• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    So there really is no point where there is a mechanism to save the office of the president should mental illness and incapacity dominate the working of the Supreme leader’s mind? The King walks naked and we just keep saying his clothes look fabulous?

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      There is, but the people who wrote it didn’t foresee a world in which an entire established political party just blindly follows everything that the incapacitated person says.

      The framers of the constitution and the people who wrote its amendments were so sure that only people with integrity and good intentions would hold elected office that they didn’t give us a plan for removing shallow, greedy megalomaniacs.

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        But they also didn’t consider themselves smart enough to have thought of everything which was the whole point of the amendment system. Which was promptly discarded as soon as it became more convenient to reinterpret the letter of the constitution to suit your needs while calling yourself an originalist.

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          I truly believe that if the framers of the constitution had any idea that they were basically writing a religious document, they would have built in the requirement for a constitutional convention every 25-ish years.

          I think they would be horrified by the idea that we had only passed 27 amendments in 237 years.

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      If Amazon and Cybertruck even frown, he’s out on his ass.

      Don’t worry! They’re super happy.