Trumps Presidency 2025

[CMRivdogs]

2 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Reform is needed.  The ridiculous power of the wealthy needs to be brought in check if we are going to be a nation of laws and not men. 

I agree, reform is needed from the Constitution on down. We're not in the 18th century anymore. Jefferson said something close to the Constitution needed to be rewritten every generation. I don't think we need to go that far, but we need something that returns us back to the values set up by Madison and Company then go from there.

But humans being human.....

 

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[guy incognito]

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

He's doing great.  Remember when HW Bush posted during the 1992 election about how he was ambassador to the UN in 1970?  

Or, when Eisenhower bragged in 1957 about being on MacArthur's staff in the Philippines in 1935? 

Or, when Reagan bragged in 1981 about his time as SAG president in the late 1950s?  

 

And none of those boasts, had they even happened, would be remotely as pathetic as this since they’d be about actual substantive past work and not some ******** teevee show. 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

I agree, reform is needed from the Constitution on down. We're not in the 18th century anymore. Jefferson said something close to the Constitution needed to be rewritten every generation. I don't think we need to go that far, but we need something that returns us back to the values set up by Madison and Company then go from there.

But humans being human.....

 

This. We've gone way overboard with a kind of theological reverence that seems to taken even the idea of amendment off the table. The amendment process was a pretty regular thing right up through the middle of the 20th century. Our refusal to keep up with the times legally/consitutionally is big part of our gridlock. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

9 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Some Leonid Brehznez stuff there.

[romad1]

27 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

And none of those boasts, had they even happened, would be remotely as pathetic as this since they’d be about actual substantive past work and not some ******** teevee show. 

At least he wasn’t bragging about winning the vietnam war.

[CMRivdogs]

20 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

This. We've gone way overboard with a kind of theological reverence that seems to taken even the idea of amendment off the table. The amendment process was a pretty regular thing right up through the middle of the 20th century. Our refusal to keep up with the times legally/consitutionally is big part of our gridlock. 

I know that I'm basically preaching to the choir here, but IMO we need to find a way to get Big Money out of politics. Citizens United opened the door to a lot of the mess we're seeing now. Too many PACs, who knows how much dark money. There has to be a way to police this. Personally I'd start taxing contributions over $1,000 at 75%, no business contributions allowed what so ever. 

 

[mtutiger]

16 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Some Leonid Brehznez stuff there.

Looks like more Konstantin Chernenko stuff there lol

[romad1]

33 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Looks like more Konstantin Chernenko stuff there lol

well they both struggled with being old apparatchiks.