132
Robert De Niro Blasts Trump as 'Clown' Threatening Democracy at Biden Campaign Event
(thenarinder.in)
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
132 points (91.8% liked)
United States | News & Politics
1919 readers
522 users here now
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.
Rules
Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.
Post anything related to the United States.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
But this isn't the only issue. Yeah, it's horrible Biden is doing this, but with Trump, he would stock the SCOTUS with more far right judges and start taking rights away from people.
Also, those in jail for storming the capital, I'm guessing pardoned on day one.
The SCOTUS issue is real, but even if we ignore it, trump is openly pro Israel. His 2017-2020 record shows that too. I can't comprehend how someone would think it could be possibly better with trump for Palestinians. I'm convinced that if he was in charge he would actually send US soldiers to fight with IDF in Gaza. He nearly started war with Iran, because (his words), Nethanyahu told him to.
I think the person was basically saying we should elect someone else for president other than Trump or Biden. But like every other election, our choices are a douche or turd sandwich.
I understand that, but the First Past The Post voting method doesn't allow more than two parties. The third party doesn't act anything but a spoiler, it is impossible for it to ever win and your vote for a 3rd party is essentially the same as not voting at all. This is how disinformation is used to persuade people who don't want trump to not vote or essentially throw away your vote in protest.
I've been fooled this way in 2016 and don't want others to make the same mistake.
We should push on local levels to adopt RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) to allow voting for candidates that closet matches our goals without worrying about spoiler effect and someone who we really don't want winning.
Also a lot of how our delivery degraded was thanks to SCOTUS. Conservative judges ruled that money is free speech and sending money to politicians should not be restricted.
Second big hit was destroying voting rights act making out harder for unrepresented minorities to vote.
And guess what, during trump presidency he appointed 3 conservative judges and now it is 6-3 (conservative vs progressive) this is why Roe vs Wade was repealed and other shenanigans.
Those judges are appointed for life (so those 3 will affect us for decades) and there are another 2 judges that are at age that could be replaced.