• clutchmatic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Amazing that the founding fathers didn’t contemplate the possibility of a felon under active lawsuits becoming speaker

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      They probably didn’t contemplate having an active child Diddler be speaker from 1987-2007 either, but Republicans sure love their historic firsts.

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        1 year ago

        Considering no one would formalize game theory for 150 years it’s not particularly surprising.

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          You don’t need to necessarily formalize game theory to consider things like: hey, we just gave the president the authority to pardon. Couldn’t they abuse that? What if they pardon someone who was doing something illegal that they ordered? What if they commit a crime and pardon themselves?

          I mean, that’s the most obvious one that you don’t really need formal game theory to know could be a problem. Then there are all the other problems. Checks and balances are good, but when a powerful faction uses its power to put loyalists into the thing that’s supposed to balance them, the system seems to unravel.

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      They didn’t even contemplate the House Speaker being in the Presidential line of succession. Which is the reason they want to put Trump there. Not that it would work; they’d have to remove both the President and Vice President at the same time, and the Senate ain’t going to do that.

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        An angry mob with strong will to unalive certain people before the #3 in the line of succession would be a major concern