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I am so sorry that anyone under 40 has to live through this truly awful and unbearable administration.
And if you're over 50? There's a chance you could have voted for Reagan, which is when this whole disaster began to unfold.
Trump can't regulate it and he can't shut it down and he sure as shit can't stop using it.
He is like a crack addict.
The only thing that might prevent him from forgetting about it is if they keep doing it. Because he doesn't just occasionally say inaccurate things, he knowingly tweets falsehoods on a daily basis in order to further his political agenda.
Did Twitter just commit to being the President's full-time fact checker? If so, they just bought some huge headaches. Not the least of which is that he has recently demonstrated that he considers the DOJ to be an arm of his campaign, and has begun openly using it to attack his enemies.
Well I'm usually as dour a pessimist as you'll find, but i do see a beneficial effect to this
latest Twitter brouhaha.
People in the 44 states that have not embraced vote-by-mail need to be informed and the message reinforced that our elections have not been tainted.
It works slick-as-a-whistle.
Citizens, there is a better, more modern way!!!
It just seems perverse and antithetical to our shared democratic values to expect people to wait- sometimes for hours- in line to vote.
@6 That's just it, though - how long people have to wait in line to vote is something that politicians have direct control over.
The old Jim Crow states only just got the Voting Rights Act off their backs a couple years ago (thanks to John Robert's novelty legal doctrine), so they could start closing precincts in Democratic districts (this was instrumental in getting that creep elected governor in Georgia) and they sure as hell aren't going to sit idly by while the USPS swoops in to spoil the party.
@1
Before Reagan the was Nixon...
@8: Go back to JFK for the real start of the "disaster". He's the one that started cutting high taxes to benefit the middle class and small businesses.
We can also thank Joesph Kennedy Sr. for arranging the presidency and Richard Nixon for not asking for a recount.
@9: Regardless of who started the policies, we can agree that the answer is returning to high tax rates on the rich?
Provided the definition of rich is equitable and just, I agree that adjustments could be made.