I essentially do something similar.
My friends and family all call me "Ted". At work, people call me "Theodore".
One person at work asked me if I ever go by Ted and I had to tell them it's an easy way to know in which context someone knows me.
Literally the cost of them being able to be racist and transphobic.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Works just as well for voting.
You have to be better than that.
(In a scary voice, with a black and white teddy bear on a child mattress in the background. ) "Representative X voted AGAINST investigating child molesters and instead voted FOR granting them additional protections!"
Don't say Epstein files.
So I know this is going to be a dumb question under fascism times but I still have to ask:
How exactly are judges, who are under the judicial branch, being fired by the president of the executive branch?
Yeah like our profit motivated CEOs will make the capital investment to buy a brand new train instead of lobbying to lower safety standards and regional regulations.
"State's rights for me, federalism for you."
- every conservative state
The only real "benefit" this sets up is dismantling the Department of Defense. I know this is fascism times and rules for Trump aren't going to apply to a democrat but a man can dream.
This is the kind of brat I can get behind. 😏
I can't remember where I was reading this but being cheap to purchase is by design.
If politicians were expensive to buy, the public outcry would be significantly higher and would also incur more scrutiny. So there is this balance of bribing a politician vs their voters being upset that their politician taking too much money. Oddly there doesn't seem to be a floor of "our politician can be bought too cheaply."
The other side of this is that until Citizens United is overturned, there is no limit to how much a company can spend on special interest groups. This is where politicians fear the most. If they don't go along with whatever issue, then they have to raise more money to run for re-election, which puts more pressure on them to accept the bribe in the first place.
TL;DR: money in politics is killing our democracy
It's an emergency so he could enact tariffs. But he doesn't want people to get better so that can still point to fentanyl and keep invoking emergency powers.