[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> The constitution is why the office of POTUS has authority.  When the
> current term expires on 20 Jan 2029, that authority ends.  The constitution
> is our friend. *


*If all that was necessary to ensure that a nation never descended into
totalitarianism was some dried wood pulp with ink on it then dictators
would be as mythical as unicorns, but unfortunately things are more
complicated than that. The Constitution is no more powerful than the people
that are supposed to enforce and defend it, and these days all of them are
beholden to He Who Must Not Be Named.*

*>> He Who Must Not Be Named doesn't give a hoot in hell what the **C*
>> *onstitution does and does not empower….*
>
>
>  *> But we do.  The Supreme Court does.  The military does. *


*At one time that would've worked but as I predicted a decade ago, You Know
Who and his MAGA gaggle in Congress have, one by one, been dismantling
those and all the other mechanisms that had been put in place to prevent
one man from gaining dictatorial power.  So now we're defenseless and the
man will stay in power until he dies, or until Mr. Jupiter Brain makes the
man irrelevant. *


* John K Clark*
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