…Coned?
Ha, yeah, I miss-spelled. One thing that I’ll gladly admit I’m bad at.
Trump should be told that the Elizabethan collar is what royalty used to where. Then snap one on him.
As part of his rehabilitation while incarcerated, Collins probably underwent psychological counseling where he was encouraged to explore the underlying thought processes that led him on the path to prison. So he may have been primed for self introspection. Unfortunately only a slim minority of Trump supporters will be forced to undergo the same introspection.
We need to round them up and send them to re-education camps. 
That implies they were ever educated…
They went to the University of Life ™️. And got a graduate degree from Trump University (and Neckwear Merchants).
The main reason is that our Constitution is a sort of minimalist work. The federal government was designed to be minimalist. It was closer to what the right sees it as now than what it has evolved to. However, the founding fathers did think ahead and carefully laid out the future in the form of amendments. With the amendments, the current massive government with the million or so workers is still within the limits. The problem there is that there is no clear indication how these departments would be independent of the president. Some are, like the treasury. But basically the president could fire all cabinets and start from scratch. And Trump will do that if elected. In summary, our Constitution allows all this, as it is written on the back of…not one but a dozen envelopes. A sketch.
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The founders also naively assumed that there might be politicing, back biting and in fighting, by and large the majority of law makers would be good an honest people because if they were obviously corrupt then the people wouldn’t elect them. The idea that in a majority of the states the majority of the people would prefer a morally corrupt individual did not figure into their calculus.
Except that impeachment was included.
This is one of the reasons I’d love a time machine. I’d genuinely love to hear their reactions and answers to these questions.
Again, because they
…who’d act to cast from among themselves someone egregiously unfit to be in their company.
(BTW consistent with how the founders did not mean for the bulk of the common rabble to control who was in office.)
Exactly. They were prepared for the idea that a corrupt individual might sneak in to power and need to be removed but assumed that at half the house and 2/3 of the senate would have the best interests of the country at heart.
This Meet the Press interview summary gives another possible answer to the thread topic — Trump knows how to play a policy moderate when on TV.
Consider:
And:
And even, despite statements he has made at rallies:
I’d restate that as
- trump occasionally plays a moderate on TV for a couple of sentences.
Which certain apologists can trot out repeatedly as evidence that this part of his oerve is genuine policy wisdom and the other 95% of trump’s drivel is mere populist rhetoric of no meaning or consequence. The apologists also content that trump is fully aware of the difference and operates behind the scenes according only to the first stuff.
Color me “not buying that”.
Moderating:
Due to the way you phrased your restatement, I’m going to assume the omission you made to @PhillyGuy’s quote above was a typo and not a deliberate slur. Nevertheless, please be careful to not modify the quotes of another poster, even inadvertently. Thanks.
I couldn’t count the number of times I have inadvertently clipped the first letter off of a quote, not always catching it on proofreading. I blame Discourse.
I know. Me, too. Nor is @LSLGuy someone with a reputation for trying to slip slurs past staff.
I’m just mentioning it in the hope posters will take a moment to review their posts for unfortunate typos before hitting the ‘Reply’ button. Quote modification is a hard line rule here.
Think of it as me “flag-proofing” a post.
My apologies to both @PhillyGuy and the board in general.
Me dropping the “T” from the front of my partial quote of @PhillyGuy’s writing was 100% inadvertent. But also unacceptably careless.
And thank you for the gentle moderation.