• blazera@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This a lob ball for republicans who just have to point out democrats are the ones taking opposition off the ballots.

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      1 year ago

      It’s so fucking stupid that Jan 6 was a cut-and-dried insurrection, that the 14th amendment should obviously bar Trump from office, and yet it might be better, politically speaking, to let him run anyway. All because there’s a giant segment of the population that receives all their news information from sources that scrub it for anything politically detrimental to their party/ point of view.

      I fucking hate it here. Fuck Nixon and Reagan, giant pieces of shit, for bringing this horrible reality to us.

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        1 year ago

        Problem is its not cut and dried without a conviction. And im blaming Bidens DoJ for that taking this long, they didnt even begin charging him until last august, its 2024 and the trial hasnt even started.

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          And im blaming Bidens DoJ for that taking this long, they didnt even begin charging him until last august, its 2024 and the trial hasnt even started.

          Tell me you have no idea how the criminal justice system works without telling me you have no idea how the criminal justice system works.

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      How do you mean? The people challenging Trump being on the ballots are Republicans with standing in those jurisdictions.

      I am not offering my opinion on these cases, but I think it’s important to make sure we understand who the plaintiffs are.

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        1 year ago

        the two states that have removed Trump from their ballots are Colorado and Maine, Colorado’s entirely democrat appointed supreme court, and Maine’s democratic secretary of state.

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          You are saying their rulings go against written law in preference to their party affiliation? If so, I’d be interested in understanding how.

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            1 year ago

            I am saying they are democrats that have removed republican opposition from the next election. This is what republican voters are going to see and its gonna be hard to campaign on democracy itself while setting this precedent.