The President Isn’t an Officer of the USA, Cell Balls are People, Corporations are People, People Aren’t People and the Moon is Made of Green Cheese

A vast minority of the country agrees Trump can do anything, and all the rest of the insanity we’re required to buy

Throw out the US Constitution; there are no checks and balances. Whatever political party has the most bullies wins.

Checks and balances. Who came up with that failure of an idea anyway? The same guy who came up with the easily ignored separation of church and state or the guy who decided corporations are people, balls of cells are people, but people are not people?

The idea of checks and balances originated in ancient Greece. The downfall of that empire may have been a red flag.

Empires, monarchies, wars, and mass squalor and starvation later, John Locke wrote about the separation of powers in Two Treatises of Government, 1689. Baron de Montesquieu elaborated on the concept in The Spirit of the Laws in 1748.

“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”

James Madison emphasized checks and balances in Federalist No. 51 for the USA. That he didn’t originally put his own name to it may have been a red flag.

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ~~Publius

Publius was not a person or an individual’s pen name but all of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay together. Lin Manuel Miranda failed to include a song about Publius in the Hamilton musical. I’m guessing he couldn’t come up with anything that made sense and rhymed with Publius.

Publius went wrong when t(he)y decided the government could control itself — ever.

Checks and balances sounded like a good idea but in retrospect it was never going to work. It assumes that people play by the rules. But people in power never have and do not play by the rules. Over the brief history of the former USA, politicians figured out how to break the rules and in fact they spent more time working on that project than providing for the general Welfare of the United states (even though they capitalized that W).

To break checks and balances, you just need to get a small handful of powerful people to throw out the rulebook and a media convinced or at least willing to convince you and me that everyone is still playing by the rules.

Actually, one could make a good argument that we knew as early as 2000 that checks and balances do not work when the kangaroo court appointed George W. Bush president because some bullies in Florida overran a clerk’s office. Yes, Publius was correct that men are no angels. What t(he)y missed was that breaking checks and balances is very easy. Here’s the recipe:

1. Incite a mob. This has always been easy. People love to hate. Just pass around a lot of false stories about the badness of a minority group and threaten that the bad minority group is taking over, “welfare queens,” “taking your jobs,” and “stealing your Christmas.” You don’t even have to make up new false stories about minority groups. You can use the old ones; they were proved false but still work. People are spreading ancient blood libels against Jewish people on Twitter and Threads as we speak.
2. Get a media celebrity to lie about being rich, lie about pretty much everything and spread the lies with the line, “people say that…”
3. Stick together. That’s the tricky part but with a combination of money and bullying, pretty darn easy.
4. Get the media to treat the celebrity’s (and his followers’) every outlandish comment and action as completely normal and maybe even a show of leadership and strength. I’m not even thinking about Trump here — Ronald Reagan fit the bill first.
5. The above silences all opposition who fear they’ll be criticized as being crazy, hyperbolic losers, or traitors siding with that bad minority group they’ve warned you about.
6. Then, you’re free to do just about anything:

innoculate against impeachment by impeaching the opposition over petty crimes and inciting the public over that,

bring the entire government to a screeching halt at a whim

protect judges engaged in blatant bribery

blatantly violate the Constitution by citing the Bible in public schools, public meetings, and court opinions.

Do you really think anyone in power in the USA really cares about the Bible? Do you think those Alabama judges who cited the Bible care about the Bible? If you do, you’re naive. If they cared about the Bible, they’d have been afraid of their decades of not-biblelike behavior. They care about power. They use the Bible as a manual for how to get and wield power. And no one stops them because nothing in the USA is checked or balanced, and the Bible is the perfect vehicle for turning sanity into insanity.

Republicans do not care about the insurrection clause any more than they care about cell balls? That clause was convenient when Republicans wanted to keep the Southern Democrats out of post civil war government and now it’s inconvenient. That’s all that matters. The president isn’t an “officer” of the USA just like a cell ball is a person. Funny, in corporate law, real law not la la fake politics law, the president of a company is an officer of the company.

The long-time problem in the USA is that when the Republicans broke the rules some time in the 1960s, the Democrats still treated Republican arguments as genuine and proceeded to respond within the rules. The media reported the insanity as sanity. The Democrats went so far as to emulate Ronald Reagan’s false “welfare queen” insanity to kill the War on Poverty. Now, Biden gets tough on immigration like he’s Trump’s mini me.

When an Alabama “Court” ruled that cell balls have more rights than women, the weak opposition wrote long dissertations about why scientifically or theologically cell balls are not people. Silly them. They still think there are arguments to be made. I cannot fathom why, after decades of Republican lying and rule ignoring and Republicans often getting busted for saying the quiet part out loud, anyone still thinks we’re debating the important issues of the day. We are not. The champions of cell balls do not care about cell balls. They would argue the opposite if that argument gave them more control. It will be interesting when Christian control comes down to the various factions of Christianity. It’s almost a given that one side will come out in favor of abortion because the other side is against it.

Oh, and the recipe for ending checks and balances is called corruption. While the politicians and media hound us with cell balls, immigrants, welfare queens, and all the other garbage that comes from creative criminals taking control, they ignore where it comes from. Corruption. Saying or doing anything to get money and power and then using the money and power to say and do more to get more. It’s all corruption. It’s the Clarence Thomas’ of the country. It’s why a bankrupt media celebrity can pretend to be a rich businessman, con people into worshipping him, get the media to dump on anyone who asks a question, cure the not-really-rich problem with generous donations from poor people, get the US legislature to act or refuse to act on his offhanded comments, and get the US Supreme Court to absolve him. Everyone wants to get on the gravy train and make sure the gravy train has no end.

Corruption is the main problem in the USA and fuels the not checked, not balanced government.