• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    democratically elected

    I mean he wasn’t even eligible to run according to the constitution so it’s hard to keep a straight face while calling the US a democracy

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        23 days ago

        I’m fairly sure a traitor who engaged in an insurrection is forbidden from being president. I don’t care to look it up honestly, because I’d rather not be even more depressed by finding that this tidbit is me thinking wishfully and not a fact I heard at some point.

        Thanks for calling me a moron though.

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          George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.

          I’m not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I’m pointing out why the American Constitution doesn’t really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.

          I didn’t call you shit.