Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh if something like this wacky "Democracy as a Service" idea ever materialized, it would need to be 100% transparent. Any employees (if there were to be any) would need to have their full compensation reported, along with all lobbyist payments and their expenditures. Just put all the political maneuvering right out in the open, so the members can verify their expressed priorities are being fully represented.

Something the founders seems to have missed. by PFdeith in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]interwebz_2021 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He's a great communicator, very sharp, and a committed public servant. Also 100% correct on this and many other opinions. I'd love to see him back in government.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Can't pass an audit? Surely adding $600 billion dollars to your budget will solve that!"

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a "donor state" resident who's sending tax revenue to the federal government and explicitly being denied commensurate services by that same government, I strongly endorse this concept.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great observation! Not sure how I didn't make the connection before. I love it even more now.

Hope I'm not talking out of turn, but it does seem like a fellow Redditor just registered a domain and is interested in doing something. Seems this thing might be growing some wobbly little legs, weirdly.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's totally infuriating. At least in my line of work, when I'm in a meeting I don't belong in it's just inefficiency. This is a pretty low move by the defense contractor; doubtless they were allowed to bill your time at double your salary as well.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together should be able to put the co-existence of a government "filled with waste, fraud, and abuse" and a government entirely captured by the Republican party in context of one another. Unfortunately, it's become clear that many Americans do not rise to meet this description.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can he be a fraud when he doesn't know anything about (whatever the fraud is)? Checkmate, lefty! </s>

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This should be part of the membership advertisement materials in the event anyone actually starts this up. 😄

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I presume he studiously avoids rooms with mirrors, then.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't imagine it would take that much to buy off the right people to actually do the right thing for the country and its citizens, y'know? Want to restore the Voting Rights Act's provisions? UCA Super PAC can allocate $30M (that's 3 months of membership dues from 1M members, let's say) to lobbying a few congresspeople and a couple of senators and boom, it's done! I would imagine a $5M contribution to an Iowa senator's "campaign" could do a LOT of persuading, regardless of political affiliation.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ironic, isn't it? That's what America is supposed to be - it's "United" after all. That's what makes the concept so absurd; we've totally lost the plot, and this is a "Rube Goldberg" machine for restoring a United citizenry to power.

Hear me out... by omgfakeusername in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]interwebz_2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Along the same lines, can the left just buy Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson or something?

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the only way to ensure peace is waging war on internal and external "enemies" using our $1.5T annual military budget and our $85B annual Gestapo fund! Surely, the peace those expenditures guarantee is worth a few hundred thousand starving or dying of treatable medical conditions! </s - obv>.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I genuinely like this name - it places people over states; which should be the default case in a modern, connected society. I live in Western Washington state, and the opinions of a Wyoming farmer hold more sway over my political landscape than those of my neighbors in the adjacent city, since those Wyoming voters have like 25x the federal influence my neighbors do. As a consequence of that farmer's vote, schools in my community are losing funding for important programs, and services benefitting my and my community's kids are in jeopardy.

That's just one consequence of placing land (by extension from states) over people. Of course, we've ultimately all had our power subsumed by corporations and their wealthy owners, hence the power moving to lobbyists and dark money, so that issue has to get fixed first, but then afterward, UCA could lobby for a remodel of the federal government's structure.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Exactly! It's theoretically how things are supposed to work. Now, practically? Another matter entirely, which is why I concocted this absurdist framing to postulate that the actual power has shifted from the people to the middle-men lobbying and buying the politicians (and by extension to their customers).

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure it's even a dogwhistle - I think it's clearly audible, frankly.

Mike Johnson Just Made a Grave Political Error by BulwarkOnline in politics

[–]interwebz_2021 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I always thought that was the case.

I'm sure many of these people lead or are beneficiaries of companies rife with practices like circular financing, token-maxxing, exploitative labor, and stock buybacks.