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    What a frivolous waste of congressional speaking time. I thought these guys had real problems to solve? I thought Trump was gonna fix it all this time around? You’re telling me not even 1 week into his new term and he’s already thinking about how the job won’t be done in time?

    Conservatives are pathetic.

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      If this fails, you can expect them to redefine what a “term” means. And if that fails they can simply cancel elections under “emergency” conditions and keep him in office for longer.

      … and if that fails, they can just say “too bad” and do whatever they want anyway because who’s going to stop them?

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      I just want to point out that this is just one of the many many campaign promises he is trying to fulfill. Sure, it’s a big deal. But simply saying “conservatives are pathetic” is not only reactionary, it is wrong. Look at what is happening to immigrants. You might not see them as a problem, but conservatives do, and they are “solving” it.

      Just saying, this shit is way scarier this time around. They’re fuckin’ moving.

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    God damn. I’ve never seen a group of people lick asshole so hard and ask for seconds. These people box Trump’s tonsils digging that tongue so far in it’s unbelievable

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    Trump is not exactly a spring chicken. He is one mild medical event to being in the history book.

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      COVID nearly killed him and RFK is antivax sycophant. I’m not a betting man but…

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    Knowing Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised if he went full Nayib Bukele and sent in troops to influence the vote.

    And as much as I like Bukele, he presided over unique circumstances where his country was effectively being ruled by MS-13 and his actions were warranted in the case of being elected leader of a country ruled by drug overlords. The USA is going through no such crisis.

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    A constitutional amendment required 2/3s House and Senate AND 3/4 of states. And they don’t have that. This is more bullshit to distract.

    To amend the U.S. Constitution, a proposed amendment must be approved by a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures (38 out of 50 states). Alternatively, an amendment can be proposed by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures, but this method has never been used.

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      This is more bullshit to distract.

      This is saying it louder for the people in the back. Musk’s Nazi Salute isn’t getting the message across? Okay, how about this?

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        They so desperatly want a hidden militia to come out of the woodwork and coup the country for them

        Those people are either dead from covid, too old to fight for their coup, or are just LARPers and actually aren’t interested in dying for a con man.

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    'No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms," the amendment states. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive terms, and thus would be barred from being elected to a third term. But not Trump, who is the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term.

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      ''No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms," the amendment states. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive terms, and thus would be barred from being elected to a third term. But not Trump, who is the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term.

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        It doesn’t really matter. Getting a new constitutional amendment ratified is basically impossible at this point.

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          bet they try to take it to the supreme court “whaaa the congress won’t give me a dictatorship whaaa” and the court just fucks us all.

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      Probably confused as hell watching the democrats refusing to drop gun control as part of their platform after an attempted insurrection and police violence repeatedly happening with no justice system reform.

      But the blue conservatives were never really about representing people. What else did I expect?

      ‘Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary’ - Karl Marx

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      Why aren’t the “left” arming themselves while an obvious fascist takes power? “LOL”

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          I know a few but when I tell people online to prepare they’re mostly dismissive if not outright hostile. I’m sure most of them will disavow any politics and kneel when it’s time to rat on their neighbors.

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      Why are y’all still fighting about this? Your farce of an election is over, what purpose does this ceaseless bickering serve?

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      Fuck you, that wasn’t why Trump won. It was because Dems offer nothing but the avoidance of something worse.

      I’m outraged at the genocide and voted for Biden anyway. People can be mad at Dems and demand better without being responsible for their failure.

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        The American people failed.

        This was fucking advertised. This was chosen. This was voted for.

        Stupidest populous on earth.

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          I’m with you until the last sentence. Fewer than 50% of American voters voted for Trump.

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          How is any of this “chosen” when everything is gerrymandered and rigged?

          Our biggest fault was being the frog who stayed in the water while it was heating up. We have just slowly been giving up freedoms with a little fuss but not enough to matter. We need to learn to say no firmly and with conviction.

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            Anyone downvoting you is an idiot. This is exactly the situation the American people have been in.

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            Gerrymandering doesn’t exist in your presidential election.

            The majority of Americans supports - or at the very least is neutral towards - Trump. You can blame this on a lot of factors such as misinformation and lack of education but this doesn’t change the general attitude.

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              Something like 49% of eligible voters voted for Trump. And many eligible voters don’t vote. So no, factually, you are incorrect. A lot of people here are too poor to give a shit about politics and are completely unengaged.

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    “It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement

    so Biden created a bad situation for him in 4 years, yet he thinks Trump needs 8 years to undo it. Sounds like a skill issue to me.