[Trump] recently suggested that he would order the arrest and prosecution of Mr Biden and other top Democrats, also told the assembled Iowa voters that he’d assemble a “deportation force” to remove more than 7,000,000 migrants from the country without due process.
I'm getting nostalgic for the days when all he thought he could get away with was shooting a guy on Fifth Avenue.
We are a nation without laws, run by a bunch of criminals. If the laws are never enforced, then they essentially don't exist. The only time laws are enforced are against the people, the working class that props the country up. The political and business class citizens are excluded from judgement.
In my own mind, 1994 was a couple weeks ago, not thirty years ago. It takes a conscious mental step for me to register that these candidates are demented geriatrics because they're still young in my mind because 1994 was last week.
This also applies to musicians as well as that creepy old dude I see in the mirror. No idea where he came from.
I suspect the vast majority of older voters are not taking that conscious mental step and are voting for young candidates that they remember from "last week."
This is not a justification at all. Merely a self reflection that I occasionally get caught up in time denial myself.
The article talks about how presidential candidates (and some other office candidates) get secret security information before they are actually elected. And it says that Donald Trump should not receive that information.
Shouldn't candidates have to apply for a security clearance, if they want this info before they are elected? This could make it a nonpartisan issue, while achieving the same result (since Trump would not be eligible for a security clearance, due to his history of mishandling documents).
The main argument against making mandatory tests or additional subjective criteria, is introducing gatekeeping into the election. Who approves the clearance? Who double checks it? Who do they report to? Are you going to trust the current administration when they say that someone doesn't have clearance and can't run? The system is set up so that the people are in charge of the government, and not the government being in charge of the government. The issue that we are running into though is when the people are absolute morons.
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