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Hunyo 5, 2020

Why is the Third Amendment trending on Twitter?

The typical experience on Twitter is that you see that the Third Amendment is trending on Twitter and you click and you just get lots of tweets asking Why is the Third Amendment trending on Twitter?

But I got to the answer quickly enough. Senator Mike Lee tweeted this:


Twitter users piled on. I'm reading things like:
1. "You Republican Senators should really try reading the Constitution once, instead of just using it for toilet paper. The Third Amendment prohibits the government from quartering troops over objections, you fascist cheese biscuit."

2. "It’s called the Third Amendment, and as a lifetime member of the National Anti Quartering Association they can sleep in my house when they take it from my cold, dead hands."

3. "All my old law professors who have been waiting forever to talk about the Third Amendment: your moment has finally arrived. Enjoy yourselves."
And this is a comic meme I'm seeing in a lot of versions — I'm just picking one: