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[+] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Remember when the QAnon nutjobs thought a dead Kennedy was going to rise from the grave to be Trump’s running mate?

    Nope. Literally!?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are a lot of really stupid people out there.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I watched an interview between a couple of psychologists, where it was pointed out that 16% of the population in the US (and elsewhere, but they were talking specifically about the US) has an IQ below 85. The video was about what someome scoring 85 is capable of, and it isn't a lot. That's smart enough that one can more or less function in society, but they're functionally illiterate, and basically unable to understand or follow instructions of any kind. But they can register to vote.

    16% seems like a significant percentage. And easy to target.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago*

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years it is that I’ll never trust a political poll.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    I think we will have a three way run for President between Biden ( D ), Haley ( R ), Trump ( I ) in November of 2024. Trump will be disqualified in most states preventing him from winning the Republican nomination. He will run independently splitting the right wing votes. Biden goes on to win 45 states.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Nope there is no way this is going to happen. So Trump's eligibility is going to hit the US Supreme Court. It is litigation on the Constitution itself with more or less zero case law around it. This is the kind of thing that every lawyer dreams of putting their name on. It will hit the US Supreme Court and they will take it. So he will be either eligible or ineligible in all 50 states it will not be peace meal. piecemeal

    Now that doesn't mean that there won't be a major independent candidate for some other reasons, but not for this reason.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It will go to the Supreme Court and they’ll rubber stamp so he can run.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just because they're right-wing does not make them beholden to Trump. They've made some solid decisions lately.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Not being sarcastic, but also don't follow every Supreme Court case: what do you view as the encouragingly solid decisions? I did see one civil rights-related case that seemed to go positively a few weeks back.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Supreme Court cannot issue a constitutional amendment, only the States or Congress can do that. It's going to be extremely difficult to claim the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to Trump based on the language and the fact that Confederates were barred from office without being convicted. The Supreme Court would be in breach of power to ignore what the Consitution says.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It would be pretty hypocritical given that a third of SCOTUS believes in the independent state legislature theory which pretty much lets states legislatures do whatever they want with regards to federal elections. But, that's probably not going to stop them siding with Trump.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Would be awesome, but I don’t see it happening. This man has so much support still— especially in the high levels of state government— it’s disgusting. Republicans are still massively supportive of Trump and he’s nearly a shoe-in for the R nomination.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the reasoning above is based on the idea that he will be actually disqualified and not on the ballots as a convicted felon (at least I assume that's the "he's disqualified" angle here).

    Although, sadly I think it's unlikely to happen before the election, and even if it did I wouldn't be in the slightest surprised for Republican states to just outright change whatever laws they need to (or just ignore the law) to put him on the state ballots.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    Stop spreading misinformation. Being a convicted felon does not prevent someone from running for or being elected president. It's specifically being involved with an insurrection, whether convicted or not, that disqualifies him from the office. Felonies have nothing to do with it.

    From the US Constitution:

    Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights

    Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office
    No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    A hard-core blible thumping Trumper is speaker in congress. Unfortunately for everyone's sanity, he's not going anywhere except hopefully into a max security prison.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Trump will be disqualified in most states preventing him from winning the Republican nomination.

    I doubt this really happens. Trump may only be disqualified in a handful of states which he would have lost anyway, and even if that happens I wouldn't put it past Republicans to ignore it and nominate him anyway.

    They might even declare the whole thing unlawful interference on the part of the Biden administration, and send their own electors from those states again. Who's gonna stop them? The Supreme Court?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Removing Trump from the ballots will go to Trump’s Supreme Court. That won’t work.

    Trump will be the republican nominee unless hell freezes over. That fucker will run from jail if he has to. Becoming president is his only way out of many of his DoJ cases.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Suddenly the media will stop giving this asshat any coverage.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    A conservative plant will do that.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Makes sense knowing his vaccine opinion.

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    Big if true

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    To the surprise of -10 people

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