https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/1dssr87/if_trump_or_the_republican_party_is_actually_that/

lol, exactly the kind of laughable response I expected.

The whole thread is a gold mine.

  • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    The liberals will cause a constitutional crisis just to allow Trump to run.

    Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, Section 3:

    Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      3 months ago

      RIGHT!? Like, there are SO MANY options to prevent this, but they won't DO any of them because they fundraise well against Trump and would rather wave the panic in front of their voters to keep them engaged.

      Very functional government.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Crazy experience: I told the lib I work with that the democrats actually fund the crazier Republicans to encourage people to vote Democrat and he chuckled and said it's a good strategy (and yes, he said this unironically).

        Libs who aren't affected by this election aren't very serious about it.

        • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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          3 months ago

          I got called a "crazy conspiracy theorist" by a good friend for saying that, despite including documentation.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 months ago

            It does feel like the average democrat's ignorant beliefs about the function and mechanics of government leave them mostly unable to understand how government actually functions.

            • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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              3 months ago

              It's a fairytale-level understanding. They believe stories, and know what should happen, and any evidence to the contrary is discarded.

              I found myself compelled to apologize to my partner repeatedly as I was teaching them to see past the veil; confronting and analyzing one's beliefs is an extremely painful process when you're doing it for the first time.

      • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        Just to anticipate the libs for a second, section 5 puts the burden on Congress to enforce it as SCOTUS pointed out in Trump v. Anderson (2024). However, let's not forget the Democrats had a trifecta in 2021-22 and could have pushed through legislation if they had wanted to ensure section 3 was applied/interpreted properly to this insurrection, which they easily should have been able to do — maybe even a resolution declaring Congress' intent was that it already applied under some old law would have been enough.