r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/RoyalChris • 17d ago

MEME Do you think Joe Biden would do this?

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u/RoyalChris 17d ago

The Declaration of Independence.

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u/FangGore 17d ago

He stole it?

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u/Dredgeon 17d ago

Its one of the original copies 200 copies were made to distribute, and of them, only 26 are still around. The original (which he asked for first) is still in the national archives.

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u/QueenNappertiti 17d ago

THANK GOD!

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 17d ago

But you just know he's telling everyone it's the real deal

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u/QueenNappertiti 17d ago

Of course he is. Our nation's treasures are just one more thing for him to show off, like an expensive painting or gold toilet. His ego is nauseating!

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u/LadyChatterteeth 16d ago

He thinks that he personally owns them because he’s president! (But, of course, his logic doesn’t apply to any other president.)

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u/solidaritystorm 16d ago

Probably attempt to ship it to fl once he’s done. Personally I hope his next home address is hell, at least he can’t bring it with him.

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u/MrSteele_yourheart 17d ago

The National Archives clearly don't truth him. They probably told him 'its original' which is true and thats it.

By next year this thing wil be in a bathroom at Maralago.

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 17d ago

Making him put curtains on it was smart then, too.

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u/MasterOfResolve 16d ago

"This one is actually better than the original. I could have had the original, but they tell me that it's not as good as this one. So I told them to keep it. It's really impressive what we have done here."

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u/Woodworkin101 16d ago

I hope whoever gave it to him convinced him it WAS the real one

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u/MysticalMummy 17d ago

I'm convinced he thinks it is.

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u/DarkerSavant 16d ago

It technically is. It’s a draft copy of the original as I understand it.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago

Yeah for now. How long until he just fires everyone in the archive and elsewhere in the way until he gets a toady in there who will bring it to him?

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u/Dzov 17d ago

He’s probably using it for ideas how to disregard it but by bit.

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u/boot2skull 16d ago

Do you think Biden would have done this?

No Biden isn’t a small man impressed by small things, using what other people did to take credit for it in some way. Thankfully Biden would have never been so petty.

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u/tkrego 17d ago

We all know Trump is going to take it or give it to Putin.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago

Putin will put it next to the Super Bowl ring he stole from the Patriots.

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u/gregsting 16d ago

It won’t be there when he leave the White House

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u/thalasi_ 17d ago

I thought it was the one from the archives since I remember him making a fuss about getting it. Glad to be wrong on that as this moron will no doubt eventually let some visiting dictator take it out and hold it or something. It's definitely going back into "the vaults" with ketchup stains on it.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Dredgeon 17d ago

https://visit.archives.gov/

What are you talking about?

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u/Galacticwave98 17d ago

So it will be in his bathroom shortly 

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u/Turbulent-Adagio-541 16d ago

He’ll take that down to Mar-a-Lago after he gets the boot

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u/JetSetJAK 16d ago

In fallout 3 I just gave the dude a dupe and left the og copy in the museum

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u/WanderingFlumph 16d ago

So wait this one is different from the one with the secret treasure map on the back then?

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u/Wonderland71 16d ago

I bet they didn't tell him it isn't the original

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u/ifuckinhatefungi 16d ago

Well at least he can't tear it up personally 

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u/nocomment3030 17d ago

I visited DC (from Canada) and was absolutely in awe of the archives museum, especially the Declaration of Independence. So on some level on glad he isn't ruining the original, but mostly I'm just so done with this shit and I can't believe I once had so much respect for your country.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago edited 17d ago

Lol we've all lost all respect for own country down here, and by "we" I mean every single person who didn't vote for this cunt.

There's nothing to be proud of anymore, other than decades old shit like World War 2 and the moon landing as it fades into irrelevance.

Never thought I'd see the fucking White House used as a reality TV show setup to shake down another democratic leader instead of offering unconditional assistance out of a sense of duty to western values and actual freedom. Never thought I'd see a President just nuke every single economic and military alliance built since WW2, all of which made America the richest most powerful nation ever, on the pretense of "actually that's all bad for America" because he's a fucking idiot.

Never thought I'd see any of this. None of us did. Yeah I'm fully aware of the mistakes and bad things this nation did along with the good, but now there isn't even good stuff to care about. It's just all shit. Not celebrating July 4th this year, or the next 3 either. It's gonna be a while. Even when W was committing his war crimes and lies, at least we were also doing stuff like sending food to poor countries and AIDS mitigation to sub Saharan Africa. We used to airdrop supplies into East Berlin around USSR blockades. There was some good with the imperialist bad. Now there is only evil and indifference and our national representative is one of the worst men who ever lived, who somehow escapes all consequences for every single fucking thing. It makes no sense. It makes me actually think, maybe, this is part of a god's plan because how the fuck else do you explain the number of magical things that go this asshole's way every single time, not a single one of which would have worked out for literally anyone else, let alone over and over again?

It's just so fucking crazy and makes no fucking sense. That's the hardest part. Every day is just "how the fuck is this happening?"

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u/nocomment3030 17d ago

Well said. Hang in there. Or move up here to Canada I don't even know anymore.

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u/Gsr2011 17d ago

It's so he can read it for the first time and interpret it how he wants.

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 17d ago

He can't read it. He wanted to look for the map on the back after seeing some Nick Cage movie.

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u/ScaramouchScaramouch 17d ago

The best scienticians are working on decoding it right now. They think it begins "ree the peephole" or something, it'll be great. It's written in Latina.

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 17d ago

Did you say “pee hole”? Is this related to his pee tape?

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u/EasyRNGeezy 16d ago

"Latina"?

Is that a dialect of Latin spoken by Roman women?

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u/ScaramouchScaramouch 16d ago

What am I, a linguini expert?

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u/FangGore 17d ago

Oh, it’s the pop up version of the Declaration of Independence. I see.

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u/Hikithemori 17d ago

He can barely read normal letters, forget about fancy letters.

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u/korpisoturi 17d ago

No he opens the curtains when he wants to use it and close them when he wants to ignore it

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u/RingOfSol 17d ago

Lol, Trump can't read.

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u/gregsting 16d ago

Add footnotes

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u/Lucky_Shoe_8154 17d ago

Damn, he stole the Declaration of Independence

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u/OpticalPrime35 17d ago

Pretty much

Anyone could go and get close to the OG document. Now its locked away in the oval office where only a few people will ever see it

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u/Alakazam_5head 17d ago

Mfw nobody in the replies has seen national treasure

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u/BlueGlassDrink 17d ago

It's a copy

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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 17d ago

No they photocopied it last week and slapped it in a frame from Target. That bit about the light exposure was bullshit. Kinda wierd the guy that wants to rule like a king would hang up the document that clearly states we don't want to be ruled by a king.

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 16d ago

Nah they gave him a copy and told him it’s the real deal because that’s the easiest option available when the president demands the Declaration of Independence be hung in their office.

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u/Professional_Comb922 16d ago

Not yet but he will take it with him if/when he leaves

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u/ake-n-bake 16d ago

Nic Cage enters the chat

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u/Careless_Mango_7948 16d ago

Call Nicholas cage!

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

He wanted to put the actual original one in his office, but a lot of people had to spend a lot of time convincing him that wouldnt be a good idea. They apparently sold him on a different "important" copy of some sort. Its funny that he still has the photo of the "gulf of America" behind him too. The guy does shit that would seem stupid to someone suffering from end stage syphilis, expects accolades for it, and then actually receives them. The guys actions remind me of stuff I would have come up with when I was drunk and high out of my mind and people just clap.

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u/4BennyBlanco4 17d ago

I just made a post about the gulf of America poster, it's really weird lol. I get displaying it when he first renamed it and made the announcement but it always seems to be there now, like he just enjoys looking at it.

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

One of his greatest accomplishments he probably thinks.

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u/thalasi_ 17d ago

For sure! Nevermind the fact that two continents are named America. He's probably not aware.

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

No one tell him DC stands for District of Columbia. He'll probably need to rename it District of America.

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u/cheecheecago 16d ago

so pathetic, this accomplishment is already forgotten and ignored by most americans, and will be reversed within the first few days of the next time we get an adult president, which admittedly may be awhile

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u/justjanne 17d ago edited 17d ago

I'd bet that, just like "of" in a sentence like "that's the house of the smiths" means ownership, "Gulf of Mexico"/"Gulf of America" implies ownership as well.

And going by that interpretation, I'd argue he thinks he actually "took" it from Mexico.

It'd also fit this pattern of him wanting to do something stupid, and someone convincing him of something slightly less stupid (nuke iran -> mother of all bombs on iran, constitution in oval office -> historic copy of constitution in oval office, etc)

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 16d ago

It’s the sort of thing Trump personally thinks is super important and will be a defining part of his legacy.

Most likely, it’ll go back to being called the Gulf of Mexico after he’s out of office.

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u/quiddity3141 16d ago

Hell, I wasn't as spun as that guy when I drank a vial of LSD down.

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u/Hypocritical_Oath 17d ago

Isn't the original on display, too?

https://visit.archives.gov/whats-on/explore-exhibits/charters-freedom

It literally is, and yet he keeps claiming its in a vault or some shit.

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

I guess part of it was he wanted it "on display where people could see it" and they had to explain it was on display where people could see it easily in a very sophisticated set up to protect it and it would be LESS accessible if they put it in his office and cost millions to move and recreate the protections. I knew that and I am not, nor have I ever been, POTUS or even lived in DC.

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u/beginnerflipper 17d ago

which copy is this?

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

I think they still arent sure. Heres an article about the whole ordeal thats not behind a paywall:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-steal-declaration-of-independence.html

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u/Clinggdiggy2 17d ago

I'm not sure if it's the same thing or not, but I know someone personally (who's extremely wealthy) who owns an original copy of the declaration. He said a few years after the declaration was signed, the signers wanted personal copies, so the original velum was wetted and transferred to a sheet of copper, hand engraved, and then used to stamp a number of copies onto rice paper. I'm assuming what you're describing is another one of these original copies.

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u/Alexwonder999 17d ago

Probably that or something else. Its kind of weird that the national archives hasn't said what the provenance of the document. I wouldnt be surprised if they were told not to say anything so Trump could pretend its the original document.

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 16d ago

I hope they gave him the backup’s backup to the backup of all other backup copies and told him it was super duper important

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u/Reference_Freak 16d ago

Think back to the boxes confiscated because some of the contents were protected docs.

The boxes were clearly a narcissistic nostalgia horde: a mess of random slips of paper, notes people wrote him, things he had signed, articles about him, even stuff described as trash.

Trump’s an untreated hoarder who can hire hoard-wranglers so he can take 20 boxes of his current favorite security ego-strokers with him everywhere he goes.

Remember how mad he was about the FBI taking his personal mementos? It was like taking a blankie from a pre-schooler.

He has a desperate need to surround himself with “proof” that his invented sense of inflated self isn’t fake.

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u/vaporking23 17d ago

They fucking moved it for him. God damn it. He’s such a piece of shit.

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u/PGnautz 17d ago

A copy of the Declaration of Independence

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u/Das_KommenTier 17d ago

LOL, and he implies that Biden doesn’t know what it is. That’s even insulting to Ingram’s audience.

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u/Naturallobotomy 17d ago

A copy of the declaration, not the original. That one is in a vault so this shitstain doesn’t grub it up any more that he already is. Watch he will steal this and hide it in a bathroom at mar-a-lago

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Damn. Has he gotten to the part about “unalienable rights” yet?

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u/Pi-ratten 17d ago

the curtains are a nice touch for all the times he breaks the constitution and doesnt want it to see all the traitorous stuff hes doing

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u/Expensive-Apricot-25 17d ago

damn, I know the power that that thing would have being in the presidential office, but I feel like its so priceless that it needs to be kept in a maximum security vault at some undisclosed location

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u/ZelouslyRabitting 17d ago

It's only a copy of it

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u/peepopowitz67 17d ago

Worth posting the damn thing (with some depressingly relevant highlights...):

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

!!!!!!He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.!!!!!!

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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u/Organic-Coconut-7152 17d ago

This is awesome. Trump is breaking like 17 of the 27 grievances that started the American Revolution.

The reason we don’t have kings is listed in his office.

The Spiritual Energy of that original document is going to sink him.

It’s like a vampire Putin a wooden stake on the wall by his ⚰️

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u/Organic-Coconut-7152 17d ago 
The King refused to let the colonists pass basic laws.

 He closed down the colonial governments.

 He threatened to only pass laws if the colonists gave up their ability to participate in his government.

 He made representatives of the people meet at times and in places that were nearly impossible to get to.  

 He shrugged off legitimate complaints. 

 His dissolution of the Government prevented the correction of economic problems and left the colonies open for invasion.

 The King stopped the colonists from being able to attract new settlers to the colonies.

 He refused to appoint judges, hurting the rule of law.

 The judges that were appointed were paid by the King, and therefore did what he wanted instead of what was right and fair.

He made pointless offices as a reason to send people to North America just to give the colonists trouble.

 He gave dictatorial power to Generals that used the military to suppress cities.

He filled the streets with a police force whose procedures they had no control over.

The King worked with Parliament to create laws that are unconstitutional.

Instead of putting soldiers in forts, they were stationed in homes.

When these soldiers committed crimes, they were protected from punishment.

The King and Parliament cut off our trade with the rest of the world.

They implemented taxation without representation.

They took away the benefits of a trial by jury.

They made up crimes and took citizens all the way across the Atlantic Ocean for the trial.

They set up Quebec with French laws while expanding its territory all the way to the Midwest which seemed to be an example of what to expect in the future.

They took away the Charters which created the colonies, ending the long tradition of colonists controlling their own affairs.

They claimed to control all of the laws in all situations.

The King had proven he was no longer the colonies’ leader by starting a war against the citizens.

His war destroyed local communities.

He hired a bunch of German soldiers to come to North America and kill civilians.

He captured citizens and forced them to fight against their friends and family.

He turned the people against themselves and he convinced the Native Americans to attack colonists.

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u/Kronos1A9 16d ago

Hope he leaves room for the next one…

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u/Paradox68 16d ago

Only our commander in chief would have the Declaration of Independence in his office while trying to start a war with France….and not understand the irony.

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u/VanDenBroeck 16d ago

He uses the portion of it concerning the grievances against the king as a personal checklist of things to do.

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u/Diamondback424 16d ago

Ironic considering he's trying to make himself a king

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u/transphotobabe 16d ago

Maybe he’ll finally read it

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u/Special_South_8561 16d ago

So that's why he's covering it up, makes sense

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u/andropogon09 16d ago

Is it the front showing? Or the back with the treasure map?