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    6 months ago

    If 1/6 wasn’t a disqualifying insurrection, then nothing is and the words are just wasted ink.

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    Well that’s nice to hear. Fuck that guy. But aren’t Maine and Colorado already blue states?

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      6 months ago

      Maine can also split it’s electoral votes. The state has four, but Maine is one of two states where all electoral votes don’t have to go to the same candidate (Nebraska being the other state that can split the electoral votes.)

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      Maine is purple. The north and east are mostly republicans and libertarians and the “cities” in the south are mostly democrats. They also split their 4 electoral votes by district.

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      Yes, but the Supreme Court at some point is going to need to rule one way or the other on the 14th amendment issue, and States like Colorado and now Maine breaking from the rest it’s going to make that more clear. A presidential election isn’t going to work if the potential GOP nominee isn’t allowed on several state ballots for even the primary. And several of the states where Trump was allowed onto the primary ballot recently said that once he is officially the nominee that the case could/should then be tried again to disqualify him from the ballot for the presidential election on the fact he has been ruled an insurrectionist and the 14th would then apply.

      It’s only “blue states” for now, but each is a push for the Supreme Court to make a ruling of law, else we have a banana republic where the GOP candidate isn’t even on the ballot (and would be blocked from a write in campaign also).

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    6 months ago

    With the way things have been going the past 20 years everyone should be disqualified and we should start over

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    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Maine’s top election official has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection clause.

    Maine’s 34-page ruling says Mr Trump must be removed from its primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution - which bans anyone from holding office that has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion”.

    In her order, Mrs Bellows, a Democrat, says that Mr Trump “over the course of several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol”.

    Speaking with BBC News, Mrs Bellows said it was her duty to uphold election laws in her state, and that she hoped the “Supreme Court will settle this matter nationwide”.

    Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Maine’s ruling “opens up Pandora’s Box”, suggesting Republican secretaries of state could try to disqualify President Joe Biden over the issue of migrants at the southern border.

    It all leads to a Supreme Court showdown - which Mr Moreno said should take place “rapidly” to stop more states from individually determining Trump’s eligibility.


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  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    The duopoly seems to be flipping the table in the game of God Cop Bad Cop they’ve been playing on us. Hopefully we can get ranked choice voting out of their collective blunders

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        6 months ago

        Sending weapons to an aparteid client state so they can perpetuate a genocide on our dime certainly seems like the kind of thing fascist governments do.

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          Foreign policy has nothing to do with fascism. Like literally nothing. Any form of government could do that.

          Besides that, Republicans have done just as bad. Oliver North comes to mind…

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      Honestly asking, what do you mean by this? Are you suggesting that the current US government is fascistic? If so, I’d challenge you to offer some examples.

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      Thank God–fascism isn’t nearly as bad as i was warned 😅

      Trump shouldn’t be allowed to run after what he did on 1/6

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      TIL “fascism” means “enforcing the 14th amendment against someone who literally attempted to end the peaceful transfer of power away from themself”.

      Projection at its finest.

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      This is just a spin on “everyone lies, so you should just pick the lie you like the most”. It’s such ignorant bullshit.