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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

Article 2, section 4:

"If the president is impeached, everybody wins a free popsicle!"

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

Meaning those people get removed if you impeach & convict them. Not "all of them get removed if you impeach & convict the president".

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

Again, we all fell into it a decade ago. Whether his ego gets satisfied now is wayyyyyy beyond trivial. When POTUS does something this childish, it needs to be called out.

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

Ask RFK jr. I hear he's swimming in it.

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

The time for this tactic was 2015. Way past that point now.

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 1d

We're living it

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 4d

It smells like Vladimir

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 4d

I'd like to chase after them with a giant broom

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 5d

There's a Gabba the Butt in Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle.

(Nothing new under the sun!)

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

If only there was a "how"

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

I mean...I guess if I say they don't tend to be trump supporters, for example, that's a gross generalization? But it isn't ridiculous.

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

Remember: article 2, section 4 of the totally-still-in-effect Constitution reads:

"If the Epstein files get released, so will a magical fairy who will destroy MAGA and undo Project 2025 with a wave of her wand."

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

Kind of depends on what point you're making...

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

This is parity?

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 6d

What future?

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 7d

Not what it says

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 7d

*has deteriorated

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 8d

Have to be a fat well

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 8d

"But don't worry, sir! There's a good chance you can prevent all this by not putting Roberts on the Court..."

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe it's more like there's no convincing people who think our information environment as deteriorated since, say, the 1970s that they're wrong by using howlingly-irrelevant Ben Franklin anecdotes?

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10d

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 10d

Right. All those people shall be removed if they are impeached & convicted. Not "all those people shall be removed if the president is impeached & convicted."

drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 11d

I see what you did there

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 11d

There's a lesson in there for about 60% of everything that's come out in the past 30 years

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drypp.bsky.social @drypp.bsky.social · 11d

Not remotely what it says

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