Please don’t elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump’s useful idiot Doug Ford.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “long live the king”, in the very country founded on saying fuck you to the last king. what a shameful display.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      Constitution is terminated (just like he said he would)

      Article I

      Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
    Clause 8 Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

      https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-4/ALDE_00013204/

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Trump has been throughly wiping his ass with the constitution since the day he stepped into the whitehouse.

        It’s just meaningless paper until someone actually steps up and enforces it.

  • asg101@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

    ~ attributed to Denis Diderot

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      It’s a lovely dream, but I’m pretty sure we’ll just come up with a different title for the people who manipulate us.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          6 days ago

          This is another Trump special, really. There’s no shortage of titles for the dictator, including just keeping “president”, and he picked the one that’s hardest to defend in terms of the American mythology.

  • systemglitch@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The hard truth is, this is a direct result from the left doubling down on identity politics.

    You can’t ignore the majority as you try to help the minority. Have you guys learned yet? I look forward to finding out.

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Harris very explicitly avoided anything to do with identity politics in her campaign.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        …which was done to give her the best odds she could have in the speedrun campaign by a party that avoided having a real primary and instead pushed a candidate that did abysmally in the last primary.

        Biden should have committed to being a single term president and we should have had a real primary in 2024. Or at least just the usual degree of Democrat primary ratfucking.

        • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Look, I agree with all of that.

          But you cannot argue that identity politics were a factor in 2024. It explicitly wasn’t.

          • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I can’t. However, if we’d had a real primary it almost certainly wouldn’t have been Harris that won it, she did so horribly the previous time around.

            She was VP because candidates usually pick a VP that they perceive as being strong where they are weak, and a young biracial BIPOC woman is what Biden saw as shoring up his weak spot of being an ancient and utterly milquetoast white guy who only got the spot because he had already been VP, and was VP in turn because Obama specifically wanted a boring milquetoast white dude to help balance perceptions of him.