From betraying Ukraine and dispatching masked agents who killed Americans to deporting US citizens and pulling out of accords controlling climate change and Iranian nuclear weapons, the list of Donald Trump’s abuses is long and growing still longer, seemingly by the day.
Looking back decades from now, historians will see that at the top of this shameful list is Trump’s utter abuse of his pardon power. It started on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned more than 1,500 insurrectionists who, on 6 January 2021, had stormed the US Capitol.
More recently, as documented in astonishing accounts by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes, Trump has overseen a robust pardons market in which friends or relatives of criminals offer to pay millions for presidential clemency.
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Along with tariffs and other dictator power, but even worse is the fools elected him twice with all the knowledge available to all and they still fail the test again! That’s bad choices and willful ignorance and will keep regressing each time and where they make the bad choices.
But how do we deal with the other side after all of this? They’ve clearly been manipulated by Fox News and social media algorithms. They think they’re up-to-date with current events. The media manipulation in the US is staggering. I don’t see how we move forward without tearing everything down. It’s rotten from the inside out.
So… Many… Things…
At this point it feels like it would be better to burn the fucking thing down and start from scratch, because fascism is like getting termites.
But at this point it would just mean total subjugation by Russia or China, so it needs to be fixed, but it’s like a flaming wreck just rolled into the shop and it has to be salvaged.
The only option is to tear it all down. Personally I say start with deregulation of the radio frequencies to hopefully drown out talk radio (and iHeartRadio) under a ride of not quite pirate stations. This would at least stop folks from listening to low tier talk radio while driving since I doubt any of them besides Coast to Coast will be able to maintain.
From there its a bit harder cause just deregulating something and waiting for it to die isn’t quite an option. But you could do a trust bust followed by simply disbanding cable TV to get rid of Fox.
Internet is both harder and easier in that you really only need to regulate how the algorithms work and maybe cave in Facebook and their subsidiaries. At least in theory, maybe throw in some indepth investigations on where right wing influencers are getting their money since it came out the ruskies were bankrolling a bunch awhile back. But overall attacking their funding structure is probably the best method, maybe see about shit canning TPUSA and similar orgs due to obviously skirting regulatory laws.