>>188720, >>188721, >>188722, >>188723, >>188724, >>188725, >>188726, >>188727, >>188728, >>188729, >>188730, >>188731 DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - TIL my mom has been in jail Parent Post: MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican - True story... I was 16 years old. It was summer. My parents were at work. My girlfriend and I hitchhiked from Los Gatos, California, to Santa Cruz, California, about a 25 minute drive to go to the beach. On the way home we were arrested for hitchhiking and put in jail. My dad came to bail us out and asked if we could stay overnight to teach us a lesson. I was in so much trouble! It wasn't the first time, but it was the first time I got caught. I had no idea it was illegal. People hitchhiked all the time. https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2079955208541499667
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Strip voting privileges. Ban them from office. These are the remedies of the Founding Fathers but we’ve been conditioned to accept universal suffrage as a right. Parent Post: InfantryDort @infantrydort - The communist question for political office is brutally simple: How can someone swear to support and defend the Constitution while openly seeking to destroy the constitutional order it created? Believing vile things is protected. Advocating lawful constitutional change is protected too. But an oath taken “without mental reservation or purpose of evasion” cannot mean promising fidelity with one hand while reaching for the knife with the other. Here is the trap: Once such a person is elected and seated, removal usually requires the very political class they joined to summon a two thirds vote. If enough fellow travelers enter with them, the lock is picked from inside the house. So what is the oath? A binding condition of public trust? Or a ceremonial lie recited by people who intend to use the Constitution as scaffolding for its own demolition? A republic that refuses to answer that question may discover the answer only after its enemies have sworn themselves through the front door. Vickie is right. Something must be done. But what? Quoted Post: