How are those numbers so low. Jesus Christ
Man, you’re right. And here I was thinking “wow, 15% is more than I expected.” What a sad realization that is.
Your standard bell curve. Stupid people can’t see things coming so they always try to act like no one can see something bad coming. Truth is that trump is everything he accuses biden of but worse.
If he or the GOP had any integrity whatsoever, he would. They don’t though, which is really ironic since ya know, law and order, patriots, merica, ect. The republican party is a joke.
Honestly, if they were smart they would offer up a better candidate (if they had one) and that would be real trouble for Biden. If the candidate were opposed to the Israeli genocide and moderate or slightly left, he might win over some Biden voters that ate unhappy. Sadly, there is no such sane Republican. They are all just as nutty as Trump or worse.
They could have potentially run DeSantis, he just lacked the party’s backing. While he’s basically a younger, less orangey Trump for the most part, the fact that he’s a lot younger would have probably won a lot of people over. It wouldn’t change the GOP from being the MAGA party or change their current values or the general situation with the election though.
We should be grateful that Trump is rather incompetent. He’s torn up the GOP as he can’t allow anyone to overtake him in the hierarchy he’s created. His own ego ensures that any competent ideas that could push his agenda forward are thrown out.
While that is true and a small positive, tue fact remains that he has set tue standard so low and allowed crazy to become part of the Republican party. New candidates will continue to follow in his path because their base is now a fervent hysterical mass of racism and white nationalism. There is no Republican party anymore and it will not recover. It has become the party of Trump and will remain Republican in name only because it is more a brand than a political organization. They have no values or platform anymore
If he had any integrity he wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with.
What possible reason would he have to do that…? If he wins, he gets off scot free. If he loses then he’ll claim that he won and is being suppressed for political reasons and then get of scot free.
If he were a traditional candidate, the answer is that the party needs to have a candidate who not only can win, but also supports candidates for lower level elections. A traditional candidate would step aside and nominate someone to take their place. Not sure if the GOP convention rules allow it, but they could possibly even direct their delegates to go towards someone else.
Since Trump is a narcissist who doesn’t even get why downstream elections are important for building a political base of support, he’ll of course ignore this.
He can’t pardon himself if he wins
In the event he actually gets incarcerated, if he were to win the presidency he could sue claiming being locked up interferes with his constitutional duties as president. I think I know what this Supreme Court would decide on that
Part of me wants to just leave America so I don’t have to think about this stuff. Another part wants to stay and try to fix it.
But I’m tired.
This Supreme Court has not always been friendly to Trump, nor his cronies, nor conservative causes. Their rulings are all over the place regarding politics. Here’s a pile of liberal wins.
If you have the pile of links why not post them? This is just a screenshot of truncated headlines masquerading as a source.
One of the headlines is “Samuel Alito Is Mad You Can’t Be Bigoted Towards Gay People Anymore.” This could be an article about the current conservative supreme court protecting the rights of gay people, or it could be an article about how the supreme court is planning to strip rights from gay people. I don’t know because you didn’t actually post a source, you posted a screenshot of a list of truncated headlines.
There is no way in hell he will see a second of jail time. He needs to, but he won’t.
Yeah I’m not holding my breath
We should not speak of Trump pardoning himself as if that’s a legitimate power he would have, rather than a batshit crazy end run around the obvious intention of the Constitution.
And in any case, he’s been convinced to state crimes, and there’s no legal theory to support the idea that he can pardon himself or anyone else for state crimes.
No but he could pardon himself on any federal charge. It’s not crazy talk
We should assume he pocket pardoned both himself and any person who went ballistic trying to make their state charges federal ones.
Not sure what you mean about making state charges into federal ones
Most crimes have a State and Federal equivalent. The legal particulars of a case deciding which variant a suspect gets charged with. For example a State may have a charge for ‘Intent to Distribute Narcotics’ which a suspect with 10kilos of coke gets arrested for during a traffic stop. The investigation reveals the suspect had driven into the charging state from an adjacent one. Boom: Federal charge now. In Trump’s case they may try, or have tried, to argue that it is a federal case due to the relation to interfering with the national election. IMO this will strongly suggest the pardon plan is their intent because Federal cases are more severe, with higher penalties and stronger conviction rates than their equivalent State variants. The only reason I can see wanting to risk greater penalties is the possibility of getting SCOTUS to rule on the appeal and that Trump could pardon himself if elected.
He won’t need to, it’ll be his “independent” department of justice calling the shots. Sessions and Barr did everything in their power, without committing actual explicit crimes, to keep Trump happy while they were in charge.
The U.S. department of justice does not call the shots in the state of New York.
Right? What do these people think would happen? Trump calls in the military to fight NYPD?
I mean, he’s such a fucking idiot, I wouldn’t put it past him to suggest it.
In other words 51% of independents and 85% of Republicans think he should keep running
Hey now, there’s a 5% section of people who just don’t give a shit (yet still answer polls for some reason).
These are people who believe in the death penalty because “courts don’t make mistakes”.
Calvinist Predestination stans when something they don’t like happens.
Calvinism - the progenitor of capitalism (according to Max Weber)
I don’t need more reason to hate Calvinism
Without Calvinism we never would have gotten Calvin and Hobbes. Still not a good reason to actually practice the theory.
Trump’s conviction isn’t going to be the big turning point of this election. What happens after his conviction will. If he continues to spew vitriol about the judge, prosecution, and jury, eventually one of his followers will commit an act of retribution. That puts Trump in a difficult spot, because his core likes this kind of stuff. He will want to show his support, but if he does, it will again show he encourages domestic terrorism. If he does anything other than condemn the attack, his support among moderates will fall away, just like it did after Jan. 6th. If he does condemn the attack, his core may protest, like they did when he changed his opinion on the COVID vaccines.
Yeah that would be weird to see Trump forced into awkward rambling doublespeak that doesn’t make sense if you listen to the words.
XD
I listen to the words and then arrange them into an order that doesn’t contradict my preconceived notion that Donald is the good one.
Whatever he does his follows will either: say the attack was commited by ANTIFA and is a false flag or say Trump never condemned the attack or never showed his support
Why do you think it will be “the big turning point of this election” when he’s already encouraged the Jan 6 insurrection? He literally could murder someone in NYC like he said and nothing would change in polling. It’s a ridiculous situation.
I think we’ve seen from recent Republican races the polls are way off, especially support for his brand.
Trump don’t care.
I look forward to seeing pics from his incarceration with no makeup and no hair stylist. It’ll be epic.
You may get your wish sooner than later. He’s still under the gag order, and he’s violating it again.
Like the prison guards won’t bring in make-up artists themselves for their boi
This election will be won at the margins. Shit like this matters. Our task is to stoke their discontentment.
So like every other election: A couple thousand people in some county in PA or MI you’ve never heard of will decide the presidency, regardless of what most people want.
Yes. “Democracy”. My only dispute with your statement is that it’s a few tens of thousands of votes.
Tens of thousands?! That’s a landslide!
Independents will be so important
So will the extreme left.
They seem to have this idea that holding their vote for Biden hostage over Israel is morally just in spite of a mountain of evidence that tells us violence within this country against minorities, women, and lgbtq folks (which is already openly on the rise) will sky rocket if Trump wins…oh and all the authoritarian fascist stuff that is straight out of a dictator playbook when seizing power with no intent to ever relinquish it…but nevermind that.
I agree leftists will be important but there are just more is the independents. A lot of those leftists are young (ie: people who rarely vote anyway)
I’m acquainted with a few felons who got the maximum sentences allowable for their crimes. Why? Lack of recognizance.
When your famous, they just let you do it
Sent a note to my Senators and Congressman:
"ATF Form 4473 is required for any gun purchase and it has an entire section regarding things that disqualify a purchaser from owning a gun, notably line 21, items c and d:
“c. Are you under indictment or information in any court for a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could imprison you for more than one year, or are you a current member of the military who has been charged with violation(s) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and whose charge(s) have been referred to a general court-martial?
d. Have you ever been convicted in any court, including a military court, of a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could have imprisoned you for more than one year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?”
Currently, we have, running for President, a person who has just been convicted, qualifying them under line d, and, who is facing 3 other indictments, qualifying them under line c.
If they aren’t qualified to own a gun, and, in fact could be arrested for “felon in possession” should he obtain a gun, how on earth does that allow him to be qualified to lead the armed forces as “Commander in Chief”? Why would he be allowed access to the “nuclear football” which is, really, the ultimate gun?
Can we please get some kind of legislation dealing with this? Either barring convicted felons from the office of the President, or, alternately, highly restricting felonious Presidential access to the military and high order weapons?"
I’m opposed to the idea that being charged with a crime should disqualify someone from office. Simply put, it incentivises putting people in jail for political reasons.
No, Trump should be disqualified for treason and insurrection. Of course, that’s not happening either.
That’s why we have a trial by jury of peers.
An executive branch can issue a pardon, legislative branch can create a law making the crime no longer being a crime and impeach judges.
If those things are not enough, then we have a much more serious problem.
Yes, we do have a more serious problem. Numerous federal judges have been appointed by a treasonous insurrectionist who committed election fraud to take office. The jury of peers will be less effective if there is an obviously biased judge like Cannon.
Generally, because of his criminal conviction and his intention to run for office, there’s a lot of interesting legal questions that will make for new law when we litigate them.
I do like your argument, unfortunately I’m pretty sure most courts will disagree. It’s two fold: first of all if you make felons unable to run, you incentivize people to prosecute someone when they wanna run for office. Secondly, this form is pretty straightforward with what possession or acquisition of firearms means. There is not enough wiggle room to stretch that definition to fit the a guy in his role as president being commander in chief over the military. I think no reasonable court would greenlight that argument.
But in general there’s gonna be very interesting implications.
Republican congressmen and women and Republican Senators will just say it’s a hoax trial and a corrupt justice system. It’s not a sane world right now.
The Constitution clearly lays out the qualifications for POTUS. You can’t make legislation that overrides it.
The 2nd Amendment clearly says that the right to own guns can’t be restricted and they passed legislation restricting it.
No, the 2nd Amendment clearly says that the right to own guns is for the purpose of a well-regulated militia. The courts are the ones who interpreted that to mean every citizen [1, Heller]. And the courts also are the ones who have afforded such State restriction legislation as being Constitutional [1, Cruikshank].
In any case, it would likely require an amendment to the Constitution to directly change the qualifications for being President.
What if every state adopted a law barring felons from being eligible to be on the state ballot? I’m not American.
It would certainly be challenged at the Supreme Court, so there would be a ruling at some point at that level. Whether or not the Court would affirm such a law, I don’t know. But, while highly unlikely every state would do this, it is not unprecedented that every state could enact the same or similar laws (the one that comes to mind is seat belt law, but New Hampshire is still a holdout, for some reason).
Being a convicted felon, can he even vote for himself now? I’m pretty sure Florida doesn’t allow felons to vote.
FL defers to the law in the state where the conviction happened, and NY allows felons to vote as long as they are not incarcerated when they need to vote.
But but Biden today personally raped and then shot 200 Palestine children! I saw it with my own eyes!! /s
He even threw his shades on after and tossed bibi another $69,420,000,000 saying “that’s for the ones I missed!”
What do they mean by “independents”? Are we talking NPA, AIP, or both?
I’m more obsessed with the idea of being a republican this long, and only now changing your mind about 45. The list of things about him which are twice as bad alone is stultifying.
I’m registered as a Republican to vote in their primaries. In general, I can live with whoever the Democrats put up, I may not love them, they may not be my first, second, or even third choice of candidates, but they’re OK enough. They kind of mostly fall on a spectrum from “meh” to “pretty good.”
Republicans, on the other hand, fall on a spectrum from “outright evil fascist psychopaths” to “meh,” and I’d like to try to head off the worst of them before they get to the general election.
With the way Republicans have been going for the last few decades (fielding very few “meh” candidates in the first place and electing even fewer while skewing further and further into crazytown) it’s going to be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in a general election, but I’ll try to pick the least bad one in the primary so hopefully it comes down to a contest of “meh#1” vs “meh#2” (or, dare I dream, “meh1” vs “pretty good”) since roughly half the country is going to vote for whoever has an “R” next to their name, might as well try to leave them with the least offensive R possible.
Ideally I’d like to push the Republicans to occupy pretty much the same space the Democrats do currently and have the Democrats move further left. In pretty much any other halfway functional democracy, our Dems would be considered a conservative party.
There’s a handful of Republican talking points I could kind of get behind if they weren’t using them as covers for their personal greed, racism, religious fundamentalism, etc. but at best the things I would otherwise tend to agree with them on over the Democrats are only paid lip service at best, more often they outright work against them, and very often they take the absolute craziest possible interpretation of one of their supposed ideals and run straight off the deep end with it.
Okay, now I have a type specimen for “actually sane registered Republican”. Cheers
If we want to get a bit weird with it, I’m a Republican because of Trump, not because I like him, but because I want to vote against him at every chance I get. Before this I bounced around between being registered independent and various 3rd parties.
Overall I do tend to consider myself to be somewhat conservative but the Republican party always manages to go off the rails in a direction that is totally against my personal understanding of what conservatism should be. Pretty classic example is gay marriage. When I look at marriage through the ideas of small government, the constitutional separation of church and state, etc. my position is more that the government shouldn’t be involved in marriage full-stop. The idea of marriage is between you, your partner(s,) and whatever god or gods you do or don’t believe in, want to say you’re married, go for it, as far as the government should be concerned “marriage” shouldn’t have any more legal standing than being best friends. And as for all of the stuff with taxes, inheritance, etc. that the government does kind of need to concern itself with, that doesn’t need to have anything to do with marriage, if you want to share your benefits of file your taxes jointly with your friend, cousin, spouse, neighbor, barber, or have them designated to be the one who can make medical decisions, or to inherit your belongings after you die, that’s between you and them and the government is just there to make sure the paperwork is in order.
So when the options are the party that is open to more people getting married, and the ones who only want very narrow definitions of marriage, neither really fits my views, the “conservative” narrow definition of marriage is arguably technically closer in some senses to my ideal “the government doesn’t concern itself with marriage” situation, but in spirit the “liberal” system is closer to what I want.
I think we would all gladly trade a million proto-fascists for just one more like you. Thanks for the breakdown, it all checks out.
