Getting Big Money Out of Government
At this point, after 16 years of failed attempts to reverse the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United, I would say to the guy who wrote the meme at left, it appears that ship has sailed.
With each passing year, the problem is getting worse. In 2010, the American people at least had the intelligence to be outraged that Big Money owned our congress.
Now, we’ve elected Donald Trump twice, and each day brings a new slap across the face, a new demonstration that he believes we are powerless to remove him.
At left is a typical BS statement from the Trump administration.
The fact that West Virginia ranks last in education means exactly zero in terms of determining the criteria by which these people vote.
Of all the decisions that Trump has made in his second term, the one that reveals most clearly how he thinks is his appointment of RFK, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
The rationale expressed at left is what most democracies use to guide their voting.
The world wants to know how the amount of corruption in the U.S. could have possibly risen to this insane level.
A friend writes:
At left we see the rationale behind the statute of limitations in U.S. criminal law. You aren’t the same person you were seven years ago.
Of course, the U.S. and the other authoritarian countries are run by criminals, but it’s completely wrong to make this generality about the majority of the other countries on Earth.
Once Trump is gone, what exactly will happen to the brutal ICE agents who violated people’s civil rights by, for instance, executing them by shooting them in the head? We know about the uncountable number of goons whom Trump called in to storm the U.S. Capitol in 2021 and beat and killed U.S. law enforcement personnel. They were immediately pardoned by a lawless president.
