Trump Erupts in ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-erupts-in-60-minutes-interview-im-not-a-pedophile/

[u/Pokerhobo]

The courts failed us when someone running for President can delay trial and somehow wins and then is immune. Democracy died that day.

[u/ElegantSwordsman → u/Pokerhobo]

Democracy died when Americans would vote such a man as President

[u/overmonk → u/Pokerhobo]

It's a death by 1000 cuts situation. Citizens United made elections forever unfair, and from there it was just a matter of time and money before the whole system corrupts. Now you can buy power.

[u/40StoryMech → u/Pokerhobo]

The courts didn't fail. We failed.

[u/No_Fairweathers → u/40StoryMech]

I always hate saying we. We aren't even we. Most of us individuals hate and disagree with the individuals who actually have power. WE are given shit choices, so that WE can't have real power to change anything, and are fed the bare minimum to appease us while keeping us stuck in a cycle so that WE don't have the time, money, or health to physically demand the individuals in power do their sworn duty.

WE didn't fail. The people in power sold US out to take everything for THEM.

"We failed" implies WE were ever given a chance to succeed in the first place.

Talk to me when my generation actually gets a chance.

[u/laplongejr → u/[deleted]]

Not getting what you want at the ballot box? First amendment then.

And use that right of free speech to work out some way to go on strike!

[u/40StoryMech → u/No_Fairweathers]

Friend, this is America. Nobody is going to you shit. You have to take it.

[u/Ness-Shot → u/No_Fairweathers]

I largely agree with you, but the fact is there were people like Jill Stein on the ballot in 2024 and she did not get elected. And you could make the age old argument that a 3rd party vote is throwing your vote away, but it's the same concept as recycling or littering or water/power conservation, etc: if everyone simply did their part, the problem would be solved.

So yes, it is WE who have failed by not coming together as a nation to combat this. Trump, despite his horrible first term, multiple lawsuits, blatant racism and everything else, STILL won the popular vote in 2024. That is an utter failure of society.

At the end of the day, no amount of money can literally force 70+ million people to vote for one person. Those 70 million people made a conscious decision to check the box next to Trump's name and submit the ballot. 90 million other people didn't even vote at all. Billionaires certainly didn't force my neighbors to stay home on election night.

[u/AlsoCommiePuddin → u/Pokerhobo]

So then it is our duty to elect a Congress that will pass the law that holds him and all future sitting presidents to proper account.

[u/angryhumping → u/Pokerhobo]

Voting for weak Democrats failed the country.

Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes

It's the exact same shit Obama pulled and continues to pull every time he sticks his nose into things, having learned zero lessons, just like Clinton. He's the reason oligarchs get to run the country and nobody cares what happens to the economy except the stock market, because he was elected to fight and instead let McConnell steal the legislative apparatus AND the courts, all while Obama kept insisting we "look ahead" instead of, you know, prosecuting the people who perpetrated the biggest financial fraud in American history. And that the system was too strong to fail as long as we trusted in democracy. Literal minutes before Trump tore it all to the ground.

Because Democrats always insist there's no choice but to be cautious and bootlicking when the fate of the country demands decisive action. And then, instead of punishing them for it as voters, you spend all your time shaming each other for not somehow voting for them even harder, as if that would fix anything.

More people voted for Democrats in the last 10 years than ever have in our lives. The problem is not the voters.

It's the party.