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There will be a correction back to normal. Make America Great Again! 👍🇺🇸
In your opinion, when was America ever great? Because you want to go back to that, so when was that?

Quote by MC1982
If he runs against Biden, he will win. But I predict Biden is going to withdraw. The Democrats will put a younger, fresher candidate up who will beat Trump.
If Trump does win, the difference will be that in his first term, he made a pretense of being a serious, establishment president and kept experienced, cooler heads in the room. In a second, he will surround himself with toadies. What will happen? Who knows.
Biden is polling terribly. And Democrats only argument for him is ‘He’s not Trump.’ It was enough to get him elected after the chaos of Trumps first term (barely) and now after a disastrous term that’s angered leftists and moderates alike they are going all in on him again. It’s terrible strategy but actually winning is surprisingly low on the list of reasons the Democrats will push a candidate. They are more scared of a progressive candidate than Trump.
Quote by WellMadeMale
A few words about voting and not voting, from Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-i-wont-vote-for-the-lesser-of
Surprisingly a hard core democrat who has benefitted his entire career from the two party system is against people voting for third parties. Stunning.
It’s all the same fear mongering recycled arguments that have continually produced less and less effective and more polarized government agents.
I owe no loyalty to a party who will ignore the will of the people. Trump 1.0 should have been a clear indicator to the Democrats how I’ll received their pro-corporate and do-nothing platforms were. Instead they doubled down on it and almost lost to Trump a second time.
If Trump 2.0 results from their elitist and anti-socialist attitudes than that’s what they deserve.
Play dumb games, win dumb prizes.
Sorry if I’m not understanding the problem, but if you’re just going to block someone do the following.
1. Go to their profile.
2. There are three dots on a button that gives you a few options. (Next to the red follow and friends button)
3. One is block, there is a separate one that is reporting if you would also like to report harassment to mods.
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They have complete oversight. It’s the failure of Democrats to demand impeachment and removal.
They should, but it’s also a doomed endeavor. If the can actually muster the support for impeachment with a simple majority (which is already unlikely) removal takes 2/3 vote from the senate. It’s a waste of time. Of course everything else they do is a waste of time so go ahead I guess.
If Clarence Thomas bit the head off a baby on live TV the Republicans wouldn’t vote for removal.
The voters of LA passed a billion dollar bill dedicated to help the homeless a few years ago. One of the projects was the shelter I mentioned. The main issue preventing help from being distributed is how a tiny group of landowners can tie up progress for decades in the court.
One of the issues you are missing is how you separate politicians from landowners and corporations. They are the same people, literally. In order to get elected in LA the political campaign will take millions of dollars. Easily funded by the rich, tremendously hard for the poor. There are no debates to toon into, only the papers. All the major papers in LA are owned by…. You guessed it, the same rich people who own the land and politicians. And you need to spread that fight across many districts.
Like I said, the people circumvented th e city council by rallying for a bill that directly funded the homeless. The city council which is tremendously hard to unseat controls the zoning laws and approval processes that can be manipulated to prevent what the people directly voted for and funded.
The system is stacked against the most vulnerable and poor. It requires time and money that common people just don’t have. It requires coordination and media backing which the people lack. The system isn’t broken, it’s working as it was always intended to.
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Does the state of California have state mental hospitals and permanent care homes for the mentally ill? Offering that with professional care would makes sense and be humane. But forcing privately owned low end motels to do that is highly irresponsible, inhumane, and totally copping out on how to deal with homelessness.
The motel owners should shut down and sell the property to developers.
The state and cities should do their job and take care of the indignant mentally ill homeless, and drug addicts/alcoholics. Deal with those people in a caring professional manner, so they get real help.
Allow me to answer those questions with first hand accounts; The wait list for a top priority individuals (homeless mothers with kids, physical disabilities, ect…) is somewhere between 2-5 years depending on how hard your case worker will pursue it. The mental hospitals are understaffed, churn people out in a week or two, and offer no long term care besides prescription meds which likely do nothing but mask symptoms.
Then you have the staffing issues. The state mental health centers are competing for a tiny pool of nurses and doctors with private businesses. Degrees are prohibitively expensive and the jobs pay dick. Hours are long and hard. There are no qualified staff to run these places.
The other problem is too much land and power is made available to developers. Example would be a few blocks from where I lived in LA was a proposed site of an unhoused shelter. It was a 15 floor abandoned apartment building that had not been occupied in years. The local developers and business owners were worried it would lower their property value and turned the ordeal into a 4 year long legal battle and the project was abandoned. So tens of millions of dollars earmarked for unhoused aid went to lawyers instead and a handful of wealthy assholes canceled a much needed shelter.
Corporations buy up all the land and make it prohibitively expensive to run a non-profit service like housing for those in need. Aggressive government action is needed to get people the help they need and personally that’s way more important that some real estate corporation’s bottom line. The hotels took these deals during Covid and are now trying to backpedal. Screw em’. Took the money to house the unhoused when they needed it, now they want them out so they can increase prices beyond what was contracted with the cities.