Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio grew visibly frustrated during an ABC News interview when questioned about the Trump administration’s approach to Russia.
Defending Trump’s push for peace talks with Putin, Rubio insisted negotiations were necessary but admitted the administration didn’t know Russia’s demands.
He clashed with host George Stephanopoulos over Trump’s refusal to call Putin a dictator and the U.S. siding with Russia in a recent UN vote.
Rubio also compared Trump’s handling of Ukraine to Biden’s approach to Israel, further escalating tensions.
Can we write s sanity test into the Constitution?
Wouldn’t that be a dream… but it would only turn into finding the doctor that takes money for a clean test.
Pretty sure that’s what it is
Or maybe we don’t vest so much power into a single psychotic ape. Maybe we have three presidents and they all have to agree before something happens, like the computers on the space shuttle
Or maybe zero presidents?
Or maybe like 200,000,000 presidents? Direct democracy go brrr.
I like it!
A triumvirate?
Just a speed bump on the way to a dictatorship.
Okay how about everyone votes on everything? That actually sounds awesome.
It would be fairly simple to pull off with modern technology
It sounds awesome until you remember that we can barely get half our population to vote for president most of the time and that the average voter is uninformed and poorly educated.
If you look at polling you often find the majority of Americans don’t actually agree with much of the actions of either party, I personally think direct democracy would lead to real progress and prosperity.
And it would be neigh impossible to manage in a very large nation with a large populace.
Not really. We have a lot of connectivity, the world has never been smaller.
I do not trust techbros to solve this correctly. It would be far too easy and tempting to game the system.
Any political system needs to be able to function separate from electronic devices as there are times when the grid fails.
I agree that you can’t blindly give someone else control over such things, it would need to be run out of gov offices with people beholden to transparency for the public and not to which ever contractor they bid.
On the offline issue, I can see your point as valid, I just don’t think it’s impossible, CA still does paper voting through a scantron, millions of votes can be processed with paper, there’s certainly ways of getting it done in my opinion.
I’m fine with that, as long as a sanity test gets written into the Constitution. I believe it should apply to all reps. But then if they change the definition of sanity… I don’t know what the best way forward is, but it’s surely not regression.
Counterpoint: Fetterman.
Dude had a stroke and stuck his tongue up Trump’s asshole. Even if they pass the sanity test they could have some kind of traumatic brain injury that makes them jerks.
Plus I consider all humans to be psychotic apes who I wouldn’t trust as far as I can throw them. Including myself.
Fetterman was a plant. Someone posted an article about how he actually governed before he was a national level leader.
Fair point, and thanks for reminding me! The people who don’t want it are probably the people most capable and worthy. I look forward to your filing as a candidate! 😀
Don’t hurt me please. I’m only half serious, but it’s exactly people with this attitude who should probably be on the ballot.
This comment made me realize I have a religious obligation to run for office. And then if I win to not do the job at all.
Made me laugh. +10 for Doug reference!
There seemed to be quite a few who were just there to sabotage the party from within, such as Manchin.
Manchin was the only Democrat who could win national office in West Virginia. He’s the best my sad state could do.
Yeah he tanked some important votes but a Republican replacement would have voted that way anyway. At least he stuck with the Democrats most of the time.
I don’t know what the excuse is for Kyrsten Sinema.
He always seemed like the Mitt Romney of the Democrats, Romney loves to take a moral stand against his party, after he’d checked with his party Whip who assures him the measure with pass without his vote.
Controlled opposition within controlled opposition, maybe.