LOGIC💣

This is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

It doesn’t require that he be convicted of anything related to an insurrection, only that he had engaged in one, which automatically gives him a disability against holding any office. Since Trump incited the insurrection, and refused to call for the National Guard to protect the houses of Congress, I think it would be a huge stretch to say that he didn’t engage in the insurrection.

Another part of the Amendment gives Congress the power to enforce the Amendment, and that is something that Congress chose not to do. That’s why Trump hasn’t been stopped from being president.

But choosing not to enforce a law doesn’t mean that it is legal to break the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Venezuela#Requirements

According to articles 227 and 229 of the Constitution of Venezuela, adopted in 1999, the following requirements must be met in order to become President of Venezuela:

• Being a Venezuelan citizen from birth and possessing no other nationality.
• Being at least 30 years old at the time of the election.
• Not being a subject to any conviction by final judgment.
• Not being a Minister, governor, mayor, or the vice president of the Republic from the day the candidacy is announced to the day of the election.

Donald Trump doesn’t meet the constitutional requirements to be President of Venezuela.

He also doesn’t meet the constitutional requirements to be President of the United States, though, so nothing new here.

There just aren’t that many trans people compared to how often conservatives make a big issue of them. And the number of times that a trans person has actually caused a tangible problem for other people in a way that is related to their being trans is even more rare. Not that it doesn’t happen, but it might as well be a unicorn.

That’s an easy way to tell for sure that they are using the issue as a distraction.

They’re ecstatic about giving the world’s least trained and most incompetent police force the power of life-and-death over them.

your height in millimeters

This varies through the day.

I don’t think an elbow pushed into your spine would feel very good.

You’re confused because the two people who expressed these opinions, Posobiec and Bannon, do not expect their audience is capable of thinking rational thoughts.

Continuing the point that Trump is a moron, he was recently pushing the US to do more nuclear testing, and so I think it’s obvious that Trump really wants to nuke somebody.

I think part of the reason he’s escalating international violence is because he wants a chance to deploy nuclear weapons.

My comment was intentionally written to avoid complaining, because I knew that if it was a complaint, people would complain about it.

This comic is Sr. Grafo complaining on the internet about comments on the internet that he doesn’t like because those comments are complaining about other comments on the internet.

The whole point of a padded room is that there is nothing that the patient can ram themselves into. So I think they wouldn’t give her a chair if she was a patient.

The only conclusion is that she’s not a patient and has just gone in there for fun.

My ultra religious fundamentalist aunt would support him more if he’s the antichrist. She believes that she’s already “saved” and so she wants the apocalypse to come sooner so that she can be raptured in her lifetime.

Apparently, she can do whatever awful things she wants to do because she’s already saved and has a free ticket into heaven.

I think a lot of people underestimate how nutty these people really are.

The state doesn’t just have the right to charge the ICE officer. It has the obligation to charge him.

I saw an article about an artist who used AI just for overall composition, and who said that he couldn’t compete if he didn’t do this, because everyone in his field was doing it and it was significantly faster than what he used to do.

I suspect that when people say things like “AI cannot possibly help field X be more efficient like it does in field Y,” what they often really mean is, “I work in field Y and not field X.”

I didn’t want to irritate any Italians by breaking spaghetti, so I purchased a device that lets you easily cook full-length spaghetti in the microwave.

I heard that police are supposed to be trained not to get their bodies in front of moving vehicles.

Because if you get hit by a car, that’s bad. And because it is escalating the problem. When a police officer stands in front of a vehicle to keep it from moving, they are turning a minor crime into a life-or-death situation.

This ICE officer did everything wrong, and a woman died because of his mistakes. The woman who died didn’t do everything right, but it’s not her job. She didn’t do anything that deserved a death sentence. The ICE officer, on the other hand…

When you put completely incompetent, yet completely arrogant people into positions of power, you get situations like this and Venezuela.

Okay, but how did Jesus know where it would be painted when he was making the seating chart?

I don’t know how many times I’ve mentioned this, but there are two religious events that demonstrate God is displeased with people. Floods and plagues. There are more than that, but those are essential. If you were a Christian in 2020, COVID should have been the most obvious portent that God doesn’t like the way things are going in the world.

If you actually believed in that shit, you would have dumped Trump immediately and never looked back.

But Christians don’t really believe in the Bible. They believe in whatever their leaders say. They don’t follow the instructions of God. They follow the instructions of corrupt preachers and politicians.

By their own standards that they usually apply to other people, but not themselves, there would be almost no Christians who have a good afterlife to look forward to.

Why did Jesus and all of his disciples sit on the same side of the table at the last supper?

“Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” read the headline of an article Michael shared. He did not add any additional comment on it.

Senator Blackburn (R-TN) then pinged the school about that post, and the professor was fired despite the fact that he had tenure and couldn’t legally be fired like that. So he used the legal system to find a remedy.