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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very efficient. Who needs 3 branches of government when one branch will do. /s

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why use lot government when little government work good.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

old spice is in charge. paying a multi-billionare to do routine IT and site maintenance. very 'efficient' indeed.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nor that people don’t care about shit like this anymore.

Remember all those movies where America was smart, strong, and just? What a bunch of bullshit.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're forgetting that the President is typically a decent, honorable, heroic individual in many of those films too.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of movies are more or less subtle political propaganda.

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

More or less.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It has always been very striking how Americans love movies where in times of trouble disparate people overcome their differences to work together and solve problems selflessly for the greater good, but in real life they absolutely hate this idea.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The cancer that is the republicans hate it. Like real cancer, they only want to multiply, destroy, and make everything them.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

fantasies, the whole lot.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

404 Birthright Citizenship Not Found.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Can’t tell me my executive orders aren’t constitutional if you can’t find the constitution!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone already knows what the constitution says:

We the people, er, can be assholes to you whenever we want and you can't do shit, and we got big guns, and trucks, and fuck you.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] podperson@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow - was the WH site always such a propaganda piece for the current administration? Never noticed before, but upon checking out the site just now (looking for the Constitution), the whole site seems to be a straight-up propaganda bullhorn.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

It's not like I went there often, but from what I recall it was generally very bland professional site.

But Trump is maximum narcissism, and lots of folks are leaning into it to drive autocratic sensibilities.

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luckily my trump bible already includes a copy of the constitution!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they "mistakenly" leave out the fourteenth amendment?

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

No person buying that shit is going to read it anyway.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

At this point I think anyone who gives a damn should order a physical paper copy of the Constitution.

[–] ProIsh@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Constitution? Never heard of her

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Constitution -> her -> rape target for Orange Shit.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

No shit. It's not like it really means anything. I think they only use it to fill out the page count in the bible sold by Trump.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

The fact that its possible that this was intentional or Musk is pulling random wires again is disconcerting.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Constitution : terminated

[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All eyes will be on it when it comes back to see what's been changed.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was about to reply saying that there's no way they would do something that insane... Then I remembered the events of the past week.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Totally on brand.

These people shit all over the Constitution. They just pardoned terrorists, doing something for the guy that, according the Constitution, should not even be holding that fucking office in the first place.