[ExI] My prediction

[spike at rainier66.com]

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Subject: Re: [ExI] My prediction




On Thursday, 8 January 2026 at 18:54, spike at rainier66.com
<spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org On Behalf Of Ben
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> ...
> 
>> > ...So the constitutional safeguards that spike keeps mentioning are in
fact powerless....
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> >...POTUS cannot stop this, for that office does not have the authority.
> 
> spike
> 

>...You're giving examples of where the POTUS hasn't violated the
constitution. That's not what I'm asking.
I'm asking what's stopping him from doing so, when he apparently has all the
mechanisms designed to do this working for him?...
...
>...You say the design works. What is the design?

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Ben

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Ben, in the states, POTUS commands the military but has no direct control
over the congress.  The current POTUS seems to have little influence there.
Some things can be done by executive orders, but those only apply to
government employees, and become obsolete once that POTUS leaves office.
POTUS cannot seize private property, as one might expect a dictator could
do, nor can POTUS control the Federal Reserve, which controls interest
rates.  If congress shuts down from having reached its credit limit, POTUS
cannot order it to extend that borrowing limit, as we saw recently.

spike