My intended Facebook post:
Can’t wait for this headline: TRUMP REMOVES MAGA BAND-AID FROM EAR!
Facebook AI:
Without regard whatsoever to his or his peoples involvement in stoking violence, he will blame his opposition for all of it, and ask them to cease and desist.
The question is not about whether Biden is capable of serving as president. The question is about WHO is elected.
Considering the stakes, it doesn’t matter who becomes President, as long as it is NOT Donald Trump.
If Joe Biden were elected and only served for an instant beyond having taken the oath, he will have SAVED us.
Biden [any candidate]:Do you really want to change our society?
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I believe that Trump’s excesses have been generated within himself by a natural process of upping his ante, since what worked the last time won’t work again.
His audience has evolved with him and so have we. His excesses must be forced beyond their natural pace so that his lunacy becomes apparent. Perhaps even to his followers.
Like abruptly upping the heat under a slowly cooking lobster to maximum, so that it realizes what’s happening.
The thesis of this article is that Trump’s crazy rants demonstrate his craziness. He is NOT crazy on the basis of his rants. To be sure he is crazy – megalomania – but his rants demonstrate – ultimately to our profound regret – his genius for keeping our eyes off the ball.
His rants are imaginative streams of consciousness, succeeding magnificently in their purpose: Distraction! Rope-a-dope!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/trump-shark-rant/678666/
In 1993, the Government laid siege on the the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, TX. They decided to take action because after the 51 day siege, they could not withstand the pressure to take action. Their egos couldn’t. The attack precipitated a suicidal catastrophe. What should they have done in the first place? That is the lesson of Waco!
First, they should not have attacked. NOT EVER! They should have established control of the area, providing any and all reasonable imaginable humanitarian support to the besieged and waited – as long as it might take – AS LONG AS IT MIGHT TAKE – for the situation to settle down and sort itself out. Even if the site became a welfare colony.
This is the approach that should be taken towards the demonstrators on our college campuses. NO MILITARY WEAPONS OR GARB; Never initiating any violent action against demonstrators. Acting only when violence is initiated by the demonstrators. In the event of occupation of campus facilities by demonstrators, taking no action to take back the facilities. On the contrary, providing any and all support to the demonstrators – including food, water, medical support, free passage on humanitarian grounds – until the demonstrators realize that this will continue forever without them achieving their goals.
The lesson we have not learned is that when our egos compel us to take premature action, we LOSE!
The very last words of an Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court regarding Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment:
“As Missouri Republican John B. Henderson declared the day he cast his vote for the Fourteenth Amendment in the Senate, “The language of this section is so framed as to disenfranchise from office the leaders of the past rebellion as well as the leaders of any rebellion hereafter to come.” May the curse of that hereafter never come again.”
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The whole conclusion:
The meaning of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is best discerned in the actual history of Reconstruction. Haunted by the nation’s suffering and fearful of disloyalty and ongoing political violence, Congress conducted an investigation into conditions in the South and determined that the disqualification of office-holders who had engaged in an insurrection against the Constitution was necessary for the security of the republic. Their concerns included a possible bid for the presidency by Jefferson Davis. Section Three also gave the federal government the authority to guide reconstructed ex- Confederate states to find new leadership committed to equal rights for all. With an eye toward establishing enduring fundamental law and ensuring domestic tranquility, they framed a provision designed to hold future insurrectionists accountable by the same means. They knew that no one in the United States is above the law, not even the President, and that no republican government can afford to return insurrectionists to office.
As Missouri Republican John B. Henderson declared the day he cast his vote for the Fourteenth Amendment in the Senate, “The language of this section is so framed as to disenfranchise from office the leaders of the past rebellion as well as the leaders of any rebellion hereafter to come.” May the curse of that hereafter never come again.
Link to the entire brief:
What is American democracy? American Democracy is what it is defined to be by the American Constitution!
If a citizen not born here is ineligible to be president, that is American Democracy.
If a citizen younger than 35 is ineligible to be president, that is American Democracy.
A citizen who has sworn allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and has later engaged in insurrection is ineligible to be president. That is American Democracy.
First I would ask any of our constitutional gurus to write an extensive opinion on the eligibility of a 30-year-old or non-native citizen to run for president. I would expect their opinions to encompass just two words, not qualified.
Then I would ask them to write an extensive opinion on the eligibility of an insurrectionist to run for president. I would hope their opinions would be similarly extensive and encompass the same two words, not qualified.