Okay?

I'm just talking about congress

I mean, i don't disagree that Congress barely does anything at least now, but historically, um, that's just wrong

were they ever less useless? Sure. But they were still useless

lol

Then they set the precedent of letting Obama rule by executive order while they just sat with their thumbs up their collective asses collecting a paycheck

So, realistically if trump decided to do the same, he'd have a precedent to do so because they made themselves obsolete

You say they were useless since it's founding, yet you can only point to as recently as Obama

I was making a specific point

Which I agree, they were pretty helpless in the past 8, 10 years or so

And then there's the whole thing with democratic systems always inevitably devolving into plutocracy

Maybe, they have gotten stuff done, but the media never reports it on it

As if it were a black out

I mean, Cocaine Mitch confirming those circuit judges 😘 👌

Then Kavanaugh 😘

Step 1: have elections to get public office
Step 2: need to win the popularity contest to get elected
Step 3: spend money to promote yourself to as many people as possible
Step 4: opponents forced to try and outspend you
Step 5: eventually escalate the costs to the point where neither of you can afford to run anymore, nor can the vast majority of the population, limiting their available representatives the the extremely rich or people who get outside funding
Step 6: sell out to various lobbies to get campaign funds, but also tell people whatever they want to hear so you get elected
Step 7: ignore campaign promises to the general public because they don't pay the bills
Ta-da, political candidates with more sponsors than nascar, putting their demands above ours

"That what is called democracy is always in fact plutocracy. The only alternative to the rule of the rich is to have a ruler who is deliberately made more powerful even than the rich. It is to have a ruler who is secure of his place, instead of rulers who are fighting for their place." - G.K. Chesterton

Ah yes, the Tucker Carlson take

wdym? Not very familiar with Tucker

or his takes

lol, are you even from the US?

im assuming not

Yes. I don't watch tv

huh

I know he's better than most on tv, but he's able to stay on tv, so what he's saying isn't terribly controversial

I didn't imply he was

yet, at least

although some things he says are stupid as fuck

he's said some stuff that got close

I don't disagree, but we're probably thinking of different things lol

I mean he's smart, but on some things, hes just frustratingly dumb

so what were you referring to when calling that a TC take?

basically the mindset

which is

of a person hell-bent on draining the swamp

which is impossible as you know

Trump certainly isn't doing anything to drain it, that's for sure

lol, well I would disagree with that

lol

but mainly because I'm not thinking in terms of electoral politics

I mean, Cohen, Trump's ex lawyer, is about to be charged on campaign finance violations and $20M in bank fraud