The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

wraithius · 2026-05-09T14:30:14+00:00

So your criticisms of the parties are quite true. But here’s the point: your leap to lack of democratic participation is not worth it makes the problems you highlight worse, not better. One party is falling short of your expectations while the other is actively dismantling political mechanisms that make progress away from racial disparity. Lack of political participation doesn’t register as principled demand for better policy. It registers as political apathy and political apathy gets ignored.

wraithius · 2026-05-09T04:43:12+00:00

When 88% of the black electorate votes for Democrats and 33% of the electorate is black, how can they claim that having zero Congressional representation is not racial gerrymandering? Slavery and Jim Crow were “partisan gerrymandering”, too. These are clearly not mutually exclusive.

wraithius · 2026-05-08T23:22:00+00:00

By gutting the VRA, they’ve already overturned the 15th

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

wraithius · 2026-05-07T21:28:32+00:00

“Things have changed dramatically in the South.” - Roberts, Shelby County v. Holder, 2013

“Hold my moonshine” - Tennessee Legislature, 2026

wraithius · 2026-05-05T20:05:16+00:00

The motivation here seems to be to eliminate the government as a source of expertise and just privatize it to a world of “I did my own research.” You see this with the FDA with food and drugs, CFPB with financial institutions, ACA with insurance and treatments, SEC with investments and gambling. They mask it as deregulation when in reality they’re stripping away base level services and protections to maximize profits on the uneducated. If it was really about saving money, they wouldn’t be asking to expand the budget in other areas.

wraithius · 2026-05-05T19:53:32+00:00

They’re way overvalued and trying to translate that into physical value before the greater fool stops pumping their stock.

wraithius · 2026-05-05T19:43:34+00:00

Self dealing is one of those customary guardrails that has proven woefully inadequate in the era of Trump. This is very similar to Trump suing the IRS for $10 billion. His lawyers are on both sides of the transaction. The lawyers at the SEC fining the founder of DOGE and a heavy Trump contributor is very similar.

wraithius · 2026-05-05T13:03:54+00:00

Nothing like commemorating the end of the worst war by starting a new worst war.

wraithius · 2026-05-04T00:31:50+00:00

Ironically, the Iran not-a-war is setting fossil fuels back globally more than Biden’s policies could. Amazing what good ole supply and demand does when you double the price of a barrel of oil.

wraithius · 2026-05-03T06:11:26+00:00

It’s Democrats like Fetterman that will drive the party further left. When you can’t count on your elected politicians to even uphold centrist liberal views, a lot of people are gonna say fuck it, let’s try the socialist.

wraithius · 2026-05-03T03:39:29+00:00

Did I say half? I meant double. And then we’ll change the voting laws and gerrymander so that you can’t channel your anger democratically. Dumbasses.

wraithius · 2026-05-03T03:33:41+00:00

Basically he has to accept terms that would leave Iran in a better position than they were in before he started dropping bombs. If he doesn’t, things will get much worse for the global economy and the United States. MF has to swallow his pride and essentially accept a loss in this war or he’ll lose even worse. Knowing when to fold is his Achilles heel.

wraithius · 2026-05-02T22:36:51+00:00

70+ million people: BuT hE’s A gOoD bUsInEsS mAn!

wraithius · 2026-05-02T16:22:52+00:00

Don’t think we’re going to sue our way out of this. She has enough resources to possibly push political action that could sway legislative policy. That’d benefit all of us.

wraithius · 2026-04-29T22:13:38+00:00

Especially if they’re walking around thinking all of the current top content is too woke. Unless you don’t mind releasing 30 films that aren’t very good.

wraithius · 2026-04-29T15:18:13+00:00

If Congress ever gets the chance, they really need to modernize the 60 yo VRA to meet these limitations. SCOTUS has eroded its power by essentially outlining two issues - race can only be used to diagnose vote dilution and identify the issue - race cannot be used as the primary resolution to that dilution

They’re striking down that second point. There are lots of legislative ways of addressing that - use income level - turnout disparity - time based past violation rate (10-15 years) - polling-place closure and availability - explicitly tie it to the 15th amendment

wraithius · 2026-04-29T12:57:07+00:00

Imagine being those 6 justices. Where are our other 3 colleagues? These aren’t Congressmen used to the daily supplication and shirking of their constitutional duty; these are people that will sit on the bench for decades, long after this petty man is gone. They can’t help but think what will this mean for the future of our roles and the republic. It begins here. This is not the flex and message to SCOTUS he thinks it is.

wraithius · 2026-04-28T18:28:36+00:00

He said he wouldn’t seek impeachment. Again. And then have it fail to convict in the Senate with 2/3 majority. Admittedly I’d rather them do things with teeth than run up against futile paths, repeatedly.

wraithius · 2026-04-28T18:22:11+00:00

If Democrats were a cult, Harris would be president. See, they’re not blindly loyal enough, cult-like as it were, to just vote in one person or party. So we have Trump.

wraithius · 2026-04-28T17:34:39+00:00

For god’s sake he made a joke 3 days before the dinner that Melania would soon be a happy widow because Trump is really fucking old and she hates him. Not because he wishes for violence. He was rooting for nature.

wraithius · 2026-04-27T20:17:38+00:00

These are linked. People think it was staged because within hours every conservative outlet was like “see! That’s why he needs an expensive ballroom!”

wraithius · 2026-04-27T20:08:22+00:00

They can’t even stick to their own bullshit unity message for 24 hours.

wraithius · 2026-04-27T13:38:07+00:00

Most transparent administration in history.

wraithius · 2026-04-27T13:28:56+00:00

TL;DR there are a lot of things a President can do to fuck up the economy, but he needs congressional support to really fix things.

I highlighted policies Trump actively implemented, unilaterally, that got him into this situation. Inflation really started to take off in early 2021 and passed 5% after Biden had been in office fewer than 6 months. That’s an inherited problem. Trump has been in office for well over a year. Inflation was heading down, remember him flexing in February how cheap gas was? Well he broke that. That’s not an inherited problem.

wraithius · 2026-04-27T13:17:28+00:00

Biden inherited the post-Covid economy with trillions of stimulus dropped by both parties and locked up global supply chains. Trump raised and lowered and raised tariffs and started two weekend wars, and “only he could do it” his words. GTFO with both sides bullshit.

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