Is it really possible to have so much power that becoming president would be a downgrade?

Is it really possible to have so much power that becoming president would be a downgrade?

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If you rule an entire planet filled with immortal new gods, then yes, becoming a leader of a single country would be one.

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If you have tons of shady connections to criminal underworlds, yeah. Gotta give that shit up.

He's Lex Luthor. You think his connections are just criminal? Guy's probably got a Superman body pillow he stabs at night then fucks the stab wounds.

The president's power is limited by design, and Lex was aiming to become a full fledged god. Even before that, he was pertty much free to do what he wanted with minimal consequences if he ever was held to account.

Yeah it's called being Jeff Bezos.

It was at the time this was written.

Being President means you're a public figure and are now subject to the checks and balances the system made for your position. Of course you can always stack the deck with your political party of choice taking over a second branch and then trying to force in people on the third, but that's decades of effort that can be shot down if enough people start to hate your party enough.

Being a wealthy man though, that has no checks save the law, and the law can be bought. Hell often it can be bought for their equivalent of a bag of pennies.

Not exactly, but there are certainly people who are more powerful on their impact of the world than the president. The President of the United States has unique constitutional and figure head powers that cannot come from anywhere else. But it's also a full time job (probably two or more full time jobs if you're doing it right) and there are plenty of people out there who would say "having to fill the role of president would detract so much from my economic enterprise that it would be an act pure vanity."

So basically the implication that the burdens of oversight when you become president would be detrimental to the economy of their enterprises has been pretty well disproven with Trump, but there are still plenty of people out there both powerful and not so powerful who wouldn't want it if it were offered them because of strictly power reasons.

Bro. Nixon.

>So basically the implication that the burdens of oversight when you become president would be detrimental to the economy of their enterprises has been pretty well disproven with Trump
Yeah, but I can't help but think that Trump is a unique case here.

This exactly

Trump's only unique in that he's the only person (so far) that is so vain that he actually wanted the position despite having no civic integrity. Most people who seek that position volunteer for higher oversight because they want (at least to SOME degree) to, well, be the change they want to see in the world and so offer up visibility in their business affairs as a model. But Trump proves that if you actually just plain don't want to, there's very little opponents can do to force you.

I was thinking more along the lines of him not turning in his tax returns.

Yeah, exactly. If you just plain don't want to publicize your tax returns, there's nothing people can do. There's no requirement at any level, just a standard that past presidential hopefuls have abided by because of a pact of visibility that only the voters have power to care about.

But, also what those tax returns might entail. Which could indicate something about his business policies.

...you think he fucks IT or...?

Darkseid is shit tier villain.

We already got his tax returns. He didn't want to show them in 2016 because the then-rulebooks of understanding of how campaigns work is that even if completely legitimate (and, in fact, perfectly reasonable and well-reasoned as to why those tax break incentives exist), paying near-zero taxes as a multi-millionaire when your average voter has to pay 20% of their salary in tax is a bad look. Turns out the rulebook had been completely thrown out and it probably would have been perfectly fine for him to release his taxes.

And at this point its a solidarity issue with the base and there's no reason for him to acknowledge it as a non-issue because Leftist journalism leaking his tax reports through not-entirely-legitimate methods sells his banner of fake news and Trump-bullying jellies.

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>Being President means you're a public figure and are now subject to the checks and balances the system made for your position.

The last 4 years determined that was a lie.

Imagine being a Rothschild and downgrading to President.

That's literally what Trump dealt with. He was supposed to give up control of his businesses to not have any conflicts of interest but he didn't. When you're president you're limited to what you can do on your own.

>Being President means you're a public figure and are now subject to the checks and balances the system made for your position

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Yeah? The president doesn't have free pull as you would think

Keep in mind Trump came in by greatly energizing his base. Republicans have to play ball because their voters became his voters and any sign of them not playing ball would be seen as a "betrayal".

The dangers of a two party system made it so it literally became "us vs them" so the Senate, now a republican majority, fell over backward to tow the party line and push their agenda alongside his own instead of being the party that keeps him in check.

Hell turn it on the flipside with the Obama administration. They became so adamant to oppose any form of change he wanted to implement that they literally became nothing but a deadlock to his policy because they were the "us" while he was a "them."

Unless the makeup changes in any way it's safe to assume they'll play the same game with Biden should he be voted in.

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yes
also no government authority is legitimate

I unironically think the failures of the two party system are it's greatness strength. At the end of the day, THE VOTERS are the one forcing the republicans to ko-tow and that's beautiful, where in a first past to post system, the radical voters wouldn't have taken over the party, they would have formed their own smaller party which would have been ostracized and then nothing would have changed.

Yes.
The president is actually pretty limited in his powers (not that many have respected those limits for decades). Where as the ceo of a company like lexcorp probably has a,lot more freedom to act.

I'm honestly not sure there would be stopping that man from doing anything he wanted to. He could literally find a private military large enough to take over the planet.

Christ kid, if you think trump is bad, to should look into the shit Obama pulled.

"no"

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Why is it always Obama? It's my understanding a big reason why he sucked wasn't what he did, but what he didn't do. Like the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care). He didn't make it single payer. He didn't even make it public option.
Bush Jr. is a better example.

Trump is making Burgers ass-mad by green-lighting and going along with nearly every single middle-class-destroying policy the Repiblican neolibs shit out, but he's a chad god when it comes to destroying the cancerous unipolar geopolitical paradigm that was the norm for the past two and a half decades. And the latter makes the liberal elites assmad too, so it's a win-win, if you're a Tankie, at least.

Why the fuck would the revolutionary left/communists find this as a win-win?