[ExI] My prediction

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 10/01/2026 11:29, spike wrote:
> I'm asking what's stopping him from doing so, when he apparently has all the
> mechanisms designed to do this working for him?...
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>> ...You say the design works. What is the design?
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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.

I'm not claiming that he is, currently, a dictator, I'm saying that he is, in plain view, 
knocking down all the obstacles to becoming a dictator.
Nobody seems capable of stopping this, because you've already given him the means to 
stomp on anyone who tries, and immunity from prosecution for /anything/ he does.
Tell me, please, what's to prevent an American Night of the Long Knives?

Yes, I know that's totally preposterous. So are far too many of the things that have already happened.

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Ben