The Founders imagined the president as a gentleman-farmer, unencumbered by greed, temporarily stepping up to serve his country then going back to his farm. That was a very long time ago.

April 11, 2026 - 12:50 UTC

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The founders’ biggest error was expecting congress to be full of statesmen, patriots who would honor their oaths of office.
Not complicit toadies eager to keep their heads down and to approve anything their overlord requested.
One rogue president was anticipated. A congress full of squishes was not.
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Why can politicians trade stocks?
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Going back to their plantations with thousands of slaves.
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Sorry, Washington only had 300+.
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It was a quarter of a millennium ago. Indeed, a very, very long time.

However, time should not have reduced the Office of the Presidency to what amounts to a damned Popularity Contest.

The Free Press (looking at who you used to be, @meetthepress.com) once dragged them into daylight, on live TV.
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Just as the founders imagined.

Jack Smith for President being selected by non-partisan voters to lead the US out of darkness.
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The mess is such that he may need two terms....
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Sounds like Jimmy Carter. Miss him.
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You are correct. They didn’t foresee greedy billionaires trying to enslave the world.
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Agree.
1917 appeared, though.
They saw #Paree, and
forty years later the fascia
of a 1957 Chevrolet
appeared in the Market...
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Jimmy Carter.
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Cincinattus on the brain
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Hell, the Orange Retard can't even show his face in NYC anymore.
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Our Founding Slavers realized that leaving democracy up to voters was necessary but risky: "A republic if you can keep it."
It's up to all of US.
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Definitively before the SCOTUS decision that oligarchs and corporations can buy politicians and some presidents are immune from prosecution.
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But … originalism!
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None of our Founding Fathers would ever have even considered associating with the likes of sleazy tRump. He would have been shunned by all decent folks.
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You think slavers were decent folks?
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At this point, I could be happy with a gentleman, or a farmer.
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Yeah, when the average American was either a subsistence farmer or a merchant, that was a decent plan.
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Last example was Jimmy Carter
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That man never really existed. They were not gentlemen, either. Perhaps they were unaware of their own limitations-no one called out privileged men and over the centuries, we ended up canonizing them.
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A Democrat, Jimmy Carter.
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#IranHostageCrisis
#GOP #delay
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Farm? I think you meant plantation since 8 past presidents owned other people while in office.
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or more aligned w/the Land Baron slave owners
Who liked electoral college winner takes all
Not common voting stock voters living as rural farmers
2 systems
One for suspicious land Barons not trusting the majority &
2nd, 1 for common folk to think their vote means allot to keep minority in check
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New Ammendments REQUIRED
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Time to give our FOUNDERS a real wake and shake
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