Corrupt politicians are a dime a dozen. Healthy spider plants in the office on the other hand are pretty rare.

Court orders tax payers on the hook for criminal administration.

Out of all the things Trump has done, I draw the line at deferred maintenance.

In a sane world we would already be working towards reforming the Presidential pardon. It is clear the current system is broken and prone to abuse. I guess it just took a rapist-in-chief to show us that.

Replace sea with money and you are pretty accurate. It is all about the money and Trump is famous for taking a whole lot of Russian money

What is so bizarre is you could make a list ten times as long and still only be scratching the surface.

It is amazing the media can’t seem to draw the line from death threats to resignation. They always talk about the reasons why but not in this situation. I have only read one article in Mother Jones pointing out the harsh reality of what is going on.

Umm Trump just said nuh uh.

And SCOTUS just backed him up.

Blame the people for being lied to just doesn’t have that self-righteous energy you are looking for.

That is just pure propaganda. They are not anymore hateful than you or I. They have been led astray.

I get it, othering is as appealing as it is toxic.

I like this way of framing it because it doesn’t abjectly give up responsibility.

So instead of ignoring the fuckups of countries all over the world we are expected to ignore them here as well. Clearly ignoring the problem is not working.

Seems like we are playing right into their hands and sacrificing our own citizens in the name of politics.

Guns have always worked as an oppressive force against Americans. The clowns that say otherwise are living in made-up fantasyland.

Didn’t they already downplay the whole insurrection thing? Hard to take these clowns seriously.

Our insurrection was invading the capital with the intention of killing the Vice President!

Your insurrection is telling the army it is okay to refuse to attack US citizens!

You can look up NIJ methodology if you are concerned. I would generally agree with you that it is undercounted/underreported and there is a lot more conservative violence than we know about.

Conservatism always looks to create an outside group it uses to exploit and blame their self-derived problems on. See currently blaming the immigrants for taking jobs and benefits away from working class Americans when it is really our existing system that does this in the name of profits.

They messed up so bad and it hasn’t even happened before in the history of law. A screw up of historical proportions. They don’t even know what to do, they can’t even comprehend how badly they fucked up.

It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious matter.

You make some really good points. I had to look it up and apparently it is not uncommon to have a country that has never had a woman as its top leader.

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-never-had-female-leader-1906993

Also, if you add up all the years women have actually been a leader it is just a token amount.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/not-just-the-us-the-countries-that-have-never-been-led-by-a-woman/0bidx04kt

So clearly this is not just a US thing. Why women are so grossly underrepresented in politics appears to be pretty universal.

The leader of the KKK endorsed Obama over Hilary. Let that sink in.

Having a pick me conservative female candidate reinforces all their values while co-opting more women through representation. In this respect having a female President could be way worse, think Erica Kirk.

I agree with your point and I think the reason it hasn’t happen has a lot to do with the extreme sexism the US has.

People are sick of career politicians because they were told to be. Advertising and marketing drive what people think, not the other way around. As a non-American or even an American you could easily miss the multiple reasons Trump was really elected.

It was never about draining the swamp as his primary backers of the Federalist and Heritage groups were about dismantling the government. Their plan was to greatly increase the power of the executive because they could not dismantle the government with its consent.

Only with a extremely strong executive branch could this be accomplished. The rhetoric and propaganda around how bad the government is in comparison to how good private business is has been going on strong for several decades. They have been priming people for this moment since before I was born.

This is not because the people wished for this, but because wealthy people stand to make more money and gather much more power without a well functioning government.