Welcome to The Now

 

 Last five minutes of this video is on point: It's the cycle that gets the occasional tune-up of "outsiders" who are really insiders. Republicans run the "I'm different from the rest" type who's "a maverick" while the Democrats run a leftist-sounding pragmatist. This is done to shepherd the strays back into the two major parties. If you really want to make a difference in electoral politics, don't vote for Democrats or Republicans...they've wasted enough of our time, money and energy. 

 

 

 When I think about the failed candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, as well as the attempts of the likes of JD Vance or Ron DeSantis to reach the White House, I'm left with a reoccurring question: why? Sure, the President of the United States can command the military and federal agencies. But other than using them to protect yourself, what good is that? How did Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Barack Obama Donald Trump or Joe Biden use their powers as president to help their citizens in a way that uplifted the country? Not individual people who already had the means or companies/corporations who already had access to power, but people in the 99%?  Who did the Crime Bill ultimately help? What about the Patriot Act? The Affordable Care Act? The Build Back Better Act? The Big Beautiful Bill? And that's just domestically. Not one of these presidents could resist the temptation to attack another nation under the guise of "protecting American interests" which is code for...

 Maybe a decrease in odd-to-offensive social media posts, but other than that...

  Just remember that this was planned out before Trump got elected . The true policy-makers just adapt how they get the current president to go along with the plan .

  It should also be noted that his son works for Vice President JD Vance .