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Hekate

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24. It's been done before, with the same reactions from our abysmally ignorant native born citizens...

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:10 PM

Jul 2020

A generation or two ago respondents to a survey were certain the Declaration of Independence was a Commie plot to overthrow the US. The Bill of Rights was totally Communist.

Hey, but we don’t need any of that boring old Civics education in our public schools.

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NPR tweeted out the Declaration of Independence on July 4th ... Trump supporters have a meltdown [View all] Snake Plissken Jul 2020 OP

NPR always reads the DOI every year on the 4th...what are the trumpers.. samnsara Jul 2020 #1

It confuses Trump's rubes ... just like everything elses confuses them Snake Plissken Jul 2020 #2

It was 3 years ago. Look at wnylib Jul 2020 #18

July 4 2017 nt Adelante Jul 2020 #3

and now Trump supporters are two years dumber Snake Plissken Jul 2020 #5

3 years nt Celerity Jul 2020 #7

Yes, three years. Snake Plissken Jul 2020 #8

+1 Celerity Jul 2020 #6

Words fail. sop Jul 2020 #4

Well they were right in a way. Only a tyrant thinks Article II trumps Article I. Marcuse Jul 2020 #9

Only tRumpers think the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st Amendment. KS Toronado Jul 2020 #10

Yup! Hstch05 Jul 2020 #14

Yep, you have to have safeinOhio Jul 2020 #16

Putin's puppets never rest. GeorgeGist Jul 2020 #11

Just think how upset they would be ogsball Jul 2020 #12

That's assuming Hstch05 Jul 2020 #15

Supporters of tRump believe in freedumb. warmfeet Jul 2020 #13

In my city, in the mid-19th century abolitionists had difficulty finding a place to read it. femmedem Jul 2020 #17

I remember efforts trying to get people to sign the Bill of Rights set up like a petition ... marble falls Jul 2020 #19

3 year old article but likely still true whistler162 Jul 2020 #20

Question The Jungle 1 Jul 2020 #21

NPR no longer gets any direct federal funding, which is a travesty Snake Plissken Jul 2020 #22

wow The Jungle 1 Jul 2020 #25

If they heard the Bill of Rights kairos12 Jul 2020 #23

It's been done before, with the same reactions from our abysmally ignorant native born citizens... Hekate Jul 2020 #24