• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        Yes, he respects it so much he outbombed George Bush and managed to deport more people than Trump.

        But looks nice, so that’s cool.

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    And a surprisingly (depressingly) large number of law and order preaching conservatives are supportive of him doing it, despite him not being allowed to do that literally being written into the highest legal document in the country.

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      Pieces of paper are just pieces of paper if it’s not enforced.

      And lucky us, laws are only enforced against us, not for us. In reality, for the average person, the law kind of doesn’t matter anymore. It’s been hijacked as a useful tool for neo-fascist oligarchs.

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      Believe it or not, there was actually a small coalition of just a few hundred million people screaming this from their rooftops around the world. If only the maga crowd could’ve heard their message sooner… Surely, well presented fact-based arguments would’ve changed their minds

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        They heard it. They also know that because you don’t agree with them on everything that you are a dirty liberal, and thus everything you say is a lie and you should be in jail.

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          And they knew that only a despot would be willing to actually put political opponents in jail, so they voted for one. But then he turned out to be some kind of despot!

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          I suspect there is a great deal of crossover between maga supporters and flat earthers

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            Shockingly, I had a coworker who is one of those that thinks they’re the smartest person he knows. He was one of those reddit-know-it-alls who spent a lot of time replying to people telling them they’re wrong. He claimed he was one of the most well informed people because he “reads both sides”. And by “reads both sides” he read the shit he agreed with and the headlines of an article from tHe OtHeR sIdE. He was also a staunch blow rogan supporter.

            When he said he was “well informed” I replied “that’s what a lot of flat earthers say”. He got pissed and didn’t even reply. A fellow coworker of ours could barely hold in the laughter

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      How about January 7th 2021 trump gets arrested and executed for sedition? Oh, is this a purity test to far for the democratic party?

      Democrats are the cops at Uvalde. Keeping other people from going in and stopping the shooting (complicit alongside the republicans for perpetuating First-past-the-post voting, keeping others from competing against the republicans in the electoral system), yet doing nothing themselves.

      Sure blue maga, blame those with no representation in government. Whatever makes you sleep at night.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      They should, eya. Just like they should have kept him off in 2024, since he was already ineligible as an insurrectionist.

      but only a handful of states actually tried. funny how that worked.

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        I’ve been screaming that for years. He shouldn’t even be president NOW!! He is an illegal and illegitimate president. He violated the constitution and our laws and was never cleared of those crimes and yet holds public office. But hey, he also violates every other law or rule we have so no biggie, right?

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    Even if he tried, I think enough states would refuse to list him on the ballot. A few tried last time, arguing he was disqualified because he incited an insurrection on Jan 6th.

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    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

    Those are the exact words of the 22nd amendment. It’s explicit. There’s no ambiguity or room for other interpretations. Trump was elected twice, he’s hit his limit, that’s it.

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      Sure, but we didn’t enforce the 14th amendment section 3, which clearly states that he shouldn’t be president currently.

      No one enforced our laws, so we have NO LAWS.

      Which means, he can just run for president again and if no one enforced the law then it could happen again.

      I agree with you on the law, but NO ONE IS ENFORCING ANY LAWS LATELY!!! So what the fuck does any of it even matter anymore? Hmm?

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      Unless those rumors are true and they did manage to game enough voting machines to clinch the election. In which case he was not actually elected twice…

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        …and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

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        There better be a real fucking riots in the streets across the entire damn nation if they come out with this bullshit.

        Like I mean burning down federal buildings and police stations, storming the homegrown concentration camps to free the prisoners, a literal million+ person march on Washington DC right to the front door of the White House.

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          Like the riots when an insurrectionist was allowed to run for a second term after being ruled ineligible by a State?

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            But the Roberts Court, dontchaknow, intervened and went directly against the Constitution and made a BLATANTLY unconstitutional ruling that should have invalidated literally all of their appointments.

            Trump was ineligible for the second term, whether or not the Roberts Court wanted to acknowledge it.

            And hell will freeze over before I give those judges on the Roberts Court the dignity of referring to them with the words that other people call them or that court.

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            How exactly do you guys think riots would go?

            Do you think Trump would just say, “guess they don’t like me, I’ll leave office”?

            Or do you think he would brutally crack down on everyone against him?

            Riots would be the casus belli he wants to take military control of the country

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              Idk man. They did fly the army apache over them last time there was a big protest in Tennessee and then that time they did that weird stuff with firing the missiles in Cali. You’re right, but something has to change, I think we’re supposed to be brave and strong and united instead of shocked daily and then retreating, frightened, back under a rock to safety.

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        It does specify that he has to be a person. Perhaps they’re going to argue he isn’t?

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    Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

    Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.[3]

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      “But what if it means two in a row!?!?!!?”

      That’s a literal claim from some Republicans.

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        And why wouldn’t it be?

        To be a Republican is to be a grifter/conman/shitstain. Cheating is always on the table.

        I know it’s hard to plan for all eventualities, but I really wish the founding fathers had covered things in a little more detail.

        “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…regardless of whether the terms are consecutive.”

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          The founding fathers didn’t come up with the 22nd amendment, that was done in the late 40’s after FDR was elected four times in a row. The founding fathers intentionally left that one open, I think

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            Yes, it was intentional. They wanted the Constitution to be revised and expanded as necessary, rather than being bad law set in stone. They were well aware they couldn’t foresee the many issues that would come up, especially over time. That’s why the Constitution is often described as a “framework” for the US’s “laboratories of democracy”.