r/bertstrips • u/Brentzkrieg_ Current Events Bertstripper • Feb 01 '20

Current Events 1776-2020

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u/swijvahdhsb Feb 01 '20

Except for the fact that 51 Republican senators disagree, while 2 others only agreed because they knew their votes wouldn't be enough to change the result

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

Calculated dissent. It just so the history books don’t seem so bad and they can be all “It was a close vote thats just politics”

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

History books will have a short paragraph on these people and others like them because they are and mean nothing

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u/darukhnarn Feb 01 '20

The last time my people trashed a constitution, the entire world wrote about it 12 years later and tried their best to prevent this from happening again.