• radio@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    We were always told the framers of the Constitution were old timey genius’s, but they couldn’t foresee a corrupt piece of shit selling pardons? It’s ridiculous and should never have been a presidential power. They fucked up.

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      17 hours ago

      They expected that voters/citizens and other branches of govt wouldn’t stand for it.

      Instead they’re either in on it or too cowardly to do anything.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        In all fairness, they never could have prepared for the impact the internet has on politics.

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            Let’s be honest they’re opium is nothing like modern fentanyl. Their weapons are nothing like what I can pick up at Walmart. Their methods of communication weren’t even in their infancy compared to things like telephony in the internet.

            Some of them would be high off their tits in the street, I’m certain Benjamin Franklin would be addicted to porn…

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      16 hours ago

      Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

      They already had the previous example of indulgences within the Catholic Church.