Who wants to tell him that we get that right whether he supports it or not?

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        The person being sworn in as President by the Chief Justice that day was ineligible for office according to the 14th Amendment section 3. And he could only do that because Congress neglected its Constitutional duty to enforce that provision.

        That is all three branches of the government colluding to break the Constitution to put an ineligible man into the highest office.

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            It’s hard to imagine how he could have sycophants among those people in the first place. Those people, despite their low moral character, are among the highest echelon of politicians in this country. It’s weird that they’d just fall in line.

            Well, we know that some of them are simply afraid of the money that he’s grifted for campaigns. And on top of that, my current guess is that Trump, a Russian agent, has been given access to all sorts of kompromat to blackmail them with.

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    We treat him better than any criminal and he still cries about being treated unfairly… anyone else in America would be behind bars right now.

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      We even have a real life example of this with all of the January 6th convictions resulting in jail time whereas his Highness was protected by a fascist judge who stalled the court proceedings at every opportunity.

      Judge Aileen Cannon needs to be removed from her position, never be allowed to hold any judicial or public office position, and charged with obstruction of justice.

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        Absolutely, and it also didn’t help that Merrick Garland (who, let me remind you, was only nominated for SCOTUS in the first place because Obama thought he was so conservative that not even McConnell could object to him) slow-walked the case for two years to begin with.

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      A jury of his peers literally found him guilty of several felonies.

      Upon sentencing, the judge said, “Woopsie! I guess we can’t put you in prison because you’re a president now. Oh well.”

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      Trump is just the highly visible part of a whole cancerous growth. All of the right wing, with its “outgroups to bind and in-groups to protect” worldview, needs to go.

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      I’m a foreigner, but the gun to attempt ratio surely doesn’t add up statistically, surely? Those are rookie numbers, y’all gotta’ pump those up!

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      Fun fact! Murder is “the unlawful killing of a human being with malice”. If it’s lawful, e.g. in self defense, it’s not murder.

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      Just need to lure him into enough American primary schools and it becomes statistically inevitable. Have him go on a campaign with a sharpie marking up all those big pull down maps and let him write gulf of America on them. He’d love that.

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    If any other president … Democrat or Republican … had come out and said the things Turnip has said over the years, they would have lost their political careers by now

    The problem isn’t this orange idiot, the problem is the mass of people, politicians, funders, enablers and wealthy backers who want this moron in power. Turnip is a powerless fool … it’s the people who keep him power that are the problem

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      If any other president … Democrat or Republican … had come out and said the things Turnip has said over the years, they would have lost their political careers by now

      Ideally, they would’ve been hanged for treason by now.

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      Yes, my immediate thought: he will when he’s tried for treason. Not that that will help him, if he and his Business Plot 2.0 co-conspirators are ever tried. So will W, Cheneys, Rices, and if we’re lucky, hrc.

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    Asked in the interview whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve due process as laid out in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump was noncommittal.

    “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when pressed by Welker.

    Do you need to be a lawyer to be aware of the Bill of Rights? He’s been President for more than 4 total years, head of the executive branch charged with executing the law for the entire country, has a whole staff of lawyers advising him, and has, himself, pled the 5th (!) and he’s still not even familiar with the 5th amendment?

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        Fuck that. I wanna know where all my sharpshooter vets are at. I’m a Navy Nuke. I don’t have the skills to pull it off, but I’ll give it the old college try if he comes to my neck of the woods. He is a clear and present domestic threat to The Constitution.

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    If that’s not one of the first questions Monday morning from the White House Press pool they should all be fired. What other Oaths does he not know if needs to uphold? What other parts of the Constitution which he took an oath to defend and uphold does he not believe in?

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    So the social contract is null and void.

    And force is the only thing backing up power now with only resistance stopping it.

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      This isn’t facebook, no one cares if he follows esoteric religious traditions.

      The problem is that he won’t follow legal requirements that protect us normal people.

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    So if he doesn’t support it does that mean you cant violate the constitution if he’s removed by any means?

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    Presidents should do something, like some form of oath, to uphold this kind of things. And pass a test to ensure they understand all the complicated words.