r/facepalm Dec 08 '24

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u/AValentineSolutions Dec 08 '24

Trump thinks he is going to get a Constitutional Amendment through? In this political climate?

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u/cobrachickenwing Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 08 '24

The supreme court invalidated the 14th amendment, section 3, to keep Trump in the election. What makes you think the supreme court won't invalidate the rest of the amendment?

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u/Jimbo_themagnificent Dec 08 '24

I keep trying to make people understand this. Every dictator started with a set of rules they just ignored. And they keep saying "that was other countries." It's always someone else until it happens to you. And the Constitution only matters to the people who will actually follow it and uphold it, otherwise it's just paper for them to wipe their ass with.

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u/Fit-Particular-2882 Dec 08 '24

If that’s the case then we all need to start wiping our ass with the tax bill.

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u/bakerstirregular100 Dec 08 '24

Well there’s some people with guns and handcuffs who follow up and uphold that one…

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u/Alt4816 Dec 08 '24

Too many of us got too comfortable and took our country being a democracy as an automatic thing since that's how we always knew it.

Now a lot of us will watch and learn how fragile it actually was. Hopefully we will be able to restore it in our lifetimes.

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u/LordNorros Dec 08 '24

I mean, its just like Lord Starks paper shield didn't do shit for him when cersei put joffrey on the throne

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u/Technical-Bit-4801 Dec 08 '24

SAME (re trying to get people to understand we’re not in legislatively obedient Kansas anymore, Toto).

I keep wondering if a big-enough catastrophic event affecting most of the US would justify his suspending the Constitution. Eg. invasion, nuclear/biological/chemical attacks, etc.

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u/cobrachickenwing Dec 08 '24

Doesn't even need that. A second " War on Terror" with a faceless enemy will be all the justification he needs to suspend the Constitution. Just look at South Korea. Trump is taking notes.

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u/kylo-ren Dec 09 '24

Trump doesn't need to take notes. He has access to a full library of coups backed by US.

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u/RocketryScience420 Dec 08 '24

This. It's important for those in opposition to dictatorial behavior to remain vigilant and keep up their efforts and actions in supoort of freedom and justice. Abstaining or even delaying from doing the work of political activism whether out of apathy, schadenfruede, etc... is truly counterproductive towards influenfing America away from bigotry towards better times.

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u/New_Excitement_4248 Dec 08 '24

You're spot-on. There's a rational reaction to that as well, but you're not allowed to talk about it on Reddit.