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dugog55

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1. " Every modern president has occasionally taken some aggressive policy step based on a stretched
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 11:17 AM
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or disputed legal interpretation". Explains exactly how flawed and outdated our Constitution actually is. I was fine up to the late 1800's. The US and the rest of the world were close to the same as when it was written. But once the industrial revolution started and progress was exponential, the Constitution became dated and too easy to circumvent. Just look at all the bullshit Trump has pulled in the last nine months. Things that were thought near impossible to do legally, he has shown they can be done with enough legal stretching. The Heritage Foundation has had four years to sharpen their attack and it has been a precision operation.

Fast moving battleships, bombers and fighter jets, ICBM missiles, and nuclear weapons were not even imaginable 250 years ago. Now, most countries have some or all of these weapons. Most of Western Europe's Democracies have constitution written in the 20th Century, some after WW2, they are modern compared to ours. The way Trump is ? around the law the last nine months, do you really think their will be mid-term elections? Do you really think that he will be exempt from running for a third term? Do you think in 12 months we will not be under a complete dictatorship? Good people in places of authority and government are leaving in droves to step away from the madness consuming the Federal Government. Once the orange turd has the full might of the military behind him along with his brown shirt ICE Agents, we are finished. It would take a peasant revolt with massive casualties to restore order, or devolve into a complete autocracy. I firmly believe these are the choices ahead of us.

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