Harris won 20 states. The traitors need 34 states to even propose a constitutional convention, and 38 states must ratify any proposed amendments.
Repubs can fuck off and die. Slowly, painfully. While I munch tariffed popcorn. Fucking traitors.
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After the cloture vote we just saw, it's less far fetched that just enough democrats will go along with it.
Of course nothing will happen, legally. What will happen is it rally up his supporters and just by the nature of people supporting the ideas, he'll do stuff on the idea that he has some mandate that will become Constitutional one day. He's already doing things that are far past his power legally and morally, even going against active judicial demands. Why is he going to wait for the actual legality of it all?
It’s crazy that when he got rid of any ethical restraint, literally nothing can stop the president from doing whatever the crazy fuck shit he wants, as we are seeing…
Honestly I felt like this for a long time but Schumer and other dems capitulating has me worried. Civil war is looking like a best case scenario pipe dream the way things are developing. I expect this summer to be intense, crazy, and potentially the last chance ‘we the people’ have to stand up.
It would fail if they tried today. But after 3-7 more years of eroding voting rights, empowering intimidation and misinformation groups, and emplacing loyal people in state governments? I think they could get all 50 states. He's going to run for a third term regardless because it's obvious by now that nobody will stop him, but having the amendment in place will be a fitting capstone to his power grab.
balanced budget amendment
The federal government has achieved fiscal balance (even surpluses) in just seven periods since 1776, bringing in enough revenue to cover all of its spending during 1817-21, 1823-36, 1852-57, 1867-73, 1880-93, 1920-30 and 1998-2001. We have also experienced six depressions. They began in 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929.
Do you see the correlation?
The one exception occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the dot-com and housing bubbles fueled a consumption binge that delayed the harmful effects of the Clinton surpluses until the Great Recession of 2007-09.
Because:
National debt is not like individual debt.
National debt is not like individual debt.
National debt is NOT like individual debt!
But at least our most senior treasury officials must understand this, right?
Key Takeaways
The national debt is composed of distinct types of debt, similar to an individual whose debt may consist of a mortgage, car loan, and credit cards.
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Can you, uh, remind everyone why that is? I obviously know, but for all those people that need to hear it again?
Good point.
If you like video format: Finding The Money is a great documentary on how sovereign currency has worked historically, how it works in the US right now, why the national debt and spending deficits aren’t (necessarily, by themselves) something to worry about, and what to worry about instead: inflation, physical resources, and labor utilization.
If you prefer reading: “Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar” by Cory Doctorow is a good short read, and Stephanie Kelton has a book The Deficit Myth which I’ve heard is good too.
Haven’t watched the video, but my prior knowledge and intuition tells me a) this was the special case of the United States hegemony, where the world literally runs on usd, and b) this might not be the case in the multipolar world that Trump is making for some criminal reason.
I don't know how to make people understand the difference between personal and national debt. It's frustrating
This is suspicious as fuck
Peeps like to talk about reforming this crusty old slave pact to make it more democratic, etc...
But in reality the only "reform" is going to be more fascism. That's the whole point of the system.
Such a fucking tragedy that a particular kid didn't have such terrible fucking aim. Of course I'm talking about Ralphie, he almost put his eye out.
I will never forget that day - I was tripping on molly and stupidly briefly looked at my phone to check time or something, and there it was the Apple News notification about the incident. I then had a legit vision, about the forces working to make his victory an inevitability, and I cried as the world collapsed on me.
I came from a different country, that has struggled for decades with “strong men” and their corruption, and knew right then that the incredible feat that is the American Democratic experiment, which I admire and came to join, was going to end.
There is a slim chance to save it still, but most folks not bought in are far too naive to understand what is really happening or complacent to do anything about it.
Idk, I hope I am wrong.
Obama 2028