The presidency (in the US) is a very weak office. Had you bothered
to read the US Constitution, you would have known that.

It usually surprised the friends I encountered in the US when I was working there, that I, an ignorant Swede, actually *had* not only read it, but even understood it.

I usually started with asking them if they them selves knew what the first ten amendments are called. You'd be surprised to know how few knew the correct answer.

And, of course, after all those TV-shows from the WH we all know that the POTUS hasn't even read your constitution. There's even audio recordings where he admits that it's written in a language that he doesn't understand.

Don't you have any tests at all that a POTUS candidate has to pass? At least in par with the test you have to take to become a US citizen.

But I must admit I miss the daily WH press "conferences" now that Joe Orange obviously has been grounded(?) when not even the most fanatical and corrupt GOP:ers can defend his latest stupidities and blatant lies.

Or has he finally understood that the virus can invade even the WH unless you carefully follow the recommendations from the experts. Not a good idea to fire all of the experts who questioned your genius, in order to create a corps of yeah-sayers was it...?


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I was under the impression that he had owned (black) slaves as well.

Where did you get that impression? I was under the impression that even his parents were strongly against slavery.


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Hello David,

Up until Abraham Lincoln, almost all our presidents owned black
people as property.

I was under the impression that he had owned (black) slaves as well.

Honest "Babe" Lincoln was not the kind of person everybody thinks.
Even though she was, by all accounts, the finest wrestler in all the
land, having lost only one match in her entire career.

Lincoln was an abolitionist for twenty years before becoming
president. Her twin brother died in childbirth, and she paid him
homage by duping the entire world into believing she was a man.
As well as managing to legally marry another woman, and live as
a couple in the White House. Even got folks to falsely believe
she ended slavery in the US. Anyway, all that is beside the point,
as only men could own slaves. Which is why she was so jealous of
John Wilkes Booth, who owned an entire stable, and when she got
a look at them at Ford's theater we all know what happened next.

--Lee

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On 12/05/2020 02:11, 2203/2 wrote:
 DD>> I was under the impression that he had owned (black) slaves as well.

   Where did you get that impression?

I don't know. That is the thing with impressions, the buggers sneak up on you.

I was under the impression that even his parents were strongly against slavery.

I do not closely follow all of the socio-political opinions of my parents. Would Abe?

https://www.history.com/news/how-many-u-s-presidents-owned-slaves

Perhaps it is Washington that I was thinking of...

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Hello Björn,

Perhaps it is Washington that I was thinking of...

That may very well be it.

George Washington had the teeth of his slaves for dentures.
Probably also some other teeth from other sources. But being
a wealthy man, he could afford a natural set ...

By then (almost a century earlier) it was mostly European misfits that managed to create the not so nice society of that time.

Imposing our own standards of today on those of the past is not fair.
Imagine what others a hundred years from now will think of us.

--Lee

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I'm looking forward to the times when our royal household will be
declared useless.

The president alternative doesn't seem all that appealing nowadays. We have a rather scary example across the pond...



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Hello Björn,

I'm looking forward to the times when our royal household will be
declared useless.

The president alternative doesn't seem all that appealing nowadays. We have
a rather scary example across the pond...

The vice president's closest aide.
The president's valet.
The president's daughter's very best friend forever.
How many other White House staffers unknown.
None of them wearing a mask.
All testing positive for coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden showed the world he has a mask.
And is still hiding in the basement, waiting until it
is safe to come out and play.

--Lee

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Hello Ward,

I'm looking forward to the times when our royal household will be
declared useless.

The president alternative doesn't seem all that appealing nowadays. BF>We

have a rather scary example across the pond...

That is an undisputable fact.

Well, it is true his hair is quite a mess. Not that it is real hair.

The person in that office overthere is granted too much power and can rule by decree in a political system which is not geared to change that.

The presidency (in the US) is a very weak office. Had you bothered
to read the US Constitution, you would have known that.

There is a word for that.

Are you calling Donald J. Trump a weakling?

When one thinks about it then the parallels between that country and North Korea are striking, they also have a supreme leader who rules without being
challenged.

The US Constitution only specifies the creation of the Supreme
Court, leaving the creation (and dissolution) of other federal courts
to Congress' discretion.

We all know what happened the last time the Congress challenged
Donald J. Trump. The Senate held a trial, without calling witnesses,
and declared Trump a saint (or something to that effect).

But a monarchy? Our royals are related to a person who ranks very high on the hitparade of greatest massmurderers ever and they now still bask in the
wealth reaped from the backs of 12 million or more murdered black people ...

Up until Abraham Lincoln, almost all our presidents owned black
people as property. These are the people who made America great.

--Lee

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On 11/05/2020 05:18, 2203/2 wrote:

Up until Abraham Lincoln, almost all our presidents owned black
people as property.

I was under the impression that he had owned (black) slaves as well.

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David

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