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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
(www.theguardian.com)
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It would be, no one has an attention span anymore. And lets not forget no one remembers anything either.
Perfect for the powers that be to run rough shod over you...
@TIEPilot @FoxtrotDeltaTango It's why I don't use spellcheck or get summaries of my searches or use anything else that can cause the rest of my old brain to crumble.
Memory tests (what do I know and what did I forget and it works). My memory is better than enough friends who use spellcheck and all the other super-looking programs that make us stupid(er).
Flooding the zone meant forgetting crap because it's part of fascism (come get me miller) and authoritarianism. 4get & vote chump again.
No one can vote for Trump again, he's had his 2 terms, thats the rules...
Well, the cons keep thinking about ways they can work around the Constitution.
But Donvict might be in pretty bad shape by 2028 anyway, assuming he lives that long...he's already slurring his speech and dozing off in meetings.
What ways have they "worked around the Constitution"?
@TIEPilot @CharlesDarwin They are ignoring all things democratic. They're embracing all things evil and undemocratic.
"It" wants to stay out of jail and continue stealing our lives. 3rd term (unless he croaks first) is what it needs to live on.
Well, I'm not saying they have been successful (yet) in pulling off a third term for Donvict.
But as far as just flatly ignoring the law, including the Constitution, I'm not sure if there is an exhaustive list being kept (probably is), but when is the last time anyone has done anything to enforce the Emoluments Clause?