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Senior Fellow, New Error Satire Tank; Juvenal delinquent who avoids altarcations; developer of a hedge fund for the poor. My standup is off-demand publishing.
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The decision to go to war is not Drumpf's! Read the Constitution. Only Congress can initiate war.

Leaders have accumulated too much power, some have gone rancid, and all remain too difficult to remove. Computers and conglomeration have enabled the recent recrudescence of dictators, but innovation should have enabled instant polling, hyper-representation, and technocratic caretakers.

Anyone in the US illegally is by definition criminal. However, we can safely bet that none has committed 34 felonies, none has committed five impeachable offenses before breakfast, and none deserves apprehension by a SWAT team that wears masks and carries automatic weapons.

Because people who take a Hippocratic oath and finish perhaps eight years of medical training can be zeros in competence and character, certainly I should avoid anything as training-free, black-box, and litigious as dating.

The problem is leaders who have too much power and are too difficult to remove. The US suffers under the worst president ever, but the only adequate US presidents were Washington, Lincoln, and FDR. Nuttyahoo is the worst Israeli leader ever, but Vladimwit is only the worst Russian since Stalin.

"‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans" --Guardian headline

We judge people on money first (and appearance second). Because money is countable, clothing, education, and manners ledger as if money. La Fayette was willing to contribute his life but not his entire fortune. 1/3

Birthright citizenship and Citizens United have the same origin--a Supreme Court misinterpretation of what the amendment's author intended. Similarly, the executive branch first aimed the Sherman Antitrust Act (which Congress had intended to be toothless electioneering) against labor unions. v4