I’m wondering what kind of “stop oppressing me!” is being referenced here.

Print money for the related jobs for the people that voted for him, that otherwise wouldn’t have well-paying job prospects?

Permanent (unelected) undersecretaries take over is the possible worst case scenario, and depends on having a weak journalist corp, or an uninterested electorate, or structural protection like handy people to take the blame for things, like the actual elected officials. Smaller governmental bodies make it harder to…

I have a vague recollection of stories of his assaulting someone over calling him out... did I imagine this happening, or were those reports just buried in search results after all these years?

FWIW, the latest Paper Mario uses the tablet screen as a separate screen.

There is / are vaccines against rotavirus, have been for a few years now

The great thing about that system is that it’s fluid. The not so great thing about relatively recent history is how much power one of the branches has divested of itself to the ideal of a strongman executive. See also, signing statements sidestepping the chance for a veto, the broadening of executive orders...

Are they smart people? The smartest? Are they heard by other candidates perhaps?