Oh no you don’t.
That kid had the chance to take down Trump in 1992 and bungled it.
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The Wettest Bandit.
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Strong disagree on this one. Not about Trump specifically, he obviously shouldn’t be president and has much higher odds of winning that I’d like. But, strong disagree in general. Sometimes laws are wrong, and deny people the right to vote when they shouldn’t. See: most of American history when women, black people, non-landowners, people who committed low-level non-violent crimes etc. so often couldn’t/can’t vote. To say that the same people able to disenfranchise these segments of the population should also, in the same action, ensure the people they’re disenfranchising can’t run against them just makes the problem worse.
And yes, there are very obviously laws you could write that would separate out the groups you want to disenfranchise and prevent from running, from those you don’t. So can the people who disagree with you, and they win elections too. This kind of slope actually is slippery.
Edit to add: I think insurrection is a good line in the sand, though, and the Constitution agrees. Get him on January 6th charges, and I’m all for preventing him from running.
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Oo’eer, so they’re going to do things that they wouldn’t have done anyway??
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I’ve had to go through so many background checks for government work over the yearsI find your assertion ridiculous. If you can’t get a federal employee job as a felon, how on earth could you possibly justify allowing a president to be a felon?
Conspiracy theories of what might happen and slippery slope-isms are weak arguments. Just because the constitution says nothing about a convicted felon as president, doesn’t mean we have to be mindless drones who assume that because it wasn’t written somewhere 250 years ago means it can’t possibly be true today.
Also this for the general audience
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I apologize and offer fizzy beverages if anyone has already clarified this, but I’m not reading through 200+ comments. Unless Trump is actually in prison on election day, he will be able to vote. The reason is that because this is a criminal conviction in state court, Florida will apply that state’s rules when it comes to whether a felon can vote, and the New York rule is that as long as he’s not in jail, he can vote. Florida’s rule is that you can vote once your sentence has been completely served (meaning time served, all fines paid, etc.), but that’s not the New York rule.
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But thanks for clarification!
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Trump finally won a popular vote.
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They should rename the Rikers Island Library:
The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
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I see the appeal but even the inmates at Rikers deserve a library that isn’t named after someone with such contempt for book-learnin’.
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Yes, Marge, he is. He’s the only former President of the United States who is a convicted felon.
I’m less interested in getting Trump on January 6th charges (any such trial certainly wouldn’t end before the election, and I don’t think he’s going to be mentally competent even in the eyes of his most zealous cultists to run in 2028.) Now some of his cultists in Congress who would otherwise be eligible to run for years or decades to come (staring at you, Marge …)
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Not that he came to Canada much while president.
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Maybe we won’t have to build that wall after all.
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We had an extremist group try to establish a dictatorship on November 5 as well. I’m sure it’s in the history books in the US too.
You know what to do.
(Yes, I know, James VI wasn’t great either)
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Sadly that’s on Twitter. Funny thing guilty sounds like kiltti meaning kind (nice) in Finnish.
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One of my favorite reactions is the goons who think this conviction is going to result in a Reagan-like win in November.
LOL.
I can see maybe some 3rd party voters crossing over, I don’t know how much of an impact (for or against) Trump this will cause, but it won’t be some sweeping “red wave”. Remember the last time you idiots thought that was coming?
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PLEASE NO, I just ate. /rimshot
:: hands @anon58741709 and @IronEdithKidd frosty cold beverages of their choice out of the Fridge of Holding ::
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But I thought his official residence, and thus voting state, was Florida?
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