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He’s having a right taken away from him without the proper course aided by law. Due process doesn’t begin and end with prison. As much as it sucks—because it’s reasonable to conclude he did what he’s accused of—he needs to be given his day in court and the laws governing the taking away of rights and privileges followed. That’s what Ragu is on about. We’re putting the cart before the horse and SCOTUS is likely to rule as such.

 

This one's for Tommy


Two, one-two-three-four!
Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
MAGAism, Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying don't give Trump a chance
All we are saying, don't give Trump a chance

Hit it
C'mon, ev'rybody's talking about
Ministers and grifters, rednecks and drifters
All we are saying don't give Trump a chance
All we are saying, don't give Trump a chance

Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
Revolution, devolution, masturbation, flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations, tweeteration,
All we are saying don't give Trump a chance
All we are saying, don't give Trump a chance

Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
Fatfuck Donnie, Dumb Doc Ronnie
Talking head Tucker
MAGA mothetfucker
Mayor Rudy, tooty fruity
Dumb bitch Greene
Right wing machine
Fascist judges
Hare Krishna, Hare, Hare Krishna
All we are saying don't give Trump a chance
All we are saying, don't give Trump a chance

Anothet time around the room
Everybody's talking bout
Gaslighting, infighting,
Propaganda, god commanda
Putin's puppet
MAGA muppets
Rigged elections
Soft erections
Toadstool dicks
Fascist pricks
All we are saying don't give Trump a chance
All we are saying, don't give Trump a chance

 

1. Trump is on pace to win the GOP nomination whether his name appears on the ballots in Colorado and Maine or not.
2. Unless I'm mistaken*, neither state said he can't run for office; they said his name can't appear on their ballots. His supporters are free to write him in.

*I could be because I haven't dived deeply into it because I know it won't matter.

 

Yeah, I generally agree with all of this. And I don't think any of it's going to hold up (and for the good of everyone, he needs to be soundly defeated in an election, not this way). But I am saying there is nothing wrong with pursuing this in court, because it is a question that needs to be answered, and quickly, because it very well could come up again. And the only way to get it quickly answered is pursuing it as a legal matter.

 

"It really was, you know.
I saw it on the tee-vee."

 

He does, right next to the “400 million guns” smartkey.

 

There is no constitutional right to be president

 

The Republicans’ struggles to be a cohesive party are probably most evident in their tumultuous year in the House of Representatives.

Republicans narrowly took over the majority of the House in the 2022 midterms, took days to elect a speaker, then careened toward legislative crisis after legislative crisis that would have hurt the economy (the debt ceiling showdown; government shutdown threats). They opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden that has struggled to get off the ground with actual facts. They kicked out their speaker and froze the House for three weeks while they fought over choosing another. It ended up being one of the least-productive sessions of Congress in modern times.

Republican strategists I talked to agreed that something irreparable has happened to the party. Healthy parties don’t freeze an entire legislative chamber that they control.

“They fought so hard to be a governing majority,” said strategist Alice Stewart, referring to House Republicans, “and they can’t even agree among themselves. And that’s bad.”

...

Then there’s the Republican presidential primary, where the front-runner is a candidate who has been twice impeached (including with votes from members of his own party), is facing 91 criminal charges, could face jail time and has been ruled by the Colorado Supreme Court as ineligible to appear on that state’s primary ballot.

“The party has been damaged for years,” said one Republican strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations with party leaders. “And it’s not recoverable.”

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