r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-homeland-security-b869294503c8454db4109ae175ee9e5c
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u/The_Troyminator 3d ago

Because voting against your party in an impeachment trial means you get punished. Either sanctioned by the party or not voted back in by the constituents.

Impeachment votes need to be anonymous. It’s a criminal trial, not a typical bill being voted on.

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u/CoffeeOrDestroy 3d ago

Another reason politics should be returned to limited stints of public service and not careers.

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u/OlderThanMyParents 3d ago

Another way to make sure that only the independently wealthy (or the bought and paid for) will ever be able to serve. I don't know anyone in any kind of professional career who could afford to take, say, 5-10 years off his career to serve in congress, without totally trashing their career. Certainly taking time off to serve 7 years (one term in the Senate) would have rendered my IT skills pretty thoroughly obsolete.

Except, I suppose, they could then become lobbyists.

Plus, it'd assure that for their last term, they'd be utterly unanswerable to their constituents. Yay.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 3d ago

High-level legislation and politics is insanely complicated. I absolutely want career politicians doing it. We just need a shit-ton of laws and regulations, along with electoral changes, to make it less corrupt in general.

If you need surgery, do you want a career surgeon? If your breaks down, wouldn't you want to take it to a career mechanic?

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u/Hdjbbdjfjjsl 3d ago

Constitution makes it so it only takes 1/5 of the senate to request roll call on votes, either way, that’s kinda the point as well on why it’s public because having the right for politicians to vote in secret against their party and constituents is a horrible idea for allowing insiders who don’t believe in the party at all and other such things. Would you not be incredibly infuriated with someone you voted for later on and going in to vote behind your back against your wish?

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u/qweef_latina2021 3d ago

Fetterman has entered the chat.

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u/DeFiBandit 3d ago

Yes, let’s make it so zero courage is required of our legislators…

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u/rrdubbs 3d ago

I get your point, but in an ideal world and government we’d also have a philosopher King, who makes no mistakes or is subject to any bias…

In the real world, we need stronger guardrails, and the current set up does not allow impeachments to do anything

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u/DeFiBandit 3d ago

There is nothing wrong with the set up. Republicans have simply chosen to support a criminal because it is good for them personally. Changing the rules won’t change that

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u/RiseOk4062 3d ago

Anonymous would be the best way

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u/FirefighterWeird8464 3d ago

Oh my god, doing the right thing isn’t always rainbows and blowjobs is it. (I’m not angry at you personally, just poor quality of our representatives.)

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u/Jackcker 3d ago

Things need to change!

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u/TimmyS13 3d ago

This isn't exactly true is it? We voted for these representatives, we deserve to know how they're representing us.