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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:True but enforcement being performed after an election seems even worse. It’ll be interesting to see how exactly they explain it should work in the decision. They say it's up to congress https://twitter.com/axios/status/1764606248891170940 At long last, the pivot (he was claiming the election was stolen this weekend) zoux fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Its effectively what many figured would happen. Congress has the power on this not the states, no risk of a state removing anyone they don't like. Lol though that the possibility that trump wins the election and a democratic congress says "but you can't hold it, due to insurrection." is now an option.
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zoux posted:Honestly, individual states deciding who can and cannot be on the ballot seems like a nightmare. I agree, I think the only reasonable standard for keeping a candidate off the ballot for this reason is "actually convicted, in a federal court, of inciting an insurrection etc." Or I guess a federal-congressional decision but even that seems to run the risk of bullshit "convictions." If it were up to the states then only a minority of states would actually have both a Democrat and a Republican on the ballot. GOP-trifecta states like Florida, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, and Iowa would remove Biden from the ballot - and Nebraska where he'll probably get an electoral college vote from one of the districts. The real problem is that our justice system moves so slow that a man can try to broad-daylight rig an election and 3-4 years later the trial hasn't even begun yet. Defendants have rights and prosecutors need to move carefully, but if we take the electoral campaigns of insurrectionists seriously then it needs to take less than 4 years for a former President to be convicted for insurrection. Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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zoux posted:They say it's up to congress Right but when? Is it only supposed to be done via impeachment? Then why have the amendment since congress can do that anyway. Is Congress supposed to get together whenever in the process it wants to and declare someone ineligible?
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zoux posted:Honestly, individual states deciding who can and cannot be on the ballot seems like a nightmare.
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zoux posted:They say it's up to congress this, he has been screaming it constantly, its just because he doesnt use twitter and doesnt get his speeches covered nightly because its not the general and etc, no one bothers to do reasearch outside the poor bastards who live tweet a bunch of his stuff. Trump isnt getting college educated moderates/liberals. He might get some college educated chuds, but he was gonna get them since desantis imploded.
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zoux posted:Honestly, individual states deciding who can and cannot be on the ballot seems like a nightmare. Isn't this already how it works? Individual states have specific ballot requirements to be on the ballot for federal elections, it's already a state issue.
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shimmy shimmy posted:Isn't this already how it works? Individual states have specific ballot requirements to be on the ballot for federal elections, it's already a state issue. They're usually within some level of federal boundaries though and often more technical than substantive. (Like, how many signatures you collected and when you submitted the paperwork...)
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zoux posted:They say it's up to congress Trump, Interrupted
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States have party line and independent requirements for ballot access, but they can't add additional requirements or restrictions for winning federal office outside of those required by the constitution. This is the same reason term limits were struck down.
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shimmy shimmy posted:Isn't this already how it works? Individual states have specific ballot requirements to be on the ballot for federal elections, it's already a state issue. i think specifically with this ruling is that it is not within the powers of states to enforce the 14th amendment, which was the legal mechanism colorado used to boot trump off the ballot
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shimmy shimmy posted:Isn't this already how it works? Individual states have specific ballot requirements to be on the ballot for federal elections, it's already a state issue. If Trump had been disqualified by state eligibility under state law, that wouldn't have been an issue. The problem is that the states explicitly pinned their reasoning for removal on federal law, which is something they don't get to decide. If Colorado passed a law saying "insurrectionists don't get to be on the Colorado ballot", they would have (e: probably?) been fine. Instead, they relied on their existing law saying "people who aren't federally eligible don't get to be on the Colorado ballot", and thus ran smack-dab into the Supreme Court pointing out that Colorado doesn't get to unilaterally decide* whether someone's federally eligible or not. This is something that nobody really bothers to stick to too closely when it's some nobody who's only running in a couple of states and openly admits they're not eligible, but there was no way it was ever going to slide against a nationally popular candidate.
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This is the "correct" ruling IMO, but it's the millionth example of "liberal Justices apply the law in good faith, fascist judges don't". Had the shoe been on the other foot, the liberal justices would have ruled the same but the fascists wouldn't have, no doubt. And by extension, had Colorado done the legally correct thing and passed a law like the previous poster mentioned, then kicked him off citing it, the liberal justices might have been swayed but lol if anyone thinks the fascists would have.
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E: wrong thread
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Florida is currently undergoing a surge of previously eradicated diseases and increased presence of other preventable diseases after the state removed most vaccine mandates for public schools following anti-vaccine sentiment during covid. Ever since removing the mandates and having the state Department of Health issue guidance that kids don't need a full schedule of vaccines at once anymore, the overall vaccination rate has declined by about 9% in three years. There is now a measles outbreak in Florida and the Florida Surgeon General is being criticized for saying it was an issue of "parental rights" whether parents sent their kids with measles back to school or quarantined them for 21 days (as recommended by all major medical organizations). Florida's health department was also recently under fire for issuing guidance recommending that anyone under 65 not get any vaccines that use mRNA technology because it may permanently mutate your DNA or cause cancer. quote:Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/03/florida-measles-outbreak-preventable
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This was all entirely predictable when our governor very specifically hired this guy because he’s an antivaxx nutter and a grifter
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https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1764734752362213504
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To be completely fair to Trump's administration, anyone in politics in DC is bouncing between uppers and downers.
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It was more the open kimono comment because the first Trump admin felt like being Marky Mark during that scene. A second one would be worse: https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1764756140548616650 zoux fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Morrow posted:To be completely fair to Trump's administration, anyone in politics in DC is bouncing between uppers and downers. No, probably not everyone in DC is bouncing between uppers and downers and there's no reason to be fair to the person administration who victimized people.
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I looked at the trap, Ray! (I looked at the RCP poll of polls and got sick to my stomach)
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Black Trump Supporters Are Being AI-Generated posted:Donald Trump supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters. The photos appear to be an attempt to inflate Trump’s popularity with the Black community, which may be irreparably harmed by his ties to white supremacist groups, but the photos are nothing but fakes. starting to think that this trump fella isn't on the level also it's pretty loving pathetic that he (or his followers) are stooping to this kinda poo poo
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LOL I love that Bill Cosby made it out of jail for that fake photo.
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zoux posted:It was more the open kimono comment because the first Trump admin felt like being Marky Mark during that scene. Weren’t those comments pretty clearly specific to the Covid vaccine? Still extremely stupid, don’t get me wrong.
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Kith posted:
Yeah, but the real trick is how are they getting those generated people to answer all those polls?
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Kalli posted:Yeah, but the real trick is how are they getting those generated people to answer all those polls? Bad weighting.
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Kalli posted:Yeah, but the real trick is how are they getting those generated people to answer all those polls? Deepfake voice generators
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Weren’t those comments pretty clearly specific to the Covid vaccine? The official Trump would put into office to do this thing is absolutely gonna be an anti-vaxxer and they aren't gonna limited to covid.
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Kith posted:starting to think that this trump fella isn't on the level I don't think it's ai generated. I'm wearing my "a4ESKW & 50F25" ball cap right now too.
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Kith posted:
The AI on Trump's hands looks realistic at least. Can't say the same for everyone else's hands though.
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Kalli posted:Yeah, but the real trick is how are they getting those generated people to answer all those polls? according to fox, by selling them sneakers
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Cimber posted:I looked at the trap, Ray! Yeah, I think reading the news ruined the calm I somehow managed to cultivate today as well
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Kith posted:
This one looks like they gave Trump tits https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1764707357450207283?s=46&t=ziKKPUah_WmpOgrzym-sFg
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volts5000 posted:This one looks like they gave Trump tits bruh his hand look like pig feet
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What word do you suppose they put into the ai prompt to describe Trump's hands?
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RBA Starblade posted:What word do you suppose they put into the ai prompt to describe Trump's hands? "Penguin" apparently.
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"Big, big hands, the best hands, beautiful big league hands, tremendous hands"
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Madkal posted:The AI on Trump's hands looks realistic at least. Can't say the same for everyone else's hands though. Oh wow, somehow I never noticed his left hand was webbed and his right was melting like a candle.
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With all the rumors about Trump being a drug abuser, it shows how vapid our political culture is people watch a 2 hour incoherent manic rant filled with forgetfulness and apparently say 'wow how presidential', but simultaneously can't stand that Biden is old and looks like it. Biden should drop out, but if he doesn't, I'm willing to take the ethically ambiguous step, given the stakes, of recommending he take drugs to amp up his public performance. Realistically, the other guy is already doing it. It's unhealthy yes, but our political culture is really this vapid people are conned by it. Not my favorite source but Rolling stone has some reporting on Trump administration drug abuse. Given the fish rots from head down, seems to me rather safe bet Trump is on a lot of poo poo to keep his campaign going at this point. Interested in other good reporting, haven't looked much into it. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/ edit; I see you guys beat me to it actually on the Rolling Stone piece. Eregos fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Eregos posted:With all the rumors about Trump being a drug abuser, it shows how vapid our political culture is people watch a 2 hour incoherent manic rant filled with forgetfulness and apparently say 'wow how presidential', but simultaneously can't stand that Biden is old and looks like it. Biden should drop out, but if he doesn't, I'm willing to take the ethically ambiguous step, given the stakes, of recommending he take drugs to amp up his public performance. Realistically, the other guy is already doing it. It's unhealthy yes, but our political culture is really this vapid people are conned by it. Adderral and Xanax aren't real drugs according to a lot of people. If you described someone as a "drug abuser" because they took adderral and Xanax every day without a prescription, a lot of people wouldn't think you were being fair. Given all of Trump's other behavior that didn't move anyone, I doubt popping Adderral and Xanax every day would bother anyone who is on the Trump train.
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