I was listening to a piece on NPR about all of the elections happening around the globe - the gist of the story was that incumbents are in jeopardy all over the globe and this is not good for democracy because it often leads to inexperienced, populists with authoritarian tendencies to take power (and fuck things up).
It got me to thinking - why do we focus our angst so much at the politicians, when actually, it's the ultra rich (the global oligarchs if you will) that we really should be the most pissed at. Is it because they've become "untouchable" whereas politicians can be voted out?
@flexghost They always fuck things up and then a Democratic Administration has to "fix" what they broke. Let's have a bit of a streak of Democratic administrations for a change - ya know.
@FlashMobOfOne I know, my question was a bit rhetorical, but why would you go to see anyone speak to sit behind them and stare at their backside for hours.
Why are there always people sitting behind that orange piece of shit when he has his rallies? Who the fuck would want to stand and stare at the back of his fat shitstained ass for hours on end? Morons.
Oh I forgot to mention - This morning's walk along the lake was full of turtle sightings! We must have seen about 8 or 9 turtles basking in some early morning sunlight.
I apologized to the ones we startled and caused them to jump back into the lake. 🤭
What if instead of the President getting to select Supreme Court Justices there was an independent bipartisan panel of scholars that picked them? We certainly wouldn't be in the place we are today if so.
The composition of our Supreme Court a disgrace (Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett in particular)
Is Gorsuch fairly ok or is he also highly questionable?
Middle aged Progressive living on land stolen from the Tunxis. Struggling to learn to play guitar. Dad to two sons. Dog Dad to three dogs. Music lover, striving to spread #kindness.