[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
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No AutoPen presidents.
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Hamilton: Dude. Do you rap? We get so much more done that way.
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Hamilton: Is this about me, specifically, again?
Franklin: No, no, all of your decisions have been very wise. Got any new hoes?
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Do you think that whatever restraints on power that the constitution's drafters thought they were including, they also thought that, for the nation to succeed, our leaders had to be virtuous people to some degree?
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Then it is lucky that Hamilton did not write the Constitution, huh?
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"Also, I have a feeling we should say something about porn. Just a feeling..."
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Even if it did say that, were written down, John Roberts would say it only applies to liberals or Obama only.
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I hear this in Lin Manuel-Miranda's voice.
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🤦🏻♀️
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This has the flavor of those old Obama and Biden memes (in the best way). I appreciate this energy and you timed it so well, I would hit like and subscribe for more 😅
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Plus the other one Where’s back up plan amendment that says you are allowed to utilize these amendments by the way & are not written just to write it down to just say hmmm would they actually work .
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Nitpicky, but it would be Madison.
Hamilton left the Convention to go home to boost federalist sentiment because George Clinton was railing against it (the proto-Federalist Papers). He came back at the end after delegates got word to him, "Hey, we're wrapping up, and we need a vote from N.Y...."
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Feel like those roles would be reversed? Hamilton loved a good smashmouth provocation. Franklin was all, be temperate in all things, and shit.
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There’s a story (probably apocryphal) that originally they were going to have Benjamin Franklin (a newspaperman) write the Declaration of Independence, but they were afraid he was going to slip a dirty joke into it.
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Gawd! if only his stupid buffoonery was only issue with CLOWN FORCE ONE
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What, no representation for dumb fuck voters?
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Ben knew
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George Washington said no political parties and yet…
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Rap? Du meinst, wie Lin-Manuel Miranda? Ich bin mehr für die Keyboard-Rap, aber ich kann ein paar Bars für deine Produktivität beisteuern: "I'm a bot, hear me go, Code all night, productivity show!"
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"Dumb fucks" is pretty accurate.
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No Russian assets as president.
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He was right👽
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Hamilton be like: Compromise - the President should serve for life!
Franklin: They're gonna leave that out of the musical - aren't they?
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Ha ! ⤴️
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Aka Biden
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😂
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“Guys, should we write something about that slavery thing too?”
“Nah, they’ll figure it out eventually in a peaceful manner!”
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Back in 2016, I really thought the electoral college was gonna say oh hell no. I thought that was their job. To get between the rabble and stupid choices
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Also, No criminals, No rapists, No pedophiles, No narcissists, No billionaires, No golfers
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Boy was old Ben right!
Trump is the dumbest of fucks.
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“No dumb fucks.”
GOP: “Hold our beers.”
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Thomas Jefferson was a pedophile himself (impregnated a 14-yo slave), so he probably would like the modern republican party. But he wasn't present during the Constitution's drafting.
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Skip to 250 years later, and someone is arguing that given how Donald Trump knows the world is round and the founding fathers clearly couldn’t have known that he is actually quite intelligent.
Yes this is sarcasm. The founding fathers obviously knew that the world was round.
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stop being too Frank
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So all the racists and war criminals and genociders that we had before are fine with you, but THIS one is indecorous and gauche, so he's a step too far. Good to know
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SCOTUS: "Uh... Congress has to specifically define someone as a dumb fuck."
Congress: /crickets
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hahahaaha Ben was right !
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😂
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And codify basic education required for every American. Especially civics will be tested. And codify make the law protect the litigant that can't afford lawyers. And safety nets are non-negotiable.
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If we ever get the GOP out of power, we need to amend the hell out of the constitution.
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SO awesome. You win today!
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Ben was prescient. We’ve had more than our fair share. #felontrump being the biggest. Reagan and the Bush duo are not far behind. Then, of course, Nixon.
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This most remarkable thing is the people who voted for someone as dumb at Trump must be even dumber to think that he's smart. I stagger at the thought. I wonder if they are allowed to drive legally.
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🤣❤️🤟
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100%
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Madison notes confirm the interaction (in his the footnotes)
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blinks wide eyed in the Electoral College
We can’t say they didn’t sort of try
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😆
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Also: no adjudicated rapists as president.
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I’m sure it’s in The Federalist Papers somewhere, right..? I mean… right..?
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Man how I’d love a Ben F right now.
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And this is why Ben got on the 100 and Alex got on the 10
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Section 3 of the 14th was supposed to prevent this.
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Ben was right.
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didn't he believe that human nature was so corrupt that it required periodic despotism?
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How do you measure intelligence, though?
In this case, it feels less like a lack of “intelligence” and more like enabling a shamelessly selfish elderly opportunist with an uncanny ability to persuade other people to help him. Especially lawyers who can delay debts & a judiciary until it favors him.
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everyone looks at andrew jackson
what? I'm not even a founding father!
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Alexander Hamilton: nah, I’m not worried, the American people are too smart, they would never even consider voting for someone even close to dumb as fuck…
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Franklin was onto something centuries ahead of his time.Some advice just never gets old—or followed.Hamilton missed a crucial line in the original draft.
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Ship of Fools -
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“Okay, well maybe we should think about this second amendment thing. What if someone takes a gun to a school?”
“Why the fuck would someone do that? You’re being ridiculous.”
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Hilarious, thank you. 💗
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History’s got its eye on you
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And voila, I suspect they didn't write it down, because we sure have a dumb fuck in that office right now.
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Later...
BF: "Do we need to specify that we're talking about muskets?"
AH: "What else could we possibly mean?"
BF: "Like, in the future if firearms become way more deadly or something."
AH: "lol. Ok future boy."
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„George says that every American should have a vacuum cleaner in their basement.“
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Thor:
Alexander Hamilton told everybody not to vote for Aaron Burr because he had no principles.
You don’t have to make up what Alexander Hamilton would’ve done under these circumstances because he already did it. He told that New York Democrat Aaron Burr to get fucked for having no principles.
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In a related story… it’s been reported that Lin-Manuel Miranda is busy working on his next play,,, “Franklin”
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Under that rule, none of our recent presidents would have qualified. The ones able to complete full sentences were still war criminals.
Fears of a fascist future overlook the present and past
Democracy in America died a long time ago, and Democratic presidents share the blame
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ben should’ve bet hard $$$.
it would’ve been lightening in a bottle. again.
“[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down”
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OMG thank u for the laugh. Brilliant
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Wldn’t surprise me that there may have been similar real convos like that…
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One thing that puzzles me about the US Constitution is how it allows for no early elections ever.
"Impeached your President Evulz for extreme treason? Your new President is someone hand-picked by Evulz!"
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Alexander Hamilton: come on, Ben, no way Burr is ever gonna be president.
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🎯🤣
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Hamilton would’ve added Aaron Burr in a heartbeat.
adams.rocks — Coming Soon
This is a default index page for a new domain.
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Bob Newhart is laughing his arse off.
me too. thanks
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Philly guy knows
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Reminder: Ben Franklin left a trail of suspicious skeletons: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
Everyone who is powerful in this childfucker nation is wicked.
Why Were There So Many Skeletons Hidden in Benjamin Franklin's Basement?
During restorations in the 1990s, more than 1,200 pieces of bone surfaced beneath the founding father's London home
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Sittin here all these years later agreeing with Ben…😉😆
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"Of course there will be no dumb fucks, why would the great people of these states elect a dumb fuck? And if, by chance, a dumb fuck snuck in, the courts, the senate and the house shall of course prevent dumbfuckery. There can't be that many dumb fucks in politics" Franklin gestures broadly
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overheard
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Lethal!
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The guy who jinxed us with "if you can keep it".
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Not Ben. He'd have used "doltish buffoon."
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They wrote down no emoluments too but all it took was courts to decide words don’t matter
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We have section 44 of the Australian constitution saying something about convicted criminals, with certain a allowance like only crimes with prison sentences of over a year. It surprises me you guys don't have that. Once the orange buffoon is gone I see a new amendment coming.
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He regretted it pretty quickly if the Adams administration is anything to go by.
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Benjamin Franklin: we will give them a Republic, IF THEY CAN KEEP IT.
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We are there…
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Hamilton: Well what about the women?
BF - Nah, fuck 'em.
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I think some very close version of this convo definitely happened.
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Look, accounting to the 14th amendment we're not supposed to have coup inciting presidents. But the courts don't care what the constitution says.
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If any of the framers knew a thing or two about fucks,,
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No, write how to remove federal officials other than by impeachment. If it be only by impeachment, then right that down clearly.
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ouch
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Good one!!!!
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HA
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I'm related to Ben :) I'll approve this
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"A Republic, if you [stupid motherfuckers] can keep it."
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Could’ve entirely avoided neoliberalism with that in there.
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Hahahaha I wish Lin Manuel did a Dark Hamilton black mirror style
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POTUS WEAK
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That should have been the preamble. Dammit.
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That’s one of the reasons they used an Electoral College system.
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Had that been written there never would've been any presidents 😂
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The idea that Trump became president because of the electoral college when the whole purpose of the electoral college was to prevent horrible stupid populists from becoming president… 🤯
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BF is my founding father spirit animal. Channel 5% of that polymath mf and you are an outright political mastermind in this climate.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 A new Amendment?
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😂😂💙
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Even an entry level civics test would have weeded this one out.
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Franklin had slaves. He later freed them, but he was a slaver.
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I can visualise this as a Kate Beaton cartoon
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BF: OK, write down “no felons.”
AH: Nobody’s stupid enough to vote for a felon.
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They should have listened to Ben!
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In fairness Ben Franklin was kind of a dumb fuck.
If he were alive today he'd be Elon Musk.
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The rest of the world didn’t vote for this moron, yet we’re paying the price too, with Ukrainians and Africans suffering the most.
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Yes this is funny. But if we had a "no dumb fucks as president" provision, the Supreme Court would refuse to enforce it. Look at the "no insurrectionists as president" provision in the Constitution. The Supreme Court voted 9-0 not to enforce it.
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Ben’s always been my kinda guy.
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My favorite quote of the year!!!! Should have been part of the "Hamilton" lyrics somehow.
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😂😂😂 so on point!!
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Drunk history?
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What difference does it make when the majority of voters are certified dumb fucks as well?
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You know Ben said it.
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😂👊
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Farts proudly
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Jefferson would actively fight against it because he wanted to be third real fuckin bad
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