easy to control
Yes and no. Do you honestly believe that the GOP likes being attached to him? By all accounts, most people who have to work with him hate him. But they just can't get rid of him. If he were that easy to manipulate and replace, they would have done so long ago, to get a more predictable stooge. No, there's something about him specifically that they need, or at least, they think they do.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program."
Same. Dems winning presidential elections feels like a drowning person who's desperately thrashing around managing to get a lungful of air before sinking again.
No, because if he did, he would appoint new justices that would strike down the "presidents are kings" ruling.
You're correct, and I wasn't saying otherwise. I'm just pointing out that the corrupt SCOTUS has set themselves up as the arbiter of consequences for the President. They can protect or not on a whim, with no way for anyone else to challenge them.
And while asshole despots like DeSantis are a dime a dozen, Trump is unique in his absolute lack of shame or any kind of self-awareness whatsoever. He won't stop, ever, unless someone physically makes him.
He is indeed a symptom, but he's also something more, a cult leader. You're right that the rot will be there regardless, but the GOP needs every single person willing to support them to vote to stay in power. There are a lot of people who specifically worship Trump, not the GOP.
Speaking hypothetically, if a person wanted to remove the least number of people to cause the most benefit to society, giving Biden 6 SCOTUS vacancies to replace would allow all the damage they've done to be reversed.
Guilt or innocence is irrelevant in this case. The only thing that matters is whether the President was acting in an "official" capacity or not. If a Republican does it, it was official. If a Democrat does, it was not.
When I hear the pundits, even the ones I thought I liked, try to pacify what is happening, I know we are done.
You may very well be right, and that's extremely frustrating for me, too. Manufactured consent being laid bare.
His dad lived to 93. -_-
He's on his way out, anyway, so the time it would have been a benefit is gone.
Of course. So will Pence.
66% voted in the 2020 presidential election. That number sucks considering how high the stakes were.