The point is that the voters should never have been put under the duress of a Trump candidacy...

[kentuck]

He betrayed this country and should never have been on the ballot, in the first place. Only someone who has been asleep for the last 4 years does not know that he incited an insurrection against our government.

He should have been prevented from running by the 14th Amendment. But the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. In perhaps the most important Amendment in our Constitution, they chose to ignore it.

Now, voters are under the duress of having a possible treasonous dictator as the next president.

It really wasn't necessary.

If Justice had only done its job.

Our system has failed the people up to this point.

Few expect it to change in the near future.

[Walleye]

1. It's the Republicans that are doing this to us, not a broken system. Only broken because they are there

[lastlib]

3. It's only broken because they are breaking it.

The GOPee and their traitorous fascist pig candidate.

(apologies to pigs.)

[Walleye]

9. It's their main objective in life, they make no bones about it

What exactly is the administrative state?
It’s the United States government, dammit!

[Farmer-Rick]

22. Where do Republicans come from?

Well it seems that the ones who give the Republican party huge amounts of campaign loot are a handful of filthy-rich American capitalist.

They are usually old white men who favor Nazi values. They are radical Christians who want Christianity to rule the US as law.

If the Republican donors so easily broke our political and governmental systems. Then anyone could have done it, as long as they had a lot of loot or capital. It just happened to be a corrupted political party.

But the Federalist Society, and their capital providers and supporters the Koch Bros., certainly participated in making a double standard judicial system. And they could have broken our systems by themselves if given more time.

The NRA was also a huge contibuter to the destruction of American systems. Their vast wealth and capital seems to have come from Putin and gun runners. If their illegal connections and misappropriations had not been exposed, they could have easily broken our systems by themselves.

What do all three groups have in common? Access to vast amounts of wealth. More wealth and capitol than a small country has.

What I am saying is that our capitalist system is to blame. It allows for capital's unlimited accumulation and control over every function in society. This easily corrupted economic system has set democracy up for destruction and taken it to the brink of fascism.

Let's hope we can pull it back.

[jaxexpat]

25. ".....capital's unlimited accumulation and control over every function in society."

Greed, like all psychoses, has no reward but misery and death.

[Walleye]

33. We seriously need to raise the upper tax brackets

[jaxexpat]

37. Turn the whole process over to Elizabeth Warren.

She has a better understanding and remedy for our "very American" economic psychosis than any political personality I can name.

She's gotten sidelined during our Trumpian emergency. That's done inestimable damage to our prospects. Hell, the GOP has even brought out the old "Social Security must be cut" canard. Basically, that's their MO for claiming victory in the midst of their self-imposed disaster. Tenacious, they are, Skywalker.

[Walleye]

38. Good idea, she knows better about all this stuff than anybody else

[lostnfound]

28. And who all let trump crime in NY for decades?

Personally, we should get a full accounting and investigation to how his fraud and criminal behavior continued for so many years.
Ain’t no justice in a country where some can be shot by cops in their bedroom sleeping or where little people get trapped in jail for small fines they can’t pay;
But a rich bully like Trump gets a pass 40 years when you know the politicians and the cops had to know he was a cheater, a liar, and running around with the Russian mob.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP deliberately places stress on Americans.

It is a fascist ploy to wear down the populace, to make them give up and be compliant.
To give the fascists whatever they want to appease them.
To just give up on politics.
Called learned helplessness.

[Walleye]

10. American public is already worn down. Look how quickly they go to "both sides do it" etc.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes exactly, this is part of the acceptance stage of victimization.

The victims begin to rationalize and justify the abuse.
Here the victims pretend that both parties are abusers.
They rationalize that the abuse is normal.

I call this getting on the crazy train and not realizing it.

[Walleye]

12. It's a long crazy train in the media

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes the media is part of the crazy train. They are enablers of societal/political abuse.

They are gaslighting the American public.

[Walleye]

14. I can't figure out why they're so intent on doing that

[Irish_Dem]

19. They do what they are paid to do.

Just like politicians and judges.

[johnnyfins]

24. RATINGS AND CLICKS

Also, MONEY.

[Cheezoholic]

18. Well said. When people say they don't understand how a whole country can accept a ruthless dictator

I just tell them look around you and listen.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes it is a well known psychological strategy.

Used by dictators everywhere.

[slightlv]

43. I've said for years now

that we, the people, (at least most of us) have been and are suffering PTSD because of *rump and his magats. Even when *rump's gone, it's not going to ease up. We'll still have all the magats to deal with and the "little hitlers" who try to follow in *rump's footsteps. I believe there was a study done back towards the beginning of his reign, showing how much higher the prevalence of high blood pressure was after he was elected. Of course, correlation isn't causation, but....

[Irish_Dem]

44. Yes it is like domestic violence, it traumatizes the victims.

We have a society with mass murders.
The covid deaths.
Attacks against women and other groups.

It is causing PTSD in our society.

The constant GOP/Trump/Putin chaos and turmoil.

[FarPoint]

4. We voters and all who reside in America....

We have been under the constant national domestic abuse of tRump since he began to run for President in 2015....day in and day out we have suffered.....unable to escape.

His supportive abusive family has grown! MAGA's nationwide and in Congress; oh and the FBI, Secret Service and Judicial level.....

This is a covert war...... It must end....VOTE BLUE....VOTE BIDEN HARRIS....so we can live free again.

[NanaCat]

27. The attack on the not-rich started long before TSF

It started with Nixon, but went into turbo mode with Reagan. Nearly all of the destruction of this country started with him in 1981.

His supportive abusive family has grown!

You cannot be serious. All of these awful people didn't suddenly poof into existence from nowhere, or become taken over like pod people. They have always been there, in every part of society and the government.

You're only now waking up to that reality.

[KPN]

30. Keep in mind that Trump is just an instrument of the ruling class -- predominantly white, wealthy

Republicans, whose ideology is that they are aristocracy and deserve dominion over others. We may well beat and do away with Trump eventually, but they will still be working to permanently subordinate everyday human beings for their and their heirs' personal benefit.

[Lonestarblue]

5. If Mitch McConnell had done the right thing back in 2021, we would not have Trump as a candidate now.

McConnell could have swayed enough Republicans to vote to convict Trump after the insurrection and to prevent him for holding any public office, but he instead did the cowardly thing. McConnell may have feared that the MAGA cult would not vote for Republicans in 2022, but his decision set up an election of Trump crazies and a party that has now been taken over by Trump for nothing but his personal benefit. That was one of the stupidest decisions McConnell has ever made.

[ShazzieB]

50. Amen to this.

McConnell should be deeply ashamed of himself, but I doubt he's capable of it. Nasty old turtle.

[Lovie777]

6. But here we are............................

GQP allowing USA's citizens to be threaten on a daily basis.
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[bucolic_frolic]

7. It is a Gigantic Godzilla-sized Gaslighting to Abuse the Public into Submission

Feed weak minds, which is most of the public long enough and you get weak, submissive sheeple who will believe and do whatever you want.

They might even elect Trump.

Make no mistake. It is Mental Abuse to nominate this Day One Dictator. To characterize it as duress is to hardly brush the dust off the surface.

[Hope22]

8. True words.

We are at the door of a dark, dangerous future. I think each and every one of us deserves free mental healthcare for the years of mental torture we have endured by his words and actions. This new threat is not pretend but it is his wildest dream. To round up the libs and splatter their brains! I do not doubt it for a minute. He plants seeds in my neighbors heads, all T@#$p followers by proof of yards signs. All they need to do is walk to my door and put me away. This man is a monster. We might be fine but then again local shootings at his direction can never be ruled out! It is exhausting! Stay safe!💗💗🙏🏼

[onecaliberal]

15. THIS! All fucking day long. If we had an attorney general interested in doing his actual job, that orange cancer would

be long gone.

[NanaCat]

29. While there are things Garland could do differently

The reason this crap is going on has little to do with him, and everything to do with a complicit, complacent media, the GQP being thugs like always, but--most of all--because we have tens of millions of people in this country who get off to hurting people they don't like and vote accordingly.

They are the problem.

When a nation is infested with so much evil, one AG can do only so much. It's sort of like a game of whack-a-mole that never ends.

[90-percent]

32. Garland

Didn't he take over two years to get going with prosecuting tfg? The appointment of Jack Smith was a long time coming and our corrupt legal system is helping tfg to run out the clock on his backlog of court dates. Why does our legal system coddle such an obviously un-American Putin lover?

-90% Jimmy

[onecaliberal]

36. Because he's in their team.

[onecaliberal]

35. If he would have appointed the special council from the get go we wouldn't be here now.

No one else could do that. He has also allowed the insurrectionists in Congress to ignore lawful subpoenas. Garland is a huge epic failure.

[brush]

54. SC Smith has done a great job, no doubt as late as it was that he was appointed. But Garland didn't even have to...

appoint a special counsel. He should've moved immediately after getting settled in office to take charge of the J6 case himself and supervised the FBI and DOJ to investigate and prosecute the principal bad actors of the insurrection — that of course meaning trump and his entire cabal of planners of Jan. 6, 2021.

Garland failed to rise to the moment to meet the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War...literally. And because he didn't, we are where we are now with the election rapidly approaching and trump and his lawyers devising every means they can to delay, delay, delay all four criminal indictments against him.

Garland was just not the right person for the job.

[Jean Genie]

16. Unnecessary duress

Thank you, Kentuck. You hit the nail on the head!

[twodogsbarking]

17. They are stuck with the stable jeenyus.

[Koinos]

23. Class Action Lawsuit

Why can't the harmed American people engage in a class action lawsuit against Trump? I can think of a number of bases for this litigation. And American citizens who have been harmed do have standing.

1. Failure to protect the American people during a pandemic, including lying to them about the severity of the disease, giving false information about possible "cures," withholding resources such as protective equipment for medical workers.

2. Conspiring with our enemies and enemies of our allies, including illegal sharing of classified information with those enemies.

3. Conspiring to overthrow a free and fair election and lying about that to the American people.

4. Threatening to abolish constitutional protections of our freedom and civil rights, including reproductive freedom.

5. Contributing to Americans poor health by creating an atmosphere of fear and violence directed against anyone who does not like him or his followers.

6. Damaging the reputation of our country and openly touting dictatorships rather than our long-term allies.

7. Causing insomnia and mental health problems because of the black shadow his words, deeds, and mental derangement cast upon our everyday lives. Even seeing his face makes us ill.

8. Inciting bad people to defame and injure good people.

Please help me with this.

[GreenWave]

26. It is judicial fascism plain and simple.

They rule Texas can play like it's immigration police to round up probable Democrat voters just in time for the elections.

[magicarpet]

31. The first time djt got into the Oval Office,...

.... one could maybe chock it up to human error.

This time around - how this Mafioso Thug is this close to occupying the Office of the Presidency is appalling and frightening.

It shows how vulnerable American Democracy is to insurrectionists, traitors, and coup de'tats by wannabe ⁴dictators.

We must do better to block these criminal thugs from seizing the reins of governmental power.

[TeamProg]

34. If N.Y State had followed up on his crimes back when he was committing them, recent history would be way different. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. The Subversive, Corrupt Court of the U.S. wants to eliminate the 14th Amendment.

[orangecrush]

40. Institutions have failed us

Now it's up to us.

[maxsolomon]

41. The US Congress could have passed a law that he had insurrected and was ineligible.

That's what Amendment 14 Section 5 says. That's what the SCOTUS ruled. That's what I've been saying in 14th Amendment debates on DU for 3 years (and getting regularly shot down over it).

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Why did that Congress, under full Democratic control, NOT do that? Because they thought DOJ was going to take care of it? That was naive if so.

[barbtries]

42. any slightly ethical or moral person,

any human who had a shred of shame, would not have run. not with all that baggage. instead we have this desperate psychopath who needs to win to stay out of prison, and millions of cultists worshipping him for what reason i will never fully understand.

[IbogaProject]

45. I felt like "chicken little"

All through 2015 and 2016 I was warning that he was a stronger candidate than we felt. I knew this because I grew up w his typical voters.

[D23MIURG23]

46. I can only hope we can shore our instututions up after he's gone.

You are right that we shouldn't have him as a candidate. If our system were healthier, he'd be barred.

[samplegirl]

47. Kentuck your the greatest

You just throw it out there like a dart game
And you always have a bullseye!

[czarjak]

48. 2016

Illegitimacy yesterday, today and forever. Same for W, but, hey, they got their Judges. Who are also illegitimate. IMHO.

[ThoughtCriminal]

49. I've gotten sick of spending my days worrying about the imbeciles

that GOP voters insist on nominating for every office. Life is challenging enough without this shit.

[RandySF]

51. But we are, so we have to vote in November.

[betsuni]

52. Systems fail, people fail, the future's dark. That's life.

Boo hoo. I don't know what people expect.

[Rhiannon12866]

53. Agreed! Why is a candidate allowed to run to lead the government he attempted to overthrow?! Makes no sense to me...

And during the 2016 campaign I couldn't wait for the election to be over so we'd never have to hear from this offensive blowhard again! And considering all the criminal charges that resulted, you'd think that the Republicans would have learned their lesson!!!