THE UNITED STATES FOUNDED ON THERE BEING NO KING has become a total lie because we have a monarch, before the New Taney Court issued its string of rulings making Republicans kings - when it's a Democrat in the office, they certain hold that "that's different" - things were bad enough. Now there is no denying that they have made the presidency into a "unitary executive" and absolute monarchy. In this 250th year after the slavers, aristocratic lawyers and others signed the Declaration of Independence issued their lofty and, sadly empty, words, we have a mad king who is unusually stupid, unusually crooked and dishonest who has far, far more power to do evil than a King George III ever had. And there is no way under out insanely retained 18th century Constitution and the political system that has evolved out of it to get rid of him.
Look at the title of this post again, it states a truth that is entirely ignored. No one has a "right" to hold a public office, there is no rational basis for claiming that there is any such a right. Under the U.S. Constitution, if it was to be claimed that the winner of an election has a "right" to hold the seat then that is certainly nullified by the atrocity of the Electoral College which has put the loser of the popular vote into the office five times in our history, three of which imposed some of the worst presidents in our history on us including Rutherford Hayes, George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Of the other two, Benjamin Harrison was a pretty bad president and only John Quincy Adams is generally ranked in the top half in those historian surveys they love to take at C-Span.
But the point of this is to show that even if you want to make what should have always been, explicitly, understood as not a "right" but as an obligation freely taken to The People is now treated in a more extreme fashon than a "divine right of kings" to the detriment of the country and the world.
The next congress, if it is controlled by Democrats should make it a law that all presidential candidates take a physical examination and psychological evaluation made by a panel of doctors not of their choice AND NOT ANSWERABLE TO A PRESIDENT and the conclusions of those doctors be made part of the public record. The laws, the regulations and the courts allow those hiring People for minimum wage and low paying jobs to demand those kinds of tests of People who apply or accept an offer of a job often with the slightest of public safety implications. Yet we are stupid enough under our president deifying law and culture to let a Trump hire hack doctors and those with clear political and personal agendas to lie about their physical and mental states over the course of going on two decades. There is nothing rational in that, it is as much sheer madness as any of Trump's most extreme and obsessive nocturnal emissions that prove his dementia. The ways of pretending to deal with that in the past, the idiotic myth of impeaching even the worst presidents in the process of the most public criminatlity and dangerous wrecklessness has never happened and with Bush II and Trump it's clear that will never happen.
Yet we don't require the qualifications for office that a fast food franchise can ask of someone looking for a job to flip burgers.
The equally stupid "25th Amendment" means of dealing with the matter of removing a demented or damaged president from office is going to prove as much of an illusion as impeachment as a means of removing a Trump from office. It gives exactly those with the greatest motive of keeping a Trump in the presidency, HIS CABINET veto power over any proposal to do that.
Nothing that depends on the "honor" of the powerful and generally rich is worth the photons with which you read the worthless ink on the parchment it is written on.
I BREAK IN TO NOTE; As I type this the news that the radio tells me the evil Lindsey Graham has died, suddenly at the age of 71, I'll have more to say about that. And don't forget the rumors are that Mitch McConnell has died and the Republicans are covering it up, both such evil hags as Virginia Foxx and liars like Scott Jennings claiming to have talked to him - It would seem that McConnell's Chinese gangster family wife and former Trump cabinet member Elaine Chao may have taken it on the lam as soon as she knew he was either dead or about to die.
What a wonderful Republic the Constitution has given us in fact as it lies in mere words.
A Democratic Congress should immediately put a Constitutional Amendment with an age limit for President and Vice President out for ratification. I think if Joe Biden had not gotten caught up in the reflexive Zionist mindset of blindly and reflexively supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza and he had not been enough of a sentimental fool as to appoint Merrick Garland as Attorney General, he may have gone down as one of the greatest presidents we ever had. Especially if age and exhaustion had not caught up with him - I blame his staffers for that, they really let him down. But I am unwilling to ever take another chance on someone who will reach or surpass the age of Eighty in who I will vote for for president. I think 75 should be an absolute cut off after which any presidential candidate will be ineligible and any sitting president should have to retire. I think 70 may be a better age for that but I doubt such an amendment would pass congress, though it might be acceptable in many statehouses.
Speaking of state legislatures. I would say Congress should put one out an age limit for the Senate and House, too but there is no way you're going to get the many geezers who the voters should have put out to pasture long ago to let that through that initial phase of adoption. If that is to be done it will have to be done through the state legislative route. Which has the advantage that there will certainly be many members of those who would like the chance to run for a seat that some dithering person of my age cohort has a lock on.
As I noted, the many PMs that the Brits have recently gone through, seven or so in the past 10 years, several of them not through election, shows that their system gives them a way to get rid of a Keir Starmer or Boris Johnson or Liz Trott. Unlike the stupid American system which gives those with the greatest incentive to keep a corrupt or incompetent member of their party in the presidency, the British system makes it far easier for voters to make that party pay for a bad PM and their cabinet will be full of those who would like a chance to become PM or to move up in power in the one that will succeed the present one. It makes it in their interest to dump the worst though they will often keep a really bad one in office for the wrong reasons. Our system only has wrong reasons for keeping the worst presidents in office even as their crimes are flagrant, public and deadly.
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