LOGIC💣

Now we just need these laws worldwide.

“And Charlie Kirk would have been sitting right here when he was shot in the fucking neck.”

Nothing to hide

This is a bad way to think about people exercising their rights.

Taking the fifth doesn’t mean you have something to hide. It simply means that you don’t know if it could possibly incriminate you.

I strongly suggest everybody in America watch this video which is mostly about not talking to police, but the same reasons apply to testimony.

For example, sometimes even completely innocent seeming statements, such as your truthfully saying where you were, can be used to convict you of a crime that you didn’t commit. You had “nothing to hide”, but you should have exercised your rights anyways.

Since you don’t know ahead of time which statements may be incriminating, you have to be extremely prepared if you want to guarantee that you don’t need to take the fifth in front of a place like the House Judiciary Committee, where you are answering questions from politicians who have agendas.

fancy cabinet

Maybe this is the old man in me talking, but every time I’ve had any sort of lighting in my PC or RGB in my mouse, for example, it’s just been distracting. Nobody but me ever even looks at my PC, and now, every time I see a fancy cabinet, it just looks like an eyesore to me.

Let’s see if the rats want to play global thermonuclear war.

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.

The 14th Amendment doesn’t say that he can’t run. It says that he can’t hold any office. Trump has a “disability” from when he engaged in insurrection by intentionally inciting it, and that disability has not been removed by Congress.

This disability does not require he be convicted of any crime. Instead, the 14th Amendment simply requires that Congress enforce the Amendment:

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Donald Trump cannot legally hold any office under the United States. He cannot legally be president. The only reason he’s able to act like the president now is that Congress is not enforcing the Constitution.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, at some point in the future, perhaps even after Trump passes away, Congress finally grows some backbone and enforces the amendment, just to try to make up for the embarrassment that Trump causes us, similar to how the Germans would rather not remember that Hitler had been the Chancellor of Germany. Trump might be retroactively declared to have never been the president after January 6, 2021, and I think that would be in line with what is written in the Constitution.

I don’t even think Trump can legally be president today.

And on top of what you said, there’s also the possibility that Trump will be alive but too senile to run.

America was founded on the concept of no taxation without representation.

I think that my definition of “resurrect” is not the same as their definition of “resurrect”.

Like, imagine that you went out and found an actress who was willing to dress up like your dead grandmother, and who would also study videos of her, and could do a perfect impersonation. I doubt anybody would say that she was “resurrected”. But this is precisely what the AI is attempting to do.

To call it a “resurrection” is an insult to her memory.