Parties are irrelevant now more than ever. Loosely, we have a MAGA party, and when DT returns he will drag a good bit of the R party infrastructure in just for convenience and to keep his enemies, and their skulls, close.
Not quite irrelevant, as the two major parties suck enough oxy from the room that third parties start elections too far behind the power curve to pose a credible threat. The last time a new party came along in the U.S. was 1860, when the Republicans rode the anti-slavery movement to elect Abraham Lincoln.
What an inauspicious beginning to the Party of the RINO, commencing right off the bat with the First RINO and his evil preconceived plan to control all of the states and all of the production just by merely intimating he was gonna save the slaves, and all it took was committing mass democide against his “own” people.
Jumping ahead to now, or even to 2016 when the movers and shakers among the pubs abandoned the choice of the people out of pure fear and concern for their own well-being. But they know to jump on the train when it’s leaving the station and that’s what they did then and that’s what they’ll do now, Trump is aware and will pick and choose the good and keep the bad under close surveillance and mentioned above, in the meantime using the full force and power of the party to further his plans and goals, but without being beholden to it or its evil cabal.
WE ARE THE MAGA PARTY! TRUMP IS OUR CEO! OUR SOVEREIGN NATION IS THE CRA!
May 8, 2024 at 11:05 am
JTC
Point being, no “third party” is needed or wanted. We have what amounts to our own party with MAGA. And our “solution” is the CRA!
May 8, 2024 at 3:52 am
Unca Walt
larryarnold — You gotta be channeling me. No way will a third party emerge in time to do anything at all.
The “third party” will be (I hope) the Q solution.
Third parties just split the vote and prevent a real choice. The third parties can propose the impossible to get “votes” since they know that they don’t have a prayer of winning.
Yes, the major problem is the horde of unelected, faceless, UNACCOUNTABLE bureaucrats who invent insane regulations and claim they have the force of law. How else can a cattle pond become a “navigable waterway” or “vital wetland”, and the property owner threatened with jail for modifying his own land?
The Republican party in the House might be a wee bit more effective if the Brake-Check, whoops, sorry, ‘Freedom’ caucus hadn’t been acting like spoiled toddlers. Don’t stand around on the floor of the House and bitch about nothing getting done when you’re sabotaging things right and left in committees.
Thing is, they might have got something done, something they could take back to their constituents, by working with the system instead of playing to the social media gallery.
The problem starts when politicians put their own interests ahead of those they purport to represent. Personal power and profits override proper and prudent administration every time. Your comfort and prosperity are meaningless to the narcissistic drones who can’t bear to think there’s someone out there who won’t do what they say.
A huge part of the problem is the dis-functionality of majoritarian democracy itself.
Back in the day when the Constitution was drafted the numbers worked out, because communities were so small everybody knew everybody else, but now each of those Congress members is practically anonymous and simply lie about who they are and what they believe to get votes and easily get away with it.
After all (to co-opt Lincoln) all you have to do is fool enough people enough of the time.
In a more perfect world, all party designation would be forbidden on the ballot, all voting would be open to all comers where you vote up or down on individuals thus cutting out the king-makers from the process. Thus victory goes to the highest count. Then make every elective office like the Virginia governorship/attorney general, where an office holder cannot succeed him/herself. guaranteeing office turnover without the need for term limits and suppressing (although not entirely quashing) a “bought” office.
I am not a fan of having all kinds of dead bodies to dispose of.
So for All of those government leeches down to the last agency or “Civil Servant”, I prefer SMOD or a “friendly” DC area nuke.
My friend who retired from government service as a Department of Transportation GS- lebenty-seven or something similar survived at least five administrations by keeping his head down and not making waves. There are thousands like him who actually run the country by dreaming up and enforcing regulations and generating enough internal paperwork to look like they’re actually doing something. His wife and her extended family got filthy rich conducting paid training seminars, teaching bureaucrats about the the finer points of writing requests for government funding grants.
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A very large throne.
She’s well worth it . . .
Parties are irrelevant now more than ever. Loosely, we have a MAGA party, and when DT returns he will drag a good bit of the R party infrastructure in just for convenience and to keep his enemies, and their skulls, close.
Not quite irrelevant, as the two major parties suck enough oxy from the room that third parties start elections too far behind the power curve to pose a credible threat. The last time a new party came along in the U.S. was 1860, when the Republicans rode the anti-slavery movement to elect Abraham Lincoln.
Right after that, of course, came the Civil War.
What an inauspicious beginning to the Party of the RINO, commencing right off the bat with the First RINO and his evil preconceived plan to control all of the states and all of the production just by merely intimating he was gonna save the slaves, and all it took was committing mass democide against his “own” people.
Jumping ahead to now, or even to 2016 when the movers and shakers among the pubs abandoned the choice of the people out of pure fear and concern for their own well-being. But they know to jump on the train when it’s leaving the station and that’s what they did then and that’s what they’ll do now, Trump is aware and will pick and choose the good and keep the bad under close surveillance and mentioned above, in the meantime using the full force and power of the party to further his plans and goals, but without being beholden to it or its evil cabal.
WE ARE THE MAGA PARTY! TRUMP IS OUR CEO! OUR SOVEREIGN NATION IS THE CRA!
Point being, no “third party” is needed or wanted. We have what amounts to our own party with MAGA. And our “solution” is the CRA!
larryarnold — You gotta be channeling me. No way will a third party emerge in time to do anything at all.
The “third party” will be (I hope) the Q solution.
Third parties just split the vote and prevent a real choice. The third parties can propose the impossible to get “votes” since they know that they don’t have a prayer of winning.
It isn’t the 535 ( although it’s a good start) it’s the rest of dc that needs to go
Yes, the major problem is the horde of unelected, faceless, UNACCOUNTABLE bureaucrats who invent insane regulations and claim they have the force of law. How else can a cattle pond become a “navigable waterway” or “vital wetland”, and the property owner threatened with jail for modifying his own land?
Zar Belk!
Rather than a throne of skulls, how about heads on pikes/poles at the borders?
(applicable anywhere, to any enemy)
Forget the figureheads.
Start with the Government Service (GS) positions over 11 and all Senior Executive Services (SES) employees and retool the bureaucracy.
Then the 535 might be relevant, again.
The Republican party in the House might be a wee bit more effective if the Brake-Check, whoops, sorry, ‘Freedom’ caucus hadn’t been acting like spoiled toddlers. Don’t stand around on the floor of the House and bitch about nothing getting done when you’re sabotaging things right and left in committees.
Thing is, they might have got something done, something they could take back to their constituents, by working with the system instead of playing to the social media gallery.
“It’s the only game in town.” — Canada Bill Jones
The problem starts when politicians put their own interests ahead of those they purport to represent. Personal power and profits override proper and prudent administration every time. Your comfort and prosperity are meaningless to the narcissistic drones who can’t bear to think there’s someone out there who won’t do what they say.
https://comicallyincorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/02-spk-john-ci-1080-1050×750.jpg
A huge part of the problem is the dis-functionality of majoritarian democracy itself.
Back in the day when the Constitution was drafted the numbers worked out, because communities were so small everybody knew everybody else, but now each of those Congress members is practically anonymous and simply lie about who they are and what they believe to get votes and easily get away with it.
After all (to co-opt Lincoln) all you have to do is fool enough people enough of the time.
In a more perfect world, all party designation would be forbidden on the ballot, all voting would be open to all comers where you vote up or down on individuals thus cutting out the king-makers from the process. Thus victory goes to the highest count. Then make every elective office like the Virginia governorship/attorney general, where an office holder cannot succeed him/herself. guaranteeing office turnover without the need for term limits and suppressing (although not entirely quashing) a “bought” office.
“Maybe 8”? Ever the optimist… ; )
It would be interesting to see which “8” some here would choose to save?
I am not a fan of having all kinds of dead bodies to dispose of.
So for All of those government leeches down to the last agency or “Civil Servant”, I prefer SMOD or a “friendly” DC area nuke.
Oh hell no…
They are trying to steal another state’s right,,,
And potentially the first line of defense of the CRA!
All 50 govs opposed… https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/50-governors-oppose-federal-plan-to-move-national-guard-units-power-grab-5645513?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
My friend who retired from government service as a Department of Transportation GS- lebenty-seven or something similar survived at least five administrations by keeping his head down and not making waves. There are thousands like him who actually run the country by dreaming up and enforcing regulations and generating enough internal paperwork to look like they’re actually doing something. His wife and her extended family got filthy rich conducting paid training seminars, teaching bureaucrats about the the finer points of writing requests for government funding grants.