Important Announcement

[Hatman 🍁]

[Hatman 🍁]

ASSHAT!

Not you too, Vlad!

[Hatman 🍁]

Ebowed has no authority to make such an announcment, and I plan on continuing to fufil my duties as Senator.

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Ebowed has no authority to make such an announcment

On what grounds do you make that claim?

My associates tell me you do not have the contitutional authority to fire me.

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My associates tell me you do not have the contitutional authority to fire me.

Who are your "associates"?  What is their constitutional justification for this position?

Their justification is that the power to fire Senators does not exist in the constitution.

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Hmm. This is a little odd, but I can't say that I oppose your right to make the decision.

wtf?

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wtf?

There's no precedent, but I don't see a constitutional reason why this decision is not valid.

There is nothing in the constitution giving the President this right. Atlasia is not a fascist country, the President cannot fire Senators on a whim.

Clearly the President is insane, and I urge the Senate to decide if whether or not he is fit to remain as President.

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Clearly the President is insane

That is a disgusting personal attack.  If you were still in the Senate, I would support your expulsion.

You are insane, Mr. President. If you were an honourable man, you would resign immediately.

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You are insane, Mr. President. If you were an honourable man, you would resign immediately.

I am tired of your personal attacks.  They are literally making me ill.

You are insane Mr. President, it is a statement of fact. I for one am glad they are making you ill, perhaps you can take sick leave so that you may not bring the country down with your proposed future endeavours.

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You are insane Mr. President, it is a statement of fact.

What proof do you have for this accusation?  You should be glad that Atlasia does not have libel laws, Mr. Former Senator.

I for one am glad they are making you ill, perhaps you can take sick leave so that you may not bring the country down with your proposed future endeavours.

Your wish that people become sick is frankly the most disgusting thing I have ever read on this forum.  And what "future endeavours" are you referring to?

It is my belief that you have gone insane for a number of reasons:

(a) you claim to have fired me, and have the right to do so
(b) you continue to believe that because of this, I am no longer a Senator
(c) you were once a good friend of mine, but suddenly you have turned your back against me
(d) you attempted to blackmail me into posting a resolution
(e) you continue to embarrass yourself by keeping up this charade.

Now, I am sorry that I wished you to become sick, but the point is you are not of sound mind to be President at the moment.

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This is... er... odd... does anyone know quite what happend?

Can't see the bit in the Constitution where it says that the Executive can expel a member of the Legislature from the Legislature though. Can't recall any precedent that might allow it either. Strange.

I was in the chat last night, so here's what happened:

Ebowed and Earl got into a spat over Earl and jcar's votes against Bono's nomination. Ebowed said that despite him not buying the argument that another office holder can not serve as GM, he would fire them from them GM position because of that, unless Earl would introduce a resolution honoring Johnny Cash. Earl refused, and basically others like Preston started saying that you can't disobey the President as they control the federal army and can sack any member from any office on the basis of that if they wanted to, and started encouraging another revolution to form a bit of a dictatorship. Earl continued to refuse to introduce the resolution, and then this post came.

Just what we need, another revolution.

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This is absolutely ridiculous. How are we supposed to have any credibility if the President can fire Senators on a whim? I advise that the Senate quickly pass a constitutional amendment so that the President can not do this again, and do it quick before he fires everyone.

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Impeachment time...

Whatever you may think about this situation the President has not committed any crime nor any misdemeanor. While you may not agree with his actions nothing that he has done thus far has been illegal.

While that question is still up in the air, what he has done is still unhealthy for Atlasia in that it grossly undemocratic. I'd call for his impeachment if I was convinced that the Senate has the balls to do it. Right now, I'm not so sure.