It amazes me that Congress is going to stand by while Trump neuters them. Their decisions are dust in the wind. He cares no more about their responsibilities under the Constitution than he cares about the Constitution itself.
We no longer have three co-equal branches of government. We have Trump.
I wonder when Muskovich’s flunkies who do his bidding are going to realize that what they’re doing is going to have a negative impact on their future? They aren’t billionaires, they likely aren’t even millionaires. Their proximity to power has no lasting value. They’re dupes.
Since Trump thinks it’s appropriate to golf as the ship sinks, I wonder who’s actually running the government in his absence.
Musk, Miller, a cabal of Project 2025 authors…? It’s got to be someone, because he’s doing jack shit.
Russia may want to conquer us politically, but China has already conquered us in the marketplace. Look at all the things you use. I bet a majority of them are made in China. If China cut off exports to the US the few things left on the shelves would be sold for hundreds of dollars.
It goes to show how ridiculous the promise to bring back American manufacturing is. We can’t make many of the things we import from China, and because of our wages (which honestly should be higher) would make prices prohibitively expensive, especially for us normal people.
We cannot exist isolated from the rest of the world. In the tech world, look how many components are produced in Viet Nam. In fashion, Indonesia makes our clothes. Mexico provides much of our produce.
On our own, cut off from the rest of the world, we couldn’t exist.
The last few weeks have been filled with debates, from town halls to mainstream media, from congregations to social networks, over the merits and intentions of Indiana’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Act”.
What doesn’t seem to be getting mentioned much if at all is one the foundational beliefs those who sponsor and back measures like this hold and believe deeply.
Many religious people, not just Christians, believe that homosexuality is a choice. They believe people make a conscious decision to be gay. Further, they don’t accept that there’s anything organic about being transgendered. They think that a transgendered person is simply someone displeased with their biologically assigned gender and who wants to think of themselves, and wants everyone else to think of them, as a member of the opposite gender.
The religious ignore any scientific evidence that supports a biological and...
…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson