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POTUS or bust: August 2, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-08-02

Hi everybody!

So this is going to be me making regular postings about exactly how hard it would be to run for US president. I think it would be a good idea to have some candidate arguing with Joe Biden, forcing the party apparatus to consider and endorse opinions that might make The Powers That Be nervous.

So, that’s is what I’m here to think about! I have 3 or 4 months to organize petition signature drives in every state I can, and perhaps gain some name recognition in states that nominees are chosen by the party apparatus.

I intend to make these posts in the morning going forward, but today is a special day where I think it’s best to channel my excitement into this vision that I have of running for office as the ‘none Millennial’ candidate. Basically, I don’t believe in the rapture (premillenial dispensationalism), and I don’t believe there’s going to be some cosmic war with good and evil sides (beyond how the world works, of course)

And times are so insane right now that being well-versed in The Book of Revelations, having self-medicated with LSD, being treated more like a specimen than a human being by most people when I start opening my mouth, and having survived over a decade in the mental health system, along with an encyclopedic ability to sing along to nearly any song I know, just might be enough to get me over the hump of irrelevance in the Democratic primary.

Oh, and I’m good at math, and I love reading books. Especially the Emperor’s Edge series. I’m not sure if one of those is more important than the other, because they seem to basically amount to the same thing after you break it down.

It seems like the primary skills of an executive are all meta (and believe me, I know meta like Elon Musk knows your name and address if he so chooses to target you):

1. funny nicknames for other people that you may or may not say aloud

2. creative titles and acronyms

3. Making the best possible decision while on a very short deadline

And I think most people I know would agree that I have all 3 of those gifts.

So why not run? Why not be Vermin Supreme with a beautiful mind? I might actually have a shot at shaking things up in Washington and, if not draining the swamp, at least deadheading a lot of useless suckers who don’t believe in animation.

I promise to run a positive campaign, hold down a full-time job, and generally just go about my life while trying to garner enough support quickly enough to You can call me Claudius.

Let me know what you think in the comments! What should I write about? What psychotic brownshirt asswipe should I take down? How sad is it that the most economically successful president ever might just be a little too old for the job at this point? Who would my VP be? (Answer: Kamala, obviously. That’s probably a large part of why nobody’s taken much of a shot at Dark Brandon yet.)

There are just so many questions begging to be asked! Please do ask them. My body is ready.

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