A Trump affiliated company was committing a crime? Surely something like this has never happened before.

At this point if Trump endorses a company the DOJ might as well just automatically launch an investigation into them because it’s practically guaranteed their guilty of something even if it’s just false advertising.

It’s the same one ever week and it’s the national emergency named Donald Trump.

Yes this article is the mother of all ass pulls in a desperate attempt to make this about Trump somehow instead of the reality which is that progressives are beating neoliberals across the board.

Ultimately it’s because the US is a bad compromise. The original intent was for the US to be a loose confederation of somewhat independent countries similar to how the EU is currently structured, however the civil war showed that some of those States couldn’t be trusted enough to not treat their citizens like shit so the federal government had to be strengthened. This reduced it from a loose confederation into a mostly centralized government but with a bunch of territories that function more as testing grounds for stuff that isn’t quite ready to be promoted to the federal level.

The Senate is an awkward leftover of that transition. Under the original design it somewhat made sense, you could even argue that the House was the bit that didn’t quite fit under that model because every State was supposed to be equal to every other one. The thought was if you didn’t like the State you were in you could just move to another one. Slavery of course disproved that theory.

Under the post civil war design of the US the Senate is now the piece that doesn’t quite fit because the people are supposed to be the ones in charge now with the States being an awkward hold over from the earlier confederation concept.

So yes, ultimately it probably makes sense to eliminate the Senate and strengthen the House. It’s either that or you fundamentally restructure the powers of the US government again. The States have demonstrated that they can not be trusted with civil rights so at a minimum you would have to make civil rights the exclusive domain of the House leaving things like economic policies and trade to the Senate. What we have now is just awkward and doesn’t really work for anyone, the civil war was never really handled properly and it’s about time we cleaned up from that properly instead of taking a bunch of half measures and kicking the can down the road.

Political theater. They’ll huff and puff and make a bunch of accusations, harass him, dig through his personal life, and then quietly drop the whole thing.

Until and unless Democrats control a majority of both the house and senate impeachment and conviction just isn’t going to happen. I don’t think there’s anything Trump could do that would get the Republicans to vote against him short of maybe rounding up a bunch of them and having them publicly executed and maybe not even then. The only way it’s remotely happening is if Democrats don’t need a single Republican to vote with them and for good measure they should count on not having a few of the Democrats vote in favor as well.

If/when Trump and his cronies are finally removed from power the US needs major political changes to make sure this shit never happens again.

This isn’t a fight, it’s a shakedown. This is Trump letting them know he’s expecting a kickback. Once they provide an appropriately sized bribe to him this will all magically go away.

So the standard election strategy for the GOP. It’s always hate, they just change up who it’s targeted at. Recently it’s been a mix of “immigrants” (I.E. non-white people), muslims (once again non-white people), trans people (the easier target in the LGBT sphere now that gay and lesbian people are broadly accepted), and of course the perennial favorite Democrats (and if they’re feeling spicy they accuse anyone left of Fox News of being a communist).

I’ve been around a long time now and this has been the GOP playbook literally since Reagan if not longer. Reagan was a slight break from the norm for them in that he focused on the debunked and incredibly damaging trickle down economic theory (something they’ve continued to pursue since then leading to our current late stage capitalism that’s teetering on the edge of collapse).

In theory a federal one is better but it’s unrealistic. It’s going to be hard enough getting a state wealth tax passed, it’s essentially impossible to get a federal one passed. For that to happen you’d need to give Democrats complete control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, and even then it would be a struggle. With Republicans in control of anything it’s a complete pipe dream. So rather than going for the perfect solution that isn’t going to happen anytime soon it’s better to go for the imperfect one that has a good chance of actually happening.

There’s also a strong incentive for the current administration to not announce his death.