Joe Biden is now POTUS

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-trying-thwart-democracy-itself-111057446.html
Trump is trying to thwart democracy itself. But the problem is deeper than one man
David Daley
Tue, January 5, 2021, 5:10 AM CST·7 min read

Democracy rots slowly. Sometimes its decay is perfectly legal, helped along by legislatures and embraced by the courts. It happens when elected officials deliberately tilt the game to their own advantage.
Democracy rots slowly. Sometimes its decay is perfectly legal, helped along by legislatures and embraced by the courts. It happens when elected officials deliberately tilt the game to their own advantage.


On Sunday, the Washington Post published smoking-gun audio of Donald Trump pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to reverse the election outcome and declare Trump the winner, or face potential legal consequences. Even some Republicans have recognized that the bright line between democracy and authoritarianism had been breached.

That line, however, has been melting for quite some time. It did not begin with Trump’s presidency. And it will not end when he leaves the White House. The rot runs deep inside a Republican party that has not only lost faith in democracy but bet its future on rule-rigging and minority rule. The party has subverted free and fair elections for years, in ways so ordinary that they’ve been accepted as politics as usual for far too long.
Republican gerrymandering – the manipulation of electoral constituencies in favor of one party – in Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin has locked in Republican control of state legislatures even when their candidates win hundreds of thousands fewer votes statewide. When Democratic governors won in Wisconsin and North Carolina, Republican-led legislatures stripped power from them in extraordinary lame-duck sessions. (continued)
 
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-trying-thwart-democracy-itself-111057446.html
Trump is trying to thwart democracy itself. But the problem is deeper than one man
David Daley
Tue, January 5, 2021, 5:10 AM CST·7 min read

Democracy rots slowly. Sometimes its decay is perfectly legal, helped along by legislatures and embraced by the courts. It happens when elected officials deliberately tilt the game to their own advantage.
Democracy rots slowly. Sometimes its decay is perfectly legal, helped along by legislatures and embraced by the courts. It happens when elected officials deliberately tilt the game to their own advantage.


On Sunday, the Washington Post published smoking-gun audio of Donald Trump pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to reverse the election outcome and declare Trump the winner, or face potential legal consequences. Even some Republicans have recognized that the bright line between democracy and authoritarianism had been breached.

That line, however, has been melting for quite some time. It did not begin with Trump’s presidency. And it will not end when he leaves the White House. The rot runs deep inside a Republican party that has not only lost faith in democracy but bet its future on rule-rigging and minority rule. The party has subverted free and fair elections for years, in ways so ordinary that they’ve been accepted as politics as usual for far too long.
Republican gerrymandering – the manipulation of electoral constituencies in favor of one party – in Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin has locked in Republican control of state legislatures even when their candidates win hundreds of thousands fewer votes statewide. When Democratic governors won in Wisconsin and North Carolina, Republican-led legislatures stripped power from them in extraordinary lame-duck sessions. (continued)
Yep the Republicans cause Trump to get further in trench with this mindset so they are 50% of the blame. (And Trump is 50% of the blame also)
 

is the dude on the right

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I was watching "President Trump UNFIT" on Amazon. It is amazing how close Trump is to histories worse dictators

people forget that the US has not been a democracy for very long

i mean it’s only recently that black people got the right to vote
And ever since the republicans have been trying to take that right away

democracy is something that always has to be fought for
 
Yep, it's their body. But the body inside their body is not their's.

Undebatable.
Just left my wife's 20 week ultrasound. The baby has been kicking and moving like crazy. Heart chambers formed and he is reacting to sound.

It is amazing to me that people still think it's ok to kill a baby at 5 months.

I understand that it is not a popular stance. However, I don't care what anyone says, I will always have a say regarding the life of my child.

Guard your seed black men.
 
Just left my wife's 20 week ultrasound. The baby has been kicking and moving like crazy. Heart chambers formed and he is reacting to sound.

It is amazing to me that people still think it's ok to kill a baby at 5 months.

I understand that it is not a popular stance. However, I don't care what anyone says, I will always have a say regarding the life of my child.

Guard your seed black men.

This is one that's really weird for me. I'm pro-choice as it's their body. However, after having seen a baby in the second trimester moving around and sucking his thumb on an ultrasound, it's hard to understand how people just casually do it (and I'm not saying everyone casually does it).
 
Just left my wife's 20 week ultrasound. The baby has been kicking and moving like crazy. Heart chambers formed and he is reacting to sound.

It is amazing to me that people still think it's ok to kill a baby at 5 months.

I understand that it is not a popular stance. However, I don't care what anyone says, I will always have a say regarding the life of my child.

Guard your seed black men.
I'm pro choice but also anti abortion if that makes sense....

Pro a woman choosing what to do with their bodies (within reason), but at the same time, yeah, life exists in the womb. Like you and others, seeing my child grow in my wife's womb changed things for me.
 
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