Opinion Presidential candidate requirement..

[Hog-train]

I'm not a fan of gatekeeping leadership.

If the citizens want a certain leader, that should be purely up to them.

 

[aerius]

In your first week you should have learned to write a function of x in terms of x and not r.

There's often small details in my posts to see who's paying attention and worth talking to. Congrats, you're one of the 5%.

 

[Sweater of AV]

There's often small details in my posts to see who's paying attention and worth talking to. Congrats, you're one of the 5%.

Get your shit together. If you didn't spend half the class spelling boobies on your calculator you wouldn't be making basic mistakes.

 

[Crazy Source]

Agreed.. but it should be way less than that. Like a decade less.

It's an arbitrary number. I've talked with 80 year old people that are tight as a ship. I have also talked to 50 year olds that I wouldn't let wipe my dog's ass.

Let's stop voting for fucking criminals. That's not a high bar, yet here we are.

 

[avenue94]

This is probably an idea someone has already mentioned at some point, but in my opinion - you shouldn't be able to run for president unless you've first been a governor of a state.

-It's the only job that is remotely close in terms of the responsibilities.
-It gives voters a real track record to base their decisions off of.
-Shows you're serious about a presidential run after having been held accountable by voters for years as governor first, as opposed to just skipping all of public service first where you're held accountable for the success and failure of a state

And this isn't a shot on any of our past presidents (recent or older), just something I think would make sense.

Why would the governor of Wyoming be more qualified than the mayor or LA or any other big city?

 

[avenue94]

Humility? I'd say you have to be a bit of a narcissist to think that you'd make a good president in the first place.

Humility is multifaceted. For good presidents, humility is usually found in their organizational management skills.

 

[avenue94]

TS wants the requirement to be governor of a state, which has no necessary federal experience and little to no relevance to any foreign policy dealings.

These elected positions are supposed to be representatives chosen from the population by the voters. It should be people with a career outside of government who are doing it as a public service, not a career goal of someone climbing a public sector ladder. Someone who is on the other end being the person who has been one of the people paying into taxes and regulations etc has a more balanced view than someone who has always just been the one imposing whatever and collecting their salary from taxpayer money, and they offer a platform to voters who decide if that is what they want, and they can vote for whichever candidate whose platform they find most appealing.

This makes no sense. One, almost no presidents climbed the public sector ladder, ditto with senstors and the house.

Two, public sector workers still pay taxes and deal with regulations. In DC, they deal with more of the latter since they aren't locally governed.

 

[MrShady]

Can we please stop with the 70 yr olds, Sleepy Joe or Diaper Don should enjoy their old age and be out golfing and chillin.

This goes for senators as well like Mitch or Nancy. Get them the Fook out and bring in fresh blood for once, shit couldn't get any worse than it is these days lol

 

[Crazy Source]

Can we please stop with the 70 yr olds, Sleepy Joe or Diaper Don should enjoy their old age and be out golfing and chillin.

This goes for senators as well like Mitch or Nancy. Get them the Fook out and bring in fresh blood for once, shit couldn't get any worse than it is these days lol

Bangin' 50y/olds all day long, baby.

 

[Crazy Source]

@MrShady True story....I knew a girl that worked at a nursing home. She said those old cats were like bunnies. She walked in on 3-way action once and the old man asked if she wanted to join in. If you are at the stepping off place, I guess you let your guard down.

 

[ermac88]

Best we can do is a perverted reality tv star

Who you calling a pervert?

 

[MrShady]

@MrShady True story....I knew a girl that worked at a nursing home. She said those old cats were like bunnies. She walked in on 3-way action once and the old man asked if she wanted to join in. If you are at the stepping off place, I guess you let your guard down.

God bless cialis

 

[SmoothPies]

Why would the governor of Wyoming be more qualified than the mayor or LA or any other big city?

Damn, that's a good point.

 

[nostradumbass]

This makes no sense. One, almost no presidents climbed the public sector ladder, ditto with senstors and the house.

Two, public sector workers still pay taxes and deal with regulations. In DC, they deal with more of the latter since they aren't locally governed.

Lolwut? Which presidents before Trump weren't in congress, a governor, executive appointee or more than 1 of those? They all were, and the only standouts were a very long time ago when military leaders could also win.

Oh, well they have to follow the in house rules that they set for themselves, and also decide their own salaries, 100% of which comes from tax dollars, then decide what rates kick in at what amount and what exemptions apply for what percentage they pay back into the same place their whole salary came from? Whoa, that's pretty harsh.

 

[avenue94]

Damn, that's a good point.

That's the issue with limits on offices. It's hard to draw them narrow enough to be useful but also not create double standards. Wyoming is already bad enough for all the carpet bagging, it's the easiest state ti become a senator in.

Lolwut? Which presidents before Trump weren't in congress, a governor, executive appointee or more than 1 of those? They all were, and the only standouts were a very long time ago when military leaders could also win.

Oh, well they have to follow the in house rules that they set for themselves, and also decide their own salaries, 100% of which comes from tax dollars, then decide what rates kick in at what amount and what exemptions apply for what percentage they pay back into the same place their whole salary came from? Whoa, that's pretty harsh.

Elected officials are not public sector workers, they come and go and don't work the same career ladder as say, an administrator at the FDA.

Frankly, confessional salaries aren't that great compared to their private sector counterparts or other countries., you go for the resume padding.

If congress is such a nice cushy job, why doesn't everyone go for it.

 

[nostradumbass]

That's the issue with limits on offices. It's hard to draw them narrow enough to be useful but also not create double standards. Wyoming is already bad enough for all the carpet bagging, it's the easiest state ti become a senator in.

Elected officials are not public sector workers, they come and go and don't work the same career ladder as say, an administrator at the FDA.

Frankly, confessional salaries aren't that great compared to their private sector counterparts or other countries., you go for the resume padding.

If congress is such a nice cushy job, why doesn't everyone go for it.

You thought governors and senators were private sector workers? Hate to break it to you, but yes, federal and state governments are the public sector.

Congressional salaries are quadruple the median personal incomes of the people they claim to "represent". More people obviously would "go for it" if there wasn't a huge money barrier to run a campaign, as well as time requirements that people with real jobs just don't have. Wait, what is your theory on why more normal people with normal jobs and no political connections don't run for office? You think it's because they just find the job too difficult to do?

 

[avenue94]

You thought governors and senators were private sector workers? Hate to break it to you, but yes, federal and state governments are the public sector.

Congressional salaries are quadruple the median personal incomes of the people they claim to "represent". More people obviously would "go for it" if there wasn't a huge money barrier to run a campaign, as well as time requirements that people with real jobs just don't have. Wait, what is your theory on why more normal people with normal jobs and no political connections don't run for office? You think it's because they just find the job too difficult to do?

They are appointees that fall in between the civil service and private sector.

Members of congress are not equivalent to median wage workers. They, in theory, require more specialized knowledge and experience, as well as managing a small staff. People managing a small staff in the private sector don't make median wage.

The barriers to entry and lack of compensation vs private sector are the main reason. If you have the attitude, charisma and network to be a senator, you would have the ability to easily make c suite or at least directors in most private companies. Hence finance bros aren't exactly flocking to run for congress.

Ans yes, being a productive members of congress is rather hard. Hence most aren't and are quickly forgetten.

 

[Deaths Head]

This is probably an idea someone has already mentioned at some point, but in my opinion - you shouldn't be able to run for president unless you've first been a governor of a state.

-It's the only job that is remotely close in terms of the responsibilities.
-It gives voters a real track record to base their decisions off of.
-Shows you're serious about a presidential run after having been held accountable by voters for years as governor first, as opposed to just skipping all of public service first where you're held accountable for the success and failure of a state

And this isn't a shot on any of our past presidents (recent or older), just something I think would make sense.

This isn’t very realistic,not everyone can be governor and it opens up even more corruption if that is a must have criteria . there were some very good presidents not being governors not counting Bush Jr. ( he stole the election ) but even Trump is making him look like Reagan .

There’s been a lot of governors who were elected and ran so it isn’t exactly going to change much besides keep lunatics like Trump out of office but it isn’t fair to those who want to run .

There SHOULD be an age limit though . That’s common sense, no one over 69 should be eligible unless they won a first term . Trump is a living example of that currently and Biden was declining as well but still understood the country better then what we got know , we have a bunch of clowns in the Trump administration and a clown as the president all of it equals to disaster .

 

[SurferH2O]

I vote... NOPE!

I don't want the elite political class to have a lock on power in the U.S.A.

 

[ShadowRun]

No because it would be more exploited and harder for better candidate to run . Think how easily they shut out Sanders in 16,20