Switzerland Faces an Uncertain Future

Day 1,144, 06:08 • Published in Switzerland USA • by George Armstrong Custer
Switzerland Faces a Time Portal

Is our future on the other side, or are we doomed to repeat our past?

Dateline : Friday January 7 (Day 1144)
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Reporter: George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer

Custer's Stand is being published in Switzerland because I am keeping my Swiss citizenship.
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Okay, then... let's do a quick review, here.

Funny, I couldn't find any pics of boys studying hard...

Strangers come to town in late November, brag about PTO'ing Switzerland but lose the December CP election. We don't hear from them, but do nothing about them, for a month, and then they win the January CP election under questionable circumstances. The other candidates were also (one) suspicious, (the next) lackluster, and (last) an obvious medal hunter. There were no familiar candidates directly representing the Good Guys and Bad Guys factions which dominate Swiss politics.
We have our strong suspicions about illegal voting, but the Admin Gods grant the win because they know better than we about cheaters. Of note is that the winning candidate was not the only one to have had votes removed by the Admin Gods, it's just that we expected to see the entire KOZA campaign nullified. Silly us.

As soon as the overnight election results were final, an Impeachment Proposal was launched.
Good reasons for this-- stranger boasts they'll PTO us and they do it on the second try, no communication from the candidate to convince us otherwise, all kinds of apparent evidence of multi voters.
Only a couple reasons maybe not to Impeach immediately-- she did publish an article explaining herself (humble truth, or well crafted fiction?), contacted Congressmen and community leaders, and took on all comers in IRC. She seems smart and articulate, she passes the Constitutional requirement that Presidents speak at least some English.

Switzerland has a history of kicking Presidents to the curb. By my observation, lack of communication seems to be as great a sin as incompetence or even all out corruption. An Impeachment Proposal launched at the first moment possible is a bit extreme, I don't know if this has been done before but it does indicate a conviction before a trial based on evidence and opinion already entered.
President cesgon was given some time to show he meant business, and his great crime against Switzerland was lack of communication-- blam! to the curb in under two weeks. At least he was allowed a trial run at the job. Of course since then his political sponsor has exposed him as a huge crook and we are well rid of the risk he would present to our highest office.
I'm not familiar with other examples of Swiss Presidential Impeachments, but I am sure they have been executed under a wide.. wide range of circumstances from totally legitimate to totally bogus.

Dawn of a New Day

Question is, are those storm clouds rolling in or out?

I prepare this article even as the clock winds down on the Impeachment Proposal. The score stood stalled at 15-9 (62.5😵 since yesterday afternoon, and overnight there was only one Approved vote added. Checking right now, with 30 minutes left on the clock, I see 18-9, 66.6%-- exactly the minimum required to Impeach. Will one more Congressman vote No and tilt the scale back to 64.2% in the next half hour? I'll be editing this article and surfing porn for another 30 minutes, and will publish this article with final results at 06:01.

But the real issue of the day is this... how do we go forward from here?
If Mony beats the Impeachment it'll be clear that she will be on probation with the Swiss people. She'd better deliver on her promises of hiring local advisors for her Cabinet and showing her professed true love for her new adopted home country, or she'll be outta there!!!! next week.
If milanlazetic becomes our President, he comes in on a pretty shaky platform and I expect he'll be held to account as well.

Added plot twist..? Of course! This is Switzerland, and we always have a plot twist!
milanlazetic told a couple key players yesterday he's at possible risk of being banned from the game. At first he expressed an honorable solution, to leave Switzerland and get other citizenship so we would not be without a President for a month. But then his political sponsor seems to have talked him into retaining his Swiss citizenship, though he has moved himself to Serbia.

So what do we do...
Hang with milanlazetic as President and hope he (1) doesn't get friggin' banned (uh.. why?), and (2) follows through with being all that we need in a President..?
Or move to Impeach him, too, and hope that serban_b can handle the job, even though he came in third with a pretty unimpressive percentage of Swiss confidence expressed in him.

Walk Toward the Light

No matter who we have as President this month... how do we go forward from here?
Do we learn from our mistakes and missteps, or do we continue to suffer from the inaction, inattention, and extreme partisan politics that have crippled us as a nation?

Final Presidential Impeachment Score:
20 Approved, 9 No, the measure passes with 68.9% of votes cast.
Note that of 40 Congressmen elected, seven were banned leaving 33 in office.
Of those, 29 voted on this, the most important type of Proposal there is.


Custer's Mantra:


What kind of game do you play, what kind of players do you like to align yourself with?
What kind of leaders do you want, what kind of leadership do you expect of them?
What kind of country do you want to "live" in and play for?



George Armstrong Custer
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