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In reply to the discussion: Trump Trashes the U.S. as a 'STUPID Country' of 'SUCKERS' in Birthright Citizenship Rant [View all]CloudWatcher
(2,127 posts)20. A broken clock is right twice a day ....
I can agree with him on this. For proof we just have to look at the last election and note the number of people that voted for him, or didn't bother to vote. Stupid Country of Suckers doesn't begin to describe my disgust with the lazy fools and maggots.
Ofc the current court case should never have made it this far. The 14th Amendment is not hard to understand. The first part of the 14th Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Perhaps they'd like to get rid of the "due process" part as well, since that appears to be effectively being ignored by this administration.
Oh! And all of the rest of it too, there's Section 3 that should have disqualified Trump from holding office:
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.
Anyone with a working neuron would know that Trump has at least "given aid or comfort" to the insurrectionists of January 6. And Congress did not by 2/3 vote remove the ban against him running for high office.
I wonder if they want the whole 14th removed as it was passed under duress?
From the Senate page on the 14th: Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of regaining federal representation.
So surely this amendment in its entitreity is null and void?
But the Supreme Court has no right to "overturn" the 14th, so I suggest we amend the constitution to remove Birthright Citizenship retroactively to 1776. A nation run only by Native Americans could be interesting.
In the meantime, how about we require people swearing to uphold the Constitution to affirm that they have actually read the thing? Trump wasn't lying when he said "I don't know" if he had to uphold the Constitution. I suspect he's never read any of it.
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Trump Trashes the U.S. as a 'STUPID Country' of 'SUCKERS' in Birthright Citizenship Rant [View all]
babylonsister
May 2025
OP
Isn't there even one Republican, who can object to Trump's trashing of the constitution, they're all there to protect
Walleye
May 2025
#1
Meanwhile he pushes a $5,000,000 buy your citizenship "card". . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2025
#5
Meanwhile he welcomes 59 white supremacist Afrikaners to the US, presumably fast-tracked to citizenship. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2025
#6
One portion I heard involved having some states with birthright citizenship -- and other
allegorical oracle
May 2025
#18
So Trump apparently thinks that millions of women in their ninth month of pregnancy are vacationing in the US?
Wiz Imp
May 2025
#21
While legal, there is a problem with birth tourism. Women who come to have their children in the U.S. for citizenship.
chowder66
May 2025
#39
Trump would know. He had lots of Russian birth tourism at a trump property in south Florida. (Link)
lostnfound
May 2025
#44
He is correct, as much as I hate to admit it. He did witn the majority of votes so if the majority are
Wonder Why
May 2025
#32