one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

In a perfect world, you don’t put the guy who got away with stealing our national security secrets back in the office where he’ll get unfettered access to our national security secrets.

Me and my pesky high standards.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Last time around, Canada targeted some weirdly-specific products made in (then-Speaker) Paul Ryan's district in order to inflict maximum pain. Pickles and lawnmowers were on the list, if I recall.

So what is made in Mike Johnson and John Thune's neck of the woods?

Tfw you forget you’re the one who signed the USMCA (oops!)

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So, in this country, if you’re charged with illegally interfering with a presidential election, the way to have all charges dropped is to win a presidential election?

Got it.

If corporations are people, as our corrupt Supreme Court has decided, they should pay taxes at the same rate REAL people do.

You want reform? Start right there.

IN 1956 NIKITA KHRUSCHEV
SAID

"We do not have to invade the USA we will destroy you from within"

Still true…

A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.

It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.

#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X
Bluesky is currently adding nearly one million users per day.

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Trump's first step to "protect women" is to appoint a child sex trafficker and pedophile to run the department that enforces the laws protecting women.

Where's Vance?