They should have or you should have done something about it. Sadly though these landowning white men didn’t want you to be able to change anything. Why not just tear it up and make one for now, not then.
I know who did know. Roberts, Barrett, Thomas, Kavanaugh,Alito and Gorsuch knew that a crook could be our next President. The morally corrupt MAGAts on the SCOTUS decided to make one person above the law. How's that working out for the rule of law having a fucking felon in the WH John Roberts?
This slimy asshat is committing crime, yet again!
He knows these judges are our last line of defense, so he's using his power and money to rig another election. Please mobilize and spread awareness!
Wisconsin, let's vote and support Judge Crawford! @crawfordforwi.bsky.social
Well, the remedy was impeachment, but they didn’t count on the people negligently (although by a very small margin), electing a gang of thugs into Congress who would follow him in a cult like cowardly manner as he & his immigrant domestic terrorist tries to destroys USA. But the people will fix it.
The people have not yet understood what’s going on. They will when they start to lose benefits when they see their children suffer when they see their elderly and disabled lose benefits, and when they themselves realize what is being done to them. Not everyone reads the papers or follows the news.
They will be affected, there’s a madman in charge of US. Won’t be surprised if he starts beheading people in public. he seems to like violence - he loves Hannibal Lecter, worships Putin/other violent despots. What sane US president would have people grabbed off the streets of USA & disappeared?
Actually the founders knew it was a very real possibility. They were scared of the masses in fact. Hence, the electoral college, which was intended to be a buffer if the mob voted in a maniac.
They didn't even have ketamine back then....
They had revenge.....
They had traitors...
They had racists....
They probably had psychopaths, but not like the fat orange criminal and definitely not a president
I think they assumed after what they went through Americans would never elect an authoritarian. I remember hearing they offered the king spot to GW, and he said no way we just severed ties with one. After many went home to plantations, and 60 or so years later Civil War, which really never ended.
There’re remedies- the founders didn’t count on the people voting authoritarianism to exec and legislative branches. A reliance of norms held it together. Even Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment conviction in the Senate. This is the toughest test since the civil war-imo.
In fairness to the FF, they thought the electoral college would be a bulwark against someone like Trump. They thought electors would have independence, something the states legislated out of them.
They never took extreme political partisanship into consideration, and their technology at the time was considerably lacking in expediency. Not to mention Shay's Rebellion basically placed the government in the hands of the nobility, which in the modern day would be the wealthy elite.
This is true, but partisanship has been a problem that Obama or Biden could have taken more seriously because their opponents sure took it to a serious extreme! Not good long term strategy to just let the country fester into what we’ve become! Biden knew the felon was running again!
Yeah, and the state of Colorado was the only one willing to point out how illegal it was that Trump was running in the first place, given his role in J6, in violation of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Imho, the entire system is completely fucked from the ground up.
The Constitution clearly stated that the rotting turnip is ineligible to run for any public office but the DOJ ignored it. Ignored the Constitution nd now we get this, a dictator that wants to punish every American for existing.
They also couldn’t have foreseen that a corrupt Supreme Court would provide presidential immunity and US voters would be dumb enough to elect a deranged rapist felon insurrectionist who promised to be a dictator on day 1 and implement tariffs that every economist said would be a disaster.
So naive.🤷♂️
Yes, unfortunately the rules they created to amend the constitution now make it basically impossible. There’s no chance 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of states will ever approve of changes like switching from electoral college to popular vote or banning rapist felon insurrectionists from the presidency.
The 1st part of the balloon text, does indeed sound like the founding fathers ...
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary ..."
For all the faults personally of those men, Treason and Corruption of those in office, would never have crossed their minds as a possibility!
Nobody could foresee trump!
Drump is just barreling ahead, the face of puppet masters St. Miller, Elmo, & Puttie. They’re daring the courts/judges to stop them. They’re flooding the field. Dems need a constant message/leader/talking points/ Soc.Security is key to hammer them in.Must retain our 3 separate branches for 2026&2028
They probably assumed any criminal would be incarcerated and thus unable to run for office, but still they could and should have excluded convicts from holding high office. Frankly that'd be far more use than the born in the USA bit!
Never ever assume people are just like you. So sad the constitution did not contain a passage about criminal exclusion. Would have thought that one was a no brainer..
Well, they did come over from England in the 1700s where people were taxed to death and persecuted. The only stuff missing today are the torture racks. And, btw, they shipped their “excess citizens” to Australia.
I seriously think that we should have another constitutional convention to codify that.
As long as you have a democracy there will ALWAYS be the opportunity for a "strong man" to come from the gutter to overthrow it. Until evil hyper competitive men can be bred out of humanity they will be a danger.
I think the Founding Fathers were serious and learned men. Someone like Trump would have been laughed out of the room.
And if Washington, Jefferson, etc. knew about the mass communication power of TV and the Internet, they would have thought, "Great, future generations will be so well informed!"
Serious question: how can the GOP be OK with even or allow for the president to CONSISTENTLY try to violate the constitution? The fact he tries - isn’t that enough????
#constitution #constitutionalcrisis
#dictatorship #democracy
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Not a stretch
The entire Republican party are a cult of Drumpf loyalists.
Let's use it
He's a certifiable lunatic
He knows these judges are our last line of defense, so he's using his power and money to rig another election. Please mobilize and spread awareness!
Wisconsin, let's vote and support Judge Crawford! @crawfordforwi.bsky.social
They had revenge.....
They had traitors...
They had racists....
They probably had psychopaths, but not like the fat orange criminal and definitely not a president
Kmprtydkustic WM have a looong record in history.
It wasn’t that hard..
Absofuckinglutley nobody
BDD
https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-detention-immigration-408cd27338e8065268fabc835f8b0c34
Ceasar didn't know.
Taught future democracies enough to deal with rogue Emperors.
#HistoryRocks
#LockHimUp
So naive.🤷♂️
Republicans could not have chosen worse. Which says everything about them.
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary ..."
For all the faults personally of those men, Treason and Corruption of those in office, would never have crossed their minds as a possibility!
Nobody could foresee trump!
This is why we find ourselves in a predicament where we’ve been betrayed by entitled white men.
As long as you have a democracy there will ALWAYS be the opportunity for a "strong man" to come from the gutter to overthrow it. Until evil hyper competitive men can be bred out of humanity they will be a danger.
And if Washington, Jefferson, etc. knew about the mass communication power of TV and the Internet, they would have thought, "Great, future generations will be so well informed!"
#constitution #constitutionalcrisis
#dictatorship #democracy