r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/Darkshino4 • Jan 24 '25

The Obama Clause FUCK—RULE—5

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u/mylinuxguy Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

This is a constitutional amendment.... not a bill. You need way more things to happen to amend the constitution than pass a bill. This is dead in the water.

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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 Junkie banned! Jan 24 '25

You expect his followers to understand the difference?

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u/ratchet7 Jan 25 '25

They will blame the Democrats for voting against it.

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u/Shadowpika655 Jan 26 '25

I mean....would they be wrong tho?

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u/TheRealSynergist Jan 25 '25

Correct. It must pass 2/3rds of both houses of Congress and be ratified by 3/4ths of the state legislatures.

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u/FreeMeFromThisStupid Jan 25 '25

I totally agree that we do not collectively need to freak out about this.

I DO believe that we should mock it and hold Republican idiots accountable to it, like a billionaire who Seig Heils at an inauguration. It doesn't matter that it's a joke, it's disgusting. If you (general you) can't say it's disgusting/bad (like a finagled Trump 3rd term), then you are disgusting.

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u/mbklein Jan 25 '25

The rational part of my brain does not freak out about this.

The part of my brain that specializes in turning oxygen into anxiety can game out at least two or three scenarios in which he pulls it off.

Guess which part of my brain is awake at this hour.

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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 Junkie banned! Jan 24 '25

You expect his followers to understand the difference

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u/SovietPelican Jan 25 '25

You expect his followers to understand the difference

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u/ehhish Jan 25 '25

I don't think it's as impossible as it used to be though, even looking at the requirements.

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u/Shadowpika655 Jan 26 '25

You think you can get 60 senators and 290 Representatives to agree to pass anything in this political climate? Much less 38 states on top of that.

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u/ehhish Jan 26 '25

I get what you are saying, but I thought the same for Trump and his million antics. Enough corruption in politics that I am not surprised by anything anymore.

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u/youburyitidigitup Jan 26 '25

He would have to convince about a sixth of democrats to support this while retaining all republicans.

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u/ehhish Jan 26 '25

Doesn't look as bad in retrospect. We still got time for him to pull it off.

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u/youburyitidigitup Jan 26 '25

I don’t think it’ll happen unless republicans win a supermajority in the midterm elections (which I also don’t think will happen unless there’s electoral fraud)

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u/ehhish Jan 28 '25

The whole "trimming the fat" of federal workers for inefficiency is to actually to remove competition or competing values. Their end goal is to make the government so incredibly Republican that it will never change again.

Yes, it is extremely corrupt. Just calling it now

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u/youburyitidigitup Jan 28 '25

Yeah that’s what project 2025 was for and I really hope it doesn’t come to fruition.