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Showing Original Post only (View all)Something is fundamentally wrong with our system when one of our planet's [View all]
biggest assholes can lose three popular votes (counting the Senate here) and still claim victory, when our governments vestigial structure (again the Senate) can monkey wrench effective government for years upon the feted whims of a power mad amphibian, and when a lunatic minority (you got it, the Senate) can hold sway over an apparently more creative and intelligent majority. Its (the Senate) not functional. Its corrupt. Its diseased.
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Magoo48
Feb 2021
OP
I hate to nitpick, since I agree with all of this. But I feel compelled to point out that
ShazzieB
Feb 2021
#2
It is worse than that - he can continuously break any law and not be held accountable
Under The Radar
Feb 2021
#4
I read that because he drew up the pardons himself, they were so narrowly written that
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Feb 2021
#45
use AI to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze it - expose it, and boycott it until the
certainot
Feb 2021
#53
That is an important point. When you talk of the GOP training their sights on state level,
BobTheSubgenius
Feb 2021
#33
That is the other big point I was going to make, but you were ahead of me.
BobTheSubgenius
Feb 2021
#34
I think that this is one instance where you can hate both the player and the game.
Initech
Feb 2021
#20
About the amphibian/reptile error. Sorry about that. I taught science for crying outloud.
Magoo48
Feb 2021
#27
I suggest as time passes certain types of people learn of game the system, any system.
TryLogic
Feb 2021
#30
Well I've been thinking about this question of how to proceed to clean it up
msfiddlestix
Feb 2021
#52