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Somebody said that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a way for him to funnel money to his children without paying taxes, and that the disease fighting stuff is just a side benefit.

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.

I saw a video of Billy Joel playing Piano Man, and he sang, and also played both the piano and the harmonica, using one of those harmonica holders around his neck.

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 is misleading in that it is not actually reporting news

That’s not the type of misleading that qualifies as propaganda. It has to be misleading in a way that pushes their agenda.

this seems like a really stupid thing for you to be trying to start a fight over.

This is a fight you started by saying that my original comment was me not being immune to propaganda. If you think it’s stupid, then you should have chosen more correct words.

Actual propaganda isn’t true, though, or at least it requires an element of misleading in it. If ICE officials aren’t actually concerned about people shooting them and claiming self-defense, then I’ll eat my hat, as the old saying goes.

It’s also not “openly and unabashedly satirical.” You only think that because you recognize the source as satirical. To everybody else, it reads as clickbait.

Clickbait + true statements does not equal an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda.

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.

This post is an amazing example of how we are not immune to propaganda

This post isn’t propaganda, though, so it’s not that amazing of an example.

So, ICE is scared that aggressive untrained people will use deadly force against them, and that afterwards the government will do nothing about it?

That’s pretty much how everybody else has felt about ICE for a long time.

“How to avoid I.C.E.” Notice how it doesn’t say, “How to safely get through an encounter with I.C.E.”

It’s always interesting how much people’s specific choice of words betrays their true feelings. The only reasonable goal with ICE is to avoid them, because once you encounter them, your safety cannot be guaranteed, no matter the circumstances.

Also, it’s quite a laugh for a Trump supporter to suggest that people should “Obey federal and state laws.” Trump doesn’t even think he should have to follow the Constitution, which is the basis upon which all of those state and federal laws can be enforced.

They’re complaining about other people accidentally breaking a building’s windows while they’re intentionally destroying its foundation.

It reminds me of when, in his first term, a wheelchair bound veteran gave Trump his Purple Heart, and Trump’s response, if I remember correctly, was, “I’ve always wanted one of these.”

Trump couldn’t even pretend to care about the veteran and just made it about himself.

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.