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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 11:02 AM
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“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

Alexander Hamilton

Well, he did say 'seldom'. But no way could he have imagined the system failing THIS badly.
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Author: Lambo   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 11:20 AM
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“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

Alexander Hamilton

Well, he did say 'seldom'. But no way could he have imagined the system failing THIS badly.


Yes he could. They were familiar with demagogues, and at that time, only landed men (and NJ women) could vote, though it varied by state. They'd seen and read about Trumps and could count on only a few voting for them. But we let everyone vote now, as it should be (in spite of voter suppression, etc.,) What has been brought home to me is how much our system depends on norms which are easily bypassed. So we sit, watching a loaded pistol pointed at out western order, and it's likely to go off.
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 12:00 PM
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What has been brought home to me is how much our system depends on norms which are easily bypassed.

Exactly
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 12:36 PM
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What has been brought home to me is how much our system depends on norms which are easily bypassed</iL

And here it is. The internet’s most ironic statement, maybe ever.

From the side that brays about democracy, yet uses private companies to censor its opponents, weaponizes the federal government against political enemies, enlists foreign agents to perpetuate hoaxes against political opponents, winks and nods at political violence, regularly demonized its political opponents using the some of the worst insults around and many other things…

Shakespeare and many other GOAT writers could never have dreamed up a modern liberal.

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Author: Lambo   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 1:04 PM
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yet uses private companies to censor its opponents,
Free speech is about government censorship, not private, but I don't expect you to understand the difference if it means you can't complain.

weaponizes the federal government against political enemies,

The gov is supposed to go after criminals, doncha know? And get ready for the mother of all weaponizations if T wins.

enlists foreign agents to perpetuate hoaxes against political opponents,

Nope. T tried to blackmail Zelenskyy. On you.

winks and nods at political violence,

Last time we talked you were still attempting to rationalize Jan 6.

regularly demonized its political opponents using the some of the worst insults around and many other things…

Every accusation is a confession.
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 1:27 PM
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They were familiar with demagogues, and at that time, only landed men (and NJ women) could vote,

NJ women?
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Author: Lapsody 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 1:38 PM
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NJ women?


Yes, for about 10 years NJ women could vote, then men took it away.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 1:47 PM
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Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined their portraits or names being taken down by the Anti American Progressives.

Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined Liberal culture, perpetuating slavery by cloaking it in diversity and tolerance.

Founding Fathers couldn't have imagine that the Superpower their creation turned into, would find it's Progressive Citizens giving aid and comfort to the enemy be with Vietnam or the Soviet Union or Zarqawi in Iraq.

Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined that the rifles that men, and young boys had easy access to would be used for casual mass murder thanks to Liberal culture decay.


Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined that someone with a penis can raise his hand and say he's a girl now, and have Progressives legitimize it and coddle it AND.....fund it via taxpayer funds even for prisoners.


The Founding Fathers are out of style.

As is American History (the non negative parts of it)

And Liberals you did this. *Someone* used to beg for common culture, common civics appreciation and more than just 24/7 Slavery as far as American history....because I feared that a polyglot that has *no* idea how or why they got the powers of citizenship, would be happy to cede them easily.'

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Stop with the Founding Fathers stuff.

Progressives, your founders are the ethnic cleansers who started Planned Parenthood and your Founding Fathers aren't even allowed to say 'Fathers'.

Quit it.

Stick to Beyonce and Taylor and 70% of babies born out of wedlock on YOUR Liberal plantations so that your supply of fear ridden slaves continues on.

Organic, indeed.
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 2:02 PM
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Yes, for about 10 years NJ women could vote, then men took it away.

Ah, so NJ = New Jersey! I didn't know the history.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/voting-rights-in-nj-b...
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Author: Umm 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers could not imagine...
Date: 10/26/2024 5:57 PM
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"And here it is. The internet’s most ironic statement, maybe ever.

From the side that brays about democracy, yet uses private companies to censor its opponents, weaponizes the federal government against political enemies, enlists foreign agents to perpetuate hoaxes against political opponents, winks and nods at political violence, regularly demonized its political opponents using the some of the worst insults around and many other things…

Shakespeare and many other GOAT writers could never have dreamed up a modern liberal."
- Dope

I agree Dope. Your statement was one of the most ironic statements ever.
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