment" as an observation and that is an important distinction.
EXPERIMENT 2:
Secondly, there is the experiment with authoritarian fascism to which you are currently being subjected. I think that you should all be much more terrified of this than most of you are. Unfortunately, this experiment is not bound to fail. That doesn't mean that it will succeed; it "just" means that it will not fail simply because you do not like it. It is, in part, because Experiment 1 was set up the way that it was (i.e., to be blatantly non-representative) that Expetiment 2 is currently succeeding so robustly.
EXPERIMENT 3:
This is an experiment with underlying values and is, unfortunately, at least in a very large part, responsible for the impending failure of Experiment 1 and the impending success of Experiment 2. I guess it could be called "The American Dream" Experiment. The "everyone and anyone can succeed" in the USA, where "success" is defined very shallowly, i.e., materially. Of course this is another outright and blatant lie. It is not and never has been true that everyone and anyone can be "rich" in materialistic ways. For one thing, it is self-contradictory. A values system based on avarice is a system with built-in "safeguards" against health and "prosperity for all".
It appears to me, from outside your country but from a somewhat at least superficially similar culture, that the strength of that impossible goal of becoming richer than the next person in shallow materialistic consumerism is what is fuelling the potential success of Experiment 2.
To turn away from capitalism is so terrifying in your culture, RENDERED so terrifying by those benefitting from you believing the impossible dream, that truly I do not know what it is going to take to shake the USA out of these experiments. Maybe merely finding or "inventing" new terminology so that a "bottom line" of the common good is not seen as the dirty word that I will not repeat here. But whatever it is going to take, you MUST find it and you will have to remain very very strong in order to succeed, in order to turn away from power OVER.
If you interpret the above as "fatalistic", "nihilistic", "anti-American", or un-optimistic, you have not understood what I am urging you to do. Feel free to engage me (and us) in further discussion ... And thank you for reading all the way to the end of this posting.
Hey David, I hope that you are doing great. Do you think that the American people are smart enough to punish Republicans and Trump for their crimes and corruption? Or they're going with the culture wars? Thank you
Agree that packing the court would not produce a better, even handed result. However the current SC setup is not adequate and it is obvious it has become just another political arm of the president. The SC got 9 justices in 1869 with a population of just 38+ million (1870 census). Today we have close to 340 million and still just 9 justices. Every year the SC hears about 1 of every 10 cases submitted. They act on 70-80 cases and they take their sweet time doing that.
It would be interesting to run an AI simulation to see which agree or not.
Not sure what a better system would be, perhaps give the appellate more power to decide the case and not have it forwarded to the SC.
David could answer these questions simply by saying this: when it comes to the filthy rich corporate criminal elite members of the ruling class which would include Trump, the rule of law does not apply to them. This isn’t something that Trump caused because it has been this way for a very long time, Trump just made it worse and he exploited the situation and was able to become dictator of the United States.
In the United States, the White House, the federal courts and Congress is held to the lowest standards of morality and legality. The only people further above the law than they are are the billionaires and the corporations.
David can’t say what I just said because if he told the complete and total truth corporate would remove him from the Internet somehow. YouTube would shadow ban him and other platforms would deboost him.
Corporate media which also includes social media squelches free speech.
There are criminals on the Supreme Court with the worst one being Clarence Thomas and his crimes include insurrection and bribery. We shouldn’t have to pack the court. We should hold these criminals on the Supreme Court accountable by throwing them in prison for the rest of their stinking lives.
The overarching problem is nothing holds Congress, the courts in the White House accountable and this is because these entities do not work for the American people. Our government works for billionaires. We can talk about how horrible Trump is but he’s merely a foot soldier for corporate, same as Congress and same as the courts.
Writing from outside of your country, luckily. Trying to take a broader and longer view. I see several things happening and colliding, several "experiments" if you will.
EXPERIMENT 1:
There is the experiment with a flawed version of democracy. Flawed because it NEVER was "representative democracy" and was set up quite deliberately to be NON-representative. I do not mean for this comment to be anti-American. It is not so much a "comment" as an observation and that is an important distinction.
EXPERIMENT 2:
Secondly, there is the experiment with authoritarian fascism to which you are currently being subjected. I think that you should all be much more terrified of this than most of you are. Unfortunately, this experiment is not bound to fail. That doesn't mean that it will succeed; it "just" means that it will not fail simply because you do not like it. It is, in part, because Experiment 1 was set up the way that it was (i.e., to be blatantly non-representative) that Expetiment 2 is currently succeeding so robustly.
EXPERIMENT 3:
This is an experiment with underlying values and is, unfortunately, at least in a very large part, responsible for the impending failure of Experiment 1 and the impending success of Experiment 2. I guess it could be called "The American Dream" Experiment. The "everyone and anyone can succeed" in the USA, where "success" is defined very shallowly, i.e., materially. Of course this is another outright and blatant lie. It is not and never has been true that everyone and anyone can be "rich" in materialistic ways. For one thing, it is self-contradictory. A values system based on avarice is a system with built-in "safeguards" against health and "prosperity for all".
It appears to me, from outside your country but from a somewhat at least superficially similar culture, that the strength of that impossible goal of becoming richer than the next person in shallow materialistic consumerism is what is fuelling the potential success of Experiment 2.
To turn away from capitalism is so terrifying in your culture, RENDERED so terrifying by those benefitting from you believing the impossible dream, that truly I do not know what it is going to take to shake the USA out of these experiments. Maybe merely finding or "inventing" new terminology so that a "bottom line" of the common good is not seen as the dirty word that I will not repeat here. But whatever it is going to take, you MUST find it and you will have to remain very very strong in order to succeed, in order to turn away from power OVER.
If you interpret the above as "fatalistic", "nihilistic", "anti-American", or un-optimistic, you have not understood what I am urging you to do. Feel free to engage me (and us) in further discussion ... And thank you for reading all the way to the end of this posting.
Hey David, I hope that you are doing great. Do you think that the American people are smart enough to punish Republicans and Trump for their crimes and corruption? Or they're going with the culture wars? Thank you
Good questions, good answers!
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Agree that packing the court would not produce a better, even handed result. However the current SC setup is not adequate and it is obvious it has become just another political arm of the president. The SC got 9 justices in 1869 with a population of just 38+ million (1870 census). Today we have close to 340 million and still just 9 justices. Every year the SC hears about 1 of every 10 cases submitted. They act on 70-80 cases and they take their sweet time doing that.
It would be interesting to run an AI simulation to see which agree or not.
Not sure what a better system would be, perhaps give the appellate more power to decide the case and not have it forwarded to the SC.
So did the prescription prices go down 87 percent from $100 to $13?
No. They went down *783%* You really have to keep up here!