• Stillhart@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It is beyond bizarre to me that we are discussing another election with Trump in it.

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      7 months ago

      Why? Is there some law that he has broken and been convicted of breaking and thus officially disqualified from holding federal office? Are the democrats some kind of Amazing Pax Americana party that consistently and measurably increases the quality of life for the vast majority of Americans while also shunning foreign adventurism?

      Cause unless those things are true, then it seems quite expected that Trump would run again and have a similar amount of support as he did in 2020.

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        7 months ago

        Oh God. I thought I recognized your username. You were the guy defending Nazis here in Australia I responded to on another thread.

        Even sitting here in Australia it was obvious he was planning to overthrow the election months before it happened (I worked that out within 5 mins of seeing sky news at a customers house).

        The guy has broken many laws (he’s a rapist, tax cheat, etc).

        The fact he has any support and has managed to create a cult should be a reason why nobody supports him

        But sure, let’s hope he has similar support to 2020 because if he can’t get elected in the upcoming election, he’s going straight to jail. And when he gets prosecuted for being a traitor and breaching confidential information, hopefully he gets life imprisonment and isn’t eligible to run (he already shouldn’t be technically)

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          7 months ago

          Yea I wasn’t defending nazis, but glad to see you are using the intent of that law correctly. That is to classify any criticism of the government as “defending nazis.”
          If Trump has “similar support” as in 2020 it’s going to be a landslide victory for him.

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            7 months ago

            There are laws which technically make him ineligible to run: https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-2024-colorado-79373b5043976588b599fc00ede049e8

            And, based on everything I’ve seen, the arguments are basically just Trump claiming he’s immune whilst president. So yeah… There was a law he broke, and he already got disqualified by 2 states. Don’t be surprised if he’s disqualified nationally.

            And yeah, you WERE defending nazi’s. You basically say I, as an aussie don’t “understand” the purpose of the legislation. Well, I understood it. There were literal Neo-Nazi’s congregating at rally’s. You’re literally the only one on the planet other than the neo nazi’s who interpreted it as anything other than stopping nazi rally’s. Shutting down Nazi salutes only silences nazi’s, unless you think there’s a valid usecase for a bunch of people doing nazi salutes? Fuck them, silence them I’d say. It was actually everyone else demanding they get banned honestly.

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    7 months ago

    Thank god. If Trump is forced out of the race from being in jail, DeSantis was the next leader, and at this point I really don’t know which one of them is worse.

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      7 months ago

      Trump is worse, hands down. Trump demonstrated willingness to subvert democracy, DeSantis seems to actually care about working within the system. Maybe that means DeSantis will have more success getting policy passed, but he’s less likely to become a dictator.

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    7 months ago

    So what serious contenders are there still for the primaries?

    And is Trump still considered a serious contender when there are entire states who definitely won’t have him on the final ballot?

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      7 months ago

      Donald Trump and Nicki Haley. And Trump is not harmed in the least bit as long as he’s only left off blue state ballots. That has zero effect on his ability to win electoral votes.

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      7 months ago

      Yes because Colorado was never going to go to Trump anyway. Maine splits their electoral votes but 1 or 2 electoral votes are very very unlikely to make a difference in the election. And that probably won’t matter anyway because SCOTUS will almost certainly rule to keep him on the ballot.

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      7 months ago

      And is Trump still considered a serious contender when there are entire states who definitely won’t have him on the final ballot?

      He’s the only serious contender. sigh