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[Naturegirl1999]

Action 1: Use necromancy to bring back past presidents of the USA, with their personalities in tact by placing their spirits in their respective bodies

This won't actually work, since as far as I know term limits still apply even if the President is a lich.

Spoiler: Actual text of the 22nd Amendment (click to show/hide)

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

Fair point, what about only ressurecting those who have only had 1 term?

[Devastator]

"The only way to beat a bad guy with a fascism, is a good guy with a fascism."

Man,  that's just bad faith.

[Eschar]

"The only way to beat a bad guy with a fascism, is a good guy with a fascism."

Man,  that's just bad faith.

The only way to beat a bad faith with a... hmm... a fascism... actually this isn't working.

[Reelya]

Action 1: Use necromancy to bring back past presidents of the USA, with their personalities in tact by placing their spirits in their respective bodies

This won't actually work, since as far as I know term limits still apply even if the President is a lich.

Spoiler: Actual text of the 22nd Amendment (click to show/hide)

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

A good lawyer would get around that, you can make a good case that this only applies to terms after the amendment was ratified. So you can bring back Zombie Lincoln and have him stand for election, at least once. It's all in the wording.

[bloop_bleep]

Bring back FDR for the New Deal but make him Japanese for the irony

[Reelya]

Trump's just declared war on the World Health Organization.

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/20/04/07/239255/trump-threatens-to-withhold-funding-for-world-health-organization

What better way to celebrate World Health Day than by threatening to withhold funding for the World Health Organization. That's exactly what President Trump said he was considering today at Tuesday's coronavirus press briefing. The New York Times reports:

"We're going to put a hold on money spent to the W.H.O.; we're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see," Mr. Trump said, accusing the organization of having not been aggressive enough in confronting the dangers from the virus. "They called it wrong. They call it wrong. They really they missed the call." Mr. Trump appeared to be particularly angry at the W.H.O. for issuing a statement saying it did not support his decision on Jan. 31 to restrict some travel from China because of the virus. At the time, the group issued a statement saying that "restricting the movement of people and goods during public health emergencies is ineffective in most situations and may divert resources from other interventions."

"Don't close your borders to China, don't do this," Mr. Trump said, paraphrasing the group and accusing the organization of "not seeing" the outbreak when it started in Wuhan, China. "They didn't see it, how do you not see it? They didn't see it. They didn't report it. If they did see it, they must have seen it, but they didn't report." In fact, the W.H.O. repeatedly issued statements about the emergence of the virus in China and its movement around the world.

The budget for the W.H.O. is about $5 billion and comes from member countries around the world. "In 2017, the last year for which figures were available, the United States was required to spend $111 million based on the organization's rules, but sent an additional $401 million in voluntary contributions," reports The New York Times.

Trump said his government will investigate the organization and that "we will look at ending funding." It's unclear if he's planning to eliminate all funding, or only some.

[Naturegirl1999]

Trump's just declared war on the World Health Organization.

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/20/04/07/239255/trump-threatens-to-withhold-funding-for-world-health-organization

What better way to celebrate World Health Day than by threatening to withhold funding for the World Health Organization. That's exactly what President Trump said he was considering today at Tuesday's coronavirus press briefing. The New York Times reports:

"We're going to put a hold on money spent to the W.H.O.; we're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see," Mr. Trump said, accusing the organization of having not been aggressive enough in confronting the dangers from the virus. "They called it wrong. They call it wrong. They really they missed the call." Mr. Trump appeared to be particularly angry at the W.H.O. for issuing a statement saying it did not support his decision on Jan. 31 to restrict some travel from China because of the virus. At the time, the group issued a statement saying that "restricting the movement of people and goods during public health emergencies is ineffective in most situations and may divert resources from other interventions."

"Don't close your borders to China, don't do this," Mr. Trump said, paraphrasing the group and accusing the organization of "not seeing" the outbreak when it started in Wuhan, China. "They didn't see it, how do you not see it? They didn't see it. They didn't report it. If they did see it, they must have seen it, but they didn't report." In fact, the W.H.O. repeatedly issued statements about the emergence of the virus in China and its movement around the world.

The budget for the W.H.O. is about $5 billion and comes from member countries around the world. "In 2017, the last year for which figures were available, the United States was required to spend $111 million based on the organization's rules, but sent an additional $401 million in voluntary contributions," reports The New York Times.

Trump said his government will investigate the organization and that "we will look at ending funding." It's unclear if he's planning to eliminate all funding, or only some.

Dies he hate worldwide health? WHY???/

[Devastator]

"The only way to beat a bad guy with a fascism, is a good guy with a fascism."

Man,  that's just bad faith.

The only way to beat a bad faith with a... hmm... a fascism... actually this isn't working.

It's the basic argument of "Because I'm using the same word to refer to these two people, they MUST be identical to each other."  It's a bad faith argument because it's depending entirely on what one person says, rather than on anything measurable.

[Devastator]

Dies he hate worldwide health? WHY???/

Because it's a scapegoat.  In this case the WHO does have a lot of issues with what happened and what was done by it, therefore there's a hundred issues that can be brought up to throw smoke instead of having to talk about his own mistakes.  Remember, narcissists always need to blame someone else.

[MrRoboto75]

WHO rejected Trump's vision of reality.

[Enemy post]

I figured it was because WHO let the dogs out.

[wierd]

The world health organization kept reminding the president that there is this thing called "reality" that exists separate from what your wishes and whims are, and is cold and uncaring about how much money he has.


He does not like that.

[bloop_bleep]

To be frank, the WHO did make quite a lot of mistakes too.

Like disrecommending making household masks. And saying there's a low risk of asymptomatic spread.

Dies he hate worldwide health? WHY???/

Remember, just because something calls itself the World Health Organization does not mean its sole motive is world health. We've seen how much it likes licking China's boots too.

[Devastator]

Remember, just because something calls itself the World Health Organization does not mean its sole motive is world health. We've seen how much it likes licking China's boots too.

This is also the reason why there were specific American officials dealing with China in their place, to ensure that the American administration got the facts.  Who were, of course, fired by Trump.

There are issues with the WHO, but coming from him those explanations are just a smokescreen.  The main reason we don't know the whole truth is because of the dismantling of the American intelligence community, not because the WHO is afraid to step on toes.. they never had the power to enforce those kind of demands on rich countries.

[scriver]

There's absolutely no reason to continue to support an organisation that doesn't even pretend to not be another country's lapdog. If China gets to have the kind of influence over the WHO that they have then they should at least be the ones who pays for it.