Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP

[JCanete]

66. I agree with him...we are in danger of losing our democracy. Russia has less

do with it than our own corporations.

Just answer my question. Can Trump do anything without the GOP's consent, given that it has the power to veto, create law with the help of democrats by a 2/3's margin, and ultimately impeach?

The answer is actually no, unless you can convince me that Trump is actually charismatic and powerful enough to have convinced the leaders within the armed forces to help him with an actual coup.

Second question. Does Russia control the GOP or does American and Trans-national big business control the GOP? Can the GOP do anything that is not in the interests of its corporate owners? I'll answer that one too. For the most part no. The problem is that those corporate owners are not themselves patriotic. They could give a shit if they turn our nation into a cess pool. If that happen's they'll pick up and go somewhere nicer. They are entirely divested, and that means, they could care less if Trump is kissing Putin's ass, so long as they are still robbing from the American people.

As soon as he gets in the way of that mission, this honeymoon is over, and you'll see just how much of a coup this is by Putin. If you want to use the looser case for coup...yes this was quite a coup for Putin. Russia IS benefitting. Trump is a fucking idiot who is almost certainly committing treason, whether its provable or not.

But yes, we are constantly in danger of losing our Democracy assuming that's what we still have, and under Trump the risks are particularly high. When you take into account the legitimate and illegitimate distrust in our fourth estate that makes people unwilling to believe anything they hear if it doesn't sit with their world view, the terrifying attacks on net-neutrality, massive voter suppression and hackable elections, the electoral college, and always the big money with its hands on every piece of it--from the media spin to the king-making of our politicians, shit is dire. Its not less dire when Trump is making deals with foreign powers that have a vested interest in totalitarianism, but this is not a coup by Trump and Putin. This is an ongoing coup by people who have generally found real news and real democracy to be an inconvenience.