Who will select the next US president?

I misread, I thought it said who will.

Not sure who "should," but I suspect Saudi Arabia/various ME countries will invest even more heavily in the Trump family, administration, and businesses of friends.

Russia already owns Trump. I don't see why they'd bother spending/doing more than they have.

NK has proven Kim merely needs to publicly stroke Trump's ego to get him to sell out the US's interests.

China... Maybe, but... I'm not feeling it.

My money is on ME money.

ALL will get in on the action, if they haven't already. Waiting to read Seth Abramson's new book about this.

I'm tired of 'strong words', but not strong deeds by the Democrats. And I'm sure as hell done with Trump supporters who are proclaiming they don't care if Russia interfered, they'd rather have Trump than Killary which makes zero sense. Letting themselves be led by misguided feelings is bringing about a fast ruin to our country.

But even if Congress acts, Mitch McConnell will sit on it while we all burn down.

I can’t choose a single one. Since it’s open house, every single country is “welcome.”

What’s at the root of all this apart from a man who’s never had respect for rules or laws or norms? He’s never been held accountable for anything. The absence of a readily-available and easily-implemented mechanism to hold him accountable is due to two memos that assert no sitting president can be indicted. Memos. I cannot think of any other democratic country that has allowed friggin’ memos to stymie the application of law. Why these united states of a republic allowed this to happen is beyond my comprehension.

So, here we are…come one, come all, countries that yearn to buy ours for the gates have been unlocked.

I'm just going to wait for Stacy Abrams to be president. Can that happen please? Someday?

The country? I think it will be Saudi Arabia/UAE.

They have the wealth that trump and kushners so desperately want and they’re no where close now.

One reason why they won’t hold that MBS (or whatever) for ordering the killing and dismembering of the reporter Kashoggi.

Another is trump circumventing Congress on $8 BILLION of arms sales to Saudi. Since trump has declared it an “emergency” he totally went around the norm if Congress approving arms sales to foreign entities.

With trump—it’s ALWAYS follow the money that will personally enrich him.



ETA—I found this after my post—
www.rawstory.com/2019/06/follow-the-money-nancy-pelosi-names-the-source-of-all-trump-family-scandals/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

In this case, do we even need to concern ourselves with voting at all? Serious question. If our votes make no difference, there is no reason to keep doing it, is there?

Are our lives and livelihoods not worth fighting for anymore?

Surely, anyone can see how compromised, self serving and corrupt this potus is actively and aggressively working in his own interests and not the interests of the majority of the American people.

Voting is a privileged right to those who are eligible.

Right now, this administration/GOP is actively -and a-okay with it—promoting and seeking gerrymandering, voter suppression, and foreign interference.

If those of us who are sick and tired to this crap don’t stand up and fight for us, who will? Not this administration/GOP, that’s for certain.

See above response to dewryce -- regardless of whatever any of us are wanting to change or fix or fight, if our votes are not our own, how can they do that?

Well, the hope is that not all votes are compromised or completely controlled and that we can elect enough people to the House and Senate (state and federal) who are willing to fight these issues, fight corruption and change the laws so that in the future our votes count as they should and cases of blatant incompetence and corruption can be swiftly dealt with.

I didn't see the OP as a "these issues" type of question, as that would be partisan, and she allowed that depending on who does the vote-controlling, it could be in favor of someone from either political side.

So my question is still, if a foreign entity has the money and power to control our votes, how do our votes matter?

I took the OP as a vent and a sarcastic “if you can’t beat them join/choose them.” I didn’t get the impression she is actually planning on laying down and handing control over to puppet masters. And I thought it was a very partisan post. Well, at least it was an anti-Trump, anti-corruption post. Trump has indicated he’s open to oppo research but that doesn’t mean the next President/candidate will be. 

You said “in this case” and keep using the word control, and at this point it has only been proven as influence or maybe partially control our votes. They don’t have complete control so right now, while we can, I think it is even more important to vote in people who can address the issues. And I brought in the specific issues because I think they are similar and relevant. There is known gerrymandering, does that mean we should stop voting? No, it means we need to work harder, get more people to vote to elect the party that will put a stop to it before the divide is too difficult to overcome.

Now, if you’re referring to a future when we really have have no control over the votes, then I think we would be at an even bigger crossroads, maybe to the point of revolution. So in that case, I don’t know if I’d vote just to know I did or not. But we aren’t there yet.

Uncle. OP was being sarcastic, we still own our votes, I will continue voting with the confidence that my vote both counts and matters.