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THIS right here. It’s time we turned this farce into entertainment for profit.
Weekly syndicated gameshow, Who Wants To Be President? where contestants are grilled for an hour on live TV about American law and history, various necessary political skills to function in the Whitehouse. Sort of a format crossover between Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune with a touch of Family Feud.
You have to score at least 15% higher than your average immigrant has to or “You’re Fucking Fired!” before they can even run for a nomination. No campaign allowed, no super pacs, no nothing if you can’t score at least this high to play.
If you score too low, you’re disqualified for life for any public office. that would include sitting Senators, Congressmen, Governors, etc.
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I can tell you one thing that torpedoes most of the “ideas” these nitwits in the clown car come up with on Immigration, and most of their other “shortcut” ideas when it comes to the law.
Most of the sophomoric ideas lack an attention to one slight detail.
Its called: Due Process.
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I’m in. Who will be the host of this game show? I should think someone well versed in how the government should function. Say a person who taught all about the Constitution in a law school? Has been a state senator, a Senator, and then President of the United States? Hmmmm …who would that be??
Wouldn’t it be poetic justice for Obama to say “Yer Fired” to some numbskull GOPer?
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That GOPers are anti-immigrant tracks with their selfishness. “I got mine, screw you” is a common motif they project.
We should probably add political journalists to that game show as well, since a big reason these absurd, patently illegal and unconstitutional things gain any traction, is because they, not only don’t push back, they treat them as if they were actually credible.
When Trump first started spouting off about this notion, saying its only because nobody has challenged it, the reporter should have very quickly said something like "That’s because is one of the clearest pieces of language in the Constitution. There is no odd phrasing, no words that need interpreting.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. "
Any “push back” from Trump on that should have been met with a serious questioning of his reading comprehension levels…perhaps by holding up cue cards with words like “BOY” and “DOG” on them to see if can indeed read and comprehend.
Because when you are questioning that sentence, the only reasonable explanation is you simply lack reading comprehension skills.
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The conservatives love the Constitution, except all those things that aren’t the 2nd amendment.
As an aside I find it noteworthy that after 7 years of the Obama administration we’re still talking about 11 million immigrants which is just what we were talking about when Obama took office. Apparently the borders aren’t as poris as the Republicans would have us believe and I haven’t heard of any Republican proposals in Congress to increase the money spent on border security.
If you really removed 10 million people doing un-outsourceable jobs from the workforce (and if the wingnut “taking american jobs” canard were true) a lot of employers would have a seriously higher wage bill and lower profits. Hence the whole sound-and-fury thing, signifying nothing.
And that’s before you get to all the other moral outrages and practical impossibilities.
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