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Title: Beto O’Rourke Suggests America Should Ditch the Constitution
Source:
The Burning Platform
URL Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/ ... -the-constitution/#more-190216
Published: Jan 16, 2019
Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Post Date: 2019-01-16 10:15:09 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1254
Comments: 8
Potential presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has stunningly suggested that the United States should ditch its own Constitution. During an interview with the Washington Post, the Texas Congressman openly mulled whether the rapidly changing nature of the world meant that the founding document of the country was out of date. Throughout the two-hour interview — which was often interrupted by bystanders urging him to run for president — O’Rourke boomeranged between a bright-eyed hope that the United States will soon dramatically change its approach to a whole host of issues and a dismal suspicion that the country is now incapable of implementing sweeping change. When asked which it is, O’Rourke paused. “I’m hesitant to answer it because I really feel like it deserves its due, and I don’t want to give you a — actually, just selfishly, I don’t want a sound bite of it reported, but, yeah, I think that’s the question of the moment: Does this still work?” O’Rourke said. “Can an empire like ours with military presence in over 170 countries around the globe, with trading relationships…and security agreements in every continent, can it still be managed by the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago?” The bizarre quote is sure to come up again should O’Rourke decide to run for president, a scenario that looks more likely in the aftermath of his Senate challenge, which O’Rourke almost certainly knew he would lose but embarked upon anyway to increase his name recognition. Some analysts think that Beto is more likely to seek a spot on the 2020 ticket as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, but with views like this, many conservatives will want him nowhere near the White House.
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#5. To: Deckard (#0)
Framed as a question, I don't find the quote "bizarre". A reality check is in order. How much of the plain verbiage of the Constitution is even applied? How many times as the right to keep and bear arms been "infringed"? How much of the 4th Amendment is still intact? One benefit to doing a new constitution is the likelihood of trashing ALL case history over the last 230 years. Imagine what it would be like for courts to hear cases and have NO case history to draw upon, ONLY the constitution. Laws could be ruled unconstitutional on their face simply because they are not in compliance with the plain language of the Constitution. Purging all that case history would be a grand flushing moment! The biggest problem with rewriting the Constitution is the likelihood of people like John Bolton having a hand in it. Americans in general also have no clue about principles of freedom, except for their right to have a smart phone.
I would worry more about murdering cunts like Pelosi vs a Muslim destroyer.
Stone, you have gone off the sanity list, here @LF.
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#6. To: Pinguinite (#5)
#7. To: A K A Stone, Pinguinite (#6)
I would worry more about murdering cunts like Pelosi vs a Muslim destroyer.
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