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Thread #173649   Message #4211306
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
09-Nov-24 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Let's talk about the US election
Subject: RE: BS: Let's talk about the US election
> Trump has revealed America, he didn't change it.

Verily. Until today, I didn't know that ....

.... this group of oppositional humans has always existed. It's election deniers in 2024; in 1865, after losing the Civil War, unrepentant Confederates were sent to Washington as senators and representatives.

Congress refused to seat them and drafted part of the 14th Amendment “to perpetuate, as a constitutional imperative, that any who violate their oath to the Constitution are to be barred from public office.”

       --- Rands In Repose, dated 5th November (emphasis in original)

The problem in applying the 14th Amendment now is: Who's left who can bell the cat?