• @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    102 days ago

    Only 70% of Americans can be bothered to give a fuck about the most basic, non-debatable aspect of our Constitution.

    Yeah, we’re fucked.

    • @BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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      42 days ago

      Yeah, the headline should be reversed so as not to bury the lede. A full 30% of Americans want to throw out the constitutional guardrails and basic limitations on power that keep us a republic and not an autocracy. That’s a terrifying figure.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    92 days ago

    Or as Trumps puts it:

    “Everyone wants me to. They all say what a great idea it would be. They say ‘sir…sir…we need you.’ Tears streaming down their faces, 'sir please…only you have the ability to make us great again. Tremendous ability, they say. Probably the most tremendous ever if I’m being honest.”

    • @NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
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      733 days ago

      The media has blatantly enabled this MFer for years by doing the whole ‘people are saying’ BS. Just STOP. Don’t repeat it. State that it’s illegal and impossible, and would be unconstitutional, and then stop.

    • @TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee
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      132 days ago

      They’ve already normalised the idea enough that they’re polling people about whether or not it should happen as if it’s a totally valid question to ask. That shouldn’t even be a question, the only response should be “no, fuck off, you can’t do that”. Once again the media are complicit in sanewashing and normalising this shit.

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      82 days ago

      Nine ways from Sunday. I’m actually more surprised when I do have hope because the vast majority of the time I believe it is quite hopeless.

  • Tempus Fugit
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    372 days ago

    I can’t believe 3 in 10 want him to overthrow the constitution. We’re a deeply unserious nation.

  • @yuknowhokat@lemmy.world
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    562 days ago

    7 in 10 don’t want him to run. That means 3 in 10 do want him to run. There is that 30% of fucking morons who want Trump forever.

    • @Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com
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      12 days ago

      My concern with this is the fact that if he does… they’ll throw a shit fit and say Couchfucker McGuyliner deserves four full years and elections will be postponed to allow that.

  • @selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
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    42 days ago

    Three of those people are below average in intelligence and the forth can’t be bothered to vote (fuck you most of all).

    Everyone else congratulate yourselves for having a somewhat functioning brain. Unlike MAGAts, who shouldn’t be allowed to operate vehicles in public or even run side-of-the-road fruit stands. At least the swastikas, I mean red hats, make it easy to point them out…

  • @blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    393 days ago

    I bet every one of the three in ten have at some point called themselves a constitutionalist.

    • The Bard in GreenA
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      I saw a Youtube comment the other day calling for Trump to throw away the constitution, declare himself king and execute judges who don’t enact his will. It had likes.

      I mean… it’s probably Russian bots? Right?

      • @Didros@beehaw.org
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        119 hours ago

        Yes, it is 100% Russian bot glazing, but that is how propaganda works, some people see all tge bot activity and jump on board.

        Biggest Russian troll farm employs over 60,000 people to run tens of accounts at a time.

      • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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        142 days ago

        Honestly it probably is. That’s the whole Russian method, sow dissent and make the other side hate and distrust each other. Find every division you can and build the “other” into an evil bogeyman. Of course the fact that the literal nazis have seen this as an opportunity gives it a grain of truth and there is always someone who really believes that.

  • @isles@lemmy.world
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    72 days ago

    The constitution is like the bible for conservatives: keep the parts you like and throw out the rest.

    • @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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      62 days ago

      The constitution is like the bible for conservatives: Cant be bothered to read it, gladly accepts someone else’s interpretation.

  • @Jollyllama@lemmy.world
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    52 days ago

    My grandmother who has a Trump cutout unironically does not want him to run again. She says he’s had a good run but is too old now let alone in 3 years.

  • @wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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    132 days ago

    This should be 10 out of 10 people. I’m not even American and I know more about American and their constitution than most Americans it seems.

    That fat orange Russian muppet should be in jail, not president.