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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

Text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.

“No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Fine. I declare myself god. Checkmate.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Well I'm G∞D, checkermate.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

I declare myself as One-above-god, checkmate on you, loser!

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 32 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

When this era of terror is over, I hope we have Nuremberg style trials for all these wastes of humans. From the white house to the lawmakers who sat idly by and let this country falter, to the ice agents "just following orders". And I hope we dismantle everything trump. No courts. No mercy. Globally. Cancel every contract they have given themselves and their friends. Corrupt judges out. End this Christian fascism. Every Trump aligned son of a bitch and bitch delta with

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 6 points 34 minutes ago

You are dreaming. USA did this TWICE. There is no turning back from this. The People of the USA seems to forget a lot in 4 years. So who will the next trump be, once the egg prices goes up again? USA will never be trusted again. They are in catagory with Russia and china.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

There had to be a World War for Nuremberg to happen. What my fear is instead of World War there will be a World Civil war.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 minutes ago

I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

They thought "yes, mhm, we are on that side".

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

Hope is nice. Class is manufactured

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

What is a "world civil war" and how is that different from a world war?

My understanding is that a "civil war" is a war within a country, for the dominance and rulership of that country, usually over ideals or laws or something. And a world war is just.... a worldwide war. I wish my grandparents were still around to seek real advice on this, I truly miss them and their experience and wisdom.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

They will be factions within countries fighting amongst each other. There maybe alliances amongst those factions but no nations against each other. The end an apocalyptic fragments of Nations

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 59 points 5 hours ago

Oh man, I sure do hope some random fucking country doesn't kidnap the new President of Venezuela.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 22 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

America was always a nazi shithole, we just didn't care because they made our elite rich and it was only brown people who were getting fucked over it.

Welcome to reality my frieds, a portion of us have been here for a long time. Kissinger should have been the only canary needed to see it, yet, here we are...

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 27 minutes ago

America was always a Nazi shithole, but nobody noticed until they got online, and their cultural blindspot (education), made them afraid of anything new or different - including critical thinking, which the Russians exploited.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

True. This has been a huge wake up call.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago

I recognize Delcy Rodriguez as the legal President of Venezuela. Seriously!

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

What's that? Trump went "woke". That's all I'm hearing.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 hours ago

I was told here though that it was perfectly fine what he did and totally didn't take over the government because he didn't put the noble peace prize winner into power

[–] saimen@feddit.org 54 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

He’s spiraling into a singularity of narcissistic terror over [Jeffrey] Epstein, and decompensating with performative dictatoring

Couldn't have said it better.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

He’s over Epstein. He decided fuck it, he’s going for total power so that whatever is said about Epstein he can just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 35 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

I'm not convinced he cares that much about Epstein. As far as not liking anything that makes him look bad, sure. But he's sending out armed thugs to murder Americans and getting away with it. Why should he care about being outed as a pedophile?

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 156 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If he's the president of Venezuela then let's open up the border to them. Let them come in they're American now.

[–] worhui@lemmy.world 79 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

This is actually a good argument .

The president of the USA can not be head of state of a different country. So they are either Americans or Donald trump accidentally abdicated the presidency.

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