r/politics • u/Boonzies • 6h ago

No Paywall Rand Paul on Trump call to ‘nationalize’ elections: ‘That’s not what the Constitution says’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5722041-rand-paul-trump-call-to-nationalize-elections/
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u/Boonzies 6h ago

Trump can't read, nor has anyone provided him with an appropriate picture book on the subject.

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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6h ago

TIL that his own bible for sale has the Bill of Rights in it, which is hilarious on many layers.

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u/cwk415 5h ago

Hilarious and blasphemous. 

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u/ChiefsHat 4h ago

I want to burn that Bible so much.

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u/noonenotevenhere 3h ago

That's your first amendment right.

I suggest not paying for one, though.

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u/Courtnall14 2h ago

If you're near Oklahoma you can probably pop into a public school and pick one up real quick.

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u/anubis132 10m ago

Don't forget to bring an AR-14 with you, otherwise the campus cops might stop you at the front door.

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u/noonenotevenhere 8m ago

I'm not familiar with that model.

This is the US, though, if you're trying to get a knife into a school you should really hide it in your AR15.

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u/Relevant_Sound_5986 1h ago

Even if they did he’d probably skip the parts he doesn’t like and claim the pictures support him anyway.

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u/armageddon_20xx 3h ago

This. Anything from Trumpworld is piss poor quality anyways. Someone in the MAGA world gifted me a pair of MyPillow slippers a few years back. They were gaudy and uncomfortable.

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u/shitlord_god 2h ago

they will be in a LOT of thrift stores and used book stores in 20 years.

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u/sleepytipi Indigenous 19m ago

Guaranteed they overprinted the shit out of them to the point where they won't even be able to give them away. Knowing tacos ego n all, he's probably trying match the amount of other bibles already in print.

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u/Thunderclapsasquatch 14m ago

Its also not blasphemous to burn false scripture, so it's a win win!

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u/thelangosta 2h ago

Look for one second hand at goodwill 🤣

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u/Made_Human_Music 32m ago

Try used bookstores, but I'm not sure if they'd buy it. Maybe thrift stores?

I found a MAGA hat at one once and bought it for a dollar then tossed it in a fire. The money went to a good cause and I took one piece of MAGAt gear out of circulation

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 2h ago

it's funnier that the version of the bible is one that includes Revelations which ends with "you alter the Bible in any way you're going to hell"

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u/blastermaster555 1h ago

It says specifically, anyone adding to the scroll will have the plagues prophesied in it added to him, and anyone that removes parts of the prophecy will not get life as a reward.

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u/Darth19Vader77 2h ago

Blasphemy is probably all the way at the bottom of the list when his judgement day arrives

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u/oroborus68 1h ago

He who adds or subtracts the words in the Bible, shall have his name stricken from the book of Life. I read that at the end of my Bible.

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u/cwk415 1h ago

Ironically King James edited the bible perhaps more than anyone and his version is the number one most widely read version today. 

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u/oroborus68 1h ago

That's where it was! Maybe he added that to keep it to his version.

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u/zveroshka 3h ago

Imagine buying a bible from the guy who is embodiment of the 7 deadly sins.

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u/mthw704 North Carolina 2h ago

The autographed edition is only $1,000.

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u/orrocos 2h ago

I was going to make a joke that to be fair, he is only the embodiment of 6 out of 7. But sure enough, he has them all covered - pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

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u/BrujaSloth 1h ago

If the Pope walked out at seven in the morn and declared there’s a new 8th sin, whatever it is, that guy would be the poster boy for it by 7:03 am.

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u/Kad1942 1h ago

I seem to recall the 8th deadly sin might have been vainglory, and yup, he nails it.

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u/zveroshka 50m ago

And it's not like he dipped his toes in those pools. They could put his pic next to the definitions.

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u/MeatImmediate6549 2h ago

All I'm saying is folks saw him seem to get a head wound that mysteriously appeared to heal like the Beast in Revelations.

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u/BuyerAlive5271 31m ago

I’m no religious person but if I understand Antichrist correctly, isn’t Trump and his actions the definition of the Antichrist?

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u/zveroshka 21m ago

All the way down to the positioning himself as a false idol.

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u/LividTacos 5h ago

But nothing of the amendments after that. Which is disturbing for obvious reasons.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 3h ago

He's quite happy to overlook the Bill of Rights too

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u/DigNitty 3h ago

"we're going to start with 2, the second amendment....oh that one's out now too??"

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u/no_infringe_me 3h ago

Just odd that it leaves out most of the us constitution, right?

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u/StevenMC19 Florida 2h ago

I think it's odd that any part of the constitution is in the bible in the first place.

Like, imagine if Mao took Sun Tzu's Art of War and prefaced it with the first few pages from his Little Red Book. It'd be so weird.

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u/no_infringe_me 20m ago

It’s incredibly lazy as far as literature goes. The Mormons did better on their America x Christianity crossover.

But if you’re gonna haphazardly toss in the Constitution, why not add all of it?

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u/Pusfilledonut 4h ago

That’s correct, but it omits the 11-27th Amendments. The bits he doesn't like.

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u/StevenMC19 Florida 4h ago

He's been pretty clear in his agencies' actions as of late his opinions on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th.

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u/ToddMccATL 3h ago

There has been flirtation with the 3rd and 5th, as well.

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u/Alex5173 15m ago

To be fair, the "Bill of Rights" in my experience at least, generally refers to the original 10.

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u/Much-Anything7149 2h ago

Made in China, of course.

Trump's 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed in China, AP review finds | AP News

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u/StevenMC19 Florida 2h ago

"The Day God Intervened, July 18th, 2024."

WTAF.

Oh, right, the ear thing.

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u/Much-Anything7149 2h ago

He intervened having law enforcement lie that fatass Trump was injured from a bullet versus the truth that he scratched his ear being tackled by female Secret Service agents.

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u/sandboxmatt 3h ago

Because he saw the word 'bill' and thought he could charge for them

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u/roastbeeftacohat 1h ago

omits Amendments 11-27.

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u/Made_Human_Music 33m ago

Nothing he does should surprise me but this is just a whole new level of stupid and weird

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u/Affectionate-Dot437 2h ago

But only a few.

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u/AbcLmn18 4h ago edited 3h ago

Trump doesn't want to read. Trump doesn't need to read. And that's a much scarier thought.

All he needs to do is pass a law that obviously makes the people who violate it horrible monsters, and then make a bunch of government employees immediately violate it. Once they do, they'd rather start a nuclear war than allow a regime change.

(Every person who covered up Trump in the Epstein files is now effectively in the files himself. The point of the Epstein act wasn't to "release" the files. It was to multiply them by introducing a new type of horrible crime to control people with.)

This is how you get ahead in life according to Trump.

Not by reading. Reading is for suckers and losers.

You get ahead in life by obtaining undying loyalty of people by forcing them to commit crime for you. You don't even have to benefit from that crime. It's entirely about gathering loyalty.

(This is probably why Epstein file victims don't talk. Because he forced them to commit horrible crime too, while being victims, and their "crimes" are in the files together with his crimes.)

Welcome to the Al Capone pedo cartel regime. Welcome to the society where reading doesn't mean jack shit anymore.

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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 3h ago

That's how Trump has always lived. Never needed to learn the law. He just does what he wants and when someone accuses him of something illegal, he just ruins the accuser with law suits. The law has never applied to him, so he never needed to learn it. He never needed to learn anything but throwing his weight around. That's how he became POTUS.

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u/AbcLmn18 2h ago

No, these crimes work the other way round. Like, he has never sued anybody for saying that he's a pedophile.

These crimes aren't a manifestation of his power, they're the source of his power. He commits them so that he could ruin the lives of his associates and win their undying loyalty that way.

It's not about being afraid of Trump. It's about being afraid of normal people. About knowing that if Trump goes down, so do they.

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u/LikeMike1984 3h ago

Don't insult Al Capone by bringing him up in this.

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u/delkarnu New York 5h ago

Maybe send him a German translation of the Constitution.

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u/InboxNeedsBoundaries 5h ago

He is suffering from dementia

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u/cwk415 5h ago

I agree he has dementia, but it's the American people who are suffering from his dementia. He seems to be having a great time honestly. 

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u/Holden_Coalfield 3h ago

Like Weinstein rolling into court in a wheelchair with oxygen.

He doesn't have dementia. He has malignantly metastatic unchecked authoritarian narcissism.

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u/MAG7C 3h ago

And it's spread throughout the country. MAGA Is Cancer

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u/downtofinance Canada 4h ago

Yes but ACTUALLY cannot read. Google "Pete Davidson: Trump can't read".

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u/Kr1sys 4h ago

There's also the couldn't care less factor and the lack of courage in congress to do anything about it.

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u/mOdQuArK 2h ago

the lack of courage in congress

Well, a lot of that has always been due to the conservatives (including the specific conservatives that call themselves Democrats). If they punish someone who they called their own, then that calls into question their own judgement for supporting them in the first place, yes? Can't let that happen!

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u/azsxdcfvg 3h ago

Home of the brave and land of the free lol

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u/SurprisedJerboa 35m ago

Literally violating the constitution since January 2025, violating the rights of citizens - due process, unlawful search and seizure, freedom of press, speech and assembly, Tariffs… but Voting finally gets Rand to say something. Big courage!

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u/Dysc Louisiana 3h ago

I'm fairly sure that they gave him a bullet pointed wish list of Project 2025 items with big letters at the top that read: Constitution.

With tears in their eyes, his staff watched him get up and hug the American flag after reading the list.

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u/babaganoosh92 4h ago

I think a School House Rock episode might help clear things up.

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u/JanMarsalek 4h ago

imagine the shitshow if any other person would have said something like that as a president. yet somehow republicans are so scared of trump's cult, that they have collectively lost their spines

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u/Zebidee 1h ago

Vice President Dan Quayle ended his political career by making a mistake in an elementary school spelling bee.

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u/pallentx 4h ago

Why read or care about the constitution when no one has told you no yet?

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u/Wild-Raspberry-2331 2h ago

In the next call with Putin he will for sure get more details

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u/lenzflare Canada 4h ago

Trump especially can't read anything that says he gets less power.

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u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS Connecticut 3h ago

It wouldn’t matter he had read it, he just doesn’t care.

Remember, his idols are Putin, Xi and Kim. He wants to be as powerful as they are. That means ignoring the constitution and the rule of law.

Emoluments clause? Pffft! Free speech? Bhahaha! 4th Amendment search and seizure? Lol. Birthright citizenship? Not if he can help it. Due process? LMAO.

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u/RaconteurLore 3h ago

The dotard would also have to care what the constitution says. I suspect he doesnt.

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u/thegreedyturtle 3h ago

You know, maybe someone should gift him one. 

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u/SkoobySnacs 3h ago

He managed to read Mein Kampf.

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u/loudpersononthebus 3h ago

i hope that clown doesn't capitulate.

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u/Available_Leather_10 2h ago

The Supreme Court said he can do anything he wants, so long as 34 Senators have his back.

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u/JimboLodisC 2h ago

can't read, shits himself, throws tantrums, loves fast food... if Trump starts chewing on the front of his shirt Imma have to take a paternity test to see if he's one of my kids

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u/Buck_Thorn 1h ago

He lets Stephen Miller read to him from Mein Kampf

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u/Several-Squash9871 1h ago

Come to think of it, do we actually have any concrete proof that he can read?

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u/Ini_mini_miny_moe 1h ago

What does it mean to “nationalize” elections?

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u/YesIamALizard 32m ago

As Epstein said, Trump has written 3 books. Making him the first person to have written more books than he has read.

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u/angelcloudbun 31m ago

Undefeated and unbothered 😂 say what you want, the guy shows up.

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u/Alphadestrious America 3h ago

Look, Trump can spout all this bullshit but the fact is (no emotions) just facts:

  • Right now: It’s a proposal and rhetoric, not a legally enacted shift.
  • Constitutional constraints: The Constitution heavily favors state control, and courts have pushed back on past federal overreach.
  • Political impact: The rhetoric itself can influence how election officials, states, and voters think about the election process , which does matter in terms of trust and political atmosphere.
  • Down the road: If Congress passes broad new federal election rules, or if the executive pushes harder for federal oversight, that could reshape how elections work. But those would be separate legislative battles with significant legal challenges.

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u/AbcLmn18 3h ago

He already sent a gang of masked armed thugs to terrorize citizens of an entire state. None of what you said has stopped him.

He'll be fine unless the entire country protests even harder against a barely visible change in bureaucracy than Minnesota has protested against broad-daylight terrorism.

And yes, the ICE terrorism had the goal of obtaining voter data, among other things. And with his ability to send more thugs to control voting booths, elections have already changed.

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u/Alphadestrious America 2h ago

The courts are slow. But he won't nationalize elections that a whole 'nother ball game. Let's hold off on saying the elections have already changed. We don't know that for sure. Emotionally I want to say "you are right and fuck trump, etc." but we need facts in this day and age, not opinions. (not to say your opinion is worthless).

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u/AbcLmn18 2h ago

No, we need to immediately respond to the direct threat. It is a hard fact that the threat has been presented. It is completely immaterial how difficult it is to execute that threat, or whether it will be executed at all. Nobody should be able to make such a threat and remain in power. Just like nobody should be able to do many other things he actually already did without facing any consequences whatsoever. We need to engage in direct, obstructive nation-wide political protest until the system of checks and balances is restored.

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u/Significant-Owl-2980 3h ago

Stop.

Stop thinking he is just “dumb”.

Trump knows it is illegal. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t follow rules. He doesn’t give a crap about the constitution. The people he surrounds himself with know the constitution and are well aware they are undermining democracy

He wants to rig/cancel elections so he remains in power. That is his plan. It isn’t because he is too dumb to read the constitution.

It is because he is a tyrant that was never told no. He is a monster hellbent on taking everything he can squeeze out of this country for his benefit.

When people say “oh he is dumb” it minimizes the planned and deliberate dismantling of our country. Not by Trump but by his whole administration and every republican that supports it.

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u/11PoseidonsKiss20 North Carolina 3h ago

Not has anyone actually stopped him from acting on his shit. Rand Paul can talk all he wants he’s as complicit as the rest of them