... you realize that Europe has a much longer history of dealing with pouty, superannuated children in charge of government, and with rulers who were just plain batshit crazy.Trump: "I should've gotten the Nobel Prize for each war, but I don't say that. I saved millions and millions of people. And don't let anybody tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots, ok? It's in Norway. Norway control the shots. It's a joke. They lost such prestige. That's… pic.twitter.com/aVxepPHK5s
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 20, 2026
Of course, we set up a new form of government to get away from all that. Maybe we should have been more open to a Parliamentary system, and less utopian about a government without political parties (especially seeing how long that ideal lasted after ratification).
Anyway, I think European leaders have a more realistic approach than “INVOKE THE 25th!” Because we’re finding out there is no Presidential escape clause. It’s Trump until this time in 2029. And if it’s not Trump, it’s Vance; which is hardly an improvement.
I think Europe’s gonna handle that better than we will.
There was plenty of skepticism about the presidency among the antifederalists and he Court and the Senate. I haven't analyzed it but about the only thing that was generally considered a good idea was the House. Considering how enthusiastic John Adams was about HIS party in the rapid development of parties, you'd think he'd have thought more realistically about his novel idea of balanced branches. This development in the already demonstrably dangerous presidential system, as can be seen in the enthusiasm for the presidency of Andrew Jackson by whoever it was in the Trump gang who put that idea in his mind early on (Trump knowing who Jackson was? Did someone make a made for TV movie about it?) we've come too close to Trumpery before. And now that the Federalist fascists and the Heritage hitlerites have come this close, they won't stop till they succeed, if, in fact they haven't already. The Roberts Court won't be deposed, I'll be shocked if Democrats get super majorities if they even expand the Court to sideline the fascists.
ReplyDeleteAnything that doesn't amend the First Amendment to say that there is no such thing as a right to lie and that the "press" doesn't have the right to lie with impunity with punishments that would prevent billionaires from lying in the mass media won't be anything like enough even in the short term.