Also the law that froze the number of house seats (and this number of electrical college votes), screwing everything up and allowing both Bush and the pedo to “win” was passed in 1929.
It should be triple by now.
They have all this control but the only box these guys have ticked is removing some brown people from the country (who they are very likely never crossed paths with). Everything else is getting shitter for them, so what’s to celebrate?
Tankies will continue to say both sides same
I’m not a tankie, and I agree with “bOtH sIdEs SaMe” in regards to being pro-military, and pro-corporate, and anti-labor, for example.
Sure, they have some differences, too. But really not that many.
The major parties have another “sAmE”… they are both less than 30% of the voters now. Independents are now 40% of the voters (pick your poll, there are many). So… of course your party machine surrounds you with “both sides” disparagement and talking points.
Good, it’s to be expected.
Tankies really follow the will of the despots.
Which side is against genocide? Which side is against war?
a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal… republicans wouldn’t win the white house back until 1952.
And only 6 years after they finally got the Whitehouse again, they started plotting for the next massive fuck up era by founding the John Birch Society (which is a major cause for the GOP’s current psychosis.
that wasn’t ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.
Yeah, I agree. As conservatives go Ike was pretty reasonable.
My point was that almost as soon as the party got the Whitehouse again, influential portions of it started to plot for the next Great Depression like catastrophy.
As an ideological movement, they’ve proved many times that they cannot be trusted with power.
The rich people made a lot of money from the last Great Depression, I bet that’s what they’re hoping for again.
Don’t forget about the McCarthyism of the late 40s and the 50s. Ronald Reagan was involved with that particular movement since the beginning when he testified in front of Congress (specifically the House Un-American Activities Committee) saying that communists were taking over Hollywood.
fingers crossed history repeats itself lol
I don’t want another world war, or Jim Crow…
I think we’re already in the middle of both of those.
Beginning, sadly.
You’re working on the former whilst the latter never really went away.
A quarter of the trans population in the US has already been displaced due to the new Republican Jim Crow laws.
well I meant the part about Republicans not getting the house for a long time lol
The world cup reminds me of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Yep…
200 million deaths later, in the 1950s… worth it, said the world?
Surely we learned from our mistakes?
Yeah but the Democrats were competent back then. I don’t have confidence in most of the modern Democrats. There are only like 3 of them who seem to get what’s going on
A lot of that comes from the development of corporate lobbyists and special interest groups in the 1970s. Even then they were highly regulated, and oversized campaign contributions still counted as bribes. That all changed after Reagan got into office, and Gucci Gulch got unfettered access to elected officials. After that, a lot of politicians were too tempted by the prospect of getting fantastically wealthy and forgot about the dream of changing the world for the better.
A lot of this isn’t really new. To quote Rutherford B. Hayes, The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.
So the influence of wealth and corporate interest on political power is, in fact, an old problem. What frustrates me is how reforms could have been made during their rare collective moments of conscience, and they didn’t. To be fair, civil liberties of non-whites and women were a higher priority.
Ranked choice voting can help mitigate this issue
And even that took an actual fucking war hero who could have just as easily been a Democrat.
Allowing presidents to pick your justices and then giving them jobs for life is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
What so bizarre is SCOTUS has always been conservative. We get a couple of judges who are not hardcore conservatives and they help make a couple of rulings that aren’t just one sided conservative nonsense and suddenly “they are taking over the judiciary with activist judges”.
So the conservatives do exactly this, they start stacking their already suck ass conservative courts that always rule for big business with even more extreme ideological fucktards. Every accusation is a confession I suppose.
They have to get approved by our Congress too it’s just that they’re also not doing their jobs well.
A country built on the back of genocide and slavery is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
In their view the Great Depression was probably started by a bunch of lazy woke activists who didn’t want to work, thus spurring the dust bowl with their uh, inaction. Dust everywhere. No one dusting.
They should sweep the forests, like they do in sweden
Remember when the Dems controlled all three bodies and for all that non stop hysterial talk about gun control what happened?..crickets … no change. Why would anyone expect change from either side is always my question.
Sorry when was this that dems had filibuster proof control of house, senate and presidency for a while?
Probably when they put through romneycare.
I’d rather take no change than chaos. What do you expect will happen?
It’s what Republican’s do best; fuck up the economy.
Conservatives are – and have always been – the enemy of the people.
Rich people back the party that doesn’t want to strip them of power and wealth.
The same thing happened in 1928 Germany.
The Trump depression is going to make 2008 look like a picnic.
But I’m already very depressed!
In response to 2008 we didn’t actually fix anything, bail outs just postpone the inevitable.
The New Deal didn’t fix things, but kicked the can down the line as well. Anything to prevent us from giving up on capitalism.
I think Techno-feudalism may push us over the line. < Bolshevik chorus swells >
Just harder to get a mortgage, but way easier to get a car loan.
2008 was “just” a recession. A depression is much, much worse
Roaring 30s
There will be inflation and you will love it.
The Great Depression featured deflation, for whatever the hell that’s worth.
I mean, that seems like that would be nice to have, at least for a bit…
There is higher than 0% chance that DJT won’t reach a deal with Iran “Soon”, the possibility of oil crisis and economic recession are still very real.
I want the price of gas to be $25 dollars per gallon
$25 a gallon will cause a severe economic recession. I’m not sure I want a third “one in a lifetime recession”
That’s the point, it’s a small price to pay to get rid of orange man
You know, $25 dollars a gallon isn’t enough, make it $35 dollars a gallon
I want the collapse and dissolution of the United States.
I want the balkanization of the United States and $65 dollars a gallon!
Tomato / tomatah!
I volunteer as tribute in the Hunger Games? Ugh.
Right now, prices and availability are being kept semi stable by draw downs on strategic reserves, but that won’t last forever.
Hell, it probably won’t last another month.
The chance is 100% lol, have you been paying attention?
- Massive amounts of what effectively amounts to gambling on the stock market.
Luckily, we have nothing like that today.
We have an extremely stable, rational market where share prices are based solely on tangible business value and not at all artificially inflated due to completely unrealistic goals and investor greed.
…I’m sorry. I can’t even type this with a straight face.
Man, I couldn’t get past “rational” without laughing.
What is this Artificial Inflation? I’ve seen no such thing.
Definitely not the flex they think it is.
They don’t know a lot of things
