• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    26 days ago

    Trump isn’t going to be declared ineligible. He meets the constitutional requirements for being President. Unfortunately. We are just going to have to win the election by giving Biden more votes. And they’re going to declare fraud whether he loses by 1 vote or 10 million, so let’s try to just absolutely destroy them at the ballot. We can’t just beat him, we have to send a message that Trump and his sycophants will never have a path to election again.

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      26 days ago

      His candidacy is clouded, he engaged in insurrection on January 6 and Congress can’t requalify him for office. They and only they have the authority but they don’t have the votes. Even if he loses he’s going to try to seize power. He only has to seize it if he loses. They are past caring about the election and you can tell because they have already told us that win or lose they intend to spill American blood.

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        26 days ago

        Congress can’t requalify him for office. They and only they have the authority but they don’t have the votes.

        I don’t disagree with the rest, but this part I just have no idea what part of the constitution you are referencing. He’s 35+, a natural born citizen, and a 10+ year resident. That’s it. He’s qualified because beyond that the founding fathers foolishly had faith that the citizenry would hold politicians to account. I guess to their credit that worked for a couple hundred years.

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            25 days ago

            Unfortunately, it is left to Congress to declare an insurrection, and that section is of little use to us. That was adjudicated with several states trying to remove him from the ballot. So he doesn’t need to be requalified.

            I question that decision, particularly given the current extremely partisan court. But unfortunately our constitution gives us no recourse save impeachment or passing explicit laws that are within the framework of the constitution, but bar Trump.

            The votes aren’t there for either so the law holds that the supreme court’s interpretation that Congress must vote to declare an act to be insurrection is currently the law of the land.

            We have a tremendous fight ahead of us to undo all the harm Trump caused in his first term. I’m talking perhaps decades.

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        25 days ago

        We can only express that with a vote. I mean besides shouting it from the rooftops, but the only concrete way is with a vote.