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PatrickforB

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4. Yep. We will have to dismantle the whole thing to get rid of the corporate corruption and rebuild
Fri May 22, 2026, 12:56 AM
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a system using blockchain to ensure transparency and honest dealing.

Raise taxes on the billionaire parasites and corporations, end Citizens United, reverse Dobbs, get rid of the filibuster to ensure a functional senate, re-district the entire country state by state, and hold extensive trials to clear the Epstein files and for Trump and his minions who have been utterly corrupt. We also need to clean house on this market manipulation Trump is doing with his cronies, dismantle the concentration camps, free the immigrants.

Pass a sane immigration law that takes into account the humanity of the immigrants.
Reinstate the Voting Rights Act in its entirety.
Dismantle the Supreme Court and appoint new justices WITH TERM LIMITS.
Clean house in the Judicial system and try corrupt judges like Aileen Cannon.
Change corporate governance to a stakeholder approach instead of a shareholder primacy one - and add a clause for truth in news reporting to act as a new Fairness Doctrine.

We also need to assess the need for data centers. They are parasitical and silly me, I need water for drinking, washing and growing food.

That would be a start. There is MUCH more and we need REAL TRIALS and REAL SENTENCES for these criminals. Many are speaking of guillotines. I am not, but I want MY tax dollars that I pay in to MY government, which is supposedly of, by and for the people, to go for:

1. Medicare for all Americans.
2. Free tuition in college and grad school.
3. Childcare subsidies.
4. A guaranteed minimum income.
5. Dramatic cuts to the MIC, the prison-industrial complex, and the political industrial complex.

We don't need these complexes. They have been calling the shots at our expense for way too fucking long.

We're gonna have to rethink a WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF, because things cannot continue as they have since the turn of this century.

This is not radical left either. That's bullshit. Government governs at the sufferance of the people. And this government is so corrupt it cannot even function.

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Your post helped crystallized my thinking - along similar lines to yours. NewHendoLib Friday #1
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Yep. We will have to dismantle the whole thing to get rid of the corporate corruption and rebuild PatrickforB Friday #4
Democracy or billionaires -- you can only choose one. nt eppur_se_muova Friday #6
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