One of the biggest problems with this country is that most of them aren’t unconstitutional. Sure there are exceptions (which others will name), but we’ve been building up the president to be a king for a very long time. We’ve counted on elections and Congress to prevent that, which is amazing that it didn’t implode sooner.

The problem is who will replace them. Does Putin even have an official successor (like the US VP), or would this create a power vacuum?

This isn’t exactly a secret. Remember in the debate when he said he’d end the war, and refused to say which side he’d be on?

Requirement from whom? Who would enforce it?

I know the obvious answer is the ICC, but they currently have warrants for both Putin and Netanyahu, so clearly that’s not an effective threat.

The CIA was actively planning an assassination. But while they were fighting through the red tape, an outsider stole the plan right out from under them and took all of the credit.

Inspiration

There’s a really big problem with this guidance. You may be in category 2 (i.e. a suspect) and not know it. They may also retroactively place you in that category, and everything you said can now be incriminating evidence

5 of whom will move out of the state at their first opportunity, 2 might stay. And 1 will die before their 21st birthday due to causes that don’t exist much in the developed world, like methanol poisoning or measles.

There’s diminishing returns. I don’t think people care much as long as it’s under a minute. Between 1-3 minutes they care a bit. 3-10 minutes and it becomes tedious. 10+ and people get very irritated.

If you’ve ever worked on a corporate system, that last category is very common no matter what the hardware is.

As for people bragging, that’s all it is. They’re saying it’s so fast it can do [meaningless task] in an impressively short amount of time. Presumably, this translates into something more meaningful but harder to benchmark. For instance, they tell you it boots in 5 seconds because that means it can reopen all of their Chrome tabs in 30 seconds.

FWIW, impeachable offenses from the POTUS go back a lot further than Nixon. More serious, too. But yes, Nixon/Ford showed us the process doesn’t work.

You should look up what Stephen Colbert did in 2010.

There was an organization that would take any American that wanted to be a farm worker, and connect them with local farms. Even paid decently, better than a lot of wage slave jobs. Not genuinely good, but like $15/hour back then.

As Colbert testified about it to Congress, “Please don’t make me do this again. It is really, really hard.” Americans really don’t want to do it.

This isn’t even the first time produce has rotten in the fields due to a Trump immigration threat. I distinctly remember reading about tomatoes rotting on the vine in the deep south, probably around 2017.

Strategically, this was probably the right move. At that point, the results were in. We can’t change what happened, only where we go from here. Kissing his ass is a case of Tragedy of the Commons.

FWIW, as an American, I really hope you’re right. Because there is serious potential for us to fuck up the entire rest of the world for a very, very long time.