And he's right.
By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.
It's akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.
That rather obviously would mean you'd failed.
Corrupt, power-hungry psychopaths gotta stick together.
Mmmm... no.
The Constitution does not have and never did have any intrinsic power or authority. It's always been the case that it only possessed any authority to the degree that the relevant officials chose to treat it as if it did.
And at this point, Trump has chosen instead to ignore its nominal authority. And in ignoring it, has revealed that it never really existed in the first place.
The only thing that can force the PotUS to submit to the Constitution is the will of the judicial and legislative branches, and neither the Supreme Court - corrupt and compromised as its conservarive majority is - nor the Congress - corrupt and cowardly as it is essentially in toto - has the will to do that. So the Constitution is just a meaningless piece of parchment.
That's not a reflection of the Constitution specifically though - that's the fundamental nature of all political authority.
No matter who or what or where it is, if one strips political authority down to its foundations, one finds that there's ultimately nothing there. It's always and necessarily built on a foundation of nothing. The closest one ever gets to a source of legitimacy for a particular authoritian system is that their own legislation declares them to be the authority. And it only holds for as long as there's a shared belief that it's legitimate. As soon as that shared belief is violated, it's doomed,
And that, as they say, is that.
One of the very few things that virtually all federal politicians - Democrats and Republicans alike - agree on is that Ted Cruz is an asshole.
Really.
Yep.
Political power is a commodity, and most of those who hold it today do the exact same thing with it as anyone holding any other commodity - they sell it to the highest bidder.
You say yer life's a bum deal
'N yer up against the wall
Well, people, you ain't even got no kinda
Deal at all
'Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care of NUMBER ONE
An' number one ain't you
You ain't even number two
-Frank Zappa "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"
So literally what happened here is Trump said, "I want to violate the Constitution" and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."
And that's it for the rule of law in the US.
All that's left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.
...he can do real damage to conservatives and establishment Democrats just by showing everyone there's a better way.
Exactly.
Which is why both Republicans and establishment Democrats are so desperate to malign him — because the dirty little secret of American politics is that the actual meaningful choice is between people who will work for the good of the people as a whole and people who will work only for the good of the wealthiest few. And maintaining the status quo requires stopping people from figuring out that virtually all elections come down to just two somewhat different versions of the latter type.
Not to necessarily shift blame away from that scumbag sex abuser Cuomo , but I'm betting that the Democratic party leaders are behind this.
The Toddler-in-chief throwing a tantrum because he got caught in a lie.
That's just so 2025.
Sorry, but no. That's just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that's sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
Gotta pay for those executive bonuses somehow...
What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.
It could've been the case that I would've had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I'm actually one ahead in the long run.
And that's it.