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1. Great post. Exactly.

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54 replies	Author	Time	Post
Something is fundamentally wrong with our system when one of our planet's [View all]	Magoo48	Feb 2021	OP
Great post. Exactly.	LakeArenal	Feb 2021	#1
I hate to nitpick, since I agree with all of this. But I feel compelled to point out that	ShazzieB	Feb 2021	#2
He is an Amfibbinagain.	dameatball	Feb 2021	#9
Qrump had being an Amfibbinagain down to an art form	KS Toronado	Feb 2021	#15
Oops, my bad.🤷🏼‍♂️	Magoo48	Feb 2021	#24
Reptile ... not an amphibian.	Laelth	Feb 2021	#3
It is worse than that - he can continuously break any law and not be held accountable	Under The Radar	Feb 2021	#4
Agree and:	SayItLoud	Feb 2021	#5
I wouldn't go that far....	paleotn	Feb 2021	#16
Prosecutors judges and juries will be threatened by the MAGA mob	Under The Radar	Feb 2021	#32
And they will be arrested, tried and convicted.	paleotn	Feb 2021	#41
At the moment you are correct, but if they allow Trump to be boss	Under The Radar	Feb 2021	#47
We don't know if he issued himself a "secret pardon."	LastLiberal in PalmSprings	Feb 2021	#35
It will still have to be adjudicated publicly.	paleotn	Feb 2021	#39
I read that because he drew up the pardons himself, they were so narrowly written that	LastLiberal in PalmSprings	Feb 2021	#45
Yes, those are the Electoral College and the Fillibuster	Escurumbele	Feb 2021	#6
But But But...	Tommymac	Feb 2021	#8
to get rid of them destroy RW radio first - everything else will be easy	certainot	Feb 2021	#22
You are correct, and...improve the educational system in the USA	Escurumbele	Feb 2021	#28
Hugely important.	summer_in_TX	Feb 2021	#50
use AI to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze it - expose it, and boycott it until the	certainot	Feb 2021	#53
Excellent suggestion and one I hadn't thought of.	summer_in_TX	Feb 2021	#54
This message was self-deleted by its author	dameatball	Feb 2021	#7
Senate and Electoral College	Turin_C3PO	Feb 2021	#10
Taking the cap off of the House	Bettie	Feb 2021	#40
That's a good idea.	Turin_C3PO	Feb 2021	#44
Yes, and raising the number would	Bettie	Feb 2021	#46
If you're going to build a political system that's hinged...	MrScorpio	Feb 2021	#11
Time for the Dems to play some serious f'ing hardball.	MASW	Feb 2021	#12
Welcome to DU!	Delphinus	Feb 2021	#21
We need a drip campaign of ads on tv and radio	HariSeldon	Feb 2021	#31
Keep it simple and repeat a unified message ad nauseum. Label	Maru Kitteh	Feb 2021	#48
The wheels of justice turn slowly.....	the_sly_pig	Feb 2021	#13
This. All of it, except that	Oldem	Feb 2021	#23
That is an important point. When you talk of the GOP training their sights on state level,	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 2021	#33
Contrary to popular myth, our founders were not "gods"....	paleotn	Feb 2021	#14
That is the other big point I was going to make, but you were ahead of me.	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 2021	#34
It's the GQP that is the problem	pandr32	Feb 2021	#17
Any institution of rules, law, order	bucolic_frolic	Feb 2021	#18
I'm with you, Sly_Pig.	MASW	Feb 2021	#19
I think that this is one instance where you can hate both the player and the game.	Initech	Feb 2021	#20
so true	llashram	Feb 2021	#25
An election that went 57% - 43% would be called a landslide.	TheRickles	Feb 2021	#26
About the amphibian/reptile error. Sorry about that. I taught science for crying outloud.	Magoo48	Feb 2021	#27
Right on!	Pepsidog	Feb 2021	#29
I suggest as time passes certain types of people learn of game the system, any system.	TryLogic	Feb 2021	#30
Minority rule is baked into the system...	Jon King	Feb 2021	#36
+1	leftstreet	Feb 2021	#43
The "something" is people, Magoo. The dangerous flaw of	Hortensis	Feb 2021	#37
It's fucked up	dalton99a	Feb 2021	#38
The very definition of dysfunctional	Blue Owl	Feb 2021	#42
Yep, all the things you said.	msfiddlestix	Feb 2021	#49
Hell, I'm not sure.	Magoo48	Feb 2021	#51
Well I've been thinking about this question of how to proceed to clean it up	msfiddlestix	Feb 2021	#52

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