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Doesn't even know the presidential oath he pledged.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person "shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," Trump said he wasn't sure.

"I don't know. It seems – it might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials," he said. "We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth."

It might say that? Might? This isn't something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That's what it fucking says.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

"Well yeah it says that but it'd be pretty inconvenient, so..."

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah, 3 million trials to catch the thousands of criminals in his own words... or maybe instead of trials first, they could maybe only be rounded up if there is any actual reason to believe they are a criminal in the first place. Then it would only be thousands of trials and all the problems being caused by rounding up 900+ innocent people per 1 criminal, would all of a sudden go away.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spot on, but Hippo dung is healthy for the environment. Krasnov is not.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

...you sure? I think he'd make decent fertilizer.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Agent Orange is difficult to remove

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only in the polluted Russian soil, everywhere else, it would be considered a bio-hazard.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Now that's a testable hypothesis!

*clicks pen*

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

It would be a mixture of Diet Coke and cheeseburgers leaking out into the healthy soil.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

He's gonna make a great urinal one day. Probably the most popular in the world....