The theft of the Supreme Court super majority and the installation of ideologues who are bought and paid for and do EXACTLY as they are told ended the Judical Branch of government.
The wholesale gerrymandering, constant use of the filibuster by ONE SIDE and not the other, and the disgusting pandering of the Congress along with the weaponization of the Electoral College and expansion of the "unitary executive" theory as essentally ended the Legislative Branch of government.
The susceptibility of the American public to racial dog whistles, fake machismo dressed up as 'toughness', and flat out stupidity led to not one but TWO elections of Donald Trump over vastly better qualified andmore intelligent and capable female candidates (both of which would have been far better for the nation as a whole) and his purging of the guard rails and sanity in the office has essentially ended the Executive Branch of the government.
We are left with a sawed off tree, a camp fire of the former three co-equal branches of government, a MOUNTAIN of debt and a failing ECONOMY, problems that are going to cause the deaths of MILLLIONS of people and our fucking "leaders" sit around the burning campfire singing the same goddamn songs and dancing the same fucking jigs over and over and over. The American experiment is over. The questions going forward are fuckig terrifying for the world and yet no one is doing jack all about it.
The Supreme Court needs to be either rebalanced or replaced or flat out ignored. Trump ignores them...why the fuck do we still abide????
The President needs to be impeached and removed from office and ineligible for any other office EVER. He never should have been elected once, but he never should have been allowed to run again. The fact that history (temporarily anyway) has been rewritten to obsfucate the real events of 6th January 2021 does not mean it was ever OK in the first place. He should be in jail not in office and yet we allow it? We go to work and we pay taxes and we pretend that this is normal, that this is functional, that is repairable if only we get the right coalition of voters?
This nation is dead, but its corpse is the most lethal weapon in the history of humanity left in the hands of a lunatic and his fanatical supporters and their brain washed (or dead?) minions. We need to be seizing the launch codes, shutting down the missile silos and recalling the subs and grounding the planes. We need to be far more worried about this than at any time since October 1962. For fuck's sake, Trump was again alluding to nuclear weapons YESTERDAY!!!!
Or maybe we have just given up...
Maybe its just better to let everything burn down around us, fight through a hellish war that prunes the majority of life on the planet and hope that whatever comes after humanity does a better job next time around in a few hundred million years or so.
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