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CloudWatcher

(2,127 posts)
20. A broken clock is right twice a day ....
Thu May 15, 2025, 02:42 PM
May 2025

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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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
Nation? No. Party of cowards. BadgerMom May 2025 #34
Yes, that's more accurate Walleye May 2025 #38
Meanwhile, he's welcoming 17 members of El Chapo's family into the US. jls4561 May 2025 #2
Thx for the link. That's hair-raising. Hekate May 2025 #36
In his (partial) defense, his supporters *are* stupid suckers, so there's that. UTUSN May 2025 #3
He shouldn't talk about his voters that way. greatauntoftriplets May 2025 #4
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
The declining birth rate is a concern, I thought Johonny May 2025 #7
You see, when he says re-populate America zorbasd May 2025 #10
Caucasian Dullards, you mean Vogon_Glory May 2025 #11
Particularly white supremacists and the South Africans. ananda May 2025 #16
That's exactly what he wants! ShazzieB May 2025 #23
Now we are a stupid country?.... Lovie777 May 2025 #8
Stupid country??????? bdamomma May 2025 #13
Well hildegaard28 May 2025 #40
Then you must be... President Dumbass J Stupid. C_U_L8R May 2025 #9
Would the middle initial stand for Joke? Delmette2.0 May 2025 #45
You know bdamomma May 2025 #12
so, if your parents weren't citizens then you aren't either. ret5hd May 2025 #14
The boob who is bragging about being gifted an old, used airplane GoCubsGo May 2025 #15
I grew up hearing this phrase from war Hawks... 1WorldHope May 2025 #17
One portion I heard involved having some states with birthright citizenship -- and other allegorical oracle May 2025 #18
ah yes! et tu May 2025 #19
A broken clock is right twice a day .... CloudWatcher May 2025 #20
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
Not exactly a big problem Wiz Imp May 2025 #42
Never said it was. Just pointing out that there are those that abuse it. chowder66 May 2025 #46
Trump would know. He had lots of Russian birth tourism at a trump property in south Florida. (Link) lostnfound May 2025 #44
Birther Trump Mr.Bee May 2025 #22
A list of "suckers" who signed the U.S. Constitution: Botany May 2025 #24
The G.O.P. draft dodger first called America's soldiers "suckers and losers" BoRaGard May 2025 #25
So he think drug cartels love it? Balatro May 2025 #26
Truer word were never spoken xuplate May 2025 #27
If he hates the drug cartels, why is he letting them in?? Vinca May 2025 #28
Ask Trump how much he made providing this service? mgardener May 2025 #29
Children Iamscrewed May 2025 #30
Chinese people were the scourge Henry203 May 2025 #31
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
What, no video? 😱 ShazzieB May 2025 #33
Well, Krasnov, if you think* we are a stupid country of "suckers," MLWR May 2025 #35
kick his stinking lousy grifting nasty offspring out now! UpInArms May 2025 #37
Was Melania a citizen when she birthed Barron? Were Trump's parents citizens when they spawned him? Jit423 May 2025 #41
Melania was NOT a citizen when Barron was born. Nor was Ivanna a citizen when Don Jr, Eric & Ivanka were born. Wiz Imp May 2025 #43
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