The EC is a holdover from a time when we thought Senators shouldn’t be directly elected to begin with and only white male land owners should be afforded a vote.

Ignoring the racist and patriarchal solution they came up with, it’s hard to disagree with their conclusion that average people don’t make for a reliable voting population. It seems that 1/3 of the population doesn’t give a shit about anything, 1/3 is certifiably insane, and 1/3 put in a reasonable amount of effort to understand the issues and proposed solutions. Statistically speaking, that makes straight up democracy sound like a terrible idea.

There’s probably a better solution to that particular problem than we’ve tried, but I don’t know how you can address it without creating a system just begging to be abused.

Geriatric rape ape is a sweet name for a punk band that only plays shows at retirement homes

I wholeheartedly disagree that either Trump or a snake oil salesman can be classified as charismatic. Convincing, persuasive, encouraging to idiots, all those seem accurate but charisma implies positive characteristics and they don’t have any.

It’s meaningless semantics in the end but either way I will never use that word to describe Trump.

This isn’t the first time he’s shared pics of him as Jesus. They didn’t care then and they won’t care now

It works for Trump

If I had access to a missile I would have fired it at him long ago

There’s value to be had in industry experts advising governments. Think about your old ass representative regulating the internet without any advice from people who have actually used the internet. The problem is not that the government converses with industry, it’s that lobbyists bribe politicians under false pretenses. Outlaw the exchange of money, not ideas.

There’s petabytes of free porn on the internet and yet tons of weirdos pay for subscriptions to porn sites. Such is life

Wealthy southerners aren’t immune to trashy behavior. They’re just oblivious to the trashiness.

No but that wasn’t the goal so why would that matter to Trump?

Could be worse. At least you’ve got a computer and some sort of building to put it in.

the dems need to appeal to republican voters

When will this idea die? If anyone is still on the fence about Trump they are a lost cause. I don’t mean that in the internet edgelord sense but a literal one. Stop wasting time on idiots and people happily guzzling propaganda. They will never ever change. Give up on them. They want to physically harm you.

Dem governors would line up to oppose him.

Do you have any reason other than your own expectations to believe this is true? Looking at their response to him so far I don’t think they would do shit. I don’t think I would have said that two years ago but their spinelessness up to this point is pretty shocking.

Walz hasn’t done much of anything about ICE invading Minnesota and Newsom types his Twitter posts like an idiot now. What else have any of them done?

That only applies to specific opinion shows like Tucker Carlson’s. They have actual news segments that do have requirements to report factual information

John Fetterman and Krysten Sinema come to mind. Most self described “liberal” politicians, really.

If we can only comprehend war in economic terms then we have already lost everything that makes a society worth preserving.

Maybe. Either way it’s an insane thing for the POTUS to say. The best case scenario is that he’s so full of shit that he makes other insane politicians seem tame by comparison. That’s not a good place for the US or the world to be, to say nothing of any other possible scenarios.

“The bombings will continue until peace is achieved” is an actual quote from Trump

You’re welcome to your opinions on the topic but I don’t think you can refute anything I said. Desperate people often get violent and there are a lot of desperate people out there. That’s just the state of the world.

You make good points but when politicians don’t listen to people and those people get desperate they also get violent. If politicians didn’t want to get shot at they shouldn’t have created a world in which that sounds like a good idea to damn near half the population. Actions have consequences and the people in charge have been ignoring problems for a long time. Sooner or later that’s going to bite them in the ass in one way or another.