• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

    1st ammendment to the constitution since conservatives love to claim they support it

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      Congress isn’t making a law. Instead, the President is committing treason while his party pretends not to notice and the other party flops around like a dead fish.

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      Ah! But it says “congress shall make no law,” not that “the president shall tweet no bullshit!”

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        The constitution also didn’t say “the president shall give a shit about the law”

        Rookie mistake, IMO

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          It literally did, minus your contemporary idiom:

          he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,

          (It’s called the “take care clause” and is part of Article II, Section 3, in case anybody wants to look it up.)

          Not that it matters anymore, after Trump v. United States.

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      Laws only matter if they are enforced.

      The right wing doesn’t care about law or consistency. They care about in-groups to protect and out groups to bind.

      If “how do treat strangers” is a viable metric for assessing if someone is a good person or not, the the right wing are not good people.

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      5 hours ago

      Bold of you to assume that the US is a country still under the rule.of law.

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      Yeah but they’re gonna rewrite the constitution, it’s gonna be the best constitution the founding fathers will be jealous they didn’t come up with this thing it’s gonna be airtight and on the blockchain

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      That’s not a problem if executive orders are treated as law; the first amendment doesn’t curtail the president’s power.