Elbow
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Elbow@lemmy.zipto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Biden gets blamed by Harris allies for the vice president's resounding lossEnglish1·6 months agoIt’s quite an uphill battle because the economy is complex and Trump gives people simple answers (that won’t actually work).
Elbow@lemmy.zipto politics @lemmy.world•Dems knew Harris wasn't ready just a year agoEnglish21·6 months agoI wish we could do something like the Jungle primaries that some states have where all the parties run together and the top candidates advance to the general election regardless of party. That seems to put a damper on extremism.
Ideally though, I’d like to see us move away from the presidential system to a proportional parliamentary system, but that would take a constitutional amendment.
I think inflation is the biggest part of why Trump won. People wrongly blamed Biden for it. I guess we’ll just have to learn some lessons again.
Elbow@lemmy.zipto politics @lemmy.world•What can be done about this Supreme Court’s very worst decisions?English10·8 months agoSCOTUS doesn’t have a mechanism to enforce their decisions. They rely on everyone else accepting their authority and going along with it.
The constitution does give Congress the authority to set the jurisdiction of the courts. They could say that another court like the DC Circuit Court of Appeals would be the court of final appeal for any laws involving SCOTUS.
Elbow@lemmy.zipto politics @lemmy.world•Andrew Tate and Candace Owens Push Theory Trump ‘Made a Deal’ With Deep State: Not ‘The Same Trump’English8·8 months agoIt could also just be that he’s old.
Tonya Harding (background) was involved in a plot to assault rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan (foreground). The Movie “I, Tonya” covers the case and is actually pretty good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_Nancy_Kerrigan