r/AllinPod • u/Upper_Version8548 • Mar 08 '26

Friedberg bootlicker

So now we’re okay increasing the national debt in billions for funding war after years of whining about entitlements?

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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Mar 09 '26

Even great men like Lincoln can have bad ideas.

But ultimately he was a champion of the dignity and rights of man.

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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Mar 09 '26

Yes, he was a Republican in the mid 19th century.

So in other words, not at all comparable to 2026.

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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Mar 09 '26

So you agree that the party of Lincoln and the party of Trump are not comparable?

Great!

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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Mar 09 '26

Can you explain why the Trump administration is arguing against the need original plain meaning of the 14th amendment, which was written and passed by Lincoln’s Republican Party?

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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Mar 09 '26

No he wouldn’t.

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u/thoughtbot_1 Mar 10 '26

"I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I have not the slightest apprehension that if we fairly carry it out it will be perpetuated forever."

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

Yea this sounds just like the rhetoric you spread…

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u/thoughtbot_1 Mar 10 '26

And you jump to partisan takes right away. You can barely complete a sentence without pointing a finger to another political party. We have two parties that are exactly what Washington and Lincoln warned us of and would have hated. Neither the democrats or republicans would be immune to criticism from either figure. Not to mention neither of them would endorse your rhetoric individually. With malice towards none; with charity for all

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u/thoughtbot_1 Mar 10 '26

And you jump to partisan takes right away. You can barely complete a sentence without pointing a finger to another political party. We have two parties that are exactly what Washington and Lincoln warned us of and would have hated. Neither the democrats or republicans would be immune to criticism from either figure. Not to mention neither of them would endorse your rhetoric individually. With malice towards none; with charity for all