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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 131 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is literally killing anything and everything that fights corruption, follows the law, and gave us soft power because while we were big stupid bullies, laws like this made us mostly be seen as "trustworthy" to a lot of the world.

That period for US dominance is officially dead, and can't be rekindled by just replacing Trump with a Democrat.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yep. That would literally be just the first step. Then we would - in no particular order - need to:

  • Pass an amendment specifically removing the presidential power to pardon, retroactive to January 20th, 2025 at noon Eastern time. All the criminals he released get locked back up again. The power to pardon would go to an independent commission from then on.
  • Throw all of these bastards breaking our government into prison. For life. These are traitors to the country.
  • Establish an independent task force to systematically uncover everything they've done, and reverse it or mitigate it.
  • Dedicate trillions of dollars to the cleanup. Raise taxes on billionaires to fund it.
  • Overturn Citizens United with another constitutional amendment.
  • Impeach and replace six Justices (you know which ones) of the Supreme Court with new Justices that will immediately make bribery illegal again.
  • Do away with the unconstitutional cap on representatives, and require one representative for every 580,000 people (the population of our least populous state).
  • Do away with the electoral college.

And much more. None of this is likely to happen, of course. So... We're kinda boned as far as international relations are concerned.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The term Treason should definitely get its meaning and severity back.

Billionaires and companies actively undermining the Government should be taxed to the highest bracket, fined on top, and where applicable broken up.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm sorry, raise taxes on billionaires??? Eliminate the billionaire class by reallocation of their wealth to these projects. They are 100% at fault here.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

100% tax is still a tax.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I stand enthusiastically corrected.

[–] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

Since many lawmakers are millionaires or billionaires, this will never, ever be made into law.