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• 1. Pointless gesturing, Colorado would never have gone for Trump anyway
• 2. If he engaged in insurrection, charge him. Do it. Charge him for treason in the state of Colorado. Otherwise shut up.
America if it was based:
only the federal DOJ, the president, or congress can charge someone w treason. this might be the most Colorado can do, as milquetoast as it is
edit: on further investigation, some states do have laws against treason and people have been tried for treason by individual states’ courts
John Brown was hanged, for treason by Virginia
It’s not pointless, it’s a test case.
Why would Colorado be able to charge him w treason?
incoming 6-3 SC decision saying “nuh uh”
Maybe even 7-2.
im at the edge of my seat
Conservative control of the Supreme Court aside, it’s never been firmly established if the President constitutes an officer of the United States per the 14th amendment. So there’s a lot of room for interpretation, and some decent legal arguments, that it doesn’t.
As if legal arguments matter at all. The SC is playing Calvinball.
I’d like to see ol DT wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
while(trumpInJam)
{
print(“I’d like to see ol DT wriggle his way out of THIS jam!”);
}
ok now do it in a state that might have actually voted for him
Georgia would be the state most likely to do so. If Trump gets convicted of a state crime, that might kill his nomination.
Libs are deadass hoping Trump pulls a voldemort and defeats himself by breaking a rule rather than dems actually defeating Trump fair and square.
…And then DeSantis wins in a landslide after Trump endorses him and #AvengeTrump goes viral.
rather than dems actually defeating Trump fair and square
since when do we give a shit about fair play in bourgeois elections?
No, it is more hoping that the rule of law catches up to Trump before the election.
But if you want DeSantis to win, I’m probably not going to be able to convince you otherwise.
“rule of law” Imagine believing in such nonsense. Consider deepthroating a cactus, please and thank you.
😠
I’m going to need you to vote for Trump '24 to help with that.
no one here is voting for trump and no one here wants desantis to win. you’re annoying and delusional
But it would be funny. Make the libs see that their beliefs are a lie. Just fucking rub it in their faces.
I’m voting green or socialist, depending on who’s on the ballot.
Rule of law? Dude is walking around giving rallies. It took you dumbasses 2, 3 years? to actually get him sitting in a courtroom. The rule of law would’ve put him in front of a firing squad 48 hours after January 6, but we live in la la land where the instigator of a failed coup led by boat dealers get to play golf while we pay for his security.
Your rule of law is a joke. Your party only wields power when it comes to undermining poor people. Otherwise the democrats would’ve banned the GOP and arrested every single one of their politicians. If you call them as undemocratic terrorists, then where is the rule of law when they get to stand next to you in the halls of power?
Why is it my rule of law? Who gave it to me?
Being pedantic over words you clearly understand because you can’t defend your dogshit positions. Unfortunately you can’t take the Reddit out of the ex-Redditor
What dog shit positions are you protecting on me?
You’re fucking stupid
Given the sclerotic and partisan nature of the US “rule of law” isn’t it irresponsible of them to hope that the courts solve the problem for them instead of trying to run a convincing campaign for their side?
That assumes the legal option is the only one being pursued.
There are tons of posts here calling out the political arguments that inflation is falling and the economy isn’t in a recession as political propaganda that may be technically accurate but hide the suffering of common Americans and should therefore be treated as nothing but propaganda to be forgotten.
I’m not sure how that deals with the problem? Joe is deeply unpopular, people don’t like him and whether you think it’s fair or not people are not enjoying the way things are going right now. Doubling down on “voters feel wrong about how things are going and should vote for this unpopular old man” is not actually pursuing an electoral strategy.
You suggested they were hoping the law would solve this problem, which is more coherent than suggesting that they’re trying to campaign by calling everybody who dislikes their candidate (almost 2/3 of voters, last count) wrong over and over.
I suggested it was an option, but not the only one. Others believed that I was suggesting it was the only option.
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I assure you, I don’t want DeSantis nor Trump to win.
Why not? That would definitely own the Libs, wouldn’t it?
Something can be funny without it being good or desired, like in a cosmically funny way.
Yeah, President DeSantis would be fucking hilarious.
It’s taken 80 years but you’re planning on it getting him in the next 11 months?
I ain’t planning shit.
This is such a stupid bit.
I dont know what this Cheeto of a man likes more: Whataboutism, or freaking Whataburger. One thing is for sure, he doesn’t have America’s best interests at heart. That spells trouble for Democracy.
whataboutism 
I don’t think this is a good move. It will only trigger the persecution complex of the conservatives, even those who don’t like Trump, and they will come out in droves just to stick it to the Democrats to make a point.
Why do anything like this when Biden already has the upper hand (disregard the polling, which is way too early to be informative at this point).
Rainbows and Disney cartoons trigger their persecution complex. Chuds are never not miserable and dangerous.
come out in droves just to stick it to the Democrats to make a point
how they gonna do that if the big wet boy ain’t on the ballot?90% forecast of a terrorism about it if they don’t retreat on appeal tho
This is assuming that Democrats can get enough states to ban Trump from running to prevent him from winning. Otherwise it’s just going to rile up the conservatives across the country and put the swing states in danger.
well it’s too soon to tell, in actuality. but dems doing a legalistic cockblock isn’t inherently a wrong move unless they fail to do it sufficiently to secure a victory, is it? i’m not going to do the math rn but if enough electoral votes are on the table that they could secure as such, i’d be willing to declare this an astute political move.
greatest liability being the US supreme court overruling them i imagine
Colorado has judicial elections doesn’t it? Easy political win for lib judges to stoke their base by saying that they protected democracy by ruling against Drumpf.
Ok hear me out, somehow this survives all appeals and sticks. 3rd parties focus all their efforts on Colorado. Dems don’t show up to the polls because there’s no way Biden could lose, meanwhile 3rd party voters and bitter GOP supporters show up and flip the state yellow. Trump wins by one state.
Smh just what Putin wants
yellow
libertarian? are they even running people with all their voters being Trump-hogs now?
Finally, some spicy electoralism
Time for the US to invade itself to protect freedom and democracy ™
lol
Colorado never would have went for Trump, so congratulations, all that does is make him a martyr even MORE.
I mean it was a Bernie state in both 2016 and 2020. There’s no way in hell a republican would win anything more than our most inbred counties and they’re dwarfed in population by the all-but-one democratic cities.
Is Colorado Springs the one?
Yep. I’m not sure about the western side of the state, but Pueblo/Denver/Fort Collins are all democratic strongholds. Colorado Springs is full of evangelicals and military.
I drove through Western Colorado last fall to see what it was like on the way to visit some relatives in the Fort Collins area and it was all “Boebert Country” signs.
Boebert
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
